Search Results: Authors starting with G from Kama’aina Collection

Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Gustave Dore. Bookplate of owner. None Beautiful red moroccan half leather binding with guild decorative spine. Guilt on covers and top of pages. Includes the seller’s invoice from 1970 as well as a note in French about the book. Clean and tight binding. Clean and bright pages and illustrations that are not bleeding to the next page. Side and bottom page edges uncut. 11 wood carving plates after Gustave Dore .; Portr.-Frontisp by Jules Gerard; 8 p .; 246 p .; 1 sheet; St. d. Zt with Rverg Brivois 171f .; Carteret III, 266f .; Leblanc 122; Schwerdt I, 203; Souhart 214; Vicaire III, 972; cf. Gay, l'Afrique 901 - first by Dore illustr. Output. - The author made a name for himself as a lion hunter in North Africa, all of his works became more and more popular. It is a complete treatise on lion hunting by an isolated hunter. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to… Read More

California: Pomegranate Calendars and Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Maxfield Parish . None. None Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

New York : Geo. Kirchner & Co., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Prof. A. Von Kreling. None. Theodore Martin Pages gilt on three edges, exception cover, spine, and back binding. Translated by Theodore Martin and Illustrated by Prof. A. Von Kreling. Published in New York by Geo. Kirchner & Co. No year but presuming to be 1800's. 140 pages. Many nice full page illustrations. Nice decorated cover with gold gilding along outside page edges. Solid and intact. Some cover, edge, spine wear. 9x12"". Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos

Ireland : Dolman Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Harry Clarke. None. None Foxing on reverse of dust jacket and endpapers. Clean tight binding. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR Foxing on reverse

USA: Nigel Gosling, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. None. Black cloth boards with black front and silver spine titling. Unmarked. Lavishly illustrated with 339 classic b & w plates. First American Edition. Square, tight and with sharp corners. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Laminate is separating, toning on edges and back

Great Britain: Praeger Publishers. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Gustave Dore. None. None Very Clean Copy, Tight binding. Profusely illustrated. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR One taped small tear on Jacket

London: T. Fisher Unwin, C.1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Daniel Vierge . None. From the original of Saint-Juits by Daniel Vierge One of 125 sold in America of a total 650 printed in London. 22 cm x 33 cm. 155, (1) pages. Hardcover. Original cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Daniel Vierge (1851-1904) was a Spanish-born French illustrator who with the photo-engraver Gillot revolutionized the reproduction of illustrations. In 1882 the publication of his edition of Francisco de Quevedo's Historia de la vida del Buscon llamado don Pablos (The Life Story of a Swindler Called Don Pablos) brought the technique of photo-reproduction to a high level of finish. Prior to that time, most artists and engravers had been forced to rely on tracings and other manual methods which often resulted in interpretations of the artists' works. He was never prolific and suffered a stroke at the age of 30, which forced him to learn to draw with his left… Read More

New York : FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Sir John Everett Millais . None. None Insect holes on spine and endpapers gutter both front and back. No damage to get or illustrations. 316 illustrations; photogravures and illustrations. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR