Search Results: Titles starting with G from Arches Bookhouse

Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. Second Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. x, 232 pp. Purple cloth, gilt spine lettering to front cover, scarce. Spine sunned, owner's inscription to FFEP, moderate pencil marginalia and underlining, list to RFEP, sound otherwise.

The Walters Art Gallery, 1974. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. xviii, 353 pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover with gilt illustration. Spine and head sunned, some rubbing to boards. Foxing to head.

Pantheon, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Fine. xiii, 192pp. 12mo, half khaki cloth over tan cream paper boards, black stamped lettering and panels to spine and front cover. A pristine copy, entirely clean and fresh in like DJ.

Lea Febiger, 1937. Hardcover. GOOD. 424 pp. Foxing, some scant underlining, spine leaning slightly, owner stamp to FFEP, spine sunned, clean and unmarked otherwise.

Institute for Christian Economics, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Good. 496 pp. Sound, unmarked copy; DJ a bit tattered, wrapped in mylar. 8vo, blue cloth backed in navy, silver gilt spine lettering. A founding text in the 'Dominionism,' or 'Christian Reconstructionism' movement.

Saqi Books, 1993. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 325 pp. Yellow boards, red spine lettering. A bit of rubbing to extremities, corners lightly bumped, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ sunned, a bit of rubbing.

George Braziller, 1963. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. A bit of foxing, some rubbing to extremities, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ some edge wear, a few small chips.

Stevens, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xi, 304 pp. Frontispiece, black and white images. Toned, corners a bit bumped, sharp and clean otherwise.

University of California Press, 1938. Paperback. NEAR FINE. 213-246 pp. 2 b/w plates to rear, 2 in text figures. Stapled binding in paper wraps. Spine toned, owner name to front wrapper, sharp and clean otherwise. Print run limited to 25 copies.

SPCK, 1962. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xiii, 174 pp. Toned, some light edgewear, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ some shelf wear, a few small tears.

Harvard University Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. [6], 80, [1] pp. 12mo, green finished cloth, gilt spine title, gilt stamped Harvard 'Veritas' college arms emblem to front cover, deckled fore and tail edges. Pristine copy, completely clean and sharp. Published from a memorial gathering honoring Palmer, late professor of Philosophy, Natural Religion, and Civic Polity at Harvard. Some professors put the bulk of their energy into publication, others pedagogy. Palmer was decidedly among the latter, in spite of a few notable writings. Palmer raised up scores of teachers and professors in his 40-year tenure and his mark on the institution is reflected by the doggedly loyal and laudatory remarks of his eulogizers. Addresses by former students Bakewell of Yale and Hocking of Harvard, printed together with the "Faculty Minute on the Life and Services of Professor Palmer.

Macmillan, 1969. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. 304 pp. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Some faint stains to covers, otherwise a sharp copy. DJ clipped, a bit worn, some tears, a few repaired with tape.

Zondervan, 1943. Fourth Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Very Good. 166 pp. Very light rubbing to tips, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ clipped with price intact, some light shelf wear.

Random House, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. 83 pp. 'This is a Wartime Book. The text is complete and unabridged, but every effort has been made to comply with the Government's request to conserve essential materials.' Owner bookplate to FPEP, toned, some light rubbing to tips, sound otherwise. DJ clipped, toned, a few small tears.

Brill, 1942. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. ix, 676; xiv, 686; xvii, 973; xviii, 1045; x, 1326 pp. 8vo, half morocco leather over brown cloth, gilt lettering and borders over blind-embossed bands, gilt publisher's device to front covers, head edges yellow. Third supplementband bound in a closely matched embossed leather-design hard cover. Complete in two volumes with three supplementary volumes (komplett im zwei bande mit drei Supplementbände). Some very light rubbing to extremities, otherwise all volumes are very clean and tight with no signs of usage.

Walter de Gruyter, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Near Fine. Linen cloth, blue stamped lettering. Fold-out map tucked in to vol. 1 RPEP. Elegant Hanzi 'chop' stamp to FFEP's, a few corners slightly bumped, occasional rubbing, otherwise very fresh and clean with tight binding. Vols 1-3 and 5 printed on fine acid-free paper, vol. 4 is an earlier 1948 printing with browned (but not brittle) paper typical of the chaotic printing situation of post-war Germany. 431, 608, 574, 595, 358pp. Comprised of: Band 1: Das Altertum und das Werden des konfuzianischen Staates; Band 2: Der konfuzianische Staat I: Der Aufstieg zur Weltmacht; Band 3: Anmerkungen, Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen zu Band 1 und 2. Sach- und Namenverzeichnis; Band 4: Der konfuzianische Staat II: Krisen und Fremdvölker; Band 5: Anmerkungen, Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen zu Band 4, Namen- und Sachverzeichnis.

St. Martin's Press, 1971. First American Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. xxvii, 112 pp., long foldouts to rear. Large 8vo, printed mauve paper over boards backed in black cloth, silver gilt spine lettering. Gift inscription to FFEP, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise. DJ tips just a bit rubbed, crisp and bright otherwise, price of $10 intact, now wrapped in mylar.

Edward Arnold, 1915. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. xi, [1], 270, [2] pp. 4 B/W plates with illustrations by James McBrides, frontispiece tissue intact. 12mo, rustic khaki cloth, title stamped in black and ruled in red, deckled fore and tail edges. Typical foxing and two small stains to front cover, two owner's inscriptions to FFEP, front hinge just starting at head, otherwise a very sound and handsome copy. This first collection of James's stories was a surprise hit from the Cambridge paleographer and medievalist. Bleiler notes, "Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary is generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction. Most of his stories are concerned with the 'evil that dieth not but lieth in wait,' with a fine use of the exotica of antiquarianism. In the opinion of many the foremost modern writer of supernatural fiction" (p. 279." Bleiler 911.

Chatto & Windus, 1929. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. cxvii, 261 pp. Maroon cloth with matching head edge, gilt spine lettering, b/w illustrations, deckled tail edge, frontispiece. Foxed, some splotches to rear cover, bump to head tip, short tear to head of spine, otherwise a solid copy. DJ folded and inlaid to RFEP.

Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. 12mo, green cloth. Color frontispiece, color foldout map, and 13 monochrome plates. Owner's name to FFEP, very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ tips rubbed, some crinkling of the laminant.