Search Results: Titles starting with G from Douglas Books

London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good+. 10.5 Cms x 17 Cms. 161+(1)(ad.for another G.K.C.book), internally clean and tight, early prev.owner's sig. on half-title, ornate red, green & yellow printed fr.cover, paper covers intact but sp .esp. somewhat darkened as are edges and back somewhat dusty. A scarce G.K.C. related item, of a somewhat ephemeral character. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Freeport NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. Reprint, 1st-1926 . Blue Cloth. No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece Hall portrait+xiii+267; this would be near fine but for the fact that pp.19-50 are badly affected by a printing fault which has variously smudged and overprinted the text, in places to the point of illegibility. otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in bright unworn cover. Still useful for reference purposes and uncommon in UK. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

New York: G.E. Stechert, 1914. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. VG. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. f/piece portrait with tissue=guard + 144 pp., 7 further photo-plates ex-pagination; clean, tight & unmarked, incipient paper splitting to rear gutter, David Shakow's ex-lib.plate fr.pastedown and on facing free endpaper yellow label: University of Akron/ Bierce Library/ Archives of the History of American Psychology/ from/ David Shakow', faint browning strips to pastedowns and endpapers suggest this once had a jacket. A slipped in 13 x 10.5 cm (5 x 4 inches) picture of a miniature village in a garden inscr. 'G.Stanley Hall, Story of a Sand Pile' (at one time fixed to rear pastedown but now loose) - this is probably Hall's own inscription to judge from its similarity to his signature on f/piece, though cannot be quite certain of this. Covers clean with gilt lettering to sp., outer corners a little rubbed/bumped, more so at bottom.

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1972. 1st ed. . White decorated dark red cloth. Fine/Fine. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece Hall photo portrait, xx+482, 4 further photo plates on 4 leaves after p.389, with facing captions; virtually pristine copy in similar jacket with just slight hint of top spine rubbing (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Scarce in UK. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Dennis Dobson Ltd, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-. Dark blue cloth binding, no obvious faults though spine perhaps a little dull. f/piece Faure portrait photo+viii+98 inc. full list of works and bibliography, no obvious internal faults. Unclipped jacket clean but spine and edges heavily tanned, slight rubbing to top front and a couple of very small trivial edge-nicks (will add protective sleeve when ordered).. Issued in the Contemporary Composers series. Undated but translator's Preface dated May 1945 so assume that 1945 is correct date. 14 cm x 22 cm

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. 1st thus. . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine-. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. vi+289+(1, Lib.of Congress data); a near pristine copy, only flaw being tiny neck bottom jacket sp. & mere hint of rubbing top same. Includes 4 of Galen's works: De usu respirationis, An in aertriis natura sanguis contineatur, De usu pulsuum, De causis respirationis.

Bern: A. Francke, 1949. 1st Edition . Printed Issue Card. Good/very Good. 14.5 Cms x 21 Cms. 183, internally excellent - entirely unmarked, clean & tight; covers clean & minimally worn but a thin strip of light brown staining across bottom edge fr. cover, also affecting bottom section of sp., this has caused no damage and is quite minor. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Hassocks, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1978. 1st English ed. (1st French-1939) . Orange-brown Cloth. Fine/Fine-. 15.5 Cms x 24 Cms. unpaginated prelims+278, a few small text diagrams; from Part 1 t.p. dimishing to p.10 there is a fairly faint diagonal crease about 6 cms long maximum extending diagonally from top edge, clearly a production fault and of virtually no significance, otherwise a pristine copy inside and out;unclipped jacket marred only by slight sun-fading to spine (will add protective sleeve when ordered). An exceptionally good copy of this classic. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Dordrecht, Boston, London: D. Reidel, 1980. 1st ed. . Printed Glossy Card. Good+. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. Issued as Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 61. xx+478+(3, series list); very extensive but also light and easily eraseable pencil marginal marking, underlining and short comments throughout, some of which may actually be of interest, a little shallow vertical creasing up to p.10, otherwise internally clean and tight; covers clean but front has a vertical crease mark and all edges very slightly rubbed. Uncommon. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Berkeley etc.: University of California Press, 1997. 1st Ed. thus . Glossy p/b. VG+. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xi+425, occ.text figs; near pristine but a few tiny white flecks to title panel on front cover, hint of a crease back lower outer corner and occ. minor spots of pigment loss etc. A very nice copy of this important edition by the eminent Las Vegas based Galileo scholar. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Catholic Truth Society, 1923. 2nd Ed. (1st-Bombay, 1913) . blue printed boards. Good-VG. 12 Cms x 18 Cms. f/piece+139; outer sides of endpapers browned, occ. (quite sensible!) pencilled marginalia, otherwise internally clean & tight; covers generally clean, boards unworn but white sp.rubbed exposing netting in places. Author notes that there have been some minor corrections from the 1913 Bombay edition.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/VG(-). 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. 289 pp., 10 text figs; pristine copy but coloured ex lib plate of University of Sussex Chemist Timothy N. Metham to front endpaper (oval galaxy against black, star-flecked, background), unclipped jacket generally clean bar a few trivial marks on back but slight spine end rubbing a few other minor rubs. Important collection of essays by possibly the leading authority on Galileo of the last century. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Fourth Estate, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Black cloth with gilt sp. lettering, would be 'As New' but for small dent to bottom front edge of little consequence. 10 unpaginated prelims inc. t.p. + half-title + map with f/piece to verso + 429, numerous text ills throughout inc. some full page chapter f/pieces; as new. Unclipped illustrated jacket as new, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 16 cm x 24 cm

Washington DC: Catholic University of America, 1989. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine-. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece+ix+164. The only fault I can see is that the glossy jacket has oddly discolored from blue to green on the back and towards front outer edge, this pattern does not correspond to usual sun-fading unless, as seems possible on closer examination, the discoloration is actually in the opposite direction, front wraparound bottom corner has open crease of no significance. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

London: War Office, The Army Sport Control Board. Red Cloth. Fair/good/No Jacket. 13 Cm X 18 Cm. 576. Title page some way in after ads etc. F/piece of General Sir Ronald F. Adam. Presumably issued beginning 1943 since 1943-1946 calendars are on pastedowns. Spine faded, and some staining on back and all a little shaken but a fascinating period document with numerous advertisements interleaved at beginning and towards end, diagrams, photos (inc.2 pp. mugshots of Army Sport Control Board senior officers), the board's financial accounts, an unf. example score sheet for the Royal Tournament Skill-at-Arms competition, Tug-of-War rules etc. etc. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range. SALE PRICE

Lonodn: Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Societ, 1906. First Thus . Soft cover. VG for age and genre/VG for age. Very tanned blank card binding in ill. and printed jacket with faint edge tanning and small nick bottom spine but otherwise clean and unworn. half-title with academic quote about play to verso+ decorated t.p. + xvi (inc. all preliims and a reduced fasc. t.p. of Ingleend's The Disobedient Child to p.x.)+75, p.1 is reduced facs. original t.p. , text tail-piece on p.64 is facs. of original printers 'device', remainder of text is Farmer's Note-Book and Word-List with dec. head-piece. Main fault is heavily tanned card cover and outer-sides of end-papers, but these barely visible as covered by jacket wraparounds, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked bar bare hint of edge tanning throughout. Spelling modernised. Issued as No.1 in 'The Museum Dramatists' series. Uncommon in such good condition. 11 cm x 17.5 cm

London: J. Lehmann ('Trade Distribution'), 1989. Apparently 1st Ed. . Red Cloth. Fine/Fine. 15 Cm x 21.5 Cm. xv+184, unnumbered illustrations throughout of various kinds, some text in Hebrew. A virtually mint copy in similar jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

New York: HarperCollins (HarperOne), 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Green cloth with gilt-lettered black cloth sp. region. xv1 (map across pp.x - xi opening) + 256, decorated chapter t.p.s. Unclipped jacket, will add protective sleeve when opened, puffs on back appear to have been elicited from scholars prior to publication. . Quite scarce especially in UK. All pristine.14.5 x 21.5 cm

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1904. Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 12 Cms x 16 Cms. 359/327 endpapers foxed, v.small nick top sp., otherwise a nice copy of the Tauchnitz Edition. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range. SALE PRICE

Vienna: Wilhelm Braumuller, 1885. 1st ed. . Hardcover. Good-VG. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. Mauve blind-stamped cloth. vi+323, a few sm.pencillings to recto rear endpaper, v.faint traces of erased pencilling top verso fr.free endpaper, atttractive decorated endpapers & pastedowns, all edges browning as usual for period and place, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean but edges & sp.sunfaded, sp.ends rubbed with sm.chip at bottom, incipient splitting to top back and lower fr.joints. A fairly scarce work, especially in the UK. Baron Lazar De Baczolay Hellenbach (1827-1887) apparently believed that birth and death were only changes in mode of perception and was deeply embroiled in spiritualism. Nevertheless this is a substantial philosophical effort.