Search Results: Titles starting with B from Turn and Temper Books

Summit Books, 1984. First Edition ?. Hardcover/Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover: Very Good. Dust Jacket: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, brown 1/4 cloth, tan paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Owner's signature inside front cover. Dust jacket with minor chipping at head and base of spine, otherwise fine.

Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown & Co, 1976. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Consuelo Hanks. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fourth Printing of this Pulitzer Prize winning exploration of the life and traditions of crabbers on the Chesapeake Bay. 304 pages, illustrated. The book has a written gift inscription on the front endpaper (dated 1976). Otherwise, the content is clean and the binding is crisp. There is minimal bumping on the tips. The dust jacket is price clipped and has fading around edges and minor stains on back, with tip chipping.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author's debut novel. While the Ghanaian author published short stories and essays, it is his novels that have built his reputation and have "been central in the shaping of the canon of African literature" (Gikandi). Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, Routledge, 2002, pp. 38-40. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 213 pp. Black cloth. Very Good in Good dust jacket. A few small spots of fraying to extremities of boards and scuffing on the spine. Some small tears and chips to jacket at spine ends and tips, and along base. Previous owner's name (who was a high ranking State Department diplomat) neatly written in front free endpaper.

University of Hawai'i Press, 1987. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. First Edition. 1987 University of Hawaii Press hard cover - 1st edition 2nd printing - some wear to edge of dust jacket and small tears or chips on base and tip - Contents are clear and unmarked, and boards are clean -fine binding strong contents clean.

Oxford Univ Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket. Content is clean, except for previous owner's name lightly written on blank inside of front board.

Ohio State University Press, 1963. ?. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover Fine. Dust Jacket Near Fine.  Rare 1st Edition (published a year before the more common British release). This is issue Number 1 of the "Studies in Educational Theory of the John Dewey Society". Unclipped DJ (4.00) has edge chips.  Unmarked.

William Morrow, 2004. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Paperback. Condition: Fine. Tinslay, Petrina (illustrator). First US Edition. 192pp. Shallow cut to back cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall E1.

Heritage Press, 1962. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Valenti Angelo. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Valenti Angelo (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First published in 1888, Burton's "Arabian Nights" competed with that of John Payne; they are considered the only complete translations of the Arabian Nights tales. Due to the erotic content, initially both were printed as Private Editions to avoid the censorship then in force. Reprint the issue by the Limited Editions Club in 1934. One book, containing volumes V and VI. Extremely attractive books, with decorative paper-covered boards in red, black and light green; tan cloth spines titled in gilt. Absolutely clean and fresh. Fine volumes, crisp as if unread. Present are the black slipcovers, undamaged in any way. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Heritage Press, 1962. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Valenti Angelo. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Valenti Angelo (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First published in 1888, Burton's "Arabian Nights" competed with that of John Payne; they are considered the only complete translations of the Arabian Nights tales. Due to the erotic content, initially both were printed as Private Editions to avoid the censorship then in force. Reprint the issue by the Limited Editions Club in 1934. One book, containing volumes III and IV. Extremely attractive books, with decorative paper-covered boards in red, black and light green; tan cloth spines titled in gilt. Absolutely clean and fresh. Fine volumes, crisp as if unread. Present are the black slipcovers, undamaged in any way. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Heritage Press, 1962. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Valenti Angelo. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Valenti Angelo (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First published in 1888, Burton's "Arabian Nights" competed with that of John Payne; they are considered the only complete translations of the Arabian Nights tales. Due to the erotic content, initially both were printed as Private Editions to avoid the censorship then in force. Reprint the issue by the Limited Editions Club in 1934. One book, containing volumes I and II. Extremely attractive books, with decorative paper-covered boards in red, black and light green; tan cloth spines titled in gilt. Absolutely clean and fresh. Fine volumes, crisp as if unread. Present are the black slipcovers, undamaged in any way. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Heritage Press, 1962. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Valenti Angelo. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Valenti Angelo (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First published in 1888, Burton's "Arabian Nights" competed with that of John Payne; they are considered the only complete translations of the Arabian Nights tales. Due to the erotic content, initially both were printed as Private Editions to avoid the censorship then in force. Here are three volumes that reprint the issue by the Limited Editions Club in 1934. Three books, each containing two volumes [the LEC version was six volumes]. Extremely attractive books, with decorative paper-covered boards in red, black and light green; tan cloth spines titled in gilt. In total there are 3975 pages, absolutely clean and fresh. Fine volumes, crisp as if unread. Present are the black slipcovers, undamaged in any way. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Chanticleer Press, 1963. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Botanic Manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. First Woman Botanist of Colonial America. Published by the Garden Club of Orange and Dutchess Counties of New York, 1963. Edition limited to 1500 copies. A reproduction of Colden's manuscript with transcribed notations on over 60 plants. Includes a brochure from the Garden Club's 1989 meeting. The book is in beautiful, fine condition. The jacket has tears and creasing along the top. A fine book in a very good jacket.

Richard Marek, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Richard Marek Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1980. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Text block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. Binding is clean, full black cloth of uniform color throughout, bright gilt title, etc. to spine, and all corners square and sharp. Dust jacket is bright, unfaded and intact with one large tear at top of back and small chipping at top of spine, and with original price ($12.95) and date (8003, i.e., March 1980) intact on front flap. 523 pages. The Bourne Identity is one of the great suspense and spy novels of all time. Basis for the excellent 1988 mini-series with Richard Chamberlain and also for the 2002 movie with Matt Damon. Shipped in cardboard and packaged with care.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition. Fanciful stories about the interesting folks of Boxen, 19 page introduction by Hooper; b&w illustrations by Lewis.