Search Results: Authors starting with B from Crow Hop Rare Books

New Brunswick, NJ: Unity & Struggle Productions, 2001. Razor Series. 19 pp. Near Fine pictorial stapled wraps. SIGNED by Baraka on title page in the year of publication.

Fox River Grove, IL: White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 1995. First Edition of the author's first collection of poetry. 24 pp. Cover art by Steven Obendorf. Near Fine in illustrated stapled wraps. Uncommon.

New York: Harper and Row, 1978. First Edition. 138 pp. with numerous photographs. Foreword by Francois Truffaut. Profile by Jean Cocteau. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with some toning and shelfwear. Affixed to the ffep is ownership bookplate of the American Society of Cinematographers (“Loyalty.Progress.Artistry”). The ASC celebrated 100 years in 2019.

Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel, 1989. Near Fine in wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED in the year of publication by Beahm to three-time winner of the Horror Writers of America's Bram Stoker Award Stanley Wiater: "To Stan, who has given us some of the best interviews of practitioners of dark fantasy--In friendship--George Beahm." With Wiater's bookplate affixed inside the front cover.

Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros. Inc., 1938. First Edition, published six years prior to the infamous Hartford Circus Fire of 1944. Inserted as ffep is a picture of the author with Alex Caldwell, INSCRIBED “To my dear friend Alex Caldwell, in appreciation of many pleasant moments together, George Beal, 1953.” Beal’s own copy, with his address label (Newburyport, MA) affixed to lower back inside board. 308 pp., illustrated with photographs (some of which include “Betty Broadbent, Tattooed Lady, Showing Her Remarkable Picture Gallery,” “Ella Harris, All-Around Circus Performer, and Her Trick Elephant,” “The Famous Flying Codanas: Alfredo, Vera and Lalo,” “Billy De Baugh and Joe Lewis, World-Famous Clowns,” and “The Famous Midget Troupe, The Doll Family, Writing a Letter Home”). VG (hinge cracking, rubbing, edgewear and spine fading) publisher’s blue cloth with gilt lettering and design, lacking the dustjacket. Beal was a circus authority and writer and photographer, lecturer, and amateur… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1941. First Edition. Jacket drawing by Harry Nonnamaker. SIGNED by the author on ffep. VG green cloth binding (ownership signature on ffep, foxing to endpapers) in a Good or better unclipped dustjacket (chipping and sunning to spine, rubbing and foxing, one inch closed tear to front).Bell’s first and only novel, serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and made into a 1941 film. Georgia-born Bell died in 1944 during the war. Uncommon signed.

Toledo, OH: Belmont Institute, n.d. [1940s]. 19 mimeographed pages. VG+ pictorial covers, light soiling and toning to edges and rusting at staples at top edge; internally a touch of toning. Belmont lays out tricks of memorization, recall, and concentration: “It is the wish of the author to acquaint the reader with a series of thinking exercises that will make possible quickly accomplishing many mental feats long regarded as ‘impossible’ or a ‘gift’ that few were endowed with.” He also promises that students “after mastering ‘Miracle Memory’ can present a series of demonstrations at Lodges, Clubs, Night Clubs, Picnics and similar places that will build popularity and respect for their mental ability.” Together with a second variant copy, this one lacking the title page. Unrecorded in OCLC, and no copies in commerce or auction records.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. 122 pp. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with toning to back cover and two small closed tears to upper edge. This “biography of the spirit of America” by Pulitzer Prize winner Benet was published posthumously.

New York: Knopf, 1944. First Edition. Jacket design by Victor Ancona. Review Copy with publisher slip laid in. VG+ (offsetting to endpapers) in an about VG unclipped dustjacket (spine rubbed and worn, side edge with tears and rubbing, edgewear). William Rose Benet won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Dallas, TX: The Kaleidograph Press, 1937. First Edition. 109 pp. VG+ hardcover in brown cloth boards with title pastedowns on spine and front cover. No dustjacket. INSCRIBED by Fall on ffep: "To _ _ Freeman, with happy memories and best wishes, Carrie Fall Benson." Numerous items laid in, including publisher's announcement and order form for the book, a folded program for "An Evening with Carrie Fall Benson" December 5, 1941 at LaGrange College, two clippings of poems by Benson of a dedication for the Ida Cason Callaway Memorial Chapter and a poem "Communion Service" for the First Baptist Church of LaGrange, and a postmarked postcard to the dedicatee.Benson was a playwright and poet who became the first librarian at LaGrange College (Georgia) in 1922.Uncommon signed.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. 168 pp. Illustrated throughout. VG+ orange hardcover (some staining to page edges) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (fading and chip to spine, one small tear to rear cover, light wrinkle to top edge). First Edition. SIGNED by Berlitz on title page. A fully documented analysis of the alleged UFO crash landing in New Mexico in 1947, supposedly hushed up for the purposes of “national security.”

Manchester: Carcanet, 1991. First Edition. 123 pp. Near Fine. A Poetry Book Society Recommendation sticker on front cover. The second collection of poetry from this Indian writer.

Apalachicola, FL: Watertown Press, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Bickel on title page. 168 pp, oversized hardcover. Bickel's "haunting visual poetry" of the world of Apalachicola Bay and its people. Bickel's photography has won the Golden Quill for Photography and the New York Art Directors Club Award.

New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. First Edtion. 83 pp. Near Fine softcover in illustrated wraps by the prolific poet and National Book Award winner.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. First Edition. 310 pp. VG+ in a VG+ clipped dustjacket. INSCRIBED opposite title page: "For Colonel Steve Seiter, with best wishes of the author. W. Jeffrey Bolster."

Worcester, MA: Shield Press, 1971. [3] 20 pp., printed on rectos only. Six drawings by Stephen Jenkins. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author in the year following publication: “Best wishes To Mr. & Mrs. [ ] Corrine E. Bostic -1971-.” VG+ (edgewear, light creasing to bottom edge, lightly rubbed) in yellow illustrated wraps, in red plastic comb binding.Poems of place, faith, protest, and the black experience, with evocative lines including: “Dream Killers, / You can’t kill this dream. / It’s growing like a snowball / Rolling down the side of white America/ … / Not this dream / That has ridden from Africa / In the guts of blackmen” and “Out of a land of slaves / I see my blackman / Afro-crowned; dashiki bound; / The low riders; backsliders; / And Sleek dark Panthers / With their shiny-booted queens / United.” Bostic (1927-1981) was a poet and teacher from Worcester, MA, and a founding member of the Worcester County Poetry Association. Requiem was her first book. No copies in commerce… Read More

WIllimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1994. First Edition. 63 pp. Near Fine in illustrated wraps (a touch of rubbing). Introduction by Carolyn Forché. Praise from Oliver Stone ("Bowen captures the spirituality of Vietnam"), Tim O'Brien, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Bowen served in Vietnam from 1968-1969.

New York: Speak/Penguin, 2005. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Near Fine in pictorial wraps. SIGNED by Boyle on title page.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981. Review Copy, with slip laid in (notes the book will be published on January 7, 1982). SIGNED by Boyle on title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket.

New York: Viking , 1985. First Edition. SIGNED by Boyle on the title page. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (toning). The author's fourth book and second collection of short stories.