Search Results: Authors starting with G from Bygone Books

Glasgow: Truseets of the National Galleries of Scotland, 9164. Soft cover. VG+. 12mo, stapled wraps, unpaginated, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD+: slight edgewear. Thirty portraits of some of those in Scott's immediate circle and the distinguished people he knew.

NY: W W Norton, 1988. Soft cover. VG+. 0393955478 7th paperback printing, 8vo, 447 pages, bibliographical notes, index. VERY GOOD+: the slightest of edgewear, nearly new.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st ed, 8v0, burgundy cloth, 174 pages, 1 b/w illustration, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: owner name on fep; jacket has a small faint stain to front cover, tiny tear to front top corner. Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), one of the first feminists to engage in a lifelong [alas! cut way too short] crusade for female equality...and we bless her for it...

Boston, MA: A. D. Maclachlan. Soft cover. Very Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Printed by Kaufmann Lehr Baden, part of the Victoria Series of R. J. Masters in London. No date noted, but there is an inscription dated 1927 on verso of title page. 32mo (4 ½" x 3 5/8"), illustrated stapled wraps, 16 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with little wear. A vintage religions tract with biblical quotations and unattributed drawings.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. Regional Guides to Ancient Monuments Series. 1st ed, 12mo, green cloth, 89 pages, 12 b/w plates, 28 plans, some fold-out, glossary. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light edgewear to book and jacket, spine of book is gently creased, jacket has owner name on front panel. A common but quite delightful little book for anyone bent on a gothic adventure... [ Northanger Abbey anyone? ]

Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts Thamese and Hudson, 1990. First Edition . Soft cover. NF. No additional printings stated, quarto stiff wraps, 176 pp, color and b/w illustrations, bibliography, biographical list of British and Irish Women Silversmiths. Condition is NEAR FINE: as new, has a small faint stain on fore edge.

Gautier-Languereau, 2000. Hardcover. VG+. French text (publier pour la premiere fois par Scholastic Children's Books, Londres, sous le titre "Polar Bolero") Quarto, unpag, picture book, color illus, glossy pictorial boards. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: very sl. edgewear. Lovely story and illustrations about a bear who cannot sleep...

New York: NY: Coward-McCann, 1928. Hardcover. VG. A.B. Read.. 8vo, green cloth, 302p. b/w illus. VERY GOOD / no jacket: lite soiling to covers, sl. yellowing. owner name in pencil.

NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. VG+. Reprint of edition first published in 1927, edited with a preface, a supplement chronologically arranged and containing hitherto unpublished or uncollected material and a bibliographical note by W. Clark Durant. 8vo, dark green cloth, 352 pages, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket (as issued): nearly new.

Boston: Higgins and Bradley, 1857. Hardcover. G+. Later printing (20th thousand), 16mo, red blind-stamped publisher's cloth / gilt titles and decoration on spine, 352 pp, b&w engravings. Condition is GOOD+ / no jacket (as issued): rubbing to board edges and sm. tears to spine head and tail, front hinge exposed but still tight, internally pages are very white and clean, excepting very lt.scattered foxing, owner name on 3rd blank page. Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860) was the author of the Peter Parley books. This book is a collection of biographies about the following women: Lucretia and Margaret Davidson; Mrs. Adams; Mrs. Washington; Madame de Stael; Lady hester Stanhope; Hannah More; Mrs. Barbauld; Madame de Genlis; Josephine; Marie Antoinette; Madame Roland; Madame de Sevigne; Mary Queen of Scots; Elizabeth, Queen of England; Isabella of Spain; and Joan of Arc.

Chicago: M. A. Donohue, 1918. Soft cover. G-. Various. Folio, stapled color illustrated wraps, [8] pages, 2 and 3-color illustrations inside by various artists [ CW, Bonnifel Butler, and 2 others ]. Condition: GOOD - : edgewear of small chips and tears, soiling, one signature is detached from the staples and other is hanging on for dear life, some pencil markings. Contains some of the most well-known of Mother Goose: Jack Sprat, See-Saw Margery Daw, Hey diddle-diddle, Little Miss Muffett, Mary Mary, Humpty Dumpty, and more.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition (stated), 16mo, oblong, illustrated boards, unpaginated, b/w illustrations throughout. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has slight edgewear at extremities; jacket has slight rubbing to spine folds, price crossed out with new price written in, price sticker on rear fold. A very nice copy, terrific drawings.

London: George G. Harrap. Soft cover. VG-. Frederick Hollyer.. No publication date but circa early 1900s, 48mo, full red suede limp covers with gilt titles on cover and spine, decorative paper endpapers, decorative page headings, top edge gilt, 64 pages, frontispiece is a photograph by Frederick Hollyer titled "Hope". Condition: VERY GOOD- : light edgewear to suede covers, a small chip out of bottom corner, faint soiling, front endpapers are separating at the hinge but book is tight, pages are clean. One of the Sesame Booklets, this is number 37 [stated at end of text]; there is a page of the front matter listing numbers 49 - 50. Frederick Hollyer (1838-1933) was a noted celebrity photographer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; he also made photographic reproductions of paintings. The frontispiece in this miniature book is a photograph of George Frederic Watts' most famous and influential painting "Hope.

New York: E P Dutton Inc, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition (stated, number line), 8vo, pale rust boards with beige cloth backstrip, 210 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD + jacket: a few faint spots to top page edge, small scrape on front board; jacket has minor edgewear, price-clipped. A fictionalized account of the Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, well-born ladies who defied all conventions of the 18th-century Irish homeland and eloped as a married couple to live in Wales.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,, 1978. Hardcover. VG/VG-. 0252006763 1st edition, 8vo, burgundy cloth hardcover, 324 pp, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has a slightly "dusty" top page edge, internally clean and tight; jacket has small chips and tears along top edge, sunning to spine and along top edges. The first extensive examination of the fiction of Anne-Louise Germaine Necker, the Baroness de Stael-Holstein (1766-1817), the out-spoken 18th-century French woman writer...