Search Results: Titles starting with B from Independent Books

RUTLAND: CHARLES E. TUTTLE CO., 1984 270 numbered pp.+11. TPB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: orange wraps, black titles front/spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped, gray, red/black blocks front/spine, red/reverse/black titles front/spine, black text back; lt edge/shelfwear, sm dampstain and ticker residue front, sm tear top front joint.

CAPE TOWN: HOWARD TIMMINS, 1962 64 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight; offsetting to ffep and last fep . Cover: yellow, black titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, color artwork front/spine, yellow titles front, white back w/ black text; modest edge and corner wear, a few sm closed tears, head /heel a bit tattered. A few of the included stories: the Moon Child, Seeteetelane and the Egg-Child, Sayoyo. Fantastic b/w etchings of monsters, magical animals, adventurous children. A wonderful and scarce book with cultural value.

New York: Golden Press, 1967 160 numbered pp; HB. Spiral binder. Pages: clean, bright, tight, front eps printed, frontis; a few of the holes at the spiral are torn. Cover: red, pictorial BBQ dinners + reverse/yellow titles/text front/back; v lt shelfwear, head/tail worn.

New York: HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC., 1962 304 numbered pgs.+2. HBw/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, blue topstain, gray eps, frontis; no defects. Cover: lt yellow/green, blue titles spine; no shelfwear, no defects. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, dk blue, green/reverse titles front/spine, white back, blue text; sm stain back, 2 sm closed tears

Philadelphia: THE CENTAUR BOOK SHOP, 1932 126 numbered pgs.+appendix; HB. Registered, limited "Large paper" edition, this No. 35 of 100, only 90 for the tade. Signed by both Cabell and author Brussel on registration page. The book includes an appendix in which Cabell denies authorship of the playlet "Poor Jack" (plagerized from an uncomplete Cabell text). Pages: generally clean, bright, tight, f.e./b.e. deckled, frontis; light and small pen margin checkmarks thoughout. Cover: silver foil paper over boards, green backstrip, green/black titles spine paster; moderate shelfwear, spine tanned, paster tanned and edge worn, foil rubbed w/ several areas of surface loss down to boards, backstrip foxed. Limited, dually signed.

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited 154 numbered pp +4 pp of ads; HB. Pages: clean, bright/lt foxed, tight, sm frontis; a.e. tanned, PO name inked in period script and dated 1897 to front ep. Cover: tan cloth, 3 Gilbert illustrations in red/black + red/black titles front, black titles spine, Pear's soap ad to back; moderate shelfwear, extrems well worn, spine titles rubbed, but still legible, dampstain to front b.e. 34 of the famous Bab Ballads, w/ many wonderful and weird illustrations by Gilbert, crease and bump tot back. This appears to be a popular copy-it is not elegantly bound. While undated, all poems are 1868 or earlier.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973 280 numbered pp; HB w/ DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, blue topstain, blue eps; t.e. spattered. Cover: gray, red/blue artwork front, blue titles spine; minimal shelfwear, tape marks both boards. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, white, blue artwork front, photo back, black titles front/spine; v lt edge/shelfwear, spine faintly dampstained, sticker to front flap.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1968 192 pp.; HB w/DJ. A science fiction novel in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (that language influences thought and perception) plays an important part. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in that year. Pages: clean, bright, tight; owner info inked ffep, t.e. dusty. Cover: red, gilt titles spine; top corners slightly bumped, head/heel curved. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, black, white text and titlesall surfaces; modestly rubbed, head/heel/corners a little worn, small closed jagged tear front. This edition produced by the Science Fiction Book Club, London.

Nashville: Southern Publishing Association, 1948 Landscape orientation. The object of this little book of pictures and verses is to catch the child's interest and start them on the trail of discovery in this wonderland of childhood where the really truly fairies - the insects with many other of nature's children - are adventuring. Condition notes: unnumbered pp; HB no DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, decorative eps. Cover: red cloth, large color pasters front and back, orange titles front, plain spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems barely worn. A very nice copy indeed.

Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., Inc., 1939 Charming period child's book. Condition notes - unnumbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, color frontis. Cover: blue/pink, praying baby + blue titles front, plain spine; modest shelfwear, head/tail a bit tattered w/ tiny tears and bumps.

London: Oxford University Press, 1930 157 numbered pp; HB. From the collection of David Wight Prall, Professor of aesthetics and philosophy at Berkeley and Harvard, his bookplate pasted ep. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e. deckled; t.e. dusty. Cover: red, black/red titles to spine paster; lt shelfwear, spine faded, paster tanned, lt spot to front b.e.

Chicago: Old Dutch Cleanser, 1939 25 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, no defects. Cover: red, silver ornamentation/titles front, plain spine; minimal shelfwear, spine a bit wrinkly, b.e. crnrs barely bumped. A synopsis of the 1930s radio show bringing the story current through March 1, 1939. In great shape.

London: Constable & Co., 1921 267 pp.; HB. Pages: generally clean, generally bright, generally tight, f.e. and b.e. deckled; t.e. dusty, f.e. and b.e. foxed, edges tanned, front hinge starting, and hinge cracked at pg 1, both intact, tiny book club sticker to back ep. Cover: lt green, gilt titles spine; overal lightly grubby, head heel, and spine edges lightly worn, bottom front corner bumped. From the serpent to Eve: "You dream things that never were; and you say 'Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"

New York: Bantam Books, 1994 386 numbered pp; TPB. Identified as an "Advance Reading Copy" from an uncorrected proof. Pages: clean, bright, tight; no defects. Cover: glossy red wraps, black titles/text all surfaces; minimal shelfwear, back b.e. crnr creased, dimple to front head. Not for those who seek the book as it was sold in stores, but for collectors of book- or author-associated ephemera.

1937 In English. Green/white 4-panel pamphlet w/additional 2-panel pamphlet laid in. "Oldest thermal resort in Switzerland". Where folks went to take the waters. Info on all amenities, treatments, season, doctors, taxes, entertainment, sights, etc., etc.

Locust Valley: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1953 A monograph on Balinese trance, from material collected between 1931 and 1939. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the ffep. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 70 numbered pp +2; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, photo frontis; a.e. lt tanned. Cover: green, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear, spine, adjacent boards, and several edges moderately sunned.

San Jose: Cobra Press, 1975 74 pp.; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: blue-gray wraps, black titles/text front/back, plain spine; minimal shelfwear.

Not Stated: Not Stated "Oh, the North Countree is a hard countree that mothers a bloody brood; and its icy arms hold hidden charms for the greedy, the sinful and lewd." Stapled spine. Condition notes - unnumbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: gray-green yapped wraps w/deckled fore-edge, black artwork front/back and black titles front; lt shelfwear w/ edges sunned, a few shallow wrinkled at f.e.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1975 276 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, green eps; a.e. lightly tanned. Cover: dk green, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear, head/heel v lightly worn. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, color photo all surfaces, orange/yellow/white titles front/spine, yellow text back; 2 tiny surface chips front, back. Nice, giftable. Heavy.

New York: The Penguin Group, 1995 Leads you with sensitivity through the historical journey of the Japanese basket. The cultivation and preparation of the bamboo, the techniques and skills of the basket makers, the variety and styles of the flower arranging schools, are presented in this book is intricately and exquisitely as the subject itself. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 144 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight large color photographic frontis; all edges slightly sunned, remainder mark to bottom edge. Cover: glossy deep pink wraps w/ French flaps, color photograph and white titles front, black titles spine; very light edge/shelfwear.