Search Results: Authors starting with G from Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Scribner's, 2009. First Edition. Boards. Very good/very good. Blue boards with quarter gray boards, silver gilt lettering on spine. Signed by author on title page, dated 2010. Unclipped dust jacket. 276 pp.

New York: Viking, 1939. First. Cloth. Good+/Good. Kate Seredy. Dark red cloth with blue design on front cover, blue lettering and design on spine. Pictorial dj with image of boy and girl in Alpine dress with goose and goat against background of Alps. Goose is holding doll. Eighty-three line drawings throughout by Kate Seredy. 238 pp.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/very good. Blue boards with 1/4 blue cloth, silver lettering on spine, remainder mark on bottom page edges, unclipped dust jacket. 606 pp. 16 pages of black and white photos.

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good. Two volume brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, some fading to covers. Both volumes have previous owner's name on front free flyleaf. Volume I has a few letters written in pencil, pages have foxing. Volume I has ads for eight other books between flyleaf and title page. Volume II has two pages of ads for others books before title page. Volume I has 243 pp., Vol II has 236 pp. First American Edition.

Derby, CT: Monarch Books, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Good minus. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches, (18 x 11.5 cm), pictorial cover, wear to front and back of spine, spine slanted, creasing to front cover, 1/2 tear to top rear cover, wear to front flyleaf, wear to page edges, some soiling. 138 pp. plus, (3) pages of ads for other Monarch books.

Johnstown, NY: Knox Gelatine Company Inc, 1924. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches ( 17 x 12 cm), pictorial wraps, large chip missing from upper right hand corner, two tears at bottom and side that goes all the way through all the pages. some soiling to covers. Mostly black and white but a few color pictures. 40 pp.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. Tan cloth with white lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book. 146 pp. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. Tan cloth with white lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book. 146 pp. First Edition.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Sewn binding. Very good. Stiched signatures in beige card board covers, and cream colored inset, couple of stains on front and rear cover, uncorrected proof signed by author on title page. Author's first book. "25,000 first printing." 146 pp.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1986. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/very good. Rust colored boards, with turquoise 1/4 cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Unclipped dustjacket very good condition. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Top edges lightly foxed. 239 pp. First Edition.

Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Co. Later printing. Cloth. Very good/good. Tan cloth with dark brown lettering on front and spine. Dust jacket has age toning, chips along edges. Water stains at bottom of front and rear of dust jacket and bottom of rear free endpaper. Deckled edges. On front free endpaper is written in pencil, "Black & White Marriage in VA." Tissue guard over frontispiece portrait of author. Copyright 1911, book appears to be circa 1940-1950s. 268pp.

New York: D. Appleton, 1888. First Edition. Boards. Good +. Maroon boards, gilt lettering on front and spine. Front cover also has illustration at top showing European-American man in cabin. On bottom is an illustration of an American Indian and teepees. Wear to extremities, hinge separating at top. Front free endpaper has gift inscription and white spots on brown paper. Frontispiece picture of author with tissue guard. A series of lectures about colonists settling the American South and Southwest, including wars with Indian tribes. 343 pp. including two ads for other history books.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/good +. 5 x 6 3/4 9nches (12.5 x 17 cm), red cloth with black lettering on front and spine, some fading to extremities, mostly around spine, dust jacket has some folds and tears on front and spine and some age toning front and back of dj. Part of the Pocket Poets Series. First edition, signed by Ginsberg. 123pp., plus a listing of books, anthologies, and records by Ginsberg. Plus, a two page listing of City Lights publications.

San Francisco: Daughters of Bilitis, 1963. Wraps. Fine. Cover by Kathy Rogers. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" stapled white wraps printed in red. [28] pages. Fine, without flaw. The Ladder was the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States, issued monthly from 1956 to 1970, and once every other month in 1971 and 1972. It was the primary publication and method of communication for the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the US, and importantly contained an ongoing running bibliography of lesbian literature in every issue. In this issue, one of the first edited by Barbara Gittings, a report on the East Coast Homophile Organizations Convention of 1963, at which Dr. Albert Ellis had announced that "the exclusive homosexual" was a psychopath, setting off a firestorm in the LGBTQ community.

Verlog: C. Bertelsmann, 1957. First Edition. Boards. Very good. 4 3/4 x 7.5 (12 x 19 cm), black boards with pictures of colorful parrots, black lettering on front and spine, Edges of spine are rubbed. Full page illustrations of parrots throughout. 49 pp. Text in German.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Green cloth, with brown lettering on front and spine, some fading on spine and extremities, small chips in dust jacket, letter "A" on title page. Collection of short stories. 245 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good -/very good-. Green boards, 1/4 black cloth gilt lettering on spine. Front free flyleaf has the remains of a sticker that has some numbers and letters in ink still visible. Dust jacket has some wear to extremities. 350 pp. First Edition.

Evanston Ilinois: National Woman's Christian Temperance Union Publishing House, 1924. Second Edition. Cloth. Very good. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, gilt imagine of hand holding up a torch on front, a few white spots and worn at extremities. Inscribed by author to another temperance activist, dated 1926. 320pp.

New York: Citadel Press, 1962. First Edition. Trade paperback original. Good. Trade paperback, colorful cover, wraps. Former owner's name stamped on inside front free flyleaf. Part of the paper spine is starting to peel. Includes articles by Pete Seeger and Win Stracke. Photos and a description of performers throughout. Discography in back. Check marks in ink next to some of the album titles. Music, chords and lyrics to 15 songs. Inside back cover has handwritten lyrics and chords. 143 pp.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1940. Later printing. Cloth. Good+/Good. Arthur Rackham. Blue cloth with gilt illustration of a dressed-up toad on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Fading to top cover and to bottom of spine. Edges worn. Rear pasted-down endpaper has tape residue. Dust jacket has some chipping and tears to edges. At base of spine is a 1-inch chip. On book spine is a faded mark the same size as chip on dust jacket. Possibly a sticker was removed? Introduction by A.A. Milne. The special contents of this edition are copyright, 1940, by the Limited Editions Club. Twelve color plates. Line drawings at chapter headings. Red page edges. 190 pages.