Search Results: Titles starting with G from Keel Row Books

London; Ascot Gas Water Heaters, 1935., 1935. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. ii, 214 pp. Frontispiece with printed tissue guard, numerous illustrations and plans in text, 23 tipped-in colour plans and photographs plus fold-out plate showing views of the Ascot works. Book Condition: Very Good. Original black cloth with silver titles and decoration; top edge stained red. Pictorial endpapers. Cover cloth lightly rubbed, very lightly sunned to spine and with two upper corners bumped causing associated corner creasing at corner of textblock (plates unaffected). Closed tear to pp 49/50 otherwise a very clean copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Printed compliments slip loosely inserted from Dr Bernard Friedman, who wrote the Preface and one of the essays. Lavish trade catalogue for Ascot Water Heaters advocating their use in a domestic and commercial setting with a series of essays aimed at the consumer on subjects such as "Fundamental Principles of Water Heating for Domestic Use" ; gives detailed… Read More

London; John Murray, 1872., 1872. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp xvi, 367, [1], 6 full-page plates including frontis and numerous engraved illustrations in text, 2 gatefold maps. 12pp publisher's catalogue at end. GIFT INSCRIBED by the author to the Duchess of Roxburghe [Lady Anne Spencer-Churchill]. The engraved plates are by the authors son, Henry Hardinge Cunynghame. Original bottle-green cloth with gilt titles to spine; blind border with foliate corner motifs to boards and gilt vignette of the Brazen serpent of Delphi to upper board; brown endpapers. Cover cloth a little scuffed with minor wear at spine tips and corners. Text block cracked with two or three gatherings a little loose but holding. Prelims partially unopened. The 'Constantinople' plate with minor soiling and creasing to edges. A few leaves corner-creased; minor scattered foxing. Damp stain and a couple of small nicks to edge of frontis. Gift inscribed to verso ffep " To Her Grace the Duchess of Roxburghe with the Best… Read More

London; Mining Journal, 1907., 1907. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION. Large octavo. Xiii,339 pp, 32 (advertisements). Illustrations in text plus 87 plates including photographs, tables and diagrams, of which 12 are fold out. Book Condition: Very Good. Original bright yellow cloth with black titles. Cover cloth surface soiled to spine and edges and rubbed head & tail with a couple of nicks. Endpapers toned; clean & tight with no inscriptions. This is the revised Second Edition ( the First Edition of 1905 had only 195 pp) and arguably the best edition of this comprehensive work. Subject matter includes the different types of dredging equipment available, leases, costing and worldwide areas suitable for investigation.

London; John J Griffin & Sons Ltd, 1912., 1912. Hardcover. Ninth Edition. Undated - c. 1912. Large octavo. Book condition: Very Good. Original red cloth binding with gilt titles and blind-stamped decoration including griffin motif to rear board. Cut-out thumb markers for Index and Chemicals Price List. Profusely illustrated detailed catalogue of scientific equipment and apparatus - a useful reference with notes covering a wide range of products from ice-making machines to gunpowder-testing apparatus and much between. Cover cloth lightly soiled & edge-worn. Inner hinges weak & light tanning to endpapers. No inscriptions.

London; Curtis Warren Limited, 1951., 1951. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Softcover, pp 110, [2] ads. Pictorial paper wraps. Minor creasing to spine and covers; white spine panel lightly soiled. Rust marks to staples and a little scattered foxing otherwise a clean copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Very Good. The very first of John Brunner's many science fiction novels, written when the Author was only 17 years old, under the pseudonym Gill Hunt. Scarce. Tuck Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy

London; Harborough Publishing Co, Ltd, 1960., 1960. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST ACE BOOKS EDITION. Softcover, pp. 156, [4] catalogue. Pictorial card wraps. Cover edges lightly rubbed and light background a little surface soiled. Contents toned as usual otherwise clean; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Ace Books H345. Love and murder in a lonely Maryland road-house, from the author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice".

New York; Tower Publications Inc, 1968., 1968. Softcover. 138 pp. Book Condition: Near Fine. Pictorial card wraps. All edges yellow; 6 pp advertisement section to rear. Lightly rubbed to lower edge & to tail of spine with a very small cover crease to front lower corner. A very clean copy with no annotation or inscriptions.

London; Greenberg & Co., 1903., 1903. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. pp., 94 plates of portraits, [4], lithographic title-page, frontispiece with tissue guard, prospectus leaf (in that order). With parallel text in Hebrew and English. Bound in midnight blue cloth over boards with blind titles to lower board and spine, water-silk effect endpapers. Reverse Hebrew pagination. Cloth soiled and lightly rubbed to edges, small red ink stain to fore-edges, small neat ownership inscription to ffeps, plates and contents generally bright and clean. Overall a Very Good copy. One of the first English collections of portraits Hebrew Poets of the eighteenth to nineteenth century, some of which are published for the very first time.

Newcastle upon Tyne; Wisecrack Publications, 2017., 2017. Mass Market Paperback. NEW. FIRST EDITION. Softcover quarto, pp vi, 180. Illustrated throughout. Pictorial card wraps. Brand new. Biography of Joe Wilson the "Tyneside Bard" (1841-1875), music hall star and composer of Geordie favourites such as "Keep yor feet still Geordie hinny". Well illustrated to include maps, photographs, official documents and letters, this work brings back into the spotlight one of the most influential figures in Newcastle's cultural history.

London; Hutchinson, 1983, 1984 & 1985., 1983. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo, pp. 303, [1]; 380, [2]; [4], 405, [1]. Publishers' black cloth with silver titles to spine and plain red endpapers, in white pictorial dust-jackets each featuring a different apple motif illustrated by Hargrave Hands and designed by Raymond Hawkey. Minor foxing to text-block edge of "Game" and slight annotation in ink to first blank of "Match"otherwise clean bright copies, very slightly rubbed at spine tips. Jackets a little creased at head & tail of spine, "Match" only price clipped. Near Fine volumes in Very Good jackets. Thriller series by the master of the spy story genre, featuring Bernard Samson of MI6. Scarce as a matching set. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; William Heinemann Ltd., 1928., 1928. Hard Cover. LIMITED EDITION : No. 268 of 525 SIGNED NUMBERED COPIES. Octavo, pp [6], 38, [4]. Black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and patterned paper-covered boards. Spine rubbed with minor wear to tips; boards a little toned to edge. Free endpapers toned with a few minor marks to ffep; signature of the Author and number to Limitation Leaf to fore. A Very Good copy. A tale of respectability, sorority and family life in the early twentieth century, when appearances must be kept up at all costs. Scarce.

London; Piper Brothers and Co, 1851, 1851. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. 12mo. [2], vii, [1], 194 pp. Frontispiece engraving of Wild Fowl Shooting by Backwith. Book Condition: Very Good. Quarter tan calf with purple reeded cloth by Remnant & Edmonds of London; gilt titles and fox mask motif to upper board. Spine scuffed with very minor loss at head and small loss (approx 1/2 an inch) at tail; boards a little bruised at corners and edges with rectangular mark where label has been removed to upper board. Inner front hinge has 3 small cracks but is very firmly holding. A little foxing and staining, mainly to frontispiece and rear endpapers; p 185 onwards creased at tip of lower corner. Binders' ticket to rear pastedown. Comprehensive guide to the preservation of grouse, pleasant and partridge for sport by the removal of predators and pests including mammals and birds, with instructions on the usage of traps and the application of game laws. Scarce.

London; Harper Collins Children's Books, 2011., 2011. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 299, [5]. Illustrated throughout by Tony Ross. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped crimson pictorial DUST-jacket. Ever so slightly creased spinetips of cloth and dustjacket to corners. Overall Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust-jacket. Signed boldly by the author and illustrator to p. [5]. With a laid in ticket for David Walliams event at Edinburgh Book Festival 23rd August, 2018, establishing provenance of signatures. Ben hates staying at his boring Grandmas house, until he discovers her time-time alter-ego! A gloriously funny novel by the much-loved best selling children's author, brought to life with illustrations by Tony Ross.

London; Harper Collins Children's Books, 2011., 2011. Hard Cover. SIGNED. Octavo, pp. 299, [5]. Illustrated throughout by Tony Ross. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket. A clean, bright copy, boldly SIGNED by the Author to title page. A Fine book in like jacket. Ben hates staying at his boring Grandmas house, until he discovers her alter-ego! A gloriously funny novel by the much-loved best selling children's author, brought to life with illustrations by Tony Ross.

London; Robert Hale, 1984., 1984. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 190. 45 monochrome photographic illustrations to plates, some full page, and 11 figures within text including double-page plan of the cave system. Publishers' black cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with photograph of Gaping Gill chamber by Len Cook. Ownership inscription to front paste-down (hidden when jacket is on book) and small pink mark to ffep otherwise a clean crisp copy. Jacket lightly toned to rear white panel. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. The history of the exploration of Britain's most celebrated cave system from Victorian pioneers up to the link of Ingleborough Cave and Gaping Gill in 1983. Scarce.

London & New York; William Heinemann Ltd and Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927., 1927. Hard Cover. Reprint. Large quarto, pp [10], 158. 24 colour plates by Byam Shaw, each with captioned tissue-guard, and line-drawings in text. Original blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and figure motif to upper board. Spine sunned with minor wear at tips; edges rubbed with small bump to upper edge of lower board. Gift inscription in ink to ffep. Foxing throughout to text leaves, particularly to early and late leaves and textblock edge (though fortunately not the plates, which are printed on different paper). Single tissue guard creased. A Good copy with Near Fine plates. Reprint of the 1914 illustrated edition of love poems from the subcontinent, with exquisite plates.

London; Gresham Publishing Company, 1902., 1902. Hardcover. New Edition. Quarto. Volume I xi, [1], 656 pp; Volume II vii, [1], 607 pp including Index. Vol I 9 colour plates and 12 black-and-white each with captioned tissue guard, plus numerous illustrations in text; Vol II 9 colour plates and 18 black-and-white each with captioned tissue guard, plus numerous illustrations in text. Book Condition: Very Good. 2 volume complete matching set bound by Zaensdorf in half maroon calf over red cloth boards. 5 raised bands, gilt titles, gilt floral motifs to compartments, gilt ruling to edges, top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers with original retailer's ticket to ffep. Inner hinges weak to both volumes. Boards a little scuffed & soiled; bloom from over-enthusiastic application of polish to spines. Lower front joint starting (approx 1/2") and lower corners bumped to Vol I; upper corner of upper board worn Vol II. Sporadic foxing and fingermarking mainly to early/late leaves and guards. A very handsome set. Heavy,… Read More

London; Gyldendal, 1922., 1922. Hard Cover. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii, [1], 344. Publishers; maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, and titles in blind to upper cover. Cover cloth a little rubbed to spine tips. Tidy ownership inscription to ffep, free endpapers toned; scattered foxing, mainly to early and late leaves and text-block edge. A Very Good copy. First novel in the Kristin Lavsransdatter trilogy, also known as The Wreath. Undset (1882-1949), the Norwegian author, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

Salisbury; William E Bennett (Journal Office), 1915., 1915. Periodical. Single sheet 61 x 38.5 cm, folded into pp 4. Map and 2 large illustrations. Faint creases from historical folding, with 6 cm associated tear to central horizontal fold, and very minor foxing otherwise a remarkably clean crisp copy in Very Good condition. Great War newspaper -the Unofficial Organ of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st (P.S.) Royal Fusiliers.

Salisbury, William E Bennett (Journal Office), 1915., 1915. Periodical. Single sheet 61 x 38.5 cm, folded into pp 4. 3 large illustrations. Faint creases from historical folding otherwise a remarkably clean crisp copy in Near Fine condition. Great War newspaper -the Unofficial Organ of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st (P.S.) Royal Fusiliers.