Search Results: Titles starting with B from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1951. Duodecimo. Good or better. Light wearing of extremities, with light faded at spine and joints.. Illustrated by Natalie Harlan Davis.. pictorial wraps.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, ND. Hardcover. Very Good. (c1898). Second edition; octavo; pp. 222; frontispiece plus additional illustrations by the author; original publishers decorated green beveled cloth binding, gilt, all edges gilt; Very good with some edgewear. With previous owner's armorial bookplate.

London: Macmillan & Company, 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. 563, (i), index; three-hundred fifty illustrations by the author; original publishers decorated green pebbled cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt;. Great fun!

`: Random House, 1940. ~~~~. Hardcover. Good +/good. (1940). Quarto, pictorial paper covered boards. 38pp. Illustrated in color throughout. Pictorial endpapers and jacket. Jacket is unclipped. The jacket has numerous chips and a 2" closed tear on the back panel. There is an apporximately 1" by 6" loss at the bottom of the front panel of the jacket, clearly shown in the picture. Book is very good with a little wear at the corners. Back hinge has a tape repair. Last title mentioned on "other books by de Brunhoff" on copyright page is "The ABC of Babar"

New York: Modern Age Books, 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Previous owner's name and the date 1938 on a preliminary else, very good. Octavo; pp; (x), 168, (ii), ads; original pictorial paper wrappers by John Groth;. The author had spent 17 years as the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times. His time in the Soviet Union inspired the 15 short stories published here.

New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1941. Wraps. Light soiling else, very good. Octavo; pp; 32;; Illustrated; original printed pictorial paper wrappers;. Advice for new parents.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. A good or better copy with some wear to the boards;. Octavo; pp; 227, appendix & index; frontispiece and eight black and white plates; , red cloth, lettered in gilt. Rosewater was Progressive and a journalist. This is a scarce book, akin to O. K. Davis' "Released For Publication". The Convention that led to the formation of the Bull Moose Party.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. a limited edition of 1500 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy #1162. Hardcover. Spine faded else very good in a worn slipcase. Quarto; pp; lvi, (ii), 260, (i), colophon; Illustrated by John Farleigh with a frontispiece and numerouse wood engravings throughout the text; green linen with a green leather title tile to upper board lettered and decorated in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, spine label faded from green to brown;.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a good or better dust jacket/jacket extremities are chipped, else a very good. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 379; illustrated by Constance Garland; pictorial blue cloth with red and gilt rules, top edge stained dark blue, gilt stamped lettering to spine and red lettering to upper board in a wrap-around pictorial dust jacket. The final installment of the Garland Middle Border Quartet.

London: MacM and Co., Limited, 1920. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo (4" x 6.25"), Three-quarter red morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. 388pp. with appendix and glossary. Very good with a little rubbing on the top of the back joint. A very nice dated binding.

Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (Mechanicsburg, 2007). Small quarto (8.75" x 11.25"), navy cloth, gilt. 172pp. with index. Illustrated with color photography by Charlie Craven. Flies, their patterns and how to fish them. "John Barr is the most successful designer of commercially distributed flies in the world, He has invented a number of indispensable flies such as the Barr Emerger, an unrivaled patternfor difficult trout across the country, and the Copper John, which has evolved imto the most popular fly of the millennium..."

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp; 244, (xii), ads; frontispiece; pictorial green cloth ruled in brown and lettered in black;. Boy's fiction....nothing says Adventure like Barry Dare!

1856. Second royal octavo edition. Very good +. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed by J. T. Bowen. Showing the male on a branch of Ipomea.

(New York: Dutton & Wentworth, Printers to the State, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xiii, (iii), 336, index; stats, & charts; black cloth and green paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Interesting inside the game perspective.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; xxiii, (i), 372; Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-two lithographed plates after drawings by English painter, Henry Howard; three quarter green leather and marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers and edges; The spine has been professionally rebacked with a gilt lettered label;. Classic stylish nudes. A handsome copy.

Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Quarto, navy pictorial wraps. 307pp. Illustrated with maps, charts and graphs in black and white. Very good with light wear. Research to determine how living resources in the Bering Sea Ecosystem have been and should be managed.

New York: Broadway Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Square octavo; pp; xv, (i), 272, index; color and black and whit photographs; terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. When Charlie van Over makes his bread, he breaks all the rules of classic bread baking. He doesn't proof the yeast. He uses cold water instead of warm. He mixes the dough in a food processor for forty-five seconds instead of kneading it by hand. He lets the dough rise in a cool place. The results? Perfect crusty-on-the-outside baguettes with texture, taste, and aroma. Light brioche with buttery crisp crusts and fluffy, saffron interiors. Chewy bagels with hardy, smooth crusts. A rich walnut loaf studded with nuts and scented with the full flavor of whole wheat. A homey cherry babka with a crunchy cinnamon sugar topping. How is this possible?

New York: A James H. Silberman Book, Harcourt, Inc, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; x, (iv), 610, index; red cloth and yellow paper covered boards lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket;. A political, social, economic and technological overview of the Clinton years.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (1994). Square octavo (8.5" x 9.25"), pictorial boards in like jacket. 123, (4)pp. with index and appendices. Color photography by John Dominis. Former owner's embossed stamp. "Featuring more than 60 classic recipes from Giuliano Bugialli, the foremost internationally recognized authority on Italian Food and cooking."

New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1913. Wraps. Wrappers stained else complete and very good. Small quarto; pp; 32; music; original printed blue paper wrappers;. Tipped in 1928 notice that for Amateur Productions, six copies must be purchased.