Search Results: Authors starting with B from Thorn Books

London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from Moscow to China via Siberia in 1654. Wagener traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This account is taken from his diary. He was in China in 1653. The account is quite short. .

Leipzig & Paris: Karl Baedeker; Paul Ollendorff, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Light red cloth spine, gilt; deeper red cloth sides. 17 maps, 32 town plans, 2 plates and a panorama. A fine copy, essentially as new, with the large folding map in the rear pocket. In the scarce dustwrapper, which is near fine. Ribbon marker First edition in French. .

Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publisher, 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 239,(3)pp. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Nicely bound in quarter dark blue morocco, gilt spine title, Cockerel marbled paper boards, map endpapers. A very good copy. No 159 of 500 copies. Inscribed "Good Fishing" by the author under his frontispiece photograph. Tuna fishing off the California coast. .

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. First US edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Poor. 12mo. Cloth backed pictorial boards showing Jocko, the teasing monkey, hanging from a tree and pulling the tails of two lions. 142pp. Illustrated in color throughout and printed on one side of the page only. Gift inscription "from Aunt Florence" dated 1909. Trace of soil; bottom edge worn else this is a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is present: Off-white paper printed on the upper panel with the same information as is on the title page. It is soiled and faded, and lacks pieces at the head and tail of the spine and at the fold. We can find no previous instance indicating that this title had a dustwrapper, and it is not even mentioned in the bibliographies. First editions of the Teasing Monkey are scarce to begin with; copies in dustwrapper are basically unheard of.

Santa Fé: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1984. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Andrew Burns.. Oblong 4to. 77,(1)pp. Finely printed by hand on Rives paper by Pamela Smith. Introduction by David J. Weber. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in maroon Centennial book cloth, with spine title in silver and a hand-printed paper vignette on the upper board. One of 150 numbered copies in cloth, from a total edition of 165 copies. This is copy number 28, and is signed by the printer, the compiler, the introducer, the illustrator and the binder. A fine copy. A compilation of some of the finest stories by and about mountain men. .

NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good. First US edition. 12mo. Original binding of cloth spine, gilt title, marbled paper boards. The edges are worn and the boards rubbed else this is a very good copy of a scarce work. The first English edition was published in London in the same year. See Wolff, 280.

Vindobonae (Vienna): Josephi Nobilis de Kurzboeck, 1780. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 52,(iv)pp. Woodcut chapter heading and tailpiece. Folding hand-colored frontispiece entitled 'Prospectus Thermarum Gasteinensium.' Bound to style in quarter leather, gilt; vellum tips; marbled paper boards. A fine copy. Scarce early discussion on the healing powers of the Gastein waters, long before the discovery of radon and radioactivity and their connection to the Bad Gastein. Természettudomány Társulat Közlönye, 316 (Hydrophonica Germanica), No. 41. In Latin.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Young Readers, 2016. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Red paper over boards, gilt spine title, upper board embossed in blind. A fine, as new copy in a fine, as new, unclipped dustwrapper. Surprisingly scarce in the first printing. Signed by the author on the title.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham, A. R. W. S.. 4to. Superb binding of half green morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The binding is unsigned but is reminiscent of Bayntum-Riviere or Sangorski & Sutcliffe. All plates are present with their tissue guards, and all but the frontispiece are bound after the text. A fine copy with only traces of age and rubbing. Latimore & Haskell, p. 27. .

London: John Murray, 1835. Hardcover. Very good. New edition. 8vo. vii,(1),380pp. 2 folding maps. 9 woodcuts. Contemporary quarter leather, marbled paper boards; spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt. Later lettering label, gilt; light wear and rubbing to edges and sides, illustrations toned with age, else a very good copy.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co, 1880. First edition. Stiff card wraps. Very good. 12mo. 112pp. stiff leather-covered boards, gilt title on the upper board. Light wear to edges and hinges else a very good copy. A book of reference for the volunteer artilleryman. The author was an instructor for many years. Rare .

Evanston: The Shori Private Press, 1960. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 49,(3)pp. Hand printed on Ticonderoga Laid Text paper using types after Garamont. Bound in full marbled sheep. spine gilt with a red leather lettering label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a slipcase covered in decorated paper. The binding is like a special binding as it bears the name of the original owner on the upper board: Claude C. Bowman. One of 120 numbered copies signed by the printer. Ward Shori. This is number 106. A fine copy; the slipcase shows light wear else is in very good condition. .

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1911. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine. Maginel Wright Enright. 8vo. 384pp. Mustard-yellow cloth printed in black, red and green on the upper board and in black on the spine. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white, The text contains all 6 of the Twinkle Tales: Mr. Woodchuck, Bandit Jim Crow, Prairie Dog Town, Prince Mud-Turtle, Twinkle's Enchantment and Sugar-Loaf Mountain. The illustrator was the sister of Frank Lloyd Wright. A fine copy with only a trace of wear and soil to the binding, and with the text toned as expected.

Trapiche de Santa Rosa, Tacámbaro: Teller Martyn Pescador, 2023. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Fine. 12mo. 43, (3) pp. Three full page illustrations by Artemio Rodriguez. One of 132 copies printed at the Taller Martín Pescador. Sewn on vellum strips laced into stiff paper wraps finely printed by hand by Juan Pascoe. This is the story of the Tlaxcalan child martyrs, originally written by Fray Toribio Motolina in the 16th century in Spanish and later translated by Fray Juan Bautista into Nahuatl om 1601, and later translated back into Spanish, of which, according to the introductory notice, no copy is known today. The Tlaxcala Martyrs were three young boys who converted to Catholicism in the early days of the Spanish colonization. One, Cristóbal, was beaten and burned to death by his father in 1527. The other two, Antonio and Juan, were clubbed to death and their bodies thrown over a cliff in 1529. In Spanish. .

New York: Peter H. Beard / International Center for Photography, 1977. Hardcover. Very good. Square 4to. First printing of this special edition commemorating the exhibition at the I.C.P., New York City, November / December 1977. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color photograph , drawings, and maps; 256 pp. 1 vols. Gray cloth blocked in blind on the boards. Pictorial endpapers. The cloth is lightly sunned on the spine and board edges, not nearly as a much as normal for this title. Signed in orange crayon on the reverse of the front endpaper by Beard. The title states this is a pictorial documentation of the origins, history and prospects on the big game in Africa, with early histories in Kenya, Tanhanyika, Uganda, Ethopioa, et al., and the Patterson diary on the Man-Eaters of Tsavo. Illustrated with "upwards of 300 photoengravings and stonetone plates." This special edition is a revision and updating of the 1965 Viking Press edition. Laid-in is an auction announcement from the… Read More

New York: Peter H. Beard / International Center for Photography, 1977. Hardcover. Very good. Square 4to. First printing of this special edition commemorating the exhibition at the I.C.P., New York City, November / December 1977. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color photograph , drawings, and maps; 256 pp. 1 vols. Gray cloth blocked in blind on the boards. Pictorial endpapers. The fugitive cloth color is faded on the spine and unevenly sunned on the boards. Signed in orange crayon on the reverse of the front endpaper by Beard. The title states this is a pictorial documentation of the origins, history and prospects on the big game in Africa, with early histories in Kenya, Tanhanyika, Uganda, Ethopioa, et al., and the Patterson diary on the Man-Eaters of Tsavo. Illustrated with "upwards of 300 photoengravings and stonetone plates." This special edition is a revision and updating of the 1965 Viking Press edition. Laid-in is an auction announcement from the 1977 show. .

New York: R. H. Russell, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong 4to. Green cloth spine. Printed paper boards with an illustration of of a rabbit engaged in writing, pen in hand, ink horn in rear paw. Illustrated throughout with full page black and white illustrations faced by a rhyme by the author. Age toning and soil to the boards and light wear to the cloth else this is a very good copy of a scarce book. .

Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Green cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board. Illustrations by Sears Frank. Color frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, text illustrations in black and white. Cloth sunned around edges else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper has chips at the spine tips, along the stop of the front panel and at the base of the upper flap fold, has separated cleanly at the folds, else is in very good condition and presents a verey good appearance. Presentation copy: "To Lee, with love, Edna, 1-12-42." .

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Folio. (48)pp. Printed in color throughout. Decorative boards and endpapers. Erasure mark on front free endpaper, light wear to edges and rear board, faint trace of occasional foxing, else this is a very good to near fine copy., In unclipped dustwrapper showing original $2.00 price. The dustwrapper has a small chip at bottom of spine, surface damage to rear panel,light wear to edges and folds. Overall a very good presentation of a scarce and early Bemelmans title which has apparently never been reprinted since this edition. Pomerance, A12.

NY: Banks and Brothers, 1870. New edition. Hardcover. Good. Large thick 8vo. The New and Enlarged Edition. xxiv,800pp. Modern full navy blue polished calf. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; dark red morocco lettering pieces, gilt; marbled endpapers. Old presentation inscription on a preliminary blank from George Denis of the Los Angeles firm of Denis & Loewenthal. Text block very good; binding fine. The foremost American treatise in Admiralty Law by a leader of the admiralty bar and the last edition to appear in Benedict's lifetime.