Search Results: Authors starting with G from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

New York: Alan R. Liss, 1985 Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 22 articles. 409 pages. Index..

New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1915. Fairy tales; Tom Tit is a tiny man who visits lonely Bobby to help them sleep, telling him a variety of tales and imaginary journeys. Hardcover, as pictured. Book shows some wear, minor staining, ink note on free endsheet; minor smdges on a few pages. Text clean; 155 pages, line drawings, 12 color plates as called for. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Helen E. Ohrenschall. Large Octavo.

Lausanne: Editions de la Tour, 1976. Photos from and essays about the Festival, from its beginning in 1967 to 1975. Mosly in French; a couple of essays in English - and a brief one in Japanese! Hardcover, pictorial cover. Light wear, slanted spine; bumps, dents & minor wear to edges of boards, corner bumped; binding slightly loose. Text clean; [144] pages; color & b/w photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9" by 12¼".

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. Collection of folk tales recounting, interpreting, or related to the Bible. Hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, corners bumped, gilt dull; jacket shows light edgewear, neat ink name on free endsheet. Text clean; xi, blank, 388 pages; index, bibliography.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. Collection of folk tales recounting, interpreting, or related to the Life of Christ. Hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, corners bumped, gilt dull; jacket shows light edgewear, neat ink name on free endsheet. Text clean; xi, blank, 371 pages; index, bibliography.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Coward McCann, 1941. Story of Nothing-at-all, an invisble dog, his two brothers, and how he becomes visble with the aid of a well-read Jackdaw. Wonderful illustrations in orange, green & black. Caldecott Honor book, 1942. First edition - no additional printings listed. Good only - while the boards are only lightly worn & chipped, the fragile spine is faded, damaged, chipped, taped with non-archival tape; names on free endsheet. Inside clean & unmarked; 32 pages, most with a color illustration.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Wanda Ga'g. 9¾" by 6¾".

Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001. Scholarly study of all the ways the Bible & its figures state or imply that same-sex relationships are sinful. Stout burgundy hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket, corners lightly bumped, short tear to jacket, rear flap creased. Text clean; 520 pages; index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6¼" by 9¼".

Madison, WI, 1998. Broadside (printed poster) poem published in conjuction with the author's appearance at the MadMedia 5 convention in Madison. Handprinted from handset type in two colors on handmade pulp-painted paper with (oddly enough) an astronomical motif. Overly subtle black print on really dark grey paper makes it a bit challenging to read, but it's a good poem when you do. Also published as "Nightfall" as post-9/11 tribute on the SciFi website. One of 73 copies SIGNED by the author. Also signed, more subtly, by the printer/illustrator, Peter Dast. Ships flat.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Unbound. New/No Jacket. 15" by 19½". Privately Printed.

London: Folio Society, 2017. Ex-con has unusual encounters & adventures in mythological America; basis of the television series. And at the end of the book, when Shadow waits in the doorway of a used bookstore across from a coffeeshop on a street in Madison lined with bookstores - that was MY shop. Anyway. First edition (first printing) thus, no later printings noted, reprinting the author's preferred 2003 text, with color plates by frequent collaborator McKean. Light wear to book, near fine; no jacket as issued, in an illustrated slipcase showing light wear & some 'creases' to one side. Text clean; xv, [3], 537 pages; 12 color plates, three of them double-page spreads.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dave McKean. Large Octavo.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1990 Paperback. Very Good. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). 9.25" By 7.25". 80 pages. Promotional sampler with excerpts from Gaitskill's Two Girls Fat and Thin, Patrick McGrath's Spider, and Harry Crews's Body. A few light scatches on front cover, rubbing on back cover..

Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1973. Study of wear rates and behaviors of various materials used or proposed for hip joints, including metals, ceramics & plastic polymers; a graphite-infused polymer was found to be best. Paperback, blue covers, black titling. General wear, spine lean & creases, minor staining; inscribed by one of the authors on the half-title to his wife. Text clean; 46 pages; references, figures.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 6¼" by 9".

New York / Portage: Alfred A. Knopf / Goodman Printing, 1943. Collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wisconsin author. 'Memorial Edition', published five years after her death, one of a series reprinted from the original Knopf edition by a Portage firm. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, covers show light mottling; jacket lightly rubbed with short tear to rear panel; minor tanning to endsheets, small stains to rear endsheets. Text clean; [10], 214 pages, b/w frontispiece. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¾" by 7¾".

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wisconsin author, a journalist, activist, & early feminist. First edition (first printing) with same date on title & copyright pages, no later printings noted. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; binding design by W. A. Dwiggins. Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners; jacket shows minor edgewear, short tears, tiny faint stain, light chipping - most notably to the head of the spine. Text clean; [10], 214 pages + colophon, b/w frontispiece woodcut by Bennett, photo of Eliza Beers - the author's mother & subject of one essay. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Richard Bennett. 5¾" by 7¾".

New York: Macmillan, 1919. Short stories featuring Calliope Marsh and the folks of Friendship Village. First edition (first printing). Hardcover, full lavender cloth, gilt titling, minor decoration in gilt & white. Light wear to book, head of spine bumped; jacket rubbed with some waterstains to the top edge; spine scuffed, chipped, lightly stained. Text clean; vii, [3], 308 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York: Nation Books, 2009. Nearly 600 vignettes of world and South American history, from prehistory to the 21st century. First American edition (first printing) with full number string. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket, no names, no marks; paper lightly tanned with faint stains to fore-edge; minor edge-creasing to jacket. Text clean; [6], 391 pages; index, illustrations.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987 Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. Octavo. 184 pgs. Cover shows wear: front corners creased; crease/chip on spine; edge wear. Binding tight & text clean. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Collection of 12 short stories by poet Tess Gallagher..

Dorheim: Podzun Verlag, 1970. Chronology of German aviation activity in World War Two; b/w photos with German and abbreviated English captions. Undated, circa 1970. Large sky blue hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book; corners bumped, jacket shows a little edgewear, creasing. Text clean; 263 pages; intro & appendices in German only; many b/w photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8½" by 10¼".

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. Scholarly monograph on Bryan and his milieu in the quarter-century before the American Revolution, when he helped establish the plantation system of economic exploitation. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book& jacket. Text clean, no names or marks; xx, [2], 282 pages; index, notes, bibliography, map, statistical appendix.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo.

Brussels: J.M. Collet, 1979 Paperback. Good. Quarto. 128 pages. In French. Story of the Belgian Resistance. Profusely illustrated. Lower corner bumped; edges of text beginning to yellow; cellophane veneer on back cover beginning to peel off..

Princeton: D, Van Nostrand Company, 1959. A "practical approach to problems of city planning and development." Later printing; originally published in 1950. Hardcover, full tan cloth, brown titling. Light wear to book, ink name blotted out inside front cover and on title page; price-clipped jacket lightly foxed, edgworn with minor chipping, hint of spine fade. Text clean; xi, blank, 446 pages; index, bibliography, figres, plans, maps, b/w photos.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto.