Search Results: Titles starting with B from Idler Fine Books

Bungay, Suffolk: Fontana / Collins, 1973 First printing of the first edition. Toning to page margins, an erasure head size smudge to title page, a small closed tear and name inscribed on upper corner of half-title page, else book in fine condition; original dust jacket with soft shallow creasing to crown of spine and upper corners, else fine.

New York: Dutton, 1994 First edition, stated first printing. Signed and dated, in year/month of publication, by Wendy Hornsby. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Harvest / HBJ Book, 1992 Second printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Gloria Naylor directly on the title page. Mild bruise to upper front cover, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001 First printing of the stated first edition, limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies. Signed by Edward Bryant directly on the colophon page, #360. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

Racine, Wisconsin: James Magorian, 1992 First printing. Book in fine condition.

Racine, WI: Blank Gun Silencer Press, 1992. First Printing of the First Edition. Yellow Illustrated wrappers. In Fine condition.. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Dan Nielsen.

New York: Dutton / Penguin Putnam, 1998 First edition, stated first printing. Signed by Sharyn McCrumb directly on the title page. Book with light crimping to spine ends, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a light crease near upper front spine end and mild wear to extremities, else fine.

West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1975 First edition, original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, in original, illustrated dust wrapper, with blurb for the book and publisher's price of $5.00 listed on the front flap and the author's photo on back flap with biographical information below the photo. Book in n fine condition; dust jacket with tiny stain to front on the "R" of the title and faint toning to spine, else fine.

Harper Perennial / HarperCollins Publishers, 1991 First printing of the stated first HarperPerennial edition. Signed by Louise Erdrich directly on the title page. A touch of rubbing to corner tips and light toning to page margins, else book in fine condition.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Louise Erdrich directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1951 First printing of the first edition, with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. Publisher's black cloth with titles printed on the spine in white, octavo, 312 pages, in green and black just jacket (one of two variants, no priority). Touch of rubbing to corner boards and slight tanning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with slight tanning to spine end and moderate edge wear.

New York: Random House, 1964 First edition, stated first printing. Boldly signed by Neil Simon directly on the second front-free endpage. Faint toning to endpapers and a shallow bruise to upper front corner, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a shallow crimp along upper front cover, light wear to extremities, a tiny tear/crease to upper back cover, light tanning to spine, and mild foxing, primarily to back cover, else fine. A sharp copy.

Opened on Broadway (October 23,1963) at the Biltmore Theatre and closed on June 25, 1967, after 1,530 performances, Simon's longest-running hit, starring Robert Redford, Elizabeth Ashley, Mildred Natwick, and Kurt Kaszna, director Mike Nichols. The 1967 film version replaced Elizabeth Ashley with Jane Fonda.

New York: Random House, 1964 First edition, stated first printing. Faint toning to page margins, a tiny stain to the front endpage, and a touch of rubbing to spine ends, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short scratch along the lower front spine-fold, faint toning to upper edge and flap folds, minor edge wear, and toning/fading to spine, else fine.

Opened on Broadway (October 23,1963) at the Biltmore Theatre and closed on June 25, 1967, after 1,530 performances, Simon's longest-running hit, starring Robert Redford, Elizabeth Ashley, Mildred Natwick, and Kurt Kaszna, director Mike Nichols. The 1967 film version replaced Elizabeth Ashley with Jane Fonda.

New York: Columbia Theater Associates of Columbia University, 1950 Original printed tri-fold playbill, with a typed slip for a replacement cast member laid-in; playbill is displayed in a two-sided black glass frame; sale also includes an original ticket stub tipped-in. Presentation copy from Langston Hughes, along with inscriptions from other cast and production members (Muriel Rahn who played Cora Lewis and Jan Meyerowitz who wrote the music). In 1949, Hughes reworked his pet thesis of the "tragic mulatto" from his 1928 play "Mulatto" into an opera, "The Barrier," the music written by modern composer, Jan Meyerowitz. The opera was first produced in the Brander Matthews Hall at Columbia University in 1950 and directed by Milton Smith. The playbill reproduces Hughes? thoughts on his libretto, "It concerns the bitter wall of color between the inhabitants of Albamar Plantation in contemporary Georgia, Colonel Thomas Norwood, his brown housekeeper, Cora Lewis, and their… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990 First printing of the first edition. Inscribed and signed by Gary Soto. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

New York : Random House, 2018 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Marie Lu directly on the first blank page. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

New York / San Diego / London: Harcourt, 2002 First printing of the stated irst U.S. edition. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Virago Press, 1989 First printing of the first British edition. Author's first book. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint creasing, else fine.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first book. Light soiling rubbing to spine end and a tiny bump to upper back corner, else book in fine condition; closed tear and crease to upper, back corner, else dust jacket in fine condition. A lovely copy.

London : Millington Books Ltd, 1976 First printing of the first English edition. Signed by Harlan Ellison directly on the title page. Tiny bump to bottom corner board, else book in fine condition; light shelf wear and mild age-toning to inside flaps, else dust jacket in fine condition.