Search Results: Authors starting with S from Great Expectations Rare Books

London: Prentice Hall International, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, no dust-jacket. 128 pages. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs and architectural sketches. First edition, a title in 'The Great Ages of World Architecture' series. Long prefatory essay followed by over sixty pages of captioned illustrations. Small previous owner's label inside front cover. Both front and rear dust-jacket flaps retained and laid-in loose. Covers protected by well executed hand fashioned acetate covers. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine. .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 276 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. With eight pages of black and white illustrations. Stated first edition, first printing. A true tale of scientific duplicity in 1940"s Great Britain. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket in new Brodart cover. An as new, apparently unread copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. .

New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Hardcover, black cloth in white publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 268 pages. Genealogical Charts; Chronological Charts; Bibliography, Index of Persons. Illustrated with one map and several half-tone portraits. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. Mild age wear to white duct-jacket. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good./Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Avon Books, 1990. Book. Near Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Trade paperback. 179 pages. Illustrated by Joel Schick. Later printing [7th] of the Avon Camelot edition. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, sound, internally unmarked copy. Mild toning to page edges as per usual and general light war to covers. Near very good. .

New York: Bullseye Books / Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Trade paperback. 209 pages. First Bullseye Books edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, sound, tight and unmarked copy. Very good. .

New York: Dial Press Inc., 1968. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 264pp., No previous ownership marks. Black cloth with spine lettered in silver and red, correct price on dust-jacket flap. Small stain at top of bilked sheets, esle a clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket lacking small schip from base of spine and rubbed/worn overall, but complete. A near very good copy in a good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Weatherhill, 1986. Large 8vo, black cloth in non-price clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with 135 striking monochrome and 13 color photographs. Text by Wes Benson. Date and small private inscription written in pen on front free endpaper. Else fine in like dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Knopf, 1995. Hardcover in light beige dust-jacket. 328 pages. Selected Bibliography, Bibliographic References, Index. Illustrated with drawings. Presumed book club edition, with no price on dust-jacket flap, second printing. No previous ownership marks. Seven anecdotal tales by a clinical neurologist providing "...a new perspective on the way our brains construct our individual worlds." A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Secker and Warburg, 1949. Hardcover, red cloth, no dust-jacket. 246pp., A collection of essays, primarily about 19th century literature. Slight glue residue to front endpaper. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, square used copy. Near very good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Early printing of this title. Bound in black cloth, stamped in silver. Sans dustjacket. Several light stains along bottom edge of rear board, else a very good+ copy.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 242pp., Index. Map endpapers. No name, no book-plate, etc. Endpapers somewhat toned, else fine in very good+ dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St Martins Press, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 242 pages. Glossary, Index of Role Names. Compiled by Roger Parker. With eight pages of photographic illustrations. First edition. The complete and definitive guide to the operas of Giuseppe Verdi. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Doubleday, 1991. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's price-clipped dust-jacket. 402 pages. Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. A collection of dozens of Safire's "On Language" columns. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, tight and unmarked copy. Very good+ in Very good dust-jacket. .

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1987. Book. Good+. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback. 357 pages. Illustrated with cartoon drawings. First edition thus, first Owl Book Paper edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, tight and unmarked copy. Good+. .

Montréal: Fides, 1965. Trade paperback. French language edition. 226 pages. Introduction by Robert Elie. The twelfth title in the Collection du Nenuphar (les meilleurs auteurs canadiens). Limited to 1,500 copies. First edition. Significant spine cant from storage and most signatures uncut and unopened from binder. Original yellow wrappers toned. No previous ownership marks. Interior clean and unmarked. Text in French. A fair copy. . First Edition. Softcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Heritage Press, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, quarto sized volume bound in red cloth stamped in gold. 498 pages. Folding genealogical table of the Bourbon family laid-in. Selected, translated and edited by Desmond Flower. Illustrated with color plates. First edition thus. No previous ownership marks. Spine moderately darkened, as per usual. Slipcase present with split along bottom edge albeit still intact. Very good in a fair slipcase. .

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1965. Hardcover, gray cloth in pale green, no price-clipped dust-jacket. 161pp., Index. Stated first edition. Not a history of French aesthetics as such, but more a study of the Classical traditions which informed the refined the French artistic judgement of the eigtheenth century. In short, a look at the fromation of taste and attitudes pertinent to the arts, and by extension, Frecn intellectual life in the Age of Reason. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket shows mild toning and several small spots. A very good+ copy in a near very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Tsar Publications, 2002. Trade paperback. 91pp., First edition. A fierce and tremulous collection of poems about sexual desire, gender, belonging and ultimately metamorphosis. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unread copy, as new. Extremely scare. Fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Plume, 1991. Large trade paperback. 453pp., Source notes, Index. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tightly bound copy. A comprehensive and polemical acoount of the discovery of the America's in the twilight of the 15th century. A near fine copy.. Second Printing Thus. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2013. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 128 pages. Notes [bibliographic references], Bibliography. Illustrated with photographs, engravings and maps. First edition. Brief private gift inscription on title page, else a clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine. .