Search Results: Authors starting with B from Blue Sky Rare Books

University of Pennsylvania Press,, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book AND jacket in fine condition. Lovely book.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A near fine copy, cloth boards are clean with only very minor wear. Sea-foam blue cloth, very slightly darkened spine. Contents free of all markings. Nice book.

Sterling Signature, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. fine/fine. Boxed set: folding case, softcover book, and a set of prints. All fine, as new. Lovely set.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book and jacket fine, free of all markings. Jacket in protective mylar wrap. Lovely book.

Tuscaloosa, AL: The Legacy Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Completely fine copy of the limited edition of 135 copies printed on Mohawk Superfine and five beautiful specimen pages. This will be particularly of interest for collectors of Curwen Press patterned paper. Lovely book.

Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Fine book in near fine jacket (couple of little wrinkles). Completely free of all markings. Nice book.

Columbia University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Book and jacket near fine, jacket in protective mylar wrap. Nice book.

MIT Press, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. good/near fine. Hardcover with extensive highlighting and a couple of pen marks, jacket near fine. A reading copy.

London: Arthur. L. Humphreys, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Bound in full green leather by Bumpus, contents completely clean. Facing-page translation, printed on very nice laid-paper, no foxing. Spine a nice even brown tone, all lettering very clear, no bumps, minor wear. Nice book, a strong VG+.

London, 1663. Second Edition. Leather bound. very good+. 361pp 4vo. Lovely copy of the 1663 edition of Bancroft's Survery (first published in 1593). With a new introduction by the publisher. Wide margins, no foxing, very clean. Bindng is plain brown calf, spine with four raised bands, no titles boards professionally refurbished.

Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover with a very small amount of ink and pencil markings. Dustjacket wrinkled. Sold as a reading copy but a little better than that.

Sandy Hook, CT: Chiswick Bookshop, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine. xiv, 115, [4], plus 4 specimen leaves from Aldine works; with 46 illus.; tall 4to; slipcase, crimson linen with gilt title on upper cover and spine, matching slipcase. Previous owner bookplate on inside cover (nice), otherwise about as new, four original leaves in fine antiquarian condition. Printed and bound by Meriden-Stinehour Press. This is one of the more interesting leaf books, presenting in one place specimens of all four Aldine Greeks fonts. One of the four leaves is from the great Aristotle of 1497. Lovely production.

Temple, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. POS ink signature and blindstamp on front blank, otherwiese free of all markings. DJ is a basic VG, but clean in mylar sleeve.

Dallas: The Bridwell Library and The Gehenna Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine copy in full black cloth. No DJ, as issued. The essential Gehenna reference and a beautiful book in its own right. Printed at the Oxbow Press, Amherst MA.

Duke University Press Books, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover, printed boards, as new.

SEMIOTEXT(E) , 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine copy. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Hotel Theory at REDCAT, 2015. In 1996 at Whiskey Pete’s Hotel & Casino, Chris Kraus organized the Chance Event: “a three-day philosophy rave in the Nevada desert.” It was a convergence of the art world with philosophers, poets, and musicians in what was meant to be the Burning Man of French theory.  Jean Baudrillard’s lecture for Chance is published in conjunction with the exhibition Hotel Theory at REDCAT, 2015. 48 pages. Color photographs.

John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very good copy in cloth (spine slightly sunned/frayed;. Small 8vo 11 2+[4]+plates. A solid copy. Free of all markings.

John Lane the Bodley Head, 1921. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Very good or better, small previous owner's initials on the front blank, contents otherwise clean. Just minor wear to the boards. Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse by Aubrey Beardsley with Illustrations. 4to, xvi, 70 pp & 4pp adds. Photogravure frontis, 16 plates by Beardsley (3 illustrations are published for the 1st time). Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Fine copy in near-fine price-clipped DJ in the original glassine, now also protected by a mylar wrap. Bright, fresh copy, just a touch of very minor edge wear to DJ. Lovely copy.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. Book is completely fine with LEC prospectus laid in, all as new. Slipcase is near fine, free of all bumps. Lovely copy of one of the very best LEC books.