Search Results: Authors starting with G from Elk River Books

Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepal Jesuit Society, 1989. Other. Very good. A contemporaneous copy of a three-page, staplebound speech given by Maskey on his first-hand experiences as a heroin addict and subsequent recovery with the help of the Jesuit-founded Freedom Centre (a drug rehab program for boys and men); with statistics and observations of the drug problem in Nepal more broadly. Also includes a two-page companion piece by Gafney, founder of St. Xavier Social Centre which houses the Freedom Centre, on how authority figures should direct youth away from "the attractive but unattainable elements of the modern world..." Both pieces have light edge wear, and dog-eared pages.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio (32 cm), pp. 272. Gray cloth with pictorial inset, marbled endpapers. Lushly illustrated with photos of Gambrel's design work. No jacket, spine is bumped at tail.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Paperback. Near fine. Uncorrected proof for the first U.S. edition. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 269. Red paper wrappers with publisher's notice taped to front. Creasing to most pages due to printing/binding error, else fine. García Márquez described this novel as "a poem on the solitude of power" (Swanson, 78).

Madrid: Narrativa Mondadori, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. [10], 11- 135, [5]. Signed and inscribed by author on half title page: "Para Teó- esté libro numero 538 que le [...]. Gabriel / 93."Red cloth boards with gilt spine titling and pictorial jacket. Light bumping at tail of spine, else fine. The title story from this collection of short fiction is notable for the author's first use of magical realism, a style that would become his trademark for the next fifty years. A clean, tight volume.

London: Ryan Publishing, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. Quarto (26 cm), unpaginated. Purple boards with white titling, pictorial jacket. Boards are slightly warped, else fine. Márquez's fictional world of Macondo explored photographically, accompanied by text from his novels.

Bogotá: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1986. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. 12mo (19.5 cm), pp. [4], 281, [5]. Signed and inscribed by author on title page: "y algo mas [...]. Ted, Gabriel / 92." Gray boards with white titling, pictorial jacket. Boards have moderate edge wear. Twenty-six stories spanning two dozen decades. Bright pages, tight binding.

Bogotá: Ediciones del Equilibrista, 1989. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (25 cm), pp. [10], 284, [8]. Limited, signed edition in slipcase (#79/250 issued for distribution in Mexico). Maroon cloth boards with matching slipcase, which has paper labels including black and white author photo. Endpapers are maps of Simón Bolívar's final trip in 1830. Deckle edge, unread, with uncut pages. An immaculate volume.

Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2012. First edition. Paperback. Fine/fine. Octavo (22cm), pp. 201.

Toronto: Guernica, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo (20.5cm), pp. 167.

Toronto: Guernica, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo (20.5cm), pp. 167. Pictorial wraps, with promotional bookmark laid in.

Simon & Schuster, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo, 191 pages. Advance reading copy with letter from publisher to Montana author William Hjortsberg laid in.

Sante Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Quarto (30 cm), pp. 357. Jacket and boards with minor wear to extremities, spine is cocked.

Warwickshire, England: R.A. Gekoski, 1984. Staplebound. Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 31. Staplebound magenta wrapppers, 206 entries including works by Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf. Wrappers have light wear along binding. Rick Gekoski is a British author, rare book dealer, founder of two presses, and former Man Booker judge, among many other accomplishments and occupations.

New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Quarto (28.5 cm), pp. [unpaginated] ca. 214. Brownish-red cloth with gilt spine titling, brown endpapers. Red pictorial jacket. Lavishly illustrated with full color photographs by Douglas Keister. Minor bumping to corners and light edge wear to jacket, else fine.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Russell Chatham. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. 162. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine text. Jacket illustration and interior sketches by Russell Chatham.Brings together work from four previous collections: The Revenant, Departure, The Chinese Poems and Snow on the Backs of Animals.

Flagstaff: Two Dogs Press, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 119. Signed by author on title page. Unknown edition. White photographic wraps. Appears unread.

Spanish Fork, UT: Hillcrest Publications, May 1976. Hardcover. Very good/good. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 152 plus 23 color plates. Later printing. Signed, inscribed and dated (8/17/78) by author on half-title page. Green boards show light wear at edges, green and black cover text is bright. Jacket has numerous small tears and chips, light rubbing. Photos by W.H. Ballard and drawings by the author.

Liveright Publishing, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (22 cm.), pp. 205. Minor spine bumping.

New York: Clarkson Potter, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 224. Navy blue boards, white titling, pictorial jacket. Profusely illustrated with color photos, includes index. Boards are bumped at corners.

New York: Spike, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (24.5cm), pp. 651. Red boards with blue quarter cloth binding and silver lettering on spine. Some rubbing and bumping to dust jacket edges and spine corners, small closed tear at tail of spine.