Search Results: Authors starting with G from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Signet, 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Good in wraps, rubbed at the edges, a few faint creases throughout. Square and firmly bound with toned pages. A novel in which a man has seven days to discover why his wife killed herself.

Champaign: The Dalkey Archive Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Steven Moore. Afterword by Sarah Gaddis. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($34.50), lightly rubbed at the surface and edges. Grey cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A life-spanning collection of letters from Gaddis' time at boarding school in 1930 up until a few months before his death in 1998.

New York: Vertigo / DC Comics Inc, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Introduction by Stephen King. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($29.95 on the back panel). Brown paper on the boards with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The eighth collection of Gaiman's acclaimed comic book series, featuring issues #51-56.

New York: Vertigo / DC Comics Inc, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Introduction by Frank McConnell. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($34.95 on the back panel). Black paper on the boards, bumped at the lower corners, with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The ninth collection of Gaiman's acclaimed comic book series, featuring issues #57-69.

New York: Morrow, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.95). Quarter black buckram with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Gaiman's award-winning fantasy novel featuring Mr. Nancy from American Gods.

New York: Avon, 2005. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first collection of short stories from the award-winning fantasy writer, including an excerpt from his novel Anansi Boys.

New York: Harper Perennial, 2008. Paperback. Near Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed, a faint crease in the back. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Gaiman's fantasy love story between Tristran Thorn and Victoria.

New York: The Dial Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.95), lightly toned, rubbed and bumped, some creases and short tears at the edges. Brown boards, a few spots of scuffing, gold lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean otherwise. Gaines's fictional autobiography of Jane Pittman as she recalls her life from slavery to the civil rights movement one hundred years later. Adapted into the film of the same title starring Cicely Tyson.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Galbraith on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), lightly toned and rubbed. Brown buckram with black ink panels and silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a yellow top stain, clean internally. An updated and revised edition of Galbraith's classic work of the same name.

London: Michael Joseph, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. About Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (5/- NET) but with the remnants of a sticker covering the price, generally toned, bumped and with a few closed tears, loss at the top edge. Cream buckram, some rubbing and soiling, with blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, bookplate on the front endpaper, title page left uncut. Gallico's classic story of friendship set amidst the horrors of World War II. Winner of the 1941 O. Henry Prize and adapted multiple times to film, television, and the stage. A scarce first U.K. edition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprints. 2 volumes in the issued slipcase. Fine in Very Good jackets, Forsyte clipped but still priced at $8.95, rubbed and with a few closed tears and chips. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed. Purple buckram with green and white ink panels and lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, clean internally. A fresh copy of this edition of one of Galsworthy's Forstye Saga.

Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1960. Paperback. Very Good. Reprints. Vol. I 1962, Vol. II 1960. Very Good. Wraps rubbed, a few small bumps and tears at the folds. Square bound with some reading wear, clean internally. A collection of Gandhi's writings and speeches about non-violent resistance.

Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, generally toned, some rubbing at the edges. Black buckram, lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges, with orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, red top stain, front hinge a bit loose but not cracked, former owner's blindstamp on the front endpaper. A detective novel centering on the murder of a French Secret Service member and the menacing, seemingly anarchistic villains, who the French authorities suspect. Ganpat is the pseudonym of the English-Indian World War I soldier Martin Louis Alan Gompertz.

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday Inc, 1986. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Gardner on the title page. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, rubbed and bumped, a few short tears and chips. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards, some stains and scuffs. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean. An omnibus of A Malady of Magicks, A Multitude of Monsters, and A Night in the Netherhells.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (100100), rubbed and bumped at the edges and surface, a few short chips and closed tears at the head and foot of the spine. Black cloth with red ink lettering on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. A Perry Mason mystery.

New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by John Gardner on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($9.95), rubbed at the surface and edges, a few small closed tears at the rear and folds. Black paper, lightly soiled, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, tidemark on the front endpapers, clean otherwise. Gardner's first James Bond novel, one that sees 007 take on a terrorist with intentions of nuclear war.

New York: Basic Books, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. New Epilogue by Gardner. Later Printing. Inscribed by Gardner on the half-title. About Very Good. Wraps faded at the spine, bumped at the corners. Firmly bound with a slight backward lean. Gardner's history of cognitive science.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($11.95), lightly rubbed, creased and with some closed tears at the top edge of the back panel. Quarter black cloth with blue paper on the boards, faded at the top edge. Firmly bound with a forward lean, foxed at the edges, clean internally. Gardner's spy thriller that sees Big Herbie Kruger investigate the death and a defection of KGB officers in East Berlin.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (100100), rubbed and bumped at the edges and surface. Black cloth with red ink panels on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. A Terry Clane mystery.