Search Results: Authors starting with G from The Antique Map & Bookshop

London, Faber and Faber 1970 1st. In Green cloth covers with silver lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper and endpapers. In very good condition with a very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Very slightly faded cover, In protective cover, not Price clipped). Inside bright else very clean and tight copy. 123pp. Illustrated with 1 colour map plates, and numerous B&W photographs.

London, Pilot Press, 1943 1st. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Half bound with brown cloth to spine and illustrated red paper covered boards. In very good condition. Top leading corners bumped and a little rubbed. Slight curls to boards. Minor mark to rear edge. Neat inscription to endpaper “For Aullicia, from Aunt Barbie, 1943.” A couple of minor handling marks else pages very clean and tight. 88pp. With B&W illustrations in text by Donia Nachsen.

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1885 1st. Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. Quarter bound fine binding by “Hatchards, Piccadilly,” with polished maroon morocco leather to spine and corners, with marbled paper to boards. Raised and gilt banding to spine with gilt lettering and gilt sporting decorations. Top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to marbled paper on faces of boards, small rubbed patch to bottom end of spine and also to first top raised band. Else cover clean and smart. Binders stamp to corner of endpaper “Hatchards, Piccadilly.” One tiny minor spot to side margin of frontis plate, slightly effects title page opposite. Else pages all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else a very good fine binding copy. xii + 322pp. Illustrated with a B&W photo frontis plate.

London, Printed for R. Dodsley and L. Cater, 1796. Four Volumes. Hardback, 7 x 4 inches. In full ‘tree calf’ leather bindings, gilt decorations to spines with red and black leather spine labels. Plain endpapers, pale yellow page edging. In very good conditions. Some rubbing to extremities, edges, corners, ends of spines, rubbing to front board vol.4, and starting to crack at ends of front hinge. Corners a little bumped, small chips to corners and ends of spines on vols 3&4. Bookplates to endpapers “G. Withers.” Some handling marks to inside pages, a couple of occasional minor spots, minor mark/stain to p345 v.3. Bindings tight and sound. Else a very good clean and tight set. 4 volumes. 350, 344, 356 & 320pp.

Suffolk, Terence Dalton Limited, 1980. Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. White cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (DW edges rubbed, spine faded, minor tape repair to top front edge. NOT clipped.) Cloth clean. No penned inscriptions. Else a very clean and tight copy. 110pp. Illustrated with 10 B&W photo plates.

John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1934 1st thus.. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In maroon cloth covers with dark blue lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine rubbed at ends with small pieces missing. Edges rubbed. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Front free endpaper missing. Author’s signature tipped to main title page with sticky tape. Else a clean and tight copy. 270 pp. 6 pp cat. The last day in the life of a Catholic priest as he takes confessions. First English edition, with author’s signature.

London, Robert Hale, 1985 Revised Edition. Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. In black cloth covers, silver lettering on spine with illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; faded on spine and top edge. Not price clipped). Else a very clean and tight copy. 240pp. With b/w photographs, and map. Some two hundred villages are presented here as being representatives of different regions of Dorset. The villages are seen in the context of history and in the setting of the unspoiled scenery of this county which has conserved its rural timelessness.

National trust. 1974 1st edition.. Size 11.25 x 8.5 inches. In pictorial limp card covers. In very good condition. Attractive covers. A clean and tight copy. 4 page card cover plus 32 pages of text and many illustrations including 8 double page images Illustrated guide and history to Trerice, Cornwall. This is one of Rena's most artistic.

Blandford, Dorset Workshop Press, 1970 1st edition.. Large paperback. Size approx 13 x 10 inches. Illustrated paper covers with blue cloth covered spine. Staple bound. In very good condition. Cloth spine very slightly faded. Covers very bright and clean. An excellent clean tight copy. 45 pages with lovely colour drawings (and some text). Illustrated from Lithographic Aluminium Plates. “The illustrations in this book are from drawings made directly onto lithographic aluminium plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper.”

Dorset, Workshop Press, 1973 1st edition.. Paperback, Size 9.5 x 7 inches. In illustrated paper covers. In very good condition. Some very slight rubbed on edges. Inside a very clean and tight copy. 49pp. With colour illustrations throughout. Illustrated guide and history of Ely cathedral.

Workshop Press. Blandford 1968 1st. edition.. Size 10.0 x 13.0 inches. In pictorial limp card covers. In very good condition. Some very minor rubbing to spine. Small owners name inscription top corner of first inside page. A very clean and tight copy. 42 pages with colour illustrations and some text. “The illustrations in this book are from drawings made directly onto lithographic aluminium plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper”. A ‘picturesque excursion into Dorset’, covering the East Winterborne Valley.

Dorset, Rena Gardiner, The Workshop Press, 1969 1st edition.. Large paperback. Size approx 13 x 10 inches. Illustrated paper covers with green paper covered spine. Staple bound. In very good near fine condition. Covers very bright. Cloth spine NOT faded. Inside a clean tight copy. Illustrated in colour from Lithographic Aluminium Plates. 92pp. “The illustrations in this book are from drawings made directly onto lithographic aluminium plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper”. A ‘picturesque excursion into Dorset’, covering the Dorset: The Isle of Purbeck.

Dorset, Workshop Press, 1986 1st edition.. Paperback, Size 8.75 x 6 inches. In illustrated paper covers. In very good condition. Inside a very clean and tight copy. 19pp. With colour illustrations throughout. Illustrated guide and history of Chester cathedral.

Dean and Chapter, Salisbury. 1967 1st edition.. Paperback, Size 9.5 x 6.5 inches. In illustrated paper covers. In very good condition. Minor rubbing to edges. Else a very clean and tight copy. 48pp. Colour illustrations. Illustrated guide and history to Salisbury Cathedral.

National trust. 1971 1st edition.. Size 9.5 x 6.75 inches. In pictorial limp card covers. In very good condition. Attractive covers. A clean and tight copy. 4 page card cover plus 56 pages of text and many illustrations Illustrated guide and history to Lacock.

Workshop Press Dean and Chapter, Salisbury. 1981 1st edition.. Size 9.5 x 6.25 inches. In pictorial limp card covers. In very good condition. Attractive covers. Some minor rubbing on edges. Small faint crease lower front edge. A clean and tight copy. 20pp. With colour plates, illustrations diagrams and map. Illustrated guide and history to Salisbury Cathedral.

Dorset, Rena Gardiner, The Workshop Press, 1969 1st edition.. Large paperback. Size approx 13 x 10 inches. Illustrated paper covers with green paper covered spine. Staple bound. In very good condition. Front cover very bright with some very minor rubbing only. Cloth spine a little faded & rubbed. Inscription on top edge of inside front cover. Inside a clean tight copy. Illustrated in colour from Lithographic Aluminium Plates. 92pp. “The illustrations in this book are from drawings made directly onto lithographic aluminium plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper”. A ‘picturesque excursion into Dorset’, covering the Dorset: The Isle of Purbeck.

Blandford, Dorset Workshop Press, 1970 1st edition.. Large paperback. Size approx 13 x 10 inches. Illustrated paper covers with blue cloth covered spine. Staple bound. In generally good condition. Cloth spine slightly faded. Covers edges are a little worn. Inside clean tight copy. 45 pages with lovely colour drawings (and some text). Illustrated from Lithographic Aluminium Plates. “The illustrations in this book are from drawings made directly onto lithographic aluminium plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper.”

Dorset, Workshop Press, 1972 1st edition.. Paperback, Size 9.5 x 6.5 inches. In illustrated paper covers. In very good condition. Inside a very clean and tight copy. 19pp. With colour illustrations throughout. Illustrated guide and history of Chester cathedral.

Headline Book Publishing. 2004 1st.. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. In blue cloth covers with silver gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. slightly rubbed along front fore edge. With protective plastic wrapper. Not price clipped). 658 pp. With b/w photographs. The author tells the story of the British people in WWII. The Home Front. How peoples lives were affected directly by the war waged on those at home, and by the changes in employment, supplies, and the absence of loved ones.