Search Results: Titles starting with B from Hatfield Books and Memorabilia

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER presents "BY LAND & WATER, A Trip Personally Conducted by McLoughlin Bros., 623 Broadway, New York, the Pictures by R. [Richard} Andre, Copyrighted 1889." 10" x 12 ¼", 18 pages (first and last of which are pasted to the reverse covers), no dust jacket. Extremely scarce Victorian children's book with fanciful illustrations by well known British artist of the time, Richard Andre. McLoughlin Brothers hired as many as 75 artists for their factory and experimented with color reproduction. Each illustrated page contains a small poem. Half the illustrations are full color, and the other half shades of black, white, and tan. Overall condition = FAIR. Pages (heavy paper) are held to back cover by threads, front cover nearly separated, thin red binder tape present but no longer functioning. Pages 14/15 has 2" tear to bottom, designed rounded corners are worn, else whole, bright, and clearly readable. NOTED APPRAISER JAMES BEATTIE has attributed a… Read More

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a 5-star seller, presents a Very Rare First Edition of THE BACHELOR FLAT MYSTERY by R. A. J. Walling. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1934. 5 1/8" x 7", 310 pages, missing DJ, not library. Pages = Very Good minus: well tanned throughout, no marks except pricing on first fep, last end page ripped out, page 23/24 laid in, rest tight. Cover (black cloth boards with red drawings and particulars, including Morrow colodon) = Very Good: worn, but tight to spine, bottom and top of spine frayed, 1/16" jab to top of front.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. SECOND REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING THUS. Fine. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents BALANCHINE'S COMPLETE STORIES OF THE GREAT BALLETS. Arguably the world's greatest choreographer and teacher of ballet in the 20th Century, George Balanchine joins his friend, dance critic and long time proponent Francis Mason, to cover all the major ballets with multiple photos of principal dancers performing their signature roles. Conjoined with the stories of individual ballets are a brief history of ballet, a chronology of significant events, an interview with Mr. Balanchine concerning his career, "ballet for your children," careers in ballet, notes and comments on dancers and dancing, a complete glossary of terms, and an index. 5 5/8" x 8 3/8", 902 pages (oversize, may require additional postage), with no dust jacket, this is a VERY HANDSOME volume presenting dark rose designed boards with quarter bound black cloth as the cover,… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. FIRST EDITION THUS. Hardcover, with the ORIGINAL PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET . NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD PLUS. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the FIRST EDITION of THE BERLITZ SELF-TEACHER: SPANISH. While this may or may not be the First Printing, 1949 is the year for the FIRST EDITION. "Berlitz says: 'If you speak English, you can speak Spanish--the natural Berlitz way." This is the Full-size (5 1/2" x 8 1/4", 282 pages) hard cover book, with the ORIGINAL PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET. Overall condition of the book is NEAR FINE. Pages (top edges are tinted red) = Near Fine: very slightly yellowed, fep's slightly browned on edges, penciled old pricing on first fep, else very tight, sharp, clear, with no additional markings. Cover (red cloth boards with lack design and black particulars) = Near Fine: sunned top edge of front, somewhat rubbed top of spine, 1/2" scratch on back, else tight, sharp, fresh, square, with original color and print.… Read More

New York: E P Dutton and Company, 1972. FIRST EDITION STATED, FIRST PRINTING THUS. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. Eliot Porter, photographer. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, 64 gorgeous, full color, full page plates and 2 black and white plates in a 144 page book. Eliot Porter was a world famous 20th Century photographer, and in this beautiful "coffee table" book he has meticulously rendered the color plates via the "dye transfer" process. Porter also explains in careful prose his process, his career, and his favorite birds. 10 3/4" x 12 1/4" (oversized, may require additional postage), 144 pages including index, with complete original dust jacket. Overall book is NEAR FINE. Pages are Near Fine: end papers have considerable foxing, rest of pages are white, clear, tight, sharp, with no marks. Cover (forest green cloth boards with gold gilt particulars on spine) = Fine: sunning to very top edge of front, else tight, sharp, square, bright,… Read More

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a VERY RARE piece of WWI memorabilia, BLACK BOOK OF THE WAR; GERMAN ATTROCITIES IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM; FULL TEXT OF THE OFFICIAL REPORTS. The tract was published in 1914 by The Daily Chronicle. Text opens with "Violation of International Law. Decree of the 23rd September, 1914." 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ paperback tract w/ 64 pages, in Good condition, NOT a library copy: yellowed, brittle, occasional chips, otherwise in tact, clear print, no marks other than old pricing. Heavy paper cover (black front, red back) = front lower right corner torn off; "Price Twopence" appears at bottom front; back is ad for another tract: "In the Trail of the German army…. illustrations, showing the destruction by the modern Huns in their raid on Belgium & France." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a reporter for The Chronicle; David Lloyd George purchased the paper by proxy in 1918. Noted appraiser James Beattie has valued this book at $50.00.

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a 5-star seller, presents a FIRST EDITION of THE BOX, AND ORAL HISTORY OF TELEVISION, 1920-1961, with its ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET in Broadart protection. New York: Penguin Group, 1995. Go behind the scenes of many of early TV's most iconic shows via interviews with the people who created them. VERY GOOD MINUS/FINE. Pages = Very Good Minus: few marks on edges, ex-library markings in fep's, else tight, clean and clear. Cover = Very Good Plus: Slightly worn, library sticker on spine, yet tight, clean and clear. Original Unclipped Dust Jacket fully protected via broadart = Fine

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the First edition, Boxed Advance Reading Copy of JAY MCINERNY'S novel about sophisticated young New York Life in the 80's, BRIGHTNESS FALLS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, This 6" x 9 1/8", 416 page soft cover is in AS NEW condition with glossy wrappers, and fits neatly into an original, specially fitted, NEAR FINE cardboard box. An UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY makes this a RARE FIND. Noted appraiser James Beattie has valued this book at $110.