Search Results: Titles starting with G from Trolls Treasure

New York: Dell Mystery, 2007. Mass Market Paper. Fine. Book is fine.

New York: St Martin's Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. The long-awaited conclusion to The Sanguinet Saga, written at the urgent request of many readers who were anxious to learn the fates of some of Patricia Veryan's most memorable characters. "The Sanguinet saga (Sanguinet's Crown, The Noblest Frailty) rolls on with attention this time to devastatingly handsome Alain Devenish and his ward, Josie Storm. It takes a welter of stratagems, entrapments and collusion from a variegated household staff of eccentric retainers and overly domesticated animals before a predictable finale is reached. Familiars, good and evil, from the earlier volumes are on the scene, but it is pert Josie, the waif stolen by gypsies whom Devenish adopted four years earlier, and who now lays siege to his heart, who stirs the action. Josie has a coming-out party at which obese George IV… Read More

New York: Avon Books , 1979. Third printing. Paperback. Very Good. Edmund Crispin (The Moving Toy Shop) wrote off beat mysteries starring his sleuth, Gervase Fen, an eccentric Oxford don. Fen just happens to be in the neighborhood when dismembered bodies start to appear in Glazebridge.  "...Glimpses of the Moon was Crispin's best because of the wicked wit. Nearly every paragraph, surely every page has some sly hit against the modern world. I have read this book about four times and I couldn't tell you the story. But each time I pick it up, I know I will spend the next couple of hours laughing out loud. I have examples in mind, such as his two page description of a pompous policeman lighting his pipe. But it really takes Crispin's skill to bring the story and his quirky, unforgettable characters to life. I don't expect readers to get offended by his satire. Crispin is a bit like… Read More

Algonquin Books, 1999. Stated First Edition, third printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Godforsaken Sea is the hair-raising account of the world's most demanding, dangerous, and deadly sailing race. Around the world, one sailor, one boat, no stops, no assistance.Author Derek Lundy's vivid book follows the field of the 1996 - 1997 Vendee Globe through the race's grueling four-month circumnavigation of the globe, most of it through the terror of the Southern Ocean. Lundy narrates the race through the eyes and experiences of sixteen sailors - fourteen men and two women - who embdoy the best and most eccentric aspects of our human condition. There's the gallant Brit who spends days beating back against the worst seas to save a fellow sailor; the Frenchman who bothers to salvage only a bottle of champagne from his broken and sinking boat; the sailor who comes to love the albatross that trails her for months, naming it Bernard; the sailor who calmly smokes a cigarette as his boat… Read More

New York: Ballentine, 2007. Later printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am."-- from The Good Good Pig. When Sy Montgomery, a naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, opened her heart to a sick piglet, she had no idea that this creature, later named Christopher Hogwood, would provide her with something she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventually weighing 750 pounds) to family, home and community. Book is in fine condition, like new. It doesn't look as if it was ever read.

New York: Puffin Books, 2002. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Grade Level: 5 and up. Her name is Alexandria Aurora Fortunato, and she is as lovely as the dawn. But that is only one of her problems. There’s also the matter of those three magical gifts of treasure bestowed on her by a mysterious old woman. And King Claudio the Cruel wants to marry her for her beauty and her wealth, and so does his rival, Prince Edmund of Dorloo. Those are two more problems. And, worst of all, she is locked in a tower, with a grille of iron bars and several hundred tons of stone between her and freedom. Some days Alexandria wishes she looked like a pickled onion. Clearly the only thing to do is escape — and, with the aid of her twelve darling goose companions, that’s precisely what Alexandria does. So begins the adventure of Patrice Kindl’s beguiling heroine. Her flight will take her to strange lands and lead her into perilous situations, all of which the plucky Alexandria views with a wry and witty spirit.… Read More

Williston, VT: Heron Dance Press, 2007. First edition. Soft Cover. Fine.  Book is fine, like new except for being lightly bumped at the spine ends. The picture is a scan of the actual book.

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1993. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. While baseball is our national game, soccer is the international game of choice, and climaxes every four years in the World Cup, watched on TV by an estimated billion fans. Merrill, a poet, an editor and a former amateur soccer player who demonstrates an expert's knowledge of the sport, went to Italy for the 1990 World Cup, won by then-West Germany, and here captures the frenzied dedication of the spectators whose teams were in contention, the wild elation when their nations won and the despair when they lost. He also analyzes the style of play of many teams, which he views as reflective of their national character, some conservative and defense-oriented, others aggressive yet almost balletic. The book may have been written as advance publicity for the 1994 World Cup, which will be held in the U.S. for the first time, but it will probably be appreciated only by those already familiar with the nuances of the sport." --… Read More

Sarasota, FL: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1986. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Sarasota, FL: John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation, 1986. Soft Cover. Very Good. 116 pp, 10 ½" x 8 ½", copy is in excellent condition, includes many bw and color reproductions. This is an overview of the greatest paintings in the permanent collection of the John And Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Book is very good, but cover does show some wear. Edges rubbed, especially along the spine. Front corners have slightest crease at very tips. Interior is fine, unmarked, clean and bright with a tight binding. The picture is a scan of the actual book.