Breakfast with the Nikolides
by Rumer Godden
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Very Good/Very Good -. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Stated First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Brown boards stamped in black. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with several short closed tears. Spine faded. Edges of boards toned. Binding sound. Light toning to... Read More
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Photography and Realism in the 19th Century: Antwerp: The oldest photographs 1847-1880
by Herman Van Goethem
Antwerp: Ronny Van de Velde / Pandora, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. [Antwerp]: Ronny Van de Velde / Pandora, [1999]. First English-Language Edition. Large quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 419pp.; photographic illus. throughout including fold-out panoramas. Moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities, fore-edge margin of front panel sunned, corners bumped, finger soil to early leaves, else... Read More
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![Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections [WITH] Supplement](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/145/486/1608486145.0.m.jpg)
Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections [WITH] Supplement
by Frederick R. Goff
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1972. Very Good. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1964, 1972. First Editions. Small quartos (25.5cm); [lxiv], 798pp; supplement xii,104pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Boards all lightly shelfworn, with fading to and rubbing spine of main Census and a small patch of scuffing to the bottom... Read More
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Fish for Supper
by M.B. Goffstein
New York: Dial Press, 1976. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Dial Press, [1976]. First Edition, First Printing. Small, square quarto; publisher's brown library cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket, front flap clipped but retaining original library price ($4.58); [32]pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins, chiefly along flap folds, spine panel very slightly faded, very faint toning... Read More
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![Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism [Inscribed to William Safire]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/249/689/1283689249.0.m.jpg)
Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism [Inscribed to William Safire]
by Dore Gold
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2003. Very Good/Very Good. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2003. First Edition. Octavo. 309 pages. Signed by Gold on half title page to William Safire with inscription, "Bill, / Here it is. Thank / you for standing up all / these years for our / Freedom. Hopefully this / will help. / Best wishes, /... Read More
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![A Woman's Place [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/810/106/1701106810.0.m.jpg)
A Woman's Place [Inscribed and Signed]
by Marita Golden
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1986. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1986. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 240pp. Spine rather cocked, brief finger soil to endpapers, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page, "Best Wishes / Marita Golden / 10/5/86." ... Read More
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![Luigi of Catanzaro [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/977/061/1471061977.0.m.jpg)
Luigi of Catanzaro [Signed Limited Edition]
by Louis Golding
London: E. Archer, 1926. Very Good. London: E. Archer, 1926. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author and numbered 56 of 100 copies. Privately printed. Quarto (10" x 7.5"); 21, [1] pp. Pages uncut along top edges throughout. Paper wraps with black lettering. Covers a bit edgeworn with some flight soiling and smudging to surface. Binding is sound... Read More
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![No Way to Treat a Lady [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/161/429/1611429161.0.m.jpg)
No Way to Treat a Lady [Signed]
by William Goldman
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964. First Hardcover Edition, without edition statement and preceded by the Fawcett paperback edition, published under the pseudonym Harry Longbaugh. Signed by William Goldman without inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo. 182 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in... Read More
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The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army: 1861-1865
by W.W. Goldsborough
Gaithersburg, MD: Butternut Press, 1983. Very Good. Gaithersburg, MD: Butternut Press, 1983. Reprint. Large octavo. 371 pp. + index and publisher's advertisements. Blue-gray cloth stamped in black and silver. Dark green endpapers. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Light edgewear to boards and joints with some faint rippling to spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.... Read More
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Goldsmith. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God, M.DCC.LXXXII. Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Wherein are contain'd necessary rules, and useful tables; with a new chronology of remarkable events; also, the proper days and hours for transferring stocks and receiving dividends; and a list of holidays kept at the public offices, &c
by John Goldsmith
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, and Sold by John Wilkie, 1782. Very Good. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, and Sold by John Wilkie, [1782]. Small 24mo (10cm.); inlaid red, white, and blue elaborately gilt-tooled morocco with central motif of an anchor surrounded by myriad floral patterns, at its head a bird, at its foot... Read More
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Censorship of Political Caricature in Nineteenth-Century France
by Robert Justin Goldstein
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1989. Near Fine/Near Fine. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, [1989]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xii,293pp.; illus. throughout. Brief pencil code to front free endpaper, else Near Fine.
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A Cross Borne: A Biography of Judge James Franklyn Bourne, Jr.
by Karen Lesla Williams Gooden
Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Quarto; 192pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; black cloth boards stamped in gilt; photographic endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed with a couple short tears along edges; general smudging and rubbing. Boards show very light shelfwear;... Read More
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![Sword of Shame: A Historical Mystery By The Medieval Murderers [Signed by all contributors]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/172/220/1515220172.0.m.jpg)
Sword of Shame: A Historical Mystery By The Medieval Murderers [Signed by all contributors]
by Michael Jecks; Bernard Knight; Ian Morson; Susanna Gregory; Philip Gooden
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006. First Edition. Signed by all five contributors at title page. Octavo. 406 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows a couple minor creases at bottom of spine. Boards with a couple shallow bumps along bottom... Read More
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Behold This Woman
by David Goodis
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1947. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1947. First Edition with (1) on final page of text. Octavo (20cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); [6],281pp. Two long closed tears to upper jacket panel not quite touching text or image, additional shallow chipping and shelf... Read More
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Of Missing Persons
by David Goodis
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1950. Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1950. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's black boards, red spine titling; [6],186pp. Moderate scuffing to board extremities, spine a bit cocked, scattering soil to textblock, else a Very Good, sound copy, albeit lacking scarce dust jacket. Noir crime novel by the author... Read More
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![The Resurgence of the Radical Right in France: From Boulangisme to the Front National [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/024/473/1721473024.0.m.jpg)
The Resurgence of the Radical Right in France: From Boulangisme to the Front National [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gabriel Goodliffe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xi,[1],361pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page, "March 5, 2012 / Dear Professor, A small token of my appreciation for the essential guidance provided on... Read More
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The Structure of Literature
by Paul Goodman
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1954]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black dust jacket retaining original price ($5.00); vii,[1],281pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins with small chips at spine ends not quite touching text, corners bumped, else a Very Good, sound copy. Scarce first edition of the... Read More
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A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Reverend Matthew Noyes, A.M. to the Pastoral Charge of the Church of Christ, in Northford, August 18, 1790
by Elizur Goodrich
New-Haven: A. Morse, 1790. Very Good. New-Haven: A. Morse, 1790. First Edition. Octavo; removed, spine backed with black cloth tape; 29,[1]pp. (lacking half title page, otherwise collated complete). Foxing throughout textblock, most heavily to later leaves, else Very Good and sound. Ordination sermon providing an unusual biographical sketch of the late pastor being replaced, Warham Williams. The... Read More
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A Sermon, Preached at the Installation of the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Boardman, in the pastoral office over the second Church of Christ in Hartford, May 5th, 1784
by Elizur Goodrich
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1784. Very Good. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1784. First Edition. Octavo; modern blue wrappers; 29,[1]pp. (lacking half title page and final blank, otherwise collated complete). Textblock a bit foxed and browned, else Very Good and sound. ESTC W29257; EVANS 18502; TRUMBULL 761.
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Philosophy and Liberal Arts
by Edward Goodwin Ballard
Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Very Good. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Octavo. 342 pp. Glossy blue paper-covered boards with white lettering. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English. Boards show general rubbing with a touch of dust soiling. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else pages unmarked.
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![Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/599/225/1674225599.0.m.jpg)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [Signed]
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Doris Kearns Goodwin at half title, "To Toots, So glad we could meet, Doris Kearns Goodwin." Large octavo. 916pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Brown and black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges... Read More
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![Gullah/Geechee: The Survival of Africa's Seed in the Winds of the Diaspora Volume I: St. Helena's Serenity [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/015/739/1699739015.0.m.jpg)
Gullah/Geechee: The Survival of Africa's Seed in the Winds of the Diaspora Volume I: St. Helena's Serenity [Inscribed and Signed]
by Marquetta L. Goodwine
Brooklyn, NY: Kinship Publications, 1995. Very Good. Brooklyn, NY: Kinship Publications, 1995 (1997 reprint). Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's white photo-illustrated staple bound wrappers; [2],v,[1],58pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page, "To Sister Yvonne: May the Creator forever bless & guide you. Peace / Marquetta L. Goodwine / 2/15/04.
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![Bharatendu Harishchandra [Makers of Indian Literature series]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/652/366/1279366652.0.m.jpg)
Bharatendu Harishchandra [Makers of Indian Literature series]
by Madan Gopal
New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1971. Very Good. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1971. First Edition Octavo; 43pp including bibliography. Endpapers reproduce the earliest known sculptural depiction of writing in India, c. 2nd century CE. An introductory study of Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885), prominent social reformer and leading early essayist, poet, and dramatist in the Hindi language: "the Father of... Read More
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Untersuchungen zur Theorie des Unendlichen Urteils
by Jakob Gordin
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1929. Very Good. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1929. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey card wrappers; [6],vi,167pp. General wear from handling, later (1990) ownership signature to half title, else Very Good and sound. At head of title: "Veröffentlichungen der Hermann Cohen-Stiftung bei der Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums.
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![July's People [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/494/243/1717243494.0.m.jpg)
July's People [Signed]
by Nadine Gordimer
New York: Viking Press, 1981. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, [1981]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped dust jacket; [12],160pp. Tiny chip at jacket spine crown, shallow fading to board margins, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page. Critically acclaimed novel by the late South African Nobel... Read More
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