Search Results: Titles starting with B from Uncommon Works

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A very good plus, first edition. Blue cloth boards, sunning to top edge of cover. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket showing chips and small tears at head and tail of spine of dust jacket. Binding is sturdy and square. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Black and white plates, 271 pp. including index. Octavo, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches tall.

[Charleston, IL]: [self-published], 1991. First Edition. Glossy pictorial cover. Fine/none as issued. As New. Issued without dust jacket. 153 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Octavo. This is a story of the 499th Bomb. Squadron on Biak off the coast of New Guinea during WWII; I have strived to make it as accurate as possible. Most events are true. Charlie Phillips, Vic Tatelman, Corie Johnson, Henry Jepson and Robert Stewart are still living to attest to the accuracy of several episodes. Brig. General Richard Reinbold, our commanding officer, can verify events concerning administration. I did not keep a diary, but I have referred to the daily letters I wrote my wife for special events and dates. Many specific details of traumatic events have been supplied by living members of the squadron; they are crystal clear after over forty years. It is always difficult for an author to separate the reported events which might have happened.One fictitious character, Carl Zark, is a… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good +. A very near fine first edition, as stated, in a very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Brown paper boards over dark brown quarter cloth. Brown topstain. Strong binding. Map endpapers. The only flaw to the book is one mild erasure mark on the map endpapers, not really affecting the map, just appears as a slightly faded spot. Dust jacket has a 1" closed tear at top edge on the front cover and same on the back cover. xii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, index. Octavo The battle of Berlin was one of the last battles of the Second World War in Europe. The war that had proceeded from Berlin returned to the city. Many soldiers and civilians died in widespread house-to-house fighting.On 22 June 1944, two weeks after the Allied landings in Normandy, the Soviet army initiated its campaign against the German forces. On 16 October Soviet troops crossed the German… Read More

New York: NY Lithograph, Printing & Engraving, 1867. Very good +/none as issued. Julius Bien, Sup.. Hand colored lithographic map of the Bermuda Hundred American Civil War battlefield. Original from 1867. One crease in center of map. 36 x 24 1/2 inches tall. In March 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was summoned from the Western Theater, promoted to lieutenant general, and given command of all Union armies. Grant devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, George G. Meade, and Butler against Robert E. Lee near Richmond; Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley; William Tecumseh Sherman to invade Georgia, defeat Joseph E. Johnston, and capture Atlanta; George Crook and William W. Averell to operate against railroad supply lines in West Virginia; Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama. This was the first time the Union armies would have a coordinated offensive strategy across multiple theaters.Grant and Meade attacked… Read More

Spoleto: Presso Claudio Argentieri, 1929. Limited Edition. Three quarter leather. Good +/missing. Giuseppe Maria Crespi. A good plus limited edition, no. 82 of 1000 printed. No dust jacket. Three quarter leather over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Front joint cracked, but still sturdy. Four raised bands with bright gilt title stamping on spine and at leather edges.Small rub on spine, see photos. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore and bottom edge. Limitation stamped on copyright page. Held by 6 libraries in Europe. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text in Italian. XXVII, 278 p., 20 gorgeous copper engravings, all present. Quarto, 9 x 11 1/2 inches tall. Vicenza, 800 AD. The crude but world-savvy peasant Bertoldo is invited to the court of the Longobard King Alboin, and manages to ingratiate himself with the sovereign through his wit and pranks. Returning to his small village from the naive wife Marcolfa and son Bertoldino, the farmer Bertoldo finds out that they fell victim of a Fra Cipolla… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good +. Stacy Drum, Jill Bauman, Charles Lang. A very good, signed limited edition in a very good clamshell slipcase. Letter "O" of 52 lettered copies. Signed by Stephen King, Dean Koontz and dozens of other horror writers on the first pages. This large and heavy textblock has partilly pulled away from the spine covering, see photo. Black clamshell box with a bend on front spine edge. Fine dust jacket. Black cloth binding. Full color illustrations. 786 pp. Octavo. The Best of Cemetery Dance showcases five dozen of the very finest short stories from the first 25 issues of Cemetery Dance magazine. Published over a period of nine years — and still publishing today — Cemetery Dance is the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award, as well as a recent nominee for both the British Fantasy Award and the American Horror Award.Featuring… Read More

Chicago: Spencer Press, 1951. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near fine/very good +. [various]. Seventeen original pamphlets, near fine in a very good plus, original box. Pamphlets show wear only to stapled edge. Box has gilt label with very minor loss and rubbing, plus two small scratches. Octavo. Written by the scientific and educational authorities of the time.

New York: Joseph Sabin, 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Three quarter leather. Very good +. A very good plus first edition, small paper copy. One of 525 copies issued. These are the works published in Sabin's lifetime. Signed by Joseph Sabin with original signed receipt from Sabin. Mixed set: small paper copy and stiff wraps on vol 20, all bound into three quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt accents. Bound by The University of Chicago Press. Moderate wear to crown, foot, and corners on various volumes. Top edge gilt. One volume has bent pages from poor shipping practice (book edges pressed into one another). Marbled endpapers. On laid paper.Text is clean and bright. Vols. 1-19, "Edition, 525 copies, 8vo ... and 110 copies on large paper."Publication was suspended from 1892 to 1927, when it was resumed with the parts numbered continuously with the last issued in 1892 (Suspended with pt. CXV/CXVI (v. 20, pt. 1/2) 1892; )This set shipped at actual cost.

New York: Harper and Row, 1954. Early Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine early printing denoted by this being the last book listed by the publisher in "Other works by..." front matter. Blue cloth boards with map endpapers. In a very good dust jacket shelfwear at all corners and two tiny closed tears at crown of jacket. Back flap creased. vii, 566 p.. Octavo. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr."After the devastating earthquake in April 1906, looters roamed the streets of San Francisco. Rescuing gold and silver from his small Bank of Italy, A.P. Giannini gained fame by setting up a makeshift bank on a North Beach wharf and making loans to local residents "on a handshake." (California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California)The innovative bank welcomed small borrowers who might otherwise have to use high-cost loan sharks. Most banks at the time regarded people with… Read More

Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1888-1896. 510th Thousand. Hardcover. Very good/poor. Katharine R. Wireman. A very good "510th Thousand" ca. 1896 edition in a poor, but original dustjacket. Difficult to find an early edition with an intact dust jacket. Both the dust jacket and copyright page denote the number of copies of the book of the book. Red cloth pictorial boards, showing a girl with crutches on the cover. The image is repeated on the dust jacket. Moderate soiling to top and bottom edge of book. head and tail of spine worn. Previous owners gift inscription on first free endpaper, dated 1911. Toning and offsetting from dust jacket on paste downs. List of works on last page ends with Wiggin's "Nine Love Songs and a Carol, " which was published in 1896. Dust jacket is tattered and missing pieces. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. [xii], 69 pp. Duodecimo, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches tall. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24,… Read More

Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1986. First Edition. Leather bound. Fine. A fine first edition. Brown leather boards with gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Native American end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled at edge of half title. 162 pp. including index. Octavo, 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches tall. .

Mattituck, NY: J.M. Carroll & Co., 1971. First edition; Limited edition. Cloth. Fine/none as issued. A very good, true first edition (shorter edition) limited to 100 copies and published by the author. Teal cloth boards with gilt title stamping and mounted soldier in gilt on cover. Binding a bit soft and a few tiny corner folds on bottom of last few pages. xvii, 428 pp. : illustrated. Octavo. Includes material on many battles of the Indian Wars, the Johnston County War, and the Brownsville incident.

San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As new/as new. An as new, apparently unread, first edition, first printing in an as new dust jacket. Stated first edition with complete number line. xi, 372 pages, Octavo. This book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted. In a series of long essays, this book presents an in-depth look at key beliefs behind many mistaken and dangerous actions, policies, and trends. It presents eye-opening insights into the historical development of the ghetto culture that is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity-- a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by… Read More

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition in a very good plus dust jacket. Brown pictorial cloth boards. Orange endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Pages clean and bright. Sunning to dust jacket spine, no other flaws. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with black and white photos, drawings and tables. 194 pp. Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women. A black, winged, super-sexed demon also figured in ancient Maya mythology. He was the bat deity known in Nahuatl as Tlacatzinacantli—the source of the name Zinacantan. This bat was associated with blood and death and with other sacrificing creatures, the buzzard and the hummingbird.

New York: Doubleday / Nan A Talese, 2000. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/near fine. A fine first American edition, as stated, in a fine jacket. Complete number line. Pages are clean and bright, appears unread. Octavo. The work was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001. It was also nominated for Governor General's Award in 2000, Orange Prize for Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2002. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2000 and included it in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923." --- Wikipedia

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, as stated, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Black paper boards. Title gold stamped on spine. Some pages improperly cut and are folded into book as from publisher. Interior clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 306 pp. Octavo, 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall.

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 2001. First Edition; Signed edition; Deluxe edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first hardcover edition, SIGNED and limited to 1000 copies in a fine dust jacket. Appears unread. Black cloth boards with red endpapers. 453 pp. Octavo. ...this crude generation-gap shocker from British author Clark (Darkness Demands) will thrill the adolescent audience for which it's unashamedly intended. A wild premise—on a "Saturday night in April, every adult human being on this planet" goes mad and begins murdering everyone under 19—ensures almost constant action. Those kids lucky enough to escape their insane, zombie-like elders, labeled "creosotes" or "kaybees" for "crazy bastards," gather in communes in an obvious nod to Golding's The Lord of the Flies. After finding his brother dismembered by their parents, narrator Nick Aten (rhymes with Satan) observes, "adults seem to be actually afraid of their children...whom they feel… Read More

Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, first printing (as stated). In a fine dust jacket. xxi, 424 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, photographs ; Octavo. Little has been written about the contributions of enlisted combat aircrew members during World War II. Also, the importance of crew unity has not been sufficiently emphasized. BLOODY SKIES is the story of a Fifteenth Air Force B-17 crew that often flew the notorious Old Flak Holes & how they learned to respect & trust each other. Training made them cohesive; crisis & tragedy bonded them. They arrived at Amendola, Italy on the day their entire squadron, the Twentieth, had been wiped out by the Luftwaffe. That was their introduction to war. Ten enthusiastic, bright-eyed, cocky boys experience a fatigue & weariness so overpowering it seems to go deep into the bones. It is only their pride in themselves, their crew & their country that keeps them returning… Read More

New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. A fine first edition, first printing in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Jacket showing minimum amount of wear. xxix, 718 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; maps; index. Octavo, he Boer War (1899-1902) looms in retrospect as Britain's Vietnam: a limited engagement that would "be over by Christmas," it turned into the longest, the bloodiest, "and the most humiliating war for Britain between 1815 and 1914." Powerful Britain could take no comfort, moreover, from its terminus, for even if the Boer guerrillas "lost the war, they won the peace." Thomas Pakenham, one of the auspiciously prolific Longfords (he is the brother of Antonia Fraser, above), has now given this epochal contest its first full-length treatment in nearly 70 years. In the course of his long narrative, he skillfully maps out the causes, the course and the aftereffects of the war. He examines the… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1912. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/missing. A very good early edition from 1912 of what is now known as "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook." Tan boards with brown title stamping. Binding is sturdy and square. Toning to page edges. This copy has been well-cared for with no stains, no spills, no leaning. Front hinge cracking at end paper, mull intact. Previous owner's name first free endpaper and on rear pastedown. 648 pp. including index followed by 30 pp. contemporary advertisements.