Search Results: Authors starting with G from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

1953.. Fine. - A 14 inch high by 11 inch wide black & white photograph of Clark Gable seated at a window table in a restaurant in Arnhem, Holland during the filming of "Betrayed". Pictured in profile in a checkered blazer over white shirt and tie, his right elbow resting on the back of the neighboring chair and left elbow resting on the table, the actor looks across the remains of a meal at his unseen companion. A Volkswagon Beetle and a bus or trolley in front of peaked roof brownstone houses are viewed through the large windows. This is one of a very few prints pulled from the original negative in the 1990's and offered for sale at a special fund-raising event. Fine.
Life magazine photographer Martin Harris evocatively captures Gable's suave presence.
The photographer Martin Harris (1908-1971) worked for "Stars and Stripes" during the second World War. He later worked for "Look", "Life", "Colliers", and "The Saturday Evening Post" among other periodicals. Two of his photographs were selected as… Read More

Budapest: Kepzomuveszeti Kiado, (1983).. (1983).. Good. - Quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. Black cloth titled in white on the spine, in a pictorial black dust wrapper. The covers are slightly soiled and the binding is slightly cocked. The dust jacket is slightly creased and chipped along the edges. 493 pages & [1] pages, illustrated with photographic illustrations in color and black & white throughout. The top edge of the rear hinge is cracking. Good. <p>Findings from the history of Hungarian photography.<p>The text is in Hungarian.

New York: Brentano's, circa [1900].. [1900].. Good. - Small octavo, maroon cloth titled in blind on the front cover with profuse decorations in blind on the front cover & spine. The covers are rubbed & bumped with light staining to the top edge of the front cover. The spine is faded & rubbed with its titling completely faded. Half-title, title & 277 pages. There is a chip out of the front edge of the 1st page of the text. The front edges of 2 pages are roughed & 2 are stained. There is very light staining to the botttom edges of the pages. Good. <p>Also known as "File No. 113".

Grosvenor Place, 19th Century. . Good. - Over 15 words penned on 5-1/8 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide "5. Chester Street. Grosvenor Place, S.W." embossed stationery. Replying to a request for an autograph, the singer writes that "In compliance with your wishes I have the honour to sign myself, yrs truly Virginia Gabriel". Once folded, the note is mounted with glue from the verso onto slightly larger heavier stock clipped from an album. An unidentified autograph note is mounted on the verso of the mount. Good. The English singer and composer Virginia Gabriel (1825-1877) studied piano with Johann Peter Pixis, Theodor Dohler, Sigismond Thalberg, and Bernhard Molique. She also studied composition with the opera composer Saverio Mercadante. Gabriel composed popular ballads which were highly regarded but, given the times, she struggled to gain recognition for her more serious compositions and she had to personally publish her cantata "Dreamland". Gabriel died from injuries sustained from a fall from a… Read More

New York: Poster Auctions International, Inc., 1998.. 1998.. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], light tan cloth with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. The binding is lightly bumped. Unpaginated. Profuse color illustrations. Near fine. <p>Auction catalog for a sale organized by Jack Rennert and Terry Shargel, which took place at the Auditorium, Armenian Diocese, New York City in 1998. 587 items are catalogued with estimated prices.<p>Laid in are an illustrated errata sheet and a form letter from Jack Rennert.

New York: Poster Auctions International, Inc., 2004.. 2004.. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], green paper covered boards titled & decorated in gilt with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. The binding is lightly bumped. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in color. Near fine. <p>Auction catalog for a sale organized by Jack Rennert which took place at the International Poster Center, New York City in 2004. 535 items are catalogued with estimated prices.<p>A list of prices realized is laid in.

New York: Poster Auctions International, Inc., 2005.. 2005.. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], dark blue cloth titled & decorated in gilt with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. The binding is very lightly bumped. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in color. Near fine. <p>Catalog for an auction organized by Jack Rennert and Terry Shargel which took place at the International Poster Center, New York City in 2005. 543 items are catalogued with estimated prices.

New York: Poster Auctions International, Inc., 2003., 2003.. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], green cloth titled in gilt with a color illustration on the front wrap. Unpaginated. Profuse color illustrations. Fine. Catalog for an auction [XXXVI] organized by Jack Rennert and Terry Shargel held at Poster Auctions International in New York on May 4, 2003. 524 posters are listed in categories including American Silent Films, French Travel Posters, International Posters, Mather Posters, Olympic Posters and Books and Periodicals.A form letter from Rennert accompanying the catalog is laid in.

New York: Poster Auctions International, Inc., 1998.. 1998.. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], decorative black & blue paper covered boards titled in gilt with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. There is a vertical line of light rubbing to the rear cover. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in color. Very good. <p>Auction catalog for a sale organized by Jack Rennert which took place at the Auditorium, Armenian Diocese, New York City in 1998. 620 items are catalogued with estimated prices.<p>A list of prices realized is laid in.

New York: Poster Auctions International, Inc., 2009.. 2009.. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], dark green cloth titled in gilt with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. The binding is very slightly bumped. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in color. Near fine. <p>Auction catalog for a sale organized by Jack Rennert and Terry Shargel, which took place at the International Poster Center in New York City in 2009. 551 items are catalogued with estimated prices.

New York: Poster Auctions International, Inc., 2000.. 2000.. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], tan cloth with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. The top corner of the rear cover is slightly frayed. Unpaginated. Profuse color illustrations. Near fine. <p>Auction catalog edited by Tim Gadzinski for a sale organized by Jack Rennert and Terry Shargel, which took place at the Auditorium, Armenian Diocese, New York City in 2000. 713 items are catalogued with estimated prices. Laid in is a form letter from Rennert.

New York: Poster Auctions International, Inc., 2000.. 2000.. Fine. - Quarto [12-1/8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], blue cloth titled in gilt with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. The binding is slightly rubbed. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in color. Near fine. <p>Auction catalog for a sale organized by Jack Rennert and Terry Shargel, which took place at the Auditorium, Armenian Diocese, New York City in 2000. 704 items are catalogued with estimated prices.

Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, (1886).. (1886).. Very good. - Small octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The top edge is gilt. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some small dents to the rear cover and a light stain & some tiny white marks to the front cover. x & 163 pages. Decorative head-pieces, tail-pieces & chapter initials. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. There are some small stains to the pastedowns & endpapers. Very good. <p>An American travels around England and then to Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1968).. (1968).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are bumped & rubbed. There is some darkening & staining to the edges of the rear wrap with small dents & 2 pinholes to its top edge. The remnants of 2 pieces of scotch tape adhere to the front edge of each wrap & a third piece has been removed, leaving a glue mark to the front wrap & a small area of the surface torn away on the rear wrap. 61 pages plus 2 pages of music staves. There is a glue stain to the front edge of the first leaf and there are 2 pinholes in the top edge of the last leaf. Good. <p>First edition. <p>Inscribed and signed in full on the first leaf by Frank Gagliano.

New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, (2007)., (2007).. Fine. - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6-3/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in golden yellow boards backed with a charcoal spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. viii, [ii], 533 & [1] pages, with several pages of color and black & white illustrations. Near fine.
First edition, first printing.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1977).. (1977).. Good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. The binding is rubbed & the wraps are bowed. 192 pages. Profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations. An owner's ink name is penned on the title page & there is a light crease running through the bottom edges of the pages. Good. <p>Introduction by Bruce Jay Friedman.

(Madrid: Edicion Gran Via, 1990).. 1990).. Very good. - Small quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in color pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed. 47 pages plus colophon. 14 full-page illustrations in color and black & white with captions on the facing pages. Also with a black-and-white photographic portrait of the artist. Near fine. <p>The name of the Staempfli Gallery is misspelt on the title page. The text, including the introductory essay by Pablo Jimenez, is printed in Spanish and English.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, (2016)., (2016).. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION - Octavo, 9-3/8 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Black cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper illustrated by Gail Cross. [1] leaf & 316 pages. Fine. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the author Stephen Gallagher on a decorative limitation leaf bound in at the front."Sebastian Becker's position a Special Investigator for the British Crown requires a subtle touch: gathering evidence that determines whether or not someone is a Chancery Lunatic - afflicted with madness making them unfit to manage their fortunes - without tipping the hand of those whose resources often make them above the law." [Quoted from the dust wrapper blurb].

New York: Wm. A. Mercein, Printer, 1832.. 1832.. Very good. - sc Octavo, softcover disbound and removed. 87 deckle-edged pages. There is some scattered foxing thoughout and a tiny dampstain to the bottom edge of the title and another to the front edge of the last few leaves. There are stab marks along the left edge of the book. The contents are in very good condition. <p>First edition.<p>Albert Gallatin was the chairman of the committee.

New York: Coward McCann, (1939).. (1939).. Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth with a printed paper label on the spine. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. The spine is darkened with its head lightly chipped & the label is chipped. 116 pages. Despite its flaws, a very good copy. <p>First edition.<p>Inscribed by the author shortly after publication on the front endpaper: "To Amelie, John, Marian & Creeger [?]: / With much love, / Uncle Hubert. / September 18, 1939.<p>Herbert Draper Gallaudet [1876 -1944] was the youngest son of Edward Miner Galludet, who founded Gallaudet University, the first college for the deaf. Herbert Gallaudet became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Waterbury, Conn. in 1912 and served there until he retired in 1938. He served as an army captain during World War I. These World War I poems are based on his own experiences.