The Guinness Book of Historical Blunders
by Regan, Geoffrey
Guinness, 1995. Very Good. Regan, Geoffrey. The Guinness Book of Historical Blunders. London: Guinness, 1995. 186pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light bumping to corners and slight fading to spine.
Offered by Weller Book Works
Portrait of Dublin
by GUINNESS, Desmond
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket; Book and dust jacket show rubbing of spine/panels, bumping of corners/spine ends, dust jacket shows tearing of spine ends-edges.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Blessings In Disguise
by GUINNESS, Alec
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Book has some light browning on pages 82-83, dust jacket lightly browned.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
1986 Guinness Book of World Records
by MCWHIRTER, Norris (editor)
New York: Sterling, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover. Text clean. Illustrated in black and white. Clean and solid cover. Bottom end of spine lightly bumped.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Guinness: The Stories Behind the Records
by MCWHIRTER, Norris
New York: Sterling, 1982. Very Good. Very good plus. Book shows light rubbing at spine ends.
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
by Le Guin, Ursula K.
NY: Harper Collins, 1992. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Printing. vi, 249pp. Previous owner's ink name stamp on front pastedown, blindstamp on title page, remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
Offered by Kenneth Mallory
Giant New 4th Edition Guinness Sports Records Book
New York: Bantam, 1976. Softcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. About Very good in wrappers. paperback Browned, cover rubbed. Box 2844.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Guinness World Records 2001
(London: Guinness World Records, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2001 edition. Quarto. 288pp. Modest edgewear, else fine.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
The Lavender Hill Mob (Original photograph from the 1951 film)
by Charles Crichton (director); T.E.B. Clarke (screenwriter); Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James (starring)
N.p.: Ealing Studios, 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film. Holland (Alec Guinness) has been a dutiful bank clerk for 20 years, until a new neighbor, Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), an eccentric artist who owns a foundry that makes souvenirs, helps him hatch a plan to steal gold bullion and melt them into miniature Eiffel Towers. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and nominated for Best Actor for Guiness. Ranked... Read More
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The Guinness Guide to Steeplechasing
by CRANHAM, Gerry, Richard Pitman, and John Oaksey
Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Limited, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Quarto. 240pp. Faint dampstain on board edges, about very good in a good only age-toned dustwrapper with corresponding dampstain.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Goshawk Squadron.
by Robinson, Derek.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1971. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, [218] pp. Near-Fine, with bookplate; in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Goshawk Squadron, R. F. C., January 1918. The C. O., Woolley, indoctrinates his pilots with a simple yet savage code: shoot the enemy in the back before he knows you’re there -- a brisk cold blooded approach to the business of air warfare and far removed from the... Read More
Offered by Lighthouse Books
Malta Story (Original photograph of Renee Asherson, Jack Hawkins, and Anthony Steel from the 1953 film)
by Brian Desmond Hurst (director); Sir Hugh P. Lloyd (book); Ian Jeayes (photographer); William Fairchild and Nigel Balchin (screenwriters); Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Renee Asherson (starring)
London: J. Arthur Rank Organisation, 1953. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph of Renee Asherson, Jack Hawkins, and Anthony Steel from the 1953 UK film. Distributor rubber-stamp on the verso, and shadow where a mimeograph snipe (present) was once affixed. Based on Hugh P. Lloyd's book, "Briefed to Attack" (1949), about Britain's waning control of the island of Malta in WWII. Archival footage of air and sea battles was used to build context around the romantic plot. ... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE
by GUINNESS, Alec
NY: Knopf, 1986. Fourth printing. 8vo, pp. 238. Illustrated. Little marking on flyleaf, o/w a nice copy in slightly soiled dj. The actor's autobiography. The "blessings" are the people who have been his friends, whom he describes vividly.
Offered by Second Life Books, Inc.
A Positively Final Appearance; a Journal 1996-98
by Guinness, Alec
New York: Viking, 1999. 1st American Edition. ix, 245 [1]p., b/w front., dj.
Offered by Hackenberg Booksellers
A FISHERMAN OF THE INLAND SEA
by LeGuin, Le Guin, Ursula
A FISHERMAN OF THE INLAND SEA, Harper/Collins, 1994, first edition, fine without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/1500 special pre-publication copies.
Offered by The Fine Books Company
The Guinness Guide to Ballet
by [DANCE]. Kerensky, Oleg
London: Guinness Superlatives, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Full maroon leatherette with titling silver to spine. 224 pp. Profusely illustrated, some in color. In slightly worn dustjacket.
Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own: Twenty Outstanding Science-Fiction Stories by Women Writers
by Asimov, Isaac; Compiler and Shawna McCarthy; Editor
Boston: Doubleday, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 288pp. Beautiful Stated First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper, ($5.95), has a hint of wear at the top tips but quite minor. Bright and fresh with no chipping, tears or creases. Stories by Le Guin, Vinge, Lee, and many others. A very pretty, collectable copy.
Offered by Brenner’s Books - Rare & Collectable
Guinness Pop-Up Book of Records (Toucan books)
by Farman, John; Marshall, Ray
U.S.A.: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Assumed First Edition, no mention of later printing. Near fine pop-up book, pop-ups are intact and working.
Offered by Bookbid Rare Books
The Best American Short Stories 1983: Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines
by TYLER, Anne and Shannon Ravenel, edited by
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with slightly bowed boards in a near fine spine faded dustwrapper with edge wear. Contributors include Bill Barich, Carol Bly, James Bond, Raymond Carver, Carolyn Chute, Laurie Colwin, Joseph Epstein, Louise Erdich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Wright Morris, Julie Schumacher, Sharon Sheehe Stark, Robert Taylor Jr., Marian Thurm, John Updike, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Diane Vreuls, and Larry Woiwode.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
CROOKS' TOUR / TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
by Greene, Graham LeGuin, ( Le Guin), Cleaver, Graves, Sheckley, Woody Allen, Heller, Tennessee Williams, Shepherd
CROOKS' TOUR in Playboy for November 1969 thru January 1970, first edition, 3 volumes, near fine in wraps. Also contains the work of LeGuin, Cleaver, Graves, Sheckley, Woody Allen, Heller, Tennessee Williams, Shepherd, et.al. Published in book form as TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT.
Offered by The Fine Books Company
The Guinness Book of Theatre: Facts & Feats
by BILLINGTON, Michael
Middlesex, Guinness Superlatives Limited [1982].. 8vo. Illustrated in color and b/w. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine, fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
Offered by Houle Rare Books & Autographs
Doctor Zhivago
by PASTERNAK, Boris and Francis Golden
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. 568 pages. Part of the Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century series. Features illustrations by Francis Golden. The basis for the David Lean directed movie with Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness. A clean near fine copy in decorated full leather binding with all page edges gilt and bound in silk bookmarker and a few scratches to the page edges. No dust jacket as issued.
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Books
Two (2) Variant Vintage Original Photographs
by GUINNESS, ALEC "FATHER BROWN"
(not signed) from the film 1954 "Father Brown." 1). 3/4 length scene shot of Alec Guinness as Father Brown, holding his glasses with two unidentified police offices. 2). 3/4 length scene shot of Alec Guinness at the cemetery with an unidentified actor. Photographs are on single weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good (minor signs of handling). 1954. Information on the back of 1 photo (detached).. No Binding. Very Good.
Offered by Houle Rare Books & Autographs
The Engagement
by GUINNESS, Bryan
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, [no date]. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Illustrated by Olwyn Bowey. Cloth and decorative papercovered boards. Spine sunned else fine, lacking the acetate jacket and wraparound band. Limited to 1,000 copies. Brian Guinness was the 2nd Baron Moyne and an heir to the Guinness brewing fortune, as well as a lawyer, poet, and novelist.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Omni – October 1979
by (LeGUIN, Ursula K., Walter Tevis, Stanislaw Lem, Robert A. Heinlein, Jean Shepherd)
New York: Omni Publications International, 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. Periodical. Cover art by Peter Carras. Quarto. Illustrated. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Tiny nicks at the spine ends, near fine. Includes "Where Does the Time Go?" an essay by Ursula K. Le Guin, "Rent Control" a short story by Walter Tevis, "The Test" a novelette by Stanis?aw Lem, "The Number of the Beast" (Part 1 of 2) by Robert A. Heinlein, "The Lost Culture of Deli" a short story by... Read More
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