Search Results: Authors starting with B from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1860. Hard Cover. Good binding. 115pp. Rebacked with some photocopied pages bound in. Page 31/32 torn with top and side areas missing. Scattered foxing through text. Brown embossed cloth binding with light to moderate edgewear to extremities. There is a previous owner gift inscription. no markings in text. Good binding.

Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text written in German. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Very light edgewear at head of spine. Light edgewear at head of dustjacket spine. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good+ dust jacket.

Macon & Savannah, Ga: J. C. Schreiner & Son, 1860. A four page folio of Confederate sheet music. One of two editions of The Maiden's Prayer, priority unknown. Some embrowning to the text and musical notation. Horizontal crease at the center of the leaves. (Harwell Confederate Music, p. 128. | Hoogerwerf Confederate Sheet-Music Imprints 3628 | Parrish & Willingham Confederate Imprints 7221).

Leipzig: Verlag Von Karl Baedeker, 1888. Second Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Mit 9 Karten Und 15 Planen; No pencil or ink markings in text. Text written in German. Red cloth binding, gilt lettering. Boards slightly soiled and small stain at top corner area of front board; corners bumped. Very small closed tears at top and bottom of spine. Front and rear hinges beginning to crack. Boards holding. near Very Good binding.

London: Samuel Bagster, 1828. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A most attractive Bagster Bible in a signed binding of embossed dark green morocco; raised bands with titling in gilt; dentelle turn-ins; printed on "Bible paper" with all edges gilt. Bagster's monumental "Biblia Sacra Polyglotta Basteriana" appeared between 1817 and 1828 with most copies of the four volume edition being destroyed by fire. Bagster carried on, issuing different texts and transtlations in various combinations. This copy in French and English, on facing pages. Very Good binding.

Boston and New York | Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, 1897. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Poems, complete in two volumes. From the larger eight volume set of the writings of Aldrich's Writings. Portrait frontispiece. Previous owner's name and blindstamp on the first flyleaf. A clean copy, with no other marks of any kind. Minor wear to the binding. Half green morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands, with lettering and devices in compartments. Top edges gilt. (BAL I 379). Very Good binding.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Signed. First Edition copy, in what appears to be a bespoke binding of quarter dark brown calf over burlap, with very neatly done paper labels in tan paper printed in dark brown. There is some light and scattered foxing.~~This copy is signed on the half-title page with a personal inscription by David Grayson: "To | Mr. and Mrs. Laurence H. Parker | with the regard of | David Grayson | 1925". ~~There are two letters laid in as well. One, a TLS to "friend Parker" thanking him for a recent letter and expressing satisfaction "to have one who knows me as well as you do like what I write so well". It is signed Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson was Mr. Baker's pen-name]. The second letter is a 3 1/2 page ALS to Mrs, Parker from Jessie G. Baker, Ray Baker's wife. In it she writes primarily about her garden in Florida, mentioning that Mr. Baker "has gained right along, but is not quite up to normal strength".… Read More

Boston | New York: Woolworth, Ainsworth & Company | A. S. Barnes & Company, 1868. Hard Cover. Good binding. The Woodlawn Series by Harriette Newell Woods Baker, complete in six volumes. Engraved frontispiece, title page, and additional plates in each volume. Front hinge of Vol. VI cracked but holding, and closed tear to the front endpaper of volume IV. Significant silverfishing to the bindings, and sunning to the spines. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Good binding.

Prato: Gli Ori, 2007. First Edtiion. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in the publisher's colored pictorial boards, with dustjacket; 173 pages, with color illustrations. ~~An important and uncommon monograph of Serra's layered works, both monochromatic and dichromatic. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. A theme appropriate of to the patriotic spirit of the World War II years -- how Saint Nicholas "made the jump across the ocean, and how, once over here, he got all mixed up with Christmas until he became our own jolly, round, red, American Santa Claus". By the husband and wife team, Caroline Singer and her illustrator husband Cyrus Baldridge. A clean and tight First Edition copy with no marks of any kind; the paper-covered have some minor rubbing to the bottom edge. The dustjacket shelfwear with a couple of short closed tears and very small amount of loss to the top of the spine. It is bright and has not been price-clipped; it is now protected with a new mylar cover. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.

London; New York: J. M. Dent & Co.; Macmillan & Co, 1895. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in publisher's olive green pictorial cloth, with front cover and spine stamped in white; title page in red and black; with frontispiece, and additional illustrations throughout, several full page; rear joint reinforced by a conservator; with loss to the binding at the head and tail of the spine, and spot of loss to the rear joint; there is a previous owner name pencilled on verso of the front endpaper. ~~Described by Bleiler as "fairly conventional, commercial Victorian ghost stories. [...] ‘The Empty Picture Frame' has touches that lift it above the other stories." (Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 82). Very Good binding.

Paris: Comoedia Illustre, 1921. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Folio; theater program, tied with silk cord; 14 pages plus wrappers; the front wrapper is a stunning silk-screeen by Remisoff.~~Le Theatre de la Chauve-Souris was an artistic and theatrical troupe from Moscow. The artistic director was Nikita Balieff. It was known as The Bat Theatre of Moscow. Very Good binding.

New York: W. A. Townsend & Company, 1860. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's embossed brown cloth binding with titling in gilt to the spine; xii, 288 pages; followed by 19 pages of ads for the wildly popular James Fenimore Cooper; with the top of the front endpaperr and the first blank leaf torn out; the top corner of the rear endpaper is torn out as well.~~First published as "Autobiography of an English Soldier" in 1853; Howes notes that the collation in this edition is the same; also that Ballentine "served at Ft. Pickens, Florida, and with Scott from Vera Cruz to~Mexico City."~~ (Howes B-77). Very Good binding.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866. Quarto; specically bound in green morocco with an elaborate gilt border, raised bands with decorations in compartments, dentelle turn-ins; 69 pages; printed with wide margins; with engraved portrait frontispiece protected with tissue guard; binding is a bit scuffed.~~With the name "A. H. Laflin" stamped in gilt to the upper board. This is almost certainly "Addison Laflin" who represented New York's 20th congressional district from 1865 to 1871. Likely a special edition of Mr. Bancroft's eulogy.

Minerva Associates (Publications), 1977. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. DJ protected with mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New Delhi, India: Bhartiya Publishing House, 1973. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. With 26 Inscriptions; Note and ink stamp attached to ffep. Some discoloration to front and rear endpapers and paste-downs. Blue cloth binding. Boards slightly cocked. Moderate edgewear to extremities. Very Good binding.

New Orleans, Louisiana: ryn Ffyliaid Publications, 1989. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Green binding with gilt lettering in very good condition with no marks of any kind. Near Fine binding.

New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. 8vo. (7 1/2" x 5"), in the publisher's blue cloth binding, with some stains; 88 pages; an ex-library copy with call number on the spine, stamp to the upper board "S. F. Public Library", perforated stamp to the title page and darkening to the endpapers where a pocket once was, stamped "Withdrawn".~~Krick relates that "[t]his is a dramatic account of a small incident in the Battle of Franklin" in which two Mississippians, Robert Banks and Edward L. Russell, are the central figures. Banks was Captain, Company D, Thirty-seventh Mississippi Conlidated Infantry.~~ (Krick 22). Good binding.

Philadelphia: Kimber, Conrad & Co, 1805. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in contemporary calf, with morocco title label; [xvi]. [1]. 2-299, followed by [1] page of ads; in two books which are through paginated; front joint is cracked but holding very well; there is a previous owner name on the front endpaper, and a charming Richmond bookseller's label on the pastedown: "Sold: John R. Jones. Nearly opposite Eagle Tav. Richmond".~~Senac's treatise first appears in Latin 46 years previously; this is the first edition in English, translated with notes by Charles Cauldwell, and with "A Recommendatory Preface" by Benjamin Rush. Very Good binding.

1935. Very Good binding. Pamphlet, now bound, produced by the Richmond Bar endorsing Robert N. Pollard for elevation as Judge of the District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. "Richmond is fortunate in having available for this responsible position the Honorable Robert N. Pollard, Judge of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond". With a list of the member of the Richmond Bar, with some notes and check marks in Judge Pollard's hand, indicating efforts in lobbying for the position. Very Good binding.