John Anthony Giovanni (8 results)

First Edition. Inscription from previous owner. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 262 p. Subjects; Italy History 1789-1815 ; Sources. Great Britain Foreign relations Naples (Kingdom). Naples (Kingdom) Foreign relations Great Britain. Ambassadors Italy Naples ; Correspondence. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Inscription from previous owner. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 262 p. Subjects; Italy History 1789-1815 ; Sources. Great Britain Foreign relations Naples (Kingdom). Naples (Kingdom) Foreign relations Great Britain. Ambassadors Italy Naples ; Correspondence. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Roy and Nina Merley. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 262p. ; 25cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-257) and index. Subjects: Hamilton, William Sir (1730-1803) ; Correspondence. Ambassadors, Naples (Italy) ; Correspondence. Italy ; History (1789-1815). 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Roy and Nina Merley. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 262p. ; 25cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-257) and index. Subjects: Hamilton, William Sir (1730-1803) ; Correspondence. Ambassadors, Naples (Italy) ; Correspondence. Italy ; History (1789-1815). 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Limited Edition. AS NEW /AS NEW. LIMITED TO 300 COPIES. "PLUS EXTRA COPIES FOR CONTRIBUTORS". THIS IS A 'CONTRIBUTORS COPY", IT IS SEPARATE FROM LIMITEDS. IT IS COPY "V". RECEIVED BY A PROOF READER. SIGNED BY SILVERBERT, GIOVANNI, BURNS, EDWARDS. 1ST THUS. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Oversized 7" x 10" trim. 296 Pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Full cloth, smyth-sewn binding. Two-hits foil stamping. Bookcloth grade linen covering the edition is made using plastic collected from the ocean. New exclusive introduction by Wendy Benchley. Six full color illustrations by John Anthony Di Giovanni. Signed by John Anthony Di Giovanni. Bonus content from Peter Benchley's archives includes: the original typed title page, a brainstorming list of possible titles, a letter from Benchley to producer David Brown with honest feedback on the movie adaptation, and excerpts from Benchley's book Shark Trouble highlighting his firsthand account of writing Jaws, selling it to Universal Studios, and working with Steven Spielberg. Dust jacket featuring the iconic painting by Roger Kastel used on the original paperback cover and film poster (the only edition featuring the dust jacket). Housed in an embossed paper covered slipcase with acrylic coating. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. John Anthony Di Giovanni (illustrator). Signed Copy. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sixteen works from the Companion Book Club, all in their charming unclipped dust wrappers, including two novels by Mary Stewart. Sixteen charming works published by the Companion Book Club, published between 1963-1965. In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. A monthly subscription in which readers would receive bestselling works from the previous year, the Companion Book Club are known for their charming dust wrappers as seen with this smart collection. Despite many of the writers published being rather obscure today, many of them, such as Mary Stewart, were popular during the 60's. - A Flight of Chariots, written by Jon Cleary (1963).- Comrade Don Camillo and Don Camillo and the Devil, written and illustrated by Giovanni Guareschi (1964).- A Kind of Anger, written by Eric Ambler (1964).- This Time Next Week, written by Leslie Thomas, illustrated by Graham Byfield (1964).- I Come from the Stone Age, written by Heinrich Harrer (1964).- The Jealous God, written by John Braine (1964).- Winds of the Day, written by Howard Spring (1964).- The Rough Magic, written by Mary Stewart (1964)- Airs Above the Ground, written by Mary Stewart (1965).- The Whip Hand, written by Victor Canning (1965).- Travels of a Captialist Lackey, a travelogue to the USSR, written by Fred Basnett. Contains all four plates. Collated complete. (1965).- The Man in the Mirror, written by Frederick Ayer (1965)- The Strode Venturer, written by Hammond Innes (1965).- The Penetrators, written by Anthony Gray (1965).- High Citadel, written by Desmond Bagley (1965).- Caravans, written by James A. Michenar (1965). In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, mostly smart, with the odd faint browning and fading mark, minimal to Harrer, Magic, Penetrators, Caravans, Ayer, Airs, and Winds, heavier spotting to Venturer and Whip. Bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities, heavier to Cleary spine, with creasing to center and a cracked tail of front joint. Minor cocking to front board of Caravans. Dust wrappers are mostly bright and clean, with minor fading and faint signs of browning to rear wraps and fly leaves, and to front wrappers of Spring and Gray. Chips to heads of Cleary and Magic rear wrapper joints, Airs head of spine, with a couple of closed tears to tail of Caravans rear wrapper joint, and of Magic wrapper joints, and a heavy crease to bottom of front wrapper. Creases to wrapper spines, and spots to wrapper spines of Venturer, Thomas and Guareschi. Browned graze to Magic front fly leaf. Small closed tear to top edge of Harrer front wrapper and small puncture to head of Harrer rear wrapper joint. Green mark to rear wrapper of Bagley. The odd faint spot and mark to end papers. Internally, firmly bound, with slight wear to hinge between half-title and title leaf of Magic. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with minor age toning. Slight spotting to first and final leaves of Jealous and Gaureschi. Good. Giovanni Guareschi; Graham Byfield (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Fine. First Edition. [Irvine, CA]: Suntup Editions, 2022. First Suntup Numbered Edition, Limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 50. Large octavo; original dark blue goat and teal Japanese silk binding, leather spine title stamped in silver foil, housed in original pictorial box; 295pp.; full color frontispiece and full-page illus. throughout. Just About Fine condition, with promotional materials in original silver envelope laid in. Signed by Wendy Benchley and John Anthony Di Giovanni on colophon in rear. Benchley's classic novel of a great white shark stalking the shoreline of a fictional Long Island town. Basis for Stephen Spielberg's 1975 film of the same name, which went on to become the first summer blockbuster, as well as the progenitor of the hit-and-(largely)-miss sharksploitation genre. Signed. …