Search Results: Authors starting with G from Boojum and Snark Books

Bacchus Press Ltd. Baltimore, 1985 An exceptional hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book and dustcover as new. Cloth-covered boards, black spine and front board lettering, 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, 403 pp. Endpaper illustrations from Shaw's "Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar". Frontispiece illustrations from Barry's "Wines of the Ancients". Eleven other attractive b/w illustrations, e.g., first page from Vizetelly's "A History of Champagne" (Vizetelly, Henry. A History of Champagne with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France. London: Vizetelly and Co., and New York: Scribner and Wellford, 1882). Foreward by Maynard A. Amerine, Professor Emeritus of Enology, University of California, Davis: "an indispensable source of information on what has been published on the subject of grapes, wines and related subjects in English." Over 3,200 entries, biographies of most of the more prominent writers, and over 1,000 annotations,… Read More

Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt, 1965. Yellow cloth-covered boards, black paper spine label, 9 x 5 3/4 inches, 173 pp. Very good. (3214021). F. Hardcover.

Doubleday; Garden City, New York, 1972 First edition, with dustcover. Black and tan cloth-covered boards, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 222 pp, b/w photo illustrations. Book fine. Dustcover very good (price clipped, moderate edgewear, still quite attractive). "An intimate account of the little-known years of Che Guevara leading up to the Cuban invasion --- years which changed an intellectual theorist into a dedicated revolutionary activist." By his first wife, Hilda Gadea. (3214045). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

John Churchill, London, 1849 First edition. NOT print on d e m a n d. Cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (still bright), blind stamped front and rear boards, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 232 pp., 8 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Good (chipping, spine ends; small label pasted on upper spine; sunning; binding tight and pages clean). (3214002). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1927. Printed wraps, 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches, 310 pp. + 31 pp. ads in rear. Very good. "Tauchnitz Edition; Collection of British and American Authors; Vol. 4784". "Copyright edition". "In one volume". "Not to be introduced into the British Empire". An early reprint edition, softbound, in very good condition, with nice paper and printing, and with a high-quality sewn binding, for the price of a cheaply made modern paperback edition. (3214034). Soft cover.

Gamble-Skogmo, Inc., 1940 Stapled wraps, illustrated covers, 10 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches, 55 pp., extensively illustrated in b/w. Very good. (K073). Soft cover. Very Good.

E.N. Gardner; Henderson, N.C.; 1952. Scarce. Stiff red wraps, 7 x 5 1/4 inches, 92 pp. VG (library card in rear pocket, no other library markings; moderate edgewear). "Six months ago I left the Haneda airport in Tokyo to return to the responsibilities of a pastorate in the States. In my possession was a journal kept along the way: not intended for publication at the outset, containing much personal and intimate material. It is hoped that in this writing there is reflected somthing of the rich possibilities for Christian leadership, and the joyous and quick response of thoughtful Japanese to the claims of Christ. What I saw God doing through His Holy Spirit in Japan is evidence of a Power that will continue until the glory of the Lord has arisen upon all nations of the earth." (3214006). F. Soft cover.

The Bookman's Journal, London, 1928 No. 25 of 520 numbered copies. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), top edge gilt, 9 x 6 inches, 146 pp., index. Signatures partly unopened. Near fine. (1722RO118). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960. First edition. Gray cloth-covered boards, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 281 pp., references, index. VG (a little underlining of text, limited to preface; previous owner's name and address in ink, front pastedown). No dustcover.. F. Hardcover.

B. C. Decker; Philadelphia, 1984 Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering (bright), 10 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches, 445 pp., index, figures, tables. Very good plus - near fine. From the Preface: "This, the second edition of Current Therapy in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery follows the format of the first edition in that the book is dedicated entirely to treatment. This edition is entirely new. Although many of the topics are the same, the authors are not. Thus, many points of view differ substantially from the previous edition, and a number of topics that were not discussed before have been included: otomycosis, facial nerve neuroma, hemifacial spasm, failed rhinoplasty, tumors of the ear, esthesioneuroblastoma, carcinoma of the nasopharynx, angiofibroma, cancer of the lip, malnutrition from cancer of the head and neck, hyperparathyroidism, headache, septal perforation, nasal dermoids, malignant exophthalmos, cleft palate repair, stomatitis, temporomandibular joint syndrome,… Read More

Globe Gear Company Philadelphia (no date) Illustrated stiff card covers, 6 x 3 5/8 inches, 139 pp., b/w illustrations. Very good (mild edgewear; previous owner's sticker on front cover; pages clean and binding tight). (1722RO090). Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Collamore Press, D. C. Heath; Lexington, 1982 First edition. Tan cloth-covered boards, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, 229 pp., index, illustrations. Book and dustcover near fine. ISBN 0669036307 (1722RO068). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Anansi, Toronto, 1968 True first edition (preceeding the City Lights edition). Fine, with the scarce errata slip (folded cardstock). Wraps, printed/illustrated covers, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 38 pp. One of 6000 copies (most of which were destroyed by the thought police). "All things hang like a drop of dew / Upon a blade of grass" Contents: History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America; Understand that this is a dream; New York to San Fran; Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening to the Fugs Sing Blake. "These are compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor not poems: journal notations put together conveniently, a mental turn-on printed across the border by long hair youthful exiles disunited from these States by the war of sighs and spears." (3214030). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine.

Artists' Workshop Press, Detroit, 1966. First separate edition (first published in Pa'lante magazine). Printed/illustrated/stapled wraps, 8 5/8 x 7 inches, unpaginated. Very good (moderate uniform browning of pages due to the inherent quality of paper used, not brittle; originally folded/stapled a little obliquely/off-center; small chip, 1/8 inch, bottom edge of title page near right corner). From the rear cover: "Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution is an important statement on consciousness-expansion by the major American poet Allen Ginsberg. Originally written in 1961 from Greece, the essay first appeared in the 1st (and only) issue of PA'LANTE magazine, published in 1962 and long out of print. This Artists' Workshop Press reprint makes the statement available to the poet's 1966 audience, at a time when there is much need for direction and guidance. The world is a far different place now, but Ginsberg's account of his own struggle against the prison of western… Read More

Evergreen Review, New York, 1965. Wraps, photo-illustrated front cover, 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 95 pp., b/w illustrations. Very good (moderate edgewear, mostly to spine; mild foxing, contents page and rear cover; otherwise, clean and tight). Includes The Boston Trial of "Naked Lunch", with Mailer and Ginsberg; From "Justine", by The Marquis de Sade; Sex, Race and Racism, by Nat Hentoff. (3214010). F. Soft cover.

The Grafton Press, New York, 1901. First edition. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Scarce, especially signed. Dark blue/black cloth-covered boards, gilt- and white-stamped illustration of the Manhattan skyline on upper front board (gilt still bright), 7 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches, 164 pp. Fair (wear, white lettering, spine; wear, upper spine end, with 5/16 inch tear to cloth; spine slant; soiling, top edge of book block; foxing, varying from mild to moderate; damp stain, lower right aspect of book block; binding intact). The author was a physician in New York. "The following pages are the result of twenty-five years of study and observation of the people and conditions which exist on Manhattan Island. That a very large percentage of all sorts and conditions of people lead an artificial life here, no one can successfully deny. This manner of life has brought about a condition of mind, body, and soul, which I have endeavored to describe under the title of Newyorkitis.… Read More

Gottingen, bei Johann Christian Dieterich, 1789. First edition. Volume 3 (of 3) only (complete in itself). A scarce and important bibliography with evaluations of publications dealing with venereal diseases from 1700 to 1789 in this volume. Also, an appendix with early Spanish-American works. Small octavo, contemporary 3/4 leather and paper-covered boards, pp. 398-933, index. Good (substantial edgewear and wear to leather externally; modest foxing; binding tight). (3214016). F. Hardcover.

(Imperial, Ecclesiastical and Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine; no place), 1955., 1955 Second edition (first edition was 1945). "Several pages have been added to this edition in order to give more information on the present Order." Stapled wraps, stiff red printed covers, 9 x 6 inches, 40 pp., illustrations. Very good plus (near fine). Rare (no OCLC library holdings). (3214010). 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

World Book Encyclopedia Science Service, Houston, 1964 An exceptional copy of the apparent first edition, book and dustcover fine. Blue fabrikoid-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, gilt front board decoration, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches, 248 pp. The priority of the two dustcover variants is unknown. (1722RO083). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

University Park Press, Baltimore, 1974 Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 456 pp., index. Card pocket, front pastedown; no other library markings. Very good (sunning, spine; slight warp to boards; pages clean and binding tight). (1722RO088). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.