Search Results: Authors starting with B from InkQ Rare Books LLC

A fine copy. CDK-113. Carl Barks. Uncle $crooge McDuck: His Life & Times. Milbrae, CA: Celestial Arts, 1981. Limited edition, No. 76 of 5,000 numbered copies. Includes a signed/limited lithograph by Carl Barks. Quarto. 374pp. Fully illustrated in color. Publisher's leather, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, illustrated pastedown to front board. .

Light wear to board edges; lacks front free endpaper. Very good. CDK-357. J. M. Barrie. F. D. Bedford. Peter and Wendy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American edition. Octavo.  267pp. Illustrated with twelve plates (including frontispiece) by F. D. Bedford. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover. .

Light shelfwear; slight offsetting to endleaves; minor uniform toning throughout; jacket a bit sunned and torn. Very good. LMM-165. Ibn Battúta. H. A. R. Gibb, translator. Travels in Asia and Africa 1325 - 1354 (The Argonaut Series). New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1929. Reprint edition.  Pencil signed by Larry McMurtry.  Octavo. 398pp (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, top edge stained red, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Extremities gently bumped and rubbed, slipcase scuffed and slightly torn, else fine. LMM-396. [Charles] Baudelaire. Poesies de Baudelaire. Paris: Le Livre Français, 1926. Limited edition, No. 1,149 of 2,800 copies printed on vélin chiffon. Octavo. 300pp. Illustrated with engraved decorations after drawings by Pierre Courtois, frontispiece portrait of Baudelaire. Vellum over hardcover boards, stamped in gilt to spine, gilt frames to front and back covers, gilt borders inside covers, top edge gilt, decorated end papers. Housed in contemporary custom slipcase. Text in French. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

A fine copy. SJK-415. L. Frank Baum. Michael Hague, illustrator. The Wizard of Oz. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1982. First edition thus.  Signed by the illustrator on a bookplate to verso of front free endpaper.   Quarto. 220pp. Illustrated in color by Michael Hague. Publisher's pictorial hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, illustrated endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $29.95. .

Minor shelfwear, with some foxing and bubbling to cloth of front board; slight dampstaining to lower edge of rear board; light scattered foxing to prelims; jacket a bit toned, creased, and chipped, with slight lost at spine ends. Very good. LMM-280. Cecil Beaton. An Indian Album. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 1945/6. First edition. Small Quarto. 78pp. Illustrated, with black and white photo plates throughout. Publisher's orange cloth with blue lettering to spine and front cover, in unclipped dust jacket, listing price 12s 16d net. Photos by Beaton, having been sent to the Far East to take photographs for the Ministry of Information. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Minor creasing and wear to wraps, else fine. YLG-109. Matt Beckoff. Confessions of a Scream Queen. Albany, GA: BearManor Media, 2010. First edition. Signed by Kathleen Hughes, Carla Laemmle (Daughter of Universal film producer Carl Laemmle), and Matt Beckoff.   Octavo. 255pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's card wraps, perfect bound. .

Darkened to spine and board edges; extremities rubbed and edgeworn, with slight loss to corners and spine ends; hinges lightly cracked; offsetting to endleaves; minor toning to pages, not effecting color plates. Still, very good. LMM-264. Max Beerbohm. Rossetti and His Circle.  London: William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Small quarto. 22pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-two mounted color plates by Beerbohm. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Fine. JBS-347. Joan Bello. The Benefits of Marijuana: Physical, Psychological and Spiritual. Boca Raton, FL: Lifeservices Press. 2000. Revised edition. Octavo. 160pp. Yellow pictorial wraps with cover art by Steve Willis.  .

Spine chipped and peeled with areas of loss; the last leaf, in leather, is adhering to rear leather pastedown; slipcase abraded, with leather loss to edges, leather top and spine chipped and peeled, spine seam cracked, top panel separated entirely, felt lightly soiled to fore-edge; A very good copy (and a completely unique overall package) in a somewhat damaged slipcase. LMM-251. Arnold Bennett. E. A. Rickards, illustrator. From the Log of the Velsa.  New York: The Century Co., 1914. First edition. Small quarto. 307pp. Illustrated with pictures by E. A. Rickards, color frontispiece from a painting by Arnold Bennett. Rebound in 1938 by Reese Carlile David, with wood inlay pictorial wooden boards, leather spine with six bands, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, leather end leaves. Housed in a custom slip case with leather edges, marbled paper covered boards, lined in green felt.  Inscribed to half-title: Presented to Dr. Joseph L. Miller, M. D. / of Thomas, W. Va. / By Reese Carlile… Read More

Extremities gently bumped and rubbed, lightly soiled, front hinge cracked and hanging by a thread, back hinge cracked and hanging by several dozen threads, additional bookplates of Oliver Brett and H. C. Drayton, pages lightly toned. Slipcase lightly rubbed and soiled. Good. LMM-252. E. A. Bennett. A Man from the North.  London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1898. First edition. Small octavo. 265pp + 12pp ads. Publisher's red cloth over boards, stamped in white to front and spine, with publisher's logo in white to back. Housed in custom cloth clamshell case with gilt titles to spine. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Minor wear, ink-stamp of Ronald K. Siegel to front pastedown, else fine. JBS-435. Joseph Berke and Calvin Hernton. The Cannabis Experience: An Interpretative Study of the Effects of Marijuana and Hashish. London: Peter Owen, 1974. First British Commonwealth edition.  Octavo. 288pp (indexed). Publisher's black hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine, patterned endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of £4.50net. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. .

Light wear, very good. SJK-71. Earl Derr Biggers. Keeper of the Keys. New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, [1932]. "Madison Square" reprint edition. Octavo. 307pp. Orange cloth, stamped in black, unclipped dust jacket..

Extremities gently rubbed and bumped, dust jacket slightly creased and chipped, else fine. LMM-247. Elizabeth Bishop. Questions of Travel.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1965. First edition. Octavo. 95pp. Blue cloth hardcover boards, blue, silver, and green to spine, original unclipped dust jacket showing retail price of $3.95. Publisher's review slip laid-in. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Gently rubbed to extremities, toning especially to end papers, previous owner's label pasted to title page (not affecting titles), dust jacket chipped with small areas of loss not affecting titles, creased, slightly soiled, marked in ink to front "Oct 5th", else fine. JBS-119. Jack Black. Robert Herrick, foreword. You Can't Win. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First edition. Twelvemo. 394pp. Publisher's red cloth hardcover boards, stamped in gilt to spine, blind stamped frames to front, original unclipped dust jacket showing retail price of $2.00. This scarce memoir of criminal life by hobo and burglar Jack Black was an early influence on the Beat Generation writers and was known to be a particular favorite of William S. Burroughs, who wrote the introduction to the later reprint edition. .

Light rubbing and wear to boards; slight offsetting to endleaves; scattered staining to textblock edges; jacket gently toned and chipped. Very good. CDK-00418A. James Blish. Earthman Come Home. New York: G. P. Putnam's Son, 1955. First edition. Octavo. 239pp. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in yellow to spine, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $3.50. .

Light staining and wear. Very good. CDK-73. James Blish. A Life for the Stars. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. First edition. Octavo. 188pp. Cloth, dust jacket. .

A fine copy. CDK-87. James Blish. Earthman Come Home. Shelton, CT; First Edition Library, 1991. Facsimile reprint of the 1955 reprint edition.   Octavo. 239pp. Cloth. Dust jacket. Slipcase. .

Light rubbing to boards, minor wear to price-clipped jacket, else fine. JHN-336. Robert Bloch. The Opener of the Way. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1945. First edition. Octavo. 309pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original dust jacket with cover art by Ronald Clyne. .

Minor staining and wear, jacket lightly rubbed and soiled. Very good. JHN-190. Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares by Robert Bloch. Sauck City, WI: Arkham House, 1960. First edition. Octavo. 233pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket.