Search Results: Authors starting with G from Biblioctopus

Boston: Garrison and Knapp, 1832. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. 1st edition of the founding document in the Anti-Slavery movement. Original, sewn, tan, printed wrappers, untrimmed and unrepaired. A few smudges to front cover, both covers a little creased, spots to title page, and some stains, else very good, complete, untouched, and unrepaired. Scarce, and not only scarce (more so in original wrappers) but of the utmost importance. Only 2 copies have sold at auction in the last 100 years (one of them without the wrappers). Rare Book Hub shows 7 more in bookseller's catalogs (some without wrappers) also looking back 100 years, and we found one more, but do not get too excited, it's not that rare or it wouldn't be $4,000. Nonetheless, if you are a librarian or collector who is interested in Black Americana and do not have this book, buying ours should be irresistible. Collation: octavo. 16pp. References: Sabin 52655n. LCP 6496. AI 13659. Not in Work. Not in Blockson. In announcing the aims and… Read More

London: Collins, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 11 vols. All 1st editions. All signed in ink. All fine in dustjackets with tiny rubs else fine. All are captivating reads, underappreciated, and undervalued. Lovejoy is a roguish antique dealer and sometimes detective. The novels were adapted into a 73 episode television series, staring Ian McShane and airing from 1986-1994.

London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of the author's only play, one of 2000 copies.

London: Faber and Faber, 1964. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Fine.

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1965. First Edition. Wrappers. near fine. 1st appearance anywhere of Goodall's first published work, pages 272-308 of the August 1963 issue (vol. 124, no. 2). Original wrappers, a near fine copy. 1st appearance anywhere of Goodall's first cover story, pages 802-832 of the December 1965 issue (vol. 128, no. 6). Original wrappers, a near fine copy.

New York: The Fantod Press, 1970. First edition. Three volumes in stapled wrappers, in publisher's printed envelope as issued. Books are as new; the envelope is fine but for a touch of discoloration.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Seventeen loose illustrations in folder and envelope. Fine.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First edition. Three volumes in stapled wrappers, in publisher's printed envelope as issued. Books are as new; the envelope is fine.

(New York): Fantod Press / Gotham Book Mart, 1975. First edition. Slightly oblong 12mo. Fine in wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author.

New York: Albondocani Press, 1976. First Edition. First edition. Stapled wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Prospectus for the edition laid in. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by Gorey.

1870. good. Etching on paper, 1st published in 1799, this issue ca. 1875 (later ones are dogfood). Plate 66 from Los Caprichos, the sheet 8" X 10" the image 4 7/8" X 7 3/8" (the full margins are not pictured). Titled at the base, plate number at the upper right. Good. Unframed. A supernatural allegory of a witch and her cat flying over the landscape on a crippled devil who looks like a surgically humanized warthog from the island of Dr. Moreau. The theme is conflict, much smaller than, but not unlike that between matter and anti-matter, or between education and disaster. Ref: Delteil 103. Harris 1964 101.III?

New York: R. Martin, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 3 vols. in 1. 1st American edition (in English). Exceptionally detailed, bespoke, contemporary full morocco, signed on the cover by Jill Smith, intricately inlaid, white silk moiré, framed endpapers, bearing a gilt inscription from a husband to his wife on their wedding day (Jan. 1, 1859, probably dating the binding as 1858), all edges gilt, light wear to covers, neatly rebacked, small chips to the corners of the vignette title page, a trace of foxing but printed on paper vastly superior to what was general on American books in 1847, and still near fine. 50 unprecedented engraved plates of anthropomorphic plants (simultaneously poetical and satirical) dressed in flower and leaf enhanced French couture of the day, when seamstresses were independent, hired individually and came to the customer. The 50 plates are professionally and, in this copy, artistically, hand colored (the publisher's choice of the painters he employed varies from… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 1st edition (published in June), preceding the London edition (published in July). Fine in a dustjacket with just small nicks and tears at the edges, else near fine, and with the rare wraparound band, also near fine, and the band is of critical importance because it was only issued with the few earliest copies, and says so right on it, and therefore it is the only identifier of the 1st issue and copies without the band can be dismissed like junk mail. The London edition, in this condition, is 10 times our price even though it is later, and our NY edition in jacket, when it has the band, is rarer than the London edition in jacket, but that is another fact that is not widely known. Fine full morocco case. As a young man, Greene worked as a journalist in Brighton, covering stories of local crime and gang activity. He was particularly fascinated by the culture of violence and corruption that existed in Brighton during the 1930s, and… Read More

New York: CAPE, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 1st edition of a paradigmatic American novel about reaching for all that life can bring. Fine in a dustjacket with a crease and 2 short tears else it's fine, and as fresh as a fountain soda. More than an author, Greene was a playwright, journalist, editor, and the managing general director of King Features Syndicate, but he is best remembered for his 1945 Cosmopolitan Magazine story, Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog, that Disney later developed into the film Lady and the Tramp.

London: G. Bigg, 1787. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 1st edition in English (originally in German, Dessau and Leipzig, 1783). Contemporary full calf, rebacked (neat but wavy where the calf conjoins), corners worn, light foxing, else very good, complete with half-title and errata. The first scientific examination and the first anthropological description of gypsies, and the first tracing their origins to the Indian subcontinent, pursuing a suggestion based on linguistics, and because it was the first reliable scientific examination of the Romani people, it is respected to this day for its findings.

New York: Rinehart, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 1st edition. Endpapers foxed, one small and faint smudge, else fine in a very good dustjacket marred only by a 3/8" chip to the spine's upper corner and light wear to its base. Seldom seen in a jacket this nice, but the chip stifles our price ambitions, or maybe $2,000 is already too ambitious. You will let us know. An acclaimed model for postmodern noir, but if you like books with happy endings, don't bother. 2 films (1947 and 2021) were also good but also not cheery. It is set at the lowest level of shady carnival life with the corrupt hustlers and schemers that are its seedy inhabitants, their crimes, cons, torments, treacheries, exploitations, deceits, and betrayals, driving a downward spiraling plotline with a more hopeless ending than an eternity spent feeling around in a dark cave for a black flashlight that isn't there.