Search Results: Authors starting with G from Robert Dagg Rare Books

London: Faber & Faber Limited, [1952]. FIRST EDITION. Five pages have net marginalia otherwise a very good clean copy, in a very good dust jacket with a shallow chip at top of spine. Nice copy of the first printing of this famous bibliography.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, [1949]. FIRST thus. The first printing of the Third Edition. Bookplate on pastedown. Near fine book in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped with new price sticker on front flap).

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, [1949]. THIRD EDITION. Originally published in 1937 as "Structure of Atomic Nucleus and Nuclear Transformations" and as such, Gamow's second book. Bookplate on front pastedown. Else a fine book in a very good dust jacket, with clipped front flap and the new price of 40s on a sticker next to the clip.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Not a stated first. Fine book in a very good dust jacket missing a few tiny chips. The first of three Mr. Tompkins books.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Discrete bookplate on front pastedown. Clean, near fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, crisp and unworn with only a thin strip of fading along top edge and a one-inch closed tear in upper left-hand corner of rear panel.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Made up from the English sheets. Near fine book in a bright, nearly fine dust jacket with some light rubbing to spine panel. Profusely illustrated with photographs.

[Costa Rica]: Editorial Universidad Para La Paz, [1986]. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Paperback. The text of an address delivered by Marquez on the subject of nuclear arms control. Fine in wrappers.

The jackets are in uniformly fine condition, apparently having been removed from their books and stored separately at an early date. The titles included are: TCOT Sulky Girl, TCOT Stuttering Bishop, TCOT Drowsy Mosquito, The DA Calls a Turn (Doug Selby mystery), TCOT Half-Wakened Wife, TCOT Backward Mule, TCOT Black-Eyed Blonde, TCOT Borrowed Brunette, The D.A. Breaks a Seal and TCOT Golddigger's Purse.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in a fine bright dust jacket (neatly price-clipped).

New York: Harper & Row, [1968]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Signed by Gass on half title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. A fine copy with yellow top staining unusually bright, in a fine bright dust jacket. Author's second book.

[New York]: Pantheon, [1943]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. German and English texts on opposing pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A fine book in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, [1951]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Near fine book (faint crease to spine) in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1938]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a bright unfaded dust jacket, virtually fine but for a neatly price-clipped front flap. Includes discussions of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, DeBussy, Sibelius and Wagner. Gilman was the chief music critic at the New York Herald Tribune.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy inscribed on flyleaf : "For Bill Holden/ as between two from a very good place to be/ from. Arnold Gingrich. Detroit, Oct. 16, '63." Cloth slightly faded at edges else fine in a nearly fine dust jacket with a few tiny nicks and tears. The only novel by the noted editor of Esquire.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1941]. FIRST THUS.. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Described on the front of the jacket as "the unsurpassed translation of Faust." Priest was a professor of German literature at Princeton.

New York: Covici-Friede, [1932]. FIRST THUS. Fine book in a fine dust jacket .

New York: Covici-Friede, [1932]. FIRST THUS. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny nicks at short tears at edges.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor edgewear, including some very shallow loss at top of spine. Several internal tape repairs to jacket.