Search Results: Titles starting with B from The Curiosity Book Shop

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Petheric Press Limited, 1976 Color card covers. The personal experiences of a family on the coast of Nova Scotia and their contributions to the war effort. Light-to-moderate wear overall, including faint vertical rippling to front cover. Faint cover soil. Short handwritten notation about the author's death written below dedication. Interior otherwise intact and clean.

Portland, Maine: Guy Gannett Publishing Co., 1987 Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Staple-bound. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Leonard Lee Rue III and color drawings by Davis. "An exciting family vacation adventure in the North Woods [of Maine] to thrill every child." Faint wear to cover extremities.

Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1969 Very Good/Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Ernst on front endpaper. Dust jacket spine slightly darkened; 1/2" closed tear upper rear dust jacket edge mended with (now somewhat discolored) clear tape. Otherwise clean and tight.

Bucks, England: Bradt Publications, 1994 Third edition. First published in 1980. Illustrated with line drawn maps.

New York: Holiday House, 1980 Cloth. Ex-Library. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Library marks limited to single inkstamp to front endpaper, and glue stains to front and rear endpapers. Otherwise clean and tight in a dust jacket with lightly worn extremities.

Massachusetts: Self-published, 2006 Illustrated glossy covers. "The incredible account of the career of Frank M. DeSario." Edited by Shelly Rosenberg. Illustrated with black-and-white photograph reproductions. Light cover wear including short diagonal crease/curl to lower rear cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 Black cloth; gilt spine. Part of The Oxford Library of East Asian Literatures edited by David Hawkes. This scholarly work discusses and presents "only one of two complete examples of a form of medieval Chinese ballad-singer's art called 'chu-kung-tiao' in which prose narrative alternated with verse and different musical modes were used. By an anonymous author, the work "would have been written for a streetside and marketplace performance before a 'simple' audience." [Wilt Idema, writing in "China Under Jurchen Rule," edited by Tillman and West] Large library inkstamps and brown tape stains to front endpapers and inside rear cover. Rear endpaper neatly excised. Text clean, binding tight. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn, panels lightly scuffed. Jacket spine and margins somewhat sun-faded. Tiny tape stains along flap edges.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972 Color pictorial cloth, with matching cover and dust jacket illustration. With reinforced fabric "library" binding. Childrens book by the talented painter, illustrator, and costume and scenery designer. Color illustrations throughout, and full of historical facts. Very light rubbing to cover extremities. Front and rear endpapers moderately tape-stained where dust jacker was formerly attached. Library marks limited to small inkstamps at inside cover, top and bottom page blocks, and fore edge block. Otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket clean but modertaley-to-heavily edgeworn, including irregular closed tears at extremities. Small library spine label. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993 More than 80 quick and easy recipes.

New York: The Viking Press, 1970 Orange cloth; blindstamped black cover illustration; black spine lettering. Illustrated with woodcuts. Intended for young readers. These are nineteen short Bantu stoires, written down in the early 1930s by a pioneer teacher in the Kasai district of what more recently was known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by editor Crane on front endpaper. Clean, tight, and unworn in a lightly-to-moderately edgeworn dust jacket with a few short closed tears. Jacket spine sunned.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1926 Cloth. Good/Good+. Early reprint. Illustrated with black-and-white plate drawings. Light-to-moderate cover smudges; cover extremities lightly rubbed. Prior owner inscription/date on front endpaper. Single small, light stain to page fore edges; otherwise clean and intact. Vintage full-color dust jacket by Thelma Gerstin (?) moderately edgeworn and rubbed, with few tiny closed tears .

Stuttgart: F.G. Cotta'ichen Buchhandlung Rachfolger Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green cloth, decorative gilt title and spine lettering. Marbled page edges; attached cloth-strip bookmark. In old German. No date; early 20th century.
44.-46. Auflage [44th-46th Edition] Clean and tight with only faint wear to cover extremities.

Washington D.C.: War Department, 1931 Staple-bound original wraps; 52 pages, uncut. With 1935 9-page supplement with changes laid-in. With black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Small library inkstamp to front cover and to upper margin of first page of supplement. Upper half-inch of cover darkened and with few tiny tears; otherwise only lightly worn, clean, and intact.

New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1983 Illustrated with black-and-white photographs by David Guiney and drawings by Daniel D. Feaser. Price sticker inside front cover. Clean and tight.

Toronto: National Council of YMCAs of Canada, 1980 Very Good - 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Staple-bound with card covers; 46 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings and diagrams. Spine sunned; very light cover edgewear. Clean and intact.

New York: Lyons & Burford, 1993 White and yellow (spine) cloth. Third printing. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and one map drawing. Small, moderate diagonal crease to upper corner of front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight in a very faintly scuffed dust jacket.

London: Daily Telegraph, 1985 A chronicle of the 1985 battle for the Ashes by the newspaper's cricket correspondents. With black-and-white photographs and statistical charts and test sheets. Faint cover wear.

New York: The Viking Press, 1928 Blue cloth; stamped emblem of double-lotus flower with "SAKI" in center on front cover. Paper spine label. First published 1914; Collected Edition, of which this is the second reprint, was first published 1926. A volume in "The Works of 'Saki" [H.H.Munro] by this publisher. Six-page introduction by H.W. Nevinson. Lower cover corner bumped with light corresponding creases to first few pages of text block and crease to lower front dj corner. Faint rubbing to spine tips. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a clean and intact but chipped dust jacket. Both lower and upper jacket spine tips have 1/4" x 1"chips; horizontal closed tear at mid-point of spine; tiny closed tears to upper front and lower rear jacket panels.

Australia, 1985 Reprint; first published 1977. Illustrated with many beautiful color photographs of the region.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946 Red cloth; gilt art deco style title, spine lettering. Early reprint of vintage detective novel. Prior owner initials/date at upper front endpaper. Clean and tight.