Search Results: Titles starting with G from Hardy Books

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1999. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. 175 (1) pp. SIGNED in ink by Maria Cooper Janis on the half title. Illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by Tom Hanks. Photographic endpapers. Profusely illustrated, including many family photographs. Gray boards; gilt cover and spine titling. 9 1/2" x 11 1/2". A beautifully drawn intimate portrait of the Gary Cooper family by his beloved daughter. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. (15) 331 (1) pp. Illustrated dust jacket, with $6.95 price. Illustrated, including maps of The Moromon Trail. Index. Purple cloth.6 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of The American Trail Series, edited by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Per the jacket blurb: "Close to the heart of Mormondom is the almost stylized memory of the Trail. For every early Saint, crossing the plains to Zion was not merely a journey, but a rite, the final devoted and enduring act that brought one into the Kingdom." A Fine copy in a Very Good Plus or better dust jacket (pencil numbering to rear cover, spine toning; edgewear, especially to spine-ends). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

South Brunswick & New York: Poetry Society of America, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 63 pp. Dust jacket. Illustrated, including frontispice portrait of George Sterling from photograph, with facsimile signature. Foreword, including Sterling biographical material by Charles Angoff (1902-1972), managing editor of Americna Mercury magazine and professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Octavo. Green cloth. Significant curated selection of Sterling's poetry included. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail , to any United States address.

Paris: Musee de L'Orangerie, 1974. First Edition. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL French art exhibition poster for an exhibit of the works of GEORGES BRAQUE at "Orangerie des Tuileries" (Musee de L'Orangerie) in Paris. The image measures 17 3/4" x 23 3/4". With the linen mounting border: 27 1/2" x 21 3/4". The poster features a bird in silhouette by Braque and the artist's signature, on a blue field. The exhibition was held from October 17, 1973 to January 14, 1974. The Musee de L'Orangerie is a gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintngs located in the corner of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. The poster has been expertly linen mounted and is certainly ready for framing. FREE SHIPPING to any United States address.

New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition, Limited. Half leather over marbled boards. Near Fine. 199 pp. This edition limited to 200 copies, of which 185 were for sale and 15 were for presentation, This copy is #23, SIGNED in ink by Robinson Jeffers on the limitation page. Half leather over marbled boards with a gilt band. T.E.G. A Near Fine copy (spine rubbed) in a black custom slipcase. A handsome book. Alberts 75. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

The Book Club of California, 1975. First Edition thus. Cloth-backed boards. Fine/Very Good +. (6), xii, (4), 34 pages. Illustrated endpapers and in-text illustrations. Introduction by Sister Mary Dominic Ray of Dominican College, San Rafael, California. Leather backed illustrated boards. Limited to 450 un-numbered copies by Cranium Press. Small octavo. Plain paper dust jacket with spine lettering, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. Many unopened pages. First edition thus after the 1856 first edition. A collection of songs performed by Martin and his troupe, which included Lotta Crabtree, then about 8 years old. A very fine copy in a dust jacket discolored from the leather spine, as usual. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 75 (3) pp. Edition limited to 2350 un-numbered copies. Illustrated from vintage prints from the Bancroft Library. Vintage map endpapers. Introduction by historian Kenneth Johnson. Designed by Lewis Osborne and printed by George Waters of San Francisco. Beige buckram cloth; gilt front cover illustration and spine titling. 10 1/2" x 7 ". The letters of physician J. D. B. Stillman, M.D. concerning his coming to Gold Rush California and practice in Sacramento in 1849-50. Includes material on the voyages, camps,The Squatter Riots and the Sacramento flood of 1850. Some of Dr. Stillman's letters appeared in the Overland Monthly. Kurutz 605d. A Fine copy now in a custom, clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1981. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 96 pp. SIGNED in ink by photographer Stanley Truman on the limitation page. Edition limited to 950 copies, of which this is #512. Profusely illustrated from black and white phtographs of California Gold Country scenes. Book design by John Beyer. Pictorial endpapers. Cloth-backed boards. 9 1/4" x 12 1/4". A beautiful collection of Gold Country photographs, reproduced on Karma Natural, Basis 100, by double-impression offset lithography with varnished images. Sans slipcase. A Near Fine copy (slightly sunned spine and front cover), now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Nevada City, California: Berliner & McGinnis, 1948. 1st Edition. Cloth. Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. (xi) (1) 64pp. A presentation copy to Nevada City leading citizen George Calanan, signed by author H.P. Davis on a front free endpaper: "To George Calanan who, in his forty-three years of public life, has emulated the courage resourcefulness and integrity of the fouinders of the town he has so faithfully served. April 2 1951 H. P. Davis". Newspaper clippings regarding Calanan affixed to endpapers. Illustrated. Folding historical map of Nevada City, drawn by Author Davis, at back of book. Red cloth. 5 1/2" x 8". An early imprint of the late co-publisher Harold Berliner, who was a fine press printer and former District Attorney of Nevada County. A colorful Gold Rush history of Nevada City (earlier called simply "Nevada"), the county seat of Nevada County. A Good plus copy (Re-backed; pages wrinkled; front cover cloth blemished), and now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. Scarce. ALWAYS FREE… Read More

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 192 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown cloth. Gilt cover and spine titling. 6" x 9 1/4". Charles McCabe authored a very popular San Francisco Chronicle column, called The Fearless Spectator. It was said that he would finish his column early each morning and then stride over to Gino and Carlo, a North Beach saloon, for several bottles of "green death" (Rainier ale). This book is a collection of his best Chronicle columns concerning alcohol, a subject about which the author's knowledge was encyclopedic. Certainly a book for San Franciscans, wherever they may be. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket (price-clipped; spine-sunned as usual with this title; slight edgewear at spine-ends), now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.

Berkelely: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1965. (Mylar) First Edition. Small Quarto. xiii, 119 pages. Illustrated including plates, portraits and facsimiles. Frontis portrait from photograph by Marjorie Farquhar. Bibliography. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Largely unopened. Terra cotta cloth with gilt front cover initials and gilt spine titling. A tribute in honor of George P. Hammond's tenure as head of The Bancroft Library. Essays by Dale L. Morgan, Charles L. Camp, Warren R. Howell, J.S. Holliday, Susanna Dakin, among others. Includes "Impressions of Spain in 1923", Hammond's first appearance in print. A FINE copy in a clear mylar protective jacket. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1921. First Edition. Cloth-backed Marbled Boards. Very Good Plus/Custom Clear Mylar. (vi) 70 pages. First edition. #43 of a limited edition of 300 copies.Terra cotta cloth-backed marbled boards. Octavo. Title in black and red; captions in red. Handset Garamond type. Handmade French paper. The first book printed by The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California.Some soiling and edgewear; offset to front endpapers; still a Very Good Plus or better copy, now in a custom, clear mylar protective jacket. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.