Search Results: Titles starting with G from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Henry Holt and Co., 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Sue Grafton on the title page in her uniqque and beautiful calligraphic hand. Written with Sue Grafton's full cooperation and including some of her own insights, two authors create a biographical background for the mystery writer's beloved heroine Kinsey Millhone, covering such topics as where she went to school and her views on justice and moral order. 50,000 first printing. Scarce signed thus and in this condition. New, unread, first edition, first printing (Opened only for signing) in flawless new mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped{ M103

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Henry Holt and Co., 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed on title page by author in her beautiful calligraphic hand. On 5th May, Kinsey Millhone celebrates her birthday, moves back into her apartment and is hired to bring Mrs Clyde Gersh's mother back from the Mojave desert. She also finds out that she has made ionto Tyrone Patty's hit list. This is the seventh book featuring Kinsey Millhone. "G" IS FOR GUMSHOE is the seventh celebrated Kinsey Millhone novel in the 'alphabet' series and the second in the seris to winboth the Anthony and Shamus Awards as Best Novel. Sue Grafton was one of the most popular female writers, both in the US and in the UK before her untimely death in 2017 at the age of 77. Very fine, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. Scarcein this condition. M103

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Winner of the 1998 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work. Offers a biographical background for Kinsey Millhone, the heroine of Sue Grafton's mystery novels. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF31

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Ace, 2007. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gathered here for the first time are eight Alastair Reynolds' stories and novelettes set in the universe of REVELATION SPACE, his first bestselling blockbuster. GALACTIC NORTH, including several brand-new stories written specially for this collection. n. Includes an Afterword by the author. Reynolds stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. REVELATION SPACE and PUSHING ICE were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; REVELATION SPACE, ABSOLUTION GAP, DIAMOND DOGS and CENTURY RAIN were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award and CHASM CITY won the British Science Fiction Award.Mint, new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

Picador, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on his personal, laid-in (not affixed) bookplate in black fountain ink. (Author famously does not sign the books themselves.) After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of GALATEA 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting. Richard Powers other novels include THREE FARMERS ON THEIR WAY TO A DANCE, PRISONER'S DILEMMA, THE GOLD BUG… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Walker & Company, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Deemed by Albert Einstein to be "the father of modern physics...of modern science altogether," the man who dropped cannonballs from the Tower or Pisa, improved the telescope to discover the moons of Jupiter, and defended Nicolaus Copernicus's theory of the Earth's orbit was, in his day, considered a heretic.Dava Sobel, the author of LONGITUDE, the story of John Harrison's invention of the chronometer, returns with GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, a fascinating biography that gives an intimate look at the life of Galileo through the 124 letters written by his eldest daughter, Virginia, published in translation for the first time from the Italian. Virginia was one of Galileo's three children born out of wedlock. Together with her depressive younger sister, she was placed in the Convent of San Matteo near Galileo's Florence home… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes A GAMBLING MAN, from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. California, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with a renowned Private Investigator in Bay Town. Feeling lucky, he stops off at a casino in Reno, where he meets an aspiring actress, Liberty Callahan. Together, they head west on a journey filled with danger and surprises - because Archer isn't the only one with a secretive past. Arriving in a town rife with corruption, Archer is tasked with finding out who is doing everything they can to disrupt the appointment of a top official. Then two seemingly unconnected people are murdered at a burlesque club. In a tight-lipped community, Archer must dig deep to reveal the connection between the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Tor Books, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A young man plagued by the ability to see ghosts races to save the mythological land of Tara from a terrible fate in Erika Lewis's stunning debut, GAME OF SHADOWS.Thousands of years ago in Ireland, an ancient race fought a world-changing battle - and lost. Their land overrun, the Celtic gods and goddesses fled, while the mythical races and magical druids sailed to an uncharted continent, cloaked so mankind could never find it. This new homeland was named Tara. In modern day Los Angeles, Ethan Makkai struggles with an overprotective mother who never lets him out of her sight, and a terrifying secret: he can see ghosts. Desperate for a taste of freedom, he leaves his apartment by himself for the first time - only to find his life changed forever. After being attacked by dive-bombing birds, he races home to find the place trashed and his mother gone. Ethan… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Poseidon Pr, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author with black sharpie on title page. An award-winning reporter and author tells the inside story of how a special team of FBI agents cracked the case against "Teflon Don" John Gotti, using high-tech bugs and informants like Sammy "the Bull" Gravano. Fine, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF70

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Original Wraps. As New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Includes interviews with Martin Scorsese; Leonardo DiCaprio; Daniel Day-Lewis; Cameron Diaz, and other principals involved in the making of the film: the cinematographers, designers, screenwriters, and producers; the complete shooting script; a historical introduction by writer Luc Sante, the film's technical advisor; sketches of the lavish sets and costumes, and a portfolio of behind-the-scenes photographs by Brigitte Lacombe. This is the inside look at how an epic film, envisioned by its director for twenty-five years, finally got made. As new, in stiff pictorial wraps, as issued without dust jacket. ABOFC

New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A77

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Counterpoint, 2003. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L37

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 1992. First English-Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L40

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Paul Schumann, a German-American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hit man known equally for his brilliant tactics and for taking only "righteous" jobs. But when a hit goes wrong and Schumann is nabbed, he's offered a stark choice: kill Reinhard Ernst, the man behind Hitler's rearmament scheme, and walk free forever-or be sent to Sing-Sing and the electric chair. The instant Paul sets foot in Berlin his mission becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, with danger and betrayal lurking at every turn. For the next forty-eight hours, as the city prepares for the coming summer Olympics, Schumann stalks Ernst, while a dogged criminal police officer and the entire Third Reich security apparatus search frantically for the American. Packed with fascinating period detail and… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W W Norton and Company, Inc., 2008. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author of HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L74

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Inc., 2006. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. M23/M31

Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. On April 20, 1843, Garibaldi's Red-shirts were born in Montevideo, Uruguay. In May, 1915 they died in France, in the forests of the Argonne. During those seventy years the Garibaldini fought in the name of liberty throughout half the world. The Garibaldini were active above all in Italy, where they made a fundamental contribution to Italy's birth as a nation. Fine, in near-fine (price-clipped at lower front flap), mylar-protected dust jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Publications, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Author's first novel and the John Creasey Award Winner for Best First Crime Novel. Maureen O'Donnell wasn't born lucky. A psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse, she's stuck in a dead-end job and a secretive relationship with Douglas, a shady therapist. Her few comforts are making up stories to tell her psychiatrist, the company of friends, and the sweet balm of whisky. She is about to end her affair with Douglas when she wakes up one morning to find him in her living room with his throat slit. Viewed in turn by the police as a suspect and as an uncooperative, unstable witness, Maureen is even suspected by her alcoholic mother and self-serving sisters of being involved. Worse than that, the police won't tell her anything about Douglas's death.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2003. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Foreword by John LeCarre. Translated by Euan Cameron. Basis (together with Bizot's sequel, LE SILENCE DU BOURREAU) of thesensational new film, THE GATE, directed by Regis Wargnier (who also directed INDOCHINE, winner of five Cesars and an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film) and starring Raphael Personnaz (as Bizot), Phoeung Kompleak (Comrade Duch), and Olivier Gourmet (Marsac). As new, unread. first edition, first printing,, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFB3

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Set just after the events of September 2001, about a twenty-year-old woman from a small midwestern farm, making her way, coming of age. Under the novel's languid, easygoing surface, Moore's deft, lyrical writing brings us up against the heart of racism, the shock of war, and the carelessness perpetrated against others in the name of love. Author also of ANAGRAMS, BIRDS OF AMERICA, LIKE LIFE, WHO WILL RUN THE FROG HOSPITAL?, and BARK, among others. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L80