Search Results: Titles starting with B from ORCHARD BOOKSHOP

Burbank: DC Comics, 2021. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Infantino, Carmine; Gibbons, Dave; Etc. Stated First Printing [DC Comics, Burbank, 2021]; 699pp, 5pg biographies; black boards, indented titling to front, a fine copy; in like illustrated dustjacket. Collects The Brave & The Bold #157-200 plus "nearly a dozen never-before-collected, meticulously restored stories". The third & final volume in the collation of 70s & early 80s Batman. ISBN: 978-1-4012-9282-9 / 9781401292829

New York: Viking, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition [Viking, NY,1966] of Cohen's second novel; Very good condition; original price [$5.75] on front flap; tape marks on endpapers; else excellent.

London: John Murray, 1822. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Early edition of Belzoni's legendary travels through Egypt. Fully titled: "Narrative Of The Operations & Recent Discoveries Within The Pyramids, Temples, Tombs & Excavations in Egypt & Nubia; & Of A Journey To The Coast Of The Red Sea, In Search Of The Ancient Berenice; And Another To The Oasis Of Jupiter Ammon." Third edition in two volumes [John Murray, London, 1822]; missing folio of plates [as usual]; xxxv, fold-out map of "The Course Of The Nile" + duplicated leaves [xxv], xxvi + fold-out map of desert showing Belzoni's "Route To The Oasis Of Ammon"; 438pp; x, 421pp, inc fold-out "Plan Of The Temple Of Jerusalem". Full calf bindings; front board of vol II detached; gilt decorations; marbled endpapers; edges marbled but largely faded; pasted title labels missing from spine?; faded gilt decorations; four raised bands; top of spines chipped with loss; base rear… Read More

London: The Wine & Food Society, 1953. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Excellent/Very Good. First Printing [The Wine & Food Society, London, 1953] of this essential food resource; 196pp; Limited Edition [#620 of 750 copies]; red cloth boards, gold titling on spine, top edge gilt, an excellent copy; in the very good, price-clipped dustjacket, worn with discolouration to spine, chipped at edges. Subtitled :A Catalogue Of Books & Documents On Gastronomy; Compiled & Annotated With An Introduction by Andre L. Simon, President Of The Food & Wine Society". With 16 illustrations of important texts [mainly title pages].

Melbourne: Georgian House, 1956. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Medland, Lilian. By Tom Iredale; illustrated by Lilian Medland. First Edition [Georgian House, Melbourne, 1956]. Ownership stamps of esteemed Hungarian entomologist Dr J.J.H. Szent-Ivany. Complete in two volumes; with 35 full colour plates plus large folding map. Quarter leather and cloth binding, top edges gilt; covers variously marked; some wear to edges; minor foxing to page edges; a very good set.

London: Ernest Benn, 1965. First Edition 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Fine. Beautifully illustrated & rare Moomin story. With numerous cut-outs revealing parts of preceding and following pages; In English & Swedish; Second Impression [Ernest Benn, 1965] in very good condition; last page has two small [5mm] tears at base of cutout window; NB some pages are Swedish text (no English translation)... for those who would like the full story in English, we are providing a free copy of the modern reprint from Sort Of Books with English text by Sophie Hannah

First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printings of McCarthy's epic American trilogy. First Printings [Knopf, New York, 1992, 1994, 1998]: "All The Pretty Horses" - 302pp; black papered boards over cloth spine, silver CM to front board, titling on spine, deckled edge, some spotting to block edges & feps, else excellent; in like dustjacket, designed by Chip Kidd, unclipped [FPT U.S.A. $21.00]; ISBN 0-394-57474-5 / 0394574745. "The Crossing" - 426pp; black papered boards over cloth spine, silver CM to front board, titling on spine, deckled edge, top edge blockstained brown, some spotting to block edges & eps, else excellent; in like dustjacket, designed by Chip Kidd, unclipped [FPT U.S.A. $23.00]; ISBN 0-394-57475-3 / 0394574753. "Cities Of The Plain" - 292pp; black papered boards over cloth spine, silver CM to front board, titling on spine, deckled edge, top edge blockstained red, some spotting to block edges, feps, else excellent; in like dustjacket, designed by Chip Kidd,… Read More

Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1974. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Excellent/Excellent. Scarce First Edition with inscription from Gammage. Scarce First Printing [Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1974]; black boards, gilt titling to spine, minor creasing at base of initial pages, an excellent copy; in the like illustrated dustjacket [designed by Arthur Stokes], a little bumped & chipped at extremities. Gift inscribed & signed by the author. Acknowledged by fellow-historian Peter Stanley as the best account of Australian soldiers in World War One. An excellent copy of a now-scarce First Edition [even rarer signed]. ISBN: 0 7081 0238 7 / 0708102387

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1991. First Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Excellent. Excellent copy of a much sought-after book on Australian bush medicine. Detailed and with many photographs - an excellent resource for the various remedies, balms and other health tonics found in the Australian bush. Reprinted edition [Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1991]; olive boards in pictorial dustjacket; a fine copy. ISBN: 0-207-16462-2 / 0207164622