Search Results: Authors starting with S from Great Northern Books

Tokyo: DigiCube/Dejikyubu, 2002. Revised edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. This book contains the Yoshitaka Amano illustrations for the first six videogames in the series. Also includes screenshots, artwork, timelines, and tables, in Japanese, with French fold covers. A clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

New York: John Lane Co., 1919. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A collection of 33 short stories published posthumously with a 16 page memoir by Rothray Reynolds. Brown cloth lettered in black on spine with blind-stamped lettering and ornate rule to front board. John Lane Co. on spine. Lacks scarce dustjacket. Ex-library with minimal markings.

Oxford: Oxford Historical Society., 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Top edge gilt Includes facsimile charters and plans as well as one fold-out plan. No DJ as Issued. Ex-library with all the usual marking. Edges of covers rubbed. Ships from USA.

Oxford: Oxford Historical Society., 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Top edge gilt Includes facsimile charters and plans as well as one fold-out plan. No DJ as Issued. Ex-library with all the usual marking. Edges of covers rubbed. Ships from USA.

Oxford: Oxford Historical Society., 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Top edge gilt and fore-edge untrimmed. Includes fold out map, introduction, appendix and index. Ex-library with all the usual marking. Top of spine chipped, corners bumped. No DJ as Issued. Ships from USA.

New York: Knopf, 1985. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback Original. Very Good +. First printing. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. "Chronicles the author's first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders." [from publisher] A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. Third novel by the author of "Rabbit Boss." Also includes map endpapers. A bright, tight, clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. Author's first book. Also includes map endpapers. Small tear on back bottom panel of dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges of dust jacket, else a clean unmarked copy.

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1977. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. A collection of candid photographs of people in their homes. Slight edgewear to cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

St. Louis: River Styx, 1988. First edition thus. Periodical. Very Good + in Wraps . An Ed Sanders interview: "Ed Sanders, Investigative Poet," conducted by Kenn Thomas and Phil Gounis in 1988, published in the periodical River Styx Number 33. Sanders is best known as a co-founder of The Fugs. A clean unmarked copy.

Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1997. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printing. Spanish language translation of "Silent Prey" by Diana Falcón, the fourth book in the Lucas Davenport/Prey series. Lacks a dustjacket. A clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. The 9th Lucas Prey mystery novel, set in Minnesota. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a tipped in page. The tenth Lucas Prey mystery novel, set in Minnesota. A clean unmarked copy.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First edition, second issue, with a six-page gathering containing a new title page and introduction by the author, tipped in. Number 704 of 2,000 numbered copies printed at Plantin Press in 1951, signed by the author. The original dustjacket was overprinted with Black Sparrow on the front and rear flaps. The original price and order form were also overprinted with diagonal marks. Decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges. 452 pages. (Harmsen and Tabor 90). Sanford was best known for scripting John Wayne's Oscar-winner, "True Grit" and he was also blacklisted during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. A clean unmarked copy.

Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Edited by John and Shirley Lachs. Contents: 1. Two early works -- 2. Causation and flux -- 3. Fact and essence -- 4. The relations of spirit to time -- 5. The relativity of morals -- 6. A naturalist looks at society -- 7. Free spirit in the moving world -- 8. Philosophers. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. Trade Paperback. Ex-Library. "Catastrophe: Law, Politics examines the tests that catastrophe poses to politics and humanitarianism as well as to the law." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Ex-library with minimal markings, not affecting text.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Edited and introduced by Susan Sherman. Includes 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; chronology, appendices, and index. A clean, unmarked copy.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "The book conveys the artistic and historical significance of the jazz culture at the start, and the heart, of the sixties." [from publisher] Includes black & white illustrations, bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Viking Press, 1942. Sixth printing. Very Good +/good -. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, "To the boys & girls - with salutions from Lucinda - and Ruth Sawyer" and SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Valenti Angelo, on the half title page. "Roller Skates" won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937. It is a fictionalized account of one year of Sawyer's life. Angelo was a very prominent book designer and illustrator having done many book for the Grabhorn Press and the Limited Editions Club. Dustjacket is chipped along top and bottom edges with some loss not affecting text and has three small closed tears. Also has Newbery Medal seal on front panel. The book itself is bright, clean, and unmarked with decorated endpapers.