Search Results: Authors starting with B from George S. MacManus Company

(MCFEE, WILLIAM). BABB, James T. Bibliography of the Writings of William McFee. With an Introduction and Notes. Illustrated. Orig. cloth, in publisher's slipcase (a little soiled). Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. First edition. One of 360 copies printed. Fine copy.

1916. (IOWA). (COUCIL BLUFFS). BABBITT, Charles H. Early Days at Council Bluffs. Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1916. 1st ed. 96pp. Illus., maps. Orig. cloth. Small hole in rear outer hinge near foot of spine, else near fine. HOWES B-4. Flake 241.

BABCOCK, Havilah. Tales of Quails 'n Such. Orig. 1/2-cloth and pictorial paper covered boards. New York: Greenberg, [1951]. 8vo. First edition. One of 299 numbered copies. This copy with a presentation inscription signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Fine in near fine orig. glassine dustjacket and like publisher's cardboard slipcase.

(VENANGO CO.). BABCOCK, Charles A. Venango County, Pennsylvania: Her Pioneers and People Embracing a General History of the County. Chicago, 1919. 4to. Two vols. Illus. 1,087pp. Very good in orig. cloth.

(SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON). BABINGTON, Percy L. Bibliography of the Writings of John Addington Symonds. Orig. cloth. Facsimile. London: John Castle, 1925. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies of which 475 were for sale. A very good copy.

2009. BABITS, Lawrence E. and HOWARD, Joshua B. Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, [2009]. 1st ed. xix,300pp. Illus., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth-backed boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Examination of Builford Courthouse battle of March 1781 in North Carolina.

1972. (MASSACHUSETTS). (GLOUCESTER). BABSON, John J. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Including the Town of Rockport. 350th Anniversary Edition. Introduction & Historical Review Joseph E. Garland. Gloucester, 1972. lxv, 610pp. Illus. Folding map. Fine in d/j. Reprint of the 1860 edition with addenda.

1947. BACA, Manuel C. de. Vincente Silva & His 40 Bandits. Translation by Lane Kauffmann. Illustrations by Fanita Lanier. Washington: Edward McLean, Libros Escogidos, 1947. 1st ed. 4to. vi,77pp. Illus. Orig. cloth-backed printed boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Faint foxing to endpapers, else fine. One of 300 bound copies, signed by the translator and illustrator. "The author was a police reporter for a Spanish-language newspaper in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and wrote the first account of that gang of killers" Adams, Six-Guns 108.

1797. [BACHE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]. Remarks Occasioned by the Late Conduct of Mr. Washington, As President of the United States. M.DCC.XVI. Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Franklin Bache, No. 112, Market-Street, 1797. 1st ed. 8vo. iv, 84pp. Very good fully untrimmed copy disbound. Howes B-11-"vicious effort to depreciate the abilities of a great man." Sabin 69389. Evans 31759.

1798. [BACHE, Benjamin Franklin]. Truth Will Out! The Foul Charges of the Tories Against the Editor of the Aurora Repelled by Postive Proof and Plain Truth and His Base Calumniators Put to Shame. [Phila.: The Aurora, 1798]. 1st ed. 2nd impression. 12pp. A very good copy. Evans 33648. Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was editor of the AURORA, an influential political newspaper which regularly attacked the administrations of Washington and Adams. The author was often under attack himself, as is exemplified by this pamphlet in which he defends himself against charges of conspiring with the French.

1884. BACHELDER, John B. Gettysburg. Description of the Painting of the Repulse of Longstreet's Assault Painted by James Walker. Historical Arrangement and Description. Boston: John B. Bachelder, 1884. 43pp. Folding map. Orig. printed wrappers. Minor abrasion to head of spine, faint scattered foxing, else very good or better. Dornbusch III:2252.

1873. BACHELDER, John B. Bachelder's Illustrated Tourist's Guide of the United States. Popular Resorts, and How to Reach Them. Embellished by One Hundred Wood Engravings, by the Best Artists and Engravers in America. Including Gettysburg, What to See, and How to See It. With Complete Index. Illustrated by the Isometrical Drawing of the Gettysburg Battle-field Showing the Position of Every Regiment and Battery of Both Armies. Boston: John B. Bachelder, 1873. 1st ed. viii,148pp. Frontis., illus., plates. [separate title page] Popular Resorts, Routes to Reach Them. Boston: John B. Bachelder, 1873, 1st ed. 82,[2], [16 blank lined]pp. Map frontis., illus., map, large folding view of Gettysburg. Orig. blind-stamped cloth, A.e.g. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, else very good or better. With the ownership signature of Thomas A. Scott, Lincoln's Assistant Secretary of War . later Scott served as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The first 148 pages are about the Civil War battle at Gettysburg,… Read More

1922. BACHELLER, Irving. In the Days of Poor Richard. Original cloth, dust jacket. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1922]. First edition. A fine copy.

1907. BACHELLER, Irving. Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing. 12mo. Original pictorial cloth. New York: Harpers, 1907. First edition. A fine copy.

1900. BACHELLER, Irving. Eben Holden. A Tale of the North Country. Original gilt decorated cloth. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, [1900]. First edition, first state. Wright III-196. Minor soiling to covers. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "I am inclined to think that this book presents a lost type of man. It was nearly extinct when I wrote this tale 33 years ago. Irving Bacheller." With an ALS addressed to Mr. John Stuart Groves laid in. In a red morocco and cloth slipcase.

1772. BACHMAIR, John James. A Complete German Grammar, in Two Parts. The First Part Containing the Theory of the Language Through all the Parts of Speech; The Second Part is Practice in as Ample a Manner as can be Desired. The Third Edition, Greatly Altered and Improved.To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing I. An Index of German Words Familiar in Sound but of Different Orthography and Signification. II. Names of the Most Common Occupations and Trades, as also the Names of the Materials and implements, &c. Thereto Belonging. III. Explication of a German Proverb. Phila: Henry Miller, 1772. 1st American edition. [ii], 313, [2]pp. Rebound in period style leather backed marbled boards, raised spine bands, leather spine label, gilt tooling. Minor soiling throughout, else very good. Evans 12313.

BACHMAN, Calvin G. Old Order Amish of Lancaster County. Vol. XLIX of the Pennsylvania German Society. (Norristown, PA), 1941. 1st ed. xxx, (4), 294, (3) pp. Frontis., illus. with photographs. Orig. wrappers. Untrimmed. Very good.

BACHMAN, George C. The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County. Lancaster, 1961. Illus. 294pp. plus index. A fine copy in d/j.

BACHMAN, Van Cleaf. Peltries or Plantations. The Economic Policies of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland, 1623-1639. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, [1969]. 1st ed. ix, 183pp. Very good in d/j.

BACK, Captain [George]. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in...1833, 1834 and 1835. Phila.: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836. 1st American ed. Folding map. 456pp. plus advts. A very good untrimmed copy in orig. cloth-backed boards with printed paper label on spine.