Search Results: Titles starting with G from The Book Closet

New York: Bantam, 1991 Blue boards with purple tape binding; silver foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj shows yellowing on the edges; not price clipped; full number line (0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); tight, clean pages. "By the twenty-third century, Earth has had two encounters with massive, mysterious, robotic spacecraft from beyond our solar system -- the obvious handiwork of a technology that far exceeds our own." -- from the DJ

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004 Red boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; Special BEA Edition sticker on front of dj; dj protected with Brodart cover; 404 pps. "Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only 'righteous' assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul is asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place in Berlin. He's to hunt down and kill Reinhard Ernst -- the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament. If successful, Paul will be pardoned and given the financial means to go legit; if he refuses the job, his fate will be Sing-Sing and the electric chair." -- from the dj

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 Green boards with black lettering; edge bumps; spine is starting to loosen; boards show some dark spots; pages yellowing. Pictures available upon request

New York: Daw Books, Inc., 2003 Book Five of Crown of Stars. Light blue boards with black binding; gold foil lettering on spine. DJ protected with Broadart cover. Jacket art by Jody A. Lee. "With THE GATHERING STORM, the long dreaded cataclysm is about to descend on the world as the lost land of the Aoi returns to the eart from which it was cast foroth into the aether millennia ago,." - from the dj

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1945 Red boards with black lettering on spine; corners are bumped and spine edges show wear; some fading and wear on back cover; previous owner's address sticker on ffep; 311 pages.

New York: Tor, 1995 Light blue boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; stated First Edition; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Sine Xanth began, the gargoyles off that magical place have been under a geis to protect the purity of the Swan Knee River, which flows into Xanth from dreary Mundania. (A geis, by the way, is a magical compulsion, on obligation of honor.) But recently the pollution from the outside world has grown ever greater, and young Gary Gar, latest in a long line of gargoyle guardians, is finding it ever m more difficult to fulfill his responsibilities." -- from the dj

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914 Red boards with gilt lettering on front and spine; a ffep appears to have been torn out; 500 pages, all appear intact; pictures available upon request.

Knopf, 1980 1st Edition; DJ Acceptable With Minor Tears

New York: Delacorte Press, 2005 Dings to dj; otherwise nice, clean, tight copy

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2008 Rust colored boards with brown tape binding; copper foil lettering on spine; slight slant to spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, 'New York Times' bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has every created, 'The Given Day' tells the story of two families - one black, one white - swept up in the maelstrom of revolutionaires and anarchists, immikgrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survivial and power." -- from the dj

New York: HarperPrism, 1997 Maroon boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj proected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. "It is 1999. The Last Days, say some; the First, say others. The climate has altered irrevocably, the cities have imploded into vicious shards, and the starts haven't been seen for months. The sky is a shimmering arras of reds and greens and golds, the result of global arming, it is thought." -- from the dj

New York: Ballantine, 2002 Red boards with blue tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; very nice, clean copy. "It was never a war in which the outcome was obvious. Despire their spirit and stamina, the colonists were outmanned and outfought by the brazen British army. General George Washington found his troops trounced in the battles of Brooklyn and Manhattan and retreated toward Pennsylvania. With the future of the colonies at its lowest ebb, Washington made his most fateful decision: to cross the Delaware River and attack his enemy. The stunning victory at Trenton began a saga of victory and defeat that concluded with the British surrender at Yorktown, a momen that changed the history of the world." -- from the dj

New York: EOS, 2007 Book Three of The Percheron Saga. First US Edition; trade paperback; no spine creases; minor shelf wear to edges. "The city-state of Percheron is in crisis. Zaradine Ana has been captured by the mysterious Arafanz and his desert warriors and is being held in their isolated fort. It is also suspected that she is pregnant with Zar Boaz's son, the heir to the throne..." from the back cover

Cleveland: The Commercial Bookbinding Co Spine cover loosening, otherwise tight binding with some shelf wear

New York: The Dial Press, 1948 Grey boards with black embossed title on spine and author's embossed signature on cover; spine is tight and pages are clean.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1994 Light blue boards with gold spine lettering; tight, clean spine and pages. dj has minor bumps on spine edges, but is now protected with a Brodart cover. "The Golden Queen is a stellar tale of love, adventure, sacrifice, and war set in a fantastic future."

New York: Bonanza Books, 1983 Blue boards with gold lettering on spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover; some shelf rubbing; spine ir tight and pages are clean. "Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fifth Series, continues the popular series sedited by Isacc Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg. Culling the very best from the art form, Asimov and Greenberg now concentrate on the years of 1947 and 1948, the time when science fiction was emerging from the so-called Golden Age into the Diamond Age of the genre, as writers approached their subejct with greater maturity and craft." -- from the dj

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013 White boards with black embossed lettering on front cover and spine; dj is not price clippsed and is protected with a Brodart cover; number line from 2 to 10; "It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above allb y his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating paiting that ultimately draws Theo into the criminal underworld." -- from the dj

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1993 Black boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped, but has minor shelf wear; stated First Edition

Delacorte Press, 2002 Yellow boards with gray tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj has minor shelf wear and is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line; signed by author. "As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman - a girl Will had once loved - was found raped and murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein." from the dj.