Search Results: Authors starting with G from Island Books

Bacon,, [c.1890]. Folding engraved map printed on fine ivory linen, size: 21 x 28 ins (approx. 53.0 x 71.0 cms) folding in 36 panels to 6 x 3 ins (approx. 15.o x 7.5 cms), printed surface very lightly browned (rather more heavily so along central fold), a few locations marked with red ink ; original green cloth slip-case framed in blind and lettered in black 'Flexible Map of London' with deckled thumb-hole, a very good, bright copy. Covers the area from Islington (north) to Oval (south); Notting Hill (west) to Stepney (east). IN THIS CONDITION A RARE SURVIVAL. Hyde, 'Printed Maps of Victorian London', no. 201.

Phillimore,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 7 plates on 4 and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly faded at backstrip.

Amberley, [Stroud],, [2017]. 8vo., with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes despatches from Mediterranean and Russian convoys, Dieppe, D-Day and many others.

Ernest Benn,, 1927. 8vo. Second Edition with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); burgundy cloth gilt back a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1906.

[Privately Printed for Northern Ireland Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association,, 1993]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. From modest beginnings in 1937, the Northern Ireland Territorials were reformed in 1947 from the many volunteers who had served in either the TA or the Supplementary reserve. The new and thriving force of volunteers were raised into an Anti-Aircraft Brigade and Infantry Brigade group totalling more than 6000 personnel by 1950. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

Oxford Historical Society, Oxford,, 1885. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a large folding plan coloured in outline, wanting front free endpaper, rear free endpaper browned; original series binding of purple cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind enclosing Society emblem in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a bright, firm copy. Oxford Historical Society, vol. IV. Sold from an institution with its release plate on front paste-down, cancellation stamp on title verso and neat stamp on lower edge. Cordeaux & Merry, 7743.

Sidgwick & Jackson,, 1940. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; small neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned and with loss at tail of backstrip.

Privately Printed,, [1988]. Oblong 4to., Third Impression, with numerous photographs throughout and full-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1982.

Edward Stanford,, 1891. Sm. 8vo., with a folding engraved map as frontispiece and a full-page plan, endpapers lightly foxed; original cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, a remarkably bright, clean copy. 'Thoroughly revised by means of information collected locally for the purpose'. Anderson records only the second edition of 1880.

Cassell,, [1929]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, joints mildly rubbed, case with slight lean, moderate pull at headband else a good, firm and very clean copy. Sullivan, 77.

Kimber,, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 16 and 5 full-page map in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Already scarce account of the 'O'-class destroyers which between them escorted forty-four Arctic convoys. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Law, 1044

Crecy,, [1994]. 8vo., Second Edition, with numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. PETARD's wartime career recounted by her gunnery officer and covering 1942-1944. She served in the Eastern Mediterranean and briefly with the Eastern Fleet. Revised and updated version of the original Kimber edition of 1976. Enser, p.64; Law 1045.

William Kimber,, [1985]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.197.

Kimber,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with 53 plates on 16 and 4 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. First-hand account marred by irritating printing errors. The four 'C'-class AA cruisers fought hard from the outset (Norway, Dunkirk, Malta, Greece); all were sunk through enemy action by October 1942. They were manned partly by reservists from London Division RNR whose story shines through. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.61; Law, 1016

Phoenix House,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at head and tail of backstrip. A standard reference. SCARCE

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,, 1883. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, blue top, backstrip lightly pulled headband, hinges starting (but binding entirely sound), a good, bright copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. One of the earliest critical accounts. Scarce in anything like this condition.

University Press, Cambridge,, 1944. 8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at edges. Corrected version, published a year after the first edition. Coulton's autobiography was awarded the James Tait Back Memorial Prize for Biography, 1943.

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1932. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.

David McKay, Philadelphia PA,, [1921]. 8vo., with a coloured frontispiece and 3 coloured plates; red cloth, coloured illustration (repeated from text) mounted on upper board, backstrip lettered in black, green top, pictorial endpapers, a good, tight copy. The Newbery Classics edition, with fewer plates than the first edition.

Blackwood, Edinburgh,, 1884. 8vo., with a frontispiece and 6 plates; original pictorial cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly faded, hinges starting but quite sound else a remarkably bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. With 24-page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. With a bookplate. Davies's scarce account covers wildlife, wherries, cruising and yachting, eeling and the herring industry. Darroch & Taylor, 325 (quoting the first edition of 1883)