Search Results: Authors starting with G from Oshtemo Book Sellers

Courage Books, Philadelphia, 1999. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED first edition/first printing with full # line. Book is fine with on small bump at the top of the spine. Book is unmarked except for the authors signature. jacket is fine with a little wear to the spine ends. Learning the alphabet is easy when you have entertaining animal teachers, including a fox that fiddles, a quail that quilts, and a zebra that zips. Silly Animal ABCs is a pleasure for parents to read and a unique way for children to learn the alphabet. Book is SIGNED and dated by Joan Gallup on the first free end paper with a little heart with wings illustration. Book is a very fine collectible for any library and for any age person. Signed by Author

London: Heinemann, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One of 1030. Near mint copy as new, with slight marks to velum cover. In addition to signature the author has made an inscription that reads, Kieth? "..... unfortunately cures itself" In original tissue with one piece of tape on verso. In nice slipcase, publishers? Brown silk tape page marker as issued A beautiful collectible.

London: Duckworth, 1929. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is Very good with soiled untrimmed fore edge and bottom, which are soiled and gilded top. Spine bottom is gently bumped. jack is good condition with extensive tape repairs to verso, modest chipping at extremities, spine is darkened as are folds. This signed copy is #822 of 1250 copies, of this extensive examination of Galsworthy plays. A fine colectible.

London: Heinemann, 1929. First Trade Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 7.5x5.25. Cloth on top and very slightly marked, otherwise very fine in a very good jacket, spine and edges slightly sunned. Chip on top and bottom of front cover. Chip on top of spine and back of cover.

New York: knopf-Borzoi Books039450238x, 1982. Unrevised and unpublished proofs 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition, in publisher's red wrappers with black printing to cover and spine.This book is the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature. There is a bride who is sent home to her parents in disgrace on the day of her wedding, A scandal and a murder and a bridegroom who feels he has been dishonored. There is a young dandy and a town which is an accessory to all that is going on in the novel. Book is very fine. A rare collectible by arguably one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

New York: knopf-Borzoi Books, 1995. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book in mint unopened, unmarked condition is a near fine unclipped jacket with a slight curl to top of jacket on front and verso. A near perfect package. From the Nobel Prize winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, the story of a doomed love affair between an unruly copper haired girl and the bookish priest sent to oversee her exorcism. Set in South America, the story has priests viceroys, inquisitors, saints, lepers and pirates. And if thats not enough, read the book, it has lots more. Great condition, great story, great collectible.

New York: knopf-Borzoi Books, 1993. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in fine + condition, with a light 3/4" black streak ( magic marker) across red stain at top of text block., else mint in unopened condition. A wonderful collectible copy.

New York: Harper and Row publishers, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book and jacket are Fine to Very fine. Minor wear at spine bottom and lower front corner, Priced (6.95) jacket verso shows slight shelf wear. Fine yellow 1/4 binding over blue cloth. Spine lettering perfect in black. This trenchantly funny metaphysical novel centers around a dirty, boundlessly energetic old seer in ancient Greece. Agathon, the Seer in question, has been imprisoned, along with his disciple Demodoos, for helping to foment a rebellion against Lykourgos, the Spartan tyrant. He cannot resist mixing his wisdom with his innate absurdity: he is rude and disagreeable; he reeks of onions, tells dirty jokes that embarrass everyone; at the same time, he is instinctively fair, honest, and wise. This is a fine Gardner First edition, first issue and very collectible. Now mylar protected.

New York: knopf-Borzoi Books, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mary Azarian. Book in fine condition fine with gray stained text block, Jacket is unclipped ($12.95) , with light wear at spine tips on verso and slight wear at top of spine. jacket has #5/81 at bottom of rear flap. FIRST EDITION/FIRST ISSUE.This is a wonderful collection of ten stories by one of America's most celebrated and admired authors. These are enchanting tales about queens and kings and princesses in magical, timeless, lands; marvelously wame and funny stories that move, amuse, and enlighten us as they probe the mysterious and profound relation between art and life. A great Gardner collectible, protected in Mylar

New York: knopf, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Daniel Biamonte. First edition book is in very fine condition it may be better than that. Cover beautiful except for small brown dots at irregular places. I think it is part of the cloth design. jacket is FIRST ISSUE AS NEW and unclipped(10.00). This fine novel within a novel by one of America's most distinguished and admired novelist is an irresistible metaphysical folktale. It begins on a Midwestern campus as an aging, bespectacled professor of Scandinavian history announces to a younger historian and folklorist, " My son is a monster" In the middle of the night he delivers in the visiting professor's room, Freddy's book.Book has wonderful illustrations by Daniel Biamonte. This fine collectible protected in MYlar

New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. John gardner's On Moral Fiction is criticism with both eyes open, fearless, illumination, proving that the concern of the critic is with art, that true art is moral and not trivial, that it and the discussion of it can give pleasure- of a sort that lasts and re-echoes". Book is in near mint condition, the only flaw being 3 small magic marker dots on fore edge, Jacket is priced ($8.95). Inscribed by author.

About this Item: Authorhouse, 2001. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First edition in fine condition with fine dust jacket. First Books Library. Book is signed on the title page with a nice inscription to a friend. This book is a romantic historical novel. written by the author in his eighty s and centers around a letter received in 1989 by a woman who identified herself as the author's wifes first cousin. They thought their whole family was lost in the holocaust. The book is a work of fiction that is woven around many actual events. Most are horrific but the book shows how decent people never lost their sense of righteousness. A very moving read. Signed by the author. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001480

Suttaby Evance and Fox, London, 1811. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Full leather book with Marbled paste downs and end papers is very tight . Leather spine strap is missing yet still a square solid book. There is an owners signature and pencil price notations on second free paper. Silk page holder is firmly tipped in. This interesting volume contains poems, indexes, songs. ballads, elegies tales, trivia and quite a large amount of useful or useless writings, depending on your tastes. Mr.Gay was quite the thinker and this is a fine 200+ year old collectible.

Argonaut Books, Larchmont, New York, 1961. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. Although John Gay's Beggar's opera is approaching 300 years old, it is still a cherished part of the English theater world. This copy of The Beggar's Opera is a faithful reproduction of the 1729 Edition ( the opera was written in 1728) which includes the words and music of all the airs, as well as the score for the overture. With commentaries by Louis Kronenberger and Max Goberman on the literary and musical background and with the original words of all the airs that John Gay adapted for this work. The Beggar's opera is the only example of the once thriving satirical ballad opera that exists today. This opera was written by Johann Christop Pepusch and first performed in the Lincoln's Field Theater in London in 1728. Book is very good+ with a repaired spine that separatd from the text block. Priced ( Ten Dollars) publishers slipcase is in very good and very sturdy condition. This is a special… Read More

London: William Reeves, 1891. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 7.25x5. Looking Beyond, a sequel to " Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy and an answer to "Looking Further Forward" by Richard Michaelis. Book in VG condition except for front of cover is detached from book and held in place by mylar jacket. 1/4' loss in places along top edge of cover. All in all as nice rare and collectible package tape repaired to book cover.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Novelist Alaine-Fronnier vanished mysteriously during the first World War.His fame has grown steadily in France since then and now he is somewhat of a legend. This is a moving biography of the build up and subsequent decline and fall of Youth's ideals. Book in near fine condition with bookseller Blackwell's label on verso of front board. Jacked is near fine + with a slight wave to bottom of front cover, and very minor edge wear to spine ends. Jacket flap shows 21s. price unclipped.

Boston and New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three Novellas by Ellen Gilcrest. Book is as new as is jacket priced ($1995) on front flap. Never opened and of course never read. Condition as stated.

Boston and New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ellen Gilcrest, whose first collection of short stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, won both prizes and international acclaim, now offers fourteen new stories that combine classic literary style and form with contemporary emotional appeal." Book and priced jacket($15.95) are as new. Unopened and unread and as expected unmarked. A perfect copy.

U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co (T), 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing. All you need to do is listen" - Washington Post Ellen Gilchrist, whose masterful short stories won her the 1984 American Book Award offers up Drunk With Love a collection of thirteen wonderful short stories. For some Gilchrist fans, old friends return and other stories are filled with wonderful prose. Book is as new, unread and unmarked. Un-clipped jacket(15.95) is near fine with minor wear to the extremities. This is a very nice reader or collectible for any Gilchrist fan.

Boston and New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Authors first novel, following highly praised short stories, ( she won the National Book Award in later years for her short stories) is about fourteen year old Amanda who had her illegitimate child taken from her, is now a rich bored, middle-aged would-be writer who has left her husband and decadent life in New Orleans for the hill country of Arkansas. Book and priced($14.95) jacket are in very fine + condition and is signed by the author on the title page. First Edition.