Search Results: Authors starting with G from Bath and West Books (PBFA)

London: Agnew's, 2006. First Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gadd, Andrew. Published to accompany an exhibition at Agnew's, London, 1-24 Feb, 2006. Landscape format; printed card wraps. Includes a biography, a forward by Andrew Gadd, and an introduction by Julian Agnew. 21 full-page, colour reproductions. Slight yellowing to page edges. A clean, bright copy without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London: The Grey Walls Press, 1949. First Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. New poems by Hugo Manning, Oscar Williams, Louis Adeane, Tessa Sillars, John Heath-Stubbs, Pierre Emmaneul. Other contributors include Robert Greachen on The Poetry of Louis MacNeice. Contents clean, page edges tanned with a little foxing, owner's inscription to blue & cream covers which are lightly worn and soiled. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: The Grey Walls Press, 1949. First Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. New poems by Alex Comfort, Henry Treece, Jules Supervielle, Kathleen Raine, John Hewitt, Peter Yates. Other contributors include Muriel Spark, Dannie Abse, and John Waller on Stephen Spender. Contents clean, page edges tanned with a little foxing, owner's inscription to brown & cream covers. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: The Grey Walls Press, 1945. First Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contributors include Guillaume Apollinaire, Ruthven Todd, Paul Potts, G.S.Fraser, Stephen Spender, Nicholas Moore, Fred Marnau and Ernst Sigler. Contents clean; tanning and a little foxing to page edges; owner's name and a few marks to blue covers. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green, Nicola. From the library of John Julius Norwich, signed and inscribed to him and wife Molly by the author Patrick Garland. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright with spotting inside and light rubbing/creasing to edges. Grey cloth with black titling to spine. Boards clean, square and sharp. Spotting to page edges and top margins but contents o/w clean without bookplates or inscriptions other than author's. Slight straining to guttering between first blank and half-title. 59 pp; b/w ills by Nicola Green; pink patterned endpapers. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. New Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Thomson, Hugh. Highly decorative edition with lots of coloured illustrations by Hugh Thomson. First reprinted in colour in 1898, this is the New Edition of 1907. Slightly larger format than Macmillan's first edition with Hugh Thomson illustrations which was published in 1891 as part of a series that became known as 'The Cranford Series'. Blue cloth with elaborate gilt decoration to upper board and spine. All edges gilt. A lovely bright copy with minor marking, rubbing to edges, and slight fraying to spine tips. Forward lean. Light dust-soiling and minor wear to page edges. Internally good with minor spotting, heavier to front and back matter. Sewn binding. Guttering cracked in a couple of places but text block firm and unthreatened by this. xxx, 297 pp + 2 pages publisher's ads. Plain endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and many more charming illustrations… Read More

Singapour: Les Editions du Pacifique / Times Editions, 1985. Softcover. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover copy. Sewn binding. A clean, tight copy. Fading to spine, light rubbing and creasing to covers. A couple of translations in biro to photograph captions. 82 pp; b/w photographs throughout including many portraits of indigenous Tahitians - mostly semi-clothed, landscapes etc. Photographs taken between 1904 and 1921 by Lucien Gauthier. Introduction and photograph captions. French language. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Coalpit Heath: The Old Fairfieldians' Society, 1998. First Edition, First Impression . Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed on the title page by the author 'with every good wish' and dated 2/XII/98. Wrappers clean and bright except for slight fading to spine. Minor edge wear and crease to top front corner but no creasing to spine. Minor marking to page edges. Contents clean, tight and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. viii, 308 pp + appendices; b/w illustrations, mainly photographic reproductions from the school's history. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Written by former history teacher, Ross Gilkes, to mark the centenary of Bristol's Fairfield School on 3rd November 1998. Gilkes tells the story of Fairfield from its founding in 1898, through the reign of nine Head Teachers, to its centenary in 1998. Drawing on the school magazine and the author's own quarter century of… Read More

Oxford: The Council for British Archaeology for the Trust for Lincolnshire Archaeology, 1986. Softcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover copy with wrappers in good condition and contents very good. Green wrappers with rubbing to edges and particularly to joints, and light scuffing. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 97 pp.; 66 b/w drawings, photos, maps and plans including one folding plan at rear. Microfiche in envelope at rear. . From this conference emerged a new society, The Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP), and a new journal, Childhood in the Past, back numbers of which may also be in stock. Enquiries welcome. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

Venice: Chez Laurente Baseie, 1702. First Edition . Full Leather. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full calf. Both boards panelled with blind-stamped decoration. Four raised bands to spine; leather gilt title label to second compartment. Gilt decoration to edges of boards. Sprinkled page edges. 468 pp. Published Venice, 1702. Title pages in French and Italian. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Wear to edges, corners and joints; splits to joints at head and tail of spine. Top page edges dust-soiled. Insect damage to inside of upper board and several dozen pages. Armorial bookplate ('Le Bon Temps Viendra' - Harcourt family) to front pastedown. A few dog-eared pages. Marking/discolouration to final page, minor spotting to a few page margins but contents o/w clean. Signor Giovannia Veneroni (1642-1708) was a French linguist, lexicographer and grammarian. He is believed to have been a native of Verdun who Italianized his name and became Italian secretary and… Read More

London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover in price-clipped dustjacket which is lightly soiled with sunning and light staining to spine, and tears and chips to edges. Blue cloth gilt. Blue boards clean and bright with rubbing to edges, and rippling to spine apparently caused by liquid spillage. Paper a little age-toned but contents clean and tight without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or markings. xi, 244 pp. 16 b/w illustrations, 6 maps plus map endpapers. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. "This 'book of the sailor at the coast line' traces the changes which have come to pass in the seacraft of England and in ports at home and overseas. It treats of the men of the Mercantile Marine as they are today - worthy successors of the sea-dogs and merchant adventurers of the past. It demonstrates the debt of the Empire to those whose enterprise feeds the population and makes possible the… Read More

London: Sheep Press, 1974. Limited Edition . Card Covers. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Limited edition of 175 hand-numbered copies, this being #61. Published by the Sheep Press and printed on Glastonbury Laid paper by Skelton's Press. Booklet in lavender card wraps with sewn binding: in fine condition. Lavender printed dust jacket: near fine with minor wear and slight fading to spine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Giles Gordon's 'day job' was as a flamboyant literary agent, publisher and critic, famed for his tough deals and strong opinions. Gordon's clients included Fay Weldon, Prince Charles, Peter Ackroyd, Sue Townsend and Vikram Seth. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and fully insured.

Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright without chips or tears and presents as fine despite minor foxing to verso. Binding clean, square and sharp. Minor spotting to page edges. Contents clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or markings. 416 pp; b/w ills. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1907. Second Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With the bookplate of Adèle Meyer (1855 - 1930), the social reform campaigner who was married to wealthy banker Carl Meyer. From 1906, Adèle Meyer was a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and became editor of their journal, 'The Common Cause'. In 1907 Meyer funded an early School for Mothers (also known as Mothers' & Babies' Welcome) in London which she served alongside Alys Pearsall Smith, first wife of Bertrand Russell. Red cloth gilt. Appears to be ex-library with evidence of label removal from spine and feps. "Presented by Lady Meyer" written in pencil to ffep, and Adèle Meyer's bookplate affixed to front pastedown; no other bookplates, inscriptions or markings except for foxing to eps and prelims. Paper age-toned. Binding firm with edge wear to lightly soiled boards, bumping to corners,… Read More

London: The St. Catherine Press, 1912. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An uncommon title with no other examples to be found at time of listing. 24 pp. Illustrated throughout in black and red by Chas (Charles) Pears (1873-1958). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A lovely copy of this rare title. Light wear and marking to boards with minor splits to front joint. No bookplates or inscriptions. 'In the Press and Out Again' is a book for children "all about making books". In humorous fashion, Robert Percy Gossop (1876-1951), tells the story of his book's production, from finding an artist, through the printing and binding processes, to the bookshop. 'In the Press and Out Again' was produced for the first of two Children's Welfare Exhibitions in London which ran for three weeks in 1912-13. The exhibitions encouraged debate around the nature of childhood and child… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1956. First Edition, First Impression . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Andrew Graham to ffep with an inscription to John Julius Norwich which states: "This is the first copy that I ever received of the first book I ever wrote.". The front pastedown bears Norwich's bookplate. The book comes from John Julius Norwich's library in his country home near Castle Combe, an old mill house. Norwich left most of his books for the new owners when he sold up but as the library had been flooded, many were ruined. I've sold most of what I salvaged but have just found a box with this and a few others belonging to Norwich. This book has some water damage but I saved it because of the inscription. There are signs of water damage to the spine tail, spreading onto the bottom edges of the boards which are a little warped. The page edges have spotting and a little red staining from the cloth. The endpapers have… Read More

Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2009. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright without chips or tears. The previous owner used short strips of clear tape to secure each of the inner flap edges to the book's pastedowns and these are still in place. Contents clean, white and fresh without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 176 pp. "For 100 years between 1850 and 1950, the cargo liner grew to dominate the world's trade routes and unlike the tramp steamer, provided regular services with advertised sailings and fixed dates that merchants, shippers and importers could rely on. They were the mainstay of maritime trade and carried much of the world's higher value manufactured goods to all the corners of the globe, returning to the industrialised countries with raw materials." 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Heavy/oversize book. U.K. postage at default charge… Read More