Search Results: Titles starting with B from Cat's Cradle Books

Denver: Sage Books, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Lightly circulated. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright text pages. Cloth over boards is clean with light edge rubbing. DJ has light edge wear, clipped corner. ; Book drawn from the papers of William Prescott Smith, master of transportation on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1860 to 1866. ; Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 156 pages.

Paris: Bordas, 1981. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Alain Le Toct, Vincent Ferlito. Square, tight binding and hinges. Writing on ffep. Text pages clean. Color cartoon illustrations with some text. Pages bright. Pictorial paper over boards is edge worn, lightly shelf worn. Full color comic book-style history of Marco Polo's adventures and travels from Venice to Cathay. 11.5" (29 cm) tall. 48 pages.

Jakarta: Museum Pusat, 1974. Soft Cover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the Indonesian language in typescript font. Clean, tanned pages. Tight binding. Wrappers generally shelfworn and tanned. Reference sheet tipped in at back. ; Transcripts of chronicles of the Javanese kingdom of Blambangan, with commentary. 11.25" (28.5 cm) tall; 48 pages.

Ngayogyakarta, 1977. Soft Cover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the Indonesian language. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Chronicles of Javanese leader Paku Alam VI (1860-1902) and other members of his ruling family. 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 105 pages.

Wilmington NC: Wilmington College Department of Modern Languages, 1966. Ephemera. Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps have light handling wear, small discolored area at top front corner. ; Contents: González del Valle, "Poetas de Hispanoamérica: Evocación a Emilio Ballagas." Bisihop, "The Modern Concept of Farce: Tragedy without Decorum." Eason, "Ha nacido este día un salvador." Lowe, "Paul Ernst's Interim Ethic." Morton, "Una comparación entre El Comendador Mendoza y Doña Perfecta." Kitty O'Brien, "José Martí en Rubén Darío." Lassiter, "L'Esthetique de Balzac." Jones, "La sensibilidad lírica en Juan Ramón Jiménez." Gonzales del Valle, "Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer: Rimas." ; 9.0" tall; 32 pages.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Pages tanned with some lightly pencilled notations in text. Previous owner's name on ffep. Cloth over boards has light shelf wear. Gilt lettering on spine is a bit scuffed but still visible. ; Introduction in English includes sections on Dionysus, traditional elements in the Bachae, the place of the Bacchae in Europides' work, and sources of the text. Text is in Greek. COmmentary in English with appendix of additional fragments attributable to the Baccahe. Indexes. ; 7.5" tall; 253 pages.

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Lightly circulated. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ, in mylar, has small chipped area at top of spine. ; Letters from Herman Clarke, who enlisted in the 117th New York Volunteer Infantry in 1862 to serve in the Civil War. His letters cover the period 1862-1865. ; Ex-Library; 8.5" tall ; 212 pages.

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Writes, 1978. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by Jackie Ullman. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Recollections of life in Indiana, along with folklore and stories. ; Photographs; 8.25" tall; 112 pages.

Carrboro, NC: North Carolina Writers' Network, 1997. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is tight. Pages clean, bright. Wraps have light shelf wear, some darkening around edges and light soiling. ; Poetry by Hawaii-born Asian American writer Debra Kang Dean. ; NC Writers' Network Poetry Chapbook; 8.5" tall; 24 pages.

Charlottesville, VA: Quartet Books, 2009. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers display minor shelf wear. ; Celebrates and showcases Virginia's Blue Ridge mountain culture. ; 9.0" tall; 271 pages.

Greensboro, NC: Backwards City Publications, 2006. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear with slight wear at bottom of spine. 108 pp. Avant garde poetry, prose, and black-and-white comic strip drawings published in Greensboro, North Carolina. 9.0" (23 cm) tall.

United States: Good Earth Publications, LLC, 1992. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Guide to growing and selling vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs and small livestock on small plots of land. 9.0" (21 cm) tall; 351 pages.

New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, 2005. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, bright. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Contributors: Lila Wolff Wilkinson, Peter E. Blau, Andrew G. Fusco, Andrew J. Peck, Gahan Wilson, John Radford, Charles A. Meyer, Bruce Harris, Jay Hyde, Richard L. Kellogg, Scott Bond. ; 9.0" tall; 64 pages.

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Cordelian Quarterly, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with light overall shelf wear. This is No. 14 of a limited First Edition of 299. Printed by the author on a hand-press in Boone County, Kentucky. Ex-Library; 9.5" tall; 30 pages.

Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Company, 1909. First Edition; Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; Second Printing. Exlibrary marks. Lightly circulated. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with wear to corners, light overall shelf wear. Gilt lettering and design on front is bright, on spine darkened. Poetry about the Yukon. ; Ex-Library; 7.5" tall; 137 pages.

Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Company, 1909. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners, light overall shelf wear. Gilt lettering and design on front is bright, on spine a bit less so but still well visible. Poetry about the Yukon. ; 7.5" tall; 137 pages.

Ann Arbor, MI: J. W. Edwards, 1946. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Early reprint of author's 1941 book published originally in Germany during World War II by Verlag von Quelle & Meye in Leipzig. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Front endpapers are stained with tape marks. Four fold-out tables in sleeve at back of book are in very good condition. Heavy shelf wear to exterior, including edge wear. 298 pp. Principles of ballistics with mathematical (calculus) formulas. German language. ; Ex-Library; 8.25" (21 cm) tall; 298 pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has no sign of wear. ; Novel set in China in the period of Mao Tse Deng's "re-education" campaign. ; 7.5" tall; 197 pages.

New York: Doubleday, 1955. First. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Previous owner's name on ffep. Cloth over boards is clean with gently bumped corners. Pictorial DJ has edge wear, handling wear, some tanning on back. ; First novel by Civil War historian Bruce Catton. 8.5" tall ; 254 pages.

Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has no visible wear. ; Discussion of baptism in the Reformed Christian tradition with consideration of the theology of Zwingli, Luther, Bucer, Bullinger and Calvin and the development of the theology of baptism through the 20th century. ; Columbia Series in Reformed Theology; 9.25" tall; 187 pages.