Search Results: Authors starting with G from Fables Bookshop

Kolonna 2004.. No inscriptions, last image and black facing page shows scuff marks. conservatively VG condition.. Spiral bound with 5 foldout pages. 87pp. printed card wraps - the front wrap folds back and around to become the rear wrap. 8 colour and 70 b&w illustrations. 320mm x 250mm. 1.1kg. Cyrillic text. Black and white male nude studies. The second publication by this Russian photographer.

Chiswick Press. London 1926.. Boards insect-scarred. some few annotations. illustrations and charts in good order. a sound copy if unattractive.. Gilt on red cloth boards. 100pp illustrated 4to with two folding genealogy charts in rear pocket. George Luck Galpin (1857-1941) was the fifth of six sons of Henry Carter Galpin (b. 1820) who came to South Africa in 1848, moving to Grahamstown the next year to set up business as a watchmaker and jeweller. His house, in Bathurst Street, with its camera obscura, is presently a museum. George Luck Galpin was schooled at St Andrews in Grahamstown. He then went to England where he qualified first as a dentist and then as a surgeon. Returning to South Africa he practised as a surgeon (F.R.C.S.) in Port Elizabeth from 1885 to 1912. This work records in detail the early family history in England up to Henry Carter Galpin, and is replete with illustrations, detailed notes, arms. etc.

Chiswick Press. London 1926.. Boards insect-scarred. some few annotations. illustrations and charts in good order. spine in poor condition with breaks in rear joint and loss to top. rear board hinge. Poor condition and unattractive, a reference copy only.. Gilt on red cloth boards. 100pp illustrated 4to with two folding genealogy charts in rear pocket. George Luck Galpin (1857-1941) was the fifth of six sons of Henry Carter Galpin (b. 1820) who came to South Africa in 1848, moving to Grahamstown the next year to set up business as a watchmaker and jeweller. His house, in Bathurst Street, with its camera obscura, is presently a museum. George Luck Galpin was schooled at St Andrews in Grahamstown. He then went to England where he qualified first as a dentist and then as a surgeon. Returning to South Africa he practised as a surgeon (F.R.C.S.) in Port Elizabeth from 1885 to 1912. This work records in detail the early family history in England up to Henry Carter Galpin, and is replete with… Read More

Percy Lund, Humphries. London 1926.. Backstrip spotted. boards marked with dibs on rear. eps and edges foxed but overall a G++ sound and clean copy.. Grey cloth boards with black cloth backstrip. xvi + 146pp text & illustrated many colour & b/w plates + 69pp adverts. 4to. 1.2kg.

Percy Lund Humphries. London 1927.. Top of spine frayed. cloth spotted. boards worn at corners, mark to front board. eps and edges fox but internally clean with minimal foxing. Overall a G+ sound and clean copy.. Pink boards with black cloth backstrip. xvi + 127pp. text and illustrations + section of representative process work for 1926 + 69pp adverts. 4to. 1.3kg.

Macmillan. Johannesburg 1984.. Bookplate ffep else Fine in VG+ d/w (one small closed tear top rear).. Red cloth boards. 295pp. 8vo. Who makes South African foreign policy, how, where, and why is it made? Concentrates on the making of foreign policy under Prime Ministers Vorster & Botha over the period 1966-1981.

Landmark Calendars. Novato 1995.. Fine condition.. 305mm x 305mm. 12 full-page colour images. 1996 calendar. Frontal images, incognito - no faces but scanty briefs. Photographers not credited. Can next be used for the year 2024.

Landmark General Corporation. Novato 1996.. Very Fine condition.. 305mm x 305mm. 12 full-page colour images. 1997 calendar. Frontal images, incognito, no faces but scanty briefs. Photographers not credited. Can next be used for the year 2025.

Frederick Warne. London 1937 1st edition.. Gift inscription ffe. spine faded hence G++ condition. no dustwrapper. Black dec. tan cloth boards. 248pp. 8vo. Children's novel set in Africa.

Akademiai Kiado. Budapest 1986.. Institutional library stamp both volumes. ff age-tanned else VG condition in dustwrappers.. Black cloth boards. 2 volumes 1288pp total. 8vo These two volumes dealing with Sub-Saharan Africa provide a systematic survey of creative writings generated in the three main European languages that were used for imaginative purposes on the African continent. Mainly references English, French, & Portuguese writings, but many other languages are included (even Latin). The work is organised to a taxonomy that takes into account time, space, and language with a comprehensive system of periodisation applied to the fast-growing corpus of literature produced from Dakar to Dar es Salaam and from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope. since independence.

Mazaru Shimuzu. Tokyo 20 May 1994 stated 1st edition.. A very Fine copy.. Large format softcover. unnumbered. french folds to wraps, centrefold. 0.6kg. Many of the black and white photographs do involve embracing men, but many show men embracing the environment of the beach, the surf, the rocks, and some show both.

Pohlmann Press. Los Angeles 1998 1st edition.. A Fine unmarked copy.. Printed card wraps with fold-ins. 90pp illustrated b/w. no text. large format 300mm x 215mm. 0.5kg. "... Handsome Devils refers to the devilish and playfulness of each of these men. They have that 'physical something' which makes them desirable and that 'spiritual something' that makes them irresistible ...". Includes list of titles, also Gerhart's career highlights with abbreviated bibliography.

Pohlman. Los Angeles 1999. stated 1st edition.. A very Fine copy in VG dustwrapper (closed tear bottom front corner). excellent shelf and table appearance.. Printed boards. 91pp large format illustrated 315mm x 260mm. 1.1kg. "... I am not simply photographing bodies, I am photographing men". Klaus Gerhart.

Africana Book Society. Johannesburg 1973 1st edition thus.. No inscriptions. a VG+ copy in protected dustwrapper (minor wear, small chip at top of front joint). a clean attractive copy.. Blue cloth boards. 172pp illustrated 8vo. Edward Paget came to South Africa after the first world war as Vicar of Benoni. He became Bishop of Southern Rhodesia in 1925, later retiring as Archbishop of Central Africa. A lifetime of service to christianity in Africa is chronicled by Canon Gibbon who served under him.

John Lane The Bodley Head. London 1904.. No inscription but ownership stamp. Spine dulled, mostly square corners with minor rubbing, front board very clean and most attractive. small split head of spine, rear hinge starting but still sound, one plate loose, hence overall in near VG condition. giant map in rear pocket is in excellent condition with no tears.. Gilt on dec. blue boards. teg. 275pp illustrated 8vo. 0.9kg. The author was in charge of the 1898 to 1900 expedition to Marotseland which was supported by grants from the Royal Geographical Society, Sir John Ardagh of British Military Intelligence, and the British South Africa Chartered Company.

Kingstons, for the British South Africa Police. Salisbury 1974 1st edition.. Bookplate to front pastedown. top edge dusty, 4 square corners. VG+ in G-VG dustwrapper (spine fading, rubbed, no chips, tears, or loss).. Printed orange & white on navy paper-covered boards. 244pp illustrated 8vo. The story of the BSAP is the story of growing up - the transformation of a mounted infantry regiment into an efficient professional police force. Nevertheless the period covers military involvement in the 1914-1918 war when the BSAP conducted a bloodless invasion of German South-West Africa; and then - by the raising of two BSAP Service Companies, and by the secondment of many members to Rhodesian military forces - participated in fighting in German SWA.

British South Africa Police. Salisbury 1972 1st edition.. Bookplate to front pastedown. 4 square corners. top edge dusty else a conservatively VG copy in poor pictorial dustwrapper (worn with loss at head of spine).. Printed orange & white on navy paper-covered boards. 266pp illustrated 8vo. Formed in 1899 as the British South Africa Company's Police, this volume covers the occupation of Mashonaland, Umtasa's Kraal, the Mashonaland Mounted Police, the occupation of Matabeleland, Pitsani, The Jameson Raid, the Matabele & Mashonaland Rebellions, Cannon Kopje, and the Relief of Mafeking.

Library University British Columbia. Vancouver 1973 1st edition.. Inscription fep o/w VG+ in Good dustwrapper (spine tanned, dusty but no major loss or tears).. Blue vynide boards. xii + 204pp. illustrated b/w photos. large 8vo 0.6kg

Heinemann. London stated 1st edition.. Bookplate ffep. near Fine condition in VG++ matching dustwrapper.. Gilt title on olive cloth boards. 1438pp illustrated 8vo. 1.8kg

Macmillan. London 1929 1st edition.. No inscriptions. bookplate to front pastedown. spine faded. eps lightly browned. o/w very clean, G-VG. no d/w.. Gilt dec red cloth boards. vi + 102pp. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint & Charles E. Brock. large 8vo.