Search Results: Authors starting with G from small volume

Boston, Mass: L. J. Gagnon, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 288 pp. Green cloth. Jan-Dec. 1921. Rubbing to cloth and spine label, heaviest at corners of boards. Shaken but holding. Toning and light pencil graffit to endpapers. 3cm x .5 cm strip excised from 256 pp., does not interfere with text. Franco-American Temperance periodical, text in French.

New York: Vantage Press, 2004. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 146 pp. Gray paper-covered boards w/ white and orange dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author "To Beth, With all best wishes. Enjoy. Joyce Fitzgerald Galloway." A celebration of cats of all personalities cavorting through its pages.

New York: Dutton, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 257 pp. Green paper-covered boards backed in cream cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Very light edgewear to dj. Scantly sunned along board edges. Friendly and personal inscription from the author to half title page: "For Jan- with love and many thanks for your friendship and quiet support all these years. Love, Phil" dated June 12, 1991. Collection of short stories focusing on the struggles of life as an openly gay person in 1980s & 1990s Boston.

Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Co, 1900. Cloth. Very Good. Large 8vo. 636 pp. Rust-colored publisher's cloth printed with black ruling and decorative titling. Rubbing to boards, with discoloration to spine cloth. Toning to interior, heaviest at endpapers, first and last few leaves. Small (appx. 1 in) ink mark to ffep. Illustrated throughout, with frontispiece and 3 color "manikin" plates: anatomical models made with layered paper cut-outs showing the muscular, circulatory, skeletal, and digestive systems.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. 12mo. Unpaginated. Tan cloth with pink and blue titling. First edition. Well-loved copy. Lacking jacket. Soiling and fraying to cloth, PO inscription to ffep in pencil "With Love to Leah, New Year 1951, Emily." Tale told in diary form of a young girl moving to Florida with her Father, a doctor to the Seminole Tribe that resides there. Colorfully illustrated throughout by Elvira Garner.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, 1956. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. [i-xvi] 301 pp. Black cloth in yellow and black dust jacket. DJ heavily rubbed, heaviest at spine and edges, with damp staining to verso. Cloth clean, binding tight and sound. Light foxing to text block edges, musty odor, otherwise fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Green, Elizabeth Shippen. 8vo. [4] 39 pp [1] + frontispiece and 2 color plates. Yellow-green publisher's cloth binding with green titling and ruling, paste-down cover illustration. Rear board sunned. Interior clean.

Chicago: Calvin B. Gilbert & Emery F. Gilbert [owners], 1943. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 16 pp. Red stapled paper wraps. Sunning and light soil to wraps, POs name in ink to front wrapper. Souvenir program of Holiday on Ice starring Dorothy Goos, Twinkle Watts, McGowan and Mack, The Ink Spots, et al. Photos throughout.

San Francisco: E. D. Bronson & Co., Publishers, 1898. Cloth. Very Good.. 8vo. [vi] 277 pp. Blue cloth w/ gilt stamped titling., green-stamped decoration.Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to cloth, heaviest at spine ends, circular [1cm] discoloration to front board. toning to end leaves and text block. Dogmatic investigation of the "Woman Question". Examples of domestic life told from the point of view of invented married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Notion.

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Slipcase. Folio. 272 pp. Indigo cloth with gold titling to spine and blind stamped publisher's logo to front board, matching cloth slipcase blind stamped with Glaser's signature on both cover panels. Spine cloth faintly sunned, white (paint?) soil mark to slipcase front panel at top edge. Though not the Deluxe edition, this copy is signed by Glaser at top of half title in bold black ink. Autograph letter laid in at front, signed by Glaser and written on Milton Glaser Inc. letterhead: "Dear Ted (?) and Ann / Now in the real millennium / all real wishes for peace / of mind, love and friendship / in our new century / best wishes / Milton and Shirley." This is an oversized book and may require extra postage.

New York: Pocket Books, 1974. Wraps. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 239 pp. Pictorial paper wraps, white titling. Light scuffing to front and rear wrapper. The life story and professional secrets of America's ESP wizard. Illustrated with 16 pp. of b&w photographs.

Minneapolis, MN: West End Press, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 47 pp. Pictorial paper wraps printed in red. Wraps lightly scuffed, otherwise fine. Interior clean and sound. Inscribed by author in blue ballpoint to title page. Foreword by Meridel Le Sueur. Poems about "the struggles of women to break out.

New York: Vaughan & Gomme, 1914. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 18 cm x 11 cm. 32 pp. First edition. Faded purple wraps w/ black titling. Bookseller's label from "Walter H. Baker Co., Theatrical Publishers, Hamilton Place, Boston, Ma" affixed to front wrapper. Faint blue stamp to margins throughout reads "for Permission to Produce this Play Apply To, Norman Lee Swartout, Summit, New Jersey". A comedy in one act. Limited to 1050 copies.

New York: The VIking Press, 1981. Advanced Proof. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Peach colored wrappers. 175 pp. Light soil to wraps. "book-of-the-month club alternate" sticker to front panel. Slight wrinkling to leaves at inner margin. Clean interior. Uncorrected Proof of Gordimer's novel set in post-apartheid South Africa. Advance Reading Copy.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover in DJ. Very Good+/Very Good. 12mo. Unpaginated [64 pp]. Pictorial boards in clipped dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Gorey on title page. Light edgewear to dj, w/ two small [< 1cm] closed tears to rear panel. Rubbing to board edges. Bookseller's label to rpd from "The Holliday Bookshop, 119 East 54th ST, New York 22, N.Y." Tight, sound copy of Gorey's first independent work.

[London]: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 cm x 11 cm. [20 pp,] Pictorial boards backed in yellow cloth. Light toning and scuffing to boards, pencil inscription to ffep, sporadic pencil marginalia. Illustrated in color, accompanied by short poetry and prose. The illustrations for this edition were originally used in the Almanack for 1887.

Lowell, MA: H.B. Greene, 1900. Pamphlet. Very Good. 14 cm x 9 cm white paper card bifolium. Front printed in red and dark teal, with floral art nouveau decoration. Inside verso holds a single pressed bean flower, appx. 12 cm in length. Small break in stem at top, leaves and petals browned. Recto has a Bible verse from 2 Samuel 17: 28, 29: "Brought wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and Beans, and lentiles...." Exterior lightly soiled, spine crease rubbed, corners gently pushed. Reverend Harvey B. Greene of Lowell, Massachusetts collected, preserved, and distributed these flowers from Palestine, a popular souvenir of the early 20th century.

Boston: Published by the Author, 1870. Cloth. Good. 8vo. 304 pp. Purple cloth with gilt titling to spine, blind-ruled boards, and gilt text to front board that reads "Free Masonry Developed." Heavy sunning to spine, sunning and discoloration to boards, especially rear board and edges. Light foxing to endpapers, some scattered soiling to mostly clean text block. Small closed tear to lower fore corner of pp 93-94. Binding tight and sturdy, text clean. An account of the events leading up to the mysterious disappearance and presumed death of William Morgan (1774-1826), who threatened to expose Masonic secrets with the publication of his book, "Illustrations of Freemasonry.

New York: Samuel J. Brown, 1891. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo. 15 pp. Off-white stitched pamphlet, black titling. Split at head and foot of spine but holding. Interior clean. Inscribed on first leaf, "Compliments of H. E. Gregory". Impassioned speech against garish firework displays to celebrate the Fourth of July in favor of more subdued exhibits of patriotism.

New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House PVT LTD, 1990. Cloth Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 12mo. 77 pp. Black cloth in black and orange dust jacket w/ white titling. Scuffing to dj edges, heaviest at corners. Interior clean, binding sound. Research on the burning deaths of women at the hands of their husband or in-laws for her family's refusal to pay additional dowry.