Search Results: Authors starting with S from Grinning Cat Books

Limited Edition, this being number 774 of only 1500. In two volumes, complete. Fine. Profusely illustrated with more than 80 beautiful, full page, color illustrations by the wonderful artist, Edy Legrand. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth and purple/grey marbled paper boards. Dark grey stop stain. In publisher's original and sturdy slipcase in very good plus condition, a bit sunned, and with a tear on the top right slip corner. A very attractive printing of what is considered to be the first modern novel. Translated by John Ormsby with a new introduction by Irwin Edman. Folio, (8-3/4' x 12-1/4'). A truly lovely edition of this timeless classic.

First Edition, First Printing. Special Limited Edition. Fine in original purple cloth and fine matching tray case. Fully illustrated with color pop-ups and movable parts showcasing some of the leading moveable and pop-up artists from the past 700 years. Quarto. 8.25 x 10.25 in. Unpaginated. A beautiful, interactive celebration of the art form by the current pop-up master, Robert Sabuda. A wonderful copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in original illustrated boards. Includes wall-mountable display case featuring a glittery paper-engineered beetle (Australian Stag Beetle). Presented in publisher's original plastic casing. Fully illustrated with 6 vibrant pop-ups engineered by Sabuda and Reinhart. Small octavo. 5.25 x 7.25 in. [14] pp.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed boldly by Robert Sabuda on the front page. Design and paper engineering by Robert Sabuda. Fully illustrated in color. Near fine in original glossy illustrated boards, slightly bowed. A fantastic gift!

First Edition, First Printing. Fully illustrated and engineered by Robert Sabuda. Fine in original illustrated boards. Signed by Robert Sabuda, wishing a "Merry cookie counting!" Square Octavo. 7 x 8.25 in. Unpaginated.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Sabuda on front pastedown, wishing you "Happy Adventures in Wonderland!" Quite rare thus. Fully illustrated with color pop-ups by Robert Sabuda after the fashion of John Tenniel, with a text faithful to its inspiration. Fine in original illustrated boards. Quarto. 8.25 x 10.25 in. Unpaginated. A stunning popup.

First Editions, First Printings, all. Fine-to-near fine in fine-to-near-fine dustjackets. Each title signed by Sams on pictorial front free endpaper. Small closed tear on Whisper dust jacket, otherwise fine. An amazing set in wonderful condition!The Peter Osbourne story, beginning with Sams' first novel, Run With the Horsemen and through his award- winning novel, When All the World Was Young, the final novel in the trilogy and continuing the adventures of naive but resilient Porter Osborne Jr. in this loosely autobiographical novel, set during WW II.

First Edition. Fine in near fine dustjacket. Signed by Sandburg on the front free endpaper. Navy blue cloth fine and richly hued. Dustjacket with very slight wear and chipping on the head and tail of spine and corners, otherwise bright and fine. A beautiful copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of the author's work that has been collected from six earlier volumes with 74 poems not previously compiled. A lovely and rare copy.

First Edition. First Printing. A fine set. Six volumes, complete (The War Years, in 4 vols, The Prairie Years, in 2 vols.). Sandburg was awarded the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for "The War Years." Publisher's full, rich blue cloth, gilt lettering on spines, blind-stamped medallion on covers, fore-edges deckle. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, illustrations, sketches, cartoons and maps. War Years in original publisher's matching slipcase. Fine with boards ever so lightly shelf-worn, all volumes unmarked, tight, square and clean. Large 8vo 9' - 10' tall. Volumes 1-4 660,, 655, 673 and 515 pp., respectively. A fine and truly lovely first edition set of this timeless classic by Sandburg.

First Deluxe Limited Edition thus, First Printing. Fine. A beautiful limited edition published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Leather bound with hubbed spines, accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with all edges gilded. The end sheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. 8vo 8' - 9' tall. A wonderful copy and edition of this award winning title by Carl Sandburg.

First Edition. Scarce in dust jacket. Very good plus, overall. Near fine in green cloth with black tiles and gilt lettering. Pictorial boards with photographs richly colored and clean, Very good dust jacket with wear and some small chipping to head and tail of spine, corners and edge and rear cover edge, otherwise very nice.in price-clipped dust jacket. Octavo. 22x15 cm. 445 pp. A lovely copy.

First English Edition, First Printing. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Saramago was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as 'the most gifted novelist alive in the world today,' and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon." More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages.
Fine in original black cloth and just about fine dust jacket, a touch faded at the spine and with a tiny nick at the head of the spine. Octavo. 14.5 x 22 cm. ix, 223 pp. A lovely copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing 1943. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket: Fine, with slight rubbing on edges. Illustrated by Don Freeman. Binding solid, with no markings, other than prior owners signature on front free endpaper. Red cloth boards bright with black line illustration on cover, black lettering on spine, illustrated front flyleaf. A lovely copy in rare condition. Saroyan was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy, which itself was the basis for the 1983 musical of the same name. One of the most prominent writers of the mid-20th century, Kurt Vonnegut said that Saroyan was 'the first and still the greatest of all the American minimalists.' Used/Fine.

First Edition, First Printing. First Title in the beloved Tinker and Tanker series. Contents near fine, with pages and illustrations bright and clean. Very good in original blue pictorial cloth covered boards and a good price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, chipped with edgewear and mild toning, and penciled word on rear board. Quarto. 8.5 x 10.25 in. Overall, a lovely collector's copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Limited to 2,000 copies. Photographs by Ken Schles in his now famous photographer's breakthrough debut collection. Schles' gritty photographs of urban life are juxtaposed with key texts on life in modern cities. With full-bleed black-and-white gravure plates throughout beautifully printed on heavy matte paper. Edited by Jack Woody. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Text-quotations by Jean Baudrillard, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Lewis Mumford, and George Orwell. Fine in original dark navy cloth, lettered in blind on upper cover and spine, and fine pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. 6.875 x 9.125 in. Unpaginated. 80pp. A fantastic copy of this acclaimed work.

Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia: 15 Volume Set: Super Questions and Answers and Amazing Facts (Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia , Super Questions and Answers and Amazing Facts. First Edition (Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1980. Complete, including the extremely rare book holder! Each volume illustrated throughout with a mix of Peanuts cartoons, photos, maps, diagrams, and charts. Very clean and bright. Rare, the only one on the market thus. A wonderful set and a must have for fans of Charlie Brown the Peanuts gang!

Each volume fine or near fine, with only slight wear in a few places. Internal content fine. Boards fine or near fine, with slight wear, single small smudges on vols. 7 and 8; and very mild corner bumping in a few places. Housed in a near fine book holder, with a bit of wrinkling and edge wear to the Snoopy sticker pastedowns. 4to. Continuous paginations through Volume 15 for 720 pp + Index.

Volumes in order: #1: Featuring Your Body, #2 Featuring All Kinds of Animals From Fish to Frogs, #3:… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a fine stunning pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Profusely illustrated throughout with black and white drawings. 8vo - over 7.75 x 9.25. A wonderful copy of this modern Selznick classic.

First Edition, First Printing of Sendak's illustrated picture book of monsters. Fine. Softcover. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Sendak in color on every page. Oblong Octavo. 16 pp. A wonderful copy for the Sendak fan or collector!

First Edition, First Printing. Very good in original dark teal cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and ruled in blind on covers. Somewhat soiled and lightly worn, small white smudges to top and bottom of lower cover; very lightly foxed. Prior owner's, doctor's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Octavo. 17 x 24.5 cm. xiii; 504 pp. + 32 pp. of adverts. Patterned endpapers.

First edition. Early Printing (1939). Copyright page cites only the first two books by this author: "Mullberry Street" and "The Five Hundred Hats." Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket, wonderful condition for it's age. Binding tight with pages bright and unmarked. Small school stamp on front red board and lib card on rear, with no other markings. Yellow cloth-covered boards with dark-red lettering to front in near fine condition. The rare dustjacket is more than very good, overall, with edge and spine chipping commensurate with age, a four inch closed tear on front cover that is hardly visible, and moderate sine wear and chipping. A wonderful copy thus.
The King's Stilts tells the story of King Birtram of Binn, who dedicates himself to safeguarding his kingdom, which exists in a precarious state. It is surrounded by water, which is held back from flooding the land by a ring of dike trees, which are in turn subject to attack from flocks of nizzards. To protect the kingdom, a legion of Patrol Cats… Read More