Search Results: Titles starting with G from The Parnassus BookShop

Soho Crime, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Soho Crime, 2010. Paperback in Very Good Condition. 288 pages 7.5 x 5". Clea and unmarked gently used book. Has filing tags on spine, no library marks inside or on edges. Does not appear to be an ex-library book. Martin Limon detectives navigates the barely controlled chaos of Seoul's red light district as they find out who killed a soldier, who's taking revenge on the killing of several notorious Korean gangsters, and where to find the daughter of an American soldier who has gone missing. 288m pages. 7.5 5". 2010, Soho Crime, New York.

A Dell Book, 1982. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6. First Dell Printing, 1982. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. A Scene of the Crime Mystery Series book. Cover is clean and unmarked, cover art by Newton. A crease to the front and light wrinkling to the back. Binding tight solid and square. Pages toned, clean, unmarked. When it looked like the famous film director Adrian Stoll committed suicide in a clearing in the forest, Inspector Gently refused to close the case--he believed another hand was involved. 220 pages. 12 mo. 1982, Dell Publishing Company.

USA: Delacorte Press/Bantam Doubleday, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Back of jacket has a light smudge line, else fine. Navy quarter cloth with bright and sharp gilt titles, navy boards, spotless, square, sharp corners. Rough cut. Internals immaculate. Set during the 1950s--a young woman steps off a Chicago-bound bus from a small midwestern town, just passing through, not intending to stay--and things don't go as expected. 374 pages. 1994. Delacorte Press/Bantam Doubleday, USA

New York: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Editon Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Foreword by John Walsh. Photographic illustrations. A legendary career inside the FBI--from the Kennedy Assassination to the Oklahoma City Bombing, from 1964 to 1994-- Buck Revell directed or participated in virtually every major FBI investigation and here reveals the brilliance and the deep-rooted flaws behind thirty years of investigations. 515 pages, bibliography and index. 9.5" x 6.5". 1998, Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, New York

Canada: Golden Hinde, LTD, 1986. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Large glossy paper covered pamphlet-style book, stapled, of 16 pages, with text also on inside of the front and back cover. The illustrated story of the 1971-72 reconstruction of the Golden Hinde, the ship in which Sir Francis Drake (admiral, explorer, privateer, imperialist) sailed around the world in the 16th century. The reconstruction is an exact replica of Drake's original Golden Hinde. The plan for the reconstruction has been described as a milestone of naval architecture. She was launched on April 5, 1973. Beautiful illustrations of the ship itself when completed, on front and back of cover, and within, of Drake, his coat-of-arms, views of the planking and caulking-work in progress, the stern showing the carved gilded head of a lion, the main deck, the decoration and armament, the shipyard, Elizabethan dancers on the green preparing for the launch, the launch, the rigging and sails, and the Golden… Read More

USA: Gooseberry Patch, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover comb-bound TAKE-TIME-TO-SMELL-THE-ROSES AND COOK BOOK in FINE Condition. Beautifully and lavishly illustrated-each page a work of art. 6.5 x 9" tall. 219 pages. Includes stories, hints, recipes--for enjoying life's simple pleasures, to relieve the stress of the day, for cutting calories without sacrificing taste, for motivation and reward, stories that warm the heart, hints on 'lettuce' eat healthy, with charming illustrations. Publisher: Delaware, Ohio. Gooseberry Patch, 1996. Makes a nice GIFT.

U.S.A: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1997. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Cover is clean and unmarked. Upper rear corner scuffed, otherwise just a touch of wear to edges. Pages clean, no markings. Color and black and white illustrations. Some songs and musical scores. 393 pages with index. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1997.

USA: Thomas Nelson, Inc, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Seven keys to health and wellness designed to lay a strong foundation for a lifetime of supurb health for you and your family. 320 pages. 1.3 x 6.4 x 9.3 inches. 2005, Thomas Nelson, Inc., USA

San Francisco, CA USA: Chronicle Books, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Nick Bantock. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. A very unusual book. A series of postcards and letters between Griffin, an artist in London and Sabine, an exotic woman on a tropical island. A visual novel--with amazing illustrations and bizarre designs accompanying the postcards and letters. Some articles tipped in. Endpapers an unusual juxtaposition of ocean and London. Red and gray binding with red titles on front and red spine with gilt titles. Jacket bright and clean, red and grey with a parrot, stamps and feathers in a yellow box-most interesting. Jacket has a small closed tear on the lower edge of the spine. Unpaginated. 8 x 8 inches. 1991, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA USA

USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Anton Otto Fischer. Type: Hardback 1913 Hardcover Reprint in Good- Condition. Out-of-Print. 350 pages. C alifornia history physical description, gold mines, mining, miners. Brown full cloth binding with black lettering. The upper part of front panel is discolored to a greenish cast, irregular shape. Boards are aged, corners and spine ends are frayed, scuffed, edges are rubbed. Foxing on endpapers and flyleafs and a few interior pages. Frontispiece illustration of cowboys and gringos. Other illustrations by Anton Otto Fischer. Inner hinge cracked. Sewn binding is tight, backstrap loosened. So the cover is in rough shape but the interior is in remarkably good condition--clean, untorn, some pages with foxing. Illustrations clean and clear. Previous owner name on paste-down. Reprint Published later in October,1913, by Grosset & Dunlap. Originally published October,1913, by Little, Brown and Co.

USA: Macmillan Co,, 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Five Hardcover Volumes in Good Condition. Third Edition with new material 1927. Reissued 1935 This is the Eighteenth Printing, 1953. 96 plates in colour and black & white. These volumes explore in detail the structure and peculiarities of the music of the musicians herein, of the nature and history of the instruments on which the music is performed, and of the biographies and characteristics of its composers--of all such particulars that may throw light on the rise, progress and present (when written) condition of the ART OF MUSIC. Ex-High School Library Volumes. Lib card and stamps on endpapers and text edges, numbers on spine. Binding of clean dark green cloth with gilt imprinted Lyre on the front of each volume, gilt titles and decoration on spine. Volumes are generally clean and tight. Boards are in generally good shape. Clean, some corners bumped with some fraying. Vol I: spine head has small… Read More

USA: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1965. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. 259 pages. Slight edge wear; two lines of darker yellow on the yellow cover. Clean and tight book. Previous owner name on first page. A short bibliography of English Literature, with commentary on the principal editions, commentaries, biographies, and critical works. It also includes an interpretation of the principal periods of English Literature and a detailed summary of the literary criticism that exists pertaining to English Literature. The purpose of the book is to provide the reader with everything needed for a disciplined study of the texts themselves.

New York, New York, USA: Signet Classic/New American Library, 1963. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Foreword by Marcus Cunlife. Gulliver's Travels is Swift's bitter satire, a tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. It appeals to both the very mature and the younger reader--a realistic, profound, terrible fascinating fairy tale.A story of the Land of the Lilliput where people are 6 inches high and the Land of the Brobdingnag where the poeple are 60 feet high. Clean and tight with edgewear, looks worn. Slight creasing of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, a few dog-eared, yellowing. Interesting b/w drawings. 319 pages. Publisher: New York. New American Library, 1963.

U.S.A: Washington Square Press, 1968. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Mass Market Ex-library Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and tight, Very slight edgewear. No creasing of spine. Interior clean, no tears. Pages toned. No marks except lib mks--inconspicuous lib stamps. A nice copy. Gulliver's Travels is J Swift's bitter satire, a tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. It appeals to younger reader's as a fantastic story of the Land of the Lilliput where people are 6 inches high and the Land of the Brobdingnag where the poeple are 60 feet high. 300 pages. Publisher: New York. Washington Square. 1968.

New York, New York, USA: Signet Classic/New American Library, 1963. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Gulliver's Travels is J Swift's bitter satire, a tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. It appeals to younger reader's as a fantastic story of the Land of the Lilliput where people are 6 inches high and the Land of the Brobdingnag where the poeple are 60 feet high. Clean and tight with edgewear, looks worn. Slight creasing of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, a few dog-eared, yellowing. Interesting b/w drawings. 319 pages. Publisher: New York. New American Library, 1963.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A: Hyperion Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Australian author Venero Armanno's American debut novel. Book and Jacket AS NEW. Clean, bright, completely unmarked. Mylar Jacket Cover. A picaresque Romeo and Juliet tale with Australian and Italian flavor. A story of two families at war with an unlikely in-love couple caught in between, in an Australian neighborhood that feels Italian. 336 pp. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall.yperion Books.

England: Paul Holberton Pub, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. 10.25" x 11.5" tall. In navy cloth w/gilt titles -clean, unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. An outstanding collection of Gainsborough's paintings, drawings, prints, books and memorabilia relating to the artist and his time, at the Gainsborough House. This book presents both the highlights of this collection, which had not been published before , and significant new research and insights relating to Gainsborough's art, character, and career. 144 pages, indexed. 2002, Paul Holberton Pub., United KIngdom

USA: Penguin Group USA, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Penguin Group, 2000. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. . 420 pages. Clean, creative wraps, slight cover edgewear. B/w illustrations, Pages clean, no markings. Prev owner inscription on dedication page. Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics", inspired by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun. Includes Sections on In Galileo' time-a chronology of events; Florentine Weights, measures, currency; Bibliography; Chapter Notes; Index. 420 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. 2000, Penguin Group

USA: Penguin Group USA, 2000. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Penguin Group, 2000. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. 420 pages. Clean, creative wraps, light wear around edges, spine heel scuffed; b/w illustrations, Pages moderately toned, clean, no markings. Binding solid and tight. Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics", inspired by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun. Includes Sections on In Galileo' time-a chronology of events; Florentine Weights, measures, currency. 420 pages. Bibliography; Chapter Notes; Index. 8vo. Penguin Group, 2000.

USA: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book Club Edition in Very Good Condition with a Poor Dust Jacket with archival protective cover. Gently used book, no specific defects, clean and unmarked, tight and solid. Jacket with battle ground illustration, very edge worn. A detailed analysis of US Army General Scott Winfield's 1847 campaign to capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American Way of 1846-48. 365 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 2007, University Press of Kansas, USA