Search Results: Titles starting with G from Lux Libri

NY: The New Press, (2006.) 1st edition. Paperback original; not issued in hardcover. Signed by the author with an inscription, "Here's to a new Constitution! For the American people!" History and analysis of impeachment, mostly in the context of calls at the time to impeach George W. Bush and members of his administration. Still a timely work today after two impeachments of Donald Trump and the Republican effort to retaliate against President Biden. 12mo paperbound. 230 pp., index. VG with minor wear, light spotting to the top page edge. Uncommon signed.

1888 autograph letter signed, from American author G.W. Cable to his friend and business associate Major J.B. Pond. Cable sends his congratulations on the eve of Pond's second marriage and writes, "I rejoice greatly in your great fortune, and hope that every day henceforth may find you happier in the new, rich life." One page on thin linen paper with Cable's address on Paradise Road in Northampton, Mass. Approx. 5 x 8.25 inches. Mailing folds and one light crease, else Fine. Cable (1844-1925) was known for his realistic portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans. He was from a slave-holding family and joined the Confederate army in the Civil War. But his work, including Old Creole Days, depicted the multi-racial and multicultural nature of New Orleans society. His opposition to racism and calls for social reform engendered hostility in the South and caused him to move to Northampton in 1885. J.B. [James Burton] Pond (1838-1903) was an abolitionist and Union officer with the 3rd Wisconsin… Read More

Cöllen: Peter Ketteler, 1693. Early edition of the sermons and other writings of German Augustinian friar Abraham a Sancta Clara. He was known for his eccentric wit and eloquence, and his sermons were highly popular with both the aristocracy and the common man. "The people flocked to hear him, attracted by the force and simplicity of his language, the grotesqueness of his humour, and the impartial severity with which he lashed the follies of all social classes." (EB, 11th ed.) German and Latin text in fraktur. [4], 437, [7] pp. Approx. 21 x 16.5 cm. Early patterned paper boards, manuscript spine label. Good with rubbing and wear at the extremities. Text complete with browning, occasional stains. A sound copy. With bookplate of the Neander Library, Rochester [NY] Theological Seminary / "Presented by Roswell S. Burrows, Esq." Burrows (1798-1884) was a NY banker who acquired and donated the important private library of German theologian and ecclesiastical historian August W. Neander (1789-1850.) A… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston Searle & Rivington, 1890. Slender clothbound hardcover. 100 pp., with index. VG with moderate wear and signs of age. Brief biographies of early Renaissance artists Ghiberti and Donatello, along with material on other Italian sculptors of the Pisan and Florentine schools. Nicely illustrated by b&w illustrations. One fold-out plate of The Second Door of the Baptistery, Florence, by Ghiberti. Small prior owner signature to the half-title page, but otherwise unmarked. Sound binding.

NY: Macmillan, 1905. 1st edition. Signed by Clyde Fitch on the half-title page with a Christmas greeting in the year of publication. A social drama of marital jealousy. One of the best-known plays by Fitch, a prolific American dramatist who was the foremost Broadway playwright of his era. Brown clothbound hardcover. 200, (4) pp. VG with modest wear, rubbing of the spine label. First blank page neatly excised, but otherwise complete and securely bound. In a new, clear archival jacket.

Portland, Oregon: Atelier26, (2014.) Signed 1st edition. Poetry and prose that trace the author's experiences as the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Signed in gold pen on the title page. With an inscription to Dana and Yvona [Fast], mother and daughter co-authors of the memoir, Good in the Midst of Evil: One Girl's Survival of the Holocaust. 109 pp. Artwork by Lola Fraknoi. Trade paperback. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. VG with slight wear, bump to some upper page corners. Clean and securely bound.

Chicago: Argonaut, Inc., 1969. An "unchanged reprint" of the original 1901 publication. A study of religious beliefs in ancient Rome and the genesis of the Great Mother goddess cult during the reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (535-496 BC.) A scholarly study of the rise of the cult, its ultimate decline and fall. Includes discussions of paganism, the prophecies of the Sybilline Books, "taurobolium" bull sacrifice, archaeology, and literature of the period. 114 pp., index. 4 b&w photographic illustrations. 8vo clothbound hardcover. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. No dust jacket, as issued (?) Minor spotting to top page edge, but VG overall. Sound, tight binding. Clean internally. A book that appears to have seen little, if any, use.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1891. 1st edition. A guide to the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889), Victorian poet and playwright who was the husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. xvi, 450 pp. 8vo hardcover in smooth green cloth. Gilt spine lettering and top page edge. VG with modest wear. Sound binding. Menorah bookplate of Heman Packard Deforest (1839-1914), a graduate of Yale Divinity School and later an author, historian and Protestant minister in Massachusetts and Michigan.