Search Results: Authors starting with G from 64 Books

Signed and inscribed by the author on the ffep with a cartoon drawing. Good condition hardcover with strongly bumped bottom corners and bottom edge. Stated first edition, full number line. Illustrated with color and black and white drawings, 32 pp.

Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page. VG condition quarto hardcover, lightly rubbed corners.
A sketchbook by definition, New Orleans Sojourn is French artist Gersin's travel diary, written in French, from his three-month trip to New Orleans. Gersin chose New Orleans for its aura of culture, history, music, and soul, and immersed in the local atmosphere, he documented the city its day-to-day life, history, myths, and folklore, as well as his impressions in the form of notes and detailed illustrations. New Orleans Sojourn is a unique glimpse into a first-time visitor's sojourn to New Orleans.

Signed on the title page by the author. Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket, stated first edition, 191 pp.
Spike Gillespie tells it like it is. Whether she's writing about men, mothering or money, she cuts to the chase, unabashedly recounting the exhilaration and uncertainty she is forever encountering along the odd path that is her life. Gillespie approaches her subjects with a keen eye for curious details and a readiness to ask hard questions and give honest, even brutal, answers. Her willingness to "put it all down - the painful, the funny, the mundane, the embarrassing" has won legions of readers for her print and online columns.

Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author. VG+ condition softcover, 154 pp. "Don't let anyone tell you that Holocaust memoirs are all alike; each is a pair of eyes. Children are a special kind of witness…In the end, Golan's story is a 'Bildungsroman.' There is a destination after all, and by the time they reach it, parents and children will find themselves, inevitably, worlds apart." -(From the preface by Bette Howland, MacArthur 'genius' Award Winner).

Signed by the author on ffep, 1971 3rd printing. VG condition hardcover in VG condition price-clipped dustjacket.

Near fine condition quarto softcover, light corner wear, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs, french folds, 168 pp.

VG+ condition quarto hardcover in good dustjacket with several tears and folds to front cover corners, text clean and unmarked. Texts by Ralf Grauel, Matthias Harder, Iggy Pop and Sting. German, English and French language. 113 illustrations in duotone, 4 foldouts, 208 pp.
"Olaf is blessed with a clear and inescapable German eye. You better run, or fight back." -Iggy Pop.

Olaf Heine (born 1968 in Hannover) is one of today's most successful and sought-after portrait photographers. The list of the musicians, actors, athletes, and writers he has taken portraits of is almost endless. Despite their fame, which can indeed be felt, they appear human, sensitive, vulnerable, and approachable. "I stage many of my photo shoots and let the artists slip into a variety of roles."
The photographs relate stories about modern city-dwellers. They are snapshots from films that were never made. Some of the images seem familiar. They adorn numerous album covers, have appeared as photo spreads in magazines and… Read More

VG condition hardcover, lots of writing on endpapers, rubbed edges and corners, 270 pp.

VG condition softcover, bumped head of spine, clean and unmarked, huge 12" x 12" format, 180 pp.

Good condition softcover, lightly creased spine, well-rubbed covers and corners, name stamp on fore-edge and first page, underlinings and written notes on several pages, 331 pp. Essays by Albert J. Guerard and Claire Rosenfield.

Inscribed and signed on the half-title page with a small cartoon drawing by the author. VG+ condition softcover, 128 pp.