Search Results: Titles starting with G from Browsing Is Arousing

Cedar Grove NJ/UK: Dar-Web/John Sherratt & Son, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Record # 405897

Cambridge University Press, 2011. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 379 pages. Scholars have argued about U.S. state development - in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity - for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in the first study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydl's research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development, social policy and citizenship, and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy, and, at the very same time, limited its extent and its effects. Clean copy. Record # 378820

Munich: Prestel, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. These unflinching portraits of Juggalos capture with honesty and sensitivity the community that makes up a vibrant American subculture. The Gathering of the Juggalos has been called the most controversial music festival in the world, headlined by the most hated band in the world, and attended by the most notorious subculture in the world. Each summer, thousands of Juggalos congregate at a privately owned campground, on the Illinois border of the Ohio River, to party. In an article in the Village Voice, Camille Dodero described the five-day festival as a "shantytown psycho-porn amusement park." Yet the Juggalos themselves, along with their leaders--notorious horrorcore rap group Insane Clown Posse--testify to the loyalty, goodwill, and camaraderie that emanate throughout the crowd. This intimate portrait of the Gathering presents Daniel Cronin's images of men, women, and children… Read More

Boston: John F, Jewett, 1849. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 264 pages. Bound in blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-pictorial black morocco spine. frontispiece view and two plates with tissue guards; plates foxed. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 369674

London: Hard Case Crime, 2011. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Gregory Manchess. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. So this girl walks into a bar...and when she walks out there’s a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She’s been doing this for a while, and she’s good at it. And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her.She starts writing down names. And now she’s a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list... Like new. Record # 372438

London: Hard Case Crime, 2005. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Robert McGinnis. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover – and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay. Lawrence Block has won more awards for mystery writing than almost any other living author: 4 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 2 Maltese Falcon Awards, the Nero Wolfe Award, and more. Block was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America, their highest honor. Like new. Record # 372472

London: Hard Case Crime, 2015. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Glen Orbik. Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes. He falls—and falls hard. Soon he’s working with her, against his employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from her husband and put millions in her bank account. But can they do it without landing in jail? And once he's kindled his taste for killing...will he be able to stop at one? Like new. Record # 372541

Herndon, VA: American Water Resources Association, 1996. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 482 pages, minor corner and edge wear, ex-library stamp on half-title page, otherwise, unmarked, bright and tight copy. Record # 457218

London: Hard Case Crime, 2004. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Chuck Pyle. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one that will leave him either a killer — or a corpse.Lawrence Block has won more awards for mystery writing than almost any other living author: 4 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 2 Maltese Falcon Awards, the Nero Wolfe Award, and more. Like new. Record # 372489

London: Hard Case Crime, 2008. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Joe DeVito. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Joe DeVito. Life isn't always cheap south of the border—some lives are worth a million dollars. That’s what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter’s wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he’d saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new. Record # 372478

London: Hard Case Crime, 2008. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Joe DeVito. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Joe DeVito. Life isn't always cheap south of the border—some lives are worth a million dollars. That’s what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter’s wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he’d saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new. Record # 372657

London: Hard Case Crime, 2005. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Richard B. Farrell. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Richard B. Farrell. Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city’s bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt’s help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It’s just like the old days—only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end. Like new. Record # 372469

New York : Simon & Schuster , 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Amy Schwartz. Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. States First Edition on copyright page, but lowest number is 2. Record # 303864

New York : Simon & Schuster , 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Amy Schwartz. Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. First Edition. Record # 368250

NY: Random House, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Roz Chast. Hardcover. Color illustrations by New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast. Small crease on front flap of dust jacket. Record # 202640

US: Somogy Art Publishers , 2008. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 320 pages. Softcover with little to no wear on edges. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Bringing the famed Parisian illustrator to light, this biography centers on Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, who studied at the prestigious Royal Academy but failed to win the coveted Prix de Rome. The study relates that the subject reacted to this disappointment by throwing aside all hopes of a traditional artistic career and hastening out into the thoroughfares of Paris to sketch everything in sight, living an errant, bohemian existence and succumbing increasingly to an obsession with drawing. Detailed and engaging, this recollection demonstrates that, despite his personal eccentricities, Saint-Aubin was employed as an artist all his life. Record # 369024

Munchen: Prestel, 1992. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 300 pages illustrated in color. Gabriele Münter played a vital role in the development of German Expressionism in the early years of the 20th century. She was at the forefront of a group of highly influential avant-garde artists—including her lover, Wassily Kandinsky—who redirected the course of German modernism and shaped Expressionist aesthetics. Münter was a founding member both of the progressive artists' association, the Neue Kunstlervereinigung Munchen (NKVM), and the celebrated avant-garde group, der Blaue Reiter (the Blue Rider). The book focuses on 20 important paintings from the most intensively creative period of her career and illustrates some 30 other works by her. Essays introduce this remarkable woman and her art and discuss her gendered role as an avant-garde artist in the first phase of modernism. GERMAN TEXT. Clean, bright copy. Record # 374356

NY: Harper & Row , 1966. 1st US. hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Guido Rocca. Hardcover in a dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Heavy edgewear and creasing to dust jacket. Closed tear to rear panel. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf. Illustrated end papers. Record # 201807

International Marine Publishing , 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 269 pages. From the dust jacket: "John Leather's definitive study of the gaff rig is twofold: the practical aspects of the rig and the history of gaff rigged craft. John Leather's story of gaff rig is exciting and romantic; featuring such delightful anomalies as a yard building a smuggling cutter alongside a Naval cutter and captains fishing in winter and skippering the great many racing yachts of the late-19th century during summer. The superlative drawings complement the lucid text and the forty photographs represent a unique historical collection". Clean. Record # 372894

Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Three hardcover volumes in a pictorial slipcase, 1056 pages. Few cartoonists ever had as lavish a tribute as a three-volume-slipcased collection, but few are as deserving as Wilson. Collecting 50 years worth of his monthly single page gag cartoons from Playboy, it's a definitive overview of a remarkable talent and viewpoint. Considering the timeframe, Wilson's fabled black humor and art style remain remarkably consistent—as time passes, the drawing renders into slightly blobbier shapes that retain all of their wit just the same—but the source and degree of the humor is a constant. Although best known for his slightly lugubrious subjects—monsters, witches, corpses, vampires and skeletons are frequent visitors to these pages—Wilson also targets consumerism, materialism, and other basic human foibles. As publisher Gary Groth writes in a biography in the third volume, He has constructed a world that is eerily family, unsettlingly… Read More