Search Results: Titles starting with G from Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers

Dundee, Michigan: Wee Willie's Workshop, 1962. Quarter cloth over patterned paper boards, miniature book (6.4 x 5 cm). Frontispiece; (10) pages. Limited to 100 copies. The first book from the Wee Willie's Workshop. "A story of the private press work of that Indianapolis typecrafter-typographer, with photograph of that gentleman, two two-color illustrations and Checklist of his private press work. 17 pages. A miniature book measuring 2x2 1/2". Boards. 100 copies (from the prospectus). Printed on a 3x5 handpress and bound by Phil Weygand. Offering includes the book PLUS original prospectus and a typed letter signed by Phil Weygand on Wee Willie's Workshop letterhead. Size: 64mo - up to 3" Tall. Limited.. Cloth. Fine. Miniature Book.

At the Bible, in Hanover-Square, New York: Printed By H. Gaine, 1793. Original wrapper (lacking rear wrap). 4 1/8 x 2 1/2 inches; 11 cm. [72] pages; Signatures: [A]12[B]2. Thomas Moore is a pseudonym. The contents of the calender pages are selected or adapted from Hutchins improved: being an almanack. for 1794, by John Nathan Hutchins, also published by Gaine. A tides column is added. After Hutchin's death in 1782, from at least 1785 through 1800, his almanac was calculated by Andrew Beers. Showing some expected wear, lacking rear paper wrapper, internally clean. Size: 32mo. First Edition.. Wraps. Almanac.

Venedig, 1510. Original text bound in modern paper covered boards (hardcover), Folio: 12.25 x 8.5 inches. [Venedig], [ca. 1510]. XXXIX [numbered on one side only, 80 total pages]. Latin Text. Early medical work of Galenus. OCLC Identifier: 634107822. Crude repair to title page showing dampstaining to lower portion, chipping with paper loss to upper corner of pages 5-12 not affecting text, paper boards showing age toning and wear at spine. Remains a desirable copy of a scarce early printed book on medicine.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Folio.

Paris: Le Roi, Libraire, 1841. Green full morocco (leather hard-cover) boards, blind embossed and gilt decorations, marbled endpapers (35 cm.). Unpaginated, w/ List of Plates at rear; Collated complete with 70 hand-coloured copper-engraved plates of costumes of European noblewomen from the 12th to the 18th centuries. Plates accompanied with descriptive text in French. Remaining title reads: Portraits en pied, dessinés par M. Lanté, la plupart des originaux inédits, graves par M. Gatine, et coloriés avec soin; avec des notices biographiques et des remarques sur les habillements; ouvrage édité par M. de la Mésangère. Spine MISSING, boards DETACHED; internally all plates clean and bright. Sold with all Faults. (Hiler 526) Size: Folio. Morocco. See Description.

Wien: Brandstatter, 1995. Cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket. 246 pages; color illustrations. A clean, tight copy Size: Quarto. Cloth. Fine/Fine.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Blue cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket, gilt titles, (9.5 x 8.5 inches). First Edition, with "1" on publisher's number line. 367 pages, with Appendix, Notes, and Sources Quoted; illustrated. Foreward by Will Cloney. Knowledgeable, witty, and scrupulously fair, this book tells the history of one hundred football games played between Harvard and Yale. A clean, tight copy in as new condition.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Quarto.

Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 1994. Cloth in mylar protected dustjacket. 199 pages, w/ notes and index; illustrated. In an accessible and wide-ranging work, Emmeche outlines many of the challenges and controversies in the dynamic field of artificial life. A clean, tight copy Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Cloth. Fine/Fine.

New York: Dutton, 2006. Cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dustjacket, gilt title, (9.5 x 6.5 inches), 334 pages. First Edition/First Printing with number "1" on publisher's number line. SIGNED by author on front free endpage. The acclaimed author's third novel. An exceptionally clean, tight copy in like unclipped jacket, collector fine condition. Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1987. Full dark green leather, gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards, hubbed spines, archivial paper, moire silk endpapers and pagemarker, all edges gilt, unopened in publisher's original shrinkwrap, (9.5 x 6.5 inches). Collecter's Edition from The Library of Presidents. 716 pages, with Index. An exceptionally clean, tight copy, unopened in original publisher's shrinkwrap, as new condition. Collector's Edition. Leather. Fine. Octavo.

Edinboro, Pennsylvania: Bruce Gallery Press, 2007. Wraps (softcover), 12" x 8". 185 pages, with Inroduction by John Bavaro, Essay by Wellman, and Pictorial Index of Works; illustrated with color photographs. The SCARCE Catalogue from Gary Spinosa's 2007 exhibition, Philosopher's Stone, at the Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. This unique copy INSCRIBED by artist Gary Spinosa. A clean, tight and bright copy. Size: Quarto. Signed. First Edition.. Wraps. Fine. Exhibition Catalogue.

Gates Mills, Ohio: St. Christopher's-by-the-River, 1955. Red cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket. (9 x 6 inches). First Edition, SIGNED and dated by author on front free endpaper. Tells the story of the Village of Gates Mills, Ohio and its old church, St. Christopher's-by-the-River. A clean, tight copy.. Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

Paris: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1881. Half polished green calf leather over marbled paper boards, red morocco title label, gilt title, all edges marbled, (11" x 8"). French Text. Six months January through June, 1881. 576 pages; illustrated with numerous full-page prints in b&w. Contributions of Paul Mantz, Alfred Darcel Louis Gonse, Ludovic Lalanne, Charles Yriarte, Alfred and Paul Cheron Lostalot, et al. Incomplete copy: Lacking original etching by Bonnat and Whistler. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts is a magazine of French art, founded in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with editor Charles White. Showing light exterior wear and rubbing, internally clean. Size: Quarto. Leather.

London: Sold By Rivingtons Longman & Co. Et al, 1825. Modern 3/4 black leather over original marbled boards. (approx. 10" x 13"). Containing thirty-three (33) full-page, hand-colored maps plus outlined blanks, printed on fine, hot-pressed paper. Maps are printed from the plates dated 1804-06. With map of the North America dated 1804 and a map of the United States of America dated 1804. Some expected general wear, including some scattered light foxing. An exceedingly SCARCE atlas. Size: Folio. Second Edition.. Three-Quarter Leather.

London: W. Owen, 1749. First Edition. Original full mottled calf (hardcover), Spine professionally and skillfully rebacked. 12mo (4 1/2" x 7"), [viii], 256 pages. "His account is one of the most important and valuable records of the era and contains numerous unique anecdotes of personnel and performances" (ODNB). Some general overall expected wear, open tear at rear free endpage, chip at lower edge of dedication page a2., else clean and tight. Size: 12mo. First Edition.. Leather. Very Good.

Cleveland: Smead & Cowles, 1848. Original quarter calf over cloth boards. 224 pp., with Index to Advertisements and Index; illustrated with woodcut business advertisements throughout and two folding MAPS (Map of Cleveland City, 1848 and Plan of the City of Cleveland, 1796). "The first [Cleveland] directory map, that I know of, was one published with Smead and Cowles' General Business Directory, in 1848." William C. Barrow, Western Reserve Historical Society. This copy shows expected general overall wear, hinges tender, dampstaining to lower portion of last few pages, closed tear at crease-fold of Cleveland map. A desirable and collectable copy of a Cleveland's scarce first business directory Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Quarter Calf. Good.

London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1864. Full polished calf (hardcover), raised bands, elaborate gilt decorative compartments, morocco title label, inner dentelles, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. (7 x 5 inches). Second Edition. 312 pages. SIGNED BINDING by W. Nutt, Binder. Former owner's inscription dated 1865. Title label chipped, showing some light general wear and rubbing, internally clean. Size: Octavo. Leather.

New York: An Imago Imprint / Macmillan Publishing Co., 1983. Gilt-stamped, quarter red morocco; seperate folder with original drawing both laid into quarter morocco clamshell box. Limited, number 12 of 150 numbered copies of the collector's edition accompanied by an original ink and pencil drawing from Grosz's sketchbook. The leaf (5" x7") with this copy is a study of soldier, a common image appearing in Grosz's work. The drawing bears the blind stamp of the Grosz estate, lower right. George Grosz (1893 - 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic A exceptionally clean, bright and tight copy of a SCARCE item. Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Leather. Fine.

1881. [Original Etching]. George Percy Jacomb Hood (English 1857-1929). Original etching depicting Glass Bottle Blowing hand pulled on watermarked laid paper with full margins, verso blank. Signed and titled in the plate. Sheet size approx: 9.5 x 13.5 inches; plate size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches. George Percy Jacomb-Hood was a painter and etcher, living in London but also travelling to work in Paris and India. His work included portraits and townscapes, including a number commissioned by the Indian royal family. A strong impression with crisp lines, loose and unmatted. Very Good. Print.

Oxford: Oxford: Phaidon, 1979, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. Square Octavo. Cloth in mylar protected dustjacket. 64 pp., illustrated. By drawing on the literature as well as the historical and visual evidence of the time, this book examines how far the Georgian city was the product of artistic achievement and how far its success derived from its self-generated mythology of taste and enlightenment.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Square Octavo.

London: Duckworth, 1946. Black cloth, 284 pp., with 45 illustrations and 5 maps. Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Cloth. Very Good.