Search Results: Titles starting with G from Island Books

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York NY,, [1975]. 8vo., Second Impression, with numerous plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. 'Over-Fed. Over-Paid, Over-Sexed - and Over Here'. Enser, p.225.

Methuen,, [1929]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (by Dowd); blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt bright and legible), fore-edge lightly spotted, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Unusually crisp copy. Sullivan 80 (A).

University Press of Kentucky, [Lexington KY],, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, numerous plates and coloured pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The author served in the South Pacific, primarily in the Philippines. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Hutchinson,, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Enser, p.225.

Bernard & Graefe, [Koblenz],, [1985]. 4to., Second Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; grey boards, backstrip lettered in green, green endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

David & Charles, Newton Abbot,, [1977-78]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (one coloured), title-vignettes and very numerous photographs and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; maroon cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Part 1: 1906-1930; Part 2: 1930-1965. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 11981.

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1967]. 8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and red, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Bruce MacDonald.

Herbert Jenkins,, [1965]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly chafed dustwrapper. This Blandings novel was first published in the previous month in the US as 'The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Jasen 87a.

Macdonald,, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, Second Issue; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at front upper edge. Second State (first published edition) of the fifteenth and final novel in the 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight' sequence. Gretton, 54; Matthews A56 1969 (ii).

Dent,, [1909]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of terracotta ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, pictorial endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. EL 348; Seymour 433.0.

Faber,, [1966]. 8vo., Second Edition, with maps in the text, front free endpaper clipped; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1936. Enser, p.144.

Doubleday,, [2002]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the Australian edition.

Batsford,, [1965]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. Arguably the most comprehensive study in Batsford's much sought-after British Battles series. The finest modern single-volume account of the ill-fated campaign and the first to access much previously unpublished (indeed unvisited) official material. Hugely researched, and including much important vernacular material from private archives and interviews, together with detailed surveys of the battlefields. 'The mass of legends which still surround Gallipoli have been examined, and, in many cases, discounted; old judgements have been disproved or confirmed; some exalted reputations have been sharply questioned; others have been restored.' A model campaign history. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.144.

John Murray,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Cassell, [1929]. 8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece; handsomely bound in full navy morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of the first volume of Mackenzie's 'Eastern Mediterranean' tetralogy describing his experiences as an intelligence office during the Great War. Enser, p.144.

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1963. 8vo., First Edition, with folding map; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.234

After the Battle,, [2000]. Oblong 4to., with very numerous photographs, maps and diagrams in the text; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Pen & Sword,[Barnsley],, [2015]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers, neat signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Dustwrapper artwork by Delia Delderfield. 'I didn't choose Oaksey it chose me'. From 1974-5 Huxley recorded this evocative diary of Wiltshire village life. Cross and Perkin A39.

John Murray,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 8 plates, 9 maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, boards lightly faded at backstrip as usual, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sutcliffe, p.43; White, p.16.