Search Results: Titles starting with G from Crooked House Books & Paper

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Full green cloth boards with gilt lettering and white rules & decoration, 7.5" x 5.25", b/w frontispiece. Slight wear to edges, minor cocking, a nice copy overall. Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Terhune) is best known today as a cookbook & domestic science author, but she was prolific and wrote many popular novels such as this.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Tan cloth boards with green lettering under burgundy & silver jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Owner's inscription, else near fine, DJ price intact. Gordon and her husband, the poet Allen Tate, were deep in the literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s; she would later serve as a mentor to Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor.

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Wood, Stanley. 1899 reprint. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with black, blue, red, and orange decorations, gilt lettering, 7-5/8" tall, 329 pp., plate illustrations by Stanley Wood. Spine toning and modest slant, owner's name to front endpaper. A historical novel of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.

The Vanguard Press, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, matching dates, NAP. Grey cloth boards with red lettering & rules under yellow, red & black dust jacket. Bookplate and number written to front endpaper, very minor bump to rear lower corner; dust jacket spine panel moderately faded, original price of $2.50 intact, quite lovely.

City Lights Books, 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Stapled paperback, white & orange cover, 6-1/4" tall, 48 pp, rear blurb by Jack Kerouac, $1.00 cover price, no additional printings listed. Rust to stapled, rubbing to spine, light rubbing to covers. Ownership inscription of Merry Prankster associate William Gambell to title page.

E.P. Dutton & Co, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue. Full green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, 8-7/8" x 6-1/2", 142 pp., tipped-in plates by Brickdale. Some discoloration to cloth, else near fine. Inscription appears to read "Ch Eleanor, remember, Isabel.

The Port Folio / Bradford & Inskeep, 1810. Hardcover. Very Good. Extracted article and plates, bound in modern grey paper-covered boards with white labels. Modest foxing; the "General View" is trimmed to top neat line. Laid in is the description from The Philadelphia Print Shop, which reads: The Port Folio was a new type of American magazine, "Devoted to Useful Science, the Liberal Arts, Legitimate Criticism, and Polite Literature." It was the product of the new century, appearing first in January 1801. As with the many magazines that followed it, The Port Folio included numerous illustrations, including this view by Alexander Wilson. Wilson (1766-1813) is best known as the 'father of American ornithology,' but he was also a poet and landscape artist. In 1804, Wilson and two companions traveled through the American backwoods on a grand excursion to Niagara Falls. This trip was celebrated in Wilson's paean to American nature, "The Foresters"...This poem… Read More

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Schoenherr, John. Signed by Author(s). Reprint; 8.5 x 5.75 inches; 191 pages; illustrated; signed by the author on front free end paper and inscribed thus: "Best wishes to Beth, Dan and John. Walt Morey 1989." Blue boards with black bear on front, boards edge worn, unmarked pages are clean, crisp and bright, binding straight and sound. Bright, crisp dust jacket with very light wear at extremities, 6 inch long scratch to front panel, spot of light soil at top rear corner.

London: printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, 1736. Hardcover. Good. Full calf binding with gilt lettering to spine, probably bound in the 19th century, 6-3/8" x 4", 200 pp. plus index and three pages of publisher's catalog. Wear to head and tail of spine, wear to corners, hinges reinforced with cloth, spine darkened, pages clean. Good to very good repaired condition. One of the most important fishing books of the 18th century, this also contains twelve pages of fish recipes. Because the book was marketed to the gentleman angler, these are not riverside recipes, but ones for the gentleman's cook to prepare when he returns home triumphant with his catch. Some great houses, though, had fishing pavilions by the lake, which were equipped with their own kitchens. (Mark Girouard. Life in the English Country House. 210.)

Washington, D.C: Forest Service US Department of Agriculture, 1939. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Staple-bound softcover, 7 x 5 1/4 inches, 346 pages, German terms with English definitions; green printed stock covers are edge worn with light creasing along spine and lightly flared corners, small sticker removal injury to rear cover at bottom, previous owner's stamp in title page, toned pages otherwise clean and crisp, binding sound.

E.P. Dutton & Co, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x0. Green cloth boards under white DJ, 8vo, 223 pp. Very slight slant, very minor toning to DJ spine panel. DJ price of $5.95 intact, 2nd printing. The fourth novel from the author of "Hard Rain Falling.

University of Chicago Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Red cloth boards under green pictorial jacket. Slight edgewear to DJ.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Ness, Evaline. Blue buckram binding with pictorial front board, under white & pink pictorial dust jacket. Oddly, the publisher's name at the bottom of the jacket just reads "Scribn" -- the rest is cut off. Reinforced library binding but not ex-library. Tear to foot of DJ spine panel, price-clipped, else lovely, clean & bright.

Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. Soft cover. Fine. 0x0x0. Morrisey, Pat. Fine copy, first edition thus. This story won the Nebula Award for best novelette in 1986. Reissued by Pulphouse Publishing, based in Eugene where Wilhelm also lived.

E.P. Dutton & Co, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Ness, Evaline. Blue boards under white illustrated dust jacket, 10-1/4" x 7-3/4". Minor toning to DJ, one short closed tear, original price of $4.25 intact. The goather wanted the ugliest girl in the world to marry him, but the ugliest girl wasn't interested. All she could think of was being beautiful. Mixed-media illustrations in orange, blue, and black.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Green cloth, 8 X 5.5 inches, 281 pages, map endpapers; head and tail of spine turned in, pages are clean and unmarked; unclipped dust jacket is worn with a few small tears, foxing to spine, back sports a few smudge marks.

New York: Modern Library, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6. First Modern Library Edition, Toledano binding style 8, blue cloth, Kent end papers, 372 titles listed on interior wrapper, 383 pages; crisp and clean boards, unmarked text; clipped dust jacket, rubbed, creasing to head and tail of spine, jacket now in protective mylar cover.

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935. Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Shepard, Ernest H. Reprint. 170 pages, black and white illustrations throughout; pale green boards with gilt titling and black illustration, light smudging and staining to boards and spine, a few pages have a bit of staining at fore edges not affecting text block. From the author of "The Wind in the Willows," this is a beautifully illustrated collection of reminiscences of childhood.

Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Corcos, Chrystal. 62 pages, two tone illustrations throughout; light shelf wear, gift inscriptions to ffep, clipped dust jacket with sun faded spine, now in protective mylar cover. An attractive copy of one of the beautiful Peter Pauper Press vintage books.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Tan cloth with blue lettering, 8 x 5.5 inches, 322 pages; Slight edge wear, especially into respect to the head and tail of spine, one light smudge on spine, text is clean with no markings, blue top stain matches the dust jacket; dust jacket is creased along edges revealing the white of the paper, spine is sunned, dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. A book of middle class America by a prolific female writer most noted for winning a Pulitzer for her book 'Now in November'.