Search Results: Titles starting with G from Elk River Books

New York: Derrydale Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. xx, [ii], 298. Faux green snakeskin boards, with gilt-stamped titling. #706 of 950 copies printed. Deckle edge, complete with all black and white photos, color frontispiece and plates by illustrator TJ Harter. Text block has foxing, spine is faded with edge wear, splatter marks on p. 67 and facing plate. Former owner's name on first blank leaf. Absent the box it was published with [Biscotti, p. 320].An Arizona native and long-time celebrated shooting editor at Outside Life, O'Connor "was literate, sardonic, and understated, the only 'gun writer' ever reviewed in The New Yorker," Stephen Bodio writes in A Sportsman's Library, about a later version of the book. "[T]his handsome, entertaining, still-useful volume had been perhaps the most important book for introducing the literate American hunter to the modern, post-Teddy Roosevelt West."

Self Published, 2005. Hardcover. New. Quarto (28.5 cm), pp. 211 including author information and Table of Contents. Green boards with white titling in Arabic on spine, white titling and white decorative frame in English on front, white titling and white decorative frame in Arabic on back. Pages 1-73 (from front) in English, pages 1-168 (from back) in Arabic. Each page has line drawing decorative frame. Persian poetry by Dr. Fathie.

Quercus, 2014. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 405. Brown boards with light blue quarter cloth and gilt spine text. Crease on front pastedown and minor bumping to spine and jacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 479. Light brown quarter paper over yellow boards, with silver lettering on spine. Jacket has price sticker residue on front; remainder mark on bottom edge. Award-winning Tucson writer Silko's third novel.

Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 48, 258, 431. Beige paper wrappers, charts, diagrams and black and white photos. Two copies of Vol 1 (Historical Introduction, Velero III, Personnel), both with water damage to wrappers. One has title handwritten on the spine and has uncut index laid in (pp. 433-445), the other is missing spine strip. Vol 2 (Geographical and Biological Associations, with Plates 17-128) also has dampstaining to wrappers, handwritten title on spine. Vol 3 (A Ten Year List of the Valero III Collecting Stations, with Charts 1-115), has handwritten title on spine, institutional writing on front cover, taped repairs. All volumes glued binding is failing.The third of four Veleros commissioned by Capt. George Allan Hancock for research purposes, the Velero III made some of the earliest expeditions to the Galapagos Islands (including one trip to investigate the mysterious deaths of settlers on Marchena Island. Its… Read More

Washington DC: U.S. Geological Survey, 1916. Staplebound. Very good. Large folio (55 x 47 cm), pp. 19 plus 12 plates of charts, color maps and black and white photos. Light brown staple-bound wraps with black spine tape. S.J. Kubel, chief engraver. Rubbing to wraps and creasing to pages. Catalog writing on front wrap. Tape is lifting at edges. Shows and discusses detailed aspects of geologic, topographic and mineral properties found in the Silver City quadrangle in New Mexico.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, ca. 1900. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (21.4 cm). Green cloth with gilt and black spine titlings. Top edges gilt, other edged deckle. Frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume. Title pages in brown, green and red. Volumes include: Scenes of Clerical Life, Theophrastus Such / Silas Marner, Essays / Adam Bede / The Mill on the Floss / Romola / Felix Holt / Middlemarch / Daniel Deronda / Poems / Life and Letters. Minor foxing, rubbing and bumping. The Mill on the Floss with staining to front board and text block fore edge. No jackets, as issued.

Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane Editions, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Association copy, signed and inscribed by McLean to writer Doug Peacock. Oblong octavo (22 cm), pp. 158. Pictorial jacket, gray cloth with gilt titling, decorative endpapers. Includes essays by Virginia Eichhorn, Adam Duncan Harris, and Tom Smart. Lushly illustrated with color prints, includes Notes, Catalogue of Works in the Exhibition, Author Biographies and Index. Jacket and boards with light bumping at spine, upper board slightly warped.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed, inscribed and dated August 1979 on front free endpaper: "For Tom -- on / his birthday / My best -- / Philip." Small octavo (21 cm), pp. 184. Blue cloth with silver stamped spine titling and author's initials on front board. Purple, brown and green jacket, with $8.95 price. Red publisher's top stain. Light brown endpapers. Front board slightly warped, light rubbing and bumping. Jacket shows minor rubbing/soiling, with 1/2" closed tears on front and back. A finalist for the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, The Ghost Writer was the first in Roth's "Zuckerman Bound" trilogy.

Arcade, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo, 246 pp. Former owner's label half-removed from free front endpaper.

Montgomery, AL: River City Publishing , 2012. Paperback. Very good. Octavo. 482pp. Heavy rubbing and sticker residue on back cover .

West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 242. Green pictorial wrappers. Packed with charts, graphs, and illustrations. Slight edge wear.

New York: Viking Penguin, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo. 324pp. Very slight rubbing on corners of boards, rubbing on edges of dust jacket. Gray boards with teal quarter cloth binding and gilt.

McClelland & Stewart, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by author on half title page. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 282. Blue boards with silver spine titling, map endpapers. Minor rubbing and edge wear to boards and jacket, else fine. Several plates of color photographs. .

New York: Hyperion, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Signed by author on title page. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 323. Orange boards with green quarter cloth, pictorial jacket. Second in the four-part mystery series featuring Jules Clement, the laconic sheriff of Blue Deer, Montana. Minor bumping and edge wear, rubbing to jacket, else fine.

Missoula: Mountain Press, 1977. Staplebound. Near fine. Signed by author on title page. Octavo (23 cm), pp. vi, 41. Sepia-toned pictorial wrappers. A collection of stories in prose and free verse by the founder of the Montana Institute of the Arts, with accompanying line drawings by Greg Siple. Light rubbing and wear, else fine. Scarce.

Missoula, MT: University of Montana Press, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Limited edition #37, signed by author on copyright/limitation page. White wraps with blue titling and illustration by Beth Lo. Winner of the 1987 Merriam-Frontier Award. Contains the stories "Dreams of My Father," "Murphy Waters and His Boiling Boys," "The Jazz Mutiny" and the title story. Light wear to wraps, else fine.

New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 128. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To ---, the other half of the hook n' bullet contingent at Wildbranch, '90, tight lines, straight shots and true words." Black boards with black quarter cloth and white spine text. Gray jacket with black text and gun illustration by Richard Harrington. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by the author.

St. Martin's Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21.5), pp. xx, 374 pages with index. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Jacket has light wear and soiling, and is slightly tanned along spine. Boards show only the slightest edge wear. Bookstore price sticker inside front cover. The author has taught at universities in the U.S. and Europe, and is the former Minister of Education in Lesotho.

St. Martin's Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21.5), pp. xx, 374 pages with index. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Jacket has light wear and is slightly tanned along spine. Boards show only the slightest wear along edges, corners. Bookstore price sticker inside front cover. The author has taught at universities in the U.S. and Europe, and is the former Minister of Education in Lesotho.