Search Results: Authors starting with G from Chanticleer Books

Roma: Nella Stamparia della Reu. C.A., 1676. Early reprint. Covers worn, title page stained, text complete and clean. 663 pp., octavo, contempory vellum. There were many editions of this popular dictionary following its first publication in 1588.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1983). First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn jacket. xiv, 548 pp., frontispiece portrait from photograph; octavo, original red cloth, pictorial jacket. A revision and expansion of the 1963 edition. This volume is no. 7 in the St. Paul's Bibliographies series.

London: Faber & Faber, (1970). Second printing of the revised edition. Hardcover. Fine in price-clipped else very good jacket. 414 pp., octavo, original red cloth, dustjacket. Essential bibliographical guide to the published work of T. S. Eliot.

San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, (1984). Signed limited first edition. Hardcover. Fine, entirely clean and unworn. Unpaginated, frontispiece portrait of Garcia Lorca by Carolyn Cassady, original red cloth with color illustration by Garcia Lorca inset on front cover, octavo, 2 folded sheets labeled "Songs" laid in at rear. Erratum slip laid in at front. Text in Spanish and English on facing pages. Extensive section of notes at rear. This copy "W" of 26 copies signed by the translator, Chrisopher Maurer. Additionally, this copy is signed by illustrator Carolyn Cassady.

San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, (1984). Signed limited first edition. Hardcover. Fine, entirely clean and unworn. Unpaginated, frontispiece portrait of Garcia Lorca by Carolyn Cassady, original white cloth with color illustration by Garcia Lorca inset on front cover, octavo, 2 folded sheets labeled "Songs" laid in. Text in Spanish and English on facing pages. Extensive section of notes at rear. 76/100 numbered copies signed by the translator Chrisopher Maurer.

San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, (1984). First trade edition. Paperback. Fine, entirely clean and unworn. Unpaginated, frontispiece, original pictorial wrappers, 9 x 6 inches, 2 folded sheets labeled "Songs" laid in. Text in Spanish and English on facing pages. Extensive section of notes at rear. One of 650 trade copies in wrappers.

Benicia: Published by S. Garfielde. Press of the Franklin Printing House, Boston, Mass., 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Covers scuffed and worn, old rebacking with original spine laid down, new endpapers, a few old notes in text, overall near very good and quite sturdy and presentable. xix, 1071 pp.; 8vo, full period calf (rebacked preserving original materials), morocco spine labels. The first compilation and publication of the laws of the State of California, just 3 years after statehood was granted in Sept., 1850. Published in the third State Capital in as many years; Benicia was home to the Legislature from Feb. 4, 1853 - Feb. 25, 1854. Not in Cowan or Howes. Sabin 10021.

Menston & London: Scolar Press, 1973. Second printing thus. Hardcover. Minor scuffing to covers, crease to rear free endpaper, else very good in price-clipped, moderately edgworn jacket. 2 volumes in 1. 173; 155 pp.; both volumes profusely illustrated. Facsimile reproductions of the 1727 first edition of the first volume and 1738 first edition of the second volume

NY: Moffat, Yard & Co, 1908. Second printing. Hardcover. Mild wear to cover, foxing to first and last few pages, else about very good. Original orange cloth with pictorial paper label on front cover, octavo (6.5 x 9 inches), (viii), 57 pp. + frontis and 46 b/w photo plates. .

Sacramento: J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1890. First edition. Wrappers moderately worn, some loss to spine ends, else very good. Original pale blue printed wrappers; octavo; 276 pp. + index leaf. Engraved illustrations in the text. About half the text reprints the translation from the French of Raimond Boireau's "Wines, their Care and Treatment in Cellar and Store, together with a Short Treatise on Vinification." Scarce. Amerine & Borg 669; Gabler II - no separate listing for this title

Brooklyn: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1912. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Original decorative card wrappers, 9.5 x 7 inches; (72) pp., profusely illustrated from b/w photographs throughout. Minor rubbing to wrappers, upper outside corner bumped, else very good Catalogue of the exhibition at the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences with an introduction by then curator William Henry Goodyear. Catalogue by John Getz with 145 items fully described. The collection was given to the Museum by collector Samuel P. Avery in 1909-1910. Scarce.

San Francisco: John Howell, 1969. First edition. Fine in jacket with short tear at top of front panel. Original red cloth, octavo (7 x 10 inches), 100 pp. Ilustrated A member of the Bidwell overland party of 1841, Chiles became an important and influential figure in the early days of California settlement. He died in Napa in 1885

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.

Winchester & Detroit: St Paul's Bibliographies & Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991. Second edition, revised. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. xv, 368 pp., illustrated; octavo, original blue cloth, jacket. A comprehensive guide to Gill's voluminous output, as well as published criticism and references to Gill's work.

Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1982. First edition. Faint scuffing to covers, else fine in near fine jacket. xix, 877 pp., illustrated with frontispiece and 8 photo plates, 59 pages of facsimiles; 8vo, red buckram with gilt spine title. First English and American editions, early and late reprints, as well as foreign editons are all exhaustively described. Indispensible.

Tours: Mame, 1862. Third edition. Hardcover. Covers moderately worn, lower corner tips exposed, neat repair to front joint, bookplate to front fixed endpaper, moderately foxed throughout, still quite presentable and near very good. [3], 187 pp. 1 engraved illustration; octavo, contemporary brown cloth, gilt. The short-lived French colony at Champ d'Asile on the Trinity River near what is now the area of greater metropolitan Houston, Texas, was founded in 1818 by a group of French veterans of the Napoleonic wars. "Fictionalized, but reasonably authentic, account of the French settlement at Champ d'Asile" (Howes R479). The first edition was published in 1858, the second in 1860. All are scarce: OCLC/Worldcat locates only 2 copies of the 1858 edition, 3 of the 1860, and 5 of the 1862 editions.

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1998). First US edition. Hardcover. Minor spotting to top edge, else fine in fine jacket. Quarto, original black cloth, 352 pp., illustrations in color and black and white, jacket. The bible of modern hawking and falconry. Originally published in the UK, this first US edition reprints the revised third UK edition.

Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, (1925). Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. Original half vellum and sea-green marbled boards, quarto (7.75 x 10.5 inches), 35pp. 12 wood engravings by John Nash. Vellum spine darkened, boards rather scuffed and with rubbing to edges, internally near fine. Limited to 380 copies of which this is number 139.

Los Angeles: Willing Publishing Co., (1948). Second edition. Hardcover. Gilt cover title oxidized to green, else very good. Small hardcover, original black boards, gilt cover title, 165 pp. Nice 1948 edition of this spiritual classid

London: Macmillan, 1890. First edition thus. Hardcover. Slight wear to spine ends, foxing to first and last several pages, else very good. Small octavo, original dark green cloth richly gilt, xxxv, 305 pp., 6 pp publisher adverts at rear, profusely illustrated from line drawings by Hugh Thomson.