Search Results: Authors starting with A from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

Munchen: G.Hirth's Verlag A.G.. Good. 1925. Hardcover. (446)pp., portrait frontis; 4to; blue cloth lettered in gilt; illustrated with 140 portraits and other illustrations. Moderate rubbing and wear to cover; one inch vertical closed tear on title page near hinge, which has been repaired. Solid working copy. .

London: James Ridgway. Very Good. (1833). Softcover. Soil, some spotting to covers; soil to foredge. ; viii, 40 pp. , frontis; printed grey wrappers; two plate iillustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, (1780 – 1863) , known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, was a British statesman. In a ministerial career spanning nearly half a century, he notably served as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer and was three times Lord President of the Council. Active in Whig politics, he consistently championed the cause of Catholic Emancipation, and yet also sympathized with advocates for the abolition of slavery which the church had practiced for centuries. He was also a proponent of Popular Education. Here, after an engaging preface promising to 'box the ears' of the body politic, Fitzmaurice pens a satirical poem depicting the seven day arrival of a comet and its effect on activities and hypocricies of that body in the face of certain doom.… Read More

San Francisco: Marginal Press (1981). Fine. 1981. First Edition. Softcover. 0960426000 . Unpaged; (54) pp.; 5 1/2" x 6 1/2"; white wrappers featuring a protrait of the author; black & white photographs throughout, with other reproductions. Richard Zybert (1947-2017), Richard was a practicing fine artist in San Francisco and later operated Richard Zybert Graphics firm in S.F. He also served as graphics designer for Release Print magazine of the Film Arts Foundation. He later worked for City of Oakland ASSETS senior job program. Born in London, England, to the late Toni Zybert, holocaust survivor, and the late Zygmunt Zybert, a Polish merchant seaman, this work is a textually and photographically unflinching remembrance of his parents and family and, an aritist's book, literally. .

Amsterdam: Stempelplaats (1980). Fine. 1980. Softcover. Edition of 500 copies. 62 pp., chiefly b&w photos; 8vo; illustrated black wrappers. Text in English and Dutch. Six out of the nine stamp-actions. formed a series of exhibitions in the Stempelplaats. .

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (1957). Fine. 1957. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 256 of 275 copies, signed on the limitation page by Elfriede Abbe. Designed, illustrated, hand-set, and hand-printed by Elfriede Abbe for Cornell University Press. The illustrations were printed from the original wood blocks. 44 pp.; 4to; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With large and small text illustrations, illustrated chapter heads, vignettes, and 4 full page plates. Including: The legend of Knockgrafton, by T.C. Croker; Far Darrig in Donegal, by L. Maclintock; Daniel O'Rourke, by T.C. Croker; The Giant's Stairs, by T.C. Croker; Flory Cantillon's Funeral, by T.C. Croker; The Long Spoon, by P. Kennedy; The Ghost of the Nut-Cracker, by T.C. Croker.; Signed by Author(s) .

Kingston, NY: Author's Edition. Fine. 1895. 3rd Edition, Enlarged. Hardcover. 290pp.; 8vo; cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Folded one page letter, signed by Abbey, pasted to front endpaper, from him to Frederick W. Skiff regarding the limit of guests to meetings of the Authors Club. Frederick Skiff was an was an author, noted collector, bibliophile, expert on Americana, and founder of the Acorn Club.; Signed by Author(s) .

Berkeley: Blue Wind Press. Very Good+. 1977. Softcover. 0912652357 . Light rubbing front spine edge, rear corners. ; A Dynamite Book; 8.8 X 5.8 X 0.5 inches; 91 pages .

San Francisco: Steve Abbott. Fine. n.d. (ca1980). Softcover. Stapled, variant PLAIN TAN wrappers; drawings; black & white photos. Second issue of this little magazine with the focus on "New Narrative" writing, a response to the "Language Writing" movement of the period. This issue includes Bruce Boone's, Language Writing, The Pluses & The Minuses of the New Formalism, plus writing by Kathy Acker, Bob Perelman, Julia Vose, Robert Gluck, Ron Silliman, and Leslie Scalapino among others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

San Francisco: By the editor. Fine. 1980. Softcover. 108 pp.; 4to; white wrappers with color collage cover. Features a long interview with Robert Duncan. Jon Jackoway, Lawrence Fixel, Duncan McNaughton, Thom Gunn, Joyce Jenkins, Maureen Owen, Sukey Durham, John Grube, Cheir Fein, Diane DiPrima, Aaron Shurin, Karen Brodine, Michael Palmer, Jess Collins, Ruth Weiss, Ronald Johnson, Kathleen Fraser, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Gluck, Norman Finkelstein, Dennis Cooper, Steve Benson, Meyer Hirsch, Lyn Hejinian, Ira Cohen, David Moe, Jack Kerouac, Anne Waldman, Rochelle Ratner, Michael Karl, Shirley Garzotto, Alan R. Dowie. Etre dans le petrin? To be in the soup! I found myself in it when I started writing editors: "Gee, I like yr mag but why don't you stress history, ideas, politics more: tackle more deep & scarey subjects; publish more of so & so." They'd reply: "Sounds like it's time you start yr own mag." So here it is. [from the opening Remarks/Hello by… Read More

George Braziller. Fine. 1993. Softcover. 080761355X . 8.1 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches; 302 pages .

Picador. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0312209541 . 8.5 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 240 pages .

[No Place]: [no publisher]. Good. 1907. Softcover. 24 pp.; 4to; original printed, stapled gray wrappers. Moderate tanning at edges; strip of heavier tanning across lower back cover; half-inch closed tear rear cover leading edge; light tanning to front endpaper. .

[No Place]: Richard A. Abel. Fine. 1968. Facsimile Edition. Softcover. 12mo; printed wrappers illustrated with period reproductions. Richard Abel & Co., issued these facsimile reprints of scarce 17th century chapbooks, printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, as holiday keepsakes. .

Luzern: Blochlinger. Very Good. 1978. Softcover. Superficial creases to covers; rubbing at spine edges. ; Approx. 170 pp. ; black Wrappers; illustrated with b&w photographs, schematic drawings; text is somewhat randomly in German and English. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages .

Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher to The Shakespeare Head Press. Very Good. 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 72 of 394 copies; 4to; linen back with paper spine label and brown paper over boards; cover label printe in black & red; 4 preliminary leaves, [xiii]-xxxi pages, 4 leaves, 152, [2], 151-152 pages, 1 leaf. Top edges unopened. Publisher's announcement for Ovyde, Methamorphose by Shakespeare Head, laid in. Leading corners bumped & rubbed; a few marks of soil to covers; perliminary leaf with offset tanning from announcement with faint foxing, Achilles Tatius was a Greek from Alexandria in Egypt; he is now believed to have flourished in the second century CE. Of his life nothing is known, though the Suidas says he became a Christian and a bishop and wrote a work on etymology, one on the sphere, and an account of great men. He is famous however for his surviving novel in eight books, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, one of the best Greek love stories. Clitophon… Read More

Poseidon Press / Noonday. Fine. 1988. Softcover. 0671656759 . Two books. The masterpiece and the life of it's author.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

Princeton University Press. Fine. 1990. Hardcover. 0691099111 . Pictorial gray wrappers; copiously illustrated with photographs, plans, drawings and other reproductions; includes index, notes and bibliography ; The A. W. Mellon Lectures In The Fine Arts, 25; 10.5 X 7.8 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages .

Chatto & Windus. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 1856197212 . Includes Notes, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with color and half-tone historical reproductions. ; 9.2 X 6.5 X 1.8 inches; 516 pages .

N.Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux. Near Fine. 1993. Softcover. 0374524181 . Signed on half-title by Mark Morris. [306] pp.; sm 4to; wrappers;black & white photographs throughout. Half-inch strip of light tanning at bottom edge of front cover.; Signed by Author(s) .

Covelo, California: The Yolla Bolly Press. Fine. 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Without glassine jacket. ; The edition was limited to 265 numbered copies and 20 presentation copies. Signed by Garth Jeffers on the colophon. This presentation copy is lettered T. [60] pp.; 8vo; flexible boards covered in gray German bookcloth; pasted labels front & spine; designed by James and Carolyn Robertson and set by hand in Frederic Goudy's Californian types, on Rives and Italian Fabriano papers; title page initials and section numerals colored by hand; reproducing 16 photographs from the Jeffers family collection, never before published; and with the addition of a reminiscence of the period covered by Adamic's essay written by Garth Jeffers, the poets surviving son. This is the first publication of The Yolla Bolly Press. "In July of 1928, two writers, Louis Adamic and Carey McWilliams, drove north from Los Angeles to meet Robinson Jeffers. The poet's remarkable verse was already… Read More