Search Results: Titles starting with B from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1893. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed By Kate Douglas Wiggin. 8vo.. 1893. --'THE BIRDS' CHRISTMAS CAROL'-- An early printing, twice signed and inscribed by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Portrait of Kate Douglas Wiggin adhered to the front pastedown. An 'Author's Reading' program, tipped on the front-end paper & signed by Ms. Wiggin (& Mrs Geo. Christopher Riggs), There's a neat author's inscription on title page. Hinges repaired, and in nice condition..

New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. Ms. Deutsch's first book. Small fraying at the top of the spine. Uniform mild fading of the boards. Square, clean, crisp, and tight..

Book. Illus. by Celeste Asconsguy. Good. No Binding. Evocative portrait of a young couple in a cafe by 'outsider artist' Celeste Asconsguy. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999. Oil on cardboard. Approx. 7.5" x7". Frame approx 10" x 10". .

Newspaper. Very Good. No Binding. Nov. 5, 2008. NY DAILY NEWS, SPECIAL SECTION --'PRESIDENT OBAMA'-- 'Racing, Final' Brooklyn/Staten Island Section. 32-Page Election Special: 'PRESIDENT OBAMA - Nation changes forever with historic victory'. In excellent, supple condition- very lightly & uniformly toned..

Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1956. Postcard. Illus. by Bernard BUFFET. Near Fine. No Binding. Signed by Illustrator(s). 4x6 postcard in excellent condition. Signed at the bottom margin by Buffet..

New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1974. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Signed by Author(s). Dell # 3497. Housed in a custom made clear Lucite box. Any artist is only as good as his audience. That master orchestrator of terror, Alfred Hitchcock, is no exception. What good is his fearful brand of fiendish fun if he's no nerves to twist, no teeth to set chattering, no vocal chords to strum into high notes of terrified hysteria? That's where you come in, dear reader. Just put yourself in his skillful hands. He'll give you a screaming good time with personally selected stories & novelettes by masters of menace & the macabre. 1. Perfect Shot-Lawrence Treat 2. The Amateur Philologist-August Derleth 3. The Glint-Arthur Porges 4. The Seventh Man-Helen Nielsen 5. Voodoo Doll-Henry Slesar 6. A Friendly Exorcise-Talmage Powell 7. Many Women Too Many-C.B. Gilford 8. Till Death-Fletcher Flora 9. The Hitchhikers-Bruce Hunsberger 10. Store Cop-Ed Lacy 11. Doom Signal-John Lutz 12. See… Read More

NY: Redbook Magazine, 1964. Book. Illus. by child-care & child-rearing. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 2nd Edition. 'May all your troubles be little ones' - Benjamin Spock, M.D. 1965. [child rearing] SPECIAL, ILLUSTRATED Book Edition of DR. SPOCK'S Redbook Magazine Columns (1963-1964)-- SIGNED, INSCRIBED by DR. SPOCK. Redbook Magazine, NY. Hardcover edition-- of Dr. Spock's highly influential, evolving philosophy on child rearing and development-- How My Ideas Have Changed. Bottle, Blanket and Thumb - Comfort or Bad Habit? Discipline- Where Fathers Fail. Children and Death. Toilet Training. Are We Minimizing Differences between the Sexes? Difficulties in Breast Feeding. What Toys Mean to Children. Protecting Children From the Harm of Discrimination. Psychology Can't Substitute For Morality. Dr. Spock's inscription of good wishes to an expectant mother is written into the book; and a tipped-in letter of presentation from her nephew. In beautiful collectible condition..

Photographic Image. Good. Hardcover. The photo album opens in June 1942 with Lt. Berg relaxing in San Bernardino, CA before shipping out to Patterson Field, OH for bivouac and training into 1943.While at Patterson Lt. Berg has snaps of the mess tent, guys playing and working, practice ariel strafing, the Officer's Mess, chapel choir pics....Next on to Oran- NW coastal Algeria where we see a series of small portraits of other men in Berg's Company We're now into 1944 and Lt. Berg has left North Africa, and we see him in Naples, Pompeii, Nancy, Capri, Marseilles; now on to Palestine Lt. Berg was attached to the 15th Depot & Supply Squadron 1942-1944, and did a lot of travelling. 150+ photographs, 1x2, 2x4, 3x5, 4x6 inches. The album is approx. 11.5" x 7.5", and the rear board appears to have been replaced. Overall in nice collectible condition. Domestic s/h $15..

NY: Modern Library, 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. S.J. Perelman was an American humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is well known for his hilarious short pieces for The New Yorker. He also wrote novels, scripts, and screenplays, and received an Academy Award for best screenplay in 1956..

NY: Vanguard Press, 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾. First Edition. Tan cloth hardcover with brown lettering to spine and front; no jacket; xix, 186p., profusely illus. 1936 on title and copyright page. Good condition: mild soiling to binding; moderate wear to extremities and corner bumps; a bit of interior toning..

UK: Allen Lane, 2021. Book. Illus. by Mitzi Rawls. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo.. JORDAN B. PETERSON Beyond Order - 12 More Rules For Life The new release from the bestselling Canadian psychologist (UK edition). Allen Lane, 2021 SIGNED First Edition, 1st printing. Condition is new and unread. Small bump at front bottom corner, else near fine..

BRATTLEBOROUGH VERMONT : WILLIAM FESSENDEN, 1811. Book. Illus. by Mitzi Rawls. Fair. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 1811. 4th Edition. --'Biographical Memoirs of the Illustrious Gen. George Washington, Late President of the United States of America'-- by the writer and publisher WILLIAM FESSENDEN. Brattleboro, VT. 'Containing a History of the Principal Events of his Life with Extracts from his Journals, Speeches to Congress, and Public Addresses. Also, A Sketch of His Private Life.' Full leather, in fair condition. (24mo, approx. 5.5"x 3.5", 206 pp.) This earlier printing not listed in OCLC & has no available auction or sales records -- Washington died in 1799; this 4th edition was printed in 1811..

Wichita Falls, Texas: Possum Press, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Folio - over 12. This handmade book was printed in the winter of 1979, in the MSU (Michigan State) Typography lab........Type used in the text is 14 point Craw Modern. The photographs are printed on grade 2 & 4, F surface Kodak Kodabromide single weight paper......This book is number 1 in a limited edition of 17. SIGNED Mark Boyd 2/6/80. .

NY: Signet , 1961. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Signed by Author(s). 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signet #P2709 [ii], 157, [3] pp., later printing. Very good condition with lite 'dog ears' at the corners o the first several pages. The author's best-known work, in which he darkened his skin and traveled the Deep South; an influential civil rights book. Uncommon signed. Housed in a custom made box..

St. Paul, MN: Great Northern Railway, 1935. Book. Illus. by Winold Reiss - Inscribed . Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. Folio - over 12. St. Paul: Great Northern Railway, (1935). 1st. Hardcover. 49 stunning, highly detailed, color portraits by Winold Reiss, each with accompanying text. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with decorative lettering front and back.12.25"x10.25". The book was commissioned by Great Northern Railway to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Glacier National Park; land that was bought from the Blackfeet Nation in the 1880s by the US government. The volume is a tribute to the Blackfeet Native Americans; it recounts their history through the period when they were forced to become farmers after the near extinction of the buffalo and beaver upon which they lived. Clean & bright. Album presents very well. Though endpapers are split at the hinges, they are both still holding very well. Boards a bit rubbed… Read More

Harry N. Abrams, 1953. Print. Illus. by Rembrandt. Very Good. No Binding. Approx 7"x10" mounted on a sheet approx.11"x15". Very good condition. This is from one of the series "Art Treasures of the World", published by Harry N. Abrams in 1953..

Chelsea House Pub, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. Signed on the cover by Bob Gibson. Excellent collectible condition..

Typewritten. Illus. by Mildred A. Roemer. Very Good. No Binding. 31pp, ii- 1940s original typescript with illustrations for a children's book about growing a garden for the first time. Mildred A. Roemer was an East Rockaway, NY artist, writer, journalist, historian and civic activist. This manuscript is unpublished and was returned to the author in 1975 from Doubleday & Co..

Photographic Image. Very Good. No Binding. Reprinted from the negative. 4"x6".

Print. Very Good. No Binding. 1904, original etching. --Amelia Bauerlë's 'A Boy of Teneriffe'-- In excellent condition. Matted under glass in silver-colored oak-wood frame. From the Estate of Eric Carlson, a university professor and professional art dealer of 19th century French and American prints & drawings. Painter, illustrator and etcher, British artist Amelia Bauerlë's studied art at the South Kensington School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art at London's Kensington Museum, before traveling in Italy and Germany. She exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1897 until her death, and also Paris & the U.S.  Daughter of German artist Karl Wilhelm Bauerle, Amelia Bauerle was born in the London district of Bayswater. Matted under glass in a silver-colored wood frame- the image size 4-1/4" x 8-3/4"; sheet size 13-3/8" x 16-5/8"..