Search Results: Titles starting with B from Downtown Books & News

A Cherokee Roots Publication, 1998. Reprint edition. Paperback. Very Good+. Oblong 4to (9"x13"). Unpaginated. Spiral-bound (plastic). Illustrated paper covers. General shelfwear. Sticker damage/residue to lower cover. The official base roll of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians compiled and approved by Fred A. Baker pursuant to an Act of Congress, June 4, 1924 (43 Stat., 376).

Cincinnati, Ohio: Robert Clarke & Co, 1890. No additional printings listed. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo (6.5"x9.5"). 68pp. Red and white cloth covered boards with gold stamped title to spine and decorative stoppered vase to front cover. Mild rubbing. Discoloration to top and bottom board edges. Frontispiece and title pages coming loose from binding with 3.5" tear running along interior edge of latter page. Else fine with no marks or further loose pages. Banquet's seating assignment, menu and transcripts of toasts given. Illustrated chapter headings. B&W illustrations. Shelf wear to sturdy linen red wrappers which lack text or illustration.

Alexandria, VA: Jea Berrard, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Pictorial wraps. Wraps lightly scuffed with wear to corners. Inscribed by author and his wife and dated November 1987. A fascinating and quite rare copy of this book which is a cookbook as well as a memoir outlining his life under Nazi occupation in France. With admirers including Simca Beck, Julia Child, and Gertrude Stein it is a wonder that this book is so difficult to find.

Berkeley, CA: Michael McClure, 1965. First edition, proof. Softcover. Very Good+. Folio (8.5"x13"). 70pp. Sepia photographic paper covers. Few lightly soiled spots to covers. Light rubbing to corners, light creasing to bottom edges. Some pages lightly toned (two paper types). Covered in seller's protective mylar. Original proof printed for actors & friends, from approx 330 copies.

Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2020. First thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo (6"x9"). 207 pp. Black-covered cloth boards. Silver-stamped spine. Black silk ribbon bookmarker. Dustjacket and frontis illustrated by Bob Eggleton. Part of limited print run of 200. Dustjacket protected by Mylar.

Santa Ana, CA: Grand Central Press, 2007. No additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo (7.5"x8.5"). 252pp. Black paper/vinyl covered boards; giltstamped with blindstamped decoration & inset illustration to upper board. Red ribbon bookmarker. Color photos throughout. No dj. as issued. This book published in conjunction with the same-titled exhibition for the CSUF Grand Central Art Center Project Room.

Lexington Books, 2007. No additional printings indicated. Paperback. Very Good -. 8vo. 257pp. Covers lightly scuffed with crease to one corner of upper cover. General edgewear.

New York: Viking Press, 1980. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo (8"x5.5"). 1/4 black cloth & purple paper-covered boards with silver-stamped title to spine. Lightly bumped fore-edge/tail corners. Photographic dj. covered in protective mylar: NOT price-clipped. Association copy that belonged to the poet Heather McHugh. Inscribed & signed by Booth, "For Heather--as she well knows: the story's this/nothing at all/like we thought...in admiration of all her own poems know and feel--Philip. Eastport/Castine Machine 1988". Castine & Eastport refer to cities in Maine.

New York: Viking Press, 1980. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo (8"x5.5"). 1/4 black cloth & purple paper-covered boards with silver-stamped title to spine. Photographic dj. covered in protective mylar: NOT price-clipped. Association copy that belonged to the poet Heather McHugh. Inscribed & signed by Booth, "For Heather McEastport--In joy of all/the ways she knows/'the sky/is really something' --Philip Castine, as of Blue Hill June 25, 1981." Castine & Eastport refer to cities in Maine.

Berlin, Germany: Bruno Gmünder Verlag GmbH, 2010. No additional printings listed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong 8vo (11.5"x8.5"). Unpaginated. Photographic paper-covered boards. Color with some black and white photographs throughout. Sparse text in Italian and English. Dust jacket in protective Mylar. Lads in a locker room.

New York: Gotham House, 1938. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to (11"x9"). Natural cloth-covered boards with pastedown label to upper cover. Covers soiled /foxed. Smudges to ffep. Signed by Grant to pastedown on title, acid damage from glue to first page & title. Inscribed, "with all good wishes to my friend and fellow-traveller Ernest F. Amy, whose entertainment at Ohio Wesleyan is still vivid in memory" and signed by Snow and dated June 1939. Laid in criticism & card illustrated by Grant. Illustrated dust jacket covered in protective mylar, light dampstain to topedge, edgewear, chipped corners. Limited edition #297 of 1200 copies.

London, UK: A & C Black, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Amédée Forestier. (9"x7"). 390pp. Black cloth-covered boards with yellow & red decorations to upper cover & spine, giltstamped title to spine. Deckle edges. Light spotting to edges, especially the fore-edge of the lower cover, very small chips to topedges. Light tone, foxing to endpapers. Binding tight. Color plates with tissue. Sepia-toned fold-out map. Illustrated dust jacket covered in protective mylar: sun-darkened spine, 1" closed tear to tail-edge, 1/2" chip missing to tail spine extreme. Scarce with dust jacket.

Belfast, Ireland: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to (10.5"x8"). 290pp. Blue paper-covered boards with giltstamped title. Color photos throughout. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar.

Harpswell, ME: The Dog Ear Press, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo (8.5"x5.5"). 72pp. Blue paper wraps with yellow/red illustrated stamp to upper cover. Spine & upper cover toned, light crease to lower cover. Signed (and numbered) by Porter to first page. B&W frontis with die-cut page, B&W photos throughout, color stamps applied throughout. Numbered 14 from a limited edition of 250 copies. Die-cut, typographic dust jacket covered in mylar: lower panel lightly soiled, slightly faded spine.

Macmillan and Co, 1905. second printing, August 1905. Hardcover. Good +/No Dj.. 8vo. 252pp. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Former owner's name penned to front paste down endpaper. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Endpapers foxed. Binding a little shaken, but holding.

Stockholm, Sweden: Evang, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (7"x5.5"). 294pp. Full leather. Blindstamped decorations to both covers & spine. Blindstamped title ("Biblen") to upper cover, gilt title to spine & monogram ("FSF") blindstamped to lower cover. Treated red rot to joints & all edges, leather chipping at corners & lower spine extreme. Textblock toned. Previous owner's pastedown bookplate to front pdep. Last two leaves stuck to bottom corner of lower board. Binding tight. Text in Swedish. Gothic font, double columns +index.

A Amsterdam: Henri Schelte, 1707. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 32mo (3.125"x5.25"). 422pp plus table of contents. Full leather binding. Boards rubbed. 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt adornment to spine still visible. Crimson spine labels intact. Top and rear hinges, front and back each split approximately 1" each. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Lovely marbled end papers. All text block edges red colored. Some foxing to text block but over all pages are bright. Includes fold-out page of illustrated ancient military medals. Prior owner library label on front pastedown endpaper, "M. De Lilly". Brief pencil notations to rear endpaper, else no marks. Text in French.

New York: Vantage Press Inc, 1954. First edition. Hardcover.

PictureBox Inc, 2006. No additional printing indicated. Softcover. Fine. 4to. Unpaginated. All pictures/collages, no text. Created by the band Black Dice. Color photographs/collages throughout.

London, UK: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1959. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Royal 8vo. 536pp. Black cloth-covered boards with silverstamped title to spine. Bottom corner of upper cover bumped. Cloth rubbed at bottom edges with some board exposed. Textblock edges toned; textblock interior lightly toned. Errata slip pasted-in. Limited, numbered edition: 207/2000. B&W photos throughout. Red/blk dj. edgeworn with chipping to top spine extreme & upper top corner. Dj. covered in protective mylar.