Search Results: Authors starting with G from Eastleach Books

The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh, 1941. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. 80pp, a near fine copy. A collection of poems, by the Scottish antiquary. Uncommon, with only 2 copies in UK libraries.

Zaria Vostoka, Tbilisi Georgia, 1958. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G. 88pp, b/w frontis, 29pp b/w plates, CYRILLIC text, covers grubby, a nice copy. Scarce survey of the folk art of Georgia. Covers items in silver, textiles & embroidery, woodwork & carving etc etc.

Hutchinson, 1977. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth dj, F/VG+. 182pp, spine & rear panel of dustjacket slightly yellowed, otherwise a nice fine copy. CIA set spy thriller.

Sovetskii Pisatel, Moskva , 1947. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth spined boards, G. 492pp, b/w frontis, cheap paper browned at the margins, spine spotted & marked. Biblioteka Izbrannykh Proizvedenii Sovetskoi Literatury 1917 - 1947 series. Selected works of the Russian writer Arkady Petrovich Gaidar [ 1904 - 1941 ] , a Red Army Commander & journalist.

Bright Sky Press, 2011. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. [vi]+202pp, colour illustrations throughout, SIGNED by Gainer to the endpaper, a fine copy in a very slightly edge worn dustjacket. A stunning collection of landscapes & portraits by the American photographer Gainer.

Museum Of Modern Art, New York - Harry N Abrams, 2000. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 348pp, 162 colour & 144 b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. New. For each of the 4 years given in the title the three writers have selected items from MOMA which capture the artistic mood of the year in a microcosm. The years show that modern art is not a single thing but a diverse concoction of ideas & interpretations. Over 300 items are chown, covering all the museums departments.

Picador, 2000. 2nd impression.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 520pp, decorated endpapers, a near fine copy, corners bumped. Fiction set in the late 1600's , centred around a Scottish fleet which sets sail to found a colony on the Panamanian Ithsmus.

Sinclair Stevenson, 1992. 2nd impression.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG. xii+195pp, index, paper a little tanned, otherwise a fine copy. A Study of the modern economic & political condition in the West in the late 20th Century - the self serving economic comfort achieved by a few & the underclasses who find themselves stalled in poverty.

Constable & Co, 1896. 1st edition.. Hardback. Decorated cloth, G+. viii+110pp, decorated title, many nice illustrations although 1 has been coloured in, binding a little weak at title, cloth nibbled away at the head & tail of spine. A collection of childrens songs, with Art Nouveau illustrations.

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. x+241pp, b/w frontis, 8pp b/w plates, index, a nice copy in a slightly rubbed dustjacket. Biography of the American sculptor who trained in Europe & was one of the earliest working in the USA. His work is atop the Capitol Dome.

Shire Publications, 1989. 3rd impression.. Paperback. Card wrappers, VG. 32pp, b/w illustrations throughout, a nice copy. Shire album 64. A short monograph on the history of the production of Iron in Britain.

Cameron And Hollis, 2000. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. 256pp, b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. Well illustrated account of the nine Astaire & Rogers pictures made in the 1930's for RKO, plus details of the separate movies made by the pair before the making of their 10th & last film together.

Centro Di, 1980. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 1211pp, 82 colour & 4461 b/w illustrations, index, fine copy in a slightly edge worn dustjacket & with the original slipcase which is also slightly worn at the edges. Italian text. Monumental catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Evey entry is illustrated ( with a small thumbnail image in most cases ). Covers not just the paintings, but also the other works of art, including the ceilling frescos.

Preston Corporation, 1954. 1st edition.. Paperback. Stapled card wrappers, VG. 32pp, 20 b/w illustrations, edges of the covers chipped & rubbed, Ex Libris Robert Bassett with his bookplate. Basic illustrated guide to the Smith collection which features Bow, Bristol, Chelsea, Derby Caughley, Pinxton, Swansea, Worcester & Longton Hall items

Tate Gallery, 1934. 3rd edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 69pp, colour frontis, edges a little rubbed. A catalogue of the paintings held at the Modern Foreign Galleries of the Tate, which were first opened in 1926.

Phillimore, 1982. 2nd impression.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. 128pp, b/w frontis, 22pp b/w & 2pp colour plates showing 46 images, 12 b/w maps & plans, text figs, index, a fine copy. Publishers Darwen County History series. A comprehensive county history, from the earliest times.

Prestel, Munich, 1999. 1st ednglish edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. 192pp, b/w frontis, 32pp colour plates showing 106 images, 2 b/w illustrations, 8 colour charts, a fine copy. A unique reference to the 8 Schools of Italian Renaissance Art. 1200 painters are listed with their respective schools, mentors, influences & other essential information.

Izd-vo Vostochnoi Literatury, Moskva, 1963. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 198pp, b/w frontis, index folding b/w map, pages a little tanned due to the poor paper stock, otherwise a nice copy. A collection of essays on the history of Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600-1868. Aleksandr L’vovich Gal’perin [ 1896 - 1960 ] Russian historian, senior lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (beginning in 1950). His chief works were devoted to the history of Japan and international relations in the Far East.

Richards Press, 1930. 1st edition thus.. Hardback. Buckram, dj F/G+. 142pp, pages unopened, dustjacket torn & foxed at the edges, SIGNED by Galsworthy, copy 24/250. Limited edition of the Commentary, which first appeared in 1908.

Penguin, 1968. reprint.. Paperback. Paperback, VG++. 314pp, paper browned a little, otherwise a nice fine copy. The 6 book in the Forsyte Chronicles.