Search Results: Authors starting with G from Ash Rare Books

New York : Publishers Productions, (1951). First edition. The story of Betsy the virgin, and Deloris the harlot - which should a man marry? Ecstasy Novel for January 1951. Foolscap 4to (19cm). (3)-128,[ii]pp. Photo illustrations. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; an indifferent copy; spine torn and tape-repaired; tears, nicks and creasing; text a little tanned and slightly discoloured in places. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1957). First British edition. Drowned some eighty-six years earlier, the Herr Graf materialises to play himself in a movie. Crown 8vo (20cm). 190,[ii]pp. Original dark green boards, ruled and lettered in gilt; a few faint marks, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket - a touch sunned, slightly nicked and just lightly worn at extremities.

Austin : Humanities Research Center, (1970). First edition : limited to 500 copies. A clear and interesting statement of the fundamental principles and purposes behind the compilation of the author bibliography - an activity that "can hardly be recommended as an occupation for completely sane persons". Bibliographical Monograph Series No. 4. Demy 8vo (23cm). [ii],(30)pp. Frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau. Original cloth (with the Cocteau portrait in blind on the upper cover); a very good copy. From the collection of the late B. C. Bloomfield, on a par with Gallup in the annals of twentieth century bibliography, for his bibliographies of both W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.

London : John Murray, 1825. First edition. A first-hand account of Byron's ill-fated venture into the Greek War of Independence - compiled from diaries written at the time by Byron's chief assistant (and the brother of his mistress Teresa Guiccioli) - "one of the most amiable, brave, and excellent young men he had ever encountered". Regarded as giving the most reliable account of Byron's last days, Gamba offers no apologies "for being too minute in any details connected with the name of Byron and the cause of Greece". Demy 8vo (210 x 130mm). xii,(308)pp. Two folding facsimile letters. Bound, without half-title, in a near contemporary full purple calf, banded and gilt; tan label; marbled edges and endleaves; silk ribbon; some minor wear and slight scuffing; colour rather unsuccessfully touched up in places; occasional internal spotting, but still a handsome copy.

Billericay : Grey Walls Press, 1941 [i.e.1940]. First edition. A scarce early collection of sixty-one poems, including "Escaped Parrot", "Old City Walls", "Fair Maids of February", etc. Crown 8vo (19cm). [xiv],(74)pp. Original grey canvas, lettered in green; top edge just a touch dusty, but a very good copy in the original pink and blue marbled dust-jacket - a little worn and slightly sunned. Dated contemporary gift inscription (1941) to N. K. Banister from B. P. on fly.

Edinburgh : Canongate Books, (2008). First British edition. "An unforgettable novel about the distance a friendship must travel, and the depths it must plumb, when confronted by the threat of death. It is full of wisdom, dark laughter, and truth" - the multiple award-winning novel, first published in Australia earlier in 2008. "A book for grown-up people" (Hilary Mantel), "'The Spare Room' is a perfect novel" (Peter Carey). Demy 8vo (23cm). [vi],(196),[vi]pp. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; green silk ribbon; a very good copy indeed in the pictorial dust-jacket - also very good indeed.

London : Panther Books - Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1954). First edition. The final portion of the Resurgent Dust trilogy - the first spaceship to be built on Venus since the Golden Age - Lord Kennet of Gryllaar leads the dangerous expedition back to the Mother Earth of his forebears. Panther Book 104. Crown 8vo (19cm). (159),[i]pp. Original pictorial wrappers in a design by John Richards; chips at head, foot, and to upper and lower wrappers; a few marks and creases; a serviceable copy. Just two copies (Bodleian and Liverpool) located in the major UK libraries.

London : Bloomsbury Books, (1986). Second edition. A well-illustrated study, originally published under the longer title in 1978. With much on Thomas Bewick, William Blake, John Buckland-Wright, Edward Gordon Craig, John Farleigh, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, David Jones, Clare Leighton, George Mackley, Iain Macnab, Paul Nash, etc. Demy 4to (29cm). (408)pp. Illustrations throughout. Original rexine; very good in a sunned and faintly creased dust-jacket.

London : William Collins Sons & Co. (Crime Club), (1978). First edition. Lovejoy is broke, but has the clues to an amazing find. His means of financing the treasure hunt are idiosyncratic. The second Lovejoy novel. Post 8vo (21cm). 192,[iv]pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy in the Colin Thomas dust-jacket - the jacket just very faintly rubbed, but also very good.

London : Jones & Co., 1831. An attractive antique print - the town from above. Engraved by John Charles Varrall John Charles Varrall (1794-1855) from an original study by the landscape and topographical painter Henry Gastineau. Originally produced for the part-work series "Wales Illustrated" (London : 1830-1831). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 106 x 148mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. An attractive antique print - a prospect of the town, the bridge and the river, with the mountains beyond. Engraved by William Radclyffe (1783-1855) from an original study by the landscape and topographical painter Henry Gastineau. Originally produced for the part-work series "Wales Illustrated" (London : 1830-1831). Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 103 x 146mm (approx. 4" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : Jones & Co., [1831]. An attractive antique print - cattle below the waterfall - a man fishing in the distance. Engraved by Samuel Lacey (1786-1859) from an original study by the landscape and topographical painter Henry Gastineau. Originally produced for the part-work series "Wales Illustrated" (London : 1830-1831). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 168 x 93mm (approx. 6-5/8" x 3-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : Hamish Hamilton, (1961). First edition. His first book – a novel set on the rarer fringes of London literary society. "A little bit of nonsense, young nonsense at that, but excellently contained ... a young man in love and in and out of money ... filled with wonderfully useful references to the preoccupations of the young. It is fun" (The Sphere, 3rd June 1961). Crown 8vo (20cm). 288pp. Original orange-red boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a few edge-spots, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the original dust-jacket – a pictorial design by Quentin Blake in purple, ochre and black on white – also very good indeed.

London : Cassell & Co., (1932). First edition. Satan narrates the epic of mankind - his versions of the biblical stories, the days when he possessed Tiberius, Nero, the Caliph, Cromwell and Napoleon, his final possession, last days in a Bayswater boarding-house, and cremation at Golders Green. Gerhardi, or Gerhardie to use the spelling he later adopted, and something of a lost masterpiece - Evelyn Waugh once remarked to him, "I have talent, but you have genius". He was also the principal model for the central character (Logan Mountstuart) in William Boyd's "Any Human Heart". His collaborator, Brian Holdsworth Lunn (1893-1956), of the Lunn travel-agency family, historian and schoolmaster, is chiefly remembered for his "Switchback" autobiography, with its portrayal of wartime mental breakdown. Crown 8vo (20cm). 382,[ii]pp. Original black cloth, lettered in red; a few spots to covers and edges; small patch of fading at foot, where the dust-jacket is chipped; endpapers lightly tanned, but overall a very… Read More

London : Viking, (1996). First British edition. A strange predictive tale of the beautiful, mysterious and entirely virtual media star – from the man who coined the term cyberspace. "The founding father of cyberpunk returns to the techno-decadent 21st century mapped out in his other major works ... Gibson exhibits his greatest strength: intense speculation, expressed in dramatic form, about the near-term evolution of and merging of cultural, social and technological trends, and how they affect character" (Publishers' Weekly).
Medium 8vo (25cm). [x],292,[ii]pp. Original black boards, lettered in silver; just a hint of bruising, but a very good copy in the Gary Marsh dust-jacket – similarly with a hint of bruising, but also very good.

London : Mansell, 1975. First edition. The first comprehensive catalogue of British comics, listing some 1,900 titles from "Funny Folks" in 1874 onwards, with notes on artists, etc. Demy 4to (29cm). (xiv),210pp. Original boards; a few faint marks; a few edge-spots, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket also very good.

London : George Allen & Unwin, (1976). First edition. A lavishly illustrated survey, with chapters on the Comic Paper, the Comic Hero, the Comic Kid, the Comic Animal, the Comic Age, the Comic World, the Comic War, and the Comic Artist. Demy 4to (29cm). 144pp. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial boards; just a touch of rubbing and sunning; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1976). First edition.Tortured body found in a Sussex cornfield - the third in a year. Meanwhile a new master arives at Trenchard House School. Post 8vo (21cm). (224)pp. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy in the original Colin Andrews dust-jacket - a photographic design lettered in red, white and blue - just a little worn at tips, but otherwise very good.

London : Arthur Barker, (1961). First edition. Hate, revenge and death - Janine (fatally tender), Samuel Boone (tycoon with conscience), and Kovas (communist seeking revenge) - Peter and Janine drawn into an inescapable cycle. Post 8vo (21cm). 224pp. Original green cloth, lettered in black; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy in the Eileen Walton dust-jacket - just lightly worn at extremities and slightly marked on lower panel, but also very good.

New York : Detective House, (1953). First edition. "A fisherman's daughter changes from girl to woman in one flaming hour of unforgettable passion". Cameo Book No. 333. Foolscap 4to (19cm). [ii],5-130pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers - a design by Ray Pease; wrappers a little rubbed and creased; text lightly tanned, but otherwise a very good copy. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.