Search Results: Titles starting with A from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

no place: no publisher (Book & Print) no date (c 1986). Fine. 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Extract; 3 leaves (i, p. 237-239); 8vo; printed wrappers. Text in French. Emile Verhaeren was a poet and art critic. This is a bibliographic description of the first edition of his 'Les Soirs' published in 1888 by Edmund Deman. .

[San Francisco]: [The Roxburghe Club] [1984]. Fine. 1984. 2 sheets folded to 8.75" x 11.5" to form cover, 5 text pages printed double column, colophon; black & white photograph [7.5" x 9.5"], Golden Gate Headlands from Lincoln Park, San Francisco by Adams, ca. 1950, tipped in facing first page; b&w portrait photo [4" x 5"], of Adams tipped in on third page. Designed and printed by Adrian Wilson. Fultone reproductions by Gardner/Fulmer Lithograph. .

The American Institute of Architects. Near Fine. 1982. Softcover. Red wrappers with light wear. Features: One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years, a timeline putting AIA's history in the context of the times and national world affairs; 6 from 125, Readers nominate the best American buildings of the Institutes life span.; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall .

Top Shelf Productions. Fine. 2010. Softcover. 1603090258 . Yellow self-wrapppers. A Visual Autobiography, black & white comic panels throughout tell the story. ; 9.9 X 7.5 X 1.9 inches; 640 pages .

No Place: The Royal College of Art. Very Good. 1950. Softcover. Soil and two moderate smudges to white back cover. ; Stapled wrappers; two color plates; black & white reproductions throughout, including line drawings, cuts; advertisements. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 31 pages .

N.Y. & Boston: Creative Photography. Fine. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0821215221 . 283 pp.; 4o; cloth in price-clipped jacket; 74 duotone, 198 halftone illustrations. Near Fine , with protective mylar wrap .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Near Fine. (1907). Second Edition. Hardcover. Spine cloth a bit faded. Front endpaper with faint vertical line of offset tonining. ; Red & white gingham cloth; illustrated yellow title label front cover; vignette & full page drawings by the Hoosier Humorist throughout. "Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet. " Clipped one page, 1998 article on Hubbard by Gilbert Weldy, laid in along with a few other fragments. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 149 pages .

Paris: Didot L'Aine. Fair. 1811. Hardcover. Spine paper cracked at joints with loss, binding remains fairly firm; rubbing to edges and boards; damp stains and foxing throughout. Color plates with moderate offset toning to paper from facing text, with seven of the eight plates showing light to moderate foxing. ; Quarter dark green glazed paper lettered in gilt, glazed pink paper boards. Eight hand-colored plates, four b&w by L. Bouquet after P. J. F. Turpin and A. Poiteau. Includes an alphabetical list of flowers, and emblems, numerical list of flowers and detailed description of symbolism, observations on flower emblems, and floral dialogues. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages .

Berkeley: The Book Arts Club. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Copy number 1 of 450 copies. Burgandy cloth with lettered in red on gilt decorations. In printed tan jacket, in protective mylar wrap. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 102 pages .

Farrar Straus & Giroux. Good in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0374127492 . Front endpaper, and part of pastedown with broad offset tanning. ; Black cloth back and black paper over boards, in dust jacket. ; 9.2 X 6.4 X 1.4 inches; 387 pages .

N.Y.: Coward-McCann. Very Good. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 497 pp., portrait frontis; title page in red & black; 8vo; cloth with offset tanning to endpapers; in dust jacket with moderate soil, wear at edges. In addition to the frontis portrait of Mary Baker Eddy, there is a plate portrait of Phineas Parkhust Quimby facing p. 90. Very Good , with protective Mylar Wrap .

Amsterdam & N.Y.: N. Israel & De Capo. Fine. 1969. Softcover. 2 vols. in 1; 70 & 80 pp.; 8vo; simulated vellum, embossed blue cover & spine labels stamped in silver; original publisher's mylar cover; 3 folding b&w plates; two full page color plates. Bibliotheca Austaliana #64. Russian Major-General Sarychew was surveyor of the Billing Expedition of 1785 in Alaska and the Aleutians. In the preface he states: "During the eight years of our absence I had made it my daily practice to note down in my journal every thing that appeared to me worthy of observation, without any intention, however remote, of committing my remarks to the press. Facsimile reprint of 1806 London edition .

N. Y.: Da Capo Press. Fine. Reprint. Hardcover. 0306795248 . Xviii, xvi, 1-56, Life of Handel; (3) - 139 Commemorations. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Facsimile reproduction of the edition of 1785. Introduction by Peter Kivy. ; Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series; 10.0 X 7.5 X 0.8 inches .

N.Y: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1933. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket, in protective mylar wrap. 8vo; gilt stamped red cloth in color illustrated dust jacket. Jacket is from a later reprint with imprint on spine of A. L. Burt & Co. Jacket with 1.5" closed tear at top spine front corner, mild wear to corners, spine darkened. There happens to be a curious second jacket inside the Burt jacket, brown paper printed in red, "From the Library of The Euclid Book Company, 1879 Euclid Avenue, AShberry 7952." The back of the jacket is printed: "The best books of all kinds, both new and used, sold and rented." Possibly evidence of a bookselling concern, in Berkeley, California or elswhere, circa 1933.

San Francisco: David Levi Strauss. Very Good. 1986. Softcover. 139 pp., ads; 4to; photo-illustrated gray wrappers; copy design by Richard Zybert; cover photographs by Bobby Adams. Includes poetry, prose, interview; photographs. Minor wear at edges. "The first issue of Acts, printed in Robert Duncan's Basement in 1982, was intended to show the range of work being done by poets associated with the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco. Acts (grew) to become one of the most coherent and exciting contexts for contemporary experimentation in the U.S., including translations and photographic/text works." (abstract from subscription ad, last page) .

San Francisco: David Levi Strauss. Fine. 1987. Softcover. 110 pp., ads; 4to; photo-illustrated white wrappers; design, Richard Zybert. Includes poetry, prose, b&w photographs. Analytic Lyric (?) a term taken form a talk by Michael Palmer at Iowa City, 1986. From the "anxiety of signification . . .problematics of self-expression" (ex. Spicer, Holderlin) and Edmond Jabes, and Paul Celan with "the hope of recovering the meanings of words in a time when words have lost their meanings," to a "critique of the discourse of power", and the struggle to renew the function of poetry as exemplified by the writers and artists in this and other issues of Acts. "The first issue of Acts, printed in Robert Duncan's Basement in 1982, was intended to show the range of work being done by poets associated with the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco. Acts (grew) to become one of the most coherent and exciting contexts for contemporary experimentation in… Read More

Boston: Little Brown. Very Good. 1900. Foleshill Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; blue half-morrocco and marbled paper over boards; spines lettered & decorated in gilt; raised bands forming six panels; two red leather spine labels. Engraved frontis illustration. Spine faded to a green tint; joints & foredge leather rubbed; light rubbing to spines here and there, mainly at ends or the raised bands. Binding very solid with clean interior. .

Little Brown & Co. Fine. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0316784974 . 3 volumes; Four Generations is hardcover, the other two soft cover. Illustrations including full page color reproductions. .

Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co.. Very Good. 1847. Second Edition. Hardcover. 64 pp.; 32mo (4.5" x 3"); patterned light blue cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Some cover soil, and darkened spine; a few small areas of minor foxing to pages. Cushman was the pastor of Bowdoin Square Church in Boston. Remember men, consider that there are two sides to every pleasure, if you hit the Oyster Saloon, the Billiard Hall, or the Playhouse, dyspepsia, atrophy, and haggard debility follow. .

Vancouver: By the author. Fine. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Carrie Marshall on title page. 208 pp.; 4to; black cloth lettered in gilt, with ship illustration in white front cover. In illustrated yellow & black dust jacket with chips & closed tears at edges; 2" tear with loss foot of front spine edge. Very Good dust , in protective mylar wrap; Signed by Author(s) .