Search Results: Titles starting with B from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

New York: Privately printed, 1961.. 1961.. Very good. - Octavo, maroon cloth with a vignette in white on the front cover in original glassine. The spine is faded and the edges of the covers are slightly faded with their corners lightly rubbed. The spine of the glassine is darkened with pieces out. vi & pages [7]-[27] plus colophon. Illustrated with wood-engraved vignettes in color and black & white by John DePol. The contents are near fine. Very good. <p>A keepsake cooperatively produced in connection with the celebration of Printing Week in New York, 1961, the 255th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, printer. The introduction is by Charles V. Morris.

(Milano): Ricordi, (1957).. (1957).. Very good. - Quarto [12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan & cream wrappers. The binding is very slightly bumped. [iv] & 59 pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog. Very good. <p>Edited and with a preface by Gioacchino Maglioni. The preface is printed in Italian, French, English and German.

(Montauk, NY: Indian Field Productions), [1993].. [1993].. Very good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. Unpaginated. Profuse illustrations & pictorial ads in black & white and color. Very good. <p>Deep Hollow Ranch is claimed to be the birth place of the American cowboy. It was founded as a cattle ranch in 1658. It has been operating ever since and now offers horseback riding and hay rides. From 1990 to 1999, Deep Hollow Ranch was the site of several "Back to the Ranch" concerts to raise funds for local charities, most of them produced with the help of singer-songwriter Paul Simon.<p>This program is for the 1993 concert which was a benefit for the Nature Conservancy, specifically Montauk and Eastern Long Island, designated by the conservancy as one of the first twelve Last Great Places in the Western Hemisphere. Much of the content consists of supportive ads. There are… Read More

Kingsport, TN: The Tennessee Squire Association, 1965.. 1965.. Very good. - Oblong 4to, gray pictorial boards (top edge of front board lightly rubbed) titled in brown, in pictorial dw (rear panel soiled with brown scoremark; front panel lightly soiled with tiny tear to top edge). 73 pp. Profuse B&W illustrations from photographs by Clark. Fine internally. Very good. <p>"Privately printed for the Tennessee Squire Association."

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985.. 1985.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in a dust wrapper. The cloth is slightly rubbed & there is a tiny ink mark to the rear cover. [ix], 219 & [2] pages. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>A Houghton Mifflin Bookcard is laid in.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1937)., (1937).. Very good.. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY METROPOLITAN ADMINISTRATOR AIME GERBER - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt. The corners are slightly rubbed & the spine is a bit darkened. ix & 325 pages. Illustrated with a black-and white portrait frontispiece & full-page photographic illustrations. The front edges of a very few pages are chipped where they have been roughly opened. Very good. Second printing. Inscribed and signed on the front endpaper by Aime Gerber, Paymaster of the Metropolitan Opera Association: "To Mrs. Grace L. H. Brossean, with sincere esteem, /Aime Gerber / April 3rd, 1944."

(Bronx, NY): West End, (1975).. (1975).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial orange & black wraps. The front wrap is slightly bumped & there is a tiny tear to the rear wrap. 48 pages. Near fine. <p>First edition of the author's first book. West End Vol. 3 No. 3, Summer 1975.

NY: The John McBride Co., 1910., 1910.. Good. - 8vo, dark red cloth (bumped & lightly soiled; spine faded; white scoremark & small stains to front cover) titled in gilt on spine (completely faded) & on front cover; t.e.g. xiv & 286 pp. (bookplate of James F. Fuller on front pastedown; London distributor's stamp on bottom edge of title). Illustrated in B&W with frontispiece & full-page & textual illustrations. Good. <p>First American edition.<p>The owner has mounted on the front endpaper a newspaper cutting of a letter to the editor from Edward Durning-Lawrence on the subject of Bacon and Shakespeare.<p>In his prefatory note to the reader, the author writes: "The mighty author of the immortal plays was gifted with the most brilliant genius ever conferred upon man....Who was in existence at that period who could by any possibility be supposed to be this universal genius? In the days of Queen Elizabeth, for the first time in human history, one such… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2012., 2012.. Fine. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcovers, bound in color pictorial wraps, with the two collections of short stories bound back-to-back. "Bad Screams" is a 30 page collection of 3 short stories, and "New Screams" a 27 & [3] page collection of another 3 short stories. There is a minor crease to the "New Screams" cover. Near fine. The first Chapbook printing.

New York: P. D. Byron Press, 1991.. 1991.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white folding wrappers. The binding is bumped with some very minor soiling. Illustrated with a black-and-white map of Iraq preceded by a sheet of blue stock with the points of the compass printed on it & a small round keyhole revealing a tiny section of the map. Very good. <p>Rare. No copies located by WorldCat.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992).. (1992).. Very good. SIGNED BY EDWARD HOAGLAND - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in a price-clipped dust wrapper. There is some very light spotting to the cloth. The head of the dust jacket spine is slightly creased. 351 & [1] pages. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>Signed by Edward Hoagland on the title page in the year of publication.

(Inca, Mallorca: Ingrama (Graficas Garcia), 1992).. 1992).. Very good. - Quarto, soft cover bound in printed black wraps with color images of the islands on the front wrap. The wraps are rubbed with the bottom corners lightly creased. 287 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Very good. <p> Published in conjunction with an exhibition of contemporary paintings from the Balearic Islands. The text includes essays on history, language and culture of the islands.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1989)., (1989).. Fine. - Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Cream boards backed with a black cloth spine, titled in red on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. [40] pages, with full-page color illustrations by Barry Moser. Near fine. First edition, first printing with the full number line.Signed by the author Nancy Willard on the title page."Biddy Early was known and loved throughout Ireland in the nineteenth century as the Wise Woman of Clare. Though this simple peasant woman died over a hundred years ago, stories of her cures and prophesies are still whispered around the hearth on blustery winter nights. Now Nancy Willard brings this legend across the sea to a larger audience in a magical collection of poetry...." [Quoted from the dust wrapper blurb].

London: Chatto & Windus, 1898., 1898.. Very good. - Octavo, three quarter maroon leather and marbled boards titled in gilt between gilt-ruled raised bands & decorations in gilt on the spine. The top edge is gilt; marbled endpapers. The spine is darkened with its tail chipped. The joints are rubbed, [vi], [1] leaf & 137 pages. Very good. Third edition.From the library of sportsman and medieval arms and armor collector Edward Hubbard Litchfield who owned the 50,000 acre country estate Litchfield Park in the Adirondacks near Tupper Lake. Litchfield's book label is mounted on the front pastedown.

New York: Arcadia Press, (1964).. (1964).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in decorative gray wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed, stained & foxed. [47] pages. 1 signature is pulled. Black-and- white full-page illustrations & decorations by Jess. Very good. <p>First trade edition.<p>Inscribed "Best wishes / Helen Adam" on the front endpaper.

New York: FAR Gallery, 1949.. 1949.. Fine. - sc 4 fine bright hand-colored lithographs depicting events in the history and birth of flight. Each of these beautiful prints is lithographed on 8 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide cardstock. There is a little minor smudging at the bottom of the lithograph depicting "The Vauxhall Balloon", else the prints are in fine condition. <p>The images respectively depict:<p>The "Descent near Philadelphia, Phil., 1850" of a single pink balloon topped with a red & yellow floral accent and horizontal red stripe. A yellow and blue flag and the American flag fly from either side of the yellow gondola wich carries a single person.<p>"The Vauxhall Balloon, Phil., 1850" depicts a single red & yellow striped balloon. Two flags fly from the sides of the purple ribboned gondola carrying 6 people.<p>The "Descent Near Easton, Pennsylvania" depicts a shredded dark & light blue balloon. The basket gondola,… Read More

New York: Hill and Wang, (1965).. (1965).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial gray & white wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped & slightly darkened around the edges. There is some light soiling to the bottom edge of the rear wrap. 116 & [2] pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. There is an owner's ink name on the half- title & some light staining to the front margin of page 96. Veru good. <p>First edition. The other plays in this volume are "Ludlow Fair" and "Home Free!".

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1983).. (1983).. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide], cloth, in a price- clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed with a light stain to the bottom edge of the rear cover. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with a few very small stains to the rear panel, a tiny tear to the head of the jacket spine & a crease to the top edge of the front fold. 100 pages. Profuse full-page illustrations. Very good. <p>First American edition.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1984)., (1984).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 12 inches high by 9 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The top edge of the dust jacket & the tail of its spine are slightly darkened. 176 pages. 51 full-page color illustrations & 151 illustrations in black & white. Near fine. <p>First edition.<p>Catalog for an exhibition jointly organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and shown at both museums.

London, U.K.: Frederick Muller Ltd., (1943).. (1943).. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is bumped with the top edges of the covers dampstained. The head & tail of the spine are darkened & slightly chipped. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with its flaps partially detached & pieces out of the head & tail of the spine, affecting the titling. The top edges of the panels are darkened. v & 159 pages. 14 black-and-white photographic illustrations. The top page corners in the rear half of the book are lightly bumped & 2 corners are creased. The upper halves of the pages are lightly rippled. There is a pencil marking in the margin of 1 page. Good only. <p>First edition.<p>From the library of American literary agent Harold Ober with his address label mounted on the front endpaper. The initials "JB" are penciled on the label. Ober [1881-1959] worked for the Paul R. Reynolds Literary Agency where he represented Jack London and H. G. Wells.… Read More