Search Results: Titles starting with B from Collectible Books

1. BABY'S BAEDEKER : AN INTERNATIONAL GUIDE-BOOK for the YOUNG of ALL AGES. Peculiarly Adapted to the Wants of 1st & 2nd Childhood. By Col. D. Streamer (Pseudonym for Jocelyn Henry Clive Graham or Captain Harry J C Graham). Author of Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. New York; R. H. Russell, Publisher 1902. First edition. 56 pp. Cloth spine; pictorial paper pastedown covers in black, orange and blue. Age toned, normal wear to edges, and rubbed overall. Faded blue top edge. Bottom and side edges rough cut. Contents tight and clean. 9 full-page plates and additional text illustrations.

1. Houghton Mifflin: 1985. First edition, first printing. Book like new, clean, crisp, tight, bright and unread. Dust jacket with 1/2 inch closed tear to bottom edge, and light rub to corner tips and edges.

1. 1901. Scarce or rare first edition. L. C. Page & Co. By Bradley Gilman with intro by Edward Everett Hale. xx+242pp. Five illustrations. No jacket. Square and clean in green cloth with bright gilt to faded spine and cover. Top edge gilt, binding tight, slight cracking to hinge paper, pages clean and bright. Country life, planned management, co-op living as an alternative to tenement houses and crowded city life. 'Booklovers Bulletin' note inside back board. An important work on early 20th century social reform.

1. Foul Play/Countryman Press, Woodstock Vermont 1982. Stated First Edition. Book appears unread, clean , bright and tight. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor corner crinkle. Publisher $12.95 on dj flap.

1. Complete 3 volume set 1905-1914! Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 27. Washington D.C. Dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering on spines. Light wear to extremities. 9.5""; x 11.75"";. Ex-lib with spine numbers removed, no edge stamps, small stamps within. Bindings are tight with hinge paper cracking on volume 3 only. Important agriculture treatise with an enormous amount of information. 1905 VOL 1: i-xii, 1-285pp. Preface, Contents (Outline of Methods of Work, Bibliography, General Literature), Illustrations list (31 plates, 146 text figures), Index. 1911 VOL 2: i-viii, 1-368pp. Contents (History, General Considerations, Vascular Diseases), Illustrations list (20 plates, 148 text figures), Index. 1914 VOL 3: i-xiii, i-309pp. Contents (Vascular Diseases), Illustrations: (47 plates, 155 text figures), Addendum, Index, Errata. A few of the full-page plates are in color.

1. 1st ed. 1958. By Brigham D. Madsen. Printed and lithographed by Caxton. No dj. Light greenish-grey cloth with red letters to spine and front cover. No fraying, very light staining. Place and date on fep. Map endpapers and pastedowns. 382pp. Clean, bright and tight. Includes bibliography, index, color frontis litho + 15 listed full-page illustrations and photos. The Bannock and Idaho history with much on settlers, Bear River, Boise, Blackfeet, Camas Prairie, Indian Affairs Commission, Fort Hall Reservation, Fort Bridger, Wyoming, Snake Indians, Treaties, Utah Northern Railroad, Congress, Mormons, Fur trade, Chiefs, Shoshoni.

1. Published by Paul Hamlyn. 1968. Black and white illustrated cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Book unmarked. Dj has minor dots of color loss. Folio 12.5 x 10.5 inches. 194 pages. ""Containing over 150 illustrations, 32 in colour, together with architectural sketches and ground plans..."" Nicely produced 1st edition.

1. NOTE! Not Marshall ed. True first ed. before Philadelphia ed. Providence: Brown & Cady, 1839. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by Francis Y. Carlile, in the clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Island. B. Cranston & Co. Printers. xv, 132 pp., 3 plates of fleet diagrams. 5 x 7.5"". Purple cloth w. border + decoration stamped on boards. Compartment lines and bright gilt letters on spine. Bottom spine and corner tips lightly rubbed. Spine top chipped 1/16"". Hinges intact, binding tight. Pages w. minor light spotting to first prefatory pages and occasional top margins. Small light pencil name on front fly. Else clean, bright, tight, vg+. Historical Society of Rhode Island lectures, official British and American accounts of the Battle of Lake Erie in 1812, Elliot's untimely aid attempt during the battle...William Easton Louttit bookplate tipped-in on rear pastedown.

Copyright 1986 by Dr. H.A. Hooks. SIGNED by H.A. Hooks, M.D. Printed by Texian Press; Waco, Texas. xi, 1-342pp. Illustrated with 25+ maps and b & w illustrations. Over forty years of research tracing the lives and times of the Hooks family from the British Isles thru the English Civil War to Colonial Virginia, into North Carolina, Georgia and to Texas. Much pioneer history of Hardin County in the Big Thicket area, particularly Kountz and Silbee near Beaumont. Dustjacket only slightly bumped and rubbed at foredge and spine tips. Book appears like new, unread, clean, tight, square and bright.

1. New York and London, D. Appleton and Company. 1914. First edition. Scarce. Hardcover. 355 pages. Illustrated by Charles M. Russell. Dark blue cloth with faded spine showing tears along edges and ends. Gilt faded on front cover. Both hinges starting with 1""; cracks. Partially erased writing on blank front endpaper. Binding tight. Pages clean and bright. 8 listed illustrations. Six-Guns 1169. Author from Virginia and worked on a ranch as a cowboy. Moved to Kansas, studied law, admitted to bar age 21. 1892 elected District Attorney in El Reno, Oklahoma. Became a train robber, horse and cattle thief, evangelist, murderer (was sentenced to life in prison and pardoned by Teddy Roosevelt), politician (ran for Governor of Oklahoma), author, and worked in silent and vocal western films.

1. By Elliot S. Barker (Author of When the Dogs Barked 'Treed'). 1st ed. 1953. Green cloth with letters and cabin illustrations in white on spine and front cover. Published by University of New Mexico Press. x, [1], 220pp. Near Fine condition in a Very Good, price-clipped, colorful dustjacket with light edgewear, painting of cabin and landscape on front, and photo of J. Frank Dobie and Mrs. Barker on horseback on back, and blurb by Dobie on flaps. Clean, bright and tight. Double-page map on front pastedown and endpaper with photos and illustrations in black and white. Wildlife, people and nature in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

1. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Hard Cover. Number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 . Stated First Trade Edition following limited Franklin Library printing. [14], 558pp. Light spotted foxing to verso of dj and to textblock foredge; else clean, square, bright, tight and unread.Original dj flap price $12.95. Very slight corner tip rub, no tears, chips etc.

1. Scarce First ed. 1938. Title continues ""...Including Best Foods for the Eyes"", 80pp. Published by Tempo Books, Inc. New York. Spiral bound pictorial card covers. Eye chart inside the front and back cover. 6""; x 9""; tall. Light cover wear. B&w illustrations. Includes: eye structure, eliminating glasses, techniques to relax/strenghten eyes, seven-day elimination diet, vitamins, eye bath, memory and vision, children's eyes, myopia, hypermetropia, presbyopia, cataracts, strabismus, photophobia and more.

Scarce SIGNED and dated by author on the half-title page. Excellent, but for faint surface rub to jacket. Copyright 2003. Published by Xlibris Corporation. ISBN: 141344251X. Author's life involving poverty on the Navajo Indian Reservation, Marine action in Vietnam, alcoholism, religious experience, and transformation.

1. SIGNED and inscribed by author on the blank front end page. Scarce. 1903 first edition published by Winona Publishing, Chicago. Brown cloth. Paper spine and cover labels. 288pp including index. Very good condition, but inside hinges are cracked and will need tape repair. Pages clean and bright. Top edge gilt. Concerns Shakespeare and religion, scripture, Christianity, biblical translations, prophecy, temperance and more.

1. By John Livingston of the New York Bar. 157 Broadway. 1853. Hard to find first edition. Scarce if not rare. This is a fine rebound ex-library copy. Signs of removal of card pocket at rear pastedown and of label at base of spine. Seminary bookplate on pastedown and seminary library stamp on first blank front endpaper. Aside from these library marks it is amazingly clean, bright and tight. Bound in dark blue buckram with gold letters on spine. xiii, 504pp.

1. Clean bright and tight. Scarce if not rare! Published by Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia. Copyright 1883, by the Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1334 Chestnut Street. Westcott & Thomson Stereotypers and Electrotypers, Phil. 5 x 7 inches. 415 pages including Index. Blue cloth with elaborate, ornate, full cover design blindstamped on back; repeated in black on front. Spine embellished with black and gilt designs, and a bit faded with light rubbing to edges and ends. Corner tips very lightly rubbed. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Neat "";Robert L Hubbard from his Mother May 25th 1884""; lightly penciled on front endpaper. Almost all 49 finely detailed b&w illustrations are of different birds in their habitat; some full-page, most 1/2 or 1/4 page.

1. I hope some day a film or book will ensue about the writers in the Scott/Wellman family...drama, success, failure, joy, sorrow, poverty, writings, painting, inventing, scholarship, travel... NOT A REPRINT. Very scarce first edition. Published by George H. Doran Company, New York. 1921. 321pp. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. No dustjacket. Pale green cloth with small scattered dots of foxing. Front cover with pressed border and lighty faded black letters. Spine with vertical roll (probably stored flat and sandwiched); black letters, tanned, and fraying to ends. Light browning to endpapers and text block edges. Pages tight, clean, bright and intact. Good to VG condition.

1. 1982 Dutton. First edition stated, first printing (full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ). Dj with publishers $16.95 on flap. like new. Book in clean, unread, tight and bright condition. Very slight fade to textblock edges.

1. Walker. First printing. First American edition. Remainder marks on textblock top edge. Else dj and book clean, bright, tight, square and appears unused.