Search Results: Titles starting with B from The Book Closet

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946 Tan boards with green embossed decoration on front cover and spine; previous owner's name on ffep; spine is tight; pages are yellowed with age.

New York: Random House, 1996 Black boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "At the heart of the novel are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an 'obscen' book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned against her. Fleeing to London with their young son, she gets a teaching job in an art school, where she is thrown into the thick of the new decade. Poets and painters are denying the value of the past, fostering dreams of rebelling, which focus around a strange, charismatic figure -- the near-naked, unkempt and smelly Jude Mason, with his flowing gray hair, a hippie before his time." -- from the dj

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2006 Tan boards with green binding; gold lettering on spine. DJ protected with Brodart cover. Signed by author with no inscription. "...in his new novel, Payne introduces us to Ransom Hill, lead singer of a legendary-but-now-defunct indie rock group who has come to South Carolina to turn over a new leaf. A bighearted artist and a bit of a wild man, Ran knows that his wife Claire's patience with him hangs by a frayed thread." - from the dj.

Dutton Adult, 2001 Blue boards with black tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but has minor shelf wear; First Edition. "Best friends Tracie and Jon meet for coffee each Sunday night to discuss their forlorn love lives. Tracie loves boys with an affinity for leather jackets and poetry -- classic bad boys who seem too good to be true (and usually are). Jon foolishly falls for girls who never like him in that way .. until he convinces Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade>" -- from the dj

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009 Black boards with copper foil lettering on spine; stated first edition; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Fang Kattalakis isn't just a wolf. He is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion, the ruling council that enforces the laws of the Were-Humans, and when war erupts among the lycanthropes, sides must be chosen." -- from the dj

Putnam Adult, 2004 Black boards with red foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj not price clipped; 372 pps. "It's a business trip that takes advertising agecnyowner Maddie Fitzgerald down to New Orleans, but it's hardly business as uaul when a man breaks into her hotel room and tries to killher. Barely escaping with her life, the sexy, stylish twenty-nine-year-old brunette soon finds herself face-to-face with FBI agent Sam McCabe. Unnerved by his questions -- and his good looks -- Maddie is told she's been targeted by an elusive killer whom McCabe has been tracking for weeks. Apparently, she's been mistaken for a woman of the same name who was also staying at the hotel that night. McCabe grills her, and then disappears." -- from the dj

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900 Gray-blue boards with pictorial cover; some bumping to top and bottom of spine; some marks on the lower edge of back board. See pictures for details

Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1911 Purple boards with black embossing; bumps to top and bottom of spine; inscription to previous owner on front end paper Aunt and Uncle; 212 pps.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002 522 pages. Pristine copy, never read.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 Blue boards with red tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. Signed and inscribed by the author to previous owner on the title page. "In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story." -- from the dj

New York: Nan A. Talese, 1995 Black boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover; not price-clipped. "'Beach Music' is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's sucidie. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-lse, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced." -- from the dj

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1870 Green boards with pictorial cover with train and bushes; shelf wear to edges; age-yellowed pages; spine is tight; copyright 1898 by Alice Adams Russel; 10 pages of advertising in the back; previous owner's stick on ffep. "'Bear and Forbear' is the sixth and last of the Lake Shore Series, and was one of the serials which appears in Oliver Optic's Magazine. The story itself is complete and independent of its predecessors, though the characters that have been prominent in the other volumes of the series are again presented, to be finally dealt with according to their several deserts." -- from the preface. Pictures available upon request

Putnam Adult, 2000 1st Edition Hardback; Some Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1916 Reprint edition; previous owner's name in pencil on front inside board; green cover with whilte lettering; spine bumps; otherwise tight, clean copy; 337 pages; four pages of ads in back

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2010 Light yellow boards with orange tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with Brodart cover. "World War II threatens to engulf the globe. The beleaguered Soviets, struggling to hold back the rising German tide, face despair and defeat daily. Yet just as all seem lost, a fearless female sniper named Tat'yana Levchenko gains fame in the battle of Sevastopol with her remarkable composure and stunning skill. Offering hope in her nation's darkest moments, she becomes a Soviet hero, and word of her beauty and prowess eventually reaches Washginton, D.C. Soon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invites Tat'yana to visit America and tour the country with her." -- from the dj

New York: The Macmillian Company, 1907 Green boards with black lettering; spine shows some shelf wear; pages are yellowed; spine beginning to crack toward the center of the book; pictures available upon request.

New York: Del Rey, 1994 Red boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition. "The wait is over. Herein lies the story of Belgarath theSorcerer, and his account of the great struggle that went on before 'The Belgariad' and 'The Malloreon." The age-old war was ended at last, and Destiny once again rolled on in its proper course." -- from the dj

Bookclub Edition; No DJ; Personalized Library Tag Inside of Front Cover

Santa Ana, California: Seven Locks Press, 2004 Black boards with silver lettering on front boards and spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover; signed and personalized on title page: "Becky, Happy Reading!" "Newlyweds Beth and Bob Larken had a quiet New Year Eve's planned at their Grand Ledge, Michigan home. A few friends and their feisty pup, B.A.D., would celebrate the end of a tumultuous year, and the beginning of a new, quieter existence. That was until Victoria, Beth's best friend, informs them her date is missing." -- from the dj

Seven Locks Press, 2004 Signed by Author (personalized)