Search Results: Titles starting with G from Sky Duthie Rare Books

London: Headley Bros., [1917]. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrappers, bound with yellow string and with original glassine wrapper. Illustrated with 4 tipped-in colour plates, 2 tipped-in monochrome plates, 5 full-page sepia drawings and several head and tailpieces, all by Daphne Allen. 32pp. A very good copy, the binding firm and bright with some minor wear to the extremities. The contents with some scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order. The scarce glassine wrapper with some chips and tears. An uncommon work by the Edwardian child artist Daphne Allen (1899-1985), published when she was 18 years old, in which she beautifully illustrates poems by Robert Herrick and other seventeenth-century authors.Born in Stamford Hill, London, Allen was taught painting from an early age by her father, the artist Hugh Allen (son of the publisher George Allen), and also took life-classes in Chelsea. She began showing her work at the age of 12, holding her first… Read More

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1939.. First edition, second printing (Geneva); First edition, first printing (King Charles). Both works signed by the illustrator. Octavo. Publisher's original blue and red cloth respectively, with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrappers. Top edges gilt. Each work with an additional illustrated title page and numerous black and white plates and in-text drawings by Feliks Topolski. Both works are in fine condition, the bindings square and tight; the contents remaining immaculately clean and crisp throughout. Complete with the original near-fine dustwrappers which have some minor marking and edge-wear, a 1cm tear to the head of the rear panel of King Charles, and a few small nicks to the head of the rear panel of Geneva. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the front flaps). Both works signed by Feliks Topolski in black ink on the half-title page.These two plays by Shaw, one a topical satire on Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, the other a Restoration comedy, formed one of… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1923. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's original maroon cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Bottom edge untrimmed. Illustrated with a black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous black and white drawings. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little creasing to the spine and a few small marks to the boards. The contents with tanning to the endpapers are otherwise in very good order. The unclipped dustwrapper with a little marking and minor creasing and chipping to the extremities is otherwise also very good. A wide-ranging collection of articles by the British zoologist, evolutionary biologist and disciple of Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (1847-1929). The pieces in the present collection "all relate to the study of living things ranging from the phagocyte to the gorilla, from the pond-snail to the Russian giant, from facts about longevity to theories as to human progress and the… Read More