Search Results: Titles starting with G from Dark and Stormy Night Books

New York: Irish Book Shop, 1929 Hard Cover. 8vo. 390pp. Condition: About Very Good, with some wear to the edges of the covers, and some marks to the boards. ** Survey of Irish literature, starting with a description of the origins of the language and including chapters: "Old and Middle Irish Literature", "The Fenian Cycle", "Bardic Poetry", "Other Syllabic Poetry", "Early Modern Prose", "The Seventeenth Century", "Writers of the Penal Age", "Scots Gaelic and Manx Literature", and "A Century of Revival". Harold Saunders Blackham (1891 - 1951) was born in London to an English mother and an Ulster Ptorestant father. He became interested in the Irish language and the Irish nationalist movement, and took the Irish name Aodh Sandrach de Blácam. He became involved in the Gaelic League, which worked to promote the Irish language in Ireland and worldwide. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: J. Wallis, No. 46, Pater-Noster-Row, 1800 Third edition "with many valuable additions". Hard cover, 12mo, in a modern Fine Binding (unsigned) of half blue morocco over green cloth, the spine with five raised bands, title stamped in gilt to spine, six full page engraved plates complete. Third Edition, xvi, 363 pp. Condition: Fine. Exterior is free of marks, except for shadow of glue along edge of cloth on rear board where it butts up to the spine leather. Some light markings to original preliminaries. A couple of light pencil notes left for the collector to divine significance of. Text is lightly age-toned, otherwise generally clean, and firm binding. Early ownership signature in old ink to title page. ** A really interesting encyclopedic sort of book, consisting of (Part I.) statements on moral philosophy, astrological science, discussions of time and calendar, and religion (vis-à-vis popery and the devil,) contrasted with the more "recreational" Part II., consisting of magic tricks,… Read More

Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart and Co., 1874 Reprint. "Richly illustrated with Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Steel Engravings, Executed in the Finest Style of the Art, Mostly from Original Designs by Distinguished Artists." Hard cover quarto (measuring 8 ¾ x 11 inches) in full leather with a design of round, embossed borders of filigree and banding in black, highlighted with owners' name on center front in gilt: " Rosa B. Closson.," 488 pp. Gilt is used to highlight the raised cords of the six compartments on the spine, which also has additional embossed design in black. The turn-ins are also rolled in a gilt filigree pattern, which shows off nicely upon the colorful marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, and all board edges rolled with gilt. Chromolithographed title page in color. Includes poetry by the likes of Longfellow, Bryant, Poe, Whittier, Harte and Cooper. The editor, Henry Coppee (1821-1895,)attended Yale, was a graduate of West Point, and fought in the Mexican-American War. His published… Read More

Paris: Editions de Musees Nationaux, 1949 Soft cover, 8vo., pp XXXVII + 103 + XXIV. Paper wraps. Condition: Very Good. Covers worn at edges. Scarce Gauguin exhibition catalogue for the Orangerie des Tuileries. French text. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948 Hardcover. Black cloth "Novelex" binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5" x 7 â…œ"). 228pp. *** Publisher Arkham House was established in 1939 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei specifically to publish stories by H.P. Lovecraft and others whose works had mostly been printed in the "Weird Tales" magazine and remained unavailable in book form. *** Clark Ashton Smith was a poet and a sculptor, before gaining popularity as a short-story writer for "Weird Tales". This collection contains stories concerning "Genius Loci" - a classical term meaning "guardian spirits of places". This sums up the atmosphere of these stories nicely, with their aura of brooding presences somewhat akin to Algernon Blackwood's famous story, "The Willows". *** The dust jacket design is by American artist Frank Wakefield. *** Condition: A Near Fine, fresh copy with no ownership marks or underlining, in a Near Fine dust… Read More

Cambridge. Mass.: John Wilson and Son, University Press, 1880 Hard cover, quarto, 628pp; 559pp. Condition: Good. Boards show spotting, and wear at corners, with small band missing from tail of volume two's spine. Hinges are cracked. Endpapers show some wear to the edges. ** Heavy set - expensive to mail outside the US. ** A survey of the botany of California as part of the Geological Survey conducted by Act of the Legislature in 1860. As such, these two volumes contain a "full and scientific description of its botanical productions". OCLC 25569752.. Hard Cover. Good.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1903 147pp. Dark red cloth-covered boards, with green and white Art Deco-style design to front cover and spine. Inscribed: "Ellen J. Poore from David, Christmas 1903." Condition: Lightly bent top corners, small bump, light scratch and spotting to front cover and spine (see photos). Rear cover less spotted, but with one small lifted bubble at top of board. Interior very clean, with only some light foxing to front pastedown, otherwise text block is tight, and lightly age-toned. Politically incorrect by today's standards, this novel tells the story of a young African-American boy who was "selected by his master from five hundred field hands, in the old slave days, and sent as a Christmas gift to the loveliest and sweetest mistress in all the world." ***RUTH MCENERY STUART (1856 -1917) wrote a number of depictions of negro life, as well as Southern white characters, in dialect. She was born in Marksville, Aroyelles Parish, Louisiana before the Civil War. In 1879… Read More

New York: New Directions, 1948 202pp. The first novel by the author Maude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins (1899 - 1991), who started writing prose after her divorce, and became famous for her sensual coming-of-age novels. Condition: About Very Good internally with dust-soiled and sunned covers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Munchen: Ernst Heimeran Verlag, 1954 Hard cover, oblong, 160pp + index. In publisher's decorative cloth binding and slipcase. Number 479/700. Condition: Very Good in Good slipcase which has tape repairs.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Philadelphia: Owlswick Press, 1980 354pp. A modern compilation of Dunsany's stories illustrated throughout. Condition: Light foxing to frontispiece. Shelfwear to dustjacket at edges and heavier at corners.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good+. Illus. by Tim Kirk.

New York: The John Day Company, 1928 373pp. The story of David and Goliath, retold by Elmer Holmes Davis (1890 - 1958), an American news reporter, and radio broadcaster. He edited the pulp magazine "Adventure" and was one of four journalists who portrayed themselves in the 1951 sci-fi film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Signed to front free endpaper: "To Florence Ford Hugh. Elmer Davis. 26 September 1928". Condition: About Good, with fraying to head of spine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Venetia: Appresso Giovanni Fiorina, 1592 Hard cover, in contemporary, in professionally repaired vellum, complete with new endpapers, the title handwritten to spine, small 4to, (measuring 5 ½ x 8 1/16 inches), First Edition, 111pp. In Italian. Italic and Roman print. Collation: pp [4] 1-53 [3] where pages are numbered on recto only. a4 A4 B4 C8-H8. (Page 23 is mis-numbered page 21.) Condition: Very Good antiquarian condition. The vellum binding has been proffessionaly mended in the past, and is firm. There is a bit of "grafitti "in old ink in a few places. Title page shows an old ink spill, and there is some water staining and edge soiling in the first signature. A small hole on B2 does not affect text. More ink spatter appears on D2, and a bit of old ink graffiti is on p. 43 and affects the final illustration on p.53, with offset to the prior page. However, this does not detract from the beauty of the printing, illustrations or text. A woodcut printer's device, depicting Flora, adorns the title… Read More

New York: The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1974 Soft cover - staple bound wraps. 8vo. 19pp. Condition: Near Fine. Signed by author to back of front cover. ** Reprint article from The Polish Review, Vol XIX, on the works of Jerzy Kosiński (born Józef Lewinkopf) (1933 - 1991). Kosiński was a Polish author, notably famous for having written the novel "Being There" (1971), and the screenplay for the 1979 movie of the same name, starring Peter Sellers. It tells of a gardener, Chance, who has a naive approach to life beyond gardening, but nonetheless drifts into Washington society and the company of the President... a remarkable story. OCLC 5543271103.. Signed by author. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Rizzoli, 1986 Hard cover, quarto, 270pp. Condition: Near Fine in like dust jacket. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. ** Lavishly illustrated with color reproductions of the works of the Turner Prize winners, Gilbert & George, who delight in representing themselves as art.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston: The Riverside Press, 1891 Hard cover in blue cloth with stamped navy floral decoration to front board, (copyright 1890). 228pp. Advice book for girls and women by Chapters include "An Aim in Life", "Health", "Self-Support - Shall Girls Support Themselves?", "Narrow Lives". Condition: About Very Good with tiny closed tear to bottom of title page. " Eliza Chester", aka Harriet Eliza Paine (1845 - 1910), was a contemporary and fellow Wheaton College student of the Massachusetts poet Lucy Larcom. She was an important proponent of ethics and education for women. Born in Rehobeth, south of Boston, she died not far from this bookseller in Groveland, north of Boston. The papers of both of these nineteenth century feminists are in the special collections of Wheaton College. OCLC 1037541678.. Book 8 of "The Riverside Library for Young People". Hard Cover. Very Good.

Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 1990 388pp. Writings from nineteenth century American women, organized by month. Condition: Slight shelfwear, else as new.. Signed by author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Joan Kahn for Harper & Row, 1970 Hardcover, with dust jacket, in mylar cover, 181 pp. Detective Sergeant Ross Hogan of the LAPD is called to investigate the death of a junkie found on the beach. The corpse turns out to be a former colleague's ex-wife, and solving what looks like a murder opens a path toward redemption for the alcoholic ex-policeman. After enjoying the success of an Edgar Award for his first novel, Silver Street, published in 1968, author E. Richard Johnson had followed up with a number of other successful titles. Around the time of this publication, however, the convicted murderer and armed bank robber was on a personal downward spiral. As one biographer wrote, "the success and acclaim had not been enough to keep him out of trouble. Drugs, a prison escape, a return to crime on the outside, recapture, meant the hope of a reduction in his sentence evaporated. Condition: Very Good, with a Very Good dust jacket. Some fading to spine and spotting to fore edge of text block, as… Read More

London and New York: John Lane Bodley Head, 1897 Hard cover, 8vo., in green cloth covered boards with gilt titles, top edge gilt, on laid paper, untrimmed, partially unopened, 213 plus 13 pp. advertisement for John Lane Bodley Head publishers entitled: "A List of Books in Belles Lettres." Printer: University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. With stamp inside rear cover, "Boston Bookbinding Co." Laurence Housman, (1865- 1959), prolific British author perhaps better known for his dramas and book illustrations, gives us a fantasy tale for adults. This was his first novel. Condition: Good: Spine darkened. Some loss at head and foot of spine. One bumped corner, edges of text browned. Interior is at least Very Good: bright, clean and firm. Hint of foxing to endpapers only. Name of former owner in old ink on ffep. A handsome item and scarce. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Westerham, Kent: Privately Printed at The Westerham Press, 1961 Soft cover, 4to, in "chinesisches Papier" gold-flecked paper wraps over stiff card, hand printed in red and black upon grey Arnold & Foster paper, 20 pp., First Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Frontispiece illustration. In German and English. Colophon states this publication was made to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Maximilian Society in England, given by its English members. (Feier des fünfzigjährigen Bestehens der Maximilian-Gesellschaft im Oktober 1961 von den in England lebendend Mitgliedern gestiftet.) Selections from the foundational thinker and father of Romanticism, author, poet and artist's written English of different periods is given, including a number of letters to his sister Cornelia, from the 1760's. He was multi-lingual, and is quoted in Freidenthal's introduction that he did not care for formal instruction in English grammar!**CONDITION: Near Fine, bright, clean and with some very minor wear… Read More

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927 Hard cover, 8vo., pp xvii [1] 271. In publisher's black cloth binding with gold lettering and decoration blocked to spine. Black and gold decorative endpapers and matching historiated capitals adorn the text. CONDITION: Near Fine. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Former owner's signature, dated 1928, to ffep. No signs of foxing. ** "The Golden Ass" or, "Metamorphoses", as it was named by the author, Apuleius (c124 - c170), and is the only surviving complete novel in Latin from ancient Rome. It has been called, by some, the original picaresque novel, telling of the travels of Lucius, a man looking for adventure and magic. When he and his lover, Photis, see a witch transform herself into a bird, Lucius begs Photis to do the same for him. Unfortunately, Lucius is instead transformed into an ass, subsequently stolen, and sold several times.** Part of the "Black and Gold Library" from Boston publishers, Boni and Liveright, who, in addition to popularizing a catalogue of… Read More