Recent arrivals and highlights
Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.
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If you do not find what you are looking for, please inquire: gerald@gwcbooks.com
The program for the Jerusalem Prize, June 1999. DeLillo's acceptance address--signed by the author.
Lessons on the automobile: An early (1905) technical instruction manual: Applied Science Course on Machines and the Military Arts
Passenger Guide for US Troops & Civilians returning from the Philippines after WWII Aboard the USAT General C.G. Morton, June 1947
A Banned Book and its scarce follow-up: incontestable evidence that woman can conceive sans homme
Two Influential Legal texts of the late 16th century (1595-1600), bound in one volume
A bibliophile's copy: 24 original watercolors and a deluxe binding by Ruban
Written entirely without the use of the letter "A": very rare first issue of the first edition of this celebrated if brief lipogram
Two works, bound together, both inscribed by their author, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.
A concordance of phrases in eight languages (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew).
The pieces range from poetry to comic drama and translated verse from Latin, in short, a representative sampling of mid-eighteenth-century French literature, brought together by a contemporary reader.
