Antike Steinskulpturen und Neuzeitliche Nachbildungen in Kassel Bestandskatalog
by Gercke, Peter; Nina Zimmermann-Elseify
Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp Von Zabern, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 428pp. Quarto [30 cm] Glossy pictorial boards. Very good plus condition, with gentle bumping at the top fore edge corners of the covers. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with rubbing and light edge wear. German text. Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel Antikensammlung Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. 428 Seiten mit... Read More
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Illinois As It Is
by Gerhard, Fred
Chicago: Keen and Lee, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 451; 5pp. Octavo [20 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with elaborate gilt and blind stamped designs on the spine and front cover. Good. The covers are gently bumped and rubbed. The spine is rolled, and the title and vignette on the spine have faded. The text block is cracked several times,... Read More
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Matilda Jane
by Gerrard, Jean
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Roy Gerrard. Very slim quarto [28.5 cm] Sea-green cloth over boards. With only minor fading and bumping to the extremities. The jacket has light surface and edge wear. Pictures by Roy Gerrard. Matilda Jane was runner-up for the 1982 Mother Goose Award for the... Read More
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Poems of the West
by Gertsmon, S. (Simon)
Boston, MA: Richard G. Badger; The Gorham Press, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. 67pp. Very slim duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth over boards, pictorially stamped in black. The front board is spotted and and both boards have several small light moisture stains. The bottom edge of the front board is also a bit sunned. The extremities... Read More
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Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis
by Gessner, David
Salt Lake City, UT: Torrey House Press, 2021. First edition. Paperback. New. SIGNED. 377pp. Octavo. Green pictorial wraps. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons—of learning our own... Read More
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Upsurge
by Gessner, Robert; Lynd Ward
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 42pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black cloth over boards with bold white lettering on the front board. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward from a wood engraving reproduced by electrotype and printed in black; title page incorporates a detail of the frontispiece; dust jacket, front cover, repeats frontispiece. The book... Read More
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Imagining Global Futures
by Getachew, Adom (Editor)
Cambridge: Boston Review, 2022. Paperback. New. 184pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "What does a just world look like? This volume begins with a planet beset by accumulating crises—environmental, social, and political—and imagines how we can move beyond them. Drawing on the legacy of post-colonial struggles for liberation, Imagining Global Futures explores a range of radical visions for... Read More
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Country of the Minotaur
by Ghiselin, Brewster
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. NF/VG. SIGNED - Bright blue cloth spine and boards. Just a trace of rubbing at the very tip of each of the book's eight corners. Signed and inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper in black pen: "For ---- ------- / in the country... Read More
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Against the Circle
by Ghiselin, Brewster
New York: EP Dutton & Co. Inc, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very good+. 87 pp. Limited edition of 1250 copies. Original orange cloth binding with silver-gilt title to the front cover and spine. Minor wear at extremities. Spine sunned; edges of boards also faintly sunned. Internally fine. Inscribed on the ffep by the author: "For ____ / with... Read More
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Country of the Minotaur
by Ghiselin, Brewster
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED: 115pp. Octavo [20cm]; blue cloth boards. Pea green color used for text on spine and for the illustration on front board. Open and closed tears on dust-jacket spine. 1/4" open tear to head of spine. 1/8" open tear to tail of spine.... Read More
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The Nets
by Ghiselin, Brewster
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 62pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth over boards with the title lettered in gilt on the spine, and the publisher's device stamped in blind on the front board. Very good. The spine and covers show light edge wear. In a very good dust jacket, with light... Read More
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The Nets
by Ghiselin, Brewster
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 62pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth over boards with the title lettered in gilt on the spine, and the publisher's device stamped in blind on the front board. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with just the lightest of wear. Laid in is a... Read More
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The Blue Hotel
by Ghiselin, Brewster
Lincoln, NE: Windflower Press, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. 94pp. Octavo [21.5cm] Pictoral wraps. A literary magazine featuring multiple celebrations of the work of Utah-based poet and professor, Brewster Ghiselin. Among the entries include an essay by Ghiselin's son, an interview with Ghiselin, and poems in admiration of him.
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Country of the Minotaur
by Ghiselin, Brewster
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. SIGNED: 115pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth boards, with a title on the backstrip and a vignette on the front board stamped in light green ink. All vinyl records present and tucked into flap of interior rear board. Includes a type written slip, tucked... Read More
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Country of the Minotaur
by Ghiselin, Brewster
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. SIGNED: 115pp. Octavo [20cm]; blue cloth boards. Pea green color used for text on spine and for the illustration on front board. 1/8" closed tear at head of front flap of dust-jacket. All vinyl records present and tucked into flap of interior back board.... Read More
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The Nets
by Ghiselin, Brewster
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 62pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth over boards with the title lettered in gilt on the spine, and the publisher's device stamped in blind on the front board. Very good. The spine and covers show light edge wear and a slight amount of fading. In a very... Read More
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Light
by Ghiselin, Brewster
Omaha: Abattoir Editions / The University of Nebraska, 1978. Limited first edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 32pp. Thin quarto [28.5 cm] Beige and gray illustrated wraps. Deckled fore edges. Inscribed by Brewster Ghiselin on the front flyleaf to long-term Utah bookseller and poet John Schow and his wife, in the year of publication. Number 95 of 175 copies. There is a... Read More
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The Nets
by Ghiselin, Brewster
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 62pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth over boards with the title lettered in gilt on the spine, and the publisher's device stamped in blind on the front board. Very good. The spine and covers show light edge wear. The endsheets have large areas of darkening. In a... Read More
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Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America
by Giacomelli, Joseph
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. First printing. Hardcover. New. 238 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. Matte black paper over boards with silver stamped title on spine. "Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity. Even people who still refuse to accept the... Read More
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Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth
by Giancola, Donato; [J.R.R. Tolkien]
Nevada City, CA: Underwood Books, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 80pp. Quarto. [31cm] Illustrated paper over boards. Limited signed bookplate laid in. Still in publishers shrink wrap. Hugo and Chesley award-winning Donato Giancola brings his fantastical insight to the famous world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Complete with twenty-eight full color illustrations.
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Letters to Mary 1879-1929
by Gibbons, Helen Bay
Salt Lake City, UT, 1972. Hardcover. 453pp. Quarto [27 cm] Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Very good. Lightly bumped and rubbed at the extremities. The edges of the text block are barely perceptibly stained, and there is a gift inscription on the front pastedown. Else, the pages are clean. The Bay... Read More
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A New Edition Edition, to which is added A Complete Index of the Whole Work. In Five Volumes
by Gibbon, Edward
New York: American Publishers Corporation, 1880. A New Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 626; 631; 622; 662; 899pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper over boards, leather spine labels, and gilt stamped floral designs on the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. The extremities are moderately rubbed, and the spine ends are occasionally a little... Read More
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Kawich's Gold Mine: An Historical Narrative of Mining in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado; and of Love and Adventure Among the Polygamous Mormons of Southern Utah
by Gibbs, Josiah F.
Salt Lake City: Century Printing Company, 1913. Author's edition. Paperback. Good. 228 pp. Original, softcover book with red wrappers. Flake: 3551. Soiling to red wrappers, wrappers nearly completely detached and heavily chipped and worn at spine. Many historical photos of in and around the Grand Canyon; some by the Kolb Brothers. Extremely uncommon fictional work by Josiah Gibbs... Read More
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Darkened Rooms
by Gibbs, Philip
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 298pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Bluish-gray cloth over boards, with minor bruising to the spine ends, and light foxing to the top edge of the text block. In the illustrated dust jacket, with corners clipped (but $2.00 price intact on the front flap), light... Read More
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Sketches and Cartoons
by Gibson, Charles Dana
New York: R. H. Russell, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Gibson, Charles Dana. Oblong folio, unpaginated. 84 full page pen & ink drawings. Bound in 1/2 white cloth over beveled pictoral boards. Some discoloration and chipping to boards.Extra charges apply on this item due to weight.
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