Search Results: Titles starting with G from Uncommon Works

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition in a very good plus dust jacket. Red paper boards with black title stamping to spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Jacket shows sunning and toning, no chips or tears. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. xi, 190 pp. including index. Octavo.

[Wiesbaden]: Insel-Verlag, 1954. First Thus. Pictorial boards. Fine/near fine. A fine two-volume set of the German translation in near fine dust wrappers. First thus in this translation. Text in german. Green pictorial boards with a ribbon marker in both volumes.Volume I dust wrapper shows a small hole on front, both dust wrappers have label residue on lower spine. .A lovely set. 591 pp. total, duodecimo. The Tale of Genji ( Genji monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century. The original manuscript no longer exists. It was made in "concertina" or "orihon" style: several sheets of paper pasted together and folded alternately in one direction then the other, around the peak of the Heian period. The work is a unique depiction of the lifestyles of high courtiers during the Heian period, written in archaic language and a poetic and confusing style that make it unreadable… Read More

San Francisco: Williams Printing Company, ca. 1940's. Early Printing. Original wraps. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus, original dinner menu from Mardikian's famed San Francisco restaurant. Special of the day stapled in small format to menu. Minor peeling to rear corner. 9 x 12 & 1/2 inches tall when folded. Mardikian was among America’s first celebrity chefs and was as close to a Guy Fieri figure as San Francisco had — in terms of fame, relentless optimism and generosity. Fine-dining guides and Chronicle columnist Herb Caen celebrated him, NBC gave him his own radio show in the 1940s, and he wrote an autobiography and cookbook.-- SF Gate "America’s 'best known and best loved' chef ran a world-famous Armenian restaurant in San Francisco

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1930. Limited Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/good +. A very good limited edition (1 of 1000 copies,regular edition on India antique paper) in a good plus dust jacket. Brown quarter cloth under green paper boards. Bottom edges worn. Binding is sturdy, tight, and square. Uniform toning to first free endpaper. Deckled pages. Dust jacket showing a scotch tape repair and loss on crown, inner flap, and rear edge. 97 pp. Octavo.

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/poor. A good plus first edition, as stated, in a poor dust jacket. Buckram covered boards with brown crest and title stamping on spine. Tape marring rear cover, residue on front cover. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Map endpapers showing tape residue.Wartime paper announcemnt on copyright page. In a price clipped dust jacket with loss and tears on spine of jacket, running all the way to front flap. 256 pp. including index. An addition to the Folkways Series of regional books that will have added sales on the strength of the author's name. The text varies from most of these books in focusing largely on the past history of that part of California around San Francisco -- a recapitulation of those factors, -- human, racial, national, geographic, that contributed largely to the growth of that most fascinating and most beloved of American cities. To anyone who knows the region, the book will have nostalgic values, it… Read More

New York: Scholastic, 1974. First Trade Edition. Paperback. Fine. A fine softcover, first trade edition. Appears unread. November 1974.Octodecimo, 6 x 4 inches tall, Mayer's popular and engaging tale of two children's wild search for an unpredictable, elusive, but lovable cat is now available in a trade paper edition. Mayer's lovely text and colorful, whimsical artwork will light children's imaginations and make this a book they'll want to read again and again."

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As new/near fine. A fine first edition (as new) in a very near fine dust jacket, jacket showing a minute tear top edge on back. xii, 292 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Octavo. One of early America's main-traveled highways, the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road has long been in need of a historian to tell its fascinating story. In this eleventh volume of the American Trails Series, Parke Rouse, Jr., the author of several studies of colonial Virginia, chronicles the history of this great artery from its origins as the Appalachian Warriors' Path to its eclipse by railroads, turnpikes, and canals in the nineteenth century, and its revival (with a changed character) in the age of the automobile.Commencing in Philadelphia, the road ran west through Lancaster and York, thence down the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and on into the Carolina backcountry, terminating at Augusta, in South… Read More

Brainerd, Minnesota: Gridley Girls, LLC, 2013. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. As new/as new. An as new (fine), unread, first edition, first state which includes the original fine dust jacket, plus the corrected fine second state jacket. SIGNED by the author in Gridley, California, where it all started. Pink boards with gold title stamping on cover and spine. 358 pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/4 inches tall. Reviewed in Parade Magazine as one of the Top 10 Beach reads of the year 2016, this hardcover edition has content and stories not included in the trade paperback expanded edition. They are the Gridley Girls, now and forever. Meg Monahan is hosting the wedding of her best friend, Anne Calzaretta, while still keeping a secret she's not prepared to face, let alone share.Meg, Anne, Jennifer, and Tonya were known as The Group in their rural town of Gridley, California, in the 1970s. Now living professional lives in Sacramento, they discover that in many ways they are still trapped by… Read More

Brainerd, Minnesota: Gridley Girls, LLC, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. As new/as new. An as new (fine), unread, first edition, with a fine second state dust jacket. SIGNED by the author in Gridley, California, where it all started. Pink boards with gold title stamping on cover and spine. 358 pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/4 inches tall. Reviewed in Parade Magazine as one of the Top 10 Beach reads of the year 2016, this hardcover edition has content and stories not included in the trade paperback expanded edition. They are the Gridley Girls, now and forever. Meg Monahan is hosting the wedding of her best friend, Anne Calzaretta, while still keeping a secret she's not prepared to face, let alone share.Meg, Anne, Jennifer, and Tonya were known as The Group in their rural town of Gridley, California, in the 1970s. Now living professional lives in Sacramento, they discover that in many ways they are still trapped by their high school reputations. Fourteen-year-old Meg kept a secret… Read More

Temple City, CA: Historical Aviation Album, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/none as issued. A very near fine first edition (statement "This is not a reprint" on copyright page.) No dust jacket as issued. Heavy bump to bottom right corner, slight rub to foot, otherwise fine. iii, 105 p., photos, maps. Quarto. The 3rd Bombardment Group (3rd BG), officially 3rd Bombardment Group (Light) was also known by its historical name the 3rd Attack Group (3rd Attack). Nicknamed "The Grim Reapers". Assigned to the 5th Air Force (5th AF) in the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) during World War II. On April 2, 1942 Lt. Col. John H. Davies became the Commanding Officer (C. O.), formally the commander of the 27th Bombardment Group (27th BG). On May 25, 1943 redesignated 3rd Bombardment Group (3rd BG).

New York: Macmillan, 1893. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A very good first edition in one volume. Blue cloth boards with gilt title-stamping. Shelf wear to head and tail of spine.Stain to front cover plus waterstain at base of book. Bookplate and missing label on front pastedown. Previous owner's signature from 1897 on first free endpaper. Book is cocked. 300 pp. plus catalogue [4pp.]. 5 x 8 inches tall.

San Carlos, California: Nourse Publishing Company, 1960. Second Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. A fine second edition, as noted in Worldcat, on the inner flap ("this new edition"), and from the two copyright dates on the copyright page. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with tiny loss in two spots at top edge. Dust jacket is also toned along the top edge on the inside of the jacket, not visible on the exterior. xiv, 235 pages illustrations, 1 map. Octavo. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr."John was the first to write a guide that defined California as a major wine producer with rich histories in the vineyards and the wineries. Many were started by Europeans who valued cultures where food and wine were central to the enjoyment of life. The names and addresses of California wineries were published in one succinct volume with a list of the finest wines being produced at each. John also brought scholarship to… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1868. Pictorial boards. Good. Good condition old school primer. Rubbed green paper pictorial boards with heavy edgewear to boards (paper is completely worn away on bottom right corner). Embossed black leather spine with title in gold. First free endpaper has been torn away. Binding is sound and sturdy. No Dust jacket as issued. 360 pp. Duodecimo, 5 x 7 1/2 inches tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in an equally fine, unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line. xviii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. Octavo. In Los Angeles in the 1920s, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era. It symbolized not merely what FDR would call "a decade of debauchery of group selfishness," but the failed hopes and dreams of the great boom of the 1920s." -- WorldcatFrom the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.