Titles starting with G from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1953.. 8vo, 242pp. Cloth. Near fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins Jr. ... more information

San Francisco: Sierra Club,, (1964).. 8vo, 176pp, 19 b&w illus. Quarter gray cloth over illus. boards, black and gilt lettered, dust jacket, sm spot to upper board, otherwise fine in near fine dj with toning to spine, perimeters.. First Edition. ... more information

Lyon: N. Scheuring,, 1877.. 8vo, VIII, 324, (3)pp, 46 etched plates. Later blue wrappers preserving the original printed wrappers.. New, expanded edition, printed in a small edition. Each of the principals, including Voltaire, is accorded a brief (4-8pp) biography accompanied by a portrait etched after contemporary sources. The actors and actresses are also credited with all the roles that they created and the dates of the creation of those roles. The biographies are by no means always flattering. ... more information

San Francisco: Paul Elder,, 1915.. 4to, xii, 96pp, mounted photo frontis, 30 mounted photo plates. Orig. boards stamped in gilt, light edge wear and staining. Good copy of this variant binding.. First Edition. Personal comments on the art at the PPIE, with a chapter on graphic art. ... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill,, 1951.. 4to, 85pp, profusely illustrated with 64 color plates. Orig. cloth, dust jacket slightly torn, fine.. First Edition. Leigh, Dixon, Swinnerton, and others. ... more information

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith,, (1930).. 8vo, (5), 285pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Very good.. First Edition of this tragic tale set in Scotland; the dust-jacket is a marvellous deco period piece. ... more information

London: F.C. and J. Rivington, J. Johnson, et al, [1795-], 1807.. 2 vols bound in 4, folio, 19 engraved plates. Full contemp. calf, blind-tooled decorative borders, marbled endpapers, nicely rebacked, gilt morocco labels, corners strengthened, very nice set indeed.. First Edition edited and amplified by Martyn. Miller (1691-1771), a commercial florist at St. Georges Fields and Gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, first published this famed volume in 1731 in a folio edition known simply as The Gardener's Di... more information

New York: Vanguard Press, , (1953).. 8vo, 61pp with frontis. & plate illus. Original green cloth over green boards in lightly chipped, green dust jacket, back panel darkened, otherwise very good.. First American edition, signed & inscribed by the author. ... more information

New York: Covici Freide Publishers,, 1933.. 8vo, cloth, bookplate, shaken, good.. ... more information

Springfield: Charles C Thomas, , (1969).. 8vo, xv, 552pp. Red cloth, dust jacket, near fine in like dj... Revised & enlarged edition. Garrison-Morton 5019.8: 'A comprehensive, well-illustrated history of the subject.' ... more information

London: Holland Press, , (1981).. 8vo, green cloth, dust jacket. Very good.. First published in San Francisco in 1939, this reprint is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. ... more information

Paris: Plon,, 1873.. Lg. 8vo, 432pp, original frontis. portrait etched by Flameng, 2ff facsimile letter. Red cloth, yapp edges, orig. wrappers bound in, front hinge cracked, otherwise a very good, remarkably fresh copy with the engraved bookplate of A. Delzant. . First Edition. The Goncourts were very well acquainted with Gavarni, hence this is one of the best studies of his life and works. The facsimile letter included here is written to the Goncourts and dated 1852. Talvart & Place 27A. Colin 814. Bour... more information

Paris: Floury, , 1924.. 4to, ix, 216pp, plates throughout. Velin backed boards, orig. wrappers bound-in. Handsome copy.. First Edition. ... more information

Carmel-by-the-Sea: Hestwood Studios,, 1926.. 4to, (22)pp. Illustrated boards. Very good copy.. Type and illustrations entirely wood-engraved by Hestwood. ... more information

London: Jonathan Cape,, (1930).. 8vo, cloth. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First Edition of the first novel by Harold Alfred Manhood with its provocative title, limited to 2000 numbered copies. ... more information

London: Edward Moxon,, 1831.. 8vo, (x), 388pp. Old cloth-backed boards, label worn.. First Edition (Gebir had first appeared in 1798). Wise & Wheeler 22. ... more information

Basel: bey Sixt Henricpetri (getruckt bey S. Apiario),, 1570.. Folio in 6's: *6, **5, A6, [1 unsigned ff.] B-Z6, a-z6, 2A-2Y6, [1 unsigned ff.]; 439ff. Lacks two blank leaves (**6, and an unsigned ff preceding B1), and the colophon leaf with printer's device at the verso. Contemp. quarter calf over beveled wooden boards, handsomely rebacked, first four & final six leaves all with neat marginal reinforcement, dampstaining at outer leaves, occasional light foxing largely confined to margins, scattered light ... more information

Basel: bey Sixt Henricpetri (getruckt bey S. Apiario), 1570, reprinted Muchich: O.W. Barth,, 1924.. Sm Folio, 439ff. Old boards, backstrip detached, internally very fresh. . Handsome reprint of the rare 1570 first edition. Graesse V, 185. internally fresh) of the 1924 facsimile edition published by . ... more information

Van Nostrand Company,, 1923.. 8vo, 263pp, b/w text illus. throughout. Cloth. Nearly fine copy.. ... more information

Leiden: Joannis Maire,, 1636.. 8vo, (8), 576, (21 index)pp, 2 folding tables (with tears), woodcuts in the text. Contemp. full vellum, back soiled, otherwise very good.. Second Edition, corrected, of one of the most important gemology books of the 17th century. 'De Boodt assembled virtually all of the knowledge then extant by far the most thorough and complete up to date [his work] is further distinguished by its intimate knowledge of the art of the lapidary and must therefore be regarded as the first ... more information