Search Results: Authors starting with B from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 127p. 3rd printing. Jacket has 1" creased tear on top back edge. Jacket design by Milton Charles. (12-1-4/"x9-1/4")

London: Darwen Finlayson Ltd., 1956. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 48p. Small tear on bottom front cover. History of Lancashire from Roman times to the post-World War II. Cartography by D.H. Birch. Black & red maps and 2 leaves of b&w plates. (9-3/4"x7-1/4")

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1919. Pictorial cloth hardcover. Very good/No Jacket. Brehm, Lawrence. 120p. Spine sunned, a few pages have small tears to fore edges, stain on front endpaper from paper clip. Black, blue, & red illustrations and 3 plates and frontispiece by Lawrence Brehm. (7-3/4"x6-1/8")

New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1917. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. 172p. Page edges stained. Bainbridge was a Union Army nurse during the Civil War where she met her husband who became a Baptist minister. The couple moved to New York City where she became Superintendent of the Woman's Branch of the New York Mission Society at the turn of the 20th century. Here she shares her experiences working as a missionary in the downtown community. 8 b&w photo plates and frontispiece. (7-5/8"x5")

Richmond, Virginia: Church of the Sacred Hear, Manchester Parish, 1976. Stapled wraps. Good. Unpaginated (approx. 44p.) Wraps rubbed with spine sunned and front edges scraped. Commemorative book for the 75th anniversary of the church including congratulatory letters, history of the parish, and lists of prominent parishioners and principals of Sacred Heart School. Sepia-toned illustrations and photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Chatsworth, Calif.: Major Books, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 160p. 3074. Inside cover and page edges near spine have acid discoloration, cover edges very lightly scuffed, no creases on spine.

New York: Harmony Books, 1981. 1st U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Good+. 128p. 1st printing. Blind stamp on front endpaper, jacket has a 3" tear on bottom edge at front flap fold with a cut and tear on front at spine and corners worn. Packed with photos and band biographies of the purveyors of punk, ska, power pop, metal, and rock music of the late 1970s and early 1980s from Europe, the U.K., Australia, and the U.S. B&w and color photographs. (11-1/8"x8-3/4")

Gardena, California: Elbee Publications, 1979. Softcover. Good +. 40p. A few scrapes on front, stains on cover, top right corner bent. Gardena-based author's poetry, prose, and plays about war and its effects. The works collected here have appeared in The Gardena Valley News. Plastic comb binding. B&w illustrations. (8-1/2"x5-5/8")

New York: National Biscuit Co., 1968. Stapled wraps. Very good. 27p. Wrap corners lightly worn. Recipes for breakfast and brunch meals, including those for holidays, using Nabisco products. [WorldCat]

Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley, 2015. Softcover. Very good. 320p. Dent on front and edges lightly scraped. Scandals, personalities, and society in 20th century London. Includes selected bibliography. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

Dover: St. Mary the Virgin Church, [1945]. Stapled wraps. Very good. [8p.] Vertical fold on booklet, name and date on front. Guide to the church building and history. (5-1/4"x5-1/8") Laid in single sheet, double-sided, titled Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin (with Holy Trinity, Dover) News-Letter, April 1945, no. 49. Folded in half with a horizontal and vertical creases. (10-1/8"x7-1/2")

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1959. First Edition, Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Galdone, Paul. 96p. Former owner's name written on front endpaper, cover corners bumped, rubbed jacket has small chips and tears to edges. Galdone has been illustrator for a number of books that received the Newbery and Caldecott awards. B&w illustrations. (9-1/2"x6-3/8")

Watertown, Massachusetts: Armenian Relief Society, 1986. Softcover. Very good. 212p. Cover edges toned with corners lightly worn. A history of the Armenian Relief Society with personal tales of the Society's impact. Text is primarily in Armenian with English translation in the history portion. Scarce. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Newport News, Virginia: Mariners Museum, 1954. (1st Edition). Embossed cloth. Very Good/good+. [xvi], 372p. Cover corners and top and bottom of spine bumped, jacket has chips to corners and tear at top front edge. Frontispiece by T.C. Skinner. 80 b&w plates. (9-3/4"x7-1/4")

New York: Walker & Co., 1974. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 224p. 1st printing. Jacket edges lightly worn. [Hubin; p.21] Jacket design by Ernest Socolov. (8-1/4"x5-7/8")

Los Angeles: Sindelar Studios, 1938. Stapled wraps. Good. [48p.] Wrap corners worn and front scraped along front left side. Periodical published for followers of the I Am religious/cult movement created by the Ballards in Los Angeles during the 1930s. Carey McWilliams in Southern California: An Island on the Land described the cult as "the weirdest mystical concoction that has ever issued...a witch's cauldron of the inconceivable, the incredible, and the fantastic." Purple text and color illustrations. (8"x5-1/2")

New York: Popular Library, 1959. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 160p. SP303. Spine cocked, cover edges scuffed. A Western Heritage Library Book.

New York: Popular Library, 1953. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 160p. 1st printing. 552. Pages 115-118 creased, cover edges scuffed with a small creased tear at bottom front spine.

Los Angeles: Sindelar Studios, 1941. Stapled wraps. Very good. [38p.] Wrap corners worn. Periodical published for followers of the I Am religious/cult movement created by the Ballards in Los Angeles during the 1930s. Carey McWilliams in Southern California: An Island on the Land described the cult as "the weirdest mystical concoction that has ever issued...a witch's cauldron of the inconceivable, the incredible, and the fantastic." Purple text and color illustrations. (8"x5-1/2")

New York: Banner Book, Hearst Corp., 1967. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 144p. B40-105. Cover edges scuffed especially at corners, no creases on spine.