Search Results: Authors starting with G from Boston Book Company

1709. G., H. (Horat. Gram.) THE EAGLE AND THE ROBIN. An Apologue. Translated from the Original of Aesop, written Two Thousand Years since, and now rendered in familiar Verse... Together with TAFFEY'S TRIUMPH: Or, A New Translation of the Cambro-muo-maxia: In Imitation of Milton. By a Gentleman of Oxford. London: Printed and Sold by Henry Hills... 1709. 16 pp. Octavo, 7 x 4 3/8 in., disbound: The first and final (conjugate) leaves are detached and separated at the fold, else clean and very good. "Preface signed 'Horat. Gram.' presumably for Horace the schoolmaster. There is no evidence that it was translated from Aesop. Printed in Nichols, Collection III. 1-13 as by William King (1663-1712)... the attribution should be treated with suspicion. ... 'Taffey's triumph' is Daniel Bellamy's translation of Edward Holdsworth's Muscipula." (Foxon E5).

1957. GABO. GABO. With introductory essays by Herbert Read and Leslie Martin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1957). 4to., grey cloth w/dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white, with plastic magnifying glasses included in a special recessed pocket in the rear board. Heel of spine is slightly soiled; light pressure mark to front pastedown and flyleaf with a bookstore sticker to the bottom of front flyleaf. Slight age-browning to pages, else fine internally, in a moderately edgeworn dust jacket.

1951. GADSBY, George M. UTAH'S FIRST CENTURY! Sagebrush and Pioneer to a Treasure House in the Mountains. New York, San Francisco, Montreal: The Newcomen Society, 1951. First edition. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. 40 pp. 8vo., white paper wrappers printed in red and black to upper board. Very good.

1943. GAG, Wanda, translated and illustrated. THREE GAY TALES FROM GRIMM. New York: Coward-McCann, 1943. 63 pp. 8vo, pictorial paper-covered boards. Near fine copy with shelfwear to heel, crown, and bottom edge. Good dust jacket, missing 2 x 1 inch chip at top of front panel, slightly into illustration; shallow chip to top edge of rear panel. Distinctive illustrations and clver translations of three Grimm tales: The Clever Wife, The Three Feathers, and Goose Hans.

1858. GAILHABAUD, Jules. L'ARCHITECTURE DU V.me AU XVII.me SIECLE ET LES ARTS QUI EN DEPENDENT: la sculpture, la peinture murale, la peinture sur verre, la mosaique, la ferronnerie, etc. Paris: Gide, Editeur, 1856-8. Volume I. and IV. only of a four-volume work. 31.5 cm. Between them, the two volumes contain 8 chromolithographs and 131 engraved plates, two of which have color added. Most plates are clean despite a few with light foxing in margins, and a few more with heavier foxing. Both volumes are disbound, but with marbled boards and worn morocco backstrips present, and bookblocks whole. Offered as is.

1940. [PREWAR ARCHITECTURE] KENCHIKU GAKKAI. KENCHIKU NENKAN Showa 14-nenpan. Tokyo, Showa 15 [1940] 8vo., wrappers. This ARCHITECTURAL ANNUAL FOR 1939 has a few photo illustrations and much textual detail on projects completed, etc. Good.

1943. [PREWAR ARCHITECTURE] KENCHIKU GAKKAI. KENCHIKU NENKAN Showa 17-nenpan. Tokyo, Showa 18 [1943] 8vo., wrappers. This ARCHITECTURAL ANNUAL FOR 1942 has a few photo illustrations and much textual detail on projects completed, etc. Good.

1941. [PREWAR ARCHITECTURE] KENCHIKU GAKKAI. KENCHIKU NENKAN Showa 15-nenpan. Tokyo, Showa 16 [1941] 8vo., wrappers. This ARCHITECTURAL ANNUAL FOR 1940 has a few photo illustrations and much textual detail on projects completed, etc. Good.

187. [BASEBALL - JAPAN] Shihon Gakkou-hen. SHO^GAKU TOKUHON Maki no Ichi. Aichi-ken [Nagoya] Shihongakko^ [Teacher's College] n.d. [1870's] An interesting little elementary school reader from the first series of textbooks designed and created by the Teachers College Normal School system in Japan after the Meiji restoration to introduce "Western Learning" to the country. What follows is a series of excerpts from an informative article found online at http://wwwwp.mext.go.jp/hakusyo/book/hpbz198103/hpbz198103_2_035.html "The Normal School, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the Department of Education, was also requested to compile elementary school textbooks on the basis of its practical experience. Also an office for editing elementary school textbooks was set up in the Normal School in December, 1872. The Department of Education encouraged independent prefectures to reprint the textbooks and other educational material which it and the Normal School had compiled, and it was not long before… Read More

MS. GALANTIERE, Lewis. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN LITERARY FRANCE. The manuscript, 7 typewritten pages, of an article printed in the Boston journal The Independent, issue of September 27, 1924, "Special Fall Book Number." The title appears to have been added by the editor and was in fact changed in the printed version to "Marcel Proust and the Outlook in France." Besides pencilled copy editing marks and printing instructions, the text bears several ink corrections and additions in the author's hand. (Galantiere, an American writer then living in Paris, acted as mentor and friend to Hemingway when he arrived there in 1921.) The text has been folded twice, but shows only light wear and soiling. This is a fine copy.

1977. GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition, inscribed by Galbraith on front flyleaf. "To Carolyn with/so much love for/so much help./from/G K.G-1977/ 365 pp. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt. Photo illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket that shows light edgewear, especially at crown. Companion to a PBS television series.

1933. GALE, Zona. OLD-FASHIONED TALES. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. ix + 350 pp. 8vo., blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Fine in fine dust jacket with pictorial cover. Short stories by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author and playwright.

FE. GALE, Zona. THE LOVES OF PELLEAS AND ETARRE. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First edition. Ex-library copy, with library stamp on the front pastedown and pocket removed from rear. Owner's name on flyleaf, the boards fairly shelfworn. A good reading copy.

1907. GALILEI, Galileo. LE OPERE DI GALILEO GALILEI EDIZIONE NATIONALE SOTTO GLI AUSPICII DI SUA MAESTA IL RE D'ITALIA VOLUME III PARTE SECONDA. Firenze: Tipografia Barbera, 1907. pp. 403-886, plus folding b/w plate. 4to., tan wrappers printed in black, chipped at edges, moderate soil. Rear wrapper detached. Block split at pp. 744-745. Some pages done in facsimile. Introduction in Italian, text in Latin.

1920. GALLAGHER, Patrick. AMERICA'S AIMS AND ASIA'S ASPIRATIONS. New York: The Century Company, 1920. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. xvi, 499pp. 8vo., blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A clean and solid copy showing two spots of paint to spine.

1950. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES. THE NOTABLE AMERICAN COLLECTION OF MR AND MRS NORVIN H. GREEN. Early American Portraits and Miniatures. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc, 1950. Wrappers. Very good. Auction catalog.

1945. PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES. AMERICAN FURNITURE AND DECORATIVE OBJECTS. American Furniture of the XVIII Century. Property of Mrs Lewis F. Frissell, New York. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc, 1945. Wrappers. Very good. Auction catalog.

1996. HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERIES. YANKS PAINT BRITS. New York: 1996. Limited edition illustrated exhibition catalogue. 39 pp. 4to., illustrated glossy paper wrappers printed in white to upper board. Very good plus.

Korekushon これくしょん [Collection] [68 magazine issues] Gallery Gohachi ギャラリー吾八, publisher Tokyo Showa 33-59 [1958-1984] 68 staple-bound magazines approx 17 x 14.5cm of the post war Korekushon これくしょん [Collection] magazine. We are offering 68 issues published from 1958 (starting with Issue 2 /#66) -1984 (ending with 89/#148). We have Issues 2-3, 10-45, 47, 51-67, 69-73, 77-89. (Missing are Issues 4-9, 46, 48-50, 68, 74-76). Each is a small, collectible artist's magazine and trade catalog that showcases artist books published by Gohachi Gallery - some of the covers feature original printed (some tipped in) artwork in color or b+w. The internal pages differ from issue to issue, but may include the following: folded washi [Japanese paper] sheets that are open at the top and printed with essays on an artists in Japanese text; a glossy sales insert folded to approx 13.7 x 13.7cm that has reproduced photos of artwork (some tipped in) as well as text about the work; pages… Read More

FAE. GALLICO, Paul. LUDMILA. Drawings by Reisie Lonette. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First American edition. 12mo. A fine copy in dust jacket.