Search Results: Authors starting with B from LaCelle Rare Books

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct copyright statement and dust jacket price. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE WITH DRAWING OF SKY, PLANE, ETC. Very Good+ in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; light wear; moderate wear to dust jacket as well as a few small tears (backed with brown paper in places); price not clipped ($5.95). Signed first edition of Bach's adventures barnstorming around America as a gypsy flyer.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1921. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Eulalie. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1921). Illustrated in color. Near Fine in Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; almost no wear; dust jacket has chipping at spine ends and a couple of small tears; price not clipped ($.75) Very scarce in jacket.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, FIRST PRINTING       with correct publisher imprint, 1920 date in roman numerals on title page, correct copyright statement and correct jacket ads and price ($1.75). Very Good in Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages (except some browning to endpapers) and covers; only slight wear; dust jacket is has moderate wear and light soil; price not clipped ($1.75). Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 - 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. While young, Baroja believed loosely in anarchism, like others in the '98 Generation. He later admired men of action, similar to Nietzsche's superman. Catholics and traditionalists denounced him, and his life was at risk during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In Youth And Egolatry (1917), Baroja described his beliefs as follows: I have… Read More

London: John Murray, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. London: John Murray, 1922. FIRST EDITION. 48 pages. Very Good in Good- Dust Jacket. Tight binding; browning to endpapers else clean pages; moderate wear; dust jacket has soil and wear as well as chipping and chips along edges. An early book on contraception. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. FIRST EDITION. 199 pages. Frontispiece. Fair. Tight binding; rebound; a couple of tears repaired with tape; exlibrary with usual marks; covers worn; no jacket.  Clara Barton's account of her work with the Red Cross in the Texas Famine and Mount Vernon cyclone, yellow fever in Florida, the Johnstown Flood, the Russian Famine, the Sea island relief, Armenian relief, Cuba and Galveston Hurricane. Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 - April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care.[1] Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote. She was inducted into the National Women's… Read More

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1908. Hardcover. Good+/Poor. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1908). 1933 printing according to ads on jacket. Illustrated throughout in b/w by John R. Neill. Good+ in Poor Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; date on front endpaper and name on ownership page; moderate wear and light soil; lacking big parts of jacket; spine has some crayon marks. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Hardcover. Good+/Fair. Lebeck, Oskar (Illustrated by). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1939). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING THUS Good+ in Fair Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; some wear to corners; dust jacket is quite worn with large tears and scuffs; price not clipped (50/50). SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1908). 1937 printing. Illustrated throughout in b/w by John R. Neill. Very Good in Good- Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; name on front endpaper and ownership page; moderate wear; dust jacket is worn with some chips and tears along edges (a few tape repairs). SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

Martinsburg, West Virginia: E. Lee Baumgarten Books, 2004. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Martinsburg, West Virginia: E. Lee Baumgarten Books, (2004).  233 + 233 + 78 pages. Good. Tight binding; clean pages; some wear and tear to covers. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Stoops, Herbert Morton (Illustrated by). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING        with correct date on title page.  Illustrated. 79 pages.  Fair. Rebound; tight binding; pages have smudges and foxing; exlibrary with usual marks; a few small tears; covers quite worn; no jacket.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939. First Edition, First Printing with FIRST EDITION statement on copyright page. SIGNED BY DAN BEARD ON EARLY PAGE. Very Good, Tight binding; clean pages; endpapers have slight browning; Slight wear. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. VERY SCARCE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT SCOUT, ESPECIALLY SIGNED. Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850 June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1932. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Illustrated card covers. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Good+. Tight binding; clean pages; very light stain to endpapers; Covers somewhat worn and creased. A children's picture book of the farm, published during the great depression, with photos of ponies, horses, collies, sheep and lambs, pigs and piglets, chickens, cows, goslings, ducks, turkeys, etc. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

New York: Golden Press / Western Publishing Company, 1951. Hardcover. Good. Malvern, Corinne (Illustrated by). New York: Golden Press / Western Publishing Company, (1958). Eleventh Printing, 1974. Good. Binding pulling at hinges (large tear to rear hinge) else good binding; clean pages; some wear to covers. The iconic children's Christmas story. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Toronto: William Briggs, 1894. Hardcover. Fair. Toronto: William Briggs, 1894. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct publisher imprint and date on title page, etc.  Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 568 pages. Illustrated with photographs.  One foldout maps.  Fair. Hinges a bit cracked else tight binding; clean pages; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; exlibrary with some marks; covers worn with a few bumps; gash in spine. A great antique history of British Columbia.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Basic Books, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Basic Books, (1973). Second Printing. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Very Good+ in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with a few tiny tears; price not clipped ($12.50). Scarce signed. "In [1973], Daniel Bell's historical work predicted a vastly different society developing-one that will rely on the "economics of information" rather than the "economics of goods." Bell argued that the new society would not displace the older one but rather overlie some of the previous layers just as the industrial society did not completely eradicate the agrarian sectors of our society. The post-industrial society's dimensions would include the spread of a knowledge class, the change from goods to services and the role of women. All of these would be dependent on the expansion of services in the economic sector and an increasing dependence… Read More

London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1828. Hardcover. Fair. London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1828. VOLUME 1. FIRST EDITION.  Illustrations and maps. 472 pages. Poor or better. Disbound; lacking backstrip and covers; pages fairly clean. This volume deals with his travels in Europe. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: Horace Cox, 1902. Hardcover. Fair. Photographs (Illustrated with). London: Horace Cox, 1902. FIRST EDITION. 366 pages.  Illustrated with photographs. Fair. Rebound; severe spine slant; exlibrary with usual marks; a few small tears as well as smudges, foxing and wear; covers quite worn. Travels of a British nobleman to South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, Java, Siam (Thailand), China, Japan, The Sandwich Islands, as well as in the United States. Very scarce.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Chelsea House, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: Chelsea House, (1923). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING     with correct copyright statement, no later printing noted, correct jacket blurbs, etc.  Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; one bump at top of front cover and slight wear; dust jacket is moderately worn. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Philadelphia: Quaker City Publishing House, 1868. Hardcover. Fair. Philadelphia: Quaker City Publishing House, 1868. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 384 pages. Illustrated. Fair or better. Binding fairly good; some foxing to pages; name on front endpaper; covers quite worn.  A very interesting antique account of a family's experience among the Indians of South America. Scarce. Sloan had a copy for sale at $275 in 1986. "Little known chronicle of the hardships of pioneer life in South America. The author and her family sailed from England to Rio de Janeiro via Madeira and thence to the Andes. Includes a good account of gaucho life in the Pampas and much of interest on the Indians of South America."--Sloan.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1926). Second Printing (same year as first ). Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; moderate wear; dust jacket is somewhat worn and scuffed with small tears and chips along edges; price not clipped ($3.50). A classic early biography of the father of evolutionary theory.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .