Search Results: Authors starting with B from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Leipsig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1895. 14th Revised Edition. Stiff Wraps. Very Good. 16mo; pp. xxxviii, 395, (i), with index; Forty-nine maps & seventy-five plans in color, some folding; red cloth, gilt, marbled edges, map endpapers;. The classic Tourist's Handbook for the area. A lovely copy.

New York: Macmillan, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; pp. I; xii, (ii), 3-426; II; viii, (ii), 3-403 with index; Illustrated, frontispieces plus forty-eight plates, photographs, two folding color maps; black cloth, English sheets;  Very good, minor edge wear. An impressive work, quite scarce today.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Publisher, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (1984). Quarto ((9" x 11.25"), black boards, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 157pp. with index. Photographs in color by Joshua Greene. Former owner's embossed stamp. Foreword by Geraldine Stutz.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Publishers, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (1986). Quarto (9" x 11.25"), grey cloth in pictorial jacket. 160pp. with index and sources. Illustrated with photographs in color by the author. Former owner's embossed stamp. A sticker of a duck and a page number written on the front free endpaper. Favorite Food, Tableware, Kitchen Equipment and More, to Make Entertaining a Breeze.

New York: Automobile Quarterly Inc, 1963. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong octavo; pp; 330-436; illustrated with color & black and white photographs; pictorial color cloth lettered in gilt;. The The Renault Brothers; Pininfarina, Henry Ford Museum.

New York: Automobile Quarterly Inc, 1963. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong octavo; pp; 116; illustrated with color & black and white photographs; white cloth lettered in gilt with a paste-on color illustration;. The Le Mans; Stutz; Ford Goes Racing.

New York: Automobile Quarterly Inc, 1968. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong octavo; pp; 246-362; illustrated with color & black and white photographs; gray cloth lettered in gilt with a paste-on color illustration;. The Lincoln; Indy Race Cars.

(Springfield Vt: William L. Hurd's Offset Printing for Gertrude Baker, 1985. First & Only Edition, Unlocated. Wraps. Near fine. Octavo; pp; 128; illustarted with photographs; original printed paper wrappers;. OCLC does not locate a copy; Charles Lindberg landed at this airport in 1927.

Athens: University Of Georgia Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp. 1xi, (i), 75 with list of illustrations; Thirteen plates; red cloth and tan boards in a dust jacket;. First Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction ~The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood are written out of a sensibility formed in the American West.

(New York): Todtri, 2002. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Quarto; pp; 191; sumptiously illustrate with color photographs; pictorial color glossy boards in a dust jacket;.

Norfolk, VA: Antique Trader Books, 1997. Very good/good or better. (1997). Small quarto (8 3/4" x 11'), burgundy faux leather in pictorial jacket. 264pp. with epilogue and bibliography. Profusely illustrated with photographs in color. A few short tears in the jacket and a light indentation in the jacket cover and the book. The author, a military historian, collector and dealer, cataogues the 255 shoulder arms made by the now defunct armory.

(London): (Nelson), 1860. Early edition. Wraps. Good +. 16mo; pp; 32; illustrated with seven hand colored lithographs; set within modern paper wrappers with a title label at center; the poem has been set to music at rear; trimmed closely at bottom affecting titles to two plates and one line of text; lacking original wrappers else very good. "The poem was first printed in 1833 in Britain in (Eliza) Follen's Little Songs for Little Boys and Girls. It was an addition to the volume and probably inserted by the publisher. In the introduction to a subsequent edition, Follen denied any hand in the poem's composition, but took it under her wing and claimed ownership as the poem passed through various reprints. The poem was first published in the United States in 1843 in Follen's New Nursery Songs for All Good Children. An 1856 American reprint was subtitled "A Cat's Tale, with Additions". In 1858 R. M. Ballantyne elaborated Follen's poem and published his prose version in a volume of the Good Little Pig's… Read More

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1986. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo; pp; lxxxiv, 354, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, and thirty-nine additional plates including two maps plus; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. "Ballentine's account of his years of Army service at "Ft. Pickens, Florida and with Scott from Vera Cruz to Mexico City in the Mexican American War;" Howes B-77.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Duodecimmo (4.5" x 6.25"), green cloth decorated in white and gold. 202, (5)pp. with publisher's ads. Frontispiece. A little edgewear and a light stain at lower right. BAL 735.

Np: (E. R. Dumont, 1902. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 413; Illustrated, frontispiece and twenty-five plates; green cloth, gilt, decorated in blind, decorated title page in red, green and black;. This popular biography appeared under several imprints and without an imprint as in this case. The first edition is published by Stone in Chicago in 1901, the subsequent editions show a (1901) date on the copyright page but were issued in 1902. Written to take advantage of the transition as TR is inaugurated as a result of the assassination of President McKinley.

Cincinnati: Forshee & Company, 1902. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 413; Illustrated, frontispiece and twenty-five plates; green cloth, gilt, decorated in blind, decorated title page in red, green and black;. This popular biography appeared under several imprints and without an imprint. Here is the Cincinnati issue. The first edition is published by Stone in Chicago in 1901, the subsequent editions show a (1901) date on the copyright page but were issued in 1902. Written to take advantage of the transition as TR is inaugurated as a result of the assassination of President McKinley.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo; pp; (2), 3-392; gray cloth and cream boards in a dust jacket;. Set in Liberia, a political thriller. A very nice copy.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo; pp; ix, (i), (2), 3-238, index; Charts; red cloth in a dust jacket. The American West in its frontier context, the study of the West in fiction and symbolism, and the rise of the industrial, urbanized West.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1944. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto; pp; 238-295, summary, bibliography; chart and tables; original printed green paper wrappers; Ex-Reading Museum with just a call number and a stamp upper right of wrapper, no other markings what-so-ever. Fishery Bulletin 39.

New York: The Mentor, 1917. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp; 12; Six large sepia plates; original printed paper wrappers;. A nicely illustrated encapsulated history of the American Navy.