Search Results: Titles starting with B from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

New York: New Directions, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth. Very good in nicked and worn dust wrapper. 208 pages. 20.4 x 13.5 cm. Clean, bright copy with $3.00 priceddust jacket, owner label free front endpaper.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper lacking small portion at rear cover head. 109 pages. More than fifty photographs and drawings. Illustrated Glossary. Bibliography. List of Institutions Offering Programs in City Planning. Index. POWELL 1580.

London: Frederick Warne, 1878. Hardcover. Orig. maroon spine and illustrated boards. Near fine. Crane, Walter. 56 pages. 18 x 18.5 cm. Illustrated with full page color lithographs printed by Edmund Evans. "The Baby's Bouquet was ready for Christmas 1878. This was never to be quite as popular as its predecessor, (Baby's Opera), possibly due more to the selection of French and German songs and less familiar English ones than to any great difference in design." SPENCER p.203. Bright, fresh copy, decorated endpapers, hint of corner wear, owner signature on half title.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light blue/gray cover decorated in gilt. Aeg. Very good/Near fine. 29 x 23 cm. Unpaginated. All color plates are lithographs. Old fashioned entry book for entering dates of Baby firsts. This unused copy clean with no owner entries. The author, mother of actor Humphrey Bogart was an illustrator, water colorist, and suffragette. Slight soil lower front cover at margin. generally fresh and crisp.

Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1880. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers, cloth spine. Very good. 47 pp. 20 x 14 cm, twenty-four plates designed and etched by George Cruikshank. COHN 192 [noting the first edition published London, 1844]. This edition published in the 1880's, and printed from the original steel plates. Front cover stains.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's beige cloth spine and dark salmon boards. Fine in slightly nicked gray slipcase. Edward A. Wilson. 68 pages. 21 x 14.4 cm. Limited edition, copy 225 of 280 signed by Archie Binns and Edward A. Wilson, the tipped-in color lithograph drawings by Wilson. Typography on gray stock by Robert Josephy. Bright, fresh copy, slight mar lower backstrip.

Paris: Fondation Maeght, 1995. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers with a few cover spots. Very good. 216 pages. 25 x 21 cm. Text in French. Catalogue with 98 illustrations in color and eight in black and white. Where applicable text and expositions provided for each painting.

London: Bayard Press, 1923. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher's full vellum, backstrip and cover lettered in brown. Very good. Bakst, Leon. 240 pages. 37.5 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 136 of 315. Half title, 68 plates [mostly by Bakst] with printed tissue guards, 52 are color lithographs and mounted, plus illustrations, eleven colored and mounted, some printed in russet, host of black and white text illustrations. Printed by Dr. Selle & Co. A.G., Berlin. Stage decorations for "Orientales, Salome, Phaedra, Blue God, Cleopatra" et al. Costume designs for "Narcissus, Adoration, Bird of Fire, Le Chantre et la Devote," et al. Minor, scattered marginal toning, mostly marginal, vellum covers slightly darkened.

Vienna: Berger Druck, 1909. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. white leather decorated in gilt, black and red. Aeg. Fine in slightly rubbed lettered and decorated box with white cloth tie. Unpaginated. 14.5 x 16.6 cm. Celebrates the Ball Der Stadt in the year 1809 with twelve chromolithographic plates by Geyling, an Austrian painted and stage designer. The images printed on boards present scenes from Viennese history with this one commemorating the second conquest of Vienna by Napoleon, an illustrated score by Hadyn, and commemorating social events in Vienna during 1809. The covers are pristine, white leather designed by Wilhelm Melzer, who also designed the illustrated box holding latter. The Wiener Werkstätte is this publication, one of the loveliest Viennese "dance-gift" of the period -- an outstanding document of the Viennese Art Nouveau. The expressive illustrations show scenes from the Viennese history. One tie lacking.

Boston: Heron Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light brown cloth spine and decorated boards. Fine. Unpaginated. 25 x 14 cm. Limited edition of of 150 copies set in Century & Goudy and printed on Fabriano. This copy signed in pencil as artists proof. Signed by Stuart R. Lavin, 3/25/70 on title page.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter cream and light brown cloth, spine darkened. Very good. 31 pages. 23 x 14 cm. "Of this Edition eight hundred copies have been printed on hand-made paper, and thirty copies on Japanese vellum." The last edition to identify the author as "C.3.,3." -- Wilde was imprisoned in cell block C, landing C, Cell 3. This narrative, a tale of Charles Thomas Woodbridge's 1896 execution at Reading for the murder of his wife. Three small fade spots front cover, and slight crinkling at back cover toward head at fore-edge. Nicks to spine head and foot.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth and light brown cloth, spine darkened. Very good. 31 pages. 23 x 14 cm. One of a 1000 copies on handmade paper. The last edition to identify the author as "C.3.,3." -- Wilde was imprisoned in cell block C, landing C, Cell 3. This narrative, a tale of Charles Thomas Woodbridge's 1896 execution at Reading for the murder of his wife. Small owner signature free front endpaper, free endpapers toned.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter white buckram spine and batik boards. Fine in very good illustrated dust wrapper with a few nicks. Ravilious, Eric. 13 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 342 of 375 printed by Robert Gibbings in 11pt. Caslon O.F. type on Kelmscott hand-made paper. The text taken form 1648 edition of the "Fragments Aurea." CHANTICLEER 49. Bright, very fresh copy. Book plate inside front cover designed by Rockwell Kent in 1928 for Iphigene Ochs and Arthur Hays Sulzbereger. Iphigene Ochs was the daughter of Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times. Her husband, Arthur Sulzberger, worked at the Times, and became publisher after his father-in-law's death in 1935.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Green cloth spine decorated and lettered in gilt and decorated boards. Fine in fine green slipcase. David Gentleman. 232 pages. 28 x 18 cm. Introduction by Jim Lees, illustrated by David Gentleman, eight full page auto lithographs in color and numerous miniature line drawings in the text. Printed at Cambridge University Press. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by David Gentleman. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 508. Bright, fresh copy.

Paris: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. printed and stapled salmon stiff wrappers. Fine. 52 pages. 13.5 x 10 cm. An attempt to capitalize on French erotica, hyped by purposely ill spelled English, and three nude illustrations as sexy as cod liver oil. Probably published in the United States as a ruse with a price of 500 Francs on the cover. The narrative content is not badly written for the right appetite.

London: Hannah Humphrey, 1782. Wraps. Near fine. Gillray, James. 27 x 39 cm. Etching with hand coloring on wove paper. Figure with wolf's head says: "Gentleman the Bank is mine. & I will open every Night at the same hour." Chair inscriptions read "John Shuffler" and Sir Grey Parolle quips, "I want a new Master." Most of the players shout "HUZZA." Bright, clean print, colors vivid.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper at heqd and foot. 192 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Forty-three pages in text. 149 black and white reproductions of Baroque Book Illustrations. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER N33. "An excellent visual outline of the complicated mass of 17th century illustrated books." This edition with new Introductory material.

New York: Orange Judd, 1890. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth, gilt front cover design bright. Very good. 516 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Illustrated with 190 text figures. Two indices: General Index & Index To The Different Fruits. Fruit descriptions note State origins of the various fruits. Very firm fresh copy, interior bright and clean. beveled edges.

Berkeley: Tamalpais Press, 1962. Wraps. Orig. publisher's gray/green wrappers printed in red, and saddle sewn. Fine. 3 pages in text. 34 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 22 of 100 issued with a leaf having one or more woodcuts and reserved for the members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. The original leaf from Jacobus de Voragine's Legendario de Sancti in double columns printed recto and verso contains one woodcut illustration in the text. The leaf book herein is from an imperfect broken copy.

London: Field & Tuer, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. Bartolozzi, Francesco. 211, 152 pp. Large 4to, thirteen plates, some in color. List of Bartolozzi Works, more than 2000 entries. Index in each volume. "His etchings in imitation of the drawings of the most eminent painters, admirably represent the spirits of the originals, and he was not less successful in the exquisitely finished plates he produced in the various styles he practiced." [see: BRYAN'S DICTIONARY, Vol.I, p.91]. FREITAG 440. Backstrips nicked at extremities, two small spots cover Vol.II, covers slightly soiled, uncut. Interior clean, fresh and tight with age-toning to first few and least leaves at outer margins.