Search Results: Authors starting with G from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1900. Hardcover. Cloth stained and soiled, internally generally fine, though with several plates sprung. 8.5 x 6 inches. 262 pages. Cloth. Presentation copy, the inscription making reference to the damage of the book and her efforts to save copies from a fireInscribed by Emma Gage on the front free endpaper.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear. 4to. Black-and-white photographs. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. SIGNED by Gall on the title-page. Produced in conjunction with Umbra Editions.

New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First edition. A few tiny stains on covers, otherwise as-new. Square 4to. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Essay by Kirk Varnedoe. Chronology and artist's biographies by Robert Dean. Catalogue editors: Ealan Wingate, Lisa Kim and Erin Wright. This is the original catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition from 12 September 12 to 19 October 2002, not the later mass-market reprint published by Rizzoli in 2009. According to Gagosian Gallery it was "an exhibition celebrating the years of the pioneering Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (1957-1967). Organized by Irving Blum, the exhibition brings together historical examples of the artists fostered and represented by Ferus during this decade. "During the 1960s, under the direction of Irving Blum, Ferus became one of the most significant galleries on the West Coast. This exhibition will feature twenty-two of the Ferus artists, with many works on loan from… Read More

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Some light toning to wrappers, a very good copy. 12mo. Original tan printed wrappers; in a quarter blue morocco slipcase. First edition, no. 154 of 250 copies signed by the author. An interesting monograph giving Galsworthy's credo as a novelist and playright. In it he elaborates on his theory that great works of the past and present are such because they contain great characters. It was given as the Romanes Lecture, Sheldonian Theatre, 21 May 1931.

London: Heinemann, 1907. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A worn spot on outer front joint, wear at ends of spine, front cover a bit bowed, front inner hinge cracked. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition, first issue (with blind stamp in corner of back cover). Presentation copy to a very good friend, the foremost theatre critic of the day, inscribed by Galsworthy on the front free endpaper: "March 1.07 [publication day was March 2]. William Archer with the Author's regards." Bookplate of Estelle Doheny (faint offset touching part of inscription). Marrot, pp. 12-13. (BA).

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901. Cloth lightly buckled on front cover, light wear at extremities, title lightly spotted, generally a solid, presentable copy. 8vo. 306 pages, [4] ads, 32-page ads. Original cloth, lettered in black on front cover, in gilt on spine. First edition of the fourth and last of the Galsworthy novels written under the "Sinjohn" pseudonym. One of 1050 copies printed. With bookplate of C. H. St John Hornby, founder and owner of the Ashendene Press and founding partner of W. H. Smith. A fine association copy: the two were friends since their university days and Galsworthy's pseudonym - Sinjohn - was derived from his friend's name. Marrot, pp. 7-8.

London: William Heinemann, 1930. A fine copy. 8vo. Original vellum, gilt-lettered; cloth slipcase. Number 756 of 1050 numbered and signed copies.

London: William Heinemann, 1930. A few stains on cloth, ends of spine lightly frayed. 8vo. Original green gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for F. Richardson very cordially by John Galsworthy Oct. 6. 1930." The novel deals mostly with the older Forsytes before the events chronicled in The Man of Property. Galsworthy states in a foreword that "They have all been written since Swan Song was finished but in place they come between the Saga and the Comedy ..." By way of explanation he writes that "It is hard to part suddenly and finally from those with whom one has lived so long; and these footnotes do really, I think, help to fill in and round out the chronicles of the Forsyte family.

London: Heinemann, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small chip to jacket at top of spine, a few smaller chips at edges, but a very good plus copy. 8vo. Folding table frontispiece. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered, top edge stained green; in the printed dust jacket; in a green cloth chemise and slipcase. First trade edition of the sequel to 'The Forsyte Saga'.

Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Books, 1972. Some soiling and staining to wrappers. 8vo. 23 pages. Stapled in original printed wrappers. First edition, one of 500 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title: "For Sandy Taylor, In friendship + respect - Brendan Galvin." The Salt Farm was Galvin's first volume of poetry.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 8vo. 174pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A near-fine copy with fading as usual to spine panel of jacket. FIRST EDITION, review copy, with slip laid-in.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 2 pages, 4to, single-spaced. In the TNS of Jan. 16 Gardner writes that he did receive the copy of Martin's novel 'The Stolen Jew'. The TLS of July 13 is devoted to Gardner's explanation of why he can't write a letter to the 'New York Times' to complain about the negative review the book received: "... Though the review's dumb, it doesn't seem to me pernicious... I already have a reputation as a literary hit man, which I hate to give increasing evidence for... the review of 'The Stolen Jew' doesn't seem [really harsh], just stupid. I don't think it damages you; it merely fails to help you. (With Bellow [sic] and Roth, you're failing in very good company, if the review makes you seem to fail)..." (BA).

London and New York: Harper Brothers, 1905. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine dull, some extreme edges a trifle rubbed. 8vo. With eight illustrations. Original pictorial blue cloth with a grotesque bat vignette in light blue and black on front cover, gilt-lettered. First English edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to "Israel Zangwill with the [greetings?] of the author Hamlin Garland, The Players Club. April 24." A very good copy. Bleiler, p. 79 (coded V8 for Spiritualism). (BA) Zangwill (1864-1926) was a British author and leading figure of cultural Zionism in the 19th century (he was a close associate of Theodor Herzl). He also wrote mystery novels, such as 'The Big Bow Mystery' (1892), often cited as the first locked room mystery novel.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1889. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine darkened and rubbed with a small tear, corners slightly worn, inner hinges tender. 8vo. Original tan cloth, the front cover blocked in black and gilt to a "light and shadow" motif. First edition. The dedication copy to his father Richard Garnett, inscribed on the half-title: "R. Garnett from his son the Author. October 1889." The printed dedication is simply "To My Father." Dr. Richard Garnett (1885-1906), a prolific author, spent all of his working life in the library of the British Museum, becoming Keeper of Printed Books in 1890, a position he held until his retirement in 1899. "Edward Garnett (1869-1937) became a publisher's reader (or editor) at the age of 19 and followed that profession until his death 50 years later... becoming the intimate friend and advisor of many writers including Conrad, Hudson, Galsworthy, D. H. Lawrence, and T. E. Lawrence" ('The Garnetts: A Literary Family. An Exhibition', HRC, Univ. of Texas,… Read More

Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co, 1850. Rebacked with original spine laid down, new endpapers, foxing. 8vo. Original green blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, bookplates, presented to the Newberry Library in 1911 and with their deaccession label (sold Parke-Bernet, 4-5 May 1966, lot 419). First edition. Garrard left Westport in 1846 in a Santa Fe wagon train led by Colonel Ceran St. Vrain and returned to St. Louis in the summer of 1847. His account describes the Taos Massacre and the subsequent trials of prisoners. During his travels, Garrard met several well-known figures, notably Jim Beckworth, Kit Carson and George Ruxton. Graff 1513; Howes G-70; Rader 1538; Rittenhouse 236; Sabin 26687; Streeter I:170; Tutorow 3428; Wagner-Camp-Becker 182.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1970. A fine copy. 8vo. Printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies.

Zurich: Edition Stockeregg, 1984. First edition. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with a few areas of soiling. 11.5 x 11.5 inches. Black-and-white reproductions. Cloth; dust jacket.

Zurich: Edition Stockeregg, 1984. First edition, signed. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with a few small spots. 11.5 x 11.5 inches. Black-and-white reproductions. Cloth; dust jacket. With a warm inscription on the title from Kas[ar M. Fleischmann to a New York Gallerist, and signed by Peter Glasser.

London, 1939. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 28 pages, 8vo, and 4 holograph preliminary pages and manuscript cover. Greenish-blue wrappers. John Gawsworth (1912-1970) had an active career as a literary editor, bibliographer, lecturer, archivist, and most of all, poet. He also served in the RAF in various European, North African, and Indian stations during World War II. He also achieved some celebrity as the second King of Redonda, though his later years were clouded by acute alcoholism and attendant poverty. Nevertheless, his career was prodigiously productive, with a long series of volumes of his poems appearing in print from 1933 onwards. As a young writer he moved in London literary circles championing traditional verse as opposed to the ascendant Modernism (a fact that led to his inclusion in the 1936 anthology Edwardian Poets). The first of the preliminaries notes, in Gawsworth's hand: "The Original MS of 'New Poems', the volume for which The Academic Committee of the Royal Society of… Read More

London: printed for T. Thomson, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729. A fine copy, the joints lightly rubbed. 8vo. ix, [1], 62 pages; 16 pages engraved music. Three-quarter red morocco, red cloth boards, all edges gilt, by Riviere. Pirated edition published in the same year as the first, with p. 9, 44 lines; p. 21, 41 lines. For information on the various printings see 'Modern Language Review', 1942, vol. 37, pp. 291-303. ESTC N27915.