Search Results: Authors starting with B from Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 314p. An orange cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Blotchy stains on back cover, and spotty brown stains all over spine. Corners are lightly worn. Owner's name on front endpaper; tiny closed tear in table of contents. Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated with occasional black and white plates.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1949. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good. 55p. Hardcover book with dustjacket in good condition. Light stain along outer edge of both front and back covers. The stain is heaviest at the outer top corners and affects both the dge of the dustjacket and the cloth underneath. The text is unaffected. This is the book club edition in the same format as the first edition. Classic essay extolling the virtures of New York City.

London: Macmillan, 1886. Red cloth. Ex-library book with standard library marks else a clean tight hardcover book in good condition.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1889. Hardcover. Marian Morgan Reynolds. 168p. A decorated green cloth hardcover book in good condition. Edges lightly rubbed. Lacks front free endpaper. Scattered underlining in pencil, but most pages are clean. Binding tight. Vocal and breathing exercises. Illustrated by Marian Morgan Reynolds.

New York: Scholastic, 1987. Paperback. Garth Williams. A set of three softcover books in very good condition with a like slipcase. Former owners' stamps and signatures on inside covers and endpapers; otherwise the books appear like-new. Former owner's signature on bottom of slipcase. Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web Illustrated by Garth Williams; The Trumpet of the Swan illustrated by Edward Frascino.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1945. Hardcover. Very good. 131p. A hardcover book and dustjacket both in very good condition. Jacket is price clipped and has two small chips in the top edge and a scuff on the rear panel, perhaps where a price sticker was removed. The only date in the book is the copyright date of 1945 but as there is a gift inscription dated 1970 on the front endpaper, we assume this book was printed then. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. An attractive vintage copy of this children's classic! Pictures by Garth Williams.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. 184p. A hardcover book in very good condition and dustjacket in good condition. Spine slightly cockeyed; mild edgewear. Jacket is faintly stained and price-clipped, with a slightly tanned spine, and has tiny chips and tears at the corners and spine ends. Text clean and binding tight. A well-preserved vintage copy of this classic children's book! Pictures by Garth Williams. The only date is the copyright date but this is probably from the 1970s.

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1893. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 277p. A hardcover book bound in brick-red cloth. Good, sturdy reading condition. Edges of spine chafed. Owner's stamp on front endpaper. Patchy tanning on pages 130-131 where a newspaper clipping was tucked. Scattered underlining and notes, but majority of text is clean, and binding is tight. The SCARCE first edition! Frederick Brotherton Meyer (1847-1929) was a London-born Baptist preacher and a good friend of Dwight L.Moody.

New York: Fleming H. Revell Co, 1894. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 200p plus ads in back. A dark red cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. The cover is in excellent shape -- cloth is clean and gilt text is unmarred, just a small dent at the bottom of the front cover. Owner's stamp on front endpaper and small pencil marks in the margins of some pages. Majority of text clean, and binding tight. From the publisher's OLD TESTAMENT HEROES series.

Dayton: B.F. Ells, 1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 384p. Rebound. A hardcover book rebound in black cloth. All pages original except for the frontispiece and last two pages of the index, which are reproductions. Edges of cover lightly rubbed. Pages foxed, tanned, and lightly dampstained, with occasional pencil scribbles and chipped edges. Page 370 repaired with archival tape. Otherwise, binding tight. Vol. I only. A year's worth of THE WESTERN MISCELLANY, a periodical from B.F. Ells, an early publisher in Dayton, Ohio. Contains articles, stories, and other readings of interest to rural pioneers of southwestern Ohio. Illustrated with black and white engravings. Title page states that this volume contains the issues from July 1848 to July 1849, but in fact, it contains only the issues through June 1849. Howes AA item. Coyle p. 191.

Dayton: B.F. Ells, 1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 256p. Rebound. A hardcover book rebound in black buckram. Printing error on p. 219, leaving blank stripes across some of the text. Pages foxed and heavily dampstained thoughout, but binding secure. A nicely readable copy. LACKS the frontispiece portrait of George Washington. A bound volume of issues of THE WESTERN MISCELLANY, a scarce early magazine published in Dayton. Contains articles, stories, and other readings of interest to rural pioneers of southwestern Ohio. Illustrated with black and white engravings. The title page states that this is the entirety of vol. I, from July 1848 to July 1849, but in fact, it contains only the issues through February 1849.

Rome: Abbazia di San Paolo, 1956. First edition. Set of Vols. 1-7 published from 1947-1961. Bound in brown cloth. Ex-library with old library markings else a clean tight set in very good condition.

Montreal: Grand Seminaire, 1943. 376p. Hardcover, rebound. Ex-seminary library copy. Old paper label on spine, pages yellowed from age, name stamped on title page, otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition. Text in French.

London: William Heinemann, 1935. 819p. A hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library: number painted on spine; stamp on title page and page edges. Otherwise clean and tight. Includes b/w photograph plates.

Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. 83p. A small hardcover book bound in red cloth. Near-fine condition. Virtually like new, save for an owner's stamp on the front endpaper. Text clean, binding tight, and cover clean and unmarred. A beautiful copy! Early 20th-century manual for street preachers and traveling evangelists, illustrated with black and white photographs. Measures approx. 7.1" x 4.25

Oxford, 1953. Third Edition. Hardcover. 164p. A blue cloth hardcover book in good condition. Spine text is rubbed out and nearly illegible, and the cloth of the spine is slightly faded. Faint stain on front cover. Tiny markings in margins on several pages. Otherwise, binding secure. A good reading copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. Hardcover. 545p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a fair dustjacket. Small closed tear at the head of the spine. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket has chipped and ragged edges and is crudely reinforced with pieces of clear tape along the spine. Translated writings of the Nazi commander. Contains foldout maps and black and white photographs.

New York: Macmillan, 1967. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 125p. A red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Address label inside front cover. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers and title page. Otherwise clean and tight. Essays by a New Testament translator defending the truth of the Gospel.

Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1997. Fifth edition, ninth printing. Paperback. 132p. A softcover book in very good condition. Former owner's private library stamps inside covers and on title page. Otherwise like-new.

Madrid: Ediciones Palabra, S.A., 2008. 11th Edition. Paperback. Good. 359p. A glossy softcover ex-library book in original binding. Label on spine. Label on rear endpaper and stamp on half-title page. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight. Appears unread. Text in Spanish.