Search Results: Authors starting with G from Charles Agvent

Baltimore: Bacchus Press Ltd, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Cloth; xiv, 403 pages including index. Over 3200 entries with biographical sketches of prominent wine writers and hundreds of wine facts that span thousands of years.

Harrisburg, PA & Washington DC: The Stackpole Company & Wildlife Management Institute, (1959). First Edition. Cloth. Small owner stamp on front endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, about Very Good dustwrapper. Olaus J. Murie and Edwin R. Kalmbach. A comprehensive account including a history and a 54-page bibliography. Illustrated with color plates by Olaus J. Murie and Edwin R. Kalmbach.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder stripe on the bottom edge. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. National Book Award winner.

New York, n.d.. Letter. Creasing and toning of paper. Very Good. One-page handwritten note SIGNED on a 7-1/4" x 8" sheet of Hotel Gotham stationery to poet Isabel Conant. In full: "This will present Baroness [?], of whom I have told you." Gale, an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright, was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921 for the dramatization of her popular novel, MISS LULU BETT.

London: William Heinemann, 1929. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wraps; 22 pages.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Charles Mozley. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in brown cloth stamped in red and gilt. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed by A. Colish. Illustrated with line drawings and color lithographs by Charles Mozley. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a short split. Charles Mozley. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in brown cloth stamped in red and gilt. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed by A. Colish. Illustrated with line drawings and color lithographs by Charles Mozley. Copy #955 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Harper & Row, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page "Gabriel" and dated "92" with a small ORIGINAL DRAWING of a bird. An attractive and authentic example.

New York: Harper & Row, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Covers slightly bowed; spotting bulked edges of text. Very Good in a bright, Very Good or better dustwrapper with a very small tear near the top of the spine. Introduction by Raymond Carver.

[New York]: [Alfred A. Knopf], [1975]. First Edition. Wraps. Some tanning to the text. Near Fine. Long (7" x 22") Galley Proofs folded in half without publication information of Gardner's first collection of tales for younger readers. Included is a dustwrapper for the finished book also folded in half.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Winner of the National Book Award.

Brockport: SUNY, Fall 1977. First Edition. Document. Fine. Printed blue wraps; 4 pages. Contains a poem from A CHILD'S BESTIARY as well as a self-profile by Gardner.

New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. A bit of soiling to the covers. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Accomplished writer's second novel, a metaphysical jaunt in ancient Greece.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional staining, lower corner of page 377 torn away costing a few letters; front joint partly split but cover still firm, spine sunned with loss to head and tail, rubbing to extremities, some staining to edges. Very Good in Fine case. Publisher's plum cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine lettered in blind; housed in half burgundy morocco clamshell box with matching corners. SIGNED by the future President on the front free endpaper: "Respects of/J. A. Garfield." Throughout Garfield's congressional service, he was a staunch supporter of the gold standard, and garnered a reputation as a skilled orator. In 1865, he was placed on the House Ways and Means Committee, where he passionately voiced his opposition to the greenback, stating: “Any party which commits itself to paper money will go down amid the general disaster, covered with the curses of a ruined people.” In 1870, as chairman of the House Banking Committee under… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Son, 1866. First American Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean. Covers faded with a large dampstain on the rear with an effect on the inside rear cover but very little to the rear endpapers; slight fraying to the rear spine edge and head. Good or better. Original purple cloth. James Garfield's copy SIGNED and dated by the future President on the front free endpaper: "J. A. Garfield/1867" with his printed bookplate ("Library of/James A. Garfield/Inter Folia Fructus") on the front pastedown. Books signed by Garfield are rather uncommon. Garfield served only four months as President before being shot by Charles Guiteau. His term was the second shortest served by a President.

Philadelphia: E. S. Jones & Co., 1852. Stereotyped Edition. Hardcover. Small dampstain to the upper corner of the first few pages; light rubbing to the spine and spine edges. Near Fine in a Fine, handsome slipcase. Gilt-lettered black morocco-backed black cloth. James Garfield's copy SIGNED by the future President on the front free endpaper: "J. A. Garfield" with his printed bookplate ("Library of/James A. Garfield/Inter Folia Fructus") on the front pastedown with the ink note in an unknown hand: "Case 2 -- Shelf B." Books signed by Garfield are rather uncommon. Garfield served only four months as President before being shot by Charles Guiteau. His term was the second shortest served by a President. Housed in a recent chemise and gilt-lettered black morocco-backed slipcase.

Photograph. Minor staining to photograph. Near Fine. A 3-1/4" x 5-1/4" black-and-white photograph of Garland sitting on a porch rail, laid down on an 8" x 10" piece of cardboard, SIGNED by Garland in dark ink beneath the image along with the place: Onteora, New York.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1954). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a slightly browned, close to Fine dustwrapper. AN INTIMATE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE PORTRAIT OF A LITERARY GENERATION. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999.

Austin: University of Texas, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Jo Alys Downs. Garrett's third book. Illustrated with drawings by Jo Alys Downs.

Philadelphia & London: W. B.Saunders Company, n.d. [1970s?]. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Light edgewear. Very Good. Reprint, cloth; 996 pages. Illustrated with portraits.