Science and Health
by Glover, Mary Baker (later, Mary Baker Eddy)
Boston: Christian Scientist Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thick 8vo. 456pp. Publisher's black patterned cloth; gilt spine title; plain endpapers. Errata page tipped-in at rear. One of 1000 copies of the first edition. A fine, bright copy, with only the barest traces of wear, notably at the head of the spine. Scarce to begin with, and rare in such fine condition. Housed in a custom morocco-backed clamshell case. A landmark work, one that has... Read More
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Arizonac: The Apache Wars
by Goeltzenleucher, Judy, ed
Tucson: Bevilaire' Sunnyside High School, 1962. First edition. Stiff card wraps. Very good. 8½ by 11 inch sheets bount in a stiff card binder. Illsutrations by Mary Sue Watson and Al GAstelo; Mimeographers Eddie Coulter and Jerry Hammons. The second offering in the Sunnyside High School (Tucson) Arizonac Series. This contains a collection of original research papers on the 19th century Apache issues in Arizona from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the capture of Geronimo. Very good... Read More
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Diary of a Madman: Fragments of a Farcical Story
by Gogol, Nikolai
St. Petersburg: (Nikodim), 2020. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Dmitry Sayenko. Artist book. Folio. 50pp. Half leather in a tan color, gilt spine title. The paper over boards has been etched by the artist, with an onlay engraving of Gogol in a recess and his signature reproduced in gilt. Illustrated throughout with linocuts by Sayenko in various colors. Translated from the Russian by James J. Owens for this edition. One of 19 copies; this is... Read More
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Telegraph and Travel: A Narrative of the Formation and Development of Telegraphic Communications between England and India ... with Incidental Notices of the Countries Traversed by the Lines
by Goldsmid, Colonel Sir Frederic John
London: Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. xiv,(2),673pp. Green cloth blocked in black and gilt on the upper board; black coated endpapers. Profusely illustrated with a steel engraving and wood engravings. Three maps, two of which are folding. Inner hinges and spine tips neatly repaired, cloth with some wear, else this is a very good copy. An account of the work on the telegraph lines from British India to Turkish Arabia ultimately reaching... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale Supposed to be Written by Himself
by (Goldsmith, Oliver)
Bedfird Oark: Caradic Press, 1903. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. (4), 211, (2)pp. Finely printed in red and black throughout. Full limp vellum, printed spine title. Frontispiece engraving signed by the artist and printer, Harry George Webb. Partially unopened. A fine copy. One of 360 copies on paper; this is number 42. .
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The Vicar of Wakefield (Signed)
by Goldsmith, Oliver (Arthur Rackham, illus.)
London: George G. Harrap, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Arthur Rackham. Full vellum, gilt. No. 447 of 775 copies signed by Rackham. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 12 mounted color plates. Boards yawning slightly, light soil, else a fine copy. Very slight soil else a fine copy. Latimore & Haskell, p. 65.
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Ten Little Colored Boys
by Gondor, Emery I.
New York: Howell, SLoskin, 1942. First edition. Stiff card. Fine. Oblong 4to. Stiff boards, spiral bound. And with die-cut heads of the boys in the story peeking up over the pages. Printed in color throughout on one side of the page, and in black and white on the other. A near fine copy, with all of the heads intact and untorn. Charming story of how these boys managed to dispose of themselves one after the... Read More
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The Wind in the Willows
by Grahame, Kenneth; Arthur Rackham
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1951. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Large quarto. [2], xii, 178 pp. Twelve mounted color plates (including frontispiece), twelve black and white vignette chapter headings, and three other black and white drawings. Publisher's white calf, gilt spine title. Top edge gilt. Spine a little sunned else this is a fine copy. In the publisher's slipcase, light worn and foxed on the upper cover. The "One Hundredth Edition" of The Wind in the... Read More
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Tesoros Musicales de la Nueva España: Siglo XVI
by Grañén Porrúa, María Isabel; Juan Pascoe
Tacámboro de Codallos: Taller Martín Pescador, 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 4to. 46,(2)pp. Green cloth spine, board in bright yellow paper, the upper board printed letterpress with the title and ornaments, and with a printed paper title label on the spine. Illustrated with illustrations taken from the work of 16th century printers in New Spain. Two large folding pages, facsimiles of the work of Espinosa. One is from the Graduale dominicale of 1576, the other from the... Read More
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An Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch. A Letter from an Artist in India to His Mother in England
by (Grant, Colesworthy)
Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co. St. Andrew's Library, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to. I10), 147, (1), 9,(1). Red cloth, the boards blocked in blind, and the upper board with the title in gilt. Text illustrations throughout; map of Calcutta with coloring. The final 9pp constiutute a list of the illustrations. Cloth worn at corners and folds, pages toned, the map with some foxing, else a very good copy. .
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An Album of Miniatures and Illuminations from the Baysonhori Manuscript of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi; Tableaus from Shahnameh of Hakim Abolghasem Ferdowsi
by Gray, Basil, intro.; Ravaghi, Ali
Teheran: Offset Press and Soroush Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Elephant Folios. The first work is bound in clue cloth, gilt spine title; blindstamping on the boards; blue endpapers. With 34 large mounted full color plates form the 15th century manuscript. Introduction by Basil Gray, who was the former Curator of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. Text in English, French and German. One of 3000 copies. There is alight stain to the botom... Read More
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The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, Sometimes the Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an Hundred Gambetts. Being the Study of Biochimo the Famous Italian
by (Greco, Giochino)
London: Printed for Henry Harriman, 1656. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. (14),120,(2). Plate of chessboard present. Contemporary sheep, blind rules on the boards. Light dampstain across the top, the leather cracked and rubbed, especially at the spine, lacking the preliminary blank and the portrait of the King, else a very good copy. Makes one wonder if the portrait of Charles II was deliberately destroyed. A translation by Francis Beale of Trattato del Nobilissimo Giuco degli Scacchi... Read More
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The Labyrinthine Ways
by Greene, Graham
New York: The Viking Press, 1940. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First state, with pp. 165 & 256 transposed. Yellow cloth printed in black. The cloth has a small spot on the upper cover; the endpapers are browned in the gitters from the binding adhesive else this is a near fine copy. A former owner has written on page 256 in pencil to refer to p. 165 at that point. The dustwrapper is not clipped.... Read More
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How Father Quixote Became a Monsignor
by Greene, Graham
Los Angeles: Sylvester and Orphanos, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 118pp. Rred cloth bocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board. Title page in black and gold. One of 26 lettered copies (from a total edition of 330 copies). This is lettered copy D. Letterpress printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Aldus type on Arches Mouldmade paper. Signed by Graham Greene on the limitation page. A fine, bright copy. In the publisher's black... Read More
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Commerce of the Prairies, Or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader
by Gregg, Josiah
Philadelphia: J. W. Moore, 1855. Hardcover. Very good. Stated fifth edition on the title page. Two volumes. Publisher's original textured cloth blocked in blind on the boards and gilt on the spine. Yellow endpapers. The six plates are present as called-for, as well as the map in Volume II. The large folding map if Indian Territory, not called for in this edition, is present in Volume I. (It may have been supplied.) Light wear and rubbing to the... Read More
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Gregory's Guide for California Travellers via the Isthmus of Panama by Joseph P. Gregory, Proprietor of Gregory's California and New York Express
by Gregory, Joseph W.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1949. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thin octavo. 16, [1]pp. Tinted frontis map and one full page illustration, facsimile of original title page, 2 other facsimiles tipped in. Decorative yellow-orange cloth, a very good copy. One of 300 copies printed by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen at the Black Vine Press. Reprinted from the scarce original edition published in New York by Nafis & Cornish in 1850. Introduction by Edith M. Coulter.... Read More
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
by Grey, Zane
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. First English edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Full gilt stamped red calf, t.e.g, Spine in five compartments, gilt; gilt tooling on the boards and board edges, with the title repeated in gold on the upper board. Inner dentelles tooled in gilt. Binding signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Signed by Zane Grey in his purple signature ink on the title page, and again on the front free end paper. With Zane Grey's rainbird bookplate... Read More
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The Young Pitcher
by Grey, Zane
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Green cloth printed in dark blue, white, and gilt. All plates by Wm. F. Taylor present. Stain along the top and bottom rear corner turning the green color pale, spine sunned, else a very good copy. Inscribed by Zane Grey in the month and year of publication to his mother and his sister Ida. Scarce early Grey title and his second... Read More
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Riders of the Purple Sage
by Grey, Zane
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First Dunton edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 336pp plus 5 pp. of publisher's ads. Black cloth, gilt spine and upper board and with a full color paste-on to the upper board. First printing of the Dunton illustrated edition with the proper codes on the copyright page. Frontispiece and eleven full page color plates by Dunton. Spine gilt darkened, light wear to the corners but a very good copy and rare in first... Read More
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Riders of the Purple Sage
by Grey, Zane
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First Dunton edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 336pp plus 5 pp. of publisher's ads. Black cloth, gilt spine and upper board and with a full color paste-on to the upper board. First printing of the Dunton illustrated edition with the proper codes on the copyright page. Frontispiece and eleven full page color plates by Dunton. Modern presentation plate mounted to front free endpaper ("Paul from Mary"), possibly over an earlier inscription. Spine... Read More
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Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica: Or, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry ...
by (Griffiths, Acton Frederick, compiler)
London: Proprietors of Collection, 1815. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii,481,(i)pp. Contemporary half leather, spine in 6 compartments tooled in gilt, marbled paper boards, edges and endpapers. Woodcut pictorial initials. Extensive synoptical index. Nicely rebacked retaining most of the original spine and the endpapers. The bottom compartment of the spine has been tooled in blind to style of the missing compartment. Wear to the edges else a very good copy. Lowndes, p. 200, observes that this is an extremely... Read More
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Pryderi
by Griffith, Llywelyn Wyn
Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1998. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by Kyffin Williams. Folio. (40)pp finely printed on Velin Arches mould-made paper in Baskerville type. Linen cloth printed in black on the spine and with an illustration by Williams on the upper board. Illustrated with eight full page 2 color linocuts by Kyffin Williams, who also designed the book. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the illustrator; this is copy No. 285. A fine copy. Pryderi... Read More
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The History and Doings of the Maories, from the Year 1820 to the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840
by Gudgeon, Thomas Wayth
Auckland: H. Brett, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 225pp. Original brick-colored cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and in black on the upper board, blind on the lower board. Pages darkened with age and a few pp. with light underlining in pencil else a fine, bright copy. With the signature of Benjamin P. Kurtz, dated London, 1921, on the front free endpaper. There are two blank pages in the rear filled with his notes... Read More
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World-Noted Women; Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages
by (Guild of Women Binders) Clarke, Mary Cowden
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. LArge 4to. 407pp. Illustrated with full page engraved portraits of Sappho, Lucretia, Aspasia, Cleopatra, St. Cecilia, Heloise, Laura, Valentine de Milan, Joan d'Arc, Margaret of Anjou, Isabella of Castile, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, La Valliere, Maria Theresa, Catherine II, Florence NIghtingale. A lovely Arts and Crafts binding in full Niger Morocco in a medium brown color. Spine in six compartments with nicely spaced gilt titles... Read More
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The Red Pavilion
by Van Gulik
New York: Scribners, 1968. First US edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo, 1783, (3)pp. With six illustrations drawn by the author in the Chinese style. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine and with a gilt vignette on the upper board, map endpapers, A fine copy. The pictorial dust-wrapper designed by the author is not price-clipped; it has a closed marginal tear and some roughness along the top, else is in fine condition. .
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