Search Results: Authors starting with B from Alba's Books

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Stated first edition with the '1' in a number line. First book publications of these works by the ever popular author of STUART LITTLE. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is fine but for price clipping (not book club as ISBN number is present), and is protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Stated first edition with the '1' in a full number line. Original maroon gilt cloth. The great New Yorker children's author's best essays from that storied magazine. A clean, bright, unmarked copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1945. First BOMC Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Garth Williams. The first Book-of-the-Month Club edition of this classic, in the same style dust jacket and in pristine, unmarked condition with a Mylar plastic jacket cover. A perfect gift copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Stated first edition with the '1' in a number line. book is clean and unmarked in text. Jacket has a small gently closed tear to the bottom corner and a couple of edge nicks to the top edges, and is otherwise near fine and protected by a Brodart plastic cover. Still a handsome copy.

New York: Harper, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Duodecimo. First publication of these articles by White, previously only available in old periodicals. Introduction by Joe Meacham. A clean, unclipped and unmarked copy.

Chicago: Press of Church, Goodman and Donnelley, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Foldout map and engravings. Ante-Fire imprint and very rare. Original brown gilt embossed cloth with date on title page. Contemporary eyewitness account of pre-Fire Chicago, with a map of how the city looked then. Aside from minor rubbing to bottom corner foreedges and spine tip, a very good, clean and bright copy. The title gleams brightly.An important source history on early chicago as well as the Civil War.

Prometheus Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Photographs. A groundbreaking biography of Gandhi that reveal the man behind the religious facade and his often overlooked radical role in India's proletarian revolution. Pristine, clean and unmarked. With the '1' in a number line.

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston / The Classics of , 1992. First Thus. Hardcover. As New. Octavo. Wood engravings. First issue of this Classics of Medicine facsimile edition of the 1871 Philadelphia edition, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES in full black calf leather with gilt titles and decorations, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers and silk ribbon. Gilt leather bookplate of noted neurologist and C of N Library Member Henry S. Schutta. With the introductory booklet laid in. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

A. Williams & Co./Forgotten Books, 1870. Facsimile Reprint. Paperback. As New. Octavo. A Classic Reprint Series edition in facsimile of the rare 1870 A. Williams first edition of this famous medical catalogue. Pristine, clean and unmarked.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Wendell Minor dj art. With the '1' in a number line. Excellent take on the Holmes legend by a noted Scottish mystery writer. Superb jacket art by Wendell Minor. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

New York: Scribners, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. The complete, standard edition of the Nobel Laureate's verse, including poems from the plays and essays, edited by internationally esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Harper, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. A superb copy, clean and unmarked.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Natalie Babbitt. Stated first printing. With all the first printing points. A fine, clean, unclipped copy with a couple of tiny corner nicks to jacket protected in an archival Mylar jacket cover. From the collection of Florence Shay of Titles, Inc.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1925. first Edition-2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Out of print

Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on two separate leaves, and including an original handwritten poem by the author on the front free endpaper. Babcock was a noted New England poet who knew Robert Frost. A clean unmarked copy with moderate shelf rubbing.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Octavo. Embossed seal on flyleaf, else unmarked. Out of print. In Mylar jacket cover.

D.Appleton and Company, 1895. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Frontispiece Portraits. Quarter brown leather and marbled boards with gilt titles and top foreedges. Tissue interleavings to plates. Minor scratches and scuffs to covers. A tight, clean, unmarked set.

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

William Morrow, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo.

Delacorte Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.