Search Results: Authors starting with G from The Typographeum Bookshop

New York: Random House, 1983. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. (viii). 472. Map. The author's mother was murdered by Communist insurgents in August 1948 in northern Greece soon after sending her son to safety in the U.S. Many years later, having become a noted investigative journalist, he returns and embarks on a long odyssey to discover who killed her and why.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy/fine. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xxii, 424. Illustrated. Onassis Family Tree. Notes. Index. Schematic drawings of the Yacht "Christina" on end-papers. Near fine copy in dj. Callas was introduced to Onassis at a ball thrown in her honor on 3 September 1957 in Venice by the odious gossip columnist, Elsa Maxwell, who considered both of them her protégés. For Maxwell, though, it was a bit more than that, because she "felt herself wounded by Eros," such was Callas' appeal. In any event, in July 1959—and with Maxwell excluded to her great chagrin—Onassis arranged a cruise on his luxurious yacht for his two favorite celebrities, Winston Churchill and Maria Callas. One might wonder what she saw in Onassis, for "It is difficult to understand how a squat, swarthy man with an oversized nose, wearing dark sunglasses and baggy clothes, could cause such excitement wherever he went (although someone once remarked, 'He… Read More

Prague: Orbis, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Very good copy. 8vo. Paper-bound. Pp. 176. Text in English. This has transcrips of original documents from the period just before and during World War II and includes notes made by President Hacha while meeting with Hitler in May 1939, Himmler's order to K. H. Frank to carry out a "stocktaking" of Czech children, and K. H. Frank's order of November 1944 to execute partisans.

London: Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Edges and end-papers foxed, else very good copy/very good. Hand-colored cartoon (as frontispiece) by Max Beerbohm. 8vo. Green cloth. Pp. xiv, 276. Frontispiece portrait. Facsimiles. Index. Hand-colored cartoon (as frontispiece) by Max Beerbohm.

London: Duckworth, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Green buckram. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed (many unopened). Hand-made paper. Pp. (viii), 1152. Limited to 1275 copies signed by the author. This is copy number 1024.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone cloth. Pp. viii, 296 Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994. First edition. Paperback. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else very good copy. Paperback. Pp. 128. Illustrated. Chronology. Index of Films.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xxxii, 226, (vi). Appendix. Index of Literary and Historical Names.

Warwick: Greville Press, 1980. First edition. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Previous owner's inscription on first free end-paper. 8vo. Cloth. Number 138 of 400 copies signed by the poet. Issued without a dust-jacket.

Francestown: Privately Printed [Typographeum], 1989. Limited private press edition. First edition. Wraps. Fine. 14 unnumbered leaves sewn and glued into wrappers with a printed label on the front. 110 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket.

Francestown: Privately Printed [Typographeum], 1988. Limited private press edition. First edition. Wraps. Fine. 28 pages sewn and glued into wrappers, cut flush. 110 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket.

The Pickering Press, 1987. Limited private press edition. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 22 pages sewn into wrappers. One of 100 copies printed by John Anderson.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 352 .Illustrated: (12) pp. plates. Appendix. Checklist. Index.

New York: Viking Press, 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 480. Illustrated. Maps. Appendices. Checklist. Index. A very entertaining history of the English Public and all its aspects, including its virtues and its vices.

New Yorker Video, 2000. DVD Movie. Starring Fernando Ramallo, Jordi Vilches, Marieta Orozco, Esther Nubiola, Chisco Amado, Ana García, Myriam Mezieres. 90 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. Widescreen format. Fine copy with original artwork.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xii, 492. Illustrated: (16) pp of plates. Index.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. (x), 534. Illustrated: (32) pp. of plates. Checklist. Index. A scholarly discussion of sexuality in the Victorian era.

Kultur, 1962. DVD Movie. 150 minutes. Black & white. Originally broadcast on BBC Television. Fine with original artwork. Recital of songs by Hyden, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Dvorak, et al. The singers are accompanied on the piano by Gerald Moore.

Philadelphia: Casemate, Phildelphia2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. x, 326. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates.

London and New York: Verso, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xii, 400, (iv). Illustrated: 8 pp. of plates. Index. Gellner was a passionate advocate of reason against any form of relativism. His background was Jewish and Czech. Later he taught at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University. The author says this about him: "Gellner's mind was equipped with a broad range of intellectual resources, the versatility of which was surprising and elegant."