Search Results: Authors starting with G from James M. Dourgarian, Bookman

Washington, D. C., The Legacy Project, 2003, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. LP-6, these are selected speeches, letters and essays by Theodore Roosevelt, with photos and other illustrations, includes an introduction by the editor, this is the sixth in a series of new Armed Services Editions which were originally issued to American GIs from 1943 to 1947 with these new books issued to American soldiers throughout the world through the national, all volunteer initiative of the Legacy Project headed by Andrew P. Carroll, condensed from the original edition, this book is done in the same manner as the original ASEs. Fine, unread.

NY, Penguin Books, 1990, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. This first trade edition (there was no trade hardcover) is illustrated with photos from the Broadway play production by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago which won the Tony Award for the best Broadway play. Fine.

NY, Penguin Books, 1990, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, the script was adapted by Galati from Steinbeck's masterpiece novel, the play by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago won the Tony Award as best Broadway play, very few of these proofs were produced. Fine.

NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Second issue with the erroneous frontispiece attribution (to Stjernstrom) blacked out and with Bo Beskov substituted, Goldstone & Payne F3, Morrow 567. Fine.

NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Second issue with the erroneous frontispiece attribution (to Stjernstrom) blacked out and with Bo Beskov substituted, Goldstone & Payne F3, Morrow 567. Fine.

NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Second issue with the erroneous frontispiece attribution (to Stjernstrom) blacked out and with Bo Beskov substituted, Goldstone & Payne F3, Morrow 567. Very good plus.

NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing.. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.

Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1974, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Issued as part of the Literary Structures series edited by Gardner who was best known as a poet and novelist, but who here shows his chops as an academic. Fine.

Arlington Heights, Dark Harvest, 1990, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. With publisher's wooden slipcase, a story collection by Garton, illustrated by Paul Sonju, this is copy WW of 52 lettered copies Signed by Garton and Sonju. Fine, unread.

NY, Crown, 1946, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes Frank Butler's screenplay for A Medal for Benny in its entirety, includes credits, setting, and text, 589-648, it also includes b&w photos from the film which was based on a story by John Steinbeck and his boyhood friend, Max Wagner, Goldstone & Payne B45, not recorded by Morrow, it also includes the screenplays for Lost Weekend, Spellbound, Double Indemnity (Raymond Chandler), and several others. Very good.

NY, Crown, 1946, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes Frank Butler's screenplay for A Medal for Benny in its entirety, includes credits, setting, and text, 589-648, it also includes b&w photos from the film which was based on a story by John Steinbeck and his boyhood friend, Max Wagner, Goldstone & Payne B45, not recorded by Morrow, it also includes the screenplays for Lost Weekend, Spellbound, Double Indemnity (Raymond Chandler), and several others. Very good.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1942, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Subtitled The American Novel Between Two Wars, it studies Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, and John Steinbeck, the Steinbeck chapter is entitled John Steinbeck: Of Wrath or Joy?, pages 237-270, Goldstone & Payne F11, not recorded by Morrow. Very good.

Yellow Springs, The Antioch Review, Summer 1942, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. His piece runs right before a differing view by Stanley Edgar Hyman entitled Some Notes on John Steinbeck, pages 172-184 and 185-200, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Library stamp, soiling to rear cover, else very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1202 in this important series, a novel of the Napoleonic Era, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good plus.

Boston, Bruce Humphries, 1936, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Subtitled Robinson Jeffers and the tragic sense in modern poetry, includes a note by the author, also a poet, as well as presenting a previously unpublished letter by Jeffers, the book has six parts, The Poet of Our Time, His Philosophy, Mysticism and Symbolism, Tragedy: An Approach to the Not Self, Attitude Toward Poetry, Civilization and Nature, and ends with Bibliography. Ink name, very good plus.

Sonora, The Banner, 1924, second edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Frontispiece photo of Twain, many members of the Gillis clan were friends with Samuel Longhorn Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, they knew him as just one of the boys, William R. Gillis recounts many stories of their adventures with Twain well before he published his first book, in fact, they were the ones who took Twain to Calaveras County to the famous jumping frog competition which resulted in Twain's first book. Water marked, else very good.

Sonora, The Banner, 1924, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Frontispiece photo of Twain, many members of the Gillis clan were friends with Samuel Longhorn Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, they knew him as just one of the boys, William R. Gillis recounts many stories of their adventures with Twain well before he published his first book, in fact, they were the ones who took Twain to Calaveras County to the famous jumping frog competition which resulted in Twain's first book, this copy is Signed by William R. Gillis. Very good.

Sonora, The Banner, 1924, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Frontispiece photo of Twain, many members of the Gillis clan were friends with Samuel Longhorn Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, they knew him as just one of the boys, William R. Gillis recounts many stories of their adventures with Twain well before he published his first book, in fact, they were the ones who took Twain to Calaveras County to the famous jumping frog competition which resulted in Twain's first book. Front bottom corner bumped, bound now within a Gaylord Bros. Photomount Pamphlet Binder which has some stray marks, else very nice.

Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1949, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A portrait of Nezahualcoyotl, poet king of the Aztecs, illustrated by Ola Apenes, map endpapers. Fine in a jacket with internal tape reinforcements, but which presents well.

Nova", Sept. 1983, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. 7-9, 12. Fine.