Search Results: Authors starting with A from Basement Books

New York: A. S. Barnes, 1883. First Edition, First Printing. . Leather. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in brown leather w/gold dec and spine titles. Very Good. Edgewear, 1/2" split at crown, notes front endpapers, else About Fine and unmarked. 600pp + Appendix (annotated by previous reader);well-illustrated in drawings, reproductions, maps in color. Uncommon in true First Ed.

New York: Macmillan General Reference, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First printing. Hard cover square 4to. Fine and unmarked book in near Fine unclipped DJ split at top corners. xix, 182pp inc. Notes; well-illustrated in photos of Julia E. Tuell.

Moscow, Russia, 1991. Trade Paperback. About Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade PB in photo wraps. About Fine w/curled top rear corner, else Fine and unmarked. 206pp; illustrated in photos and reproductions, text in Russian.

New York: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1998. First PB Edition. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First PB Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Near Fine. Pages edges soiled, front cover and first prelim pages creased, else Fine and unmarked. 513pp.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988. First Thus. 5th or later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Thus, 9th printing; orig. pub. as "Slumgullion Stew". Soft cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall in illustrated yellow wraps. Fine and unmarked. xv, 383pp, edited and illustrated by the Author in b/w drawings. 39 selections from the best of the best.

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1990. First Thus. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Thus, First Printing. Soft cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall in illustrated wraps. First Thus, with Tribute by Charles Bowden. Fine. 168pp. inc. Preface by Author. Does not look like stock image.

San Francisco, CA: Counterpoint, 2005. 2nd Edition 5th or later Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine/Wraps. 2nd Edition, later printing. Trade PB in photo wraps. Fine. xxi, 433pp; foreword by Doug Peacock.

New York: Avon Books, 1992. 5th or later Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade PB in glossy illustrated wraps. Near Fine w/spine slant, else Fine and unmarked. xix, 297pp.

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1995. First Edition (stated). 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/About Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo. Fine and unmarked book in About Fine lightly soiled DJ, now in clear protective cover. xii, 400pp inc. Postlude.

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1994. First Edition (stated). 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, 3rd printing. Hard cover 8vo. Fine and unmarked book in Fine unclipped DJ. 356pp.

New York: Plume, 1982. First PB Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. About Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First PB Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. About Fine w/curled front cover, else Fine and unmarked. 242pp; illustrated in drawings by the Author.

Holt Paperbacks, 1984. First PB Edition. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First PB Edition, 2nd printing. Soft cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall in illustrated wraps. Near Fine w/ edgewear and bent bottom rear corner, else Fine and unmarked. Author Larry McMurtry calls Edward Abbey, "The Thoreau of the American West". xvii, 203pp.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. As New/Wraps. Second Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. As New and unread. ix, 294pp inc. Appendix A and B, Suggested Reading, Defined Words, Index; illustrated in mathematical drawings and reproductions.

New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. First PB Edition, First Printing. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First PB Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Near Fine w/bent top corner intruding lightly into prelim pages of Flatland, else book Fine and unmarked. 120pp; 208pp inc. Index; both novels illustrated in drawings by the Author.

New York: Dover Publications, 1959. Reprint. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint edition w/new Preface by the Authors. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine. vii, 693pp inc. Appendix I - IV, Index; illustrated in graphs, diagrams.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924. First Edition (stated). 1st Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, First Printing. Hard cover large 8vo in black cloth. Good/No DJ. Ex-lib w/usual faults, also hinges tender w/ gutters exposed, several pages annotated by previous reader. xxviii, 395pp inc. Index.

New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. Reprint. . Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint of edition first pub. 1929. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in glossy green cloth w/gold spine titles. Fine/No DJ. 3520 items listed and described. xxvii, 551pp inc. Index to Portraits List, Index, Index to Periodicals, Addenda.

First Second, 2008. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, 2nd printing. Soft cover oblong 4to in illustrated wraps. Near Fine. Ex-lib w/usual faults, else Fine and unmarked. 282pp inc. Bibliography, Index, blank Notes & Sketches.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. First American Edition. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Thus American Edition, 2nd or subsequent printing; Stereotype Edition, Harpers Family Library No. XXXVII. Very Good. Hard cover 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall in printed cardboard. Boards stained, spine sunned and chipped, owner info from 1837 (!) on title page, scattered foxing; square w/firm binding, interior clean and o/w unmarked. 376pp inc. Questions for the Examination of Students. Very nice copy of a very old book.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. About Fine/About Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo. About Fine book w/ curled corners in like unclipped DJ w light creasing, now in clear protective cover. viii, 524pp inc. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in tables, photos.