Search Results: Authors starting with G from Cox and Budge Books

London: SFBC / Gollancz, 1964. Reprint. . Hardcover. Good/Fair / Good. Reprint. hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 208pp. First published by Gollancz a year earlier, this is an early collection of Ballard's short stories, containing: The Voices of Time; The Sound-Sweep; Prima Belladonna; Studio 5, The Stars; The Garden of Time; The Cage of Sand; The Watch-Towers; and Chronopolis. Condition: The book is in good readable condition, with some foxing and dusting to the pages' top edge. The dustwrapper is faded to the spine and with a few small marks to the rear.

Aberystwyth: D Jenkins / The Observer Offices, 1866. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small hardback, bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 30pp + folding map. This is the text of an address read before a meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Society at Machynlleth, August 27, 1866, and studies the early military encampments in Cardigan by Britons and Roman in ancient times, and their proximity to mines. With a fold out map as frontispiece. Condition: This copy is in very good condition for age.

London: Robert Hale, 1977. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 172pp. A rare science fiction title. From the dustwrapper: "The spaceship 'Ariadne' had fought her last fight. The men aboard her were expecting to die. Then a voice spoke out of sapce. The speaker said that he was Hansekar, the overlord of the planet Canistra and that he wished to help them. To that end, he transmitted a radio beam and the Ariadne homed in on it, crashing in the forest of the tree ferns. Presently Hansekar and his retinue appeared on the scene. They were robots all, very ancient robots, the sole survivors of a once great civilisation. And yet there was a mystery about them, for it soon proved that they represented a level of technology which even the Canistrans had never reached. Then came the hour when Captain John Rogers had to ask himself whether Hansekar was more than a robot, and just what kind of secret he kept… Read More

London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1941. Reprint. . Soft cover. Fair / Good. Reprint. Paperback. 19.5 × 13.5cm, 145pp. This copy was owned and signed by Graeme Shankland (1917-1984), an architect, town planner, and Communist who didn't care too much for the old Victorian townscapes, but created enormous programmes of renewal in 'outworn' Victorian city centres (his plan for Liverpool was apparently incredibly brutal, earning him the sobriquet 'the Butcher of Liverpool' from fellow architects and conservationists. He also drew up plans for Hook in Hampshire, but local opposition successfully thwarted these plans. First published in 1908, Plekhanov's purpose was to elaborate historical materialism in the context of the general philosophical outlook of Marxism. Condition: Fair condition. The covers are tanned to the edges and bumped to the spine. There is some creasing to the the pages but it remains in good readable condition.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Large hardback in dustwrapper. 30.5 × 25cm, 375pp. This book offers an entirely new understanding of the photographer's extraordinary career and its overlapping contexts of journalism and art. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. Following World War II, he helped found the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while retaining control over their work. Cartier-Bresson would go on to produce major bodies of photographic reportage, capturing such events as China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, the United States in the postwar boom and Europe as its older cultures confronted modern realities. Published to accompany an exhibition at… Read More

London: Not published, 1899. Soft cover. Very Good. This is a handwritten, signed postcard from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain. The postcard measures approx 11 × 9cm, and has the address '4, Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square' printed across the top. It is dated June 14, 1899, and reads "Dear Miss Gladstone, We are going to a dance on the 23rd, so I am sorry to say it is impossible for us to accept your kind invitation for that night. Yours truly, E G Anderson". Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was born in 1836, and was the elder sister of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the politician, writer, activist and campaigner for women's suffrage. She was a member of the Langham Place Group, the club that supported and promoted women's rights in education and employment. She met Elizabeth Blackwell, and English woman who had gained an MD in the United States, and determined to become a doctor. She sidestepped the ban on female… Read More

Steenbergen: Neerlands Postduivan Orgaan, 2003. First UK Edition. . Hardback. Good. First English edition. Hardback. 33.5 × 25cm, 153pp. This illustrated book describes the pedigrees of championship pigeons from Europe and America, and notes on their breeders. Condition: This copy is in good condition but the top corner is quite badly mauled. The contents remain in very good condition. **PLEASE NOTE: As this is a heavy book, postage may have to be increased for overseas (non-UK) buyers, or decreased where appropriate. Please see the COX AND BUDGE BOOKS website for full shipping details or drop us an email**

Copenhagen: Rhodos International, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Stiff card covers. 27 × 21cm, 144pp. A series of illustrated articles on various aspects of Scandinavian design, including Emile Galle and the Danish Museum of Decorative Art, ceramic sculpture, the coffee cup, Gerda Henning the weaver, Swiss shantung, French chintz and English cretonne, Marie Gudme Leth (textile design), and typography. Condition: This copy is in strong readable condition, with light wear to the covers.

London: J M Dent, 1999. Reprint. . Paperback. Very Good. First thus, paperback. 19.5cm × 13cm, 641pp. This copy signed by the editor to Mort & Dick. Mort was Professor Morton Cohen, the pre-eminent Lewis Carroll and Victorian literature scholar. Romola is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". Condition: This copy in very good condition, but with some tanning to the page edges and margins.

London: Allison & Busby, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 246pp. German artist George Grosz's autobiography, this being the first time it was fully available in English. He describes his Pomeranian childhood, army life during the Great War, revolution and hunger in its aftermath, Dadism and Nazism in the Weimar Republic, and the unforgettable people of the time: Dali, de Chirico, Rosa Luxemburg, Thomas Mann, Lenin, Brecht, Dos Passos, Joseph von Sternberg, and Trotsky to name but a few. Condition: A good solid copy but with foxing to the top edge of the pages and dustwrapper.

London: Browse & Darby, 2003. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good Plus. First edition. Paperback. 26.5 × 22cm, unpaginated. An exhibition catalogue of artist Patrick George's recent works, the majority being beautiful paintings of trees as he explains in his brief introduction. Patrick Herbert George (1923 - 2016) was an English painter who taught at the Slade School of Fine Art in London for most of his career and was best known for his landscapes. Condition: There is sunning to the spine and one or two small marks to the covers but the contents are in very good condition.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1930. First Edition. . Hardback. Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 125pp + 2pp ads. Described on the dustwrapper as 'one hundred questions concerning shot guns answered by on of the greatest living gun experts. A unique and necessary little book to every man who handles shot guns or rifles, for it gives information that is not obtainable elsewhere.' This copy is stamped by Higginbotham's Booksellers of Madras, a company set up by a British librarian (Abel Higginbotham) who arrived in Madras as a stowaway in the 1840s. Condition: A good plus copy. The book has faded boards but the text is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is a rare survival and is on good order bar one small hole to the spine.

London: HarperCollins, 1987. Reprint. . Soft cover. Good. Reprint. Paperback. 19.5 × 13cm, 959pp. This copy comes from the library of anthologist, author and historian Anne Powell, and loosely inserted is a postcard from Martin Gilbert. Additionally, Anne Powell has placed newspaper clippings inside, mostly obituaries of Holocaust survivors and historians. This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race. Illustrated with photographs, some of which are graphic. Condition: Good condition. The inserted material has slightly changed the shape of the book, and there is light wear to the covers, However, it remains in strong readable condition.

London: Heinemann, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. First edition. Paperback. 21.5 × 13.5cm, 170pp. From the back cover: This book gives an account of teachers' perceptions of the special educational needs of West Indian pupils in socially disadvantaged areas. The author uses interviews with heads and teachers from seventeen schools to provide a fascinating account of the many different assumptions related to the needs of West Indian pupils, and the strategies designed to address them in multi-racial schools. Condition: There is sun-fading to the spine but otherwise this copy remains in strong readable condition.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 190pp. The author's first novel. The theme of which is the conflict between man's compelling need for self-assertion and the assured happiness of married life - a conflict brought to the surface by the outbreak in London of a deadly pestilence which reduces the city to a panic-stricken place of dying and the dead. Condition: The book is in very good condition, the dustwrapper has some tanning to the spine and one small closed tear to the top edge but is otherwise very good.

London: The Chiswick Press, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition. Hardback, quarter cloth with paper covered boards with printed titling. 23 × 14.5cm, 30pp. Not signed, but from the library of Anne Powell, historian, anthologist and author on the First and second World Wars. She wrote a biography of Pamela's son Edward Wyndham Tennant (Bim) who was killed the following year on the Somme. Pamela Glenconner's retelling in English of the story of Joan of Arc, the fifteenth century a patron saint of France who was burnt at the stake in 1431 for heresy (she was accused of having blasphemed by wearing men's clothes and of acting upon visions that were demonic). Boutet de Monvel's illustrated story of Joan of Arc was published in 1896 leading to an increase in interest in her and her canonization in 1920. Condition: Good condition. There is some tanning to the covers and endpapers but the main body of text is in good readable condition and the inner binding is secure.

Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2004. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 25 × 17.5cm, 263pp. Signed by Gerald Gliddon to a compliments slip to the ffep, and with a letter from the author laid in at the front pastedown in which the author thanks the recipient with help on William Cotter VC. Featuring the careers of forty-three men, this volume tells the story of the Battle of Cambrai, famous for being the first occasion when tanks were used en masse in battle. Its first day was so successful that church bells in Britain were rung in anticipation of a great victory. A tank crewman numbers among the recipients of the VC. Containing biographies of a broad cross-section of men from Britain and the Dominions including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and even the Ukraine. It includes a sapper, a former miner, who chose to stay with his seriously wounded colleague underground and die with him, rather than obey an order to leave him and… Read More

London: Allen Lane, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 498pp. Signed directly to the title page by Ed Glinert. The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, brothers, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the city from Limehouse to Lambeth, Whitehall to Whitechapel, unravelling its mysteries along the way. This is London as you have never seen it before. Condition: A good solid copy, with a bookseller's sticker to the front cover, light tanning and a little bumping to the page edges but remaining in strong readable condition.

New York & London: G P Putnam's Sons, 1901. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair / Good. First edition. Hardback, bound in original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 13cm, 420pp. A lost race novel. A political and social satire similar to Gulliver's Travels. The protagonist looking for a spiritually pure form of humanity which he believes can only be found in a primitive and isolated culture, travels on his ship the Daydream to the fog bound archipelago of Riallaro where he discovers various islands run on extreme social or political views. Condition: A scarce first edition but in fair to good condition only. The blue cloth is rubbed to the corners, with heavier wear to the joints and spine ends. The book lacks the ffep but the main body of text is in good order with clean pages and secure binding.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 307pp. The Paris Peace Conference marked a turning-point in international history generally, and for the British Empire in particular. This book studies the evolution of British plans for the peace settlement following the First World War. The introduction of expert advisers into the foreign policy process was a critical innovation. Some perceived new imperatives for the age, others remained wedded to traditional beliefs. Erik Goldstein shows that the handful of individuals closely involved in the formulation of foreign policy succeeded in creating a coherent diplomatic strategy. He examines the growth of government planning and the changing relations between the Civil Service and ministers. He analyses the considerable influence of the little-studied Political Intelligence Department, whose members included Arnold Toynbee, Lewis Namier, Harold Nicolson, Alfred… Read More