Search Results: Authors starting with G from Lansdowne Books

Condition: V Good. 1954. First Edition. llustrated endpages boards with grey cloth spine and lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Overall a clean, tightly bound , copy in very good condition.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition.. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Clean pages with light tanning. Binding remains firm. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket now in protective mylar.

Pale green boards with gold Lettering to spine. In original dust jacket unclipped which is now in a mylar protective covering. First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine, clean copy.Gerald Durrell helped establish a model zoo on the Isle of Jersey, an experience that caused him to reconsider the whole question of wild animals in human hands. On one level, the book is about zoos. More profoundly, however, THE STATIONARY ARK is about the misuse of wild animals in captivity. Durrell's material reveals a fascinating blind spot in modern zoological though.

Toi & Moi by Paul Geraldy, Paris 1947; Limited Edition no.1384 printed on Velin Chiffon Paper with frontispiece and thirty-three colour illustrations by Georges Lepape. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Text is in French. Leather boards with gilt title and raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpages. Shelf wear on leather edges [see photos ] with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.Toi et Moi was Le Févre's first book, a collection of sentimental poems concerned with the psychological aspects of love. Wrappers. Fine in original glassine overwraps Illustrated by Georges Lepape. 1 vols. 8vo Number 3381 of 2500 copies on velin from an edition of 3500.

A delightful 1940s Australian children's book with charming illustrations & colour plates. Written & illustrated by D.H. Gilmore. Includes colour frontispiece, plus all 5 additional colour plates, as issued. Also with several smaller b&w illustrations throughout (some full page). HARDCOVER with DUSTJACKET. Dustjacket with wrap around artwork, also by D.H. Gilmore. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with small tears so now in protective Mylar. Tightly bound in original creme paper boards with bright red lettering & design to both boards & spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Pages are clean, unmarked and tight. Scarce title.Rare First Edition. First edition, with "1946" to both title page & copyright page with no later reprint dates. Printed in Australia by Halstead Press

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean A diplomat takes his two daughters out of school in England to be with him in India. Once they get there however, he spends almost no time with them and it transpires that they are merely cover for his affair with a Franco-Indian woman he has employed as their governess

London & Toronto, J. M. Dent; New York, E- P. Dutton & Co., 1928. First English language edition.Very well Illustrated throughout with 600 black-and-white illustrations, drawings and photographs. Dark Blue cloth covers with Gilt Peacock and Fountain Designs to fronts and spines. Top page edges Dark Green. Vol 1, 459 Pages and Vol 2, 486. 11" Tall. No inscriptions.The Fascinating History of Garden Design. Volume 1 starts with Ancient Egypt, includes Ancient Greece & Rome and goes up to the Renaissance Period. Volume 2 continues with the Renaissance, includes Louis XIV and the Masterpiece of Versailles, China and Japan, then the English Landscape Garden with Capability Brown, Kent etc, next the 19th C. and finally America and Canada. For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

Hardcover. 1st Edition Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.Introduction. Book is divided into 2 sections: The Obstacles and How They Ran. 327 pp. plus: List of Illustrations (326), List of Colour Plates (32), Acknowledgments, Notes, Index. Subjects: Kauffman, Angelica. Goncharova, Natalia 1881-1962. Valadon, Suzanne 1865-1938. Morisot, Berthe 1841-1895. Kollwitz, Kathe 1867-1945. Greer, Germaine 1939-. Women artists. Women painters. Women in art. Painting women artists to ca.1930 feminist viewpoints.Book weighs nearly 3 lb. and may require extra shipping costs.