Search Results: Authors starting with B from Downtown Books & News

Leipzig, Germany: Karl Baedeker, 1907. Third edition. Very Good. 16mo (6"x4"). 331pp. Red flex covers, blindstamped with giltstamped titles. Marbled textblock edges. 13 full color maps, 5 of which are fold-outs and "12 plans". Light shelfwear: rubbed edges, warp, soiling. Pages toned. Heavily foxed endpapers. Slight warp throughout. Lower half of first fold-out loose at gutter.

Paris France: Albert Morance, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo (8"x9"). Grey cloth-covered boards with giltstamped titles, deckled edges, threadbare ribbon marker. Sun-faded spine & darkened margins to boards. Spine extremes chipped, corners rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Front hinge tight, but paper chipping. Pages toned. Paper bound unusually: with short tabs left in the spine casing for tipped-in plates to be later applied. Tipped-in plates both color (some lithographs) and B&W. Text in French. No dj. as issued, covered in protective mylar by seller.

Cartea Romaneasca, 1979. Softcover. Good+. Shelf worn, small pen scribble on back cover, scuffed and dirty front cover, text bright and clean, all plates present, G+.

Japan: Shunji Ohkura, 1983. No additional printings indicated. Paperback. Good. Large 4to. Pictorial wraps lightly scuffed with minor water damage to head of upper cover and first few pages. Text in Japanese and English. Color photographs with text throughout. Beautiful book of photography regarding the traditional use of men in woman's roles in Kabuki theater. If sent internationally, shipping may increase due to size.

Chapel Hill, N.C.: Lillabulero of the Wigh Court, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Good+. Folio (14.5"x9"). 40pp. Blue typographic paper covers. All corners bumped. Very small stain to tail/upper corner. Two small closed tears to the portfolio's envelope in rear.

Reno, Nevada: The West Coast Poetry Review, 1975. First edition. Softcover. Very Good+. Square 4to (12"x12"). Unpaginated. Brown/photographic paper wraps; french flaps. Wear to all cover edges, light chipping. Pages lightly toned. B&W photographs. Two essays: parallel text in English, French & German. Covered in protective mylar by seller. Scarce.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1901. First American edition, later state. Hardcover. Good+. 24mo (5.5"x4"). 56pp (2 printed pages followed by 2 blank pages, throughout)1/4 bound tan cloth & illustrated paper-covered boards with elliptical pastedown illustration to upper board. Heavy shelfwear: corners rubbed with board exposed, dampstains to paper, insect damage to lower board, soiling. Previous owner's bookplate to front pdep and penciled inscription to ffep. Endpaper cracked over both hinges, binding sound. Pages toned. Bannerman's original illustrations in color throughout. Note in pen to endpaper. No dust jacket.

The Notable Trials Library, 1997. limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dj. as issued. 8vo. 311pp. Green paper covered boards with leather spine. Gilt design and lettering. AEG. Boards slightly warping away from text block, else fine.

Philadelphia, PA: The American Sunday School Union Press, 1895. 1st ed., 1st ptg. Hardcover. VG/No dustjacket. 12mo. 316pp. Red cloth. 316pp. A totally unbiased look at Native American life from completely objective missionaries. Water damage to spine; wear and bumping to extremities.

Leslie D. Bartlett, 2011. No additional printings listed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong 8vo (9"x11.5"). Unpaginated. Photographic paper-covered boards. Top corner of upper cover rubbed. Vellum first & last leaves (perfect bound). Photographs througout. Inscribed in Greek & signed by Bartlett to colophon.

London, England: James Nisbet and Co, 1859. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 12mo (7"x5"). 264pp. Brown pebbled buckram-covered boards with gilt stamped spine. Light, general shelfwear. B&W frontis with tissue. Previous owner's name penned to half title. Pages toned. Binding tight. No dust jacket: covered in seller's protective mylar.

New York: Marvel, 2007. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to (11"x8"). 224pp. +extras. Red buckram covered boards with black-stamped titles. Illustrated dust jacket covered in protective mylar.

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo (9.25"x6.25"). 232pp. Neon orange & black illustrated, paper-covered boards, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket covered in protective mylar. Tail corner of lower board lightly bumped, else fine.

Gottingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980. no additional printings listed. Softcover. 8vo (9.5"x6.5").193pp. Typographic paper wraps. Very light general shelfwear.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good+. 8vo. (9"x5.75"). 288pp. Green cloth boards with gold-stamped spine. Dustjacket covered in protective mylar. Spine-slant. Toned pages, pencil marks to first pages, slightly creased pages to fore-edge, small bookseller's sticker to rear pasted down endpaper. Toned dustjacket, spine extremes chipped, NOT price-clipped.

Frankfurt am Mann (Hesse, Germany), 1670. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 18mo (Hardcover (4.25"x6.5"). 192pp. Full leather binding. Seven gouges to front cover, presumed insect damage, largest gouge .75"x.25". Mild scuffing. Five raised bands on spine. Top 1" of spine missing leather. Bottom .25" of spine leather missing. Exterior hinges cracked; 1" on lower front, 1.5" to upper rear. Rear boards show another half dozen gouges, with one area 1.5" x .75" rubbed; all suspected, as with the front cover, due to insects. Front and rear boards slightly outward bowed.Prior owner (Ioannes Fridericus Gunter de Sternegg) decorative bookplate pasted to interior front cover. Another insect suspected spot (.25") to paper on interior front cover. Text block yellowed, but really rather supple given age. No marks, notations or insect damage in text block. Books published in Frankfurt did not start mentioning publisher until 1676. Text in German.

Portland, OR: Tinhouse, 2015. Advance Reader's Copy. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. 451pp. Signed by author on title page. Very light wear to corners, else fine.

Sante Fe, NM: Color Stone Press, 1994. First edition, as stated. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 217pp. Illustrated wraps lightly scuffed with minor soiling to edges of text block. B&W illustrations throughout.

Alexandria, VA: Jea Berrard, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Pictorial wraps. Wraps lightly scuffed with wear to corners. Inscribed by author and his wife and dated November 1987. A fascinating and quite rare copy of this book which is a cookbook as well as a memoir outlining his life under Nazi occupation in France. With admirers including Simca Beck, Julia Child, and Gertrude Stein it is a wonder that this book is so difficult to find.

Kalispell, MT: Scott Company, 2002. No additional printings listed. Softcover. Very Good+. Folio (15"x11"). Unpaginated. Illustrated & photographic paper wraps. Light sticker damage to top corner of upper cover. Corners lightly rubbed. Soiled title page. Color photos to every page, map to rear.