Authors starting with G from Thorn Books

Madrid: Pedidos, n.d., ca. 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. 12mo. 303,(3)pp. Modern cloth, leather lettering label, gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in. A fine copy. The date is taken from the Prefácio of Luis Felipe de Orleans, Conde de Paris, 15 Marzo, 1869. Scarce. OCLC finds only one copy. In Spanish. ... more information

Zaragoza: La Academica, de F. MArtinez, 1932. First edition, first printing.. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. 4to. 731pp. Early binding of plain, cream-colored buckram. Neat ownership name at top of title page else a fine copy. Biography of Juan Manuel, Infant of Castile (1282-1347). In Spanish.... more information

NY: Coward-McCann, Inc.,, (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good plus. Yes. First edition. Translated and illustrated by Wanda Gag. Seven full page illustrations, as well as illustrations in text. Original printed cloth. Bookplate of Josephine Greisberg with her neat gift inscription beneath 'For Kenny with love, Cousin Josephine, 1966.' A fine, bright copy. In bright dustwrapper, which is not price-clipped, but has two short closed marginal tears and a bit of roughness at spine tips, el... more information

New York: HarperCollins, 2008. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. As new in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated by Dave McKean. First printing with full number line. Newberry Prize winner for 2008; without the sticker.... more information

New York: HarperCollins, 2008. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. As new in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated by Dave McKean. First printing with full number line. Newbery Prize winner for 2008; in first state jacket without the sticker. And now the 2009 Hugo Award winner. Signed by the author on the title page. ... more information

New York: Spike Avon, 1999. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. A fine, bright, as new copy of the first printing, in a similar, unclipped dustwrapper. Winner of the 1999 Mythopoeic Award.... more information

New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1925. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Yes. 8vo. (6)225,(1)pp. plus publisher's catalogue. Original green cloth, gilt. Ex-library with a stamp on the bottom edge and a deaccession stamp on the front free endpaper, just touching the inscription. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "to two who know what the something is" and dated 1933. Light wear, ex-library, gilt darkened, else a very good copy. ... more information

Venice (Venetiis): Apud Iuntas (Giunta), 1542. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo. (8),365,(1)pp. Fine printer's device to title and full page device to last page. Woodcut initials. Original limp vellum binding with the use of 15th Century manuscript for binding. With the commentary of the French physician Martin Akakia (1500-1551). Vellum lightly soiled, ties perished, else a very good copy with a fine text block and a fine example of Akakia's translation of Galen's important treatise on the the... more information

Francofvrti: Typis Ioachimi Bratheringij, 1603. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. Small 8vo. (8),269,(2)pp. Woodcut portrait on reverse of title page, probably of Geoffrey, though it may be Merlin as there are no episcopal indicia. First separately printed edition of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Arthurian prophecies of Merlin; although written earlier, it was soon incorporated as book seven of his Historiae Regum Britanniae, and is here edited by Alain de Lille. 19th century half calf; spine in six... more information

Madrid: Manuel Tello, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. 4to. 482pp plus errata page. Publisher's green silk finish cloth; gilt spine title; sprinkled edges; patterned endpapers. Spine and top of upper board sunned else a very good copy. Memoria Historia de las Posesiones Hispano-Africanas. Landmark history of Spanish activity in Africa. Scarce. In Spanish.... more information

London: Printed for W. DIckinson, et al, 1787. First edition.. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. Folio. vi,(3),vi-xx,38pp. Eleven pates plus frontispiece: full page copper engravings by Bunbury. Wanting B1 of the prelims, and apparently issued that way, As the ESTC notes, "Possibly deliberately mis-signed in order to support the ’missing’ portion of the author’s preface - see editor’s note." Bound to style in half calf, red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Two si... more information

London: J. M. Dent, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. 16 plates. Index. Blue cloth, gilt. Light shelfwear; very good copy. Landmark study of the richness of Arthurian lore in Italy. ... more information

New York City: American Music Guild, INc., 1942. First edition, first printing.. Hardcover. Good. Yes. 8vo. 324pp. Publisher's purple textured cloth, block with titles in silver on the upper board and spine. Illustrated. Foreword by Sigmund Spaeth. Silver blocking well worn on the upper board and nearly perished on the spine, cloth color perished at lower edge of boards, pencil underlining and notes, still a good copy. Scarce in firs printing.... more information

New York and Dublin: H. W. WIlson Company, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. 4to. xiv,896pp. Publisher's brown cloth printed in black. Bookplate else a fine copy. Dustwrapper is not clipped and is fine as well.... more information

n.p. (London): n.p. (Richard Roylston), 1648 ( but 1649). Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (8),269,pp. Folding frontispiece portrait of the King, without the Explanation. This edition is Madan #2, Almack #4, with two square blocks added to title page and text reset; misspelling "mali" for "mala" on title page. Originally attributed to Charles I, it is now acknowledged that the author is John Gauden. The portrait is signed "Guil: Marshall sculpsit"; in this issue ... more information

n.p. (London): n.p. , 1649. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. (4),260,pp. This edition is likely a variant of Madan #8, or a mixed 12 from Newcomb's printings for No 7(see Madan, p. 18). Without a frontispiece portrait nor any other illustration. Possibly defective, ending with leaf M10 and the word '"Finis" and thus probably not bound with the Letter from the Prince as described by Madan in No. 8. Originally attributed to Charles I, it is now acknowledged that the author is ... more information

London: G. M. for Andrew Crooke, 1641. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Yes. 8vo. (vi), 46pp. Bound to style in full calf; red leather lettering piece, gilt; the boards tooled in blind. Title page remargined (no loss) else a fine copy. With the statement at the foot of the title page: "Published by order of that House." The headpiece on page one consists of repeating crowns over a Tudor rose, a fleur-de-lis, a Scottish thistle and an Irish harp. Gauden, 1605-1662, bishop of Worcester, putat... more information

London: Walpole Press, 1899. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 2 volumes. One of 1000 numbered sets. Nineteen etchings, each printed in two states. Translated by I. G. Burnham. Contemporary binding signed by Broca in full deep blue-green crushed morocco. Spines in 6 compartments, ornately tooled in gilt. Boards, both upper and lower, intricately tooled in gilt in flower and leaf pattern, which form borders nearly an inch and a half wide all around. Printed endpapers in blue and gilt. Gilt inner dentelles.... more information

London: Tonson & Watts; Knapton, 1753, 1755. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Two volumes. Contemporary full leather; spines in six compartments, gilt rules; red lettering pieces, gilt. Illustrated with engravings. The lettering labels have been replaced and the hinges have been neatly and nearly invisibly repaired; this is a very good set. Volume 1 is the seventh edition; volume 2 is the fifth edition. Even though the editions differ, the binding are clearly intended to make this a set. ESTC... more information

Washington DC: Franciscan Academy, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Yes. First edition. 4to. 291pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering and seal on upper board. Ex seminary library with spine numbers, pocket on front pastedown, number and stamps on title page, and bar code on rear board. Except for the library markings, it would be graded fine.... more information