Search Results: Titles starting with B from Bygone Books

London; New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved and Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans. London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co. "Printed in Great Britain" is added at bottom of title page. Reprint edition by Warne circa 1900, originally published by George Routledge in 1877. Square 12mo, illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip. Red page edges, 56 pages, full-page color illustrations and color illustrations throughout on pages of musical notation. Condition: VERY GOOD: light rubbing around edges, corners slightly bumped and just starting to be exposed, tiny spot on top page edge, endpapers have very light and faint foxing, internally clean and tight - a nice copy of this charming book.

Vienna, VA: Feld Entertainment, 1999. Hardcover. VG. 4to, gold cloth backed in red with black titles, unpaginated, color photographs and illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: lightly bumped bottom corners. A pictorial essay on the circus players for 1999.

NY: [ The Author ]; printed in Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1954. Limited . Soft cover. NF. Limited edition of 250 copies, printed by The Anthoensen Press. 121p. b/w illus; illus eps; red card paper wraps, pictorial paste-on of Potter illus in b/w / black titles on cover and spine. The definitive bibliography of Potter; scarce in the original edition. This copy owned by a member of Quinby's family; it is unused, in a NEAR FINE condition, with only the overlapping paper covers at the bottom edge and spine tail gently creased.

London: Phaidon Press, 1956., 1956. Hardcover. VG/G. 4to, 4th printing, 124p. b/w illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD book / GOOD jacket : sl edgewear; sl browning to pgs. DJ: edgewear, rubbing; soiling; price-clipped. (in mylar).

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Hardcover. VG/VG-. No printing statement, 8vo, blue decorated paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, 399 pages, illustrated with b/w contemporary 18th-century illustrations, color frontispiece. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has light edgewear; jacket has some edgewear of chipping at spine head and a few small closed tears, faint scuffing to front panel. Covers the 18th-century English novelists, both men (Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Goldsmith, MacKenzie, Johnson, Walpole, Lewis, Holcroft, Godwin, etc.) and women (Burney, Radcliffe, Wollstonecraft, Edgeworth), ending in a chapter on Jane Austen.

General Mills, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo, illustrated stapled wraps, 26 pages, color illustrations and 2-tone drawings, index. Condition: VERY GOOD with rubbing along spine, clean throughout.

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed., 8vo, red cloth, 216 pages, bibliographical notes, index. Condition: FINE book / FINE jacket: book is like new. Thompson writes on Austen's language of real feeling; clothing; proposals of marriage; the limits of language; character and interpretation; courtship, marriage, and work; and intimacy.

New York: Big Apple Circus, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. Big Apple Circus, Lincoln Center 1990-9. Program of Ballerinas, Horses & Clowns.the Golden Age Conceived and Directed by Paul Binder. Folio [11x17"], stapled wraps, 6 pages (includes inside covers), color photographs throughout. Condition is NEAR FINE: small faint stain on rear cover. Includes A Message from Paul Binder, Founder and Artistic Director, and The History of the Golden Age, by Dominique Jando, Associate Director.

Princeton: D. Van Nostrand,, 1965. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Gwen Raverat. Henry Allen Wedgwood. The Bird Talisman: An Eastern Tale. Illustrated by Gwen Raverat. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, no date. Reprint edition. Originally published in 1939 by Faber and Faber, when Gwen Raverat, great grand-niece of the author, illustrated it with color and black and white drawings. The story had been published privately for the Wedgwood - Darwin families only. This is an undated (circa 1965) reissue of that 1939 publication. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt decorated spine, 70 pages, color and b/w illustrations throughout by Gwen Raverat. Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has slight rubbing to spine extremities, fait stain to top page edge, appears unread; jacket has slight edgwear, a few faint stains to rear panel. A lovely book, a charming tale about a little princess and the magic ring which made her able to talk to birds.

Glasgow: H.B. Langman & Co. Hardcover. VG+. Legible" Series. No date, 48mo, [4" tall], flexible boards covered in tartan cloth, all edges gilt, unpaginated, zodiac illustration. VERY GOOD+ : owner name and date on front endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. A calendar of dates on left-hand page with Scottish proverbs on facing page; 6-page glossary..

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1965., 1965. Hardcover. VG-. 317p. 9th edition; Pocket size navy boards; map fep; fold-out maps maps and illus scattered. ribbon bookmark. VERY GOOD- / no jacket: minor wear; spine lightly sunned.

Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: Redwood Burn / David & Charles, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. Large ordnance survey map, cartographical notes by Dr. J. B. Harley, 1970. 2nd impression 1979. Condition: VERY GOOD map in a VERY GOOD envelope: map is in nice condition excepting a few small red and blue penned lines under town names, a few faint spots, very slight creasing; slipcase envelope has light edgewear and some creasing to bottom corner. Nice condition with no tears to the map.

New Haven: S. Babcock [no date]. Soft cover. VG. 32mo, wraps, 16p, 9 engravings. Condition is VERY GOOD with lt. edgewear, scattered foxing; a yellow page listing other little books for children is laid-in. One of Babcock's Toy Books: "Babcock's moral, instructive and entertaining Toy Books, beautifully embellished with superior engravings for the mind and the eye.

Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College Library, 1982. Limited/Numbered . Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/No Jacket. Limited edition of 1000 copies, designed and printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press in North Hills, Pa. A facsimile reproduction of the artist's 1917 unpublished sketchbook. 8vo, unpaginated, color illus, burgundy cloth, paper label, gilt spine titles. FINE / no jacket (as issued) A lovely book, with the drawings of toys begging to be made into REAL toys.

Shawnee Mission, KS: Circulation Service, 1966-79. , 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. Cover title: Favorite Virgina Recipes from Bath County. A Book of Favorite Recipes compiled by Women of the Church, Hot Springs Presbyterian Church, Hot Springs, Virginia. Shawnee Mission, KS: Circulation Service, 1966-79. 17th printing, date is based on the calendar in the rear. 8vo, red spiral-bound softcover148 pages + ads and index. Condition is VERY GOOD+: light edgewear, light toning to inside cover and top of rear cover, internally clean and tight.

Plainfield, NJ: Honeyman & Company, 1901. First Edition . Hardcover. VG. 1st edktion [same date], 12mo, red gilt decorated cloth, top edges gilt, 422 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: light rubbing to spine head and tail and corners, spine slightly dulled, front endpaper torn at top corner, internally clean and tight with just the light typical yellowing of pages. A fabulous record of the author's "bright days" coaching around all of "dear, old England...

New York: Soho Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st, edition, Signed by the author on the title page, 329 pages. Condition: FINE book / FINE jacket: new. In 1763, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson take a boat down the Thames to visit Greenwich. Unknown to this pair, they are being stalked by John Boswell, James's younger brother, who has recently been released from an asylum for the insane. A perfect literary thriller set in 18th century London.

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1888. Hardcover. VG+. ...written to those girls, who have not time or inclination to think and study about the many important things which make up life and living." Copyright date is 1887, this is the 1888 printing. 16mo, navy cloth with gilt titles on front cover, 139 pages. VERY GOOD+ with slight rubbing to the spine head and tail and corners, slightly "dusty" top page edge, internally clean and tight. The Tuesday evening gatherings spent together in "Practical Talk" - which later grew into the first Working Girls' Society. Dodge was a prolific writer; her papers are in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. A very nice copy of this rare book.

Burlington, VT: University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program, 1980. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. First printing (no additional printings noted), oblong wraps, 111 pp, b&w photographs throughout, bibliography. Condition is VERY GOOD : light edgewear, crease to front cover at bottom corner, name blacked out on title page.