Search Results: Authors starting with B from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Little Rock: Sketch Book Publishing Company, (1908). First edition, Octavo. 160 pp. Illustrated from photographs, including three hors-texte photographic illustrations with printed overlays. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cover lettering. pictorial endpapers. Minor extremity wear and a 1919 presentation. Else, a very attractive copy.Judging from the poem titles and the illustrations this seems to be a paean to Arkansas' Confederate past.

Denver : Sage Books, (1959). First edition, first printing. Octavo. 117, [1] pp. Numerous full page illustrations after Joe Back. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown cover and spine lettering, pictorial endpapers of packing gear done by Back, blue dust jacket with a rd pack horse illustration after Back. Jacket price-clipped and with protective thin strip of blue vinyl tape to top and bottom edges (matches jacket color). A very fresh and clean copy in a very handsome dust jacket with no chipping or tears.Often referred to as the Packer's Bible, this book has attained an almost cult-like status. Aside from knowing everything about packing, Joe Back was a very accomplished artist and that can be seen in the many illustrations in this book.

Seattle: Argus Print, 1924. First edition. Quarto (9 x 12 inches). 41, [1]; 17, [1] pp. plus 16 pp. of illustrations (predominantly full page portraits). Publisher's patterned green wrappers with black cover lettering. Some edge wear (as is always the case as the text does not sit flush with the wrappers). Overall, an excellent copy.A finely written early history written by a true pioneer. "Clarence Bagley, the only child of Daniel and Susannah, was born in Troy Grove, Illinois, on November 30, 1843. At age nine, Clarence had a front-row seat while moving across the plains and Rocky Mountains to a new home near Salem, Oregon...In October 1860, Clarence was a strapping 17 years old when the family climbed aboard a buggy and headed north to Seattle... For a time banking attracted Clarence Bagley, then more newspaper work, and again a return to state employment. He also served as an alternate state commissioner for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Bagley's true love, however, remained writing… Read More

London/Philadelphia: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner/ J. P. Lippincott, 91910). First edition. Octavo. xii, 106 pp. Produced after the manner of a Persian manuscript, the pages within illuminated borders in soft colors and Oriental patterns. The title page with an elaborate arabesque in blue surrounding the lettering, other pages with an equal amount of color, variety and exuberance. Publisher's cream cloth, front entirely covered in a dense blue arabesque with lettering at the top, same lettering on the spine, rear with a simple blue border. A faultless copy of this beautiful book.At the turn of the century Laura Barney was a leading Bahai teacher in America. She is probably best known forr her having compiled a basic Bahai text entitled "Some Answered Questions" taken from her interviews with the Bahai saint in Acra 'Abdu'l-Baha between 1904 and 1906. This play focuses on one of the leading female figures in the development of the Bahai faith; Tahirih. She was amongst the first group of the Bab's… Read More

Chicago: Baha'i Temple Unity, 1921. First separate edition (it first appeared in The Lake Shore News, Oct. 19, 1916). Small octavo (3 1/2 x 6 inches). 39, [1, publisher's offer) pp. Publisher's blue wrappers, title within a silver panel on front. Staples with some rust, light edge wear, a 'Maud McDermott' has practiced writing her name on the title page. A scarce item. A small book celebrating the upcoming groundbreaking for the proposed temple in Wilmette, Illinois. The Bahai House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois (or Chicago Bahai Temple) is a Bahai temple. It is the second Bahai House of Worship ever constructed and the oldest one still standing. It is one of eight continental temples, constructed to serve all of North America. The temple was designed by French-Canadian architect Louis Bourgeois (1856–1930), who received design feedback from Abdu'l-Baha during a visit to Haifa in 1920. To convey the Bahai principle of the unity of religion, Bourgeois incorporated a variety of religious… Read More

New York: Lucis Publishing, (1950). First edition, first printing. Octavo. 197, [1] pp. Notes in pencil on endpapers and undderlining in pen by a lifelong disciple, Ruth Pennell. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine and cover letering. A verry good copy.

New York/London: Lucis Publishing/John M. Watkins, (1957). Second printing of second edition. Published while Bailey was still alive. Octavo. 372 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Extremities faded and a bit bumped. Still, a very good copy.Like all of the Bailey books we have listed, this was the copy of life-long devotee, Ruth Pennell. Pennell was prominent among Bailey followers and was friends with Bailey's right hand man, Regina Keller. She often, like her, underlined certain sentences and wrote questions and notes on the endpapers.

New York: Lucis Publishing, (1951). Fifth edition. Octavo. 675, [1] pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Very good.Like all of the Bailey books we have listed, this was the copy of life-long devotee, Ruth Pennell. Pennell was prominent among Bailey followers and was friends with Bailey's right hand man, Regina Keller. She often, like her, underlined certain sentences and wrote questions and notes on the endpapers.

New York: Lucis Publishing, (1950). Second edition. Octavo. 160 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. An excellent copy

New York/London: Lucis Publishing Comoany, 1950-1960. This set was published with a variety of titles but each volume is part of her famous five-volume A Treatise of the Seven Rays. Individual titles, editions and dates given below:!) Esoteric Psychology. Third edition. New York, 1956.2) Esoteric Psychology II. First edition, second printing, New York. 1960.3) Esoteric Astrology. Second edition. New York, 1953. 4) Esoteric Healing. First edition. New York, 1953.5) The Rays and the Initiations. First printing. New York, 1960All of these are uniformly bound by the publisher in blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, Some light extremity wear and pencil notes, third volume missing its front blank page but a handsome and complete set. They came from a passionate practitioner named Ruth Pennell of Berkeley, California. Ruth was a lifelong practitioner. She bought many Bailey titles form the 20s and became a friend of Regina Keller, a founding member and head of the Meditation Mound… Read More

Spokane: Bailey Studios, [ca. 1895]. Four boudoir cards measuring 8 x 5 inches. Two with the Bailey imprint and two without (found together so it is safe to presume Bailey was the photographer for all). One is a river scene, one is of the exterior of the James Glover mansion house and two are interior photographs of presumably the same house. Some light toning and soiling but very good."Frank Clinton Bailey (also known as F.C. Bailey, Frank C. Bailey and listed as A.C. Bailey in some publications) probably started working as a photographer in Spokane, Washington, around 1880. Prior to setting up his own studio, he worked as a photographer and crayon artist at the E.E. Bertrand photo studio (owned by the photographer of the same name, who was also known as Edward E. Bertrand and E. Edison Bertrand) from at least 1888 until 1890 in Spokane. After 1890, he lived and worked at his own photo studio at 714 Riverside Ave. in Spokane until about 1896. Bailey likely sold his business after 1896. He… Read More

London and Bombay: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915. First edition. Liii, [1], 87, [1] pp. Publisher's plain brown boards with remains of paper spine label. Some pinhole worming, front endpaper excised but a very good and clean copy.A convoluted legal matter among the Muslims of the Bengal area. "The Muslim peasantry of eastern Bengal appears to have in part hung on its strong embrace of a powerful association between Islam and the plough. The Faraizi slogan langal jar, jami tar (“the land belongs to the tiller”) implied that bringing land under cultivation constituted the basis for a claim to its ongoing possession, or even to property in it. This idea was, as we have seen, hardly peculiar to the nineteenth century or exclusive to Muslim Bengal. But it was nonetheless a claim whose appeal to religious authority was unlikely to have found much of a foundation in the currents of Hanafi jurisprudence that had been elaborated in the period from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries when Muslim… Read More

Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner. First Edition. Small octavo. ix, [3], 341, [1, blank], 10 [ads for other Tanner maps and atlases] pp. The copy unusual in that is has all fifteen full-page engraved and folding maps and plans by Tanner (with the frontispiece map having hand-coloring). Publisher's plain muslin later rebacked in light brown cloth with recent spine label, cloth reinforcement at hinges. Covers quite firm with minor old wear to original cloth, text tight and clean with very slight aging, small ink markings at few pages, abrasions from removal of bookplate at front pastedown, all maps in excellent condition with light aging. A very good copy.The text is based "in large measure on Peck's 'Guide for Emigrants ...' Boston, 1831, although there are some passages developed from personal observation" - Graff. The maps are of many individual states east of the Mississippi plus plans of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Louisville, ana St. Louis, with a map of the Eastern U.S. at frontis. The catalogue… Read More

Mexico [City]: D. Mariano Ontiveros, 1816. First edition. Small octavo. 128, 179-213, [11] pp. The break in the pagination is due to a printer's error and is present in all copies; no text missing. Modern quarter brown morocco over brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. This early account of the Jesuits in California prior to their expulsion in 1767 has at the end a list of subscribers, details of the costs of producing the book and a list of those to whom it was distributed. According to Cowan (207) only 1000 copies were distributed. After presenting his arguments in favor of the reestablishment of the Society of Jesus in New Spain, the famous jurist relates the history of the missions of Baja California in the form of a letter from “Nicolás” to “Lorenzo,” perhaps in remembrance of Tamaral and Carranco, protomartyrs of the Californias.Medina, 11174. Sabin 24147; Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 230838

Tillamook: Chamber of Commerce, [ca. 1922]. First edition. Quarto. [28[ pp. with 92 photographic illustration. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Some waviness but no signs of water damage. A very good copy.With much on the timber industry, the dairy and cheese industry and the recreational opportunities of this seaside town and county.

London: Robert Hale Limited, (1980). First edition. THough we can find no record of a special edition this copy certainly appears to be one of a limited number of copies, specially bound and signed by the author. Oblong octavo. Signed by the author on the title page. 224 pp. with line drawings of Surrey by Baker throughout. Publisher's half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, bown endpapers, top edge gilt. In a matching slipcase.

N.p.: N.p., 1886. Framed etching, “True Eagle” by Kincheloe Baker depicting a portrait of an Indian. Signed, titled and dated, 1886, in the plate and signed in pencil lower right. Sight: 4.25 x 7 inches. Frame: 9.25 x 12.75 inches

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1855. First edition. Octavo. [2, ads], 369, [1], [14, publisher's ads] pp. Publisher's blind ruled green/blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pale pink endpapers. Some wear to base of spine but a very good copy."Lawyer, author, and politician Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864) was a popular humor writer in the years before the Civil War. He primarily wrote on the topic of the Old Southwest, as the southern frontier at the time has come to be known by historians. He is best known for his work The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, a series of humorous sketches describing life on the frontier. Flush Times established Baldwin as both a serious author and astute observer of antebellum Alabama" (Encyclopedia of Alabama).

St. Louis: Medical Science Press, 1910. First edition. Folio. Frontispiece portrait of Vesalius, xvii, [1, another portrait], 149, [1] pp. Dozens of textual illustrations. Untrimmed in publisher's crushed brown morocco over marbled boards, blind-stamped title and compartment devices on spine. Some rubbing to spine and tips, previous owners name, else a very clean and tight copy.Physician and scholar James Moores Ball (1862-1929) was an avid bibliophile and eminent member of the St. Louis Medical Society. Ball received his medical degree from Iowa State University in 1884, taking further post-graduate courses in New York and Europe. He served as professor of Ophthalmology at the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1894 to 1910, then served as dean and professor of Ophthalmology at the American Medical College. Ball was a prolific author in both the fields of medicine and history. His three monographs truly reflect his scholarly and scientific interests: Andreas Vesalius, the reformer… Read More

San Francisco: (Katherine M. Ball), [ca. 1908]. Three printed announcement for lecture and slideshow presented by Santa Barbara native Katherine M. Bell. All folded and of various sizes. Very good. No flaws worth mentioning.Katherine Ball (1859-1952) was born in Reading, PA. She studied in New York at the Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design. She taught drawing and writing in the public schools of Omaha for seven years from 1888 and, while there, was elected the first secretary of the Western Art Association. In 1895 she settled in San Francisco and for 30 years was an art supervisor in the public schools until she retired in 1924. Due to a broken hip in 1941, she was bedridden until her death in San Francisco on March 13, 1952. Katherine Ball was one of the founders of the Japan Society of America. She was an avid collector of Japanese prints and art and lectured extensively in San Francisco and the west at the turn of the 20th century. She made many trips to the Orient and was also… Read More