Search Results: Authors starting with G from Worldwide Collectibles

Ambassador's Journal; a Personal Account of the Kennedy Years by J. GalbraithAuthor is John Kenneth Galbraith Publisher: Signet Book - New American Library, first printing October 1970 #W4383Paperback 4 x 7 inches, 571 pagesJohn Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his works was a trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). Some of his work has… Read More

Odd Flowers and Shorteared Owls: Poems - numbered & signed by author & artistnumbered 6 of 50Author: Vi Galedrawings by Liza JonesISBN-13: 9780915986194ISBN-10: 0915986191Publisher: Prescott Street Pressmultiple copyrights 1959, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1984Slipcased Hardcover6.5 x 9.2 inches, 94 pages
Viola M. Gale (née HÃ¥kansson; 1917 – 2007) was a Swedish-born American poet and publisher, who worked in the United States state of Oregon. She began writing poems and short stories that were published in minor magazines and reviews in the 1950s. Gale's first book was published in 1959, and released five more throughout her life. In 1974, she established the small printing house Prescott Street Press in Portland to promote unknown authors and produce well-designed affordable books. One of Gale's works was selected by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission to be one of 100 Oregon books from 1800 to 2000 that "best representing the state's literary heritage" in 2003.Following the end of World War II,… Read More

Handbook of Wildflowers, Weeds, Wildlife, and Weather of the Palos Verdes Peninsulaby Donald Moore Gales (Author)Publisher: Caligraphics Printing Publishing; Second Edition (1974)Paperback: 213 pages5.2 x 7.95 inchesThe Palos Verdes Peninsula (Palos Verdes, Spanish for "Green Sticks") is a landform and a geographic sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California. Located in the South Bay region, the peninsula contains a group of cities in the Palos Verdes Hills, including Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills and Rolling Hills Estates, as well as the unincorporated community of Westfield/Academy Hill. The South Bay city of Torrance borders the peninsula on the north, the Pacific Ocean is on the west and south, and the Port of Los Angeles is east. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the Palos Verdes Peninsula is 65,008.The hill cities on the peninsula are known for dramatic ocean and city views,… Read More

Library of Congress#: 67-27379, third printing, afterword by Louis Auchincloss, light cover soiling

former library book with protective mylar over-jacket, two small labels on jacket spine, check-out pocket on second page, date-due slip on third page, rubber stamping on third page

Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2004
ISBN is 9780670032792 / 0670032794
Hardcover
6 x 8.6 inches, 321 pages

Inspired by Scientific American's 1922 offer of a five thousand dollar prize for concrete evidence of "conclusive psychic manifestations," Martin Finch, a Harvard graduate student, attempts to discover whether Mina Crawley, a Philadelphia socialite, is able to contact the spirit realm, only to find himself falling in love with his subject. A first novel.

The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann Perennial/William Morrow P4002

Publisher is Perennial/William Morrow P4002 1966
Paperback
4.15 x 7.15 inches, 205 pages

The High and the Mighty is a 1953 novel by Ernest K. Gann based on a real-life trip that he flew as a commercial airline pilot for Matson Lines from Honolulu, Hawaii to Burbank, California. It was adapted into a film of the same name.

The novel won the Silver Medal at the Commonwealth Club of California's 23rd Annual California Book Awards for 1953 fiction.

The novel is based on Ernest Gann's experiences as a commercial airline pilot. On a Matson Lines DC-4 flight from Honolulu to Burbank, the stewardess complained of a sporadic vibration that was rattling the dishes and silverware in the rear of the plane. Gann inspected the tail compartment and noticed nothing amiss, attributing the vibration to a problem with number 3 engine. The vibration was eventually traced to a missing elevator hinge bolt that almost resulted in a loss of… Read More

Homesteading Big Owl
by Katherine G. Garetson

Publisher: Allenspark WIND, 1989
ISBN is 9780962528606 / 0962528609
Paperback
5.15 x 8.35 inches, 73 pages

Katherine G. Garetson's narrative of her experience homesteading in the mountains near Longs Peak from 1914 to 1919.
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Midsummer 1914, Katherine Garetson stood on the front porch of her sister's mountain cabin and felt herself "whipped and tossed and spattered by a violent storm of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning." Instead of hating the experience, she wished that "everyone could put into his life one storm of the high mountains." Katherine saw homesteading as an opportunity for adventure as well as property ownership.
During that 1914 midsummer storm, Katherine offered shelter to a man who had recently established his own homestead in the area, and he related its virtues to her. Katherine wrote that "every American with a spark of romance in his make-up has at some time of his life cherished this idea of taking up a… Read More

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former non-circulating library book with small labels on spine and inside back cover, rubber stamping on top page edges & three pages, very light wear to cover

hard to find comprehensive history
31 maps, 52 illustrations
CONTENTS
I. Auguries of a New Age
II. Reaction and Revolution
III. Ascendant Nationalism
IV. Democracy and Reform
V. Thought and Science
VI. The First World War
VII. Between Two Wars
VIII. The Second World War

Mythology Symphony, Movement I : Becoming Medusa - Stacy Garrop (composer)Commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in honor of Elaine Friedman LebenbomPublisher: Theodore Presser Company ©2016UPC: 680160642885Spiral bound paperback11 x 17 inches, 49 pages21st Century CompositionThe first movement from Garrop's Mythology SymphonyThe movement may be played by itself. Duration 13 minutesInstrumentationFlute 1, Flute 2, Piccolo 1, Flute 3, Piccolo 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Oboe 3, Clarinet 1 in Bflat, Clarinet 2 in Bflat, Bass Clarinet in Bflat, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Bassoon 3, Horn 1 in F, Horn 2 in F, Horn 3 in F, Horn 4 in F, Trumpet 1 in C, Trumpet 2 in C, Trumpet 3 in C, Trombone 1, Trombone 2, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion 1, 3 Tom-tom, Ratchet (large), Maracas (wooden), Finger Cymbals, Sandpaper Blocks, Triangle, Shaker (egg), Xylophone, Marimba (low A), Percussion 2, Bass Drum, Tenor Drum, 2 Bongos, Wood Block (mounted), Castanets (mounted), Percussion 3, Tam-tam (large), 2 Tom-tom, 2… Read More

Beemer: A Novel by Glenn Gaslin
ISBN-13: 9781569473290
ISBN-10: 1569473293
Publication Date: 6/2003
Publisher: Soho Press
Hardcover
5.8 x 8.6 inches, 261 pages

Southern California Through The Looking Glass 0 What Lewis Carroll did for rabbits and Kurt Vonnegut did for war, Glenn Gaslin does for ambition in this zany send-up of all that's holy in America. — His hero, Beemer Minutia, lives and works in his tricked-out Honda Civic. Like every young thinking person on the rise, he intends to make it very big very fast, turning his name into a cash magnet before he's thirty. His four-wheeled home is parked in America's answer to the rabbit hole, southern California's Orange County, where the streets are paved with golden possibilities: the taco stands look like food courts, the gas stations look like movie theaters, and the movie theaters look like small cities. An advertising job, Beemer concludes, will allow him to grow his personal brand. Unfortunately, his girlfriend's teenage brother seems bent on… Read More

former library book with protective mylar over-jacket, labels on jacket, check-out pocket on first page, jacket has light wear - also with staining on jacket back, piece 2 3/4" x 1 7/8" cut from top of back of over-jacket & jascket.

book contains 30 of Gauguin's works in removeable postcard format, one card is loose, accompanying text is in French, German and Japanese

Speedway Challenge by William Campbell GaultPublisher: Berkley Highland Books (1972)ISBN-10: 0425020339ISBN-13: 9780425020333Paperback: 127 pagesItem Weight: 4.8 ounces4.1 x 6.9 inchesRacing novel by William Gault. Narrator, old before his time at 22, learns to loosen up while watching out for and racing on the dirt oval track with his uncle & 17 year old brother.-----------------------------William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was an American writer. He wrote under his own name, and as Roney Scott and Will Duke, among other pseudonyms.He is probably best remembered for his sports fiction, particularly the young-readers' novels he began publishing in the early 1960s, and for his crime fiction.He contributed to a wide range of pulp magazines, particularly to the sports pulps, where he was considered one of the best writers in the field. Damon Knight, noted science fiction critic and one-time editor of Popular Publications, wrote the following about Gault's sports fiction:I liked the characterization in… Read More

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud & Peter Gay
ISBN-13: 9780393301588
ISBN-10: 0393301583
Publication Date: 7/1989
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Paperback
5.3 x 7.75 inches, 127 pages

Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive, and its adversary eros. He speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression.

Symbolism in the Music of Bach: A Lecture Delivered by Karl Geiringer in the Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress, May 23, 1955
re. Johann Sebastian Bach
Louis Charles Elson Memorial Fund
Publisher: Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 1956
Paperback
5.9 x 9 inches, 16 pages

Karl Geiringer (April 26, 1899 – January 10, 1989) was an Austrian-American musicologist, educator, and biographer of composers. He was educated in Vienna but at the beginning of the Nazi years he emigrated to England and ultimately the United States, where he had a lengthy and distinguished career at several universities. He was a noted authority on Brahms, Haydn, and the Bach family, and a prolific author.

As Crutchfield notes, "It was Mr. Geiringer's habit to take on the largest topics". His work included extensive biographies of Brahms, Haydn, and of the Bach family, which went through multiple editions. He also wrote many scholarly articles. He was responsible for the rediscovery of minor works by Brahms and by… Read More

approximately 20 inches X 28 inches, couple of pin-sized holes at folds

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