Search Results: Authors starting with B from The Country Bookshop

Boston: A. & J.P. Ordway, 1847. "Song Composed and arranged for the Piano Forte and affectionately inscribed to his Mother." (This is not a signature; just a printed inscription.) Disbound. Small soil on front cover lithograph. Image of happy family scene of child learning to walk in garden. Name on top right front cover in faded brown ink. 5pp.. Sheet_Music. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Bufford & Co. (lith). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Okemos, Michigan: B.M, Stewart, 1970. Book has some light markings on covers. Some wrinkling along spine. Inside pages are in VG+ condition. Bright covers. Tightly bound. An important book at a very reasonable price.. 2nd Edition. Soft Cover. Good-Plus/No Dust Jacket. 13" X 5" Tall.

Leipzig: C.F. Peters, 1940. In Latin. No date. This is probably the 1940 edition listed in WorldCat. Slight soil on front cover.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Rosler, Gustav (Klavier-Auszug). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Klavier - Auszug / Nr. 37.

Basel, Switzerland: Barenreiter Kassel, 1987. Some pencil marks on contents page. Slight wear around edges, extremities. Creases on front cover. "1987" written at top of front cover. Else clean, good copy. . Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New Haven/London: Yale Univ. Press/Humphrey Milford, 1913. 398pp.plus index. Biography of Theodore Thornton Munger from his early years through his education and ordination, his years in the ministry as pastor, teacher and educator, and his connections at Harvard and Yale Universities. Corner and edge wear, rubbing at spine ends. Spine slightly darkened. [loc=religion]. Cloth. Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong.

Christchurch, NZ: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1973. Discolorations around edges. 2 inch tear at bottom of front of jacket. Soil on back of jacket.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Oblong.

London: Arthur Pearson, Ltd., 1910. Third Enlarged Edition of Scouting for Boys, first published 2 years earlier. The major work by the founder of the Boy Scouts. Lacking original wraps. Bound in plain board with black unmarked spine, somewhat loose at interior binding seam & with some chipped pages with book worm holes, only in margins. Rare in any form. . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, 1980. This is an association copy signed and inscribed by the author to fellow children's author Elizabeth [O'Donnell]. Both the book and the dust jacket are in Very Good, bright and tight condition.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Owens, Gail (illustrator). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Volume LVII, Number 1. British Portraits. Good condition, despite some wear around staples. color prints. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

West Springfield, MA: Town of West Springfield, 1874. Rare. frayed extremities. Spine label looks hand done. Bumped and worn corners. Pressure point on leading edge. Underlining and notes inside. Name and date inside front cover. Name on front end paper.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rye, England: The Corporation of Rye, 1973. 3/4 inch fold at bottom of front cover and through page 12. Includes "Letter card of Ancient Rye".. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.

Katmandu, Nepal: Nepal Youth League, 1959. Heavily soil and spotted on covers. Tears up the spine. Damp stain at bottom of all pages. 23pp.. Soft Cover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Lasa: The Tibetan People's Publishing, 1988. In Tibetan. Wear around edges.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Los Angeles, CA: Frederick Bailes, 1952. Blue paper with some discoloration of spine and some very minor wear around edges. Black printed title/author on cover. Inside, we learn that the book comes from a Series of Sunday Lectures Delivered at the Fox-Wilshire Theatre, Los Angeles, California. Chapters cover: The Healing Power of Optimism, Balanced Emotions, Faith, and A Quiet Mind. Pages inside clean and tight. Imagination! Possiblity! Belief!. Paper. Good/None. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4.

New York: Dodd, Mead., 1978. Very Good, with Dust Jacket. Well illustrated, for children. Making and uses of bells throughout history; famous bells. 96 pp.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Essex Junction, VT: Office of the Secretary of State, 1913. The Land of the Green Mountains. Overhangs are chipped and torn. Frayed top of spine. 1 1/2 inch spot at top corner of front cover.. Soft Cover. Good Minus/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Company, 1896. Worldcat locates only 12 copies of this book in libraries. It is quite rare. Dedicated to the legal fraternity of Houston, Texas it contains chapters on Motive, Weapons, Decoys, Modes of Murder, Counterfeit Presentments, Divorce, Insanity, Bigamy, Rape etc. The inner front hinge is beginning to separate but is still holding. Otherwise the book is in Good condition - a bit of wear, a bit of soil, delicate at front hinge, but generally Good, with nice flower endpapers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Automobile Quarterly, Inc., 1967. Volume VI, Number 1. Foxing on back of title page. Frayed at extremities. Speckling on front cover label.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Oblong.

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1931. A Christmas Story. Spotting on front cover. Bumped and worn corners. Wear at extremities. Shadow on front end paper - maybe from clipping?. Hard Cover. Good Minus/No Dust Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: W. Baxter/Longmann, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Gren, 1816. Two books bound in one: 2nd edition of Bailie's The Restoration of Works of Art to Italy, of which Worldcat lists onlly 4 copies & Hemans' The Martyr, of which Worldcat lists only 2 others. Bound in brown leather with decorative gilt spine, slightly chipped at bottom and missing 1/4 inch bit; fragile along connection of cover to spine, some wear around all extremities, but still a rather handsome, if fragile copy, with inside pages clean but foxed, and with gorgeous marbleized end papers. In pencil has been written on front title page this recommendation from Lord Byron, from Moore's Life of Byron: " I shall take Felicia Hemans' Restoration etc. with me ; it is a good poem--very". Quite a blurb!. Leather. Good Minus/None. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 Inches.