Search Results: Authors starting with G from Blue Sky Rare Books

Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1 of 240 copies on Maidstone paper, 56 pp. Bound in full brown cloth, stamped in gold on spine, bound by Mary Chapdu. Trivial wear only. Author's first book, strong set of poems.

Wipf and Stock, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Nice papeback with a couple of pencil markings.

Tenov Books,, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine paperback. Free of all markings.

The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Paperback. VG++. Frontispiece portrait of John Steinbeck. Stapled wrappers with paper label laid on front. 14pp. Nice clean copy, trivial wear. Strong VG++.

Barcelona, Spain: Elies Plana, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Beautiful edition on hand-made paper specially watermarked for this edition by Museu Moli Paperer de Capellades. 70pp (small folio size) plus green endpapers in white boards, in a green floth slipcase in the original cardboard mailer. Complete as new, fine.

Tokyo , 1933. first edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Small folio, traditional japanese string binding, beautiful white covers with blue stencil pattern Some wear to the board but generally clean in a traditional blue cloth folding case very worn but still functional with imitation ivory clasps 101/2 x 15, collotype illustrations of ancient armor and paintings by Kobori (1864-1931)

William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. VG+ -- a nice copy with just a little rubbing to the spine and the usual minor fading of the purple leather to something closer to brown. Contents fine. Original plain cardboard slipcase is poor. One of 225 copies printed on large paper with Hand-Colored Illustrations. This copy out of series and so not signed.

Cambridge, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+. . Book near fine, DJ VG+ in mylar. Nice book

Oak Knoll Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. As new book, jacket as new -- in protective mylar wrap. Lovely book.

T.& T.Clark Ltd, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Book free of all markings, jacket with trivial storage wear only. Near fine. Nice book and scarce.

The First Editions Club & The Boar's Head Pres, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Lettice Sandford. No 237 of 450 copies. This is one of the copies in full cloth. Rockewell Kent designed bookplate, else free of markings. Common spotting to the endpapers and colophon, text clean. Very Good or better. A nice copy of a strange book.

Routledge, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Hardcover with a discrete (and tiny) previous owner's name on an inside fly leaf. Book also has a few occassional pencil marks, otherwise near fine. Jacket is about as new, no chips or tears. A nice copy of a scarce book.

Cambridge University Press, 2009. First Edition. Very good. Hardcover with a few neat pencil marks, Printed covers, issued without dustjacket.

Harvard University Press,, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. book has just a couple of pencil marks, near fine. Jacket with only trivial storage wear (no chips or tears), near fine. Nice book.

Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Moderate foxing to the deckled edges and boards, contents clean, illustrations very clean. Boards otherwise tight and no bumping. A solid Very Good copy (the edge foxing being the only defect) of an important Gill book.

Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Lovely, just a little spotting to the blank pastedowns as always, tiny bit of darkening to the spine. VG+ or better. Contents very clean, in a custom paper slipcase with the front of the original jacket pasted on (though spotted by that paste) that has protected the book. 191/200 COPIES printed on Batchelor handmade paper, 5 copperplate-engravings by Eric Gill, pp. 20, 8vo.

University of Chicago Press,, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fine. Inscribed by author, couple of neat pencil marks, else fine. Jacket fine in protective mylar wrap. Nice book.

Harper & Row, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Extravagantly illustrated by Ginsberg and inscribed to his old friend, NY Times columnist Kennett Love. This book also comes with Love's copies of White Shroud and Cosmopolitan Greetings. These extra books have Love's notes about meeting Lucien Carr to attend Ginsberg's funeral at the Shambala Center in New York. Also included is an original photo of Ginsberg made at the time the book was signed.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Near fine, without any notable defects. Lovely copy.

Archibald Constable, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Book is VG or VG+, no DJ, some rubbing to the gilt on th spine, minor edge wear. Book is house in a 1/4 leather slipcase with chemise, VG+ with minor wear. Nice (but not fine) copy in an antiquarian slipcase.