Search Results: Authors starting with B from The Parnassus BookShop

Insight Editions, 1995. First US Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First American Edition 1995. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated from the Dutch by H. G. Smittemaar. Bright, clean, illustrated wraps are gently worn, binding t ight and solid, slight lean to spine, internals as new. Inspector DeKok . 196 pages. 8.2 x 5.2" . 1995, Intercontinental Publishing.

Denver, CO: Speck Press, 2005. First US Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First American Edition 1995. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Translated from the Dutch by H. G. Smittemaar. Bright, clean, illustrated wraps, front flares up a bit. binding t ight and solid, internals as new. 191 pages. 8.2 x 5.2" .2005, Speck Press, Denver, Colorado.

U.S.A: Regnery Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Clean, solid, unmarked book, bright , glossy jacket, unclipped. Pristine condition. A challenging book on the moral and political decline of the UN and the EU.196 pages with index. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 2004.

U.S.A: Berkley Pub Group, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Remainder. Photographic illustrations. Mr. Babcock presents his case with evidence for the assassination of Attila, the Hun--a violent death, not the recorded death from a nose bleed. He lays out his evidence like a skilled trail lawyer in a high-profile murder case--and solves an ancient murder mystery. 324 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2005, Berkley Pub Group, USA

U.S.A: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. 245 pages. Burnt orange cloth, very clean, with dark brown lettering. Small indentation on lower edge, light edgewear, small scuff on lower left corner of front panel. Solid and tight book. Ffep has pocket from a senior center, damp stain on upper corner of paste-down. Interior very clean and unmarked, lightly toned. From a Massachusetts life of gentility to Montana in the 1860s is a longer journey than in miles for Lidian Dorie. Here is her story of that journey.

New York, New York, USA: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Indispensable reading for all citizens. Andrew Bacevich provides an analysis of America's woes that goes beyind who is in the White House at any one time and he gets to the heart of the delusions that have crippled the country's foreign policy for decades. He writes of the myths that confuse the U.S. approaches to the outside world and fuel the Washington establishment's dangerous delusions of omnipotence. 208 pages with Notes and Index. 2008, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, USA

Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Hertfordshire, UK, 1996. . Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Complete and Unabridged. Cover design by Robert Mathias. Cover illustration, detail from "Independence" by Frank Blackwell Mayer (1827-89). Bright, clean wraps, crease to lower corner, light wear to some extremities, tight glued binding, all pages intact and clean, unmarked. First published in 1900. The story chronicles the flight of Eben Holden and young Bill from Vermont to Paradise Valley and his role in Bill's childhood and coming of age in the Brower household and also of the courtship of Bill and Hope Brower. It reflects the historical, cultural and social aspects of North Country pioneer life. 206 pages. 8" x 5". 1996, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Hertfordshire, UK

Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2009. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked book, whisper of wear to lower corners; four pages have been dog-eared, otherwise internals are in Fine condition. For two decades David Bacon has documented the connection between labor, migration, and the global economy. In this book he explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, migration, immigration raids, and an increasingly divided and polarized society. He argues for a sea change in how we think, debate, and legislate about and around immigration. Bacon promotes a human rights perspective in a globalized world. x + 261 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2009, Beacon Press, Boston, MA

USA: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First US Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust jacket in Very Good Condition. Over 80 illustrations. Ten maps of countries with excavation sites indicated. Handsome solid volume in brown cloth gilt titled, very clean, no marks, lower edges rubbed. Top edge of text block with one small, light spot. Internals in Fine Condition. Frontispiece: an ideal head in the style of Lysippus, late 4th century B.C. Pictorial jacket is clean, rubbed with color worn through on front in places, light corner and spine head and heel wear. Photograph on front is a view of Petra. Explore the discoveries of the 1960s, a period of greater activity in this field than any other. The author describes the work and fascinating items found at major sites-the early settlements of Catal Huyuk and Hacilar in central Turkey, in Mongolia and Western Australia, and traditional sites in Greece and the Middle East. 293 pages. 7 x… Read More

Mount Vernon, New York, USA: The Peter Pauper Press, 1970. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of a New Edition byThe Peter Pauper Press, of Essays by the 16th-17th Century English philosopher, essayist, statesman, Francis Bacon, 1561-1626. No publication date given, c 1970. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Binding of tan half-cloth with sharp and bright gilt lettering, over burgundy and cream designed paper-covered boards. Very clean and unmarked with slight rubbing of corners. Tight and solid and square. Same color/design of cover used throughout book design, around Essay Headings and at the end of an essay. Very attractive. Internals in Fine Condition. Bacon wrote essays on a wide variety of topics, On Truth, Of Revenge, Of Superstition, Of Seditions, Of Ambition, etc. Bacon espoused Empiricism, that the only knowledge of importance was empiracally rooted in the natural world; he believed in a clear system of… Read More

USA: Dover Publications, 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean cover with illustration: The Garden of Eden by Jan Bruegel, 1620. Slight wear around cover edges, soundly bound, pages all intact. Internals quite clean no underlining or highlighting, no marks, no creasing. The philosophical and intellectual utopias of two writers from the Age of Reason and Enlightenment. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published 'The City of the Sun' in 1623, and Francis Bacon's 'The New Atlantis' was published in 1627. Each of these 17th century classics mirrors the period's idealism and revolutionary trends in thought. 85 pages. 8.5 x 5.4 inches. Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2003.

Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc, 1952. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Hardback Collectibles, Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1952. Volume 30. First Thus. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Editor in Chief. Leather Bound Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Brown leather binding, gilt lettering and decoration to spine; small chip out of spine head. Tight and solid volume. Francis Bacon was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the modern era. 214 pp. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1952, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, Ill

U.S.A: Fireside Book/Simon & Schuster, 1990. First Edition Paperback. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. First Printing of First Paperback Edition. In Very Good Condition. Cover is clean and unmarked, with striking design and illustration by Josh Goshfield. Slight wear to upper corners. Small remainder mk on lower edge of text block. Pages very clean, no markings of any kind. An intricate weaving together of living in current New York with the Holocaust past, a representation of the past into the present, with a portrait of loss, loss of power, of love, of identity. Disturbing book in many ways. 272 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1990, Fireside Book/Simon & Schuster, USA

Basic Books, 2021. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 6x2x10. Basic Books, 2021. First Edition Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Pristine, Unread. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different. The Ottoman's domain was multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious, reaching deep into Europe's heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. 560 pages. 6 x 2 x 10". 2021, Basic Books.

Three Rivers Press, 2004. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Robert Baer draws on his 20 years' experience as a CIA officer in the Saudi Arabia region to expose the cynical roots of the U.S-Saudi relationship. He documents that so long as the ruling house of Saud keeps the oil flowing from their vast reserves, the United States will overlook the Saudi royal family's culture of bribery, abysmal human rights abuses, and financial support of the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect that has generated much of the fervor behind Islamist terrorism. An unsettling, eye-opening account of our relationship with Saudi Arabia. 238 pages. 98vo, 2004, Three Rivers Press. ISBN10: 1400052688, ISBN13: 9781400052684

New York: Plume/Penguin Books, 2006. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Plume/Penguin Group, 2006. Paperback in Very Good Condition. Trace wear to upper corner of cover, pages toned, else Fine. Clean, unmarked, solid volume. Both entertaining and startling, Baggini offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. He presents abstract philosophical issues in concrete terms, suggesting possible solutions while encouraging readers to draw their own conclusions. 306 pp. Index. 8vo. 2006, Plume/Penguin Group. ISBN10: 0452287448, ISBN13: 9780452287440

USA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Mylar jacket cover. A collection of some of Anthony Bailey's best work--description of the circumambulation of the Isle of Wight, southern England; Memories of a Day's Walk from Massachusetts to Maine; an Exploration of Cote d'Azur and the interconnection between the English and the Riviera--and much more. 239 pages. 8 vo. 1986, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, USA

New York: Harmony Books, 1984. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback First Printing of First US Edition. Hardcover Book in FINE Condition with a Near Fine Jacket. Navy cloth binding with silver titles on spine, very clean, no edgewear. Interior pristine. Jacket slightly wavy along bottom. More than 200 full color and b/w photos with descriptive text portraying the author's exploration of the different delights of more than 400 English villages, none of which is like the other, each typical of its locality and a reminder of an older, more traditional way of life. 152 pages. 8 x 11 inches. 1984, Harmony Books, New York.

USA: Walk Worthy Press/Warner Books, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Stated First Edition Trade Paperback As New. 160 pages. 2006, Walk Worthy Press/Warner Books, USA

Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. Lavishly illustrated in colour and black/white photos and sketchs. Pictorial paste-on on front cover, with paste-on illustration: Berg Glacier forms a magnificenet frozen cascade down the rugged 12,000-foot flanks of Mount Robson in British Columbia. It would be interesting to see this glacier today to compare with 1982. Very clean, near fine book, unmarked with whisper of wear to lower edge. Tight and solid binding. Internals as new. Planet Earth Series books examines the workings of the planet Earth, from the geological wonders of its continents to the marvels of its atmosphere and its ocean depths. This book describes and explores glaciers, their movements, shelving, growth and diminishing size, polar expeditions of Shackleton, Byrd, Scott, Amundsen, and others, glacier migration, plant and animal life and their adaptations… Read More