Search Results: Titles starting with B from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Club of Printing, 1935 One of 250 copies. Quarter leatherette over ecru linen boards, title in black on spine. . Octavo. Armorial vignette in golden brown on title-page. Printed on laid paper. Fine in slipcase.

[n.p., England: Oliver & Boyd? n.d., ca. 1830] Original brown stiff paper wrappers illustrated with a woodcut in black. Small octavo. Printed on one side only. With eight hand-colored woodcuts. Possibly illustrated by John Jackson on contract from the publisher. Dustsoiling to wrappers. Back cover loose. Some foxing to leaves. A good copy . A rare edition of this classic children's story. The list of twelve other juvenile books on the back cover indicate that this might be an Oliver & Boyd publication.

Kentfield, California: Allen Press, [1972] Folio. Three color etchings by Michèle Forgeois. Very minor offsetting from illustrations. Otherwise fine in publisher's slipcase. With publisher's prospectus. One of 130 copies. Printed on handmade paper. Running titles in several colors.

South Laguna, CA: Weather Bird Press,] 1969 One of fifty copies in boards in a total edition of seventy-five (twenty-five were bound in paper wrappers). This is one of the earliest books of Vance Gerry's Weather Bird Press. Most of the earliest items were ephemeral pieces, or in wrappers. . Dark red cloth over patterned purple boards. In the dust jacket, which is a bit chipped at the edges. . Octavo. With three linocut plates printed in purple. Title-paged printed in purple and black. A fine copy. "This excerpt from The Perfumed Garden is the press' only encounter with erotica. The illustrations, cut by the press, transcend the subject matter so well as to deserve a G rating today." (25 Years of the Weather Bird Press, 1993, #10. Vance Gerry Bibliography (Whittington Press, #11).

Portland, Oregon: Published by Fisher Music Co., Lithographed by Anderson & Duniway Co., [1905] First edition of this sheet music as printed for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, second edition overall. The sheet music was originally printed in 1902, but is here printed to promote the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The song honors the Bailey Gatzert, the most famous Columbia River steamship. Benjamin A. Gifford (1859 – 1936) is considered perhaps Oregon's most famous photographer, and his images include the cover photo of the steamship and Multnomah Falls.. Original color-printed paper wrappers illustrated with an elaborate border around a color-tinted photo reproduction of the Bailey Gatzert steamship heading up the Columbia River by Benjamin A. Gifford. 10 x 14 in. . . With six text photo reproductions. Some chipping to edges. With the ink ownership stamp of the Portland area piano teacher Lillian R. Bickner (1884 – 1962). A very good copy. "Portland staged its first and only world's fair from… Read More

Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch Press, 1967 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Castle Press, [1947] First edition thus. Cloth. Octavo. Black and white illustratioins. Very good in dust jacket with several chips around the edges and a couple of short tears. The illustrations are grim and excellent. The illustrator contributes an introduction.

Los Angeles: Imprenta Glorias, 2008 No limitation given. Designed by Gloria Stuart and printed by John Robinson. Initialed by Stuart on the colophon. Cream-colored Zerkall paper self-wrappers with an additional strip of red Cockerel paper (1954, from the stock of Ward Ritchie). Disbound, as issued. . Oblong quarto (12 x 9 "). A fine copy. Made by Stuart as a Zamorano Club souvenir for the San Francisco Roxburghe Club.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1940 One of 300 copies printed by Ward Ritchie. Pictorial boards. Octavo. An excellent copy. Includes poems by Joaquin Miller, Bret Hart, Ambrose Bierce, and Gelett Burgess.

[Seattle:] The Windowpane Press, 2014 No limitation given, probably one of about a hundred copies. Designed and produced in a class taught by Bonnie Thompson Norman in collaboration with Dawn Hobson, Margaret Johnson, Ben Melhuish, and Caroline Williams. . Printed in black and red on white paper panels, which are mounted on black board. Hand-drawn accents in red. Each of the six panels forming the cube is printed on both sides with quotes about democracy and facts about voting rights. A fine copy. This artist's book transforms into a three-dimensional "ballot box" printed with text that aims to inform readers about voting rights and how to vote, along with quotes about democracy. Ballot Box is one of Bonnie Thompson Norman's many books that blend activism with artistry. Books like Which Side Are You On? (2019), A Primer for Democracy (2004), and Fourteen Ninety-Two or Three (1993) all address concepts of activism, equality, and social justice.

New York: Abrams, [1999] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 100 illustrations, including 55 plates in full color. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1960] First edition thus. Series: The Revels Plays. Cloth. Octavo. Light ellophane tape stains on endpapers. Very good in very good d.j.

New YorkP: Potter, Ainsworth & Co., 1874 Later printing? The envelope has the copyright date of 1874, but the first edition of the teacher's guide dates to 1871. OCLC records no copies of this set of cards.. Original beige paper envelope. Some foxing and toning. Cards are very clean. Despite the two lacking cards, still a very good, clean set, rarely found with the envelope and teacher's guide. Ten lesson cards (5 x 3 ) enclosed in a printed envelope (6 x 4 ). . Each card printed in black with guides for drawing and penmanship. Ten cards out of twelve (lacking two). [with:] Stickney, Jenny H. J[enny] H. Teacher's Guide: Companion to Bartholomew's Primary-School Drawing-Cards. Series Two. For Teachers and Students Using Bartholomew's Drawing-Cards. New York: Woolworth, Ainsworth, and Company, 1871 [i.e.,1872?]. Twelvemo. 79 pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original printed beige paper boards with green cloth spine. Toning and some dampstaining. Some rubbing to edges of boards. Uniform toning due… Read More

New York: Random House, [1945.] Ninth printing. Cloth, in publisher's slipcase. 2 volumes, octavo. Fine in very good slipcase. Case has minor soiling and a small stain from a pressure-sensitive label.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1942 First edition. The Psyche Miniatures Series. Clothbacked boards. Small octavo. Former owner's ink signature, boards lightly soiled. Very good.

New York: Academy Editions, [1988] Cloth. Quarto. With 400 illustrations, including over 150 in full color. Fine in fine d.j. Chronicles the work of one of the leading London architects.

Omaha: The Cummington Press, 1986 One of three hundred copies printed by Harry Duncan. Cloth with printed paper label. Octavo. Etched frontispiece, numbered and signed by the artist. A fine copy.

Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1936 Cloth. Octavo. Frontisportrait. Maps in text. Near fine in edgeworn dust jacket. Jacket is good+.

London: Hamish Hamilton, [1953] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's book label and small rubberstamp. Very good in price-clipped dust jacket with one tape repair.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1954 One of 375 copies designed & printed by Harold Seeger & Albert Sperisen at Black Vine Press. Tan cloth with front cover and spine stamped in brown. Quarto. Four facsimile illustrations and one other plate, vignette title-page. Fine, with original prospectus laid in.