Search Results: Authors starting with B from The Curiosity Book Shop

New York City: Collier Books, 1962 Card covers. In the Preface, the author states, "[This book] does atttempt. . . to explore some of the fields where poet and thinker met, and thus to throw light on both the intellectual organization of the poetry and the imaginative qualities implicit in the philosophy." In-depth discussions of the symbolic themes and structures of Coleridge's poetry. Two Appendices: ""Translation of Coleridge's Greek Ode on Astronomy," and "Imagery of Zapolya.'" Bibliography in rear. Moderate wear to front cover with edgewear and few tiny scuffed areas. Faint sunning to spine. Otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939 Good+/No Jacket Memoirs of the writer. Light wear and sunning (upper front cover and spine) to cover cloth. Library marks: spine lettering; bookplate and "withdrawn" inkstamps inside front cover (inkstamps have blotted somewhat on to ffep); inkstamps to Dedication page and margins of few text pages; "date due" slip and pocket strip to rear endpapers. Otherwise clean and tight.

Chicago: Albert Whitman and Company, 1942 Cloth. Intended for juvenile audience. Oblong format. With color illustrations by Wiese. General light cover wear; extremities bumped. Clean and tight.

South Wellfleet, Massachusetts: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1968 Staple-bound card covers; 120 pages. With line drawings and a few black-and-white photographs. Seasonal and occurrence descriptions for all species recorded in the region. A mimeographed 14-page supplement, "Addenda for 1966 through 1970" is stapled inside the rear cover. Very light rubbing to cover edges.

London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931 Black cloth; color illustrated paper pastedown to cover. Illustrated color endpapers, title page, and text plates. A Foreword explains the origins of myths and fables and discusses the regional differences, ending with background information about the Sigurd/Siegfried tales of Icelandic and Scandinavian origin. Heavy rubbing and fraying to lower corners and spine tips; upper extremities only moderately rubbed. Light scuffing to front pastedown. Very small remnant scar (sticker removal) and prior owner signature at upper front endpaper. Pencil erasures to portions of text. Binding slightly shaken. Otherwise clean and intact.

Jerome S. Ozer, Publisher, 1972 Blue cloth. A facsimile reprint, part of a collection of reprints by this publisher. This edition was reprinted from a copy in the collection of The New York Public Library. Ballou was a pacifist and founder of one of the first Utopian communities in the U.S.--Hopedale Community. He lectured widely against war, slavery, and intemperance. Front endpaper neatly excised. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

San Francisco: 101 Productions, 1976 Cloth. Numerous creative recipes. With black-and-white drawings and text decorations. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Clean and tight in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket; single 1" closed tear at upper rear jacket panel.

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1935 Very Good/No Jacket Red cloth, gilt spine. Illustrated with 73 engravings, black-and-white photographs, and one colored plate. Cover extremities lightly rubbed; two very small spots to front cover. Otherwise clean and tight.

Cape Town, South Africa: Struik Timmins Publishers Ltd, 1991 Many large color photographs with accompanying descriptive text; five detailed color maps of the region at rear. Small, light crease to lower front cover corner. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Amherst, Massachusetts: The Dinosaur Press, 1991 Royal blue cloth; gilt spine lettering. Fourth and final volume of Barnard's autobiography, in which "the author tells the story of hiscontinued geographical and institutional Odyssey. . . [and] the account of a corresponding journey through the world of mind and spirit. . . " INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on front endpaper. Faint rubbing to cover extremities. Library marks are limited to librray bookplate inside front cover, inkstamp to front endpaper, small notations on title page, and card pocket affixed to rear endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a crisp (previously covered) dust jacket.

Princeton, New Jersey: Dow Jones Books, 1970 Very Good-. Collection of articles, originally printed in "The Wall Street Journal," addressing how we have mistreated our physical world. Light cover wear and creasing. Interior clean and tight.

Hanley Swan, Worcestershire, UK: Self Publishing Association Ltd, 1991 Laminated color pictorial boards; narrow pocket-size format. Color photographs throughout. Reduced overseas shipping cost apply on this diminutive volume.

The Arden Library, 1979 Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Heavy vinyl-type library binding. Limited edition (150 copies) reprint (no place listed) of original publication by David MacDonald Limited, Edinburgh, 1924; facsimile of original title page reprinted here; 30 pages. With two reproduction illustrations. Library marks: stickers, "date due" slip affixed to rear endpaper, and small inkstamp at upper edge title page. Otherwise clean and tight.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919 Blue cloth; gilt title and spine lettering. In the Preface, the author explains his visits to Mexico, England, and other countries during and after World War I in order to study the financial and economic results. "I now see the international unfolding of the larger problem, the brotherhood of man--brotherhood in war and in peace, brotherhood in trade and finance." An early look at the concept of global economy. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Slight fade to gilt lettering. Tiny light smudge to front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

New York: Noble and Noble, Publishers, Inc., 1944 Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Illustrated with few diagrams. G-/no dust jacket Moderate-to-heavy wear of cover extremities; moderate rubbing otherwise. Library marks as follows: spine lettering; blacked-out inkstamps on front endpaper, title page, and inside rear cover; pocket removal inside rear cover; "date due" slip remnant rear endpaper; embossed library stamp title page. Few stray ink marks on verso of front endpaper and occasional interior stain; front hinge paper starting. Binding intact.

Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2001 Black publisher's vinyl covers; gilt title and spine lettering. Compendium of articles published previously in other journals, with many authors represented. Numerous figures, diagrams, and tables throughout. Library marks: inkstamps to page block edges, inside front cover, inside rear cover; small bar code sticker remnant to inside rear cover. Otherwise clean, intact, and unworn.

New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1968 Good. Ex-Library. This reprint is an unabridged republication of Part III, "Mollusks," from "Shelled Invertebrates of the Past and Present, with Chapters on Geological History," by Ray S. Bassler, Charles E. Resser, Waldo L. Schmitt, and Paul Bartsch, as published in 1934 by the Smithsonian Institution as Volume 10 of the Smithsonian Institution Series. With color and black-and-white photographs and drawings. Ex-school library marks limited to laminated spine and label and inkstamp to title page. Moderate cover edgewear. Very light smudging to margins of pp. 14, 15 and lower page block; otherwise clean and tight.

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1916 Green cloth, black title and cover illustration, black-and-white paper pastedown illustration. Tissue-guarded frontispiece illustration of men forming glass pieces is partially reproduced on front pastedown. Chapter head and five full-page text drawings. Intended for young readers. Irregular 1" x 2" portion of cover pastedown missing. Light rubbing and scuffing to cover cloth and pastedown. Small (1/4") spot to lower page block near corner; intermittent light marginal stains to pp. 9-32. Library marks: single spine letter; tiny catalogue digits on title page; bookplate and inkstamp to inside front cover; original "date due" slip (1917-1956) and pocket affixed to rear endpapers. Otherwise clean and tight.

White Plains, New York: Self-published, 1958 Original Wraps. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Second edition; 23 pages. Illustrated with drawings and clip art. Pertains to cooking while camping or on the trail, by a "famous author and sportsman." Prior owner name handwritten upper front cover, inkstamped upper rear cover. Otherwise clean, intact, and unworn.

New York: Vantage Press, 1973 Dark red cloth; gilt spine lettering. "Let the people grow up because loneliness can kill them." Philosophical discussion revolving around the dignity of every human being and the basic need not to be lonely. Very light soil to upper 1/2" of inside front cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket with few tiny closed tears at head of spine. Moderate soil to rear (white) panel of dust jacket.