Search Results: Titles starting with G from Better Read Than Dead

Onitsha, Nigeria: All Star Press. Unidentified printing. Saddle-stapled octavo in illustrated red card wraps. 52pp. Bumped to bottom fore corner, some soiling, foxing, edgewear; staples rusted with age; Very good.. Later reproduction of this Onitsha Market pamphlet Onitsha Market literature, printed and distributed at the Onitsha Market (Nigeria's largest open-air market), consists of moralist and folkloric tales, remarkable as signposts of the specific crossroads of an oral culture being dually translated into the English language and the printed word.

New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1983. Hardcover octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, xvi, 273 pp. Very Good, corners bumped with resultant fraying, ink stamps from former owners on flyleaf, half-title, and rear free endpaper, light soiling to edges of boards, 1/2" hole on front free endpaper where sticker has been removed./Very Good jacket, handling and shelving wear, some peeling along edges of jacket head, 1/4" chip out of crown of rear panel, light damping to back of rear panel, some soiling to front and rear panels..

FotoEvidence. No Binding. Near Fine. Slight wear to the boards, otherwise this copy is in near fine condition with tight spine and clean, bright pages. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co, 1942. Hardcover, [octavo], maroon cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 377 pp., xix. Very good book; very good dust jacket, wraps worn and soiled.

University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Dust jacket has light wear and slight creases, otherwise this copy is near fine with tight binding, boards and interior undamaged. Bilingual with English text adjacent to Spanish translation. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Mercatorfonds, 2017. Soft cover. Near Fine. Light wear on wrap and a spot on top right of recto, otherwise a near fine copy.

Old Deerfield, MA / Dublin, Ireland: The Deerfield Press / The Gallery Press, 1979. Edition of 300 copies, signed on limitation page. Hardcover, slim [octavo], black cloth boards with gilt lettering in illustrated brown paper dust jacket, 16 pp. with brown end papers. Near Fine/Near Fine, 1" stain to front wrap. Illustrations by Timothy Engelland.

Silvana Editoriale, 2019. Hardcover. Very Good. Faint scratching to boards, light bumping to corners. Tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free or foiling or creasing. Bilingual parallel text, English/ Italian. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Hardcovers, [folios], white cloth boards, orange spine titles, black endpapers, pictorial dust jackets, 262 pp. (Glas); 320 pp. (Glassary). Very good books, top 1/2" boards with mild damping; very good dust jackets, protective mylar partially scotch taped to flaps, light wear overall. Glas was originally published in 1974. This edition translated by John P. Leavey, Jr. and Richard Rand. Glassary was written by John P. Leavey, Jr. with an essay by Gregory L. Ulmer and foreword by Jacques Derrida.

Cambridge, Massachussetts: The MIT Press, 2015. Signature-bound in pictorial wraps, 4to, 600 pp. Like new, in shrink wrap.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth boards, purple spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 104 pp. Near fine book; near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milenda Nan Ok Lee. Inscribed to front free endpaper to literary critic and poet Aldon Nielsen.

Oxford / London / Edinburgh / New York / Toronto / Paris / Braunschweig: Pergamon Press, 1966. First English edition. Hardcover, large octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, illustrated dust jacket, 548 pp. Very good book, spine lightly faded, edges rubbed, lightly worn, text block edges soiled; very good dust jacket, faded, spine ends chipped with short closed tears, edges lightly creased with wear, 1/8" open tears to all flap seam corners.

Chicago: Baker Press, 1965. Second edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, pictorial dust wrapper, 353 pp. Very good book; good dust wrapper, faded, edges chipped and torn.

New York and Cleveland: The World, 1969. First printing. Hardcover green cloth with red lettering and gilt decoration in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 5 1/2" x 8 1/4", 94 pp. Near fine book in very good dust jacket, two close tears around very lightly peeled spine ends, otherwise lightly worn with temperate soiling. Jacket design by Ruffins/Taback.

New York: Random House, 1972. First paperback edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, [112]. Very good condition, spine soiled and creased, edges lightly worn.

New York: Random House, 1972. First paperback edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, [112]. Very good condition, cover lightly soiled, top edge foxed.

Mill Valley, CA: Syzygy Press, 1982. Limited to 1500 copies, of which this is number 22 of 50 signed and numbered copies. Signature-bound, [octavo], in illustrated wraps, 75 pp. Very good. Cover and drawings by Galen Garwood.

New York: Viking Press, 1973. First Paperback Edition. Softcover octavo, illustrated wraps, 760 pp. Very Good, tight square binding, light edgewear, sunning to edges, some rubbing, soiling to wraps and text block, creasing to spine.. First paperback edition of Pynchon's magnum opus, published alongside Viking's First cloth edition.

New York: A. Newton Plummer, 1932. First edition, limited to 2000 copies, this copy unnumbered. Hardcover, large octavo, quarterbound illustrated boards, 318 pp. Very good condition, upper and lower covers scuffed and soiled, board edges rubbed and worn, corners bruised, paper edges dust-soiled, front free endpaper ink marked. A. Newton Plummer's self-published historical study of securities and stock fraud at the New York Stock Exchange in the 1920s. The author supplied data and research to La Guardia to aid his testimony during the Pecora Investigation by Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in March 1932. The aim of the hearings was to reveal how financial institutions knowingly misled investors while consulting values, behavior that was revealed to have led to the 1929 stock market crash. Behaviors that have proved irremediable on Wall Street in the 90 years since. Full-page satirical cartoons at each chapter break.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover [duodecimo]. Green cloth blindstamped to front with gilt lettering to spine. 218 pp. About Very Good, with gently pushed corners and spine ends, forward cock to spine (although it stands up straight by itself), boards lightly rubbed and soiled, cloth creased to rear board, text block mildly soiled and foxed.. True first printing of one of the most enduring and momentous novels of 20th century American literature, with all relevant points: Scribner's seal and 1925 to copyright page; "chatter" on p. 60; "northern" on p. 119; "sick in tired" p. 205; "Union street station" on p. 211. All these would be reset and corrected for the second printing.