Search Results: Titles starting with B from Pages Past Books

Good+, no dj Automobile Bear Manufacturing Co Rock Island 1930 23rd Edition Softbound 8vo, 48 pp, b+w photos and illustrations, charts and specifications Manual with many illustrations also including list of needed tools etc. Covers soiled; otherwise solid and clean.

VG, no dj Re Bishop illus Sporting George G. Harrap London 1936 Limited Ed. Hardbound 4to, unpaginated, 73 etchings reproduced in aquatone, chronological index, pictorial cover This is copy # 77 of 250. Many illustrations are signed and identified by Bishop. Light soiling to white of covers; bottom right front corner bumped;otherwise solid and clean.

VG+, no dj Hiroshi Tanabe illus Design Korinsha Press Kyoto 1998 1st (scarce) Softbound 4to, unpaginated, color & b+w illus, list of works by appearance, signed & inscribed with drawing by Tanabe This is Tanabe's rare first book and won a gold medal for illustration and design from The Art Director's Club. His work appears in many prominent fashion publications and advertisements; his editorial illustrations appear regularly in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker etc. The book is inscribed and signed by tanabe on the front endpaper with a drawing of an electric guitar and amplifier dated 1998. Light soiling to the rear cover; otherwise clean and solid

Good+, no dj Military George Bell and Sons London 1888 Limited Ed. Leather 8vo, 623 pages, b+w illustrations, 3/4 leather binding, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers Presentation inscription inked on front endpaper: Presented to Major G.R. Macnab, Gordon Highlanders by David S. Miller as a souvenir of his son Captain D.S. Miller, Gordon Highlanders, 5th December 1909, Aberdeen Depot,Castlehill Barracks. G.R. Macnab took part in the relief of Chitral and received the India Medal with the Relief of Chitral clasp. David S. Miller was author of A Captain of the Gordons and saw action in the Boer War and Somaliland campaigns. Winston Churchill called the Gordon Highlanders "... the finest regiment that ever was!" Inked at the top of the title page is "7th April 1900 D.S. Miller 1st Batt.n Gordon Highlanders" The book was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies. There is extremity rubbing; the inside front hinge paper is cracked; 2 signatures protrude slightly from the fore edge;… Read More

Good+ condition Denman Fink illus AL Burt NY (1908) reprint hardcover 8vo, 310 pages + ads, 4 b+w plates by Fink. Some light agewear with some light foxing. Name front free endpaper and inside front cover. Solid and clean.

Good+ condition A.L. Burt NY (1908) reprint hardcover 8vo, 310 pages, b+w photos from the play, pictorial cover. Owner's name and address stamps front endpaper. Light general agewear. Solid clean copy.

VG/no dustjacket Grosset & Dunlap NY 1971 early reprint hardcover 8vo, 154 pages + index, b+w photos, color photo endpapers, pictorial covers. Solid and clean with just light extremity rubbing.

Very Good with just light edgewear Anchor/Doubleday Garden City 1980 reprint softcover Large 8vo, 419 pages, b+w illustrations, trade paperback. Originally published as "Baseball I Gave You All The Best Years Of My Life."

NF/VGcondition Bear's Heart illustrations J.B. Lippincott Philadelphia/NY 1977 1st ptg hardcover 8vo, 63+ pages, color illustrations, afterword by Jamake Highwater. A biography of Bear's Heart, illustrated with his own drawings done while he and seventy-one other Indians were imprisoned in Florida. Dustjacket with several closed tears at extremities and light edgewear; bright and nice in Brodart protective cover.

VG John E Potter & Co Philadelphia 1865 early reprint hardcover 8vo, 437 pp + ads, b+w frontis, appendix. Listed in Wright's American Fiction. Originally published as Margaret Moncrieffe, the First Love of Aaron Burr: A Romance of the Revolution in 1860. Name and 1882 date written on front endpaper. Reddish brown cloth bidning has black decorations with gilt spine decoration and titling. Light extremity wear and diagonal closed tear at upper right corner of front free endpaper. Solid and clean. Includes an appendix of historical information.

VG just some soiling at top page edge George A Dowling illus Metropolitan Press Portland 1931 1st hardcover 8vo, 292pp, 300 years of the history of the north Pacific coast from 1543 to passage of the 1st wagon train through to the Colum On the old Oregon Trail in 1843. Nice black and white illustrations and decorations.

Good/Fair, Fair dj Autobiography Harcourt Brace & World New York 1964 1st Am Edition Hardbound 8vo, 263 pp, b+w photos, index Dustjacket with soiling, chipping, tape repairs to reverse and faint dampstaining to reverse. Solid with dj in protective cover. From the library of Heywood Hale Broun with his signature on the front endpaper.

VG+ condition Sotheby Parke Bernet NY 1979 1st softcover 8vo, unpaginated, color and b+w illustrations, index. Catalog for the auction of the Estate of Benjamin Sonnenberg, Mrs. Benjamin Sonnenberg, and the Gramercy Park Foundation Inc. held in 1979. This is volume 1 including Old Master Paintings and Drawings, 19th and early 20th century paintings and drawings, Impressionist and Modern paintings, drawing and sculpture. Includes terms, estimates, etc. Covers lightly rubbed. Solid clean copy of a substaintial catalog with over 1500 lots pictured.

G+/VG Random House NY 1987 1st hardcover 8vo, 221 pages. Story of the controversial shooting of a Harlem youth by a policeman. Lengthy gift inscription inked front endpaper. Small blue stain at base of bottom page edge. Small dampstain top page edge. Solid otherwise clean copy with dustjacket in protective cover.

Fine/Fine Chilton Radnor 1984 1st, Review hardcover 8vo, 241pp. Review copy with card etc. laid in.

Fine/Fine Simon & Schuster NY 1989 1st hardcover 8vo, 242 pages, b+w photos, index, appendix, signed. Author was chairman and chief auctioneer at Sotheby's Auction House. Signed by author on front endpaper.

VG condition Lyons & Carnahan Chicago 1966 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 224 pages, color illustrations, glossary. Teachers' edition of 5th grade reader including stories on golfer Ben Hogan, Jim Thorpe (Bright Path) Jackie Robinson, pirates, space, Indians, science, etc. Cover lightly soiled with a few page corners turned towards end of book. Nice solid clean copy.

VG+/VG Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1958 1st hardcover 8vo, 226pp, dj design by Betty Middleton-Sandford. Novel of escape set in 1941 Uzbekistan. Short closed tear to dustjacket at upper left front. Clean and solid.

Good/no dustjacket McLoughlin Bros Springfield (1929) 1st assumed hardcover 8vo, 284 pages, b+w photos, pictorial endpapers. Introduction by Commader Richard E Byrd. Light soiling and general agewear.Spine sunned. Solid copy.

VG/VG-condition A.S. Barnes South Brunswick/NY 1971 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 127 pages, b+w photos, index, bibliography, glossary. With almost 50 photographs, author "...assembled all the necessary information that will eliminate most of the guess work from channel bass fishing. " Dustjacket price clipped with light rubbing. Inside front cover has a large personal bookplate. Nice solid clean copy.