Search Results: Authors starting with B from Monroe Bridge Books

NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1941 IN GOOD CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Fair to Good Condition, in a protective mylar cover. Signed by the Author on the half-title page. xiv, 318pp, bound in blue cloth, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, NOR INSCRIPTIONS, dust jacket NOT price clipped. Tale of Tipton Roys, a young Vermonter, who after his Mother's death, takes to the road with his faithful dog Bing. Soiling to covers, dust jacket has edge wear/tear, with chips.

Washington D.C.: Self Published / American Printing Co., 1960 Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper :To Bonnie Frazier / Member Loesch Penguin Family / With Kindest Regards / Edward A. Bacon / 30 Jan '61". Oblong format, 72pp, bound in off white cloth with the illustration of a penguin on the front cover, binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout. Poetry inspired by the author's [Army Official] visit to the Antarctic on official business. Light soiling the covers. POETRY.

Camden, Maine: International Marine, 1997 This book was purchased from the estate of Olin J. Stephens II (1908-2008) American Yacht Designer, and associated with America's Cup races. Ask about our other maritime books purchased from this estate. AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION READS "Olin - / Apologies first / for putting you in the / past tense. More Importantly - / Thanks for all of your cooperation, / candor, and example. They have / meant much to me. I just / wish you'd had an off / year with Constellation. / Yours, Robby / Bartlett's Island, Aug. 21, 1977" written on the title page. vii, [1], 309pp, bound in maroon paper over boards, with the binding and hinges tight, the Dust Jacket is NOT price-clipped.

Boston: Walter Jacobs, 1911 Sheet music in FAIR CONDITION. 6pp with covers showing wear/tear, with covers detached, protected in a mylar slipcover.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1916 112pp, [18], bound in illustrated green cloth, illustrated endpapers, with the binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Covers show one bumped corner, light foxing to outer page edges.

Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii: The Maui Historical Society, 1999 A 1999 reprint of the 1878 edition. [6], 53pp, [6], thread bound in stiff green paper covers. Includes an original mounted photograph of Edward Bailey's oil on canvas of Maliko Gulch, 1891. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

NY: William Helburn, Inc., 1926 Circa 1926. 16pp, with 67 (of 68) plates, retaining the original paper cover, now bound in buckram, with binding and hinges tight. Lacks plate #28. Ex-library, with usual markings, with NO markings on the plates. Occasional plate detached.

NY: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1968 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. vi, 130pp, 6pp, [2], bound in original decorative paper over boards, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Slight age darkening to covers. SIMPLE GUIDE TO AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.

Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1924 IN FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION. INSCRIBED by the Canadian Author Marie-Claire Blais to the Artist Diana Heiskell. (The name of Heiskell is not mentioned, and inscription signed "Claire", numerous other books from the same estate, have the full inscriptions). Covers taped to spine edge.

NY: A Ridge Press Book / Bonanza Books, 1973 251pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in red paper over boards, with gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, color illustrations throughout. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS NOR MARKINGS. The Dust Jacket shows a small closed edge tear, is NOT price-clipped, and is house in a protective mylar jacket.

Georgetown, California: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1981 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket also in VG++ condition (price clipped), protected in a mylar cover. SPECIAL EDITION OF 5 COPIES, CORRECTED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, NEWTON BAIRD, July 10, 1986, on colophon page. 63pp, bound in maroon buckram, with binding and hinges tight. Includes reminiscences by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler, along with "It's Only Everything" by Fredric Brown.

Edinburgh: Printed By T. And A. Constable for Andrew Elliot, 1895 OVERSIZED. xvii, [3], 267pp, printed on heavy stock paper, title page in red and black with a title vignette, bound in gilt illustrated brown cloth, top edges gilt, deckled page edges, binding and hinges tight. PENNED SIGNATURE BY THE AUTHOR "With compliments from / William Baird" on the half title page. Complete with 14 tissue-guarded plates, as called for, along with 39 text illustrations. Covers show bumped corners and age darkening, interior pages also slightly age darkened, with occasional thumb prints.

Wash. D.C.: Universitas Catholica Americae, 1927 xiii, [1], 207pp, [1], with the Errata tipped-in, bound in original stiff paper covers, with binding tight. Text is in Latin.

Boston: C. Stone & Co., 1855 This FIRST EDITION hard cover is in GOOD CONDITION. 408pp bound in RED LEATHER, lavishly gilt on both front & back covers, with all pages edges gilt. Engraving & plates are tissue guarded, with color plates of fruit and flowers, colors still bright. With prose, poetry, literary record, passiing events of importance, housewifery and more. Covers show wear, rubbing, with piece of spine covering absent, and occasional interior foxing. BINDING TIGHT, hinges cracked.

New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1923 VINTAGE SHEET MUSIC IN GOOD ++ CONDITION. Covers, plus 4pp. No markings, in a protective mylar sleeve. Light edge/corner wear, with age darkening.

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1978 xiii, [1], 459pp bound in green cloth, binding and hinges tight, previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, one corner bumped. The dust jacket is not clipped, shows some edge wear/tear, now housed in a protective mylar cover. Contents include *Why Preservation? * The Nature of Library Materials, ie Paper, Inks, Adhesives, Leather, etc. * Causes of Deterioration *Roles of the Conservator & Scientist *Binding *Preservation Microrecording *Disaster & Salvage and *National Planning.

Boston: Richard G. Badger / The Gorham Press, 1904 Scarce, no copies found in OCLC. Frontispiece, 114pp, top edges blue, deckled page edges, bound in decorative blue cloth, gilt still bright. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. RHYMES / POETRY.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981 This FIRST EDITION hard cover, is in AS NEW CONDITION. With a dust jacket, also in new condition, protected in a mylar cover. 138 pages includes an index, and is bound in paper and cloth over boards, with turqoise lettering on spine. This facinating book is the first account of the dramatic experiments conducted over a five year period, confirming the existence of a magnetic sense of direction in humans, navigating the earths magnetic field. VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING. VERY GOOD, TIGHT COPY. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS OR MARKINGS.

Chicago: Adams Press, 1966 vi, 80pp, printed on fine glossy paper, staple bound with illustrated stiff paper, binding tight, illustrated throughout. Signed by the Author inside the front cover.

Northampton, MAssachusetts: Paradise Copies Inc., 2000 [10], 157pp, spiral binding with stiff paper covers, illustrated throughout. Signed by the Author.