Search Results: Titles starting with B from Sparkle Books

France: IMAGE ET PAGE, 1992 Attention, Wooden Boat Lovers, Here Are 126 Pages Of Colour Photographs And Commentary, Showing A Beautiful Array (From Canoe To Yacht). Gift Inscription On Ffep Dated 2000, Else Very Good Condition. Dj Is Unclipped, But Has Two Closed Tears, Chip And Creased Upper Edge. In New Mylar. Note This Isthe French Language Edition, Image Et Page (Flammarion) First Issued In 1992. Large Format, Heavy Book Which Will Require Extra Postage.

TAIZE France: Seuil, 1968 This is a French translation of the Bible of Jerusalem for children by Eric de Saussure, a member of the Taize community, copyright 1968, with many attractive colour illustrations. The dust jacket is in pieces (included, but priced accordingly), indicating a 1971 printing. Bright red boards with gilt lettering and some soiling edges and corners. Map endpapers. Clean, unmarked interior and good binding.

France: Hachette, 2002 Near fine copy of Babar dans l'ile aux oiseaux. French edition, possibly September 1991. Cover has white background Babar, Celeste and pink flamingos. There is some price tag residue and a light mark/impression on the back cover. Interior is clean. crisp and like new. Very good corners and binding. Giftable.

U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1991 Third Printing, May Be Unread, But Front Cover Edges Are Scraped And There Is A Horizontal Crack To Spine. No Writing Or Marks, A Few Dog Ears, Light To Moderate Wear.

UK: Brainwaves, 2000 First Edition, full number line popup book 2000 in very good condition. Why the Baboons bottom is really a work of art. Near fine gift inscription on inside cover. All popups fully intact.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bradbury Press, 1987 Cute book about big sisters and baby brothers where she has to admit she kind of likes him after she successfully cheers him up. Stated first and first printing. Unclipped DJ. Decorative endpapers with bunnies. No writing clean interior. Price tag on back and price tag residue on front. Good corners and binding and edges.

Red Deer, Ab, Canada: Northern Lights Books For Children, 1991 An Entertaining Icelandic Folktail Retold By Peter Eyvindson And Illustrated By Craig Terlson. Signed And Inscribed By The Author On The Title Page. Former Owner Name In Calligraphic Style On Ffep. There Is A Fine Two Inch Crack At Lower Front Spine Gutter, Otherwise Very Nice Condition. No Dj, If Issued.

Poland: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1971 Very Good and attractive collection of LaFontaine's Fairy Tales published in Poland in 1971 with illustrations by i[Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard]. Purple boards with white black illustration and gold highlights. Lacking dust jacket. Spine a bit faded. Violet endpapers.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970 How is it that we and our parents permitted Disney to dumb down this wonderful book for us? John Galsworthy was an advance reviewer, reading the galley proofs in March 1928 and he described it thusly: "Clear and illuminating, and in places very moving, it is a little masterpiece." This is a fairly grubby school library book from Indus, Alberta. 191 pages, illustrated by Caldecott awarded Barbara Cooney (1917-2000) (for her Chaucer illustrations in 1958), and again for Ox Cart Man. This book is complete but the back page/inner endpaper has been torn out. There are also the usual library accoutrements. Green boards are faded and tapestained. Price clipped dj in protective cover. There are a number of grubby little fingerprints, but who are we to begrudge?

New York: Signet, 1958 Near Fine Appears Unread Signet 1473 First Printing March 1958, Red Edge Tint Intact, Light Toning. Two Light Horizontal Marks Across Spine. Written By Nelson Nye, Award Winning Author Of Gunsmoke And Founder Of Western Writers Of America Who Actually Worked As A Cowboy And As Horse Editor For The Texas Livestock Journal As Well As Writer And Critic.

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1940 Sweet Vintage Cowboy Book Circa 1938, This Is Stated 4Th Printing And Dated 1940. Penciled Gift Inscription Christmas 1945. Pasted On Cover Illustration In Blue And Orange. Decorative Endpapers. Condition Is Good, With Rubbing To Corners And Spine Ends, A Rubbed Spot On The Spine, Some Soiling And Fading.

Toronto: Reginald Saunders Press, 1940 Hardcover. No Jacket. Stated First Printing, First Edition. 169Pp., In Poor To Fair Condition. There Are Two Stamps Bearing The Name Of The Former Owner As Well As His Signature, And On The Last Blank Page, In Pencil, Are The Words To "Some Hae Meat And Cannae Eat." The Upper Front Panel And Spine Have Sustained Water Damage, Which Has Resulted In A Greyish Stain And A Little Of The Teal Blue Dye To Run Onto The Endpaper And Ffep. Hinge Lightly Cracked At Center. There Is Also Light Toning And A Bad Corner Crease To One Page. Otherwise Quite Serviceable.

New York: The Bar Sinister, 1918 This Is A Collins Posthumous Printing Of 1918 With An Introduction By Sir Winston Churchill Describing The Loss Of The Author. Given That The Title Story Is About Dogs, Including A Bulldog, I Presume That Had Something To Do With Churchill's Appreciation. It Is Told In The First Person In A Kind Of Cockney By A Bull Terrier, "As If I'd Rather Poke For My Vittels In Ash-Heaps Than Have 'Em Handed Me In A Wash-Basin And Would Sooner Bite And Fight Than Be Polite And Sociable." Contains Nine Tissue Covered Black And White Plates, Unattributed. Very Good Green Boards With Gilt Lettering And Author's Initials Blind Stamped To Front Board. Some Toning And A Few Stains. Soft Crease To First Two Preliminary Pages. No Dust Jacket If Issued.

Paris: Deux Coqs D'or, 1979 Collection Mimosa. Illustrations M. R. Batlle. French Language Children's Book, 1979, Price Tag Pull On Front Glossy Board, Otherwise Good.

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: City Lights Books, 1991 Like new save slight turning up of front cover and price tag residue on back cover. No writing, clean and crisp interior. New and shiney finish on cover. Translated by Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher and cover art by Lorca himself. Eight works of "poetic prose" and three short plays by Lorca.

Vantage Press, 1983 Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kerkham, Bettie (Illustrator). 1St Edition. 8Vo - Over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Vantage Press 1983 First Edition Signed. Light Wear To Clipped Dj, Owner Stamp On Endpaper And Old Price On D

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1996 Advance Reading Copy ARC first edition apparently unread as new condition.

Maryland: Stemme House, 1980 Clean Fauz Leather Pale Blue Boards With Gilt Lettering In Bear Drawing, Ends And Corners Bumped. Clean Endpapers, No Writing Or Marks. First U.S. Edition, 1980, In Attractive Pictorial Unclipped Dj With Original Price Intact ($7.95), Corners And Ends Bumped And Small Price Tag Pull On Front Panel. A Very Cute And Imaginative Story With Great Illustrations About A Boy And A Rhyming Bear.

U.K.: Benn, 1970 Glossy Pictorial Hardcover, No Dust Jacket If Issued, Ernest Benn 1970, Third Printing (1974) In Very Good Condition, No Writing Or Marks, Light Rub To Extremities. This Is Kind Of A Rainy Day Kind Of Book, Wherein The Five Teddy Bears Spend The Day Lounging Around, Cooking, Cleaning Up, Eating And Playing Indoors. Collectable.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1991 An interesting edition of Beauty and the Beast crafted by Charles Moore, architect and educator. Mauve linen boards with textured lettering and beast motif on front board, gilt lettering on spine, scalloped dust jacket edges, decorative endpapers. Apparent first. The architect's eye is very apparent in the water colours of fanstastic buildings and vistas. Near fine in Very Good ++ dj, a few dents/rubs to dj. No writing or marks, good corners and binding. near new condition