Authors starting with G from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1988].. vi,[2],502,[2]pp. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. Black & white photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Trace of foxing to edges, faint crease at lower corner of upper board, else near fine in pictorial dust jacket with minimal shelf wear. First edition. A group biography of Adolph Zukor, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner Brothers and Harry Cohn - key figures in Hollywood's development. ... more information

Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs, Inc., 7 January, 1954.. [1], 44 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only, brad-bound in mimeographed wrappers. Touch of darkening to edges of wrappers, else an unusually nice copy. A "Final Master Script" of Frank Burt's adaptation of Emile Gaboriau's story, prepared as #50B of the MY FAVORITE STORY series. ... more information

Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs, Inc., 7 January, 1954.. [1], 44 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only, brad-bound in mimeographed wrappers. With extensive annotations throughout in pencil and colored pencil (see below), a few soft creases to upper wrapper, otherwise a very good copy. A "Final Master Script" of Frank Burt's adaptation of Emile Gaboriau's story, prepared as #50B of the MY FAVORITE STORY series. This copy was the property of script supervisor Lar... more information

Paris: Chez Grange, 1754.. [186]pp. 16mo Contemporary dyed calf, spine gilt extra. Spine extremities a bit worn, with shallow loss at crown, a few minor foxmarks and age spots, otherwise a very good copy. A somewhat uncommon edition of the satirical poet's translations of Anacreon, Sappho and Theocritus, first published in 1712. The Greek text, equipped with its own separate title page but signed contiguous with the first portion, concludes the volume. Gacon (1667 - 1725), self-styled "poète... more information

London: Hogarth Press, 1974.. Cloth. Plates. First edition. Small owner's label on pastedown, faint soiling to edges, else near fine in a price-clipped, spine-faded dust jacket. ... more information

Toronto: Coach House Press, [1982].. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition, edited by Daphne Marlatt and Ingrid Klassen. Includes a long interview with the author conducted by Marlatt. ... more information

[New York]: Viking, [1985].. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955].. Thick octavo. Cloth. First edition, first book. Small vestige of publisher's review slip tipped to free endsheet. Lower edge of lower board shelf-scraped, otherwise a very good, tight copy in bright dust jacket with some patches of mild discoloration and small bits of erosion along lower flap fold ... more information

Edinburgh: Printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1813.. Three volumes bound in one. Very, very thick octavo. Contemporary paneled calf, with central blindstamp of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Backstrip detached (and laid in - cords and sewing quite sound), light foxing, endsheets spotted, but internally generally very good and crisp. The Old and New Testaments translated into Gaelic, the Old Testament being a revision by Alexander Stewart of the translation from the Hebrew by John Ste... more information

Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1883.. [8],708pp. Thick quarto. Publisher's heavily gilt decorated quarter morocco and cloth, a.e.g. Illustrated with four chromolithographed plates, three color folding maps, twenty-two wood engraved plates, and numerous engravings in text. Fore-corners a bit worn, inner hinges cracking (but sound), moderate marginal foxing (and foxing to edge gilding), small patch of adhesion to one chromo from now absent tissue guard, but a good, bright copy. First edition of this substan... more information

Montréal: Éditions de l'Arbe, [1944].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. Spine slightly cocked, light use at overlap edges, but a very good copy. ... more information

New York: Workman, [1990].. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. Top edge dust marked, else a fine copy in dust jacket. ... more information

Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, [Nd].. Small octavo. Cloth. First edition. About fine in near fine dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane. About fine. ... more information

Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1950].. Large octavo. Printed stiff wrappers. First edition in book form. One of one thousand copies printed in Bodoni types on W&A Rag paper. Near fine. CAHOON, p.64. ... more information

[New York]: HarperCollins, [2000].. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Publication date label on front cover, fine. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.. Cloth. First edition. Poet Cid Corman's copy, with his ownership signature and extensive annotations. Edges dusty, fore-edge stained, else a good copy in a sunned dust jacket. ... more information

Cambridge: Harvard, 1952.. Cloth. Small ink name stamp on free endsheet, light sunning at edges, else near fine in good, lightly sunned dust jacket with several creased edge tears. First edition of this relatively early work by the economist, drawing on his experience as OPA Deputy Administrator for Price Controls 1941-3. ... more information

Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1965.. Printed wrappers. Fine. First separate edition of this essay on the influence of THE GENERAL THEORY... (occasioned by the appearance of a new edition in the U.S.), printed in an edition of five hundred copies as a tribute by the author to two fellow economists and two businessmen. ... more information

Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, [ca. 1857].. viii,[7]-336,[12]pp. 12mo. Bright cherry-red cloth, decorated in blind, spine elaborately gilt extra. Frontis, plates and maps. Heavy offset from once laid-in clipping to two pages, light foxing to pastedowns, otherwise exceptionally fine and bright. Intended for young readers, and reprinted under at least one other similar imprint. ... more information