Search Results: Authors starting with B from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

Litchfield, CT: Hosmer and Goodwin, 1808. Disbound. Good binding. Octavo. 16 pp. First edition. Removed from binding. Light foxing only. Sabin 15636; Shaw & Shoemaker 14758.

London: Saqi Books, 2002. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xxii, 473 pp. Trade paperback. Quite a nice copy but for a small fold to the bottom corner of the front cover, else fine.

Richmond: Henrico County Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. xxiv, [2], 275 pp. frontis, plates. First edition, limited to 300 copies of which this is number 214. Full cloth binding, as issued. Light shelfwear, but largely a clean, copy. "Confederate grass roots government at work; the editing is skillful and the notes are adequate" Nevins II, p. 210. Haynes 892.

Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1812. Original Wrappers. Fair binding. 12mo. [48] pp. Stitched into self wrappers. Heavily worn with loss to the bottom of the cover title including, unfortunately, the imprint which bears Bailey's name. This same loss affects the note to the reader on the verso of this page; the second leaf containing an anatomical illustrations is quite ragged with a couple of large closed tears but all text is present; the balance of the almanac is in more stabile if fair condition with dog-eared corners, early tidelines, an occasional closed tear, and one leaf that has an 1/8" tear in the center of a leaf with minor loss of text. This is an early almanac printed by Bailey, who took over her husband Robert Bailey's print shop after his death in 1808 and ran in until she retired and closed the shop in 1861. Karen Nipps in her biographical sketch writes, "Bailey was the master printer of a shop that at its peak was one of the largest in the… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1815. Original Wrappers. Fair binding. 12mo. [36] pp. illus. Stitched into self wrappers; title vignette and anatomical illustration. Final leaf is missing the bottom third of the leaf; otherwise generally worn with many folded corners; ragged page edges; early tidelines; some insect spotting, but complete except for this final leaf. This is an early almanac printed by Bailey, who took over her husband Robert Bailey's print shop after his death in 1808 and ran in until she retired and closed the shop in 1861. Karen Nipps in her biographical sketch writes, "Bailey was the master printer of a shop that at its peak was one of the largest in the city, employing more than forty workers. . . . [S]he transformed her husband's floundering business into one of the busiest printing establishments in Philadelphia. Although previous generations of printers' widows had continued their husbands' careers, they had done so only long enough to… Read More

London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. xii 164 pp., frontis, 2 plates. First edition. In publisher's blue, embossed cloth; a separately published folding map to accompany this volume is not present and is itself fairly uncommon, otherwise all plates are present. Binding is a trifle shelfworn and has a notable forward lean; corners and spine ends softened; very sensitive conservation work to some to some weak spots in the cloth; additionally, the a few preliminary leaves have been sympathetically reattached and the front hinge mended; all in all, some very discreet and professional work. Contents are largely clean but for some light foxing to the three engravings; a few leaves have been roughly or carelessly opened leaving some tears in the margin. Previous ownership stamp of 20th century American archaeologist Harry Evelyn Dorr Pollock on the front free endpaper; Edmonds & Remnants, London binder's ticket on the rear pastedown. Uncommon. Sabin 2771.

Shapleigh, ME: Wilson's Printers, 1999. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. x, 461 pp. First Edition, signed by Baker below the map of Maine. Full cloth binding. A sharp copy in similarly crisp dust jacket. Clean.

Redstone Arsenal, AL, 1992. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. Octavo. [2], 16, [2] pp., illus. Stapled into stiff, printed wrappers. A bright copy, contents clean. Uncommon history of the United States Army base in northern Alabama.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1894. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. 150 pp., frontis. First edition, limited to 250 copies. Original cloth with leather label at the top of the spine. Light wear the covers; contents are generally and evenly toned; contents clean. This may have been Baker's own copy, laid in is a letter from Baker to George Washington Custis Lee, dated November 6, 1893, inquiring about the current ownership of the Charles Wilson Peale portrait of Washington in his militia uniform, painted at Mount Vernon in 1772. Baker is attributing that ownership to Custis Lee, who has replied at the end of the letter, prior to returning it to Baker: "You are correct in the statement herein with regard to the portrait of Washington. Very respectfully, G. W. C. Lee, Lexington, Va, 8 Nov, 1893." Also laid in is an engraved copy of the portrait, measuring 6" x 8.75", engraved by J. B. Forrest and attributing ownership to George Washington Parke Custis, who died in 1857. This… Read More

New York: Thomas Dunne Book | St. Martin's Press, 1987. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 471, [1] pp. First U.S. edition, first printing. In publisher's boards with dust jacket. Binding has light shelfwear but has a slight forward lean; contents are clean; a solid copy in a very sharp dust jacket with just a bit of sunning to the spine; price intact on the front flap. A nice copy of the American first edition of the first novel in Bank's Culture series; and his first published work of science fiction.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [12], 259, [1] pp. First American edition. Bound as issued. Stamped title on the spine is flaking; remainder mark on the bottom edge of the textblock, otherwise a Very Good+ or better copy. Dust jacket is fairly fresh and retains the price on the front flap. A nice copy of this early novel by Banks.

Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [6], 130 pp., illus. First edition, limited and signed, number 7 of 1000 copies. As issued, in blue cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy; clean. Profusely illustrated with 45 pages of full-page portraits, maps, photographs, and other illustrations.

Madrid: Por los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1748. Vellum Binding. Good binding. Small quarto. [8], 480 pp. In contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties; manuscript title on the spine. General rippling and soling to the covers; this copy has been recased and is a solid copy; contents clean. Originally issued in 1678, all early editions are uncommon.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1954. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Quarto. [2], 158 pp., frontis, plates. Limited edition, number 205 of 260. As issued, in paper over boards, backed in buckram; 8 full page wood engravings and two in-text vignettes. Generally an attractive copy; spine a trifle sunned; tail of the spine bumped; bookseller's pencil notes to front free endpaper; bottom edges of many pages are just a bit toned, quite subtle; a beautiful copy. "First published in 1603, in Latin, this very early picaresque novel immediately became a European best-seller. Written by a Scotsman who was born and bred in France, it was reprinted in Latin twenty times with the first seventy years, and was also translated into French, Dutch, and German. It was never translated into English, although the original was widely read in England at the time. Our translation was thus the first to introduce Euphormio's bizarre and unpredictable adventures to the ordinary reader" Cock-A-Hoop 196.

London: Frederic Norgate, 1875. Half Leather. Good binding. Octavo. 52 pp. Second Edition, inscribed with the author's compliments at the top of the title page. Bound in contemporary red calf with corners and marbled paper over boards. Binding is abraded, but remains solid and attractive in its way. A warm letter (3 pages of a bifolium) dated November 1875 from Barlow to a Doctor Litchfield of Surrey is tipped in. Barlow was a Dante scholar and there is more than passing mention of Dante in the letter. A unique item.

Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1998. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo. [18], 319 pp., illus. First edition, first printing. Signed by Barnes on the title page. As issued in publisher's boards with dust jacket. A bright, clean copy in similarly sharp dust jacket. Laid in is a palm card advertising a discussion and book signing with both Barnes and the former Alabama governor, John Patterson, who has also signed the book on the front pastedown.

Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2004. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. 96 pp. First edition, signed by Barnstone on the title page. A fresh copy with only light shelfwear.

Chico, CA: Flume Press, 1984. Original Wrappers. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [6], 32, [2] pp. First edition. Signed and warmly inscribed by Barr to poet, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore. In original printed wrappers. Light rubbing to the covers, only. A clean copy of any uncommon book.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. xxxiv, 710 pp. Early printing. Signed by Barth on the title page. In publisher's cloth, lacking the dust jacket. An indifferent copy with only light rubbing to the extremities; previous owner name on the front pastedown; A nice copy of this early but extremely popular novel by Barth.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 168 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cloth; previous owner bookplate on the front free endpaper else a clean bright copy inscribed by Barthelme on the half title; dust jacket is a trifle shelf worn at the extremities but is now protected in a mylar cover.