Search Results: Authors starting with S from Books Boheme

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Neo-noir mystery about a Hollywood stuntman whom doubles as a driver for criminals. Basis of the 2011 film directed by Refn starring Ryan Gosling. Signed by author on title page. Bound in publishers black paper-covered boards. Title, author, and publisher lettered in gold down spine. Octavo (8 13/16 x 5 3/4 inches; 223 x 146 millimeters). 158 pages. Condition: Near Fine, in Near Fine dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear.

Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. :: Photographs and stories by Czechoslovakian artist Jan Saudek. :: Lovely book full of large, quality photographic reproductions. :: Bound in publisher's gray cloth, title and publisher lettered in silver down spine. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 226 millimeters). 143 pages. Condition: Very Good+, in a Very Good dust jacket. Book has minimal rubbing along bottom of boards. Dust jacket has scratches and a small hole at the left side of the rear panel, and wear at the top of the spine.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. :: A Hollywood ROMANCE :: --That Hit the Front Page-- :: Along one road was the man she loved, along the other the success she wanted. A scandal that shook the town! :: Bound in publisher's cornflower-blue cloth, front cover bears title and author in black. Title, author and publisher lettered in black upon spine. Top of text-block red. Duodecimo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 193 x 133 millimeters). 256 pages. Condition: Very Good. Spine is cocked and lightly faded. Minimal rubbing at crown and foot and along bottom of boards, light soiling. Beginning of separation at the front endpaper gutter- split runs about 1 1/4 inch down from the top, and it looks as though a name once was on the front free endpaper that has been vigorously erased. Dust jacket is Very Good+. There is chipping at the top and bottom of spine, and wrinkling upon the front panel along the hinge that wraps to the inner panel. At the bottom of the spine there was some… Read More

The Arizona Historical Society, 1992. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches; 235 x 175 millimeters). 77 pages. Condition: Very Good.Wear along edges, minor shelf-wear. Interior clean & tight.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Softcover. Good. :: Extensive history and evaluation of rational egoism, focusing on Hobbes (1588-1679) and Sidgwick (1838-1900). :: Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 152 millimeters). 162 pages. Condition: Good+. Shelf-wear. Annotations and underlining present.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. :: Book about the beginning of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. :: Sixteen black and white photographs. :: Bound in publisher's pale taupe-green cloth, title, author and publisher lettered in gold upon spine. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 205 x 142 millimeters). 243 pages. Condition: Good. Book is weathered- faded, small stains, corners bumped, boards slightly sprung. Spine is toned, cloth has worn through a touch at the crown and foot. Missing front free endpaper and blanks. Both front and rear hinges are split at the gutter. Pages age-toned.

Staple-bound Booklet. Very Good. :: Address delivered by E. H. H. Simmons, President, New York Stock Exchange :: At the Thirty-First Annual Sinner of The Transportation Club, The Pennsylvania Railroad, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1930. :: Several pages of charts. :: Octavo (9 x 6 inches, 228 x 512 millimeters). 29 pages. Condition: Very Good. Wear along edges, corners lightly bumped.

2016. Hardcover. Very Good. :: A comprehensive and visual gemology resource featuring prominent and noteworthy gemstones. :: Bound in publisher's half burgundy cloth and pictorial paper boards with detailed image of a gem. Front board bears title and author in silver. Title, author, and publisher lettered in silver down spine. Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches; 273 x 221 millimeters). 302 pages. Condition: Very Good+. Book is still sealed in wrap, has indentation bump at the bottom of the rear board. Otherwise, as-new.

Hardcover. Very Good. :: On the violent history of small town Eloy, Arizona, known from coast to coast as the toughest town in the United States and as the West's last frontier. :: Personalized inscription from Deputy A. V. Queen beneath his portrait. :: Bound in tan cloth, front board is printed with numerous overlapping violent headlines from the local Eloy Enterprise paper, and the Phoenix Gazette. Front board bears title in red. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 158 millimeters). 64 pages. Condition: Very Good. Discoloration/fading and foxing to the rear board. Endpapers age-toned and foxed, pages lightly age-toned.

Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2021. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. History of British Intelligence, the formation of state surveillance and the emergence of institutionalized political policing in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Bound in publishers black paper-covered boards, title, author and publisher lettered in matte-gold down spine. Octavo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 159 millimeters). 343 pages. Condition: Very Good, in Very Good+ dust jacket. Book has bumping/wear to crown and foot of spine, and a tiny scratch upon the front board. Dust jacket appears as-new.

Lakemont, Georgia: Tarnhelm Press, 1976. First Printing. Softcover. Very Good. An approach to the Zen way for students of both western and eastern disciplines. Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 203 x 133 millimeters). 204 pages. Condition: Very Good. Crease to spine. Small label taped to lower spine. Prior owner's name and date written on verso of cover, multiple personal library stamps on title page and Wizard stamp on preceding page.

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1910. Hardcover. Good. :: Originally published in 1864, also known as "Rose Elmer", this is an early 1900's edition of this 19th century novel about Rosamond Everard, whom marries to deliver her family from ruinous circumstance- but discovers a tremendous unraveling secret on her wedding night! :: Bound in publisher's (once) sky-blue cloth, front board is illustrated with late Victorian-style art featuring a pretty young auburn haired lady. Title, author, and publisher lettered in black upon spine. Duodecimo (7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 196 x 130 millimeters). 317 pages. :: Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (E. D. E. N.) Southworth (1819 - 1899) was a prolific and popular American novelist of the mid to late nineteenth century. Her husband abandoned her and her children to run wild in search of gold, and Southworth began writing to support her family- and became marvelously successful, one of the nation's top earning novelists. She was friends with Harriet Beecher… Read More

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1910. Hardcover. Good. :: Originally published in 1869, also known as "Winning Her Way", this is an early 1900's edition of this 19th century novel about Mary Howard and Edith Lyle, friends whom each discover their fiancee to be unworthy of the engagement and, together, face difficult choices. :: Bound in publisher's teal cloth, front board is illustrated with Edwardian-style art featuring a pretty young brunette lady's face emerging from a bright red poppy. Title, author, and publisher lettered in black upon spine. Duodecimo (7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 196 x 130 millimeters). 303 pages. :: Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (E. D. E. N.) Southworth (1819 - 1899) was a prolific and popular American novelist of the mid to late nineteenth century. Her husband abandoned her and her children to run wild in search of gold, and Southworth began writing to support her family- and became marvelously successful, one of the nation's top earning novelists. She was friends with… Read More

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. :: Originally published in 1873, also known as "Through the Fire", this is an early 1900's edition of this 19th century novel about Victor Hartman, whom is accused of Henry Lytton's murder. :: Bound in publisher's pea-green cloth, front board is illustrated with Edwardian-style art featuring a pretty young blonde lady's face emerging from an abundance of spring lily-of-the-valley. Title, author, and publisher lettered in black upon spine. Duodecimo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 198 x 133 millimeters). 256 pages. :: Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (E. D. E. N.) Southworth (1819 - 1899) was a prolific and popular American novelist of the mid to late nineteenth century. Her husband abandoned her and her children to run wild in search of gold, and Southworth began writing to support her family- and became marvelously successful, one of the nation's top earning novelists. She was friends with Harriet Beecher Stowe! :: Condition: Very Good.… Read More

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in publishers blue linen/crosshatch print paper-covered boards with lovely black and red illustration of an Edwardian woman playing tennis. Front board bears title in black. Title, author, and publisher lettered in black upon spine around additional illustration of a tennis racket and two balls. Book contains turn of the century advertisements. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 188 x 131 millimeters). 222 pages. Condition: Very Good, in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly worn at the crown and foot of the spine. Some gentle shelf-wear. Pages are brown and a bit brittle, some chips or small tears from the edges of them here & there. Foxing present. Front endpaper/paste-down cracked at gutter. Dust jacket is age-toned, has chipping along the edges and splitting at the hinges. Amateur tape repairs on the underside. Altogether a nice, pretty, charming copy.

New York, N. Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. :: Surveys historical writings in which women have engaged, including biographical and autobiographical, historical fictions, letter-writing, travelogue, and more conventional. :: Interpretive essays from almost 60 contributors. :: Reference, hefty pictorial hardcover. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 3/16 inches; 235 x 157 millimeters). 712 pages. Condition: Very Good-. Scuffs at top of spine, bumped bottom left corner of spine. Light soiling to text block. Interior clean, square, tight.

Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. :: A vivid historical account of the contributions black psychiatrists have made to American psychiatry. :: Bound in black paper-covered boards, black faux-leather spine. Title, author and publisher lettered in gold down spine. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 157 millimeters). 228 pages. Condition: Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Book appears as new, dust jacket has minimal shelf-wear. A nice copy.

Sussex, England: Phillimore & Co. LTD, 1980. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Charles, Philip and Richard Stevens. :: Architectural history of houses of Jersey Island (the largest of the Channel Islands between England and France), and the persons whom built and resided in them. Original photographs, and fold-out drawings and plans. :: Bound in publishers lapis-blue paper-covered boards. Title, author and publisher lettered in gold upon spine. Quarto (11 x 8 3/8 inches; 278 x 212 millimeters). 262 pages. Condition: Very Good, in Very Good dust jacket. Light shelf-wear, slight bumping to crown of spine. Dust jacket has crease upper right corner and is worn at top of spine. Occasional mar to surface.

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1929. Hardcover. Good/Good. :: Kay Mercer -- mannikin at an exclusive shop -- discovers the supposedly smooth path to riches is often beset with many difficulties. :: Bound in publisher's clementine-colored cloth, front board bears author and title decoratively in red. Title, author, and publisher lettered in red upon spine. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 194 x 133 millimeters). 272 pages. Condition: Good, in Good- dust jacket. Book has moisture staining at the top center of the front board, and at the crown of the spine. Rubbing of the cloth has exposed the boards at the top. Discoloration and chipping/staining to text block. Endpapers and pages age-toned, occasional stains. Dust jacket is frail, spine splitting and edges chipped. The colors are vivid, but a multitude of amateur tape repair patches are visible on the underside. Please view our photographs, as they best illustrate.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: East View Publications, 1999. Softcover. Very Good. :: English translation of "Strategiia. Moscow: Voennyi vestnik, 1927" :: Foreword by Andrei A. Kokoshin, Russian First Deputy Defense Minister; additional essays by Valentin V. Larionov, Vladimir N. Lobov, and Jacob W. Kipp. :: Softcover Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 153 millimeters). 374 pages. Condition: Very Good+. Minimal shelf-wear. Clean, square, tight.