Search Results: Titles starting with B from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Published by George Routledge in London in partnership with Camden Press, Dalziel Brothers Engravers & Printers. First collection in book form, later printing (1873 or later - deduced from advertisements), hardcover without jacket, 18.5 x 14.5 cm, ix (self-effacing preface & t-o-c), 222 pp + 4 pp list of Illustrated Gift-Books, green boards - upper board has detailed gilt title and drawings, gilt lettering on spine, all edges gilt, sharp comic wood engravings, boards with bevelled edges. In Good Plus condition - wear at spine top and bottom, fading to spine, slightly cocked, corners bumped, spine rubbing, but overall in nice shape, internals clean with minmal toning. The wonderful engravings make this piece of Victoriana.

George Routledge and Sons, Second Edition 1875. Hardcover, no jacket (as issued), pp. 554 with period advertisements at rear, 19 x 14 cm, maroon cloth-covered boards with blind decoration on boards and gilt lettering on spine. Advertisement for paper edition laid into front endpapers. Condition is Very Good - the binding is tight, the text is clean, some sun tanning to spine and board edges. Comprehensive coverage of Lancashire tradition - lyrics and editorial notes.

Faber & Faber, London, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Sally Rooney on the half-title page: Independent Bookseller (INDIE) Edition with YELLOW jacket and THEMED BOOKMARK. Hardcover with dust jacket, 337 numbered pages, 22 x 14 cm, light blue boards, yellow ribbon marker, yellow jacket with cartoon images in windows. NEW (unread). Fine in Fine. Rooney's work has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, and she is regarded as one of the foremost Millennial writers. A massive best seller, with talk of a TV series.

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, First Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Richard Thompson on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 296 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm. red boards, jacket has cover photograph of artists as a young man. In New condition. An intimate look at the early years of one of the world's most significant and influential guitarists and songwriters.

Delacorte Press (Penguin Random House), New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 SIGNED by both Lee and Andrew Child on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 325 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, yellow boards with gilt titling, jacket has red sky at night illustration on front and authors' photographs on rear. NEW, unread book. Condition is Fine in Fine. "Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears."—Ken Follett.

Hutchinson Heinemann, London, UK 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 neatly SIGNED by Richard Powers on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 278 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, orange boards with black title on spine, pictorial wraps of scenes from nature within a face silhouette. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "Just one of the best novels, period" (ANN PATCHETT) from the Pulitzer Prize winner.

Samuel French, New York, Copyright 1986, trade paperback, pp. 98, 7'' x 5", less common state with olive wraps, full script with prop list, set design drawing, and opening night cast list from March 28, 1985 . Condition is Good+ , tight, bright, light rubbing to spine and edge-wear, front hinge starting to become fragile. Contemporary script of Tony award-winning play.

Penguin Press, New York, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing 2021, SIGNED by Henry Louis Gates Jr on a publisher's bookplate attached to the half title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 278 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, black paper over olive green textured boards with gilt titling on upper board aand spine, jacket printed in lack, gold and olive green featuring blac-and-white photograph "Congregation Listening to Minister. NEW, unread book. Condition is Fine in Fine. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. From the New York Times bestselling author of "Stony the Road" and one of our most important voices on the African American experience comes a powerful new history of the Black Church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America.

Morrow, New York, 1982, First Edition, First Printing, hardback, pp. 203, 8.5" tall, attractive sky blue boards with mid blue spine in DJ, book is fine (corners sharp) in good jacket (2 closed tears on front, 1 chip on rear). Nat Hentoff, the journalist renowned for his music writing and his work in the Village Voice and New Yorker, with a gritty, fast-paced detective story set in Greenwich Village.

M. Witmark, New York, 1963. Paperback (Song Book), First Edition ($1.95 on cover), pp. 24, 12" x 9", photograph of Dylan on covers, "Words and Music, Vocal Solo. Vocal Trio, Conventional Guitar Chord Symbols and Frames, and Classical Guitar Accompaniment." Condition is Poor: covers worn, covers starting to come loose. Classic 60s song book - it evokes Greenwich Village in your bedroom!

M. Witmark, New York, 1963. Paperback (Song Book), First Edition ($1.95 on cover), pp. 24, 12" x 9", photograph of Dylan on covers, "Words and Music, Vocal Solo. Vocal Trio, Conventional Guitar Chord Symbols and Frames, and Classical Guitar Accompaniment." Condition is Near Fine: exceptionally bright copy, clean pages, some ear along spine. Classic 60s song book - it evokes Greenwich Village in your bedroom!

Canongate Books, Edinburgh, UK Independent Bookshop Special 1st Edition,1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED in characteristic fun style by Ruth Ozeki on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 546 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm. Yellow boards with black lettering on spine. Jacket features shiny, colored lettering telling its own story on a purplish-blue background, most effective. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a bright copy. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her novel A Tale for the Time Being was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize. The Book of Form and Emptiness is a compassionate book that is filled with ideas, and an original, inventive coming-of-age tale about grief and loss and mental health, and our modern, all-consuming obsession with acquiring materialistic possessions. It is also a story about the vital relationship between a boy and his very own book.

Harper Perennial, Special Limited Edition (to benefit the MacDowell colony) 2018, First Edition thus, First Printing, boldly Signed by the author. Hardcover, no jacket (as issued), pp. 175, 23 x 15 cm, light blue boards with whimsical title design in black and gold, yellow endpapers. A very attractive special edition to benefit the distinguished artists' colony in New Hampshire, of which Michael Chabon is the Chair. Together with his publisher Harper Collins, he donated 1,000 copies for this limitation.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter cloth, green board with geometric design, dark edges, pictorial endpapers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket - DJ has slight edge-wear and spot of surface loss on from cover. Nobel Literature Awardee 2017. Nice copy.