Search Results: Titles starting with G from Chanticleer Books

Washington, DC: Counterpoint , (1999). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. xxii, 617 pp; octavo, maroon cloth and gray boards, jacket. Signed on the title page by the author.

Cambridge: MIT Press, (1975). First US edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Original gray cloth, quarto, 485 pp. Illustrated with 555 photographs, 60 color plates, pictorial endpapers Significant monograph on the innovative Catalan architect. All of his works are illustrated, including buildings, sculptures, furnishings, and plans. The author, himself a practicing architect and art historian, as a young man spent considerable time with Gaudi in his studio.

New York: Jacobsen & Co., 1915. Original edition. Hardcover. Covers moderately soiled, front inner hinge starting, else near very good. [4] pp, 183 monochrome plates; quarto, pale green cloth. Molded architectural ornaments of all kinds

Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. Fine. xiii, [1], 203 pp., illustrated; quarto, original brown cloth. Text in German.

Long Beach: The Art Galleries, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very good. 19 pp., 42 tipped in color plates; pictorial wrappers, 10 x 8.5 inches. Nice exhibit catalog with high quality color reproductions of the artist's work.

Seattle: Book Club of Washington, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in faintly worn slipcase. Original half burgundy morocco and decorative boards, octavo, unpaged (circa 300 pp.). Slipcase #38 of 45 copies specially bound by three Northwest bookbinders, this by Carolina Veenstra and is autographed by her on the collophon page

London: W. & G. Foyle, 1930. Limited first edition. Fine. unpaginated (about 100 pp.); small quarto, black and blue cloth with gilt title. Portion of illustrated jacket front panel laid in. Questions and answers on facing pages for the six confessors named on the title page, the remainder of the book has questions with facing lined answer sheet awaiting confessions. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by Gilbert Fabes. The first 3 "confessions" appear to be signed by their authors (as named above). From the library of John K. Martin (of Black Sparrow Press) with his small exlibris label to rear pastedown.

New Haven: The A. C. Gilbert CO., (1920). First edition. Hardcover. Tanning to edges of endpapers from acidic dustjacket, else very fine in very good dustjacket. A remarkably well-preserved copy overall. 61 pp. + 3 pages ads; original brown pictorial cloth, 7 x 5 inches. Dustjacket. An assortment of stage effects mostly using common household chemicals, with a few involiving electricity.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. First separate edition. Fine in price-clipped lightly worn jackeet. (58) pp., 12mo, original yellow decorative boards with matching paper jacket.(58) pp., 12mo, original yellow decorative boards with matching paper jacket. Ninth title in publisher’s Zodiac Books series.

Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Minor rubbing to covers, ink initial stamped to top edge, else near fine. xxxii, 454 pp., royal octavo, original black cloth, gilt

NY: S.S. McClure Co., 1901. First edition, first printing. Some wear to spine, minor soiling to wrappers, else very good. Complete magazine with all pages, illustrations, advertisements, etc.. Original printed wrappers. Title story of London's second book, the only one of his books to be published by McClure, Phillips & Co. Dale Walker calls the story "The most violent in all of London's fiction." Walker & Sisson #46; Woodbridge #668

San Francisco: George Spaulding & Co., General Book and Job Printers, 1885. First edition. Paperback. Lacking front wrapper and front blank leaves, toning to top of title page, text clean and complete. Original wrappers (lacking front wrapper), 349 pp. + 18 pp adverts and inserted litho advert on cardstock at rear, engraved illustrations in the text. In protective paper chemise and card slipcase. Scarce, OCLC/Worldcat finds 9 library holdings. Cowan (1933 edition) page 240.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1938. First edition. Darkening to paper spine label, else a fine copy. Original half white linen and red cloth boards, quarto (7 x 10.25 inches), pp x, 367. Color frontispiece, 14 full-page reproductions of ships, 2 full-page portraits, 9 full-pages with 33 reproductions of cancelled envelopes, map endpapers. Edition limited to 500 copies.Grabhorn Press Bibliography 293.

Nevada City: Berliner & McGinnis, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Small bleached spot at upper corner of front cover, else very good. Red buckram cloth with gilt title, xii, 64 pp., several illustrations from photographs, floding map at rear.

Chicago: The Business Foundation Publishers, 1943 . First edition. Hardcover. Skinned spot on front cover, else very good. Ink stamp to front blank leaf "PRESS RELEASE FEB 15 1944. 271 pp., octavo, gold spine and brown boards printed in gold. Publisher's promotional pamphlet/order form for this title laid in. "Fourteen years in the making. This great work without any question is the most comrehensive exposition of the Theory and use of gold ever printed in any country. It is written in non-technical language." From the promotional pamphlet.

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, (1945). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/good. Octavo, brown cloth; xi, 256 pp. Fine in moderately edgeworn jacket, previous owner has psted their small address label to jacket front flap A volume in the American Folkways series, edited by Erskine Caldwell. Autographed on half-title page by Gertrude Atherton.

(San Francisco): Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, 1938. First edition. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn in moderately edgeworn jacket.. Original brick-red cloth with cover titles and decoration stamped in white; quarto; 246 pp. Profusely illustrated with folding color frontispiece from an original painting of the Bridge, b/w photos, drawings, 12 large folding plates (engineering plans) at rear. This is the original 1938 publication, not the 1987 facsimile reprint.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1926. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Spine title rubbed away, some loss to white border on front board, else very good. 323 pp., frontispiece from photograph, octavo, blue cloth with title stamped in white. First published in 1910 when author's name was M. R. L. Sharpe, reprinted in 1912 and 1919. All printings designated "New Edition" though content remains the same. A comprehensive vegetarian cook book with recipes of all sorts. Quite scarce in commerce. Bitting p. 431 (1910 edition).

n.p.: Privately printed (at the Spiral Press) for Albert Parsons Sachs, 1934. First edition. Some creasing and fading to jacket but about very good. [16] pp., frontispiece and 2 illustrations by Victor Candell, small octavo, card wrappers with brown paper jacket, printed paper title label. Edition of 110 copies, this unnumbered.

Chicago & London: Open Court Publishing Co., 1917. Early reprint. Hardbound. Fine. Original dark blue cloth with gilt title and cover ornaments, octavo (7 x 5 inches), xx, [4], 311 pp., illustrated. Lovely copy of this classic retelling of the story of Buddha. Originally published in 1894.