Search Results: Authors starting with G from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Moscow, Russia: Moskva "Prosveshhenie, 1986. Soft cover. Good. Book is bumped and slightly curled at fore edge corners. Head and tail of spine are worn with tiny closed tears at tail of spine. Spine edges are a little worn. Aleksey Nikolayevich Bakh (1857-1946) was a well known Soviet era biochemist. 125 pages. Russian language. 5.5" x 8.25

Rock Island, IL: Augustana Book Concern, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Book has a little bumping and wear to head and tail of spine. Light wear to fore edge corners. A tiny bit of wear on fore edge corners and board edges. A few small spots of soiling on boards. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Swedish Language.

San Francisco: Gail Dusenbery and Jacob Herman, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. Wraps are a bit toned; smudge on front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. 77, [3] pages. 8.4 x 5.5 inches. Beat journal, literary and political. Includes pieces by William S. Burroughs, Bob Kaufman, Herbert Huncke, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ed Sanders, Ken Weaver (The Fugs), Douglas Blazek, Claude Pelieu, Georges Battaile, John O'Hara, John Furnival, Alain Jouffroy, Liam O'Gallagher, and others.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania: Reed Hann Litho Co, 2011. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover in illustrated pictorial boards. As new. Illustrated throughout. [272] pages. Oblong format. 8.5 x 11 inches. Two institutional copies located on OCLC. An artistically produced history of the 1911 Austin Dam disaster, being a compilation of historic photographs and images of newspaper stories reporting on the building of the Austin dam in 1909, the scare of 1910, the disaster of 1911, the aftermath, and explanations of the causes of the disaster. The Austin Dam, also known as the Bayless Dam, was a concrete gravity dam, the largest dam of its type in Pennsylvania at the time. The catastrophic failure of the dam in 1911 destroyed much of the town of Austin and killed 78 people.

Portland, Oregon: Prescott Street Press, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good+. Signed by Author(s). Flat signed and dated by Vi Gale. Book has small bumps to fore edge corners. A little light edge wear to wraps. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

s-Gravenhage [The Hague]: Mouton & Co, 1962. Hardcover. Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-non-circulating-library. Blemishes on spine where call number label had been. Parts of the dust jacket have been affixed to endpapers. A few ink stamps; no pocket. Interior is generally clean. Twenty pages of illustrations on plates (including frontispiece). 262 pages. 8.2 x 5.3 inches. Scarce. A detailed history of the theatre in the Texas cities of Houston and Galveston between the years 1838 and 1900. Gives an interesting account of the stars of the stage, the performances, the enterprising managers and theatre owners, their successes and flops, and the evolution of the scene. Includes a list of attractions that were performed at each of the various theatres and stages in the two cities.

San Francisco, CA: California Book Auction Galleries, 1987. Soft cover. Good. Staple-bound booklet. Auction catalog. East (Oriental) and West (Occidental). Wraps soiled: front with coffee(?) droplets, rear with a damp-stain along the bottom edge. Front has a crease to the right bottom corner. Light blemish on first leaf, otherwise clean interior. 6 x 9 inches. 33 pages.

New York: Soho Press, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by the author on the title page. First Edition, first printing (with full number line). Front bottom corner lightly bumped. Dust jacket has very slight edge wear. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 256, [9] pp. 8.5 x 5.75 inches.

[Portland, Oregon]: [Oregon Historical Society], 1920. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by the author on the first page of text to Lewis H. McArthur, the geographic historian and author of Oregon Geographic Names. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. McArthur's own note, regarding the presentation, on the front free endpaper. [9] pages, with many leaves of filler to support the binding. A reprint of Galvani's article, originally issued in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, December 1920.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. First edition, first printing (with full number line on copyright page).Very light soiling/sun toning to top and bottom edges of boards & spine. Remainder mark on bottom near spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has slight curling at the edges with a couple small closed tears. Dj not price clipped. 6.25 x 9.3 inches. 316 Pages.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Constance Garland. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Garland on half-title page. First edition, third printing (December 1926). Black cloth boards with a pictorial stamped in blind, gilt, and burgundy on the front cover. Shelf-side of boards are rubbed. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrated by Constance Garland (dust jacket, endpapers, frontispiece, five full-page illustrations, and vignettes at the head and close of each chapter). 426 pages. Dust jacket shows a small bit of chipping at foot of spine and fore-corners; not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. The third volume in the Middle Border series. In this book, Garland tells the story of a pioneering family of the generation preceding his own, a story of hardship, clean living, and a tremendous expenditure of physical energy in the task of conquering the frontier. The main character, Richard Graham, comes from the east as a young man, by way of the Great… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Ciriello. Stated First Edition. Book has a little wear to the edges of the boards and spine edges. Head and tail of spine are bumped and worn. Price in black wax pencil on the front paste-down. No other marks. Binding is sound. 5.5 x 8.3 inches. 188 Pages. Young-adult historical fiction novel. In 1570, as Christians throughout Europe unite in a Holy League to defeat Turkish invaders, fourteen-year-old Guido of Venice, Italy, leaves the safety of a monastery to serve on a ship his wealthy father has contributed and fights in the Battle of Lepanto.

E.F.M. ?ditions du fer ? marquer, 1988. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Bumping to tail of spine with 0.5" splits at both board-spine edges. Head of spine has smaller 0.25" splits. Wear to fore edge corners with a tiny bit of exposed board. Rubbing to boards. Some scuffs/scratches on rear board. Gift inscription on ffep "To Jim, In memory of 'Pacific' operation, stopping the train in Hadzici. All the best, Colonel Kohn, Langero, 22/1/97". [Note: uncertain, but possibly this is RICM's Regimental Commander (1996-98) Colonel Pierre-Richard Kohn]. All other pages free of marks. Binding is sound. 9.5 x 12.75 inches. 199 pages. French Language. The R?giment d'infanterie chars de marine RICM in French, (R.I.C.M, or Marine Infantry Tank Regiment) is a light cavalry regiment of the French Army heir to the R?giment d'infanterie coloniale du Maroc RICM (R.I.C.M, or Colonial Infantry Regiment of Morocco). Created in June 1915, then designated… Read More

Richmond, Virginia: Seventieth Infantry Division Association, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine; gilt lettering and division insignia on front cover. Boards show slight wear; spine a tad rolled. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrated. iii, 299 pages. A wartime history of the 70th Infantry Division, United States Army, 1943-1945. The division was activated in June 1943 at Camp Adair (Oregon), continued training at Fort Leonard Wood (Missouri), landed at Marseilles in December 1944, and were in combat for 86 days. Active in Alsace-Lorraine and Saarland, they spearheaded the Seventh Army's drive into Germany and were instrumental in stopping Operation Nordwind, Hitler's final offensive. The 70th also incorporated Task Force Herren (under Brigadier General Thomas W. Herren). The 70th was deactivated in October 1945 upon their return to the United States. The author, a combat reporter, and the photographer were both on the scene to witness much of… Read More

Hickory, North Carolina: Hometown Memories, 2015. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Purple boards with gilt lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked. 392 pages. Illustrated with many black-and-white photographs. 11 x 8.5 inches. Dust jacket in an archival mylar sleeve. Written by 324 old-timers (and not-so-old-timers), who remember what life was really like in Southwest Minnesota back in the early years of the twentieth century. These people come from all walks of life and their viewpoint is of people who actually experienced history. They're familiar with the tribulations of the Great Depression; the horrible taste of castor oil; ''outdoor'' plumbing; party line phones; and countless other experiences unknown to today's generation.

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1905. Hardcover. Good-. Dark green cloth with embossed design on front cover (originally stamped in white now mostly rubbed off) and a paste-on illustration of a smiling woman. Boards show general wear with a little fraying. Hinges good. Interior is unmarked. Pages have a bit of scattered small spots of soiling, otherwise generally clean. 304 pages. Scarce. No stated date of publication, but issued between 1901 and 1906 (the years during which the publisher M. A. Donohue & Company was at the address ''407-429 Dearborn Street,'' at it is given on the title page). A romance set in England, in the woods of Warden Forest and in London, with scenes in Earl's Court. The protagonist is a girl of fifteen who falls for a woodsman. The author, Charles Garvice (1850-1920), was a prolific British writer of romance novels who also wrote under the pseudonym Caroline Hart.

Vienna, Austria: Buchgemeinschaft Donauland, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. Book has a couple tiny soil spots on spine. Spine is very slightly cocked. Tape stains on front and rear papers. Gift inscription dated Christmas, 1968 on ffep. All other pages are clean and binding is tight. German Language. 13 x 20 cm. 152 Pages.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good-. Second impression, 1939. Book is lightly bumped and worn at head and tail of spine as well as fore edge corners. Address label from previous owner on front paste-down. Illustrated with twenty-one full-page and an endpaper map. Dust jacket chipped at fore-edge corners and spine ends; head is missing about 6-8mm of material; wear at spine edges; not price clipped; in an archival mylar cover. 361 pages. Autobiographical account of life in a remote Berkshire village, gardening and plant hunting, as well as the author's travels to the Pyrenees, Iceland, the Canary Islands and the Alps. Written in 1938 with the crisis overshadowing the work and the author reconciling himself to the inevitability of war. Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902-1973) was a British writer, poet, botanist, and horticulturalist. In 1960 he was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Lost in Ireland Music, 2007. Soft cover. Good. Spiral bound sheet music with laminated front cover and vinyl rear cover. Has marking and highlighting to music. Texts for piece I by Dylan Thomas and for piece II by U.S. poet laureate William Stafford. 11 x 8.5 inches. 21 Pages. Composed for the Sixth Annual William Stafford Symposium at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon.

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book has slight bumping to head of spine. Small blemish where a round sticker-dot has been on ffep. No other marks to book. Binding is sound. Dust jacket has light wear to upper front fore edge corner. A little rubbing to surfaces with a few tiny scratches on back. First edition (FPu), 1995. 6 x 9 inches. 233 Pages.