Search Results: Authors starting with G from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Viking., 1995. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Light page block foxing.. 1 Textured blue paper over spine; off-white paper over boards. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. 341 p. 24 cm. Audience: General/trade. 20th century Women's Studies, exploring the lives and professional partnerships of 5 brilliant, achieving women wed to brilliant, achieving men, and also raising children. There is no pattern, and the struggle for each was not always enlightened. The Einstein marriage, for instance, ended after 16 years, but had started with shared studies in the physics laboratory.

Harper & Row Publishers., 1980. Book Club Edition. Weekly Reader Book.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor spine end and corner wear.. 1 Illustrated paper over boards, subdued rose, yellow, B&W drawing of chicken w/ rabbits on stage. 64p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Children's picture book reader. The signs are up on trees: Animal Cracker Theater is looking for actors, only dogs, chickens and pigs are suggested. Tom Rabbit is the animal to see about a part, and Hattie Rabbit wants to perform, so first she finds a chicken costume for her audition. Will Hattie get a part?

New York.: David McKay Company., 1964. Edition not stated.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library from Evansville, Indiana's Culver School; Pages very good, covers worn and soiled with use; Endpaper soiling. A much-loved story.. 1 116 p. Comic Pen&Ink illustrations. Hercules Guaranteed Binding (library rebind); Orange illustrated cloth over boards; Pictorial cover: Big watermelon, a cowboy, a raccoon; Delightfully, comically illustrated by author. A raccoon is found deep in a dry well, and stays with the family that rescued him.

Gramercy Books, 1990. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. Ring, Melissa (Designed by). 0 64p. Gray cloth and glossy marbled paper over boards, illustrated with color Victorian style floral clip art. Poetry anthology by both classic and contemporary authors.

Brookline, Boston: The Riverdale Press, 1913. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor sun-fade to spine; slight lower edge wear. Clean inside. Slight rear cover blemish; lower back cover sun fade band.. 1 107 p. Green textured cloth covered boards; gold stamped front titles, 2 facing goldfish. Gilt top page edges. Author-attorney was member of the Chattanooga, Tennessee Bar. The 26 poems including Preface refer to the law. Ink stamp dates front (MAR 4 1939) and back (MAR 25 1969). This is an original; ready to ship immediately.

Simon and Schuster., 1980. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Discard from small Abbott Library, Sunapee NH. Page block soiling. Rippling to rear DJ.. Bralds, Braldt (Jacket illustration by).. 1 288 p. B&W photo album at end, 32 pages. Audience: General/trade. Suspense fiction set in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: Kenneth Dangler has energy, imagination and wealth. He builds a showcase sporting camp where the wealthy can come and enjoy the wilderness. The outdoor adventures are a charade, and begin to be all too real.

Millbrae CA.: Celestial Arts Publishing Co., 1979. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Good. Signed by author. Author inscription to prior owner, dated 1979. General page block foxing, spine creasing. Clean text pages.. Youngreen, G Russ (Illustrations by).. 1 Trade PB. 22 cm. 440 p. Pen&Ink artwork. Audience: Professional and scholarly. Biography / Psychiatrists / Gestalt therapy. Recognized as the father of Gestalt Therapy, Fritz Perls was a multi-faceted psychiatrist in the humanistic psychology movement. This oral biography includes the voices of many associates from Europe, South Africa, and the U.S.

San Francisco CA.: Chronicle Books., 1995. 3rd printing. Revised edition.. Trade paperback. Fine. With Light spine crease.. Geismar, Pamela (Cover design by), and Chave, Paul (Studio photography by), and Harris, Robin, and Day, David (Illus. by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Color Illustrations. 26 cm. Audience: General/trade. Artfully, colorfully designed, and presented for enjoyment and instruction.

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin Company., 1990. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Slight spine fade. Appears unread.. Cox, Paul (Cover illustration by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Fiction featuring a Harvard professor and Washington politics, with tongue in cheek.

Boston MA.: Houghton Mifflin., 1978. First edition. 3rd Rev ed. 1st printing this edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight damp stain inside lower jacket spine. Light page block foxing. Clean interior, unmarked text pages. Rear flap vertical crease.. 1 Tan Cloth over boards. Blue accent bands, spine, front. Stamped gold titles in box. 438 p. Audience: General/trade. American economist Galbraith's first edition of this title became a classic, an international best seller (published 1967). Revisions a decade later include updated numbers and the confirmation of his earlier controversial writings about corporations and unions as correct. Galbraith's writing affirms the importance of his economics and the larger issues of politics and sociology. How do his views stand up to the assessment of America and the world now nearly 40 years later?

Houghton Mifflin., 1993. First edition. 1st printing this edition. Copyright from 1968.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Front end paper has lower page small splash stain. Light wear.. Cox, Paul (Cover illustration by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Illustrated front cover. Glued binding. 239 p. Audience: General/trade. Satirical tale set in Latin America about a corrupt dictator supported diplomatically by America. Political rebellion erupts. Author Galbraith was a 20th century liberal economist and professor at Harvard.

Contents: 3 chapters; 1900, 1911, 1925. Light green pebbled cloth over boards. Top page block, green dye. Minor darkening to spine. Blind-stamped small front publisher logo. G&D with bird. Front top center: black stamped title box, reverse print, 2 birds in flight w/ titles. In green, title page art: plough horses w/ farmer behind, trees, birds in oval; frame in black and green, black titles. Side page block, 2 small abandoned short insect holes. Minor edge wear. Prior owner bookplate inside front cover.

Washington DC.: Smithsonian Institution Press., 1985. Trade paperback. Very good. Near fine; light back cover crease.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 8.5x11in. Color and B&W photos. Audience: General/trade. Traditional Arts: Chronology at front, 1.9-.7 million years before 1984, through to publication. Exhibit organized for Festival of India 1985-1986 at the Thomas M Evans Gallery of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., June 4-July 28, 1985.

New York: Dell Publishing / Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973. 1st Dell printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. With back cover lower edge short crease. Lower spine, short tear, repaired w/ clear tape.. 1 302 p.; Mass-market PB. Color cover photo: elements of gambling, diamonds, money, handgun. Aqua poage edges, 3 sides. Big caper fiction set along the French Riviera. Heists: jewelry, masterpiece art; ad a kidnapping and a duel-to-the-death against a drug struggling syndicate. 'The Fox', Roquebrun, is the leader of The Zoo Gang. This publication just prior to a planned TV series based on The Zoo Gang.

Delacorte Press., 1975. First edition. First U.S. Printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Light soiling to top page block. Slight spine sun-fade.. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 4.75x7.25in. 53 p. Audience: General/trade. A fable by the author of "The Snow Goose" and described as a "heartwarming story of faith and fortitude...a confrontation between two cultures and a victory for humanity", from jacket flap. Paul Gallico retells the tale he first heard as a boy from his great-grandmother on a Christmas Eve by the fire. Set in the mid-18th century when the French and English were in a power struggle for the American colonies, a pioneer woman and her baby were surprised by an Indian raiding party while her husband was out hunting. "Without a miracle, all would be lost".

Penguin Books, 2000. 7th printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 314 p. B&W & color photo sections. Movie tie-in illustrated cover. Not as seen here. Memoir: At 25, needing to recover from auto accident injuries and a divorce, author Kuki Gallman left Italy (1972) to convalesce in Africa with the man whom she would then marry. Enchanrted by the land, they established a vast ranch on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. Splendor came with a price. The joy and drama are herein described. Story was a Columbia Pictures Industries movie, with Kim Basinger.

New York.: Frederick A Stokes., 1916. First edition. Date on title page only. Presumed 1st.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Discard, Public Library, Harvard MA, had acquired in April 1917. Limited library use has left a solid, clean book, blemished with small white front cover stain. Separated plate facing p. 280. Else wonderfully intact.. 1 328 p. Dark blue cloth over boards. Gold spine and front titles. Stitched binding. B&W photo plates, maps. Brief footnotes. 23 cm. Index. RARE in original volume. Author was a Captain, R.M.R.E., with a group headed first in 1909 to a played-out silver mining camp town in Slocan, exploring in winter with pack mules, then over two years, near Whitewater Depot, camping as they moved on in the British Columbia Province in western Canada. Experiences included forestry, meeting with native nations peoples (Quatsino), and traveling also by boats they fashioned, and paddlewheel, by road, trail, stage, and by train. Travel took them to Lillooet… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight and square; slight spine crease; rear cover, bottom, old water stain.. 0 viii, 286 p. 21 cm. vol. 2. The Scribner library. Contemporary classics.. Sequel to The Man of Property;

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight spine creasing; Old minor water stain lower rt. corner;. 0 272 p., 5.25x8"; pictorial cover;

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 250 p. 5.25x8"; pictorial cover;