Search Results: Titles starting with B from Glenn Books

London: Joseph Cundall, 1849. Covers with blind-stamped corner designs. All edges gilt. Two small glue stains at upper hinge and usual offsetting to blank plate guard leaves. Light foxing to margins and versos of plates. Contemporary ink inscription on front pastedown. A remarkably bright copy of a scarce and well-known Victorian gift book, with ten chromolithographs by John Brandard, printed by M. and N. Hanhart.Pages measxure 230mm x 150mm. Joseph Cundall (1818-1895) wasw a Victorian English writer under the pseudonym of Stephen Percy, a pioneer phoyographer and London publisher of children's books. He employed many of the best artisis of the day as illustrators. See VBD pp.142 and 149, and McLean "Cundall", p.67.. First Edition. Pebble-grain Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Octavo.

Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1887. This is Volume XI, Number 10 for October, 1887. Edited by the editors of "Wide Awake". Eight pages witth 4 pages of adverts. Backstrip tape with "Epp's Cocoa" . Stories, rhymes, and games. See photos.. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Moderate Wear And Soiling. Small Thin Quarto.

London and New York: Frederick Warne Brown cloth spine. All edges dyed red. "A book of old rhymes with new dresses and music by the earliest masters". Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. 56pp. A very clean and crisp copy in a chipped dust jacket. See photos. First published in London by George Routledge in 1877. This reprint is circa 1920.. Reprint Edition. Illustrated Boards, 1/4 Cloth. Minor Edge Wear Only/Chipped Dust Jacket. Pblong Octavo.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. Priced at $6.95 on front blurb. "A little circle whose members have decided that the celibate life is best..Their methods are frankly borrowed from Alcoholics Anonymous. When one of them feels the urge to take a woman out, he seeks out the other members, tells them of his craving, and they reason with him" (From the blurb).186pp.. First American Edition. Aqua Cloth. Near Fine./Near Fine.. Octavo.

Buffalo, N.Y.: The Peter Paul Book Company, 1896. Vignette of American Indians sitting around a fire next to a tepee on front cover. Spine gilt. All edges gilt. Bevelled boards. Front lower free edge bumped. Inscribed by author's daughter Ethel E. Welty on front free endpaper. Frontispiece portrait of the author. This is a border book with all bordering in red. Illustrated with full-page plates by Capt. J.M. Bagley, artist of the State Historical Society of Colorado. The poet (1853-1928) lived a large portion of his adult life in St. Joseph, Missouri. 128pp. We find no recent sales for the book, only printed-on-demand copies. . First Edition. Brown Cloth. Almost No Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1856. Rebacked with red leather spine label. Some sdoiling and staining of covers. See photos. Small square of paper missing from top corner of front free endpaper. Internally a very clean copy. A fine source book. 384pp. . First Edition. 1/2 Brown Calf. Moderate General Wear/No Dust Jacket. Medium Demi Octavo.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap Minor chipping head of jacket only. Vivid color illustration of DiMaggio and younf boys with bats. A part of the "Big League Maseball Library". 4 pages of photo at front. First published by McGraw-Hill in 1948. This copy not dated but likely early 1960's. Chapters on sand lot and semipro, each fielding position, hitting base running and coaching, slumps. "How to score" by Red Barber at end. This scoring means filling out the score sheet at the ball game. Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999) played his entire career as centerfielder for the New York Yankees. His 56-game hitting streak in 1941 still stands. He was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. 209pp.. Reprint Edition. Tan Cloth. Fine/Nearly Fine. Octavo.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. In brown wrappers, minor soiling. Illustrated throughout..

Washington Government Ptg Office 1940. Manilla wrappers. Minor soiling. Illustrated with charts, line drawings, and photographs. Excellent section on mosquito and vermin control..

Washington Government Ptg Office 1940. Manilla wrappers. Minor soiling. Illustrated with charts, line drawings, and photographs. Excellent section on mosquito and vermin control..

Washington Government Ptg Office 1941. Brown wrappers. Minor soiling. A bit of water staining. Replete with figures and drawings. Color fold-out map at the rear. Westover Field stamp on front cover..

Washington Government Printing Office 1941. In brown wrappers, minor soiling. This is FM 21-105. Printed March 12, 1941. Illustrated throughout. Large sections on tools, knots and rigging, explosives and demolition..

Washington Government Printing Office 1940. In brown wrappers. Minor soiling. This is FM 26-5. Changes No. 1 laid-in. Includes sections on guarding prisoners, special guards..

Washington Government Ptg Office 1940. Manilla wrappers. Minor soiling. Illustrated with charts, line drawings, and photographs. Excellent section on mosquito and vermin control..

Washington Government Ptg Office 1940. Manilla wrappers. Minor soiling. Illustrated with charts, line drawings, and photographs. Excellent section on mosquito and vermin control..

Washington Government Ptg Office 1939. Tan wrappers. Minor soiling. Numerous diagrams, charts, and drawings..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1928. Gilt basket on front cover. Spine faded, but lettering remains readable. Bookplate on front pastedown. A reprint of the 1914 first edition. Chapters on materials and tools, fundamentals, work-baskets, simple-handle baskets, flower baskets, candy baskets, Indian centres, oval baskets, a table or weaves, borders, and coils. Finely-illustrated with photographs and drawings in multi-color to help explain technique. . Reprint Edition.. Green Cloth. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Kansas City, Missouri: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company.., 1900. Spine lettered in gilt. Cream endpapers with yellow floral designs. Light foxing to the preliminary pages, including title page. Illustrated throughout the text, with 19 pages of portraits at the conclusion. Two of those plates have 1" tears at bottom (paper flaws from the printer without loss of substance).Three early pages have pencil underlining and bracketing, otherwise clean. A well-respected history of Missouri at the time of the Civil War with chapters on Kansas troubles, Battle of Lone Jack, General Sterling Price, Order No.11, Shelby's Raiders, Missouri State Guards. A scarce book in very good condition. This copy is INSCRIBED, SIGNED, and DATED by the author, "To Col. John B. Stone with compliments of the author, W.L. Webb, K.C. Mo., Aug.1, 1900". (See Nevins II,166.). 370pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Light Wear and Soiling./No Jacket. Octavo.

(Overland Park, Kansas) The Scott Free Press (1979). White morocco-patterned paper over boards, fine. Limited to 110 copies, signed by the author..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. One small faded spot at bottom of front cover keeps this copy from being fine. The third book in the Bech trilogy; following "Bech: A Book" and "Bech Is Back". 241pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Red Cloth. Nearly Fine/Fine. Octavo.