Search Results: Authors starting with G from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Hamden, Connecticut: Shoe String Press, 1972. Third Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed ensign-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xx, 226, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Calcutta: United States Information Service, circa 1962. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Mexico City: Editorial Orion, 1974. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [18cm/7.25inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 432. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (1884 – 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of some nine months during 1948, he was the first cleanly elected president in his country's history. He began his work as a schoolteacher, writer, classical music enthusiast, and journalist in 1903. His novel Doña Bárbara was first published in 1929, and it was because of the book's criticisms of the regime of longtime dictator Juan Vicente Gómez that he was forced to flee the country. He took refuge in Spain, where he continued to write: his acclaimed novels Cantaclaro (1934) and Canaima (1935) date from this period. He returned to Venezuela in 1936 and was appointed Minister of Public Education. In 1937 he was… Read More

México, D F: Ed. Diana , 1991. PRIMERA EDICIÓN, limitado a 5000 ejemplares. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Paperback Páginas 110 pages. En Español; in Spanish. Ex-library, with the usual marks and stickers. Otherwise, clean and crisp, with no marks, tears or turned corners; tight binding.

San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art & The Timken. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [27.75cm/11inches], full Swiss-white-embossed gray cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 409, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1910. Copyright Edition. Quarter-bound Calf. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Sextodecimo,[16mo] (16.25cm/6.5inches),gilt-embossed quarter-bound conifer-green calf-backed boards, pp. 271 Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Being a collection of Galsworthy's stories, studies and impressions written between 1899-1910. 'A Portrait' and 'The Japanese Quince' appear for the first time. ... Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz was just 20 years old in 1837 when he founded in Leipzig the publishing firm that bore his name. He had earlier been apprenticed to his uncle Karl Tauchnitz, an eminent printer-publisher who had introduced stereotyping to Germany. He appears to have decided early to specialise in publishing editions in foreign languages, and particularly English. The first volume in the ‘Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors’ appeared in 1842 and over the next 100 years the series went on to comprise some 5370 volumes.… Read More

New York: Scribner's, 1927. Grove Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [17.5cm/7inches], full gilt-embossed green cloth sans dust jacket, pp.396. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize–winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large commercial upper-middle-class English family, similar to Galsworthy's own.Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, the family members are keenly aware of their status as "new money". The main character, Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessions—but this does not succeed in bringing him pleasure.

Barnsley, Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2013. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed ebony-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. vii, 259, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. The Bofors 40 mm gun, often referred to simply as the Bofors gun, is an anti-aircraft/multi-purpose autocannon designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. It was one of the most popular medium-weight anti-aircraft systems during World War II, used by most of the western Allies as well as by the Axis powers. A small number of these weapons remain in service to this day, and saw action as late as the Gulf War.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press (Collins), 2009. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed slate-blue calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp.154. Fully Illustrated w/ colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Ganz is an attorney, an author of more than 35 books and scholarly journal book-length articles on a variety of subjects, a bi-lingual researcher, and a member or former long-term member of the board of directors of national hobby organizations, Ganz has made a plethora of contributions to society in a variety of fields. He has also held two presidential appointments. In 1974, he was appointed to the Annual Assay Commission by President Richard Nixon. In 1993, he was a Clinton Administration Appointment to the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee (1993-1996).

San Leandro, Cfa: Los Californianos,, 1998. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. vi, 340, indexed. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. (X15039) 

New York: Time Incorporated, 1995. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.70 . Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, as well as colour plates . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. (X11678) 

México, D F: Grupo K2, 1989. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [28.75cm / 11.5inches], encuadernado con tapas pictóricas, pp. 28. Completamente ilustrado con placas de semitonos b-w. Por favor, no dude en preguntar acerca de los detalles y / o fotografías adicionales. En españo ... lLa Magdalena penitente realizada entre 1576 y 1578 durante su primer periodo toledano. Se exhibe en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Budapest. Es una obra que guarda grandes paralelismos con Tiziano, tanto por la monumentalidad con que fue concebida, por los detalles, por el paisaje y por la pincelada rápida. También significa uno de los grandes avances en el estilo de El Greco. A su llegada a Toledo, El Greco comenzó a ganar fama como pintor de íconos que la Contrarreforma tanto necesitaba. En esa línea, la Magdalena penitente era el perfecto vehículo para representar a una pecadora arrepentida. Por lo tanto, se convirtió en una… Read More

Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1982. First Impression. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 238. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 166. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Annapolis. First American Edition. Demy folio, [26.875cm/10.75inches], full gilt-embossed ebony cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [26.875cm/10.75inches], full gilt-embossed ebony cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 255, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1982. First Impression. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 312. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan, 2001. First British Edition. Hardcover. Brand New/NEW. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed red cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 224, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The White Star Line was a British shipping company. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually rose up to become one of the most prominent shipping lines in the world, providing passenger and cargo services between the British Empire and the United States. While many other shipping lines focused primarily on speed, White Star branded their services by focusing more on providing comfortable passages for both upper class travellers and immigrants.

Greenwich UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1982. First Impression. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 70. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Trento, Italy: Panorama, 1999. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [24cm/9.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 370, indexed. Fully illustrated exquisite colour plates. In Italian. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.