Search Results: Authors starting with G from Heidelberg Books

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. GREAT CONDITION, Clean inside, unmarked. Wrappers very good with only a hint of corner curl. scarce uncorrected page proof, especially for the age of this edition. Uncorrected Page Proof.

New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus & Young, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. Charles Mozley. Galdos is a major Spanish and European novelist who ranks with Balzac, Dostoevsky and Dickens. A household name in Spain. Translated from the Spanish by Gamel Woolsey (Spanish title is "La de Bringas") Profusely illustrated with black & white drawings in a classical style and superbly constructed by Charles Mozley. The book is a extraordinary condition, whistle-clean inside and out, stiff green clothe-covered boards, and unmarked. The DJ is bright and has some minor edge wear, is price-clipped but the $ sign is still there, and is orange and off-white with a wonderful 3/4 page size pen and ink drawing of a woman. From the inside of back flap "Thus the SPENDTHRIFTS is both an allegory of the ruling classes of Spain and a sermon on the classic Spanish theme, made familiar to us in DON QUIXOTE, of illusion and reality." First American edition.

Middle Village, New York, U.S.A.: Jonathan David Pub, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing ; full # line. Hardcover. As New/Fine. **Absolutely collectible, **First Printing (full-#-line)** As New condition hardcover with a Fine Dust Jacket, price-clipped. Anybody who grew up in New York will recognize his normal day reading the sports section; great sports teams and not so great teams (from the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers to the baby Mets), from the thrilling football and hockey headlines, the greatest fights from the Garden, hero/goat from the World Series, etc. to the 4 th. power. Brilliant, funny, ironic, and a superb artist with his own unique style, Gallo captures these moments in sports better than any camera or writer that walked the planet. He is NYC and he is Sports. This is the ultimate volume of decades of memory. A fantastic collection!!! Foreword by Pete Hamill.

Washington Depot, Conn., USA: Shiver Mountain Press, 1976. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1976: Clean, stiff wraps, inside is clean and partially read, binding has 2 vague creases, wraps are uncreased with no edge wear. Probably the first printing of the softcover based on the 2nd. printing of the hard cover (1959). Stamp of former owner on ffep and 'bought 5/6/77 at Wolfboro, N. H.' on inside of front cover wrap. Filled with vintage photographs. A well researched history of a small New Hampshire town. From the introduction : "A very small sown has come here to be looked at, a town that has never, thought to be the subject of a biography over three hundred pages long. Ever since 1830 its population has hovered over the one-thousand mark in spite of that pull of the West and of the cities that changed the face of all New England hill towns in the seventies and eighties. This means that it has never diminished to the point of losing its character or its continuity, never increased so… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Quill (William Morrow and Co.), 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing Full # line. Soft cover. Fine. *First Printing (full #-line) of First Quill Edition stated. An unread near perfect Fine book with a laid in slip declaring this to be a Review Copy. Also a 2 page publicity sheet promoting this book and the author from William Morrow & Co. *Collectible and nearly perfect. A collection of related essays strung together into a logical thread and woven with common-sense and clarity into a tapestry of science, life, and the mystery of the unknown. It is the mapping of one man's justified beliefs into a logical frame-work explaining the world and offering new insights and perspectives into the problems and solutions any armchair philosopher confronts. Written with style, humor, and patient care, Martin Gardner explains exactly what he believes, and why he believes it. -- from the publicity lay in. Martin Gardner is widely known both as the world's leading expert on Lewis… Read More

New York, NY: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing ; full # line. Hardcover. As New/As New. **First Printing** full # line. As New copy in a As New DJ. Collectible / great looking book / 810 pages and straight and square, DJ shiny like a showroom car, price intact ($25.00) Massive biography of a massive personality and genius.

New York: Random House, 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing stated. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Lynd Ward. Whistle-clean copy inside and out, stiff, square, bright, sharp corners, paste down illustration on cover is fine as are the gilt titles on cover and binding, all the pages are fine with extensive illustrations through out. **First Printing stated** Collectible DJ is very good with just some edge wear at head of spine and on front dj flap edge, a touch of wear on some of the corners of dj.(price-clipped)

New York, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing ; full # line. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. **First Edition stated and first printing (full # line)** fine edition, whistle-clean inside and out with a fine dj with only a hint of a crease on inside lower flap (about 2"). price-intact.

Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd., 1999. Soft cover. As New.

New York, NY: George Braziller, Inc., 1971. 1st Edition 2nd Printing stated. Hardcover. Fine/Fine . **Second Printing stated** Whistle clean inside and out, sharp corners, unmarked, a hiint of softening at head and tail of spine, a barely noticeable 1/2" slightly darkened spot at the very top, near spine of brown fabric covered front board. Dust jacket is shiny, price intact ($6.95), just a vague hint of edge wear in the form of softening at the head and tail of its spine, a slight crease at top of inside flap, otherwise this is in amazing condition for a 40 + year old book. *Collectible* "Dr. Ronald Glasser, former Major, United States Army Medical Corps, had passed his specialist boards in pediatrics, when he was drafted. A graduate of John Hopkins Medical School, he served his internship and residency at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and is now on staff of the Hennepin County General Hosapital in Minneapolis." He was stationed in Japan where the Army hospitals were… Read More

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: City Lights Books, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. **Flat Signed by Author on the title page** // Paperback in Fine condition. "This collection of short stories is heartstopping, reminiscent of Richard Wright's 'Eight Men.' The title story 'Whose Song?' will bring tears to your eyes. It may be as important to this century's body of literature as Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' was the last." -- Harry Belafonte. There is a price sticker on rear wrapper that says $700.00 from NOVTRACO ; that is the Novelty Trading Company in Jamaica which has been selling books since the 1920's. There is a publishers lay in announcing his next book from City Lights, "The Torturer's Wife.

U.S.A.: Citadel Press (Citadel Underground), 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. **First Printing, Oct. 1990 (full # line). {a[erback in near fine condition: whistle-clean and unmarked, binding and wraps are shiny and without a crease, only a minor bit of edge-wear at extremities and a vague bit of rubbing (shelf-wear) keeps it from fine. "The best rock & roll novel in almost 20 years." -- Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone. "An absorbing and shattering portrait of a modern cultural phenomenon -- I doubt I shall ever listen to a rock concert feeling quite the same way." -- George Plimpton. 'fast, funny, furious... A razzle-dazzle tour through the hermetic, hectic, lunatic, incorrigibly adolescent world of rock music." -- Edward Abbey.

U. K.: Matador/ Troubador Co., 2008. Soft cover. Fine +. from the library of Uma Thurman. COLLECTIBLE** from the library of Uma Thurman, this copy was inscribed to Uma Thurman from a friend on may 4, 2010 on the title page. The book is signed as well by the Author on the title page as well. Fine condition and a unique biography/autobiography of 2 women. takes place on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean. Amazing and well researched.

New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, 2010. 2nd Edition eleventh printing. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed by Author on title page 'To Helena' and signed. Book is in Fine condition, whistle-clean and unmarked, without a crease, stiff and shiny. Pristine...* eleventh printing. With a forward by Oliver Sacks. "There are innumerable astounding facets to this remarkable book... Displaying uncanny powers of observation ... (Temple Grandin) charts the differences between her life and the lives of those who think in words." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer. "Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one-third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism -- because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences, the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atria Books, 2010. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed to the same person (Maggie) by Authors; Jenny Allen and Abigail Thomas on the first page margins of their stories and by both editors on the half-title page. This paperback is in Fine condition and is a Second Printing* (#-line starts at 2). "In the Fullness of Time" is a collection of essays, poems, interviews, and photographs that speak to the experience of aging---the joys, the rewards, and the losses.

New York, N.Y.: Birch Lane Pr, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing Full # line. Hardcover. Fine -/Fine -. *First Printing* ( full #-line ). The book is in fine - condition; whistle-clean inside, unmarked, outside is as clean with stiff covers, clean boards and would be fine if not for a slight softening to binding with a minor waviness near head and tail of spine, corners are fine, no edge-wear at all. The dj is in fine - condition, a minor bit of rubbing. // a very nice copy.

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Small pencil markings throughout book made by previous owner, checks and small and medium vertical lines in margins. Remainder mark on bottom edges. otherwise a near fine book. Price intact.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hyperion Books for Children, 1998. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. **Inscribed and signed by author on title page; Third Printing (#-line starts at 3)** "The Other Shepards" walks the fine line between fantasy and reality with exquisite balance. It is wonderful; an unforgettable treasure." -- Karen Hesse, Newbery Award-winning author of 'Out of the Dust.'

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, A Borzoi Book, 1968. 1st Edition, assumed . Hardcover. Very Good. M. J. Mott. Jane Grigson's first culinary book, a classic with others to follow. Whistle-clean inside, unmarked, has one corner crease on one page in the index. Lacks a dj but the covers and binding are bright and colorful, pinks, orange, and yellow with a drawing of a pig at the center of front and back cover. A little edge wear at the head and tail of spine ends and corner wear at all 4 corners with one corner bumped. 1968. 349 pages and XVI pages of index. A handsome book. With many simple and elegant line drawings of food within rendered by M. J. Mott.

Israel, 2000. Soft cover. Fine -. Hebrew Edition ** 2000. Fine- condition, whistle-clean and unmarked, shiny wrappers, Israeli novel.