Search Results: Authors starting with B from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

Taschen, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A fine copy in a like jacket, appears unread. Does have, strangely, a Tiffany postage stamp, and the cover to the stamp book, pasted to the front free endpaper. Otherwise, a very clean copy. Over 300 color plates, text by Jacob Baal-Teshuva, a documentary index, and an illustrated biography/bibliography, Tiffany: A Quest For Beauty renders homage to the man who revolutionized both the art and technique of stained glass. Translucent jacket over a brilliantly reproduced stained glass window on the boards. Parallel text in three languages - English, German, French.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Cute little tale of a cat marionnette who loves to dance. Fine in NF jacket (touch of wear to corners). First edition stated. Jacket is price clipped.

New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1965. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good, no jacket, ex-library. Interior pages clean and bright.

New York: Little Brown & Co, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Inventive historical fiction for young readers centered around an orphan and printer's appprentice. Fine in a fine jacket, no remainder mark. First printing.

New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2006. Advance Reader's Copy . Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by author (with a little drawing of a crown), on the title page. An advance reader's copy of this title from the author of Once Upon a Curse and The Frog Princess.Very clean no flaws. Softcover

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Very nice first printing of this biography of lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall. Fine in like jacket, in protective mylar. Book has just a touch of soil to page edges, barely noticeable. Laid in from previous owner are two New York Times reviews of this title, from late August and early September 1985.

Random House, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The author's exploration of how the work of John Updike has affected him. First printing, NF in a VG jacket with a touch of shelfwear.

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A fine first printing of this, somewhat of a departure for Baker. The tale of a young girl trying to fit in in a new school in a new country. Fine in a very nearly fine jacket with minimal shelfwear.

Random House, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Essays from author of Vox. Fine copy, jacket has small crease near upper rear corner. First edition, first printing, no remainder mark.

Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-library with usual markings. Red cloth pictorial boards somewhat faded, spine slightly cocked, stain to page edges.

1940. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Ex-library. No jacket, some staining and a few stray pencil marks. Binding intact, tight.

Chicago: Florists Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. 2nd Revised edition - a very nice copy of this scarce title containing all sorts of advice for the gardner/farmer with an interest in sweet peas. Red cloth boards with gold lettered title surrounded by textured pattern are near perfect, as they are enclosed in tattered plain paper jacket. Jacket has large chip at head of spine, soil, pencil marks, several closed tears. Has protected the book quite well though. Only flaw is, oddly enough, a faint pink heart in crayon on page listing illustrations (somebody used mommy or daddy's book to flesh out their library, or to prevent them from growing peas).

New York: Viking, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First printing of noted debut novel. Fine in a near fine jacket (slight crease to top jacket edge).

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing, x-lib with usual distractions, in protective mylar (Not taped to book). Wartime novel from the late author better known for science fiction.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. First printing of fine young adult novel. Fine in a fine jacket. Praised on rear by Karen Hesse among others.

Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First printing of this novel, fine in a fine jacket, save for small crease to rear panel. NO remainder mark.

Sound and Vision, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Donald, Dave. Handy opera glossary in a compact paperback with rather large type, and whimsical cartoon illustrations throughout. .An excellent clean and unmarked copy in pictorial wraps.

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A lovely first printing of a typically witty and smart mystery from the master Robert Barnard. Fine in a fine jacket.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Canadian Edition. A very nice copy--minor soil to bottom edge, very light shelfwear to jacket.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American Edition. A very nice copy--fine in a near fine jacket (minor rubbing/shelfwear). No remainder marks, not price-clipped