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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Louis A. Godey, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus. Six individual issues bound in one volume without monthly covers and ads. Octavo, 9 3/4" tall, vi + 572 pages with many intertextual black and white illustrations + 6 monthly hand-colored plates, 6 black and white steel plates, + 7 printed color plates (patterns) + extra volume number plate and index, three-quarter leather. A very good copy overall, cover leather worn through to boards at fore-corner tips, leather back strip rubbed at hinge fold, hinges secure but cracked, internal binding is solid, endpapers moderately foxed, front free endpaper missing, volume title and accompanied plate loose, but with internal pages generally clean and moderately yellowed, with minor scattered foxing, most tissue guards present.

New York, New York: The Gunton Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Briefly the premier American magazine of economics. Single volume containing 6 issues, editorially complete, with covers and advertisements removed. Quarto, 9 1/2" tall, 480 pages, several plates, gilt titles on three-quarter leather over brown cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover overall, binding solid, paper moderately yellowed, but cover leather worn through at fore-corner tips and spine scuffed.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997-06-30. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 222 pages, black quarter cloth with gilt title on spine; publisher's review slips laid in. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean dust jacket.

Boston, Massachusetts: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1924. First edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 308 pages, gilt titles and top fore-edge, decorative blue cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper clean and lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Caesar Kleberg Wildlife, 1985-06-01. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket if issued. Small quarto, 10 1/4" tall, xvi + 374 pages with intertextual black and white illustration, green titles on beige cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, light exterior soiling, binding tight, paper cream white but with foxing at the top fore-edge. Without dust jacket, if issued. Because of the larger size and weight, this volume will require some additional postage.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 158 pages, blue cloth. A very good, generally clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with minor shelf wear, light fading to cloth at the edges, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a good, clean, lightly edge worn and rubbed dust jacket with small chips at the folds and at ends of backstrip, with original price present.

PublishingWorks, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner. Octavo, 9" tall, 242 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A very good, generally clean, neat soft cover with minor shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white, with a previous owner's name on the front endpaper.

W. W. Norton & Company; NY, 1947. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Very Good minus. Octavo, 8 1/4 " tall, 383 pages, gray cloth with blue lettering and decoration on spine. A very good, sturdy and clean early printing, with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, BUT paper light to moderately yellowed with a previous owner's name penned on the front endpaper. In a very good minus, lightly edge worn dust jacket with slight chipping at the fold edges, some darkening to the back strip, with the original price present.

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover--cloth. Very good/Very good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 293 pages, green cloth with silver title on spine. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, clean, lightly edge worn dust jacket with a short tear at the top of back strip, with original price.

Granville, Ohio: Limekiln Press, 1997. First Edition, limited. Hardcover. Near Fine/Without dust jacket (none issue. #31 of 100 limited edition, printed by hand by Paul Evans Holbrook at The King Library Press, wood engravings by Siri Beckman at her press in Maine. Octavo, 9 2/3" tall, ix + 81 pages, handmade paper, sewn binding, marbled orange paper over boards with paper title label. Errata sheet laid in with two addition poems. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear (soft handmade paper outer layer has rubbed through to inner boards at one corner tip and picked up some very slight soiling), interior fine, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white.

W. W. Norton, 1974. First American Edition, First Pr. Hardcover. Very good minus/Very Good. Sold as a nice original reading copy only. Octavo, 8 1/3" tall, 302 pages, orange quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good (minus), first edition with moderate shelf wear, light wear at the fore-tips, some fraying to cloth at ends of the spine; binding tight, paper cream white, but with some foxing at the fore-edges. In a good, moderately edge worn dust jacket, with light, sporadic foxing, color fading along the back strip, with the original price.

New York, New York: Amy Einhorn / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 294 pages, blue boards with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket, with the original price.

Boston, Massachusetts: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. The General Repository and Review. [To be issued quarterly 1812; two volumes, complete as is] Vol. 1 (volume one): January and April; Vol. 2. (volume two), July and October; 1812; On Comets (Winthrop / Oliver); Expeditions to the Sources of the Missippi (Pike); Treatise on Bridge Architure (Pope); Life of J.S. Semler; Dr. Priestley and Horsley, etc. 4 issues bound in 2 vols. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall; vol. 1: iv + 474 pages; vol. 2: 412 pages; full leather with gilt decorations and gilt spine titles. A good, clean, neat hard cover edition overall with moderate exterior shelf wear, BUT front cover broken loose at hinges on both volumes, fore-corner tips worn through to boards; interiors very good, internal bindings tight, paper clean and moderately yellowed with very light or little foxing.

Boston, Massachusetts: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1813. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 issues bound in 1 vol. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall; iv + 408 pages + 248 pages; three-quarter leather over marbled boards (a private library binding). A very good, clean, neat hard cover edition overall with minor exterior shelf wear, and rubbing at the corners; interiors are very good, internal bindings tight, paper clean and moderately yellowed with very light or little foxing but primarily at the endpapers.

New York, New York: Atheneum, 1966 . First Edition. Hardcover. very good/very good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 275 pages, gilt tiles on green cloth. A very good, clean, neat hardcover first edition, with light shelf wear but slight color fading to the cloth at the margins, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white with some very slight scattered foxing to the fore-edge. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket, with original price.

New York, New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall. xi + 439 pages, brown cloth with clean, intact paper label on front panel, illustrated endpapers. A very good, clean hardcover first edition with moderate shelf wear to bottom edges, two very small tears to cloth at top and bottom of backstrip, hinges and binding tight, fore-edges yellowed, paper clean, cream white, with paper label removed from backstrip and neatly pasted to front free endpaper. Fictional account of Temple Franklin, grandson of Benjamin Franklin.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989-09-23. First Edition, First Printing. hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 310 pages, blue quarter cloth. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, dust jacket, and with the original price present.

Viking; NY, 1986-06-16. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 280 pages, beige quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white but a remainder mark on the bottom fore-edge and a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. In a near fine lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Machmadim Art Editions: New York, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. Signed by Abraham Walkowitz. Hebrew text. Quarto, 11 1/4" tall, iv + vii (title and text pages) with 48 black and white illustration throughout, yellow titles on red cloth. A good, generally clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, BUT for city-soot soiling to the exterior boards, binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with foxing to the fore-edges and endpaper gutters and occasional soiling to the page margins. Without dust jacket if issued. This copy has a four page saddle stitched brochure about the artist with English text by Isaac Lichtenstein and also signed by Abraham Walkowitz. The cover sheet of the brochure is soiled at the bottom margin, signed at the top above the title. The wire saddle stitch is rusting.

New York, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1995. 3rd printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 278 pages, black boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price.