Search Results: Authors starting with G from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Berlin, Germany: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus. German text. Single volume. Quarto, 10" tall, viii + pages 475 - 832 + 2 ads and 4 page publishers insert, brown cloth. A very good minus copy overall, with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper just lightly yellowed, BUT a damp stain to cover, which is also visible at some page margins, though text area is clear. Part of series "Handbuch der Astrophysik". Note: Overseas shipping is quite expensive at present and likely more than the cost of the book.

New York, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Without dust jacket (if issue. Octavo, 9" tall, 82 pages, white cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. Without dust jacket.

New York, New York: Dial Press, 1970. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 344 pages, black cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with light shelf wear, light yellowing to fore-edges, a number (29) penned on front free end paper, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a good, lightly soiled dust jacket with small chips and short tears at the folds, with original price.

Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2008. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 292 pages, orange boards. A fine, clean, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, gently read; binding tight, paper white. In a fine, clean dust jacket, with the original price present.

Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 12mo, 7 1/8" tall, [ii] + 400 pages three-quarter leather over marbled boards. A good plus, clean, hardcover first edition with significant shelf wear and rubbing to the corners, front hinge broken and cover loose, fore-corner tips through to boards, gilt titles on black leather spine label, rear hinge cracked but secure and internal binding solid and neat, pages clean and lightly yellowed with some foxing to the fore-edges, with a previous owner's bookplate partly removed from the front endpaper and a previous owner's name torn from the top of the title page (above the title). An early novel concerning the effects of the Industrial Revolution

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991-04-30. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo 8 1/2" tall, 228 pages, blue quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean hard cover with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In near fine, clean, slightly edge worn dust jacket, with original price.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. With eleven b&w drawings plus illustrated end papers by Herbert L. Fink. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 323 pages, gray cloth with silver title on spine. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a good only dust jacket with considerable edge chipping and some darkening along the back strip. A terrific reading copy.

London, England: Seely and Co, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus. 4 titles in 1 vol. Quarto, 10 3/4" tall, 100 pages + 10 plates; 104 pages + 4 plates; 112 pages + 6 plates; 96 pages + 8 plates (412 pages + 28 plates total); gilt tiles, gilt decorations and top edge, decorative maroon cloth. A very good, clean volume overall, with minor shelf wear, cloth just starting to fray at top and bottom edges of spine and fore-corner tips; some fading to cloth color along the back strip; gilt title and decoration on front panel bright; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with light foxing to fore-edges (top edge gilt quite bright) as well as to the margins of the plate pages. Note: overseas shipping is prohibitively expensive at present.

Winston-Salem, N.C: Palaemon Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket (if issue. This first edition is limited to three hundred copies" signed on the limitation page by the author. Small quarter, 10" tall, 62 pages, laid paper, paper title label on black cloth,; a very good clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear and light exterior cloth color fading; interior fine, binding tight, paper cream white.

New York, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 378 pages; illustrated map end papers. Publisher's review slip laid in. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with moderate shelf wear, bumping to the bottom fore-tips, hinges and binding tight, paper clean, cream white. In a very good (minus), clean dust jacket but with small chips at the folds, several short edge tears, with original price. 'A novel of romance and drama in the Great Lakes Territory'.

UPNE, 2003-05-01. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Quarto, 11” tall, 228 pages with intertextual illustration, illustrated wraps. A near fine, clean, neat, soft cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper bright.

New York, New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8" tall, 313 pages, blue cloth with silver lettering. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper slightly yellowed. In a very good (minus), clean dust jacket with rubbing at the fore-tips and at ends of back strip, with original price.

New Directions, 1984-01-01. First Edition, first printing. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, xvi + 298 pages, red cloth. A very good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, binding solid, paper cream white BUT foxing to the fore-edges from long storage in an unheated space. In a very good, lightly edge worn dust jacket, with the original price present.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday; NY, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 208 pages, black cloth. Remainder spray at bottom edge. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition, with light shelf wear to the bottom edges, hinges and binding tight, paper clean and cream white. In a very good, lightly edge-worn dust jacket and with original price.

New York, New York: Arcade, 1994. First Edition, First Printingb. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 323 pages, blue quarter cloth with silver title on spine. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean, slightly edge worn dust jacket, with original price. [NOTE: epilogue at end of text is bound in upside down. This error has been noted on other volumes of this title.]

Harper & Row, 1984-10-01. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 407 pages, green quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, gently read, binding solid, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean dust jacket, with the original price.

Ballantine Books, 2013. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 426 pages, light blue boards with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 191 pages, brown quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, clean dust jacket with a one-inch tear at top margin, slight fading along the back strip, with the original price.

New York, New York: Pushcart Press / W.W. Norton, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Near Fine/Very Good-. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 399 pages, white quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good (minus), clean dust jacket but with several short edge tears and two small stains on front panel, with original price.

Benbow, Printer and Publisher, Castle Street, Leicester Square, 1822. Early printing. Hardcover. Good plus/Without dust jacket. Offered as a scarce title, despite difficult condition. Originally published in 1807, when the poet was 19, this edition appeared two years before his death. 16mo, 6" tall, 183 pages, printed spine titles on label, gray boards. A good plus, hard cover with significant shelf wear, minor exterior soiling, fore-corner tips rubbed through, spine rubbed through at all edges, label chipped, interior very good, hinges and binding solid, laid rag paper generally clean and lightly yellowed with deckled edges, a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper, with very minor scattered foxing.