Search Results: Authors starting with G from Nigel Sustins Books

London: Brentano's, 1930. Selected and with an introduction by Anthony C Deane, good in patterned boards with black spine strip, abrasion and staining to rear board, spotting to prelims.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good.

London: Lund Humphries, 1921. 1921 edition. Good with fading and marking to covers, personalised greeting on a front plate signed by the Editor W. Gamble. Extra postage required.. Hardcover. Good.

London: The Harvill Press, 1996. Signed first impression of Alan Garner's first novel specifically for adults. Very good in dark blue cloth with slight wear/rubbing to spine ends and corners. Signed by Alan Garner to title page. Dust-wrapper slightly rubbed in places, chipped to top of wrapper spine. Extra postage required outside UK.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

UK: Harrap, 1940. Attractively illustrated edition, some wear to spine ends and corners, dust to edges, internally predominantly very good, chipped glassine wrapper (not sure if this was supplied originally).. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Illus. by Joan Hassall.

UK: Richard Jefferies Society 4-page leaflet of an article reprinted from the 'Swindon Review' 1955.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. 32 pages, including wrappers printed with drawings by Edwin Baker, bound with red silk cord (faded to brown and starting to unravel). contains 12 short descriptions of literary characters, including "The Earnest Reviewer", "The Unpublishable Novelist" and " The Publisher's Adviser". These little sketches are reprinted from Jonathan Cape's in-house journal, "Now & Then". Pencilled note inside front cover states 'written by Daniel George, publisher's advisor to Cape 1940s and '50s'. Loosely inserted is a sheet with the words 'written by Daniel George (reader),' but it is not known if this is the author's signature. Printed at the Alden Press on Spalding & Hodge mould-made paper and published privately by Cape for distribution to their "friends" for Christmas 1954. Covers are slightly rubbed and browned,. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

London: Hutchinson, 1899. Early (first?) edition 1899. Blue cloth is stained and soiled, spine is darkened (gilt lettering faded), rubbing/bumping to spine ends and corners, gilt coat of arms on front covers, endpapers browned with ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and other photographic plates predominantly very good (the plates appear to be tipped-in and one or two are partly detached), errata slip tipped-in near introduction. Some spotting within. Strain to stitching (with assocatiated brown stains to margins), but binding secure.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

UK: A & C Black, 1907. No. 80 of the limited edition de luxe of 250 copies, signed by Gilbey, white cloth decorated in gilt and green, soiling, wear and fraying to covers, tear to top of spine, hinges cracked and broken, some strain to stitching, but binding still holds, dust to edges, internally - with colour plates and their tissue guards - generally good plus. Gift inscription to front free endpapers. Further details on request.. Hard Back. Good.

UK: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. Dawsons of Pall Mall, reprint of the 1953 edition, blue cloth with gilt emblem to front, a near fine copy with slight rubbing. Extra postage required.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

UK: George Allen & Unwin, 1965. English translation. Very good copy, dust-wrapper price-clipped, rubbed and chipped to edges. Extra postage required outside Europe. . First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

USA: Haskell, 1947. Rare and influential manual on loom-weaving, using Native American techniques; large format paperback with red plastic spine (broken in places), card covers are rubbed and creased, with small tears to the edges, stains to the rear cover, some fraying and splits near the spine, internally generally good with slight staining to the edges of some pages, one or two early pages have an inked cross at the top, illustrated with photographs and detailed drawings showing every stage of setting up a loom and then creating woven material.. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Bangor, Wales: Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, 2005. 48-page stapled catalogue to an exhibition at the Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery in Bangor for the Eisteddfod in 2005. Introduction by Dei Tomos. 20 artists' impressions of Snowdonia are reproduced in colour with accompanying text opposite (Welsh and English).. First Edition. Paperback. As New.

UK: Macmillan, 1988. Signed by author to title page and dated 18.5.88, gift inscription also on title page, good clean copy which is slightly cocked, and has browning to edges and pages, mild wear only to cover, dust-wrapper is good with minor rubbing, jacket is slightly misaligned, so that left hand side of cover cartoon illustration trespasses onto the spine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

Shrewsbury: Adnitt and Naunton, 1875. First complete edition, printed from one of the original manuscripts, and reproducing in facsimile the title page, and plans of the church, spelling has not been modernised, red/brown cloth with blind stamp designs, and gilt lettering on the front (Gough's History of Myddle 1700-1701), some wear and marking to cloth and board edges, corners bumped and frayed, spine is faded, some dust and foxing to edges, two small black strips to front pastedown, some foxing to grey endpapers and prelims, including the title page plate and its tissue guard, internally pages and other plates are very good; substantially a very pleasing copy of a medieval classic of topography and genealogy. 'Four Minsters Round the Wrekin' from the same publisher, 1877 first edition, also available (copies in leather and cloth).. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: John Murray, 1902. A reprint before publication, rather a battered but intact copy in green cloth with gilt scales emblem to the front, covers worn and marked, corners and spine ends rubbed and worn, etching of the author as frontispiece and medallion to title page, rough cut edges dusty and browned, some foxing to endpapers and prelims, but internally generally good.. Reprint. Hardcover. Acceptable.

UK: Mysterious Press, 1989. First Mysterious Press edition 1989, SIGNED (presumably by the author) 'from Caroline April 1989' to front endpaper. The rare second title in the 'Midsomer Murders' Inspector Barnaby series. Generally in good condition. Some wear to corners and edges, spine ends worn with small split to the bottom, pages and edges tanned, pale marking to front edge. Dust-wrapper is rubbed and marked in places, with a few small chips. Extra postage required outside the UK.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

UK: Privately Published, 1960. Rare privately produced selection of Robert Graham Fletcher's poems. Turquoise cloth (small mark to front cover) with black leather spine strip, marbled endpapers, rough-trimmed pages, gilt top edge.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

UK: Eton College, 1937. Privately printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press fount of the Medici Society, 1937; vellum-covered bevelled boards with some wear/marking, presentation page completed in ink and signed by Claudius Elliott, Headmaster. Edges browned/foxed, internally generally good (some spotting).. Hardcover. Good.

UK: Faber, 2014. Signed by author and dated 8.iii.14. As new first printing in dust-wrapper.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New.

London: Longmans, 1874. Original blue binding with gilt emblem of crown and swan to all three volumes, unusually this has, tipped-in to the title page of volume 1, part of an envelope addressed to Lady Ponsonby, dated 1839, franked 'Free No. 5' (see below*) and apparently signed by Greville; all three volumes show signs of wear and marking, with bumped corners, wear and fraying to the spine, browned and dusty edges, internally generally all are sound and in good condition; in volume 1 there is a brown stain to the edges of the front pastedown and front free endpaper, which extends diagonally all across the fore-edge at the top, bleeding minimally to the page margins. Bookplate of [Lord] 'Bessborough' in all volumes to front free endpaper, and stamp of Ernest Baggallay to front pastedowns. *Inserted in volume 1 is a newspaper cutting about Victorian 'franked' letters which were sent post-free (as was the letter in the envelope signed by Greville and preserved in this volume). A… Read More