Search Results: Titles starting with S from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Fine condition of Advance Reading Copy of this Hillerman mystery. Nice addition for the Hillerman collector.. Advance Reader's Copy. Soft Cover.

Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 2011. Signed by author on first free endpaper: "With best wishes, Mark Glickman. 1/6/11." Fine in fine dust jacket. The treasure was basically scraps, stored in an attic for centuries, but meaningful once a nineteenth-century rabbi began to realize what he had found. The rabbi, Solomon Schechter, had stumbled on "the largest trove of early and medieval Jewish manuscripts ever discovered," and that would "transform the world's understanding of medieval Jewry, biblical and Rabbinic literature, medieval Islamic history, and much more". (from the Prologue). 255 pages including index, notes, and photo credits. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs of manuscripts, etc..

New York: Schocken, 2011. Near fine+ (small amount of edgewear at top of spine) in very good dust jacket (some insect nibbling along jacket folds). 286 pages including notes. The discovery and history and significance of the largest cache of discarded Jewish texts.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs and manuscripts.

New York: Atheneum, 1962. Very good (light foxing on page edges, some scribbly insect damage on front cover; otherwise good solid and clean book) in very good+ dust jacket (light edgewear, one light scratch on front panel, price-clipped). See scans. Jarrell is always timely; the first essay is titled "The Intellectual in America," and it quotes Eisenhower's description of an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows." Such denigration is echoed--less politely--by today's shouts of "fake news." 211 pages. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Rubert Hart-Davis, 1957. 3rd printing. SIGNED and INSCRIBED ("Fair Winds") by the author--although it looks like that inscription has been written over by another hand in black ink; the author's signature in green ink is untouched). Very good (soiled covers--especially the back cover; front looks good) in very good dust jacket (sunned spine and spotted rear panel, price-clipped). A young American writes of his adventures in a 32-foot ketch, from Seattle to London, through the Pacific, Indian, and Mediterranean. Part of the publisher's "Mariners Library." Preface by Alan Villiers. Nice gift for the sailboat enthusiast. . Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

Boston: Sail Books, 1983. Near fine (about a dozen very faint foxing spots on page edges, otherwise fine) in very good- dust jacket (bright with two closed tears and edgewear at corners and spine top and bottom). 128 pages, nicely illustrated with pen and ink sketches by the author. The author gained his first experience in sailboats in the Swedish eka. The book deals with many innovations in sailboat design stretching back especially to the 1930s. Very nice book.. Hard Cover. Illus. by Frank Rosenow.

Lyon: EISE, 1958. French language. Part of the Collection Nos Amis Les Saints from this publisher. A short (79 pages) history of this Hungarian saint, in French. Very good (foxing on top edges of pages and covers, interior clean with firm binding) without dust jacket (still in original lightweight plastic film protector).. Hard Cover. Illus. by Paulette Genin.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Near fine (a dozen barely visible specks on the top page edges, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket (price sticker on rear panel). A wide-ranging study of the way portraits are described in literary texts with what that implies about the politics of writing. 226 pages including index.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1968. Very good (light foxing on page edges, owners' ink signature on second fep) in VG+ dust jacket (one small closed tear and wrinkle at top front corner). Basis of 1972 film, the debut of Klaus Maria Brandauer. A cold war espionage novel rescued from irrelevance by MacInnes's story- telling ability: shifting points of view with progressive revelations about key characters. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Santa Monica CA: Martin Sosin, 2003. Near fine copy (two scratches and a wrinkle in the white laminate on the back cover, bit of edgewear at bottom of spine) of the first edition, limited to 2500 copies. An introduction, including contributions from people who knew Sam Francis well, opens the book, followed by the core of the book, 30+ brilliant reproductions of Sam Francis's work. No dust jacket. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Sam Francis.

New York: Macmillan, 1964. Near fine (some rough cut bottom page edges) in Very Good dust jacket (water-stained front flap and water-wrinkled front panel; edgeworn; now presentable in plastic protective cover). A biography of the judge who presided at the Salem witch trials, but showing his multifaceted career.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Very good (a little light foxing on page edges) in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear and rubbing). Focuses on his career rather than childhood (although a "Chronology" contains a bare outline). Contains apparent transcripts of interviews with people close to him, like his daughter Lucy.338 pages including index and bibliography. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Sofia, Bulgaria: State Publishing House, 1977. An unusual book, issued in an edition of 3000 copies, about the Bulgarian resistance to the Nazi extermination of the Jews during World War II. Many photographs. Very good (browned pages, light offsetting to endpapers) in very good- dust jacket (edgeworn, browned). Newspaper article about a memorial to the Bulgarian resistance laid in.. Hard Cover.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1987. Very good (some foxing spots on rough-cut side page edges, interior clean) in fine dust jacket (slight edgewear). No remainder marks. A novel set in the 1920s and 1930s.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Fifth printing of a "fully revised, expanded, updated edition." 871 pages including index. Many illustrations. Very good (some light spotting on top page edges in good only dust jacket (a few short closed tears, spotted). Clean interior, no markings. Contains 32 sections ranging from "The Mathematics and Science of Gambling" to "Horse Racing," "Craps: The World's Fastest Gambling Game," "Black Jack Strategy," "Roulette," "Slot Machines," and many more. The dust jacket is good enough that you can put this on your coffee table and wait for comments!. Hard Cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Very good (clean and tight, one crease in rear cover) paperback edition of this well-known novel. Fictionalized version of the very real history of Oskar Schindler and his efforts to save Jews during WWII. . Soft Cover. Illus. by Photographs from Yad Vashem.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1994. SIGNED by author on title page. Author's second novel focuses on a brother and sister, now in their seventies, who stumble onto unsettling evidence of their earlier lives which they had managed to suppress. Near fine (light edgewear) in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped, light edgewear). . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Atheneum, 1978. Near fine (tiny bit of edgewear at top of spine) in very good dust jacket (edgewear at top of spine). Copyright page states first American edition but has a book club indentation on back cover. 304 pages including index, biographical notes on the key people mentioned in the text, and bibliography. This is, of course, the biography of Robert Falcon Scott, one of England's great heroes of the twentieth, culminating in his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1911. Good selection of photographs.. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Morehouse-Barlow Company, 1962. Near fine (a bit of wear at the top and bottom of the spine) in very good dust jacket (sunned or soiled at the spine and folds, two small closed tears, light edgewear, including some tiny missing chips at the bottom of the inside flaps). A selection of the Episcopal Book Club for 1962. The author, a member of the teaching order, the Kelham Fathers, writes of the relationship of the Old and New Testaments, treating the Christian Bible as a whole and helping students of Christian doctrine see the unity of the scriptures. 94 pages.. Hard Cover.

New Bedford, Massachusetts: New Bedford Port Society, 1979. Near fine (small initials on title page, otherwise fine). Paperback published without dust jacket. A 28-page pamphlet containing two chapters from Moby Dick giving Melville's description of the chapel; a discussion by Curtis Dahl, "Who Was Father Mapple?"; a tribute by Edith F. Blaisdell to a twentieth-century chaplain of the Seaman's Bethel. Postcard and small information handout about the chapel laid in.. 1st Edition. Paperback. Illus. by Photographs.