Search Results: Authors starting with G from DuBois Rare Books

New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 298 pages ; 22 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original paper over boards, red lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very faint crinkles to spine ends, else fine. A sharp copy. Signed to title page by author (who also wrote a little thing called: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3w", a collection of 9 stories for which he won the Pen/Hemingway Award.).

New York: Moffat, Yard and Co, 1920. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Lacking. 260 p. 19 cm. Smallish 8vo. Blue cloth over boards, orange lettering to spine. Book Condition: Mild wear to extremities, foxing to first few pages. Very Good+ overall. Lacking the rare dust jacket. Bojer was considered by his contemporaries to be the most important Scandinavian writer since Ibsen. Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Jelliffe Macintire. With an introd. by Llewellyn Jones and critiques by John Galsworthy, Joseph Hergesheimer, James Branch Cabell and Cecil Roberts. Frontispiece is a portrait of Bojer drawn by Kahil Gibran; there is a brief forward by Howard Willard Cook geared exclusively to the extraordinary excellence of this drawing. There are two introductions, one by the author, and one by Llewellyn Jones. Galsworthy, Hergesheimer, Cabell and Roberts contribute essays on individual works which are found in the appendix. There is a "glossary" of Bojer's works following the… Read More

Flagstaff, Ariz: Northland Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. viii, 26 pages, 89 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 x 31 cm. Oblong 4to. Black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover with gilt borders. Book Condition: Upper front tip is a bonked a bit else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mild superficial wear to the extremities with creasing at that same bonked upper front tip, rear panel shows 3" scratch at top edge. Inscribed by the artist- [Mark Gaede] "Signed for _____, who I enjoyed meeting today. Mark Gaede 12/29/87

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First Edition, First Printing so stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good -. 368 p. ; 22 cm. Rust colored cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Spine ends bumped else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Chipped with some loss at spine and tips, fading to spine, wear to extremities with a nic to the edges here and there.

New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/About Fine. 187 p. ; 22 cm. Slim 8vo. Cloth and paper over boards. Jacket v. slightly soiled and curled else Fine.

New York: [Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.], 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound Wraps. Near Fine. [v] 41 [iii] pp. illus. 23cm. Staplebound wraps. Scarce. Worldcat shows two institutional holdings.

London: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 20p. [with approx. 30 blank pages following]. 21cm. Hardcover. Teal colored paper over boards, title in gilt within tan leather spine labe . Front cover of original wraps bound-in complete with Royal Society for the Protection of Birds list of additional published "leaflets" to obverse. Book Condition: Fine. A pristine copy with a gift inscription of PO in small fine hand to ffep. Galsworthy, John. For Love of Beasts. Reprinted from the "Pall Mall Gazette". London: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 1912.

Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography = Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, 1998. Wraps. Fine. 87 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. 4to. Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book Condition: trivial wear to extremities, else fine. Virtually pristine. Text in English and French. Exhibition catalog.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1898. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair/Lacking. 303 p. 19 cm. Publisher's cloth over boards, gilt lettering and brown decorations to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Fair. Interior joint cracked with mull visible, several of the pages have closed tears, covers show wear, staining and bubbled cloth in places. Several of the stories feature animals as walking talking characters as evidenced by the charming illustrations. Our copy states 1898 printing date on title page and copyright date of 1892 on the obverse. Worldcat lists the copyright date as 1882 which we think is wrong.

Fribourg/Suisse: Office du livre, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 400 p. : il. ; 34 cm. Folio. Hardcover. Publisher's original wheat color linen over boards, lettering stamped in walnut to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: light wear to the extremities; nicks to edges hear and there, tips frazzled at the front panel, but bright and fresh. Copiously illustrated with 48 full color plates, 200 in-text illustrations both color and b/w, and 1900 illustrations accompanying catalog listings (b/w thumbnails). In French. The first of the truly comprehensive Catalogue Raisonne for Goya, from which the subsequent editions in English and German were translated.

London: Little, Brown & Company, 1998. First UK Edition (true first). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 374pp. Octavo. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Correct price £16.99 is intact on the brilliantly illustrated jacket. Charcoal endpapers are unmarked like everything else on this sharp copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Norton, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good. 131 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm. Oblong 4to. Covers rubbed, front cover creased at the edge, remainder mark to bottom edge, interior clean and unmarred. Over 100 full color plates documenting Nicaragua government's war with Contra rebels by famous war photographer William Gentile.

San Angelo Tex: Lenore H. Morgan, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 30 pages ; 22 cm. Stiff cardboard wraps. Book Condition: Very good at least; v. light abrading to extremities here and there; heavy offsetting to ffep, hints of it to verso and v. light suggestion to title page. Designed by Carl Hertzog. Scarce to the trade Hertzog item, well worth having.

Berlin: Verlag die Runde, 1935. First Edition. Loose leaf. Very Good +. 12 letters (facsimile) and 11 portraits loose in tan cardboard chemise. 240cm. Book Condition: toned to a golden brown, with spine darkest, one of the inner flaps neatly detached, else fine. Condition of contents is unread and unmarred; pristine. Contents collated and perfect; obviously the first time any of the loose material been handled since it was all laid in at the printers in 1935. Four additional pieces, publisher's materials, laid in also.

New York: Radcraft publications, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound. Very Good. 64 pages, illustrations. Thin 8to in flexible cardboard wraps. Scarce 1st printing. Book Conditon: covers soiled, dampstain to bottom edge of front cover. Creasing, with moderate wear to the covers. Text block in much fresher shape. Overall, a respectable copy of this scarce 1st edition. Topics covered include r.f. circuits, audio circuits, sound equipment, power supplies, frequency modulation and more.

New York: Aperture, 1994. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 111 pp. 4to. Blue paper over boards, gilt spine lettering. "In 86 color and 68 black-and-white duotone photographs, Gibson celebrates Burgundy. Local cuisine, architecture, customs, wine cultivation, landscape, and the Burgundians themselves are ongoing visual themes that produce a witty portrait: sensual but never sentimental, both stark and lush, earthy and enigmatic."--BOOK JACKET.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 239 pages ; 22 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original quarter bound blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: clipped, with very light wear to the extremities else fine. A sharp copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 368pp.

1953. Aquatint. Fine. DIE BRUKE" 1953 Aquatint on fine wove J. Whatman paper (a favorite throughout Gilkey's career). Measurements: PLATE- 11 15/16 in. x 14 3/4 in. SHEET -19 3/4 in x 18 1/8 in . Titled (lower left); Inscribed "Best Wishes to Rosemarie. GG" (lower center): Signed & Dated: "Gordon Gilkey 1953" (lower right) [all in graphite]. Print Condition: faint smudges to the margins, else fine. A gorgeous, deeply inked impression in virtually pristine condition. Gordon Gilkey (1912-2000) was a printmaker, teacher, collector, and curator. He graduated from Albany College, which is now Lewis & Clark College, in 1933 and obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1936. He served in World War II in a special division dedicated to locating and returning art confiscated by the Nazis and to confiscating Nazi propaganda. Gilkey spent the majority of his career teaching printmaking at Oregon State University. Gilkey was crucial in building awareness for and appreciation of… Read More