Search Results: Titles starting with B from Uncharted Books

Atlanta: Top Shelf Productions, 2003. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Black and white. Signed and with an original character drawing on front free endpaper. Minor shelf wear. This is a trade paperback of Robinson's influential graphic novel, signed and with a sketch by the author. This copy is from the collection of comics writer Chuck Satterlee.

Scholastic, 2018. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. As new. Selznick, Brian. A delightful rarity signed by award-winning author and illustrator Selznick directly on the title page.

New York: Baen, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Pocket, 1945. Paperback. Good. Espionage by misadventure!" Minor shelf wear. Some damp stains and a shallow puncture mark on front cover. This is a nice vintage paperback mystery book. Pocket 286.

New York: Dutton, 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo. Cloth. 340 pp. Signed on limitation page. Lacks dust jacket. Significant sunning to cloth as well as mild wear to edges. Damp stain on rear cover. Tight and clean. This is a limited edition (no. 573 of 735 copies printed) first edition of Powers' second book. Power was a highly influential children's librarian who pioneered the Book Caravan (precursor to the Bookmobile), among many other achievements. She was an outspoken feminist and civil rights activist as well, spending her entire career in racially diverse neighborhoods and was an early advocate for and friend to Langston Hughes. This book is intended as a resource for children's storytellers.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. 303 pp. Minor shelf wear. Slight bend to block. This is an uncorrected proof of Saramago's novel of magical realism.

New York: Signet, 1957. Paperback. Good. He was the innocent victim in a three-cornered range war." Minor shelf wear. Spine overopened but tight. This is a nice vintage paperback Western book. Signet 1473.

Chicago: Chicago Literary Club, 1912. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 7"x4 3/4". Grey wraps. 41 pp. Wrap edges overhang text block, resulting in some curling and closed tears. Stains on spine. Pages unopened. This is a paper printed for members of the Chicago Literary Club, limited to 660 copies. The decorations on the cover and title page are by famed Orientalist scholar F.W. Gookin, who served as club secretary and treasurer from 1880-1920, and President from 1921-1922. The paper's author, C.E. Cheney, was Presiden from 1908-1909. An attractive and scarce artifact of Chicago literary history in very good condition.

New York: DC Comics, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Full color. Minor shelf wear. This is a hardcover Batman comic by Grant Morrison. This copy is from the collection of comics writer Chuck Satterlee.

Berkeley: Image, 2006. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Full color. Inscribed by both Moore and Haun on title page. This is a signed paperback comic collecting Battle Hymn 1-5. This copy is from the collection of comics writer Chuck Satterlee, to whom it is inscribed.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. First Edition. Boards. Very good. 8vo. 8.75"x5.75". Green decorative boards over black quarter cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. 165 pp. No jacket. Edges and corners of boards scuffed. Light pencil underlining on several pages. This is a critical study of French poet Charles Baudelaire.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1958. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo. Eggshell quarter cloth over eggshell boards. Pictorial dust jacket. 622 pp. plus errata. Shelf wear to jacket edges. Brown stain on top and right block edges. This is an early edition of New Direction's definitive printing of Starkie's critical biography of French poet Baudelaire. The original edition of Starkie's book had been out of print for several decades before ND was able to convince the author to authorize a reprint.

New York: McFadden Books, 1968. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. A vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Viking Press, 1969. 2nd Printing. Paperback. Good +. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. Some scuffing to covers and creasing to corners. Bump to top edge of front cover, which causes a small tear and crease to top edge of first few pages. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. This is an uncommon stated 2nd printing of musician and poet Cohen's lyrical novel.

Folder. Very good. Square folio. 12 loose plates, 6 of which are full color prints and 6 of which are a biographical sketch of the artist on semi-transparent cards. Not in OCLC, and no publication information present. This is a small monograph of the works of outsider artist Ugo di Portanova, a reclusive schizophrenic multimillionaire oil heir who spent the majority of his life insitutionalized. This copy was previously part of the archives of Chicago's Intuit Gallery, the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.

New York: Knopf, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Orange cloth. Dust jacket. 206 pp. Minor jacket edge wear. Jacket flaps are creased. This is a stated first edition of Updike's bestselling novel.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. 8vo. Grey cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. 227 pp. Minor shelf wear. Price clipped. Red scuff on rear jacket cover. This is a first edition collection of critical essays about Samuel Beckett, including a selected bibliography.

New York: Melville House, 2009. First Edition, 3rd Printing. Paperback. Fine. Small 8vo. Wraps. This is a signed short story collection by alt-lit writer Tao Lin. By "signed," we mean that he drew a little fish on the title page, as is his wont.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Signed on bookplate. Minor shelf wear to jacket and a crease on jacket spine. This is a signed first edition book by author and TV showrunner Hawley, creator of the TV series Fargo and Legion.

New York: Heritage Press, 1937. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Cloth. 113 pp. This is a Heritage Press limited edition of Gay's classic.