Search results for: 'the works'
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GRAY, Millicent Etheldreda (illus.); QUILLER-COUCH, Mabel & Lilian. A Book of Children's Verse.London : [1911]
First and limited edition, number 37 of 100 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Millicent Etheldreda Gray (1873-1957) is little known but her charming work here is full of atmosphere; she also illustrated an edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 110552
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GRAY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1814
First edition edited by Thomas James Mathias (1753-1835). "Mathias derived considerable knowledge of Thomas Gray from the Revd Norton Nicholls, on whose death in 1807 Mathias composed a letter of eulogy. Mathias was a beneficiary of Nicholls's will. In 1814 he published an edition of The Works of Thomas Gray in two quarto volumes, with substantial prose... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 135310
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GALSWORTHY, John. The Works.1922-36
The Manaton Edition, the first collected edition of Galsworthy's works. One of a limited edition of 780 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I. Very handsomely bound. Learn More£5,950.00Stock Code: 68429
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works.London : 1823
An appealingly bound set of Goldsmith's writings. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 107427
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GIBBONS, Stella. Roaring Tower and Other Stories.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Bettina and Eric with the author's love. Stella Gibbons. Feb. 22 1937". This work is a collection of short stories "written with a refreshing, easy grace" typical of Gibbons (The London Mercury Vol XXXV, p. 532). The recipients, Eric Schilsky,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122634
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, one of 500 copies. This the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness Rackham... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 69790
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Beauties of English Poesy.London : 1767
First edition, complete with the half-titles and contents leaves in both volumes. This is a particularly nice copy, in a handsome unrestored contemporary binding, of this scarce anthology of English poetry selected by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), published the year after The Vicar of Wakefield.
The selection includes such near-contemporary... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 143778
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GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.London : 1776-88
First editions (volume 1 in the first state) of Gibbon's magisterial history, with the cancel leaves and uncorrected errata as called for by Norton. The first variant state of volume 1 numbered 500 copies, printed before Strahan's optimistic and ultimately prophetic decision to double the printing order to 1,000; the first edition sold out within a... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 136933
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GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire.London : 1903
A very attractive set of Gibbon's great history. First published between 1776 and 1788, "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless works which... maintain their hold upon the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar... The Decline and Fall is the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 140457
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GIBBON, Edward. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.Liverpool : 1861
A handsome set of Gibbon's great history. First published between 1776 and 1788, "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless works which... maintain their hold upon the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar... The Decline and Fall is the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which continues... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 144886
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GALILEI, Galileo; SALUSBURY, Thomas, trans. Mathematical Collections and Translations:London : 1661
First edition in English of Galileo's Dialogo, the major work to be included in volume I, and the first vernacular translation in any language. The Systeme of the World, followed by the short but important Epistle to the Grand Dutchesse Mother concerning the Authority of Holy Scripture in Philosophical Controversies (known today as the Letter to Christina),... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 128763
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GILL, Eric & Mary, & Austen Barbe Harrison. Dedication copy of From the Jerusalem Diary [and] two copies of From the Palestine Diary; [together with] a collection of correspondence to the dedicatee.A remarkable collection, including the dedication copy of the From the Jerusalem Diary, inscribed by the editor, Mary Gill, Eric Gill's widow, "To Austen St B. Harrison, with happy memories, from M.E.G.", with the Eric Gill-designed bookplate of Austen St Barbe Harrison to the front pastedown. Harrison, a close personal friend of Gill (1882-1940), was... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 118739
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GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius. From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Emperor of the Romans, born B.C. 10, murdered and deified A.D. 54; [and:] Claudius the God and his wife Messalina.London : 1934
First edition, first impressions, of Graves's first two historical novels, and very scarce in such nice condition. I, Claudius was the winner of the Hawthornden and James Tait Black memorial prizes, and made into a critically acclaimed BBC television miniseries starring Derek Jacobi in 1976. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 133389
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GREENE, Graham. Yes and No and For Whom The Bell Chimes.London : 1983
First edition, signed limited issue, number 643 of 750 copies signed by the author. This work collects two of Greene's plays, Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes, both of which were first performed at the Haymarket Studio Theatre on 20 March 1980. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 131255
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GOLDIN, Nan. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.New York : 1986
First edition, first printing. Nan Goldin's first book, and a landmark work in the field of raw sociological reportage. Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 101272
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GEORGE, Henry. The Science of Political Economy.New York : 1898
First edition, first printing. George was perhaps the most prominent American economist of his time. This work was never fully finished and was published posthumously. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 142698
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GRAY, John Henry. Walks in the City of Canton.Victoria, Hong Kong, : 1875
First edition, extremely uncommon, Library Hub locates just 5 copies - BL, V & A, Cambridge, Durham and Leeds, SOAS has only the 1974 reprint. Gray presents a guide-book offering seven detailed itineraries for walks taking in sights around the city, with references linking back to the substantial text providing the historical, social and "ethnographical"... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 90820
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GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. A Theory of Price Control.Cambridge : 1952
First edition, first printing, of the author's first major work. Drawing on his experience as head of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), Galbraith argues that price control is an overlooked but necessary part of all anti-inflation policies, and that "the theory of control is fated to become one of the expanding universes of economics" (Foreword,... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 142104
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GLASPELL, Susan. The Morning is Near Us.London : 1940
First UK edition, first impression. The Morning is Near Us is a haunted house novel in which "the intricate plot tells a horror played out against a backdrop of desire for love, understanding, and forgiveness" (Rajkowska, p. 264). This is the publisher's retained copy with their stamp to the title page. The work was first published in the US the preceding... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 93614
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GOODMAN, Paul. The Break-Up of Our Camp and Other Stories.Norfolk, CT : 1949
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Leo Raditsa, Paul Goodman". Raditsa (1936-2001) was a distinguished Harvard academic, an expert in ancient history and also an editor and founder the Cambridge Review, which published early work by Goodman. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 88666
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1903
Deluxe edition, number 56 of 250 copies signed by the publisher, this copy in a striking and unusual arts and crafts binding, perhaps the work of the Guild of Women Binders, though unmarked, exhibiting their adventurous style. Goldsmith's masterpiece was first published in 1766. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139010
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GILBRETH, Frank B. Motion Study. A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman.New York : 1911
First edition, first printing, UK issue (with Constable's imprint to foot of spine and American sheets). Gilbreth was a pioneer in motion control studies, and though he worked closely with Frederick Winslow Taylor for a number of years, the two fundamentally disagreed about the purpose of motion control. Taylor hoped to increase speed and profits for... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 124452
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GRAY, Milner. Four papers on packaging and industrial design from the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts.London, : 1939-59
Attractively bound volume comprising four articles by Gray extracted from the journal of the RSA over a twenty year period. Inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper, "To Gnade with all my love, Milner 1959". The papers are; "The History and Development of Packaging"(26 pages with illustrations, 5 May, 1939); "The Industrial Designer... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 81478
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GREENE, Graham. The Basement Room and other stories.London : 1935
First edition, first impression, a superb association: Greene's personal copy, with his ownership inscription and manuscript annotations towards his screenplay for The Fallen Idol (1948), the Carol Reed-directed adaptation of the lead story in this, Greene's first short story collection. Particularly significant here is his introduction of a device... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 139241
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GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. A Theory of Price Control.Cambridge : 1952
First edition, first printing, of the author's first major work. Drawing on his experience as head of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), Galbraith argues that price control is an overlooked but necessary part of all anti-inflation policies, and that "the theory of control is fated to become one of the expanding universes of economics" (Foreword,... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 131188
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GERSHWIN, Ira - SELDES, Gilbert. The Seven Lively Arts.New York & London : 1924
First edition, signed limited issue, number 25 of 300 copies signed by the author and bound in Javanese batik; Ira Gershwin's copy, with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. A superb Jazz Age association: Ira's younger brother and frequent collaborator, the composer George Gershwin, is mentioned many times throughout the book and his... Learn More£775.00Stock Code: 128542
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GATLING, Richard J. Report of the Board of Officers … on Gatling Guns of Large Caliber for Flank-Defence - with two autograph letters signed to Edgar T. Welles.Washington : 1874
First edition. Engraved bookplate; "Compliments of the Acting Chief of Ordnance, U.S. Army" to the front pastedown. Two 2-page autograph letters signed on Gatling Gun Company stationery from Richard J. Gatling to Edgar T. Welles, son of Gideon Welles Civil War Secretary of the Navy, and secretary and treasurer of the Gatling Gun Co. In the first, dated... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 82902
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GREAVES, Walter. Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler in front of the Thames.London : [c.1875]
Whistler moved to 7 Lindsey Row, Chelsea, in March 1863. Among his neighbours were the Greaveses, a family of Thames watermen. Walter and Henry Greaves (1844-1904) became his guides on the river, pupils, and devoted assistants in the studio. Walter and Henry themselves had been painting from their earliest years, probably starting by doing heraldic... Learn More£40,000.00Stock Code: 75289
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GRIVAZ, Eugene. The World Awheel.New York : 1896
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon, just 8 copies listed on WorldCat, all in North America, no copies traced at auction. Wonderful Gibson Girl-style illustrations on a cycling theme. The twelve images, originally published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company in their Cycling World Calendar, represent bicyclistes of different nationalities; "they... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133637
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GIDDINGS, J. L. The Archaeology of Cape Denbigh.Providence, RI : 1964
First edition, first impression. James Louis Denbigh (1909-1965) was a professor anthropology at Brown University and pioneer in the application of dendrochronology (the study of tree rings) to Arctic archaeology. "Working with samples from living trees and driftwood from old Eskimo village sites on the Kobuk, he established a tree-ring chronology for... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 86686
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GRAY, Thomas. Designs for Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray.London : 1765
Fourth edition overall, expanded from the three editions of 1753 with further Odes, of this large, elaborately illustrated publication of the best-known works of the poet Gray, including the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. A presentation copy of H. A. J. Munro's translation of the Elegy into Latin (c. 1873) is tipped-in at the rear endpapers.
"This... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 142136
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GODWIN, William. Mandeville.Edinburgh : 1817
First edition of "one of Godwin's most extraordinary works" (Locke, p. 278). Mandeville, Godwin's fourth novel, is a gothic work set in the time of the English Civil War. Godwin wrote this, often considered his darkest novel, surrounding the time of his daughter Mary's official marriage to Percy Bysshe Shelley on 30 December 1816. Three days after the... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139646
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GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins - GRAHAME, Kenneth. Dream Days.New York & London : 1899
First US edition. This copy is from the library of prominent American author and humanist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), with her ownership inscription, "Gilman", to the front free endpaper. A lovely association copy between two disparate yet key writers of the period; Grahame's The Reluctant Dragon, which is included in this collection, is often... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 130102
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GOYON DE LA PLOMBANIE, Henri. La France Agricole et Marchande.Avignon : 1762
First edition of this economic utopia. Published anonymously, as were many of Goyon de la Plombanie's works. Foreshadowing the effects of increased production on society, the results of industrialisation, urban migration and overcrowding, he proposed the use of cartography to document natural borders and indicate ownership and the improvement of road... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 93463
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GEORGE, Henry. Progress and Poverty:San Francisco : 1879
First edition, first issue, the limited "Author's edition", one of 200 copies privately printed, this copy in a variant binding of blue cloth and with the scarce advertisement leaf asking that no reviews be printed, which we have never handled before. Unable to sell his manuscript, George turned to his friend, the printer William Hinton, who published... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 128697
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GISSING, George. Autograph letter signed to his sister Ellen ("My dear Nelly").1898
A note to his sister: "I thought I remembered sending, or bringing, the Michelet to Wakefield. But I suppose I was mistaken. The vol. has somehow been lost, unfortunately. Affectionately yours, George Gissing". Gissing had last visited his family in Wakefield in September 1898.
Michelet, best known for his monumental Histoire de France (1833-67)... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 39057
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GOREY, Edward. Gorey World.San Francisco : 1996
First edition, first printing, number 65 of 150 copies signed by Edward Gorey.
The related material includes:
1. The Fantod Pack (1995) publication flyer, with monochrome illustration on recto and publisher's information on verso.
2. American Book Collector, two issues (May/June and November/December 1985), both including a Gorey... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141503
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GROUT, Lewis. Zulu-Land;Philadelphia : 1864
First US edition, first published in London the previous year. Grout (1815-1905) spent fifteen years as a Congregationalist missionary in South Africa and "obtained an intimate knowledge of the history, customs, and social life of the natives, and the laws and government of the country, together with considerable insight into the complex character of... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 113692
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GENERAL MOTORS. When the Wheels Revolve.Detroit, Michigan : 1944
An attractively designed General Motors brochure which explains for a general readership how automobiles work, with numerous diagrams and illustrations. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 88968
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GURNEY, Ivor. Severn & Somme.London : 1917
First edition, first impression, of the author's first book, scarce in commerce. This copy with the pencil ownership inscription of fellow poet Charles Dalmon to the verso of the half-title and pencil marks to contents. Severn & Somme is one of only two works published in Gurney's lifetime, the second one being War's Embers (1919).
The present... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 144916
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GRAZZINI, Anton Francesco. Comedie;Venice : 1582
First edition of this collection of comedies by the Florentine poet and playwright Anton Francesco Grazzini, called "Il Lasca", (1503-1584), who was an important practitioner of the commedia erudite, the 16th-century popular drama that spurned the classicizing taste of the age and the refined artistic ideals of Pietro Bembo. These are robust comedies... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 113446
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GRAND TOUR DIARY - NELSON, John Horatio. Grand Tour diary.1846-47
An entertaining Grand Tour diary, chatty and discursive. John Horatio Nelson (1825-1917) was great-nephew of the hero of Trafalgar, the second son of Thomas Bolton, who changed his surname on becoming the 2nd Earl Nelson. Born at Brickworth House, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, he was educated at Eton and Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He took holy... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 114065
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GRAVES, Robert, Norman Cameron, & Alan Hodge. Work In Hand.London : 1942
First edition, first impression, later issue with the publisher's overprice sticker to the dust jacket front flap. Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 108978
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FLEMING, Ian - GARDNER, John. [A complete set of James Bond novels by John Gardner.]London : 1981-96
First editions, first impressions, of John Gardner's James Bond novels. Gardner succeeded Kingsley Amis as the author of the James Bond continuation novels and went on to write 14 original Bond novels and novelisations of the films Licence to Kill (1989) and GoldenEye (1995). Scorpius (1988) was the first Bond book to not be published in the UK by Jonathan... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125565
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GREENE, Graham. Carving a Statue.London : 1964
First edition, first impression. Greene's play was first produced by Peter Wood in September 1965. Greene later wrote of the play that "Never before have I known a play like this one so tormenting to write or so fatiguing in production... At the age of sixty there is no reason to work, except to earn a living or to have 'fun'. This play was never fun... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 123402
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GRAVES, Robert. John Kemp's WagerOxford : 1925
First edition, signed limited issue, number 45 of 100 copies signed by the author, printed on Kelmscott paper, and specially bound; a further 750 trade copies were also issued. John Kemp's Wager was published as the 11th work in the British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 139440
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GELL-MANN, Murray. Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons.Lancaster, PA and New York : 1962
First edition, first printing of Gell-Mann's most cited paper, which introduced his "Eightfold Way", work that would lead to his Nobel Prize in 1969. In the decades following the Second World War physicists discovered an astonishing array of particles but struggled to explain their relationships and how they fit into the overall structure of the universe.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 83282
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GOULD, Stephen Jay. Ontogeny and Phylogeny.Cambridge, MA & London : 1977
First edition, first printing of the author's first book. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), a professor of zoology and paleontology at Harvard, was a leading light among biologists at the end of the previous century. His development of the theory of punctuated equilibria, the argument that evolution occurs in rapid bursts of speciation separated by long... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 101441
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GIBSON, William. Burning Chrome.New York : 1986
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title "To Ray best, W. M. Gibson". This collection of short stories includes the titular work, which coined the term "cyberspace" and was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1983. The stories mostly take place in Gibson's Sprawl, a shared setting for most of his cyberpunk work; many ideas... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 138848
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GOULD, Stephen Jay. Ontogeny and Phylogeny.Cambridge, MA & London : 1977
First edition, first printing of the author's first book. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), a professor of zoology and paleontology at Harvard, was a leading light among biologists at the end of the previous century. His development of the theory of punctuated equilibria, the argument that evolution occurs in rapid bursts of speciation separated by long... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 83290
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GALILEI, Vincenzo. Dialogo... della musica antica, et della moderna.Florence : 1581
First edition, first issue of Vincenzo Galilei's main work, very scarce on the market. Vincenzo Galilei, father of Galileo, made a series of experiments in the 1580s that subjected music to scientific analysis. Stillman Drake suggests that Vincenzo's experiments with sound "may have led to the origin of experimental physics", by inspiring his son to... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 109228
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GRAVES, Robert. John Kemp's Wager.Oxford : 1925
First edition, first impression, trade issue. John Kemp's Wager was published as the 11th work in the British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama.
From the library of Charles David Abbott (1900-1961), the University at Buffalo's first director of libraries, and a notable book collector and devotee of British poetry. "Abbott founded the... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 142386
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GOREY, Edward. Amphigorey Also.New York : 1983
First trade edition, first printing, signed by Gorey on the title page. This work gathers 17 of Edward Gorey's stories, including The Utter Zoo, The Epiplectic Bicycle, L'Heure bleue, The Glorious Nosebleed, and The Stupid Joke. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 141358
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GAIMAN, Neil. Coraline.London : 2002
Uncorrected proof copy for the first edition. Published in 2002, Coraline won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers.It was the basis for the 2009 animated film of the same name. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 139924
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GHAMBASHIDZE, D. Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia.1919
First edition. Ghambashidze was a Georgian mining engineer who had been secretary of the Anglo-Russian Chamber of Commerce in London, and who, using his influential British connections, was instrumental in obtaining the recognition of an Independent Georgia at the Paris Peace Conference. He was a delegate of the short-lived Georgian Government (1918-21)... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 45396
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GREENE, Graham. Brighton Rock.London : 1938
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US as Brighton Rock, An Entertainment, one month prior to the UK edition. Brighton Rock is Greene's "most successful attempt to create a work that is as fast-paced as a thriller and as complex as a more leisurely character study" (ODNB). Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 121477
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GABO, Naum. Gabo. Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings.Cambridge, MA : 1957
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, "For Francine & Clive Cleve Gray, in friendship, N. Gabo, Jan 6th 1962." The first comprehensive review of Gabo's work including the original Russian text and English translation of the "Realist Manifesto" of which the main principles of constructivism was explained.... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 88462
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GREENE, Graham. Brighton Rock.London : 1938
First UK edition, first impression, in a superior example of the rare and coveted dust jacket. The novel itself, the first of Greene's overtly Catholic novels, is "his most successful attempt to create a work that is as fast-paced as a thriller and as complex as a more leisurely character study" (ODNB).
The Heinemann edition of Brighton Rock... Learn More£87,500.00Stock Code: 130190
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GALILEI, Galileo. Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare.Padua : 1649
Third edition of Galileo's first published work, originally privately printed in 1606 in an edition of 60 copies only. The second edition, the first with the plate, was published by Frambotto in 1640. Galileo's compass, invented in Padua in 1597, was a calculating instrument making use of the proportionality between the corresponding sides of two similar... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 137602
