Search Results: Titles starting with B from Bloomsbury Books

La Mesa, CA: San Diego Interfaith Task Force on Central America and The Binational Center for Human Rights, Tijuana, 1989. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Offered is an original brochure entitled "BORDER STUDIES PROGRAM: Dedicated to understanding and communicating the conditions facing Central American refugees at the United States/Mexico border" published in 1989 by the San Diego Interfaith Task Force on Central America out of La Mesa, California. An eight-panel brochure measuring 3-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing single-panel front and rear covers as well as three double-panel full pages. Text is in English. The Contents are: Perspectivos de la Frontera (which begins, "VISIT the US/Mexico Border at Tijuana and San Diego with noted anthropologist and human rights advocate Victor Clark Alfaro. Mr. Clark has designed each educational program to include observations of border crossing points and classes on the many people and… Read More

Washington, D.C.: National Peace Action Coalition, 1971. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Offered is an original brochure headlined "BRING ALL THE GIs HOME NOW! END THE DRAFT NOW! APRIL 24 [1971] - March on Washington [D.C.] and San Francisco" issued in 1971 by the National Peace Action Coalition out of Washington, D.C. A left-folded brochure measuring 3-3/4" by 8-1/2" and containing six panels (six narrow pages). With a large photograph from a recent protest and rally and a headline reading STOP THE WAR NOW!, the text reads in part, "Everyone is hurt by this war. GIs, working people, Black and Brown people, women and students. Young people are sent off to their deaths; war-induced inflation undermines our standard of living; the racist nature of the Army and the war places a specially heavy burden on national minorities; and the world is horrified by the destruction we are inflicting on a people halfway around the planet."… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Bach Mai Hospital Emergency Relief Fund (Medical Aid for Indochina), 1973. Book. Fine. No Binding. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Offered is an original brochure from the Bach Mai Hospital Emergency Relief Fund, a branch of Medical Aid for Indochina, published in November 1973 out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A left-folded brochure measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing four pages including front and rear covers. With two front cover photographs of Bach Mai Hospital before the bombing (November 1972) by U.S. B-52 bombers and after the bombing (December 1972). With four additional photographs (Damage at Bach Mai Hospital, 12/22/72; Reconstruction at Bach Mai Hospital, March 1973; Fetal Monitoring at Bach Mai Hospital; First shipment for the ENT in Hanoi), the topics are: Bach Mai: Viet Nam's Largest Hospital; The 1972 Christmas Bombing; Destruction at Bach Mai; The 1973 Peace Agreement; Reconstruction: The E.N.T. Institute at Bach Mai; U.S. Aid.… Read More

San Antonio, TX: Self-Published, 1943. Book. Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Offered is a first edition, sixth printing of "Backsliders Brought Back" written by Sam Morris (who was known as "The Voice of Temperance") and self-published in July, 1943 out of San Antonio, Texas. A softcover measuring 5-1/4" by 7-5/8" and containing 72 pages including front and rear covers. From the Introduction, reading in part, "The Bible reveals Its leading characters as being 'subject to like passions as we are.' Noah's feet were hardly dry before he was drunk. Abraham sojourned in Egypt and brought a curse upon the land. Lot, with his family, went to ruin in Sodom. Jacob backslid and forgot his vows to God. Moses, in a fit of temper, smote the rock and was prohibited from entering the promised land. David committed murder and adultery. Solomon couldn't let the women alone. Jonah sought to evade the call to preach.… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: One Story - The Old American Can Factory, 2011. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Stapled wraps measuring 5" by 7" and containing 40 pages including front and rear covers. A short story. In As New, splendid condition..

Munich, West Germany: Suddeutscher Verlag, 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Small, light damp stain to corner of inside rear dust jacket flap; dust jacket shows two short closed corner tears, light corner wear, else clean and bright..

Oslo, Norway: Norsk Musikforlag. Four pages including front and rear covers with two pages containing music and lyrics in Norwegian. ".75" written in small pen to lower right corner of front cover; covers show light corner creases. . VG+. Sheet Music. First Edition. 1946.

New York, NY: Colgems Music Corporation. Containing front and rear covers, and two interior pages of sheet music with lyrics in English, please note that this is a photocopy and hence a good working copy only. . Very Good. Sheet Music. 1965.

The Calvert Company, Inc., 1985. Book. Near Fine. No Binding. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Offered is the first, and possibly only, draft of the screenplay entitled "The Balladeer" by writer, producer, and director Fred Calvert. Dated May 28, 1985, a draft script (the scenes are not numbered), the film, to my knowledge, was never made. The screenplay contains 52 machine-copied loose leaf pages (complete), including title page and synopsis, with each page measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and printed on one side. In light cream covers with embossed logo and name of the company (The Calvert Company, Inc.). The script and covers are three-hole-punched and bound together with three brass brads. The outer covers show periodic edge and corner wear..

Baltimore, MD: American Friends Service Committee, 1973. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Offered is a rare brochure entitled "The Baltimore Work Co-Operative: A Project of the American Friends Service Committee" published by the AFSC out of Baltimore, Maryland. No date, although circa 1973-74. A left-folded brochure measuring 4-3/4" by 8-1/2" and containing four pages including front and rear covers. With front cover and inside illustration, and headings WHO ARE WE? and THE CO-OP OFFICE, the text reads in short part: "We are a group of people who are actively concerned with the structure of work in America - - Our energy comes from a belief that there is something more to work, and to life, than mindless routine and the production of socially harmful goods - - Those of us who are able to find some kind of work are often forced into boring, deadening jobs because of race, sex, age, class, or financial pressure - - Our office… Read More

Hollywood, California: Onsco Publications, 1963. Book. Fair. Soft cover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Issued in pocketbook only. From the front cover: "The wildest bedroom farces of all times now are set in our times!" In worn covers showing three corner creases, moderate edge and corner wear. Mid-spine cracked but no loose pages. A good reading copy..

Washington, D.C.: TBR Co.. A quality-produced magazine with glossy covers, measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 44 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with historical photographs, the Contents are: Editorial; The Bay of Pigs - Pivotal Operation of the JFK Era by Fletcher Prouty; Glencoe: The British Crown's Slaughter of a Highland Clan by John Tiffany; June 22, 1941 - "Operation Barbarossa" by Vivian Bird; A Legionnaire Takes on the Doctrinaire by Carl Hottelet; "To Bear Honest Witness" - A Hidden German Holocaust ("An Eye for an Eye" by John Sack reviewed); Jimmy Doolittle: Pugnacious Master of the Skies by George Fowler; Hitler, Democrat - Chapter Two: The Unknown Soldier (second installment by Leon Degrelle); Letters to the Editor. Staples age-rusted; small light spot to upper right corner of front cover. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1994.

Washington, D.C.: TBR Co.. A quality-produced magazine with glossy covers, measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with historical photographs, the Contents are: Editorial: The Auschwitz Anniversary - An Occasion for Historical Revision; lengthy article The Balkans by John Tiffany and George Fowler ("The Balkan tinderbox has a long, complex and tragic history"); Canada and the 'Nation of Immigrants' Fallacy by Gilbert Gendron; Hitler, Democrat - Chapter IV "The Debacle" by Leon Degrelle (fourth installment); The Fought With Celluloid Until the Bitter End by George Fowler ("What warring leader, his nation surrounded and at the point of penetration by hostile armies moving in for the kill, authorizes his propaganda minister to detail 187,000 troops to function as extras in an extravagant movie?"); Letters to the Editor. Staples rusted, else Fine. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1995.

Lawrence, KS: Mercy & Truth Publications, 1997. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First published in 1989; this is the 1997 Revised Edition. A quality stapled pamphlet measuring 5-3/8" by 8-1/4" and containing 60 pages including front and rear covers. With fill-in-the-blank study questions, the Chapter headings are: Assurance of Salvation; Eternal Security; Scriptural Baptism; Church Membership; Bible Study; Effective Prayer; Biblical Separation; Successful Stewardship; Personal Evangelism..

London, England: J & W Chester, Ltd., 1962. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 40 pages including front and rear covers with 33 pages containing music and lyrics in English. Former owner's name to upper edge of front cover; infrequent jottings throughout music; bibliographic notes about Lennox Berkeley by former owner to inside title page..

New York, NY: The Intellectual Activist, 1983. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A left-stapled softcover measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 68 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are: Preface; Supply-Side Populism; The Wages of Sex; Neuterism: The Ultimate Egalitarianism; Ayn Rand on the Olympic Games; The Polish Illusion; The Polish Illusion Comes to Washington; Speak Softly and Carry a Big Carrot; The New Right Exegesis; A Small Voice for Freedom; Guns and Knee-Jerkism; Gold: The Solution to Our Monetary Dilemma; Ludwig von Mises: Defender of Capitalism; Production and Poverty; Interview with Leonard Peikoff. Staples very lightly age-rusted; a few short scuffs along outer narrow spine fold; else in Fine condition, unread..

New York, NY: D. Appleton & Co., 1880. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. An original steel engraving print indicating "E. ARMITAGE" (artist, 1817-1896) and "J.B. ALLEN" (engraver) just below and to the left and right side of the engraving. Also appearing below the engraving is the title "THE BATTLE OF MEEANEE" and publisher "D. APPLETON & Co. NEW YORK." A large folio sheet printed on thick paper with the sheet measuring 14-7/8" by 10-7/8"; the engraving itself measures 9-7/8" by 6-1/4". Condition: the sheet edges are fragile and show corner chips and periodic edge wear; the sheet itself is lightly age-browned and lightly age-soiled; the engraving is in excellent condition and highly suitable for framing..

Zurich, Switzerland: Baur Au Lac Hotel, 1965. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Offered is an original wine catalogue, printed by Baumann-Druck, Schoftland (Aargau) for the international luxury hotel Baur au lac, on the shores of Lake Zurich in Switzerland, founded in 1844 by Johannes Baur and still held by the Baur family to this day (Kracht). Printed on quality, heavy creme-colored stock, the catalogue measures 7-7/8" by 11" and contains 21 unbound leaves (hence 42 pages, complete), including front and rear covers (with narrow spiral binding holes along the left side of each page) along with outer protective covers. The text is in French. No date, but circa 1960s to 1970s given the price charged per glass of wine (see below). With the embossed insignia of Baur au lac Hotel to the front cover, the interior pages contain a list of over 500 select wines and spirits by name (often with year bottled), wine or spirits maker, and price, in Swiss… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Benro Enterprises, Inc. And Bay Area Reporter. Offered is the April 17, 1986 issue of "Bay Area Reporter" (Vol. XVI No. 16) published by Bob Ross and Benro Enterprises, Inc. out of San Francisco, California. A newspaper for the San Francisco gay and lesbian communities; a folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-1/2" by 17-1/2" and contains 48 pages including front and rear covers. Contains news, articles, editorials, letters to the editor, columns, events, arts and entertainment, reviews, gay bar and business ads, classifieds, and photographs. Cover headlines: "Duke Defends Forced Testing"; "Oral Sex May Pose Low Risk"; "'Fires of Hell' Threaten To Do In Phallic Worshippers: Barrage of Threatening Calls, Letters Hits St. Priapus; Rescue Mission Struggles to Survive." . Near Fine. Newspaper. 1st Edition. 1986.

San Francisco, CA: Benro Enterprises, Inc. And Bay Area Reporter. Offered is the August 28, 1986 issue of "Bay Area Reporter" (Vol. XVI No. 35) published by Bob Ross and Benro Enterprises, Inc. out of San Francisco, California. A newspaper for the San Francisco gay and lesbian communities; a folded newspaper, as issued, when unfolded measures 11-1/2" by 17-1/2" and contains 44 pages including front and rear covers. Contains news, articles, editorials, letters to the editor, columns, events, arts and entertainment, reviews, gay bar and business ads, classifieds, and photographs. Cover headlines: "PBS Nixes Gay Comic [Tom Ammiano]: Fears Homo In Promo"; "Texans Regroup, Plan New Fight On Sodomy Law." Short, light narrow waterstain to upper edge of front cover and first several pages (to margins only, and not affecting text or pagination). . VG+. Newspaper. First Edition. 1986.