Search Results: Titles starting with G from Borg Antiquarian

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. Book Club Editions. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Karel Thole. Two volumes, 8vos, black quarter cloth with scarlet lettering on spine over blue boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jackets (unclipped) Karel Thole, prominent Sci-Fi illustrator, xii + 305 & viii + 278 pages + [2] Epilogue. Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (1925- ), named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. Aldiss is famous for his numerous Sci-Fi novels (e.g., Non-Stop [1958], The Primal Urge [1961], Frankenstein Unbound [1973], the Helliconia Trilogy [1982-85]); as well as short stories (e.g., No Time Like Tomorrow [1959], Neanderthal Planet [1970], "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long"--the basis for Spielberg's, A.I. Artificial Intelligence). Aldiss is a VP of the international H. G. Wells Society, and has won nearly every prestigious Sci-Fi award. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION:… Read More

Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, N.D.. The Collector's Wodehouse, First Printing REPRINT from First British Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Anderzej Klimowski]. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), gray cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting in color a man raising his fist against a Bobby: uncredited [cover art probably by Anderzej Klimowski], vertical yellow-striped endpapers, 222 pages + [2] Colophon. Sir P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse KBE (1881 - 1975) was a beloved English author who remains one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Some of his favorite characters include the jolly gentleman of leisure, Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner.<br/><br/>EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects! No remainder markings.

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1968. Presumed First Editions without later printing dates. Cloth. Fine/Very Good + / No slipcase. Eliot Porter. 2 Volume set; folios (13 3/4" x 10 3/4" x 2"); red cloth with gold lettering on spines; magnificently illustrated with full-color plates by Eliot Porter; archival polyester-protected photographic dust jackets (unclipped) with images in color by Eliot Porter; photographic colored endpapers; 170, [171] & 186, [187] pages. Lacks slipcase. Weight: 7 lbs. 15 oz. Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990), famed American nature photographer noted for his detailed and exquisite colour images of birds and landscapes. (He was also a Harvard-trained engineer & M.D.!)<br/> <br/> FINE/VG+ CONDITION for this superb collection of Porter's finest large format color photos in Darwin's famous archipelago. Light wear and minute losses to edges of dust jacket (unclipped) with a clean ~1" tear on top of rear panel vol. 2. Lacks slipcase. No previous… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by Author on title page, 8vo, black quarter cloth with scarlet lettering on spine over black boards; archival polyester-protected pictorial & photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by Michaela Sullivan; red endpapers, 311 pages. Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn (born 1949) is a Filipino playwright, writer, poet, and multimedia performance artist.<br/><br/>This is a complex family saga that involves creativity (a band named "The Gangster of Love"). It moves from the Philippines to San Francisco and LA; then to NYCity; back to San Fran, and with several themes resolved back in the Philippines. <br/><br/>SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy. Dust jacket is clean with some very slight edgewear. No remainder marks.

New York: Basic Books, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. B&W illustrations. 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated with several in-text B&W photos, maps, and charts, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with cave drawings of hunters & partial engraving of an orangutan, beige endpapers, vii, [viii] + 358 pages. THE GAP discusses what cognitive qualities separate humans from other animals, and how they evolved. Dr. Suddendorf is a psychology professor at the University of Queensland and a specialist in non-human primates. EXCEPTION STUDY in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION. Impressive endorsement by Jane Goodall.

New York London Toronto Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over red boards, archival mylar-protected black & red dust jacket (unclipped( with tiny photo of chariot scene atop the Brandenberg Gate, 414 pages. SIGNED & in FINE CONDITION! Tight, bright and clean. Fine dust jacket (unclipped) with a slight bit of curl along its upper edge. Jeffery Deaver (born 1950) is a New York Times bestselling American mystery, crime, and thriller writer. Among his many awards, he has won the Steel Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year. "The most creative, skilled, and intruiging thriller writer in the world."--Daily Telegraph (UK).

New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, etc.: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Color photos & period B&W images. Small quarto (9 1/2" x 6 3/8"), dark green cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine, illustrated with 29 color plates and several B&W in-text period images, archival mylar-protected color photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with image of a floral garden, Index, 316, [317} pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 2 oz. Handsome book offering a well-illustrated series of garden and floral images. Discusses the importance and grandeur of gardening in Victorian England and America, and of how the gardening public lived and thought during that grand period.<br /> <br /> Tight, bright, very clean copy with superb illustrations.

San Diego New York London: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Janet Stevens. Quarto/4to (9 3/8" W x 11 !/4" H), glossy pictorial boards depicting a windswept old woman, donkey, & cat painted by Janet Stevens, image repeated on the pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), illustrated throughout with full-color pictures by Stevens, pictorial endpapers, N.P. [34pp.]. "Gamma Lee leaves her peaceful village to journey to the mountains and a place called the Gates of the Wind, where she and the wind battle each other until they learn to live together."--summary Kathryn Lasky (born 1944) has written more than 100 books for children and adults. Janet Stevens has been writing and illustrating books for more than 30 years. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects!

New York: Jason Aronson Inc, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Thick 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering and mystical hand on spine with gilded lettering on cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with mystical hand in black & gold, translations from several languages by Raphael Patai, li + 807 pages. SCARCE, Very Useful and Textually Exact Collection of Aggada by the brilliant anthropologist and scholar. Raphael Patai (1910 1996) was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist. An excellent companion volume to Louis Ginzberg's, Legends of the Jews. Superior Condition! Very slight age-toning to pages. Rare in a dj so Fine.

Boston Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1983. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Like New/Very Fine. Alex Farquharson (cover art). Small quarto, blue buckram with gold lettering on spine + gilt stockaded Fort Dearborn at Chicago with Indian canoe passing embossed on front cover, illustrated with pictorial title page repeating gilt fort on front cover, 8 B&W maps & blue map endpapers, plus small images as headings; archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a river-&-forest campsite in color by Alex Farquharson; [in-text pictorial headings not credited];Amplification Notes; Bibliography; Index; xiv + 688 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 5.5 oz. Allan Wesley Eckert (1931 - 2011) was an American novelist and playwright who specialized in remarkably accurate and dynamic historical novels for adults and children. He was also a naturalist who wrote studies on many birds and animals. <br /> <br /> Gateway To Empire is a very accurate historical… Read More

New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. B&W photos. SIGNED by the Author on a bookplate on the front free endpaper & PRESENTED to an important supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center; tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine over black boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with images of armed, masked militiamen; illustrated with 16 glossy pages of militia-related photos, [xvi] + 254 pages. Morris Seligman Dees Jr. (born 1936) is an American attorney known as the co-founder and former chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), based in Montgomery, Alabama.<br /> <br /> FINE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY: Tight, bright, clean in an unclipped dust jacket with slight edgewear. No previous owner or remainder marks.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo, beige cloth, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a woman's lips around a grape, 229 + [1] Afterword. Ann Maxwell (born April 5, 1944 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), also known as A.E. Maxwell and Elizabeth Lowell, is an American writer. She has individually, and with co-author and husband Evan, written over 50 novels and one non-fiction book. These novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, and from romance to mystery to suspense. GATSBY'S VINEYARD is a crime novel.--Wikipedia.

New York London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. Photos & maps. Small quarto (9 5/8" x 6 1/2"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over tan boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Longstreet in a medallion between Confederate flags & above sodier's fighting, illustrated with 16 pages of glossy B&W photos & 12 maps, 527 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. Jeffry D. Wert (born 1946) is an American historian and author specializing in the American Civil War.<br/><br/>James Longstreet (1821 - 1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse". He served under Lee as a corps commander for most of the famous battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern… Read More

France: Pierre Charles Cior, 1795. Original. Round enameled tortoise-shell box. Near Fine. Pierre Charles Cior. Three-quarter's view gouache portrait of Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), in the dark blue uniform with gold epaulettes of a Major-General of the American Continental Army during the 1780's; his image in flanked to his right by a tiny row of soldiers bearing weapons and a flag. <br/> <br/> This portrait miniature on ivory has been inserted into the lid of a round box made of toirtoise-shell with gold mounting and glass dome; (unframed image: 2.8" x 2.8" / 7.2 x 7.2 cm; framed: 3.2" x 3.2" / 8.1 x 8.1 cm); signed by Pierre Charles Cior, the French miniaturist, as "P. Cior" and dated "an 3e" or the 3rd year of the French Revolution, that is, 1795/96. This gouache portrait miniature on ivory is of the dashing young Marquis de Lafayette in the impressive dark blue uniform of a Major-General of the American… Read More

New York Birmingham, Alabama: D. Appleton and Company, 1984. Limited Edition: 1 of 7,500 copies printed for The Classics of Surgery Library. Leather with gilt-stamping. Fine/None. Anatomy B&W lithograph. Thick 8vo (9 1/4" x 6" x 2 1/4"), full black leather with gilt stamping & decorative borders on spine (with four raised hubs) and both covers, ilustrated with a few charts and several B&W reproductions of cells and body parts; all edges gilt [a.e.g.], marbled endpapers, yellow ribbon page-marker, xviii + 676 pages + [1] Colophon. Laid in: Pamphlet by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. on "The Masterful Spirit -- Theodor Billroth," 1984, revised 1991, 44pp. Weight: 2 lbs. 15.4 oz. Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (1829 - 1894) was a highly regarded Austrian surgeon; amateur musician, scholar of music, and close friend of Johannes Brahms. As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. He also did major studies of "wound… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/None. Maps. SIGNED by the Author, tall 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, photographic frontispiece of painting by Ralph Earle & facsimile signature, 3 maps, [xvi] + 434 pages. Superior and important study of the great volunteer artilleryman. SIGNED copy with clean and bright pages; binding excellent and covers clean. Slight offset to title page caused by the frontispiece.

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Slipcase: Near Fine. 8vo, maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine, [x] + 119 pages. Slipcase: Quarter maroon leather over red cloth. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. Lindsay's fame as a poet grew in the 1910s. Because Harriet Monroe showcased him with two other Illinois poets-Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters-his name became linked to theirs.<br/><br/>American composer Charles Ives wrote music to "General Wiliam Booth Enters into Heaven" (with minor text alterations) shortly after its publication. The "General " named was the founder of the Salvation Army.<br/><br/>Solid, clean copy without annotations. Gilt on spine of book and slipcase has faded. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription to her on front free endpaper.… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, 8vo (6 3/8" x 9 1/4"), black quaerter cloth with copper lettering on spine over tan boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an officer's hat and tied white gloves, [x] + 454 pages. Nelson DeMille (born Wes1943) is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, and The Gold Coast. First of the Paul Brenner series which was followed by Up Country (2002), and The Panther (2012). EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped).

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book / TOR, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, gray boards with black lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an Orangutan being watched by an astronaut couple painted by Jim Burns, 253 pages. IMMACULATE COPY in an equally sharp, clean and unclipped dust jacket! No previous owner or remainder marks.<br/> <br/> Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001) was a Danish-American science fiction author who wrote many works of fantasy, historical novels, and short stories. His awards include seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In 2000, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. PHOTOS, CHARTS, inventions. Small quarto (10" x 7 3/4"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Introduction by Joseph Needham, lavishly illustrated with examples of Chinese inventions and technology in B&W and some color, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with 5 Chinese scenes, splendid endpapers with tables in color comparing early Chinese inventions with--usually centuries later--Western comparables, 254 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. Science and Civilization in China is the finest survey of Chinese science and technology by the British genius (biochemist- turned-sinologist), Dr. Joseph Needham (1900 - 1995). <br /> <br /> Robert Temple (b.1945), a professor of the history and philosophy of science at Tsinghua University, Beijing, worked with Needham to summarize many of the findings in the latter's magisterial and encyclopedic series.<br /> <br… Read More