Search Results: Titles starting with G from small volume

New York : London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. Capek, Josef. 8vo. 159 pp. Green paper-covered boards in green pictorial dust jacket. Sunning and soiling to spine, front and rear panels of dj. Spine ends bumped with very light sunning along edges of boards. Light foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Translated from the Czech by M. & R. Weatherall. A story of amateur gardening from the author of the play R.U.R. - known as the first literary appearance of the word "robot." Illustrated throughout by his brother, Josef Capek.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945. Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo. 182 pp. Beige wraps w/ black titling. Slight wrinkling to wrappers. Interior clean, binding sound. Laid in bundle of ephemera containing a Government Printing office order form, newspaper clipping calling Smyth "Mr. Atom", and receipt of payment addressed to Clara C. Haas, M.D. Haas was formerly the head of the Department of Social Welfare at the State Hospital for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island.

West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc, 1982. Boards. Near Fine. Canty, Thomas. 8vo. Unpaginated [128 pp.] Green textured imitation leather, gilt-stamped titling and decoration. No jacket as issued. 1 cm chip at front hinge, light discoloration to verso of front free end paper, faint remainder mark. Previously unpublished short story extracted from the manuscript of Straub's horror novel, Floating Dragon. Limited to 1,200 copies, of which this is numbered 950. Signed by author and artist, Thomas Canty.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 114 [3] pp. Lacking jacket. Green cloth with gilt stamped titling. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Toning to endpapers and frontispiece. First edition. Autobiography of the popular American Opera singer and actress, Geraldine Farrar. Illustrated throughout.

[Providence, RI]: [Privately Printed], 1985. Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Feldman, Walter. Square 8vo (25.5 x 26 cm). Unpaginated. Bound in brown cloth boards with blue titling. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the poet and artist in pencil, this is number 4. 9 poems by James Schevill with accompanying woodcuts by Walter Feldman, printed in black on single leaf of accordion-folded Japanese paper, which opens to 6 ft in length. Trifold promotional leaflet laid in at front with order information for the book, of which 40% of original sales went towards endowment or the List Art Center at Brown University.

New York, New York: Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation, 1964. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 155 + [5] pp. Illustrated wraps. Chipping at spine ends and corners. Pages toned. POs name in ink opposite title page. Juvenile girl leaves her small town for New Orleans with dreams of becoming a famous star, instead becomes enmeshed its exploitative underworld.

New York, N.Y.: Detective House, Inc, 1952. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. Illustrated paper wraps. Signs of handling and overall wear. Light soiling to rear panel of wraps. Interior clean. Pseudonym of James W. Lampp. Cover art by Rudi Nappi. Cameo books no. 320.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 262 pp. Burgundy cloth w/ beige paper spine label, black titling. Fraying to cloth along edges of boards, scuffing to paper spine label. Biography of the former Headmistress of Walnut Hill School, located in Natick, MA, as told by her sister. Illustrated throughout w/ engraved frontis, 8 b&w plates.

Boston: John W. Luce and Company, 1936. Half Leather. Good. 12mo. [8] 74 pp. [8] Marbled paper over cream-colored leather, attractive gilt stamping and titling. General overall wear and handling, small chips to leather at spine ends, off-setting from leather to edges of endleaves. Po's name in ink to fpd, dated 1938. Poem inscribed to front flyleaf. Attractive and well-loved copy of Parsons third book of poetry.

Paris: Societe D'Edition, Les Belles Lettres, 1957. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 186 pp. Tan printed paper wraps. Light discoloration and edgewear to wrappers. POs name in ink to front wrapper w/ notes taped into page 171. Publications de la Faculte des Lettres, De L'Universite de Strasbourg. Fasciule 134. Text in French. A study of Goethe and his relationship with Occultism.

New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 293 pp. Yellow and black paper-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket. Ownership signature and embossed stamp of author, R. Tripp Evans to front free endpaper and title page. Otherwise fine. w/ 16 pages of b & w photos. Biography of the socialite, and six times married, glamour girl of the Jazz Age.

New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good. Pogany, Willy. 4to. 48 pp. Red cloth with gold titling and image of rooster to front board. Spine and top edge of boards sunned and discolored. Cloth soiled, with finger marks to rear board. Lacking dust jacket. Light foxing to eps, interior otherwise clean. Ffep inscribed "To Marjorie and Bill Bullock and Family," dated 1944 and signed in black ink by author Elaine Pogany and illustrator Willy Pogany. With bright color frontispiece and 11 color plates. From the original Russian Fairy Tale of Alexander Pushkin.

San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983. Wraps. Near fine. 12mo.96 pp. Pictorial Wraps. Light signs of handling, price sticker to rear panel of wraps. Otherwise fine. The religious implications of E.T., Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

New York and Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester: The Goudy Chappel, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine. 32mo. 9.25 x 14.5 cm. Brown cloth. Unpaginated. Split at first signature but holding. Otherwise clean and sound copy. Introductions and examples of typography and design from The Artichoke Press, The Private Press of the Haywoods, The Herity Press, Press of the Iron Horse, Powers Private Press, The Pre-Columbian Press & Under the Cellar Steps Press.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. Numbered, Large Paper Edition. Boards. Very Good. 366 pp. 8vo. Gray & cream paper-covered boards. Large paper edition, limited to 150 copies, of which this is numbered 73. Illustrations by H. J. Ford. Toning to spine strip, soiling and chipping to boards, heaviest at spine ends. Bookplate of WIlliam Henry Radcliffe Saunders, booksellers label of "Garton Freestone, Bookseller, 4, The Poultry, Nottingham" to fpd. Inscribed in ink by American book collector and Bronte scholar, Henry H. Bonnell (1859-1926) on rear free endpaper, with notation in pencil stating he acquired the book at Lipton Bros., Brumley, England on 11/5/1915.

New York: Avon Novels, Inc, 1951. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. 124 pp, 4 pp ads at rear. Stapled illustrated paper wraps. Rubbing to spine and wrappers, with faint indentation from pencil erasure to front wrapper. Small (appx. 1 cm) closed tear to lower fore edge of front wrapper and first 2 leaves with some creasing to corner, mended. Very faint foxing to rear wrapper. Interior toned but clean. Newlyweds Lolita and Bailey experience intimacy issues during their honeymoon in Cuba and entertain extra-marital affairs with a pair of close friends.

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Wright, Alan. 12mo. 52 pp [1]. Green paper-covered boards, with illustrated pastedown cover image of two children with a small black and white dog. Some soiling and rubbing to boards, corners bumped, spine slightly cocked. Spine ends chipped, with appx. 1/2 inch loss to head and foot. Few small spots of soiling scattered to text, with juvenile pencil markings to verso pp 12-13. Rest clean. Binding tight and sturdy.

Sofia Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good. 262 pp. 12mo. Paper-covered boards. Spine strip separated at bottom edge 2.5cm, light discoloration to boards, POs notation "Finished April 18th, 1971" to 262pp. Rear hinge cracked but holding. Stories from one of Communist Bulgaria's most prominent propagandists. Andreyev was an ardent suppressor of free speech and thought, serving as a judge of The People's court after the September 9th, coup d'état of 1944.

Boulder, Colorado: Paladin Press, 1996. Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo. 119 pp. Very light rubbing along edges of wraps. Otherwise lean and sound. Defensive shooting tactics and techniques.

Stockholm: Kungl. Boktr, 1963. Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo. Pps. 75-103, offprint from original text of "Dramaten 175 ar" (Stockholm, 1963), re-bound in yellow paper boards and backed in green leather. Bright yellow and blue endpapers. Foxing scattered throughout. Warmly inscribed by the author to Erwin Panofsky, German-born iconography scholar and participant in the Kahler-Kreis academic social circle.