Search Results: Titles starting with G from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Bucuresti: Cartea Romaneasca, 2009. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. A well received analysis by Andrei Terian on the works of George Calinescu, considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time, and an exceptional figure in Romanian literature in his own right. Signed by the author on the title page, with a personal inscription in Romanian. Text in Romanian. A clean copy. Dustjacket has minor wear and a small closed tear to the bottom of the rear. Silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1877. Pasteboard box with colored pictorial label showing bust of Shakespeare on a shelf of books. With 64 cards as called for, and a stapled pamphlet of directions. Some soiling to the box.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Story of two young siblings planting a triangular flower garden. Photographic plates throughout. Textblock is bright. Contemporary owner's name on the front endpaper. Tan cloth with brown lettering and colored illustration. Very Good binding.

Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Near Fine binding. Number XXIII of 35 numbered deluxe copies bound in full blue Nigerian goatskin by Wetherby Woolnough, with Whittington marbled endpapers, out of an edition limited to 240. Signed by the translator and the illustrator. With illustrations by Richard Kennedy, and an etching by him numbered and signed in pencil and loosely inserted. With some fade to the spine; housed in the publisher's slipcase. Near Fine binding.

Evesham: Red Apple Press, 1968. Limited Edition. Near Fine binding. In a limited edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter "A". [24] pages, each with a border of printer's flowers printed in red; the half-title bordered in bronze colored printer's flowers; with two initials in pale blue. Designed, handset, printed and published by Norman and William Overington of Church Honeybourne in Worcestershire. In textured orange cloth boards, lightly bumped at the bottom of the spine. We locate 5 copies in institutions, all in the United Kingdom or Ireland. Near Fine binding.

Andover [Hants, United Kingdom]: Intercept, 1992. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in green faux leather binding; xii, [1], 2-308; illustrated throughout with photographic images and drawing; there are no marks of any kind in the book; with mylar wrapper.~~A gathering of pesentations to the British Pteridological Society. Near Fine binding.

London: L. Upcott Gill, 1905. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; an attractive binding in blue, with decorations in pale green and titling in gilt; [vi], [1], 2-330 page, followed by [2] list of publications, and a [10] page (including printed wrappers) "Catalogue of Practical Handbooks Published by L. Upcott Gill of London, W.C.".; illustrated with numerous Wood Engravings and Half-Tones.~~An attractive copy of this book which is abridged from Mr. Schneider's "Book of Choice Ferns" which appears to have been published five years prior. Very Good binding.

Philadelphia: A. Hart and Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1851. Fourth Edition, with Additions. Hard Cover. Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's brown embossed cloth with a rose stamped in gilt to the center of the upper board; [v], vi-xvi; [13], 14-196 pages; illustrated with several small steel engravings; there are pencilled drawings of rural structures on the endpapers; with wear to the extremities of the spine and the corners; there are a couple of spots of what appears to be green ink at the bottom of the spine; damp stain to the top edge of the front endapers and several pages following; one corner crease at leaf 29/30.~~A sturdy copy of this useful treatise by Robert Buist, "Nurseryman, Seedsman, and Florist". Good binding.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1871. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in the publisher's brown cloth, with a vignette of ferns in gilt to the upper board and in blind to the lower board; viii, [1], 2-192 pages, including the Index; with 72 chromolithographic plates, and with small engraved vignettes before the description of each of the species of fern; the spine is lightly sunned but more than legible. Very Good binding.

[New York], 1949. Ten plans prepared by the engineering firm, Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall & MacDonald in New York, and demonstrating the remarkable expansion of infrastructure during the immediate post-war economic boom years in the United States. Dated from 1946 to 1949, the plans are (1) Queensboro Bridge-Manhattan Approach. Plan for the Alleviation of Traffic; (2) Lynchburg Distribution Road. General Plan. (3) Plan for Toledo Waterfront Expansion; (4) Susquehanna River Bridge; (5) Plans of Proposed New Hampshire Turnpike; (6) Route 100. Secaucus to Ridgefield, General Plan; (7) Allegheny County [Pennsylvania] Bridges; (8) Wilbur Cross Parkway, Twin Bore Tunnel. West Rock-New Haven; (9) Northern-Sagtikos State Parkway Extension; and (10) Prospect Avenue Expressway, Bureau of Brooklyn. General Plan. Substantial oblong folio -- 11" x 17" - 51 leaves; with illustrations, maps, sketches and plans. The leaves are mostly printed on the versos, but some printed on both sides.

Wiesbaden: Gábor Török, Nina Stoelting, 2013. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. First Edition of Gábor Török's Birth of a Longing; text in German and English. Limited to 1200 copies, this may be one of the 100 copies signed by the author. The signature on the title page, with accompanying inscription, has lifted slightly. Else no marks of any kind. A book of art and sculpture by the German artist, with color photographs throughout. Large pictorial hardcover, with minor shelfwear and bumping to the edges. Near Fine binding.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A clean First Edition copy of this novel about the world of academia by a sometime professor of English at Washington and Lee University as well as a screenwriter for the Disney studios. Binding is a bit cocked; lacking the dustjacket. Very Good binding.

Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press | Firefly Books. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. The Easton Press edition Gems of the World. In full burgundy leather, with elaborate decorations and titling in gilt; silk moire endpapers; all edges gilt; silk ribbon marker bound in. There are a couple of quite light scratches to the top edge of the gilt; there are no ownership or other marks in the book. Near Fine binding.

New York: R. Cronau, 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Large 8vo.; in terra-cotta cloth with pictorial pastedown of a woman (casting a ballot?) who can only described as triumphant; [6], 7-300 pages, followed by [3] pages of Index and ads.~~Cronau as a German-American writer and journalist. The book covers the role of women in history from the earliest time and then covers the progress and accomplishments of women. Good binding.

Louisville, Ky: J. P. Morton, 1925. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. 8vo.; the publisher's stapled pamphlet in printed wrappers; 35 pages; with photographs of documents; there is a light stain to the top corner, and some scattered underlining; the title page has foxing. Very Good binding.

Richmond, Virginia: Privately Printed by Ben Robertson Miller and Archibald G. Robertson, 1967. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding with no marks of any kind; [13], 14-168 pages, followed by several blank leaves for making Notes; with several photographic illustrations; an "out of sequence" [unnumbered] copy from a limitation of Two hundred and fifty copies. Very Good binding.

Albany, N. Y.: Joel Munsell, 1869. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's green cloth binding; xii, [2], 324 pages; illustrations; three rear hinge is lightly cracked but holding quite well; annotations adding to the the genealogical informaiton by later hand (or two); several letters from family members laid in; all illustrations (portraits, scenes, etc) present; as well there is laid in a beautifully penned transcript of the inscription on the grave of The Rev. Mr. Nicholas Gilman, 1748. Very Good binding.

Central Falls: E. L. Freeman and co, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. In the publisher's green cloth, with gilt titling to the spine. Binding has some light silverfishing, but is sturdy and tight. The text is complete, though one page is misnumbered -- a printer's error which we presume is true in all copies. Previous owner gift inscription. Engraved plate of the Gillson arms. Very Good binding.

Anderson, S. C.: Oulla Printing & Binding Co, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's green cloth binding with titling in gilt; [5], 6-223 pages, followed by [3] pages of Index; with frontispiece portrait of the author, and with note from the publisher tipped in at the front endpaper. Very Good binding.

Spokane, Washingtion: Grey Dog Press, 2017. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in pictorial wrappers; xvi, 447 pages including the Index; illustrated with photographic illustrations, mostly black and white but some in color.~~An exhaustive history of a family who came from Ireland to Washington, D.C., in the early 19th century "when the city was but a muddy village."~~Uncommon in commerce. Very Good binding.