Search Results: Authors starting with B from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Max Hayward. Edited and with Notes by Nathalie Babel. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), lightly toned at the edges, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, shallow chips at the top edge of the back panel. Purple cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and red top stain, clean internally. A collection of nineteen Babel stories translated into English for the first time, two of which had never been published in their original Russian.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Nadia Helstein. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Orange buckram toned and lightly rubbed, with a black ink panel on the spine and design and lettering on the front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, toned page, former owner's name and contemporary date on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A scarce first edition of Babel's stories about the Polish campaign of Budyenny's army of wild Cossacks.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Preface by Ernest Hemingway. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned and soiled, chips and creases at the edges and corners. Yellow buckram, mottled and stain, with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a grey top stain, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A collection of thirteen stories about Polish and German immigrant families living in the Midwest, "positive stories of small-town people.

Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), lightly rubbed at the panels, some professional restoration at the head and foot of the spine. Black buckram, bumped at the bottom corner, with red ink lettering and design on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The second Joshua Clunk novel, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generally worn and soiled, chipped at the bottom and top edge of the front panel. Blue cloth, rubbed and bumped at the edges, dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, inscription on the front endpaper, pencil writing on the rear endpaper, clean otherwise. The third Reggie Fortune novel, a collection of six stories.

Garden City: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in an abut Near Fine jacket, clipped, toned, a few small chips at the edges, pencil on the back panel. Black cloth, bumped at the corners and head and foot of the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, faded red top stain, some rubbing to the red paper inside the front board. The first Mr. Clunk novel.

Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Black buckram, rubbed at the corners, bumped at the edges. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, toned at the endpapers with the former owner's name at the front, clean otherwise. The second Joshua Clunk novel, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net) but crossed out in pencil, chipped and with some closed tears. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The fifth entry in this anthology series, featuring "In Country Sleep" from Dylan Thomas, "Seen from the Train" by C. Day Lewis, and other writing from Gwyn Jones, P.H. Newby, V.S. Pritchett, Herbert Read, David Gascoyne, John Betjeman, Denise Levertov, G.S. Fraser, among others.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), a band of soiling at the joints. White paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The seventh book in the Financial Markets and Investment Series, this work "provides a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical literature on the financial behavior of major stakeholders, financial services, investment products, and financial markets.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Presentation copy inscribed by editor Maryann Palumbo on the front endpaper. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95), faintly rubbed. Quarter maroon cloth with beige paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Baker's autobiography that covers "his striving and achieving twenties and thirties, and [the United States'] sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped at the top edge but priced on the bottom ($2.75), generally toned and soiled, some chips and closed tears throughout. Pale purple cloth, faded at the spine and edges, with red ink lettering on the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, purple top stain, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Balakian's first book, advertised on the jacket as "first-hand information about certain important poets of modern France--Lautreamont, Rimbaud, Breton, Aragon, Eluard." An important work of literary criticism.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Inscribed by Baldrige on the front endpaper. Near fine in a very good jacket, clipped, lightly worn at the edges and corners, foxed on the verso. Red buckram with patterned paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a yellow top stain. Baldrige's memoir about her time as the "ringmaster" at the Villa Taverna, the residence of the American Ambassador to Italy. Warmly inscribed by Baldrige with her mentioning "Omaha was so good to come back to -- and it was wonderful seeing you!" Given Baldrige's attendance at the Sacred Heart Covent in Omaha, this is quite possibly an association copy.

New York: The Dial Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.95), lightly toned, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, a closed tear at the bottom edge of the front panel. Maroon cloth, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Baldwin's epic final novel.

New York: Dial, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, closed tear on the back panel. Off-white cloth with red lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. A clean copy of Baldwin's essays about race and race-religion relations in the United States.

Washington Square: David McKay Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally rubbed, multiple chips, creases and tears, a few tape repairs. Grey buckram with blue and red ink panels on the spine, gilt lettering. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A Bill Lennox novel.

New York: Washington Square Press, 1985. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges, creased at the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, clean internally.

New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Bambara on the half-title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($9.95). Quarter red cloth with black paper on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bambara's debut novel, one that "explores the narcissistic qualities of despair and the tremendous responsibility of being a well person.

[Columbus], [n.d.]. Unbound. Good. A collection of early 20th-century fashion drawings from Edith Bangham of Madison, Wisconsin. Plates 1-4, 6-7, 9-17, 19-25 with 10 unnumbered plates, two of fabric. 32 plates total: 18 black-and-white, 14 in color. Seemingly the work of a fashion class with plates titled "Dress Adapted to Stout Figure" (with pencil notation "you do not print very well"), "Dress on Normal Figure" (with pencil notations "use more definite strokes" and "hands poor"), "Dress Adapted to Slender Figure" (with pencil notations "mouth too thin + sharp" and "hands poor"). Among the more interesting plates are "Bathing Costume Designed for Self," "Gypsy Costume" and the two untitled works on fabric that have strong vibes of Boris Artzybasheff. According to her death notice, Bangham lived from 1897 to 1986. She studied Home Economics at Ohio State University and graduated in 1920, possibly around the time she compiled this portfolio of fashion drawings. She eventually completed a master's… Read More

San Diego: Greenleaf Classics Inc, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. AB453. About Good. Wraps rubbed and worn, creases and a few short tears at the edges, creased through the spine, sticker on the back wrap. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, clean internally. A Victor Banis gay pulp about Brandon's discovery of R.E.L. Masters' idea that at least half of all males have some homosexual desires.

London: Macmillan, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Banks on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (£11.95). Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The second first novel in Banks's Culture series.