John Batchelor; John Watney; Maeve Gilmore; Sebastian Peake

A Collection of Works on Mervyn Peake

London, Duckworth; Michael Joseph; Allen Lane; Lennard Publishing, 1974-1989. First edition. Cloth. Four smart first editions of these biographical works on English writer and artist Mervyn Peake. Four volumes. First editions. A collection of biographical works on Mervyn Laurence Peake, an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator best known for the Gormenghast books. This set includes: Mervyn Peake: A Biographical and Critical Exploration, 1974. A detailed reflection on the life and writings of Peake, with reference to his education, the influence of Romanticism and surrealism, and his poetry. Written by John Batchelor, a British author known for his biographies and Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle. Mervyn Peak, 1976. Illustrated with a frontispiece and many in-text photographs and sketches. A full and detailed biography written by a longtime friend of Peake, with his widow's full co-operation during writing. Written by John Watney, a British author and historian. Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake, 1978. Illustrated with sixteen plates and many line-drawings. Collated complete. A collection of short and unfinished writings, much of which is published here for the first time. Offering a glimpse into new aspects of his many-sided genius. Edited by Maeve Gilmore, a British painter, sculptor and writer, and the wife of Mervyn Peake. Growing Up with Mervyn Peake: A Child of Bliss, 1989. Illustrated with twenty-four photographs. Collated complete. Born into a talented family in British literature, Peake offers an unprivileged insight into the life and artistry of his father, Mervyn Peake. Written by Sebastian Peake, a British author and the eldest son of Mervyn Peake. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and the odd small mark to the boards. All dust wrappers are unclipped other than Peake's Progress which has been price-clipped. Dust wrappers are also very smart with minor wear. Light sunning to the spines with the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Mervyn Peake. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 903T12

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Mervyn Peake Batchelor Watney Gilmore Batchelor Mervyn Peake

Beymer, William Gilmore

Scouts and Spies of the Civil War

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Reprint. Softcover. ISBN: 080326206X. Illustrated by Howard Pyle and Others Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear; Introduction by William Feis ; Remainder; 221 pages.

Gibson's BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 81964

Catalogue: Military::US Civil War

Keywords: 080326206X Illustrated Civil War Beymer, William Gilmore Spies Pyle, Howard Feis, William

BEYMER, William Gilmore

Scouts and Spies of the CIVIL War

Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Paperback. Introduction by William B. Feis. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xxiii, 221pp. Illustrations. Very good. Faint bit of wear. A tight, nice first softbound edition. .

Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 40945

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Civil War

CARRINGTON, SEAN; FRASER, HENRY; GILMORE, JOHN; FORDE, G ADDINTON

A to Z of Barbados Heritage

Barbados, Miller Publishing. 2020, 3rd Edition. (ISBN: 9789769620919). Soft cover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, Aberdare, Accra Beach, ackees, Grantley Adams, aloe, ad infinitum.. The non-tourist guide to Barbados, its people, places, plants and animals, and material and non-material culture, based on expert research. This is the third edition, revised and enlarged in 2020, reprinted with minor revision in 2022. Weighs over 1kg - extra postage. New.

Black Rock BooksProfessional seller

Book number: C04577

Catalogue: Caribbean Literature

Keywords: 9789769620919 Aberdare, Accra Beach, ackees, Grantley Adams, aloe

CECILY JONES [EDS.]/DABYDEEN, DAVID/JOHN GILMORE

The Oxford Companion to Black British History.

Oxford-New York, Oxford Univerrsity Press 2007. Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, silver title spine, pictorial dustjacket, thick large 8vo: xxviij, 562pp. abbreviations, acknowledgements, edotors & contributors, thematic contents list, note to reader, chronology, general bibliography, index. - as new. 9780192804396

Antiquariaat SchotProfessional seller

Book number: 130363

Keywords: 9780192804396

Clarke, Frank and Wheeler, Walter / Gilmore, Charles / Bastin, Edson / Gilbert, Grove / Alden, William.

The inorganic constituents of marine invertebrates + Brachiceratops , a ceratopsian dinosauer of Montana + the genesis of the ores at Tonopah, Nevada + Hydrolic-mining debris in the Sierra Nevada + the quarternary geology ofSoutheastern Wisconsin

Washington., Government Printing Office., 1917. 6 Papers in one binding. 29 x 23 cms, 56 + v, 45 + 50 +154 + 356 pages, numerous ills, plates, large folding maps. Hcloth. Nice condition. Exlibris: Univ. Lund. lara U. S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper; 102 + 103 + 104 + 105 +106., published 1917-18. Over 3 kilos.

De Rijzende ZonProfessional seller

Book number: 27973

Keywords: geology. America North

Cook Gilmore,Christipher.

L'idolo di Atlantic City.

Traduz.di Franco Salvatorelli. Milano, 1985, Sperling & Kupfer Ed. Coll.Pandora,249. cm.12,8x19,7, pp.258, brossura cop.ill.a col.con ban

Libreria ChiariProfessional seller

Book number: 200089

Catalogue: Letteratura Straniera Opere

Danto, Arthur C. & Jonathan Gilmore (foreword)

The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art

Paperback; 2004; Columbia University Press; 216pp.; Conditie: Goed; Paperback, 8vo.; Engels; ISBN10: 0231132271, ISBN13: 9780231132275

Klondyke BVProfessional seller

Book number: 339586-XF17

Catalogue: Kunst/Algemeen

Keywords: Algemeen Kunst

Dimock, Wai Chee & Gilmore, Michael T.; editors:

Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations

New York, Columbia University Press, (1994). orig. boards. 23x15cm, x,285 pp, Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ Contains 8 papers. Includes: M. Poovey: "The Social Constitution of 'Class': Toward a History of Classificatory Thinking"; W.C. Dimock: "Class, Gender, and a History of Metonymy"; J. Guillory: "Literary Critics as Intellectuals: Class Analysis and the Crisis of the Humanities"; R.H. Brodhead: "Regionalism and the Upper Class"; E. Lott: "White Kids and No Kids at All: Languages of Race in Antebellum U.S. Working-Class Culture"; M.T. Gilmore: "Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class"; A. Janowitz: "Class and Literature: The Case of Romantic Chartism"; A.S. Lang: "The Syntax of Class in Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's 'The Silent Partner' ".

Expatriate Bookshop of DenmarkProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS012160I

Keywords: Literary Sociology, Social Class, Literature, Criticism, Marxist Marxism, Critical Theory, , ,

FORD, JOHN GILMORE; EMILY BYRNE CURTIS (ESSAY)

Chinese Snuff Bottles - the Edward Choate O'Dell Collection

Baltimore, The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0960966803). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 82 pages; 200 bottles illustrated in color each with a full description. The bottles are organized according to material: nephrite,jadeite, crystal, quartz, lapis lazuli, soapstone, chalcedony, jasper, tourmaline, amethyst, aquamarine, malachite, sapphire, coral, ivory, mammoth tooth, amber, silver, enamels on metal, enamels on glass, many others. Bibliography. Glossary includes Chinese characters. Clean and bright throughout; tight binding. Fine.

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Book number: 004373

Catalogue: Sculpture & Ceramics

Keywords: Chinese Snuff Bottles Smoking Chewing Snuffing Tobacco 0960966803

Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco, CA); Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver, BC); Graham Gilmore, Gayle Ryon, Drew Shaffer, David Berg, Travis Somerville, Robert Strati; Ann Rosenberg, Maria Porges (essays)

Below the Border, Above the Border: An Exchange of Artists between Two Cities. March 6 - March 29, 1997

San Francisco, CA: Catharine Clark Gallery, 1997. 8vo. [24 pp.] Stapled Wraps, Near Fine. Plates. .

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Book number: 15-8054

Catalogue: Ephemera

'HENRY FRASER, SEAN CARRINGTON, ADDINTON FORDE, JOHN GILMORE'

A-Z of Barbadian heritage

Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean), 1990. Soft cover. 9766050996. pp.212 with index. clean tight copy BUT for fomer owner names on inside front cover minuscule edge and corner wear Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Very Good.

Judith Patton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 026111

Catalogue: CARIBBEAN, CULTURE

Keywords: 9766050996

[Garfield, James. 1831 - 1881]. Gilmore, E.

PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S FUNERAL MARCH. To the American Nation!

(New York): R. A. Saalfield, 1881. Beige printed paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 6 pp. [3 pp. of music]. Large illustration of Garfield's profile to front wrapper. 12-7/8" x 10" No institutional holdings found on OCLC. Evidence of prior bindings to spine. Paper lightly soiled and damp stained, seller stamp to bottom of front wrapper. An About VG copy.

Tavistock Books, ABAAProfessional seller

Book number: 39485

Catalogue: Americana

Donald Y. Gilmore and Linda S. McElroy

Across Before Columbus? Evidence for Transoceanic Contact with the Americas Prior to 1492

Cogecomb, Me, New England Antiquities Research, May 1998. First American.Edition. Paperback. Collectible Fine Large Folio Trade Paperback Large 313 pp Clean B/W Photos, drawings, maps Serious attempt to study and discuss in over 30 essays on Hebrew Seafaring to America. Chinese, Africans in Pre-Columbian America. Were chickens native or brought here, The Bat Creek Stone, Breton Megaliths compared to here. Both critical and compelling. See our Three Geese In Flight Book Scans of Cover and Table of Contents, and a Illustrated page of Bat Creek Stone. Fine .

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Book number: 900053010011273

Catalogue: Irish

Keywords: norse seafaring ingstad flateyjarbok headed pin irish newfoundland norse voyages leif ericsson vinland greenland l'anse aux meadows vikings danes jewish seafaring hebrew seafaring irish seafaring chinese seafaring Celtic Studies Goddess Pre-Columbus Voy

GILMORE, D. H. - WRITTEN & ILLUS. BY

The Adventures of Catkin and Codlin Christopher Cricket and Benjamin Bumble

Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1981, Reprint. (ISBN: 0207133255). Hardcover. Book, 158pp, colour plates + b&w ills. in text. Child name in 'this book belongs to' else vg+ pict. boards. Size: Small 4to. Very Good.

Global Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 31043

Catalogue: Australian Children's Books

Keywords: 0207133255 Child and Youth Fiction Children