Search Results: Titles starting with B from Whiting Books

Beirut, Lebanon: The National Council of Tourism Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Near Fine condition with just a trace of wear at some of the folds. 4 X 9 inches. Folds out to 12 panels of information and photos. Text by G. Borgi. Photographs by Manoug, Azad, and Dérounian. Layout: N. Girardier. Printed in Beirut by the SYCO Press. Date not indicated on the brochure, but it was acquired with other brochures from the 1960s-70s. 0.

New York: North-South Books, 1994. Book. Illus. by Katya Arnold. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Rubbing wear to the dust jacket, more on the rear panel. Tiny nick on the front panel at the spine. Slight edge wear or bumping to the top and bottom edges. Protected now in a clear Mylar sleeve. Storyline from the publisher: "When she is sent by her cruel stepmother to the fearsome Baba Yaga, a clever young girl uses kindness to make her escape. Based on a story from the collection compiled by the nineteenth folklorist Aleksandr Afanas'ev and illustrated in a bold, colorful style inspired by Russian 'lubok' art.".

Boston: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1916. Book. Good. Soft cover. Schmidt's Educational Series No. 56. Augmented Edition. 48 pages. Edge wear and penciled notation. A few pages with edge tears. Previous owner name on front cover with ink stamp of Pappler's Music Shop in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Taped inside the front cover music for What Child is This?.

Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Mild edge wear to jacket. Reprint of the 1937 edition published by R.M. McBride, NY. Scott recalls her upper class childhood in a small Southern town at the turn of the century and the effects of the times upon her family. 302 pages with an Introduction by Robert L. Welker. Frontispiece photo of Scott as a young girl..

Forest Hill, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Special Limited Edition of 750 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page (follows the red front endpapers). 138 pages. Appears to be an unread copy. From the book's dust jacket: "In the tradition of Charles Willeford's western noirs, Ed Gorman gives us the mining town of Granite Bend, where mining interests run the often violent lives of its citizens as we see first-hand when the fates of Marshal Royce and a young drifter intersect. Gorman's portrait of the West is a real one not a mythic one. He paints the people and their era with page-turning incidents of brutality and intrigue offering us compelling monsters and victims alike, all written in a lean, hardboiled style.".

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. About fine, clean copy. 310 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with black and white photos. Presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. About fine copy with just a trace of edge wear (slight bumping)..

New York: M. Witmark and Sons, 1951. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Rubbing wear to the extremities. Small tears starting at the spine ends. Small music store stamp on the first page (Hunleth, St. Louis). Music begins inside the front cover (page 2) and runs eight pages. Publisher listings with prices for "New Organ Music of Importance" inside rear cover. More ads on the rear cover for "Outstanding Transcriptions for Hammond or Pipe Organ" and "Organ (Hammond or Pipe) and Piano.".

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Author Mark Costello used the pseudonym John Flood for his first novel..

Edison, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. Bumping and shelf wear to lower extremities, otherwise a nice, clean copy. 128 pages with Bibliography and Index. Numerous color photographs..

New York: William Morrow, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Signed on the title page by the author. Fine, unread copy..

London: AH Baldwin & Sons Ltd, 2013. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover.

2013. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 624 lots. ancient coins, British and world coins, commemorative medals and banknotes, including a collection of railway medals..

2010. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Small crease upper corner. Pages not numbered. 2,196 items for this auction, which included the Strickland Neville Rolfe Collection; a Nobleman's Collection of Russian Coinage; Cut and Countermarked Coins, Tokens and Checks; and Oriental, British and Ancient coins. Illustrated and with Bibliography. Bid form laid in..

Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1954. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. One page score. Minor wear and some pencil notation on the score. An alternative cover from our other 1954 copy (same publisher) in stock..

Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1954. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. One page [p. 3], front cover and inside front cover couonting as pp. 1-2. Clean, sharp copy. An alternative cover from our other 1954 copy (same publisher) in stock..

Barcelona: Ajuntament De Banyoles, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Texto en Catalan, Frances e Ingles. Text in Catalan, French, and English (French and English translatiions found near the end of the book). Looking forward to the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, this book promotes Barcelona's smaller, neighboring town of Banyoles and its lake as the best venue for the rowing events in the Olympics. The book documents the history of the area aas well as its natural resources nd features numerous photographs to illustrate the text--both historical and contemporary subjects. Beautifully illustrated and designed, this is a large, heavy book, 198 pages, 30x30 cm (12x12 inches)..

Houston, Texas: Texas Southern University, 1996. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Creased down the middle, otherwise light wear. Four pages, stapled. Color photo of Barbara Jordan with an American flag on the front. The rear panel is a black and white photo of Barbara Jordan being sworn in as Governor for a day in Texas, 1972, making her the first woman Black governor in the history of the United States. A copy of that photo is inserted in the program as a separate, loose document. Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston, Texas in 1936 and died in 1996. She was the first Black woman elected to the Texas Senate. She was a Texas Southern University [Houston] graduate and became the first woman to travel with the TSU debate team. She was elected to Congress, gained fame with her testimony in the Watergate hearings, and delivered the keynote address at the 1976 Democratic Party Convention (first Black woman to do so). In 1979, she became a professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at… Read More

Albany, Texas: Bright Sky Press, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing. Inscribed on the half-title page: "To Billy, my old friend whom I admire so much. Ben Barnes." 256 pages with Bibliography and Index. Black & white photos..

Albany, Texas: Bright Sky Press, 2006. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing. Slight spine lean and light edge wear to jacket. Previous owner inscription on front free endpaper. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To ___, a long time Texas Democrat whom I appreciate, Ben Barnes." 256 pages with Bibliography and Index. Black & white photos..