Search Results: Authors starting with B from California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud

Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Good. 2 volumes in fine bright maroon cloth largely unopened and rough cut edges. The rare and fragile jackets with loss of one spine are still wonderful examples of the original pictorial front panels with President Lincoln seated on his throne of justice.

New York: Harpers, 1918. First Edition. . Decorative Cloth. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Henry. Swept through Chilkoot Pass, Poleon Doret and four fantastically different girls living in the epic days of White Horse" A nice copy with some soiling and edgewear to the jacket, clean and bright internally. Size: Octavo

Harrisburg: Stackpole, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine bright yellow hard bound with a equally Bright Jacket with a bit of scuffing to the upper spine and a closed tear extending into the back panel. A nice collectible copy of this difficult book to find in acceptable condition.

New York: Moffat, 1912. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. Octavo. Fine in pictorial cloth with charming scene of little girls making cut-outs. Wonderful illustrations of cut-out patterns and 94 pg. of text. Childrens art, scissors, silhouetts.

New York: Putnam, 1926. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Cloth. Fine/Very Good +. Gilt stamped purple cloth is fine in a very good + Dust Jacket with a shallow chip at the top of the spine with no loss of printing and a brief stain on the back panel of this wrap-around jacket which captures the stealth and cunning of the wild animals which inhabit the book. Somewhat oddly placed in the Southern California mountains, Faust chose to wirte his "Dog Story" in the area he knew well.the Mountains bordering the central valley of california where he grew up as a young man and worked in the fields of Fresno and schooled a short time at the University at Berkeley. A nice copy of a scarce and desireable Max Brand title. Size: Octavo

Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1947. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine./Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo. Red cloth with black printing. Jacket printed in black and red. Light edge wear otherwise bright and crisp. the trade with china was an out growth of the fur trade in otter pelts which were plentiful in California and prized in the orient. Much on the local history and politics of the 1820s and 1830s along the California coast.

New York: MacAulay, 1935. First Edition in Dust Jacket. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in dark cloth and printed in red, the volume is cocked, internally quite nice and clean if a bit mellowed. DUST JACKET is bright (unfaded) and clean with 3/8" chips to head and tail of spine and is Not Price Clipped. Frederick Faust wrote as Max Brand and, for two mystery novels, as Walter Butler. A prodigious writer and a clever mind filled with stories, Faust seldom wrote or placed his stories in California. Although growing up in the Central Valley and working in San Francisco, his stories tell little of his roots in the Goledn State. Cross Over Nine and Night Flower are two of his elusive Mystery thrillers. Size: Octavo