Search Results: Authors starting with S from Borg Antiquarian

New York: The Penguin Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. photos. SIGNED Presentation Copy by the Author, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over black boards with author's name in gold on cover, 8 full color glossy illustrations and a few in-text charts, Mylar-protected pale gold dust jacket (unclipped), xiii + 386 pages. SIGNED Presentation Copy. Exceptional Study in Exceptional Condition by the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Poverty.

New York Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, purple cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial aqua dust jacket (unclipped), with a human eye with radiating lines, xiv + 326 + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note on the Type. Dr. Oliver Sacks (1933 - 2015) was a physician, best-selling author, historian of science, and professor of neurology. He is the author of many books using case histories, including Musicophilia, Awakenings, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. Dubbed "The Poet Laureate of Medicine" by The New York Times.<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITON internally & externally. Bright clean dust jacket (unclipped). Slight rubbing to rear panel of dj. No previous owner or remainder markings.

New York: Bramhill House, 1950. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Carter Lucas. 4to, grass-colored buckram with black lettering on spine & cover, profusely illustrated with B&W photos and drawings by Carter Lucas, Mylar-protected photographic & illustrated dust jacket (unclipped), green map endpapers, xix + [i] + 235 pages. EXCELLENT study retracing the 1804+ trek of Lewis & Clark. The book is based upon the explorer's own journals and maps, and is illustrated very comprehensively, so that anyone who wants to reconnect with the expedition and its wilderness is well equipped to do so. SUPERIOR CONDITION! Dj has a few clean nicks.

Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1992. First Edition. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, red boards with small gold-embossed device on cover of flames surrounding the devil holding hands with two flanking victims, illustrated with sketch (p.250), Mylar-protected jacket (unclipped) by Arnie Fenner, [x] + 300 pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! SIGNED! Great Chicago-based noir and supernaturalism from this excellent cult wrtiter. "A fire is burning in the alleys and tenements of The Windy City"; it's leaving burned corpses in its path, and it's up to Chicago cops to figure out who or what is causing it. Horror.

New York Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1942. First Printing in America. Cloth. Very Good/Good +. Bob Kuhn. 8vo, publisher's original forest green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover with an Art Nouveau tree blindstamped and enscrolled on front cover; illustrated with ~ 25 B&W illustrations: in-text vignettes and ~ 5 full-page plates of deer & woodland creatures, 274 pages. CHILDREN'S CLASSIC by Felix Salten (1869 - 1945). Published in America by Bobbs-Merrill during World War II; three years before the author's death. <br /> <br /> Solid, tight and clean copy with light wear. Spine and cover have rather bright gilt lettering. Very light uniform age-toning to heavy stock wartime paper. Plates are bright with sharply defined black drawings and No foxing. Slight roughness to lower edge of page 83. Moderate wear to the scarce pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with edgewear and chipping (three ~ 1" losses to front panel). No internal markings… Read More

New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999. First Edition Thus Illustrated. Pictorial boards. Fine. Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. Signed by the illustrators Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher on the title page; small quarto (9 1/4" x 7 1/4" x 1"); publisher's original purple & gold-accented boards with inset color photo of Bambi as a faun on front cover; Foreword by John Galsworthy, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher with glossy color double-spread frontispiece of Bambi & his mother + 16 full-page color plates of deer & woodland creatures + color endpapers expanding the scope of the cover art; 185 pages + [186] About the Illustrators + [4] double-spread artwork. ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S CLASSIC by Felix Salten (1869 - 1945) SIGNED BY BOTH ILLUSTRATORS. <br /> <br /> BAMBI was first published in America in 1928 by Simon & Schuster just before the market crashed and Great Depression began! This splendidly… Read More

Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/None. 8vo, olivine cloth with gold ruling along margins and gold spine lettering, [i] plates & frontistpiece, xxvii + 456 pages. Major study! Contents: Bible. N. T. Gospels: Criticism, interpretation...; Bible. N. T. Gospels: Criticism, Textual - Synoptic problem. Includes essays by W. Sanday, Sir John C. Hawkins, Bart., B. H. Streeter, W. C. Allen, J. Vernon Bartlet, W. E. Addis, and N. P. Williams. Superior condition internally (though there are occasional very light pencil marks in margins) and externally (bright and tight).

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, thick 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a colorful painting by Paul Sample, [xii] + 1067 pages. Carl August Sandburg (1878 - 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, writer, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). <br/> <br/> Remembrance Rock is Carl Sandburg's only novel. Sandburg described it as an epic, weaving the mystery of the American Dream with the costly toil and bloody struggles that gone to keep alive and carry further that Dream. The author, his wife, and… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good +. SIGNED by the Author on a free front endpaper, thick 8vo, green cloth with silver lettering on spine & front cover, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) with wallpaper background, top page edges stained green for dust protection by publisher, green endpapers with reproductions of cartes de visite & photos of Sandburg's family & friends, 445 pages. Carl August Sandburg (1878 - 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, writer, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg enjoyed great appeal as a poet, balladeer, and author. He was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature," Sandburg ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS is Sandburg's reminiscence based on his early life in Galesburg, Illinois. It's a nostalgic view of small-town life and American history. Overall… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, brown quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over gold boards with "JS" stamped in gilt on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial red lettered dust jacket (unclipped) depicting blue eyes against a black background, tan endpapers, [x] + 407 pages. John Sandford, real name John Roswell Camp (born 1944), is an American novelist and former journalist. The novel is one of 25 Lucas' Davenport "Prey" mysteries.<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally in a comparable dust jacket! No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine over blue-black boards with small silver "JS" on cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with art by Ken Knuston, [xii] + 321 pages. SIGNED! Exceptional Condition! "Before Lucas Davenport and the brilliant Prey novels, there was Kidd -- artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal -- and his sometime partner/sometime lover, LuEllen. The Army had left Kidd with a dislike for bureaucratic organization and the skills to do something about it, but it hadn't prepared him for the day a woman appeared at his door. . . "--blurb.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2021. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on a publisher's tipped-in front endpaper, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over bright blue boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with blue water bubbles, 423 pages. John Sandford, real name John Roswell Camp (born 1944), is an American novelist and former journalist. The novel is one of 25 Lucas' Davenport "Prey" mysteries.<br /> <br /> SIGNED & in SUPERIOR CONDITION internally & externally in a bright, clean unclipped dust jacket with one clean nick at the top of its spine! Previous owner's date at top of ffe. No remainder marks.

U.K.: Mantle, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Thick 8vo, cloth over boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), colored map endpapers of Europe, ribbon page marker, [x] + [593] pages. A provocative political thriller and exciting alternative history that's set in Britain during the 1950's after it surrendered to Nazi Germany on May 9th, 1940, just before Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. Exceptional condition!

Rome, 1931. original. SIGNED head-and-shoulders printed photographic portrait (4.75" x 6") of the distinguished and elegant author-teacher-and-philosopher (1863-1952). Rare and Fine SIGNED photogravure portrait of the moustached philosopher Santayana during his reclusive years in Italy. The author-professor-philosopher enlivened philosophy and literature with his elegant essays. Among many notables that he influenced were T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. He is perhaps best known for the saying: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 2004. First Edition, Later Printing. Boards. Very Fine/Fine. W. Valentine Atkinson. INSCRIBED boldly--possibly by the Author as "San" [unverified]--on the front free endpaper; square 8vo (7" x 8" x 1"); illustrated with 40 color photos; glossy dark gray boards with silver lettering on spine; archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a fly fisherman in a beautiful stream; dark green endpapers, 222 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. Presenting 50 of the world's finest locations for fly fishing, the author describes the essence of fishing in exotic and beautiful locations. From Cuba to Kamchatka or the Florida Keys to Mongolia, this guide provides the information and inspiration for more ambitious fishing adventures.<br/> <br/> Chris Santella is the author of 21 books, including 15 titles in the Fifty Places series. Based in Portland, Oregon, he is a lover of fly fishing and contributor to the… Read More

N.P. [NYC]: Xlibris Corp, 2002. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic gray-blue-black dust jacket (unclipped) with faces taken by Santorelli, charcoal endpapers, 552 pages. Lana Santorelli is a New York artist, photographer, and writer. This appears to be her first book. It is a family saga about Sicilians who fled their troubled land and their eldest son who built an empire. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects! No remainder marks.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1947. First English Edition [no impression indicated; presumed first]. Cloth. Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper adding his address [possibly Author's own copy], small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/8"), red cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial and impressionistic dust jacket (unclipped: price 8s. 9d.), 336 pages. William Saroyan (1908 - 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. After the studio rejected his 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy (1943). Saroyan is regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.<br /> <br /> The Adventures of Wesley Jackson is Saroyan's strongly anti-war novel largely based on his own experiences. The author felt that he had been pressed into the service,… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Focal Point / National Geographic, 2010. First Edition [lacks clear number line but is a presumed 1st printing]. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Joel Sartore. SIGNED by the Master Photographer on the title page, oblong 8vo (7 1/4" x 10 3/8" x 7/8"), black cloth with "vanishing" black-on-black incused title on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an endangered red wolf, Foreword by Joel Sartore, filled with ~ 80 glossy color photos of endangered critters (and facing descriptions--many by Nat Geo writer Verlyn Klinkenborg) taken--usually with great effort--by this National Geographic master photographer, N.P. [~160] pages. Weight: 10.6 oz. Very Fine or "As New" SIGNED copy with astonishing color photographs and accompanying texts. Tight, bright, immaculate copy with glossy color images. Comparably VF unclipped glossy dust jacket with photos front and rear.<br/><br/>Renowned National Geographic… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. Thick small 4to (9 1/2" x 6 3/8"), lavender quarter cloth over black boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Freud with cigar before his couch drawn by David A. Johnson, xviii + 549 pages. Jean-Paul Sartre (French: 1905 - 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in Existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. Sartre was also noted for his open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but rather gracefully refused the honor. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! A fascinating treatment of the… Read More

Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, deep red cloth with gold script lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a leather-helmeted pilot by his biplane, illustrated with a horse-shoe on the title page, pictorial endpapers with blue tree on free endpapers,182 pages. Walter Satterthwait (1946 - 2020) was an author of mysteries and historical fiction. His first novel, Cocaine Blues, appeared when he was thirty-three. He wrote several historical mysteries with intriguing situations, including a surprising visit to the American West by Oscar Wilde in Wilde West. This historical fiction mystery "is a look back at the life of a real flapper-era socialite [Emily Vanderbilt] and her ladie's-man- hard-boiled-pulp-writer husband, burning the candle at both ends and in the middle, spending a fortune during what the rest of the country was experiencing… Read More