Search Results: Authors starting with G from Century Books

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine condition.. Very light edgewear. Green cloth. Approximately 8.5 by 5.5 inches. 137 pages including index. Contents are: What Is Social Medicine?; The 'Failure' of Modern Medicine; Etiological Medicine; The Epidemic Constitution; Mortality and Morbidity; Social Medicine and Medical Education; Social Medicine in England; Bibliography; and Index.

Peace Corps, 1977. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illustrated by Nancy Bergau; edited by Jim Seaton and Peter Hunt. 8.5 x 11 staple bound. Program & Training Journal Manual Series Number 6. 235 pages.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. A little shelfwear, else fine. Author's ninth book featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond. 007 is up against Brokenclaw Lee, a ruthless San Francisco villain.

New York: Otto Penzler Books, [1993]. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Near Fine condition. Light shelfwear, else fine. Publisher's promotional letter laid in. Advanced Reading Copy.

Reading, Mass.: Addisen-Wesley, 1994. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.. Remainder marks on bottom edge, a little scuffing on dust jacket. Small stain on bottom edge of boards and dust jacket. Still a very nice copy. Introduction by Charles Johnson. Published posthumously, book brings together author's essays and reviews on his fellow writers.

New York: Science House, 1971. Hardback. Good condition. A little soil on cover, previous owner label on half-title page. Describes the mutual storytelling technique in which the child first tells a story, the therapist 'surmises its psychodynamic meaning' and responds with a story of his own.

New York: Jason Aronson, [1983]. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Light edgewear on dust jacket.

Denver, Colo., 1970. Softcover. Good condition. Contributors include: Robert G. Young, D.F. Cardinal, J. Joseph Haverfield, R.K. Taylor, Robert J. Weimer, Paul R. Krutak, James H. Clement, Gordon L. Dolton, C.M. Boos, J.W. Nance, Lon Raymond, Fred Reid, Lee C. Gerhard, Ronald B. Chase, Gary Hall, and Jim Bullock. Memorial dedication to Charles W. Ellis, Jr. and Norman Lee Johnson. 252 pages plus several pages of ads.

Pleasantville, NY: The Akadine Press/Common Reader, 1996. Hardback. Fine condition. Lovely edition of Gibson's classic family chronical. Maroon cloth with gold lettering, gray endpapers. 431 pages.

Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Remainder mark. Author was described by Andrew Vachss as someone who 'makes Camus look like Pollyanna.' Also wrote the novel Wild at Heart, which was made into a film by David Lynch. Esquerita Reyna (Baby Cat-Face) meets up with wild characters in her journeys through love, fundamentalist religion and extraterrestrial activity in the American south.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Faint corner wear on dust jacket and two very small patches where a sticker was removed from lower rear corner. Collection of 12 short stories.

Ballantine, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Mrs. Pollifax (grandmotherly CIA agent who is half Miss Marple, half James Bond) travels to Syria to try to track down a young American woman who disappeared after saving the lives of more than 200 passengers on a hijacked plane.

New York: International Universities Press, [1973]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Good in Good dust jacket.. Some light pencil marks in text. Dust jacket is stained and wrinkled. JAMA review of the book laid in. Selection of Gitelson's papers from the 1930s to the 1960s. Introduction by Paul Kramer.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1942. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover. Fold-out maps and geologic maps present and in very good condition.

Intercourse, PA: Good Books, [1989]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. More than 300 recipes, 224 pages. Color photos. Historical sketches by Stephen Scott.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. Hardback. Good in Good dust jacket. Green cloth binding with gold illustration and lettering. Oversized oblong book, measures approximately 13.25 by 16.25 inches. 306 pages. Missing rear free endpaper. Book was wet at some point and the lower one-quarter to one-third of pages are wavy from moisture. Many pages show tide marks. Dust jacket has a little waviness. One scratch on front (visible in scan), a few scratches on back. A remarkable book, despite flaws. Contains 246 illustrations, 88 in full color, some fold-outs. Also contains three 'artistic statements' by Hopper, biographical outline, selected bibliography and index.

New York: Random House, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Remainder mark, else fine. 38-year-old Anne is a 'good' mother and 'good' person and yet she finds herself disturbed by the young woman who cares for her children, a deeply religious and somehow unlovable creature.

Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming, 1978. Softcover. Good condition. Ph.D. Thesis. Comb binding. 85 pages.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1982]. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Previous owner notation on first free endpaper, light shelfwear on dust jacket, else fine. Begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and continues through Cleopatra, covers developments in politics, science, medicine, philosophy, literature, the fine arts and the role of women.

New York: Basic Books, [1974]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Previous owner name on bottom edge, some light shelfwear