Search Results: Authors starting with G from Monkey House Books

Florence: Ramella, 1957. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. Vintage guidebook. 271 pages, wear & soil. Practical guidebook with 205 b/w illustrations and a map of the town. Itineraries, historical notes, museums, galleries, churches, ruins, etc.

South-Western Publishing Company, 1950. Light blue cloth, black & red decorative cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Textbook, Fourth Edition. Presents the world's resources, products, etc. by country and region. Maps. 693 pages, index. Well-illustrated. Ex-library, spine label. Wear to covers.

New York: Fanning Publishig Company, 1997. Softcover magazine. Very Good. Bimonthly arts publication. 80 pages, light wear. Robert Rauschenberg, Leonardo's Codex Leicester, Weegee, Camille Pissarro, interview with Michael Wilson, Simone Cantarini. Volume 2, number 2.

London: Sevenoaks, 2013. Large format softcover. Good Plus.. A frabjous puzzle challenge, inspired by Alice's adventures. Covers curled and creased, internals clean. 256 pages.

Small, Maynard & Company, 1907. Green cloth boards, black decoration and white titling on cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Story of an old man looking back on his life by the author of 'Jarwick the Prodigal' and 'Tatterly.' Gallon was a British playwright and novelist. 315 pages, text unmarked. Uncut edges. Slight warp, hinges starting, wear to ends and corners, edges of backstrip. Owner's info penciled on ffep.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Dark gray boards, black stamped cover & spine. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket. Drama of labor/strikers and management, set in Tin Plate Works, by the author of The Forsyte Saga and many other works. Originally published 1909. Paginated 169-263. A bit dingy but in good solid condition overall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Dark green-gray paper boards, dark green stamped cover & spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. By the author of numerous novels, short stories, verse and plays. A few scene layout drawings. Set in a little hotel in Paris. 125 pages, text unmarked. Some dampstaining.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Purple cloth boards.. Good/No Dust Jacket. First Edition, Scribner ""A."" 365 pages, by the author of The Forsyte Saga. Spine faded, some discoloration. Reading copy, solid but not handsome. Galsworthy, 1867-1933, was an English novelist and playwright, social satirist known for his portrayals of the upper middle class. He won a Novel Prize in 1932.

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. Light green cloth boards, decorative white/blue/green cover bouquet of lilies entwined with a snake.. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. April printing. 336 pages. Edgewear, previous owner's inked signature on flyleaf. Text clean and square. Bradford, 1863-1932, was a writer of fiction who later found his calling in biography, pioneering the psychography.

Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1899. Dark green cloth boards, gilt/black/blue/white decorative illustrated cover, gilt-stamped spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Text in German Frakturschrift. Roman in zwei Banden. Erster Band. Grote'sche Sammlung von Werken zeitgenossischer Schriftsteller. Sechsundsechzigster Band. 244 pages. Cover illustration of a dark forest. Rubbing & wear to covers, ends and corners frayed, bookstore sticker on fep. Back cover has some metallic paint (?) stuck on.

Audin Editeur., [no date] c.1940s. Softcover. Fair.. Text in French. 125 pages, soiled, covers separating. Chips, losses, stains, tanned pages, faded covers. Illustrated plates.

Buenos Aires: Longseller, 2007 [1936]. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good. Play about matriarchal domination and sexual repression. Text in Spanish/Espanol. Clasicos de Siempre, Joyas del Teatro. Teatro Espanol. 173 pages, Prologo de Silvina Beatriz Marsimian. Lorca, 1898-1936, was Spain's best-known modern poet and playwright.

Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition very good. Text in Italian. Traduzione di Dario Puccini. Titolo dell'opera originale 'Cronica de una Muerte Anunciada' and known in English as Chronicle of a Death Foretold. 126 pages, slight discoloration to jacket edges. Garcia Marquez was born in Colombia in 1928 and became one of the best-known 20th century writers. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and is remembered particularly for 100 Years of Solitude.

Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International, 1989. Softcover. Near Fine.. Radio Control Handbooks. For the radio control modeller. 643 pages. Well-illustrated in b/w. Appendices.

New York and London: D. Appleton & Company, 1909. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Broad overview of the history of Italian literature, from Dante and Petrarch, through Boccaccio, chivalric poetry, Machiavelli, 17-19th century prose & poetry, and contemporary works. 431 pages, index, bibliographical notes. Pages clean, binding solid. Ends bumped and worn, top frayed.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1958. Gray boards, dark brown-stamped spine. Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Dust jacket by Jules Gotlieb.. World War II war novel covers from D-Day to the Bulge, ""savagely realistic."" Second printing, 320 pages. Jacket has some wear & tear, backstrip and inside of jacket soiled, faded & torn, creasing especially to spine.

Chicago: Northfield Publishing, 2016. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. Coping with and caring for people with Alzheimer's Disease. Case studies, resources, everyday challenges, etc. Brief underlining in Foreword.

New York: H. M. Caldwell Company, [no date, c.1900]. Hardcover, green cloth, decorative spine. Good. Small handy volume, 330 pages, several b/w illustrations. Wear to spine ends, a few pages dinged/creased. Cranford, originally published in 1853, was presented as a BBC television program in 2007. It features several quaint old ladies & their social circle. Gaskell, 1810-1865, was an English novelist who depicted country and village life; she was friends with fellow female writers Charlotte Bronte & George Eliot.

Garden City, New York: The Basin Publishing Co., 1990. Maroon cloth boards. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on first leaf: ""To Raymond & Mary, Merry Christmas Georgia."" First Edition. Author's memoir of her travels as a young woman in the late 1930s, on the eve of World War II. 334 pages. Dust jacket has some wear & tear.

New York: Amistad Press, 1993. Trade paperback.. Good.. Ex-library with spine label and rear free endpaper removed, 322 pages. Some shelfwear and spine fading, otherwise no major flaws. Reviews of and essays on Gloria Naylor's novels and their themes.