Search Results: Titles starting with G from Evening Star Books

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1897. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [4], iii, [4], 4-373, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt and black decorations on the front board, gilt lettering on the front board and spine, gilt and black decorations on the spine. Institute English Studies, "Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960), novelist and scholar". Born into the Boole family, Voynich was a philosopher, a novelist, and at the end of her life, a bookseller. Her novel here reflects revolutionary sentiments and the publication was greatly popular in the Soviet Union. Light rubbing to the front board and a small lean.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [1], 2-427, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes supplementary notes and explanations of Gaelic grammar. A few discreet pencil marginalia.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], 4-355, [3] pp. Quarter grey cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $25.00 on front flap of jacket.

West Allis, Wisconsin: Burbach Auto Sales, 1959. Postcard. Very Good+. 47.5 c.m. x 27 c.m. Postcard. Orange paper printed in black. The recto states: Gala Showing only at Burbach's; The All New 1959; Plymouth: if it's new Plymouth got it! October 16; Desoto: the 1959 quality car October 24; Burbach Auto Sales; 6201 W. National Ave. - GL. 3-5800 - West Allis 14, Wisconsin; Complete Selection of Guaranteed Used Cars. The recto of the postcard has a Wauwatosa address and postage. A bright promotional flyer from a 1959 used car lot. A few wrinkles to the card.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 3-242, [6] pp. Light purple cloth with purple lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, gold topstain. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 023a. An attractive copy of one of Cain's later novels. Near Fine with a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few tiny hints of wear to the extremities.

Galena, IL: Works Progress Administration [Sponsored by The City of Galena], 1937. First edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [6], 9-79, [1] pp. Blue paper wrappers printed in blue and gold. Illustrated with a frontispiece etching, several etched in-text and full-page designs, and around ten plates of black and white photographs at the end. A folding color map tipped in the rear. Part of the American Guide Series. Bruccoli B2. Compiled and written by Federal Writers' Project (Illinois) Works Progress Administration. Nelson Algren wrote eight chapters of this guide, including the section on U.S. Grant and the history of the town's economy. With interviews of the residents of Galena, and a blurb on the Native American burial grounds in the area. The history of Galena's mining and farming industries, and its natural history is also discussed. The guide has a brief history of Ulysses S. Grant and how he made his home in Galena. A historic guide to the legends, sights, and scenery of the charming town of… Read More

[Madison, WI]: The University of Wisconsin Press (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xxxix, [5], 6-323, [3] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with in-text diagrams. Translated and with notes from Stillman Drake, the famous historian of science and at one time, the world's leading Galileo scholar. With the bookplate of a physicist on the front pastedown, a few of his pencil marginalia throughout; jacket with some edge wear to its spine panel.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 346 pp. Quarter maroon cloth over white cloth with a maroon decoration on the front board with gold lettering on the spine; pink topstain. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several black and white plates. With a bibliography and an index. Goodwater 468: "The only major account in English of the life of Galla Placidia...copiously footnoted, the book combines scholarship with readable prose." Fading to the topstain; jacket shows a tiny nick to the front fold.

[New York]: HarperCollins Publishers [2005], 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [2], 1-256, [2] pp. Quarter orange paper over yellow paper boards with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $15.99 on the rear panel of the dust jacket. With several in-text illustrations. The sequel to The Birchbark House.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], 2-326 pp. Quarter navy cloth over beige paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $22.95 on front flap of jacket. Edges of boards very slightly bowed; jacket is close to Fine.

[San Francisco]: Straight Arrow Books [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 11-254, [2] pp. Black faux-leather boards with gold lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs, full-page and in-text. A counterculture highlight: the Rolling Stone's interview with the lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia reflects on the importance of getting high, and on the history of the band and their music. A touch of wear to the extremities.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [7], 7-332, [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine. Attractive Near Fine book in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with edge wear and a few hints of rubbing.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-247, [3] pp. Light brown-paper-covered boards quarter-bound in white cloth with black lettering on the spine and Hemingway's name stamped in blind on the front board, grey topstain. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Grissom A.60.1.a. The topstain largely faded away; mildly toned dust jacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster [1999], 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [12], 15-479, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over yellow paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with a few designs on the chapter title pages.

New York: Science Fiction Book Club (2003), 2003. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [11], 4-673, [7] pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. The first science fiction book club printing. An omnibus including the novels Old Tin Sorrows, Dread Brass Shadows, and Red Iron Nights. Near Fine with a tiny separation between the backstrip and the textblock; jacket is Fine.

Chicago: Institute of Gas Technology, 1966. Pamphlet. Very Good+. 27.5 c.m. x 21.5 c.m. A four-page pamphlet printed on one folded sheet. Printed in blue, black, and white. Illustrated with a few photographs. A pamphlet on the current advances in fuel cells and gas technology in the mid-twentieth century. Two folded lines going across each leaf, otherwise very sharp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [14], 5-321, [3] pp. White cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $25.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket.

New York: Random House [1963], 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [9], xi-xii, [2], 3-306, [2] pp. Quarter brown cloth over orange paper boards with red lettering on the front board and gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a map. Slight lean, else very near Fine in a dust jacket with a crease to the front panel.

Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press [2000], 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 1-290 pp. Orange paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several full-page black and white photographs. A history of the United States Government's mistreatment of the Chiricahuas, with a special focus on Geronimo and Lieutenant Gatewood. A touch of sunning to the spine.

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book (2009), 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Large 8vo. [4], 5-783, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $29.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a facsimile of the author's signature printed on the title page. Illustrated with a double-page map and several in-text designs. Book twelve of The Wheel of Time. A Very Good+ book with a small push to the top textblock and the front board very slightly bowed; jacket is Near Fine with a small dampstain to the reverse of the rear panel.