Search Results: Titles starting with G from Buddenbrooks, Inc.

Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1929. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in blue on the spine. xvi, 390, (1) pp. A fine copy internally, the cloth with a bit of mellowing or aging at the spine panel. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE WORK.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912. First edition. 63 black and white illustrations from photographs on 33 plates and 3 maps, 2 of them folding. 8vo, original brown cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on spine, upper cover gilt-lettered and with a gilt vignette of a native, t.e.g. xv, 288 including index. A handsome, bright copy with only some minor foxing throughout. A work that strove to provide Europe with a view of their colonies as real human societies with histories and cultures to engender a sense of obligation in their minds to provide human rights and fair treatment. “More accustomed to the tangible difficulties that beset the path of the pioneer and explorer in front of those who make or write History, nevertheless, the Author sallies out boldly on his hopelessly quixotic quest, and sets his quill in rest to tilt with the ethical truths against the Windmills of the European Powers, who have come to regard Africa and African Peoples as specially designed by a beneficent Providence… Read More

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1931. First edition. Illustrated with 12 colour plates, 14 black-and-white plates, 45 sketches, and one folding map of the Sudan. 8vo, original brick cloth, blind embossed lion on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. xix, 170. A fine copy with only light or occasional foxing. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. A beautifully illustrated and informative guide to Sudanese game animals authored by the game warden to the Sudan government, this book advocates early wildlife conservation with its encouragements of alternatives to hunting: “A good photograph of a wild animal in its natural surroundings is of more interest than all the heads, and is often a sign of great patience, courage, and skill in bushcraft. Record heads mean nothing and are purely luck. Above all, don’t kill just for the sake of killing!” [preface]. Features more humane hunting techniques and efficient skinning methods as well as descriptions of physical features and habits of a plethora of… Read More

London: Horace Cox, 1913. Second Edition. Profusely illustrated with photographs on full page plates throughout. 4to, publisher's original green cloth blindstamped in an alligator skin pattern, gilt-lettered on the spine and upper cover, and with a black pictorial design of an African hunter on the top cover. xii, including errata, 310, including appendix and index, 8 ads pp. A handsome copy, sometime rebacked using the original spine panel and other materials, end-leaves renewed, clean and very well preserved internally, the binding strong and tight. SCARCE WORK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. This book is an attempt to record vanishing species of African wildlife, their habits, colouration, spoor and populations. Stigand considered that with civilization advancing at such a rapid pace, there would be little opportunity in the future to find and observe animals still undisturbed by the encroachment of humans on the landscape. Very scarce.

Eastbourne, Sussex: Machandra Publications, 1968. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original orange wraps, pictorially decorated and printed in black on the upper cover. 15 pp. A fine copy, essentially as pristine, occasionally a notation or mark in the margins. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION. This is the full text of the speech that Mr. Ramachandra delivered at the inauguration of Mahatma Gandhi Centenary Celebration on 2nd October 1968, in Oslo, Norway. Also included here is the full speech that he delivered at the 1968 World Constitutional Convention held at Interlaken, Switzerland. The author says of his subject: "Gandhi was essentially a man of action, a Nishkamya Karma-Yogi,to use the phraseology of the great Hindu Scripture, Bhagawad-Gita. But the roots of his writings and action ran into the spiritual realm: and yet he was more intellectual than emotional compared to other great leaders of India. He was a practical idealist....he was a freedom fighter. As such, his field of… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1969. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine panel, in the original printed black, yellow and red dustjacket. 474 pp. A fine, near pristine copy of the book, a bit of residue from the jacket on the upper and lower covers, the dustjacket with a bit of light edgewear. FIRST EDITION. In this book, Erickson, the greatly respected analyst, psychoanalyst, professor and author sets out in this work to elucidate the nature of what Gandhi called his Truth in Action. The author sets out to retell in great detail a relatively little-known event in Gandhi's middle years, namely, his assumption of leadership in a strike of textile workers in the city of Ahmedabad in `918. Erickson explains Gandhi's method of concentrating on local grievances of high symbolic value as a way of mobilizing the Indian masses both spiritually and politically, a method that distinguished Gandhi from the charismatic figures of the post-World War… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. First edition. 8vo, half tan cloth and boards, lettered on the spine in brown, in the publisher's original dustjacket. 247. A fine copy of the text, the paper fresh and essentially pristine, the binding with some evidence of age or use, still strong and attractive, the dust-jacket complete. There is a gift inscription at the front free-fly. Hemingway's last published work, issued posthumously. Set in the Mediterranean, the story of a young couple on their honeymoon and the dangers which they face when the literary career of one sparks jealousy in the other. Two of the most "complex and convincing" characters of Hemingway's books. “Hemingway began THE GARDEN OF EDEN in 1946 and worked on it off and on for the next fifteen years, during the same period he was writing THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, A MOVEABLE FEAST, THE DANGEROUS SUMMER, and ISLANDS IN THE STREAM. He described the book’s theme as ‘the happiness of the Garden that a man must… Read More

London: Country Life, 1927. Second and best edition, revised. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Large Folio, publisher’s original green buckram, gilt decorated with pictorial designs and lettering on upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine. With a dustjacket made expressly for this copy, at a later date. x, 438, including index pp. An excellent copy, fresh and fine inside and with just light evidence of age to the binding. The jacket remains in fine condition. A HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED COPY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK. Hussey and Jekyll created this impressive pictorial treatise dealing with "garden design in relation to architecture, and, to some extent, with architectural design in relation to gardening." Jekyll's books are highly collectible and remain among the most important of all writings in the oeuvre of the garden. This is the most famous book on the subject.

London: James E. Hawkins, c.1893. Early printing formated as the first and very possibly the first edition with an amended title-page. Illustrated with twenty drawings by the author, and an original coloured folding map prepared by the Royal Geographical Society. 8vo, original sienna cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the covers and spine in classic Victorian style. x, 274. Index. A handsome, clean and bright copy. SCARCE AND A CLASSIC WORK of Victorian area discovery and exploration during the opening of Africa. “This (is the) story of seven years of pioneer mission work in the heart of the Dark Continent...it is a son’s letter to his mother and the home group; and it is a story of strictly pioneer work, for he undertook to cross the continent by foot. The journey, undertaken in an apostolic spirit, was marked by that savour of the supernatural which is so sweet to the believer...The book is a revelation of passion for the soul.” (preface to the third edition)

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1986. Uncorrected bound galleys. 8vo, in original wrappers. 314. Fine.

New York: George H. Doran, 1923. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered and decoratively illustrated in green on the upper cover and lettered in green on the spine. 318. A very good copy, well preserved with old pastedown on the free-fly. Romance and adventure in British Columbia. "Of all British Columbia valleys none has a finer sweep than the spacious Windermere. The valley rolls itself on both sides of the Columbia River in wide stretches of grass lands, varied with great reaches of red pine forest, here of open park-like appearance, there thick with underbrush of spruce and cedar. The valley lies between the two ranges of the Selkirks, which in places crowd hard upon the river and again lie up against a far horizon across a stretch of tumbling foothills. With the autumn sun on its rich and varied wealth of color, the valley lies like one great genial smile across the face of British Columbia from Golden Pass to the Crow’s Nest, warm, kindly, restful.… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition With a colour frontispiece and 35 illustrations by the author from paintings in colour, drawings in black and white and from photographs. Three maps included as called for. 8vo, publisher's original navy cloth, the covers and spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. xxv, 306 pp. A beautiful copy, pristine and near as mint. A VERY FINE COPY, SCARCE THUS, OF THIS FIRST EDITION WORK ON THE LIBYAN SAHARA. Charles Furlong (1874-1967), American explorer, writer and photographer, was the first American to explore the Tripolitan Sahara.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977. First Edition. With illustrations to the dust-jacket by Leonard Baskin. 8vo, publisher’s original linen backed terra-cotta paper covered boards, the spine lettered in black. With the pictorial dustjacket illustrated and printed in red and black. 200 pp. A well preserved copy, the book clean and tight with some light mellowing to the spine panel, the dustjacket with a bit of light age mellowing and a bit of evidence of shelving or use. FIRST EDITION. It was said at publication, that the book’s “eloquence, passion and power are unmistakable. It is the impressive single work produced by an English poet in this decade.” The work is a “magical fable which in its intensity breaks through the ludicrous ordinary into the intense abnormal.” “GAUDETE is a completely singular work that cannot be read with the usual literary preconceptions. It is a genuine breakthrough in its abandonment of conventional poetic technique. What emerges here… Read More

London: F.G. Moon and Co., 1846. From the Standard Folio First Edition, limited to 500 sets only. A single original hand-coloured lithographic plate drawn on stone by Louis Haghe after David Roberts' paintings done on location in 1838. Printed on a single folio sheet 23.25" x 16.25", the captioned image, is 19.75" x 13.75", now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" glazed behind clear mylar. Beautifully hand-painted to the highest standards of the time. An example in excellent condition, clean, fresh, beautifully preserved. FROM One of the most desirable of all travel and COLOURplate books. We have a good number of impressive images from the Standard Folio Edition of this classic work available for purchase. As well as many views of Egypt we also have available, views of Nubia, Petra, Sinai, the Jordan, Tyre, Sidon and Baalbec. Please inquire for further details. In the course of two and a half months in 1838, traveling some 800 miles south from Cairo, Roberts recorded the… Read More

New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1943. Early American Issue. 8vo, publisher’s original gray cloth, lettered in black on the spine. 412. A very good copy with some light wear and aging to the spine panel. “These 28 lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. These discourses are at the same time simple and almost confidential, and they trace and sum up the results of thirty years of devoted and painstaking research.”-Publisher

New York: John. W. Lovell Co., 1890. First Edition. Large 8vo, publisher's original cloth backed paper over boards, the spine panel and upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt. [xvi], 292 pp. A very good copy, a bit rubbed and with a bit of loosening to one of the prelims, a bit of rubbing to the corners and tips. FIRST EDITION. "The book was in part a response to, in part a transcript of, Whistler's famous libel suit against critic John Ruskin. Ruskin, in a review of the inaugural showing at the Grosvenor Gallery, had referred to Whistler's painting Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket as "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face". The book contains Whistler's letters to newspapers chronicling his many petty grievances against various acquaintances and friends, and it contains his famous 1885 lecture, "Ten O'Clock", explaining "the meaning and purpose of art". Whistler biographer Stanley Weintraub suggests the book was controversial enough that Whistler might… Read More

London: for the Sydenham Society, 1849. 2 volumes. The First Edition in English of Hippocrates. With eight plates of very unpleasant-looking surgical instruments and treatments. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth gilt lettered on spine and with gilt devices on covers within ornate paneled border in blind, t.e.g. x, 466, [2]; vi, 469-872, [2]. A very good set, much nicer than is typically encountered, the textblocks clean and bright, the bindings very well preserved, solid and strong and unfaded, just a bit of wear at the extremities and outside hinges, Volume I with some wear to the endpapers along the joints but the boards still firm and tight. THE FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE ENGLISH VERSION OF HIPPOCRATES. The importance of Hippocrates to the entire history of medicine is unquestionable. In spite of over two thousand years of scientific and social progress, the ideals and philosophies expressed by Hippocrates still remain as the ethical backbone of all healing practitioners.… Read More

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. 3 volumes. First Edition. A copy with superb provenance, the Robert Hoe copy with his discreet plate. Decorated throughout with engraved illustrations to each volume. Complete. 8vo, Very handsomely bound in full polished calf, the covers wit triple gilt fillet rules at the borders and gilt corner-pieces, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments of the spines elaborately decorated with panels gilt tooled in an all-over design with central gilt ornamental devices, top edges gilt, fine marbled endleaves. xiv, [2], 484; vi, [2], 449, [1]; vi, [2], 470 pp. A superb set, beautifully preserved and unusually fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERB BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ELIOT, ARRANGED AND EDITED BY HER HUSBAND. IN VERY BEAUTIFUL AND FULLY GILT DECORATED BINDINGS, WITH VERY FINE PROVENANCE, THE ROBERT HOE COPY WITH HIS DISCREET AND FAMOUS PLATE. The stories of George Eliot and J.W Cross are legendary. She, twenty years his senior, he, her… Read More

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Illustrated with 50 fine plates, all but one being impressive colour reproductions of paintings by George Morland. Large 8vo, in the publisher's original blue cloth with an all over design of vines and trees on the upper cover and spine in light and dark greens and black, gilt lettered on both the upper cover and spine panel, t.e.g. xix, 289pp., 2 ads. A very bright and well preserved copy, the text clean and fresh with fine plates, the cloth attractive, sound and sturdy with just minor evidence of age. A VERY HANDSOME ENTRY IN ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK'S SERIES ON FINE BRITISH ARTIST. This volume, part biography and part a study in art, features 18th century painter George Morland, best known for his scenes of rural life. He begin painting at age three and was listed as an honorary exhibitor at the Royal Academy by age 10. His style is largely influenced by that of Joshua Reynolds, whom he had met as a child, and obtained permission to… Read More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First edition in English of SCALATE NELLE ALPI. A copy with fine provenance, coming from the collection of famed climber Eric Roberts. With 15 illustrations from black and white photographs on glossy double-sided plates. 8vo, publisher's original burgundy cloth lettered on the spine in silver. 201 pp. A fine copy. A CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF MOUNTAINEERING IN THE DOLOMITE AND MONT BLANC RANGES AS WELL AS IN THE ANDES. Gervasutti, also known as "Il Fortissimo", started climbing at the age of 16 years. Together with other well known climbers of the time he climbed the most difficult and sought-after faces in the Western Alps. Gervasutti died in a mountaineering accident on the Mont Blanc du Tacul.