Search Results: Authors starting with B from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

[ London ]: Methuen & Co Ltd/ Eyre & Spottiswoode (publishers) Ltd 1970. 8vo.Illustrated. 200 pp., Hardcover with pictorial boards and dustjacket. Jacket is torn and edgeworn with 2cm loss to the spine and some pencil marks to rear interior flap. Slight spotting to the fore edge, other wise clean and bright. Illustrated in both black and white and colour. Signed by the author and artist, D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. The companion novel, The Little Grey Men, won the Carnegie Medal for the year's best children's book in 1942 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1970.

[London]: Methuen & Co Ltd/ Eyre & Spottiswoode (publishers) Ltd 1970. 8vo.Illustrated. 200 pp., Hardcover with pictorial boards and dustjacket. Jacket is edgeworn with tears to the head. Minor spotting to the extremities, other wise clean and bright. Illustrated in both black and white and colour. Signed by the author and artist, D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. The novel won the Carnegie Medal for the year's best children's book in 1942. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1970.

Paris: Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites/Picard 1987. 4to. 340 pp. Large paperback. Spine faded but lettering bright. Slight edgewear to covers. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Hotel de Sully in Paris in 1987. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Text in French. VG This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 2858220751 . Very Good. Paperback. 1987.

London: Henry F. Bumpus 1906. 4to. xxii, 332; xx, 404 pp., Rebound in blue, quarter morocco` with marbled boards and top edge gilt. Boards fresh and bright. Minor scattered spotting throughout. Illustrated with 12 tissue guarded photogravure plates. Very good to near fine copy. 26.5 by 19.5 cm . Very Good. 1/4 Morocco. 1906.

London: Cobden-Sanderson 1938. 8vo. 102 pp. Original pictorial card wrappers in metal spiral binding. Slight spotting. Includes: Gulyas; Strudel; Special Hungarian Dishes, etc. . Very Good. Spiral Binding. 1938.

London: J. M. Dent and Co. 1908. 12mo.Prize Binding. ix, 243 pp. Half red-brown calf with gilt school crest to front board, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Francis Holland School for Girls prize binding, bound by Truslove & Hanson; bookplate to front pastedown. Slight wear and scratches to edges and joints. Spots to fore-edge but otherwise generally internally clean. Collection of essays by the man who invented essays, and the scientific method. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1908.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1907. Small Square 8vo. viii, 323 pp. Half blue grey morocco over gilt dotted boards, with gilt borders, stamps and lettering to spine; gilt dotted blue endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Minimal rubbing to boards, otherwise all in fine condition. Part of The Royal Library Belles Lettres Series. Bound for Hatchards; a very attractive binding. . Near Fine. Half Morocco. 1907.

Paris: Imprimerie nationale 1985. 4to. French language. 383 pp. Blue boards with tipped on colour illustration and gilt lettering to spine. All in fine condition, clean and bright. French translation of the Bāburnāma, the memoirs of the founder of the Mughal Empire that would rule northern India for centuries. Illustrated throughout in colour and balck & white. . Near Fine. Illustrated Boards. 1985.

London: Thames & Hudson 2007. Large 4to. 234 pp., 217 illustrations, 182 in colour. Dents to the lower rear corner of the book and jacket, light wear to top and bottom of jscket spine, else Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover 0500238421 . Very Good. Hardcover. 2007.

London: Barbican Art Gallery 1989. Oblong 8vo.Exhibition Catalogue. 199 pp, Illustrated throughout in colour. Quite well thumbed, spine creased. Uncommon title. 0946372179 . Good. Paperback. 1989.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1885. 8vo. lxxiv, 292, 44 pp., Fourth edition. Blue gilt lettered cloth. Some darkening to the spine and wear to the ends, boards clean. Minor lean to the binding. Some scattered pencil marks and owners name in pencil to the front endpaper. Generally internally bright with slight spotting to the publisher's catalogue bound to the rear. . Near Fine. Gilt Lettered Cloth. Fourth Edition. 1885.

London: Conde Nast Publications 1969. Large 4to. 240 pp., fully illustrated in black and white. Some denting to the corners, lacking the jacket, but a modestly priced copy of now scarce work. 0900303069 . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1969.

London: Thames & Hudson 1980. Small Oblong 4to. First Edition. 12, [81 plates] pp. Hardback in black and white illustrated jacket. Jacket minor yellowing at its edges, with several small to medium tears. Boards clean, internally clean. 81 black & white photographs of the famous 1960s photographer David Bailey's wife, Marie Helvin, largely nudes. 0500540640 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1980.

Edinbrugh: Scottish National Gallery 2015. 4to. 30 pp., Illusrated throughout. . Near Fine. Softcover. 2015.

London: Printed for T. Osborne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al. 1759. 8vo. Seventeenth edition. Unpaginated. Bound in recent full brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. New endpapers. Damage to title-page with loss at edges. Internally generally clean. Binding firm. . Very Good. Cloth. 1759.

London: Jonathan Cape 1973. 8vo. 135 pp. Hardback in dust wrapper. Signed by the author Paul Bailey on the title-page. Clean copy. Endpapers darkened. No ownership marks. 0224008633 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1973.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1968. 8vo. First Edition, signed by the author. [xiii], 206 pp. Orange hardback in black & white illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Slight wear to jacket edge, including minor loss to the tail of the spine. Boards have a few minimal marks, otherwise clean inside and out. Black & white photographic illustrations. Autobiography of actress and singer Pearl Bailey, the first African-American to receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Signed and inscribed by Bailey on the dedication page. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1968.

London: Jonathan Cape 1970. 8vo. 189 pp. Hardback in dust wrapper. Signed by the author Paul Bailey on the title-page. Very clean copy. No ownership marks. 0224618180 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1970.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1911. Large 8vo. lxxx, 443, 11, 8 pp. Red cloth with gilt device to board and gilt lettering to spine. Fading to spine and boards. Minor rubbing and minor wear to extremities. Internally clean. Lady Grisell Baillie's account book has been cited by social historians investigating living conditions in 18th century Scotland. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Cloth. 1911.

London: Duckworth 1984. 8vo. 222 pp, some fading to dustwrapper spine.104c 0715619357 . Very Good. Hard Cover. First Edition. 1984.