Search Results: Authors starting with G from The Petersfield Bookshop

Tours: Ad. Mame et Cie, 1852. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition. A very pretty book in paper covered boards with ornate designs stamped in green, black, red and gilt. Illustrated with hand-coloured lithographs. This copy is in fair condition only with some significant bumping to the corners, and significant loss of paper from the backstrip. Inside is bright and clean but some of the sections are a little cocked. Two gift inscriptions on the endpapers from 1856 and 1896. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Category: Children; .

Essex: Essex County Council, 1983. Reprint. Laminated Pictorial Boards. Good Condition. Size: Quarto. slight wear . slight wear. Category: Architecture; Britain/UK; 1980s; .

John Lane, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. With A Foreward by The Earl of Denbeigh and Desmon , C.V. ., T.D.,. Clement Atlee's son Martin has his book plate laid in Size: Quarto. Category: Military & Warfare; .

Edinburgh: The Bodley Head, 1926. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Fair Condition/Fair. With a Foreword by The Earl Of Denbeigh and Desmond , C.V.O ., T.D. With four illustrations in colour and seventy -four in black and white Size: Octavo (standard book size). spine slightly faded. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket has large closed tears and associated wear. Edges slightly foxed. soiled covers and spine. Category: Military & Warfare; Britain/UK; 1920s; .

Honourable Artillery Company, 1986. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 3rd edition with dustwrapper, 5 illustrations in colour,93 in black and white, black cloth with gilt decorative coat of arms, Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Military & Warfare; .

William Blackwood, 1948. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Maps and illustrations, thick small 4to., black cloth, inner front joint cracking, slight damage to the crease of endpaper, slight tear to spine Category: Military & Warfare; .

Longmans, Green, and Co, 1879. Fourth Edition. Maroon Pebble Cloth. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Spine has one inch tear.Some fraying to top and bottom. boards rubbed corners bumped , small part missing. Internally very good. Category: Science & Technology; 19th century; .

Paris: A. C. R . Edition, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. A stunning book in a jacket and slipcase that beautifully reproduces the artwork, largely in an orientalist vein, of Shfik Gabr's collection Size: Quarto. Category: Art & Design; .

Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 2006. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Size: Folio. Category: Art & Design; History. .

Bracken Books, 1989. Reproduction of 1928 2nd Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Green cloth with dustwrapper. Wrapper a little faded and slight toning to top of text block. Size: Octavo. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 185170373X. ISBN/EAN: 9781851703739. . 9781851703739

Dalkey Archive Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Inscribed by the editior"For Anthony Brown, I began planning this book almost from the day I received my first letter from Gaddis, hence a 34 year project, Hope you enjoy it, Stephen Moore.Afterword by Sarah Gaddis Size: Octavo . Category: Literature & Literary; .

Cyprus: Itanos Publications. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Judith Lange and Maria Stefossi. A photo book ostensibly about ancient theatres across the Greco-Roman world in antiquity but with more useful accompanying text than is usually expected in 'coffee-table' books. Illustrator: Judith Lange and Maria Stefossi . Category: Architecture; archaeology. .

RA. First In Soft Cover. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007.' 179 individual treasures of the Society illustrated and discussed. Lavishly illustrated with many full-page color plates. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback) Size: Quarto. Category: History; .

London: Methuen, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Scarce volume of this literary giant Size: Octavo. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; 1980s; .

London: Heinemann, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Poor. Signed by Author. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Slight wear to spine. slight wear to dustwrapper. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; 1960s; Signed by Author. .

Michael Joseph, 1947. 3rd Impession of The Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fair. Sir Peter Scott. This timeless classic of the legend of Dunkirk, the white wings of the goose parade every page. With these wonderful illustrations, Sir Peter Scotts picture of his first wife Elzabeth Jane Howard is the frontispiece. The dustawrapper has large tears, previous owners neat inscription to endpaper Size: Quarto. Illustrator: Sir Peter Scott. Category: Fiction; .

London: Heinemann, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. This is a pocket-sized edition of this book published in Heinemann's 'Grove' series of Galsworthy's work. This copy is from the library of Prime Minister Clement Attlee and has his gray Art Deco bookplate on the front endpaper. Size: Octavo . Category: Fiction; .

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Jacket is crudely reinforced with tape along the top edge. Some nicks and short tears at the edges. Scholar has written name and referenced some reviews in pen on the endpaper. Overall still very presentable. Size: Octavo . Category: History; .

Henry Holt, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Dust Jacket has large closed tears and associated wear. Category: Fiction; United States; .

Hampshire County Council, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Almost as New/No Dust Jacket. Single section stapled binding with illustrated covers. Size: Quarto. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Football & Rugby; Genealogy & Local History. .