Search Results: Authors starting with G from The Parnassus BookShop

USA: Simon & Schuster, 1983. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Mary Power. Tarde Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and bright, unmarked card cover; binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Learn how to break the ice and start a conversation, make new friends. Illustrated guide to body language. 127 pages. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1983.

Middlesex, England: Echo Library, 2006. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback As New Clean, bright, unmarked wraps in burgundy, with feather boder to front. Internals as new also. Author Emile Gaboriau, 1832-1873, was a French writer, novelist and journalist who pioneered detective fiction--and inspired Arthur Conan Doyle with his Sherlock Holmes detective fiction. In his novels, he follows the casreer of master detecitve Monsieur Lecoq of the French Surete, solving mysteries all over Paris. He is a scientifically-minded detective, methodically in his investigations. This novel is the fifth novel Gaboriau wrote featuring Monsieur Lecoq, first published 1869. In a tavern in a bad neighborhood a double murder takes place and the French police are baffled and Lecoq, with his constable, become obsessed with catching the criminal. 194 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2006, Published by Echo LIbrary, Middlesex, England

New York: Crown Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good+ Dust Jacket in Mylar Cover. Bright and clean red half cloth with black titles, black paper-wrapped boards. Clean and unmarked, tight and solid sewn binding. Square with sharp corners. Spine heel compressed, faint wear to spine head, no other edge wear. Internals spotless, no creases. Dust jacket is clean, unclipped, with light edgewear to corners and edges.The book opens with the first diocesan court of inquiry into the case of Amy Wannamaker, an intelligent adolescent girl with a Catholic background. Amy has begun to heal psychic illnesses and has had a vision--is she an American Bernadette? Her vision is believed to be a black Madonna. From this premise comes violence, hysteria, and religious fanaticism. Bernadette Black is a modern-dress witch hunt, with lives are shattered by the unfolding fear and prejudice. 243 pages. 5.75… Read More

William Morrow Paperbacks, 2007. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. William Morrow & Company 2007 Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book with slight wear to lower corner. A unique, compelling compendium of stories with a comingling of styles and outre vignettes. 360 pp plus P. S. Insights and Interviews.8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. William Morrow Paperbacks

U.S.A: Vintage Books/Random House, 1994. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Cover is clean and unmarked with light wear all around edges; tight and square binding. Pages have no markings or creases, clean, not toned. The story is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, where a young man is an unwitting part of a liquor store shoot-out. He is the only one who makes it out alive and is convicted and sentenced to death. Another protagonist has just returned from university to teach school on the plantation. He is thinking of leaving but his grandmother convinces him to visit the prisoner. The bond that develops between the two brings understanding, a sense of place, compassion, 256 pages, 8 x 5 inches. 1994, Vintage Books/Random House, USA

USA: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacker in Very Good Condition. An inside account of the high-stakes world of Manhattan residential real estate. Fine binding of black half cloth with gilt titles, brown paper-wrapped boards, very clean and unmarked, imperfection is publication to upper corner where paper over the tip is not entirely sealed down. Rem mark, otherwise page edges clean and white. Internals as new. Very clean unclipped jacket has slight wrinkling along some edges. "A satisfying comedy of manners about snobbishness and land lust among America's overachievers--- ". Steven Gaines probes the super secret world of Manhattan luxury apartments where real estate costs the most and the right address matters even more. He trains his eye on rich people behaving badly, outlandish displays of ego, outrageous behavior, blood feuds, status hunger,… Read More

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Lovely purple and ivory binding with gilt titles, pristine. Internals also as new. The four authors invite the reader to savor the joys and strengths of friendship--a humorous and touching book with all the stuff it takes to connect with another realistically and joyfully. 221 pages. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 1998, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

USA: Free Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7. Free Pess, 1998. Hardback First Edition in Very Good Condition with a Jacket As New. James Galbraith argues, backed by statistical evidence, that inequality is not inevitable, not irreversible, nor the result of impersonal market forces; the blame belongs to specific political decisions and the poor economic performance they produced. So today--are things better? A few pages in this clean ad new-looking book have text marked/underlined in ink and pencil, otherwise the book has no other defects. Black half-cloth binding with copper titles, black paper-wrapped boards; very clean and unmarked, tight, solid and square. 350 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Free Press, New York, 1998.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Eighth Printing, Sentry Edition C. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Textured, flexible cloth wrappers. Clean, unmarked, solid book. Pages, clean, unmarked, toned. Sentry Edition books are printed on paper of good quality in a binding that has the durability of cloth. xi, 208 pages. 8.25 x 5.2 inches. Index. 1956, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

U.S.A: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book As New with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. An acute and powerful assessment of where America is heading and not heading and what the consequences will be, from one of the sharpest and most original minds of our time. Published in 1992, his analysis, you will see, was very far-sighted and accurate, compared to the times today. Fine navy half-cloth binding with gilt titles, blue paper-wrapped boards, very clean, tight, solid, and square. Page edges clean and white. Text body as new. Blue and green glossy, unclipped jacket has slight wear to spine head. An acute and powerful assessment of where America is heading and not heading and what the consequences will be, from one of the sharpest and most original minds of our time. Published in 1992, his analysis, you will see, was very far-sighted and accurate, compared to the times today. 195 pages with… Read More

Monthly Review Press, 1997. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket. Monthly Review Press, 1997. Trade Paperback As New. Foreword by Isabel Allende. An outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx--from back of book. Galeano has organized the various factors of Latin American history according to the five centuries of exploitation. Natural resources--such as gold, coffee, and copper--are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande, and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to where they empty into the coffers of the wealth in the United States and Europe. 317 pages, References and Index. 8vo. 1997, Monthly Review Press.

Port Townsend, Washington: Graywolf Press, 1976. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Fourth Printing. Blue wraps with photograph by Mark O'Hern. Clean and unmarked book with slight wear to cover edges, solidly bound. Tess Gallagher's poems are about what she calls the 'true disguises' of the world, the way the world addresses us and what we see and hear instead. 86 pages. 9" x 6". 1976, Graywolf Press, Port Townsend, Washington

USA: Penguin Books, 1992. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. A haunting memoir vividly reminiscent of Isak Dinesen. A memorable and moving narrative of the vast spaces and rugged beauty of Kenya's interior and a memorial to the ones she loved and lost in Kenya. Paperback cover is bright in oranges, navy and black, very clean with slight edgewear, no creases; tight glued binding; text block edges clean and white. Four illustrations section, two in full colour. Internals very clean and completely free from any markings. 315 pages. 6 x 9 inches. Penguin Books, New York, 1992.

USA: Penguin Books, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Now a Major Motion Picture. A haunting memoir vividly reminiscent of Isak Dinesen. A memorable and moving narrative of the vast spaces and rugged beauty of Kenya's interior and a memorial to the ones she loved and lost in Kenya. Paperback cover is bright, very clean with trace wear to extremities, no creases; tight glued binding; text block edges clean and white. Four illustrations section, two in full colour. Internals very clean and completely free from any markings. 315 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2000, Penguin Books, New York, New York, USA

USA: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing of First U.S. Edition. Translated from the French by Jean Stewart, 1969. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. The story of Spain and its people from the rise of the Franco Dictatorship to the present ( 1939-1974). A narrative history and a penetrating analysis of what are often misunderstood years in Spanish history: the years that separate Spain as it is today (1974) from the exhausted Spain of 1939. Questions explored are what happened in the course of 34 years of Francoism; how Spain fared during World War II; how the Caudillo survived the victory of the democratic powers; and much more. Clean and unmarked brown half-cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles, brown boards; light rubbing of extremities; tight and solid and square. Faint stain on top right corner of text block that extends as a shadow on that corner of some pages. Internals quite… Read More

146 Charing Cross Road, London: Charles Scribners Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Volume V of Galsworty's Compact Editon includesThree Novels: The Dark Flower; Beyond; and Saint's Progress. John Galsworthy, 1867-1933, was an English Author noted for his satire on the British upper-middle class, late 19th-early 20th century. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Binding of green buckram w/gilt titles, backstrap gilt decorated with five low raised bands, front with four blind-stamped borders, gilt titles. Very clean and unmarked with slight wear of front lower corner and rubbing of spine head/heel. Lower text block has a circular 1 cm spot and the corner is smudged. Rough cut. Title page decorated with border of red design; frontispiece with same red border, of Bury House, John Galsworthy's Home in Sussex, England. Pages very clean, no marks, no tears, lightly toned. 739 pages. 7.75 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches. Publisher: New York. Charles Scribners… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Ninth Printing. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. Galsworthy (1867-1933) is known for his portrayl of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. The White Monkey is a Forsyte Chronicle Novel. Clean and solid volume in purple silk cloth binding w/gilt titles. Cloth has a nice clean appearance but there are streaks down the front board of slightly lighter purple. Extremities slightly rubbed.Tight and solid sewn binding. Spine faintly sunned. Endpapers damp-stained on edges-probably what caused streaking on front; does not extend onto text pages, only the endpapers. Fore edge and bottom edge rough cut. Pages quite clean and completely free from any markings, no creases. Publisher: New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.

Berlin, Germany: Im Bertelsmann Lesering, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition, in the German Language. (Beyond: Novel of a Passion). No jacket. Attractive clean & unmarked binding of brown quarter cloth w/ black title panel w/gilt titles and gilt decoration; tan decorative paper-wrapped boards w illustration of early 20th century fashionable lady. Ribbon page marker, frayed at edge. Faint touch of wear to extremities. Pages are clean and unmarked. 287 pages. 7.6 x 4.75 inches. Publisher: Berlin, Germany. Im Bertelsmann Lesering, 1955.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Charles Scribners Sons, 1912. Published October, 1910; This is the Fourth Impression, April, 1912. Small forest green cloth bound book with gilt titles to front and spine. Nice appearance with faint small smudges near upper corner, light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Sewn binding tight, solid and square. Pages 88-89 have spots in the gutter and half-moon light stain at lower edge across both pages, center--otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked, lightly tanned. John Galsworthy, 1867-1933, was an English Author noted for his satire on the British upper-middle class, late 19th-early 20th century.

New York, New York, USA: Harper & Row, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back Hardcover Cookbook with pictorial laminate cover, with pages spiral bound inside the hard cover. Contents include Hot Beginnings--for those savory starters-Barbecuing Birds; Hamburgers and Hot Dogs-more than two dozen ways to prepare them; Grilling Magic with Meats--beef, pork, lamb, veal, venison; Fish of the Fire-fillets, steaks, whole, shrimp, scallops, clams, oysters, mussels; Grilling Vegetables and Grains; Smoke-Touched Salads; Cleaning the Grill; Savory Side Dishes; Sauces, Marinades, and Glazes; Hot and Sweet-poundcake sundae, jubileeed cherries and more. 214 pages. 9.6 x 7 inches. 1990, Harper & Row, New York, New York, USA