Search Results: Fiction from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

The Strand Magazine 2009-11. Fine. 2009. Softcover. 4to; stapled pictorial covers; illustrations, ads. Includes new writing, interviews, articles, reviews. .

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers (c 1835-1850). Very Good. 1835. Softcover. Black Douglas: 34, 4pp.; Mary 30 pp.; 3&4, 8pp.; 24mo; printed wrappers with front cover vignettes on 3&4. All but Mary have spines reinforced with white cloth tape. The Black Douglas has bound in the rear four pages including title page, 1865: Raising the Wind: Habbie Sympson and His Wife, Baith Deid. As originaly (sic) written and spoken by John Andrews . . . together with the Lyfe and Deithe of Habbie Simpson, The Famous Piper of Kilbarchan. Written by Robert Sempill. Small pamphlets of popular, sensational, juvenile, moral or educational character, originally distributed by chapmen or hawkers. .

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers 1829-(1850). Very Good. 1829. Softcover. 1-3, 24 pp.; 4-5, 8pp.; 24mo; printed wrappers with front cover vignettes; Drumclog spine is reinforced with white cloth tape just obscuring a few last letters on right edge; dime size tear to paper in middle of gutter between pages 10 & 11. Others generally clean. Small pamphlets of popular, sensational, juvenile, moral or educational character, originally distributed by chapmen or hawkers. .

N.Y: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1933. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket, in protective mylar wrap. 8vo; gilt stamped red cloth in color illustrated dust jacket. Jacket is from a later reprint with imprint on spine of A. L. Burt & Co. Jacket with 1.5" closed tear at top spine front corner, mild wear to corners, spine darkened. There happens to be a curious second jacket inside the Burt jacket, brown paper printed in red, "From the Library of The Euclid Book Company, 1879 Euclid Avenue, AShberry 7952." The back of the jacket is printed: "The best books of all kinds, both new and used, sold and rented." Possibly evidence of a bookselling concern, in Berkeley, California or elswhere, circa 1933.

Boston: Little Brown. Very Good. 1900. Foleshill Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; blue half-morrocco and marbled paper over boards; spines lettered & decorated in gilt; raised bands forming six panels; two red leather spine labels. Engraved frontis illustration. Spine faded to a green tint; joints & foredge leather rubbed; light rubbing to spines here and there, mainly at ends or the raised bands. Binding very solid with clean interior. .

San Francisco: Cottage Classics. As New. 2000. Limited, Signed Edition. Hardcover. 1892847019 . No. 249 of 250 copies. 84 pp.; square 12 mo; blue cloth stamped in silver in color illustrated dust jacket. Jacket and full page and vignette illustrations in black & white by Kim Deitch. Forward by Mark Burstein. This non-facsimile edition of Carroll's predecessor to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is unique in that this is the very first time that Carroll's seminal story has been set in type in a single volume and published with drawings other than those by the author himself.; Signed by Illustrator .

N.Y.: McClure Phillips & Co.. Very Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. 283 pp., frontis illus.; 8vo; light green cloth, front cover & spine lettered in gilt, with dark green & yellow floral decoration; top edge gilt. Corner tips bumped and lightly rubbed; foxing to rear endpaper & pastedown; occasional spots of foxing on text pages, most on margins. A fairly bright copy. .

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Vertical Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 1932234020 . 8vo;wrap-around band. .

Baltimore: Penguin. 1972. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. A treasury of rare old recipes Fine in Near Fine dj, in mylar Wrap .

London: The Folio Society, 1990. Reissues. Hard Cover. Fine condition. Matching set in slipcase; 8vo; black cloth decorated in blood red & gilt; Tales of Suspense a reissue of the 1954 edition with lithographs by Anne Scott; Tales of Mystery a reissue of the 1957 edition with monotypes by Michael Ayrton.

N.Y.: W. S. Gottsberger & Co.. Near Fine. 1889. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 386 & 378 pp., pub. ads; 16mo; brown cloth lettered in gilt. Trivial wear to corner tips, edges. A bright set. George Moritz Ebers (Berlin, March 1, 1837 Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him. Here he popularized Egyptian lore by means of historical romances. .

N.Y.: Simon & Schuster. Fine. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; cloth in illustrated white jacket with light soil, minor wear at top corners. Very Good dust , in protective mylar wrap .

N.Y.: B. W. Dodge no date (c 1903?). Good. 1903. Hardcover. No limitation notice; 351 pp., pubs. ads; 8vo; blue cloth lettered in white. Cover with moderate rubbing & soil, mostly to spine, with spine lettering effaced; spine slightly cocked; bookplate on front endpaper; moderate tanning to endpapers & pastedowns; area of red offset to cloth back cover along spine, and lower corner near spine. The first edition was published by John Lane, 1898. This edition, not found on World Cat, appears to be very scarce. Publisher's Weekly for 1903 lists this title and B. W. Dodge. .

N.Y.: Morrow. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 310 pp., (1)-4, publisher's note and passage from forthcoming The Case of the Perjured Parrot; 8vo; black cloth, top edge stained red; in price-clipped jacket. Cloth somewhat mottled; dust jacket with chips & wear at edges, creasing to front edge and spine, fading to spine, with a 2" x 1" piece loose at top of spine, held under mylar wrap. .

San Francisco: poppynoir. New. 2011. First Edition. Softcover. 0983570906 . 361 pp., 8vo; pictorial wrappers. Coming of age novel of gangster life circa 1960's London, replete with enough beautiful Bleak House, Islesworth hermetic street lingo to take care of yer foreign language reqirements for a year. .

San Francisco: George F. Ritchie. Fine. 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 120 copies printed on Tovil handmade paper, composed in Monotype Van Dijck by Mackenzie-Harris, designed and printed by Peter Koch at Blackstone Press, San Francisco. 112pp.; 10 1/4" x 6 3/4"; black cloth, small paper spine label lettered in red. Publisher's prospectus, and order form for two other titles in print by Ritchie, laid in. Colette's novel Cheri is a masterful analysis of a love affair between a comfortable older woman - formerly an expensive courtesan - and a spoiled young man. .

N.Y.: Dutton. Near Fine. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; gray cloth with light tanning to endpapers; in yellow jacket with moderate wear & soil. Very Good , in protective mylar wrap .

Club Français Du Livre. Very Good. 1952. Hardcover. Moderate toning to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages; Text in French. .

Carcanet Pr. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0856355178 . Hint of tonining to white flap edges; vertical 2" strip of light tanning to rear endpaper; light purple stain bottom edge inside jacket, hidden and not affecting book or jacket front. Looks sharp in protective mylar wrap. ; Black paper over boards, in dust jacket. ; 8.4 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches; 179 pages .

N.Y.: Harper & Bros.. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 250 pp.; 8vo; cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate on front endpaper; what appears to be faint tanning or adhesive stain through paper at gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Very light wear to jacket at edges. A roaring story of San Francisco in its most lavish era. Near fine condition near find jacket, in protective mylar wrap .