Authors starting with B from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

Berlin & Hamburg: Christian-Verlag, [1951].. Cloth and boards. First edition of this study of trends among 20th century American writers. Inscribed by the author to Barrett H. Clark. Very good, in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Walker, [1981].. Boards. First U.S. edition. Inscribed and signed by Babson on the free endsheet. Ink ownership inscription, else about fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Walker, [1985].. Boards. First U.S. edition. Inscribed and signed by Babson on the free endsheet. Two ink ownership inscriptions, else about fine in dust jacket. ... more information

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [1951].. xiii,449pp. Gilt black cloth. Frontis. Facsimiles and black-and-white illustrations. Footnotes. Musical score. Bibliography. Edges lightly foxed, endpapers a little darkened at gutters, else about very good, in a rather used dust jacket with multiple internal tape repairs, loss to head of spine panel, and general soiling. Second edition of this translation by William J. Mitchell of the work by the 18th-century composer and son of J. S. Bach. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, [1963].. Cloth and boards. Introduction by Gill Robb Wilson. First edition of the author's first book. About fine in near fine dust jacket with short tear at toe of spine panel. ... more information

North Hills, PA: San Serriffe Publishing Co., Bird & Bull Press, 1980.. Cloth and decorated paper boards. Fine. First, limited edition of 350 copies, each copy numbered "1". A spoof by Henry Morris of several contemporary private presses, including his own Bird & Bull. Prospectus laid in ... more information

Paris: Librarie Jose Corti, [1948].. Printed wrappers. First edition, trade issue, after thirty numbered copies on pur fil. Tiny nick at wrapper fore-edge, faint foxing at edges, otherwise very good, partially unopened. ... more information

Paris: Librarie Jose Corti, [1943].. Printed wrappers. First edition, trade issue, after twenty-eight numbered copies on pur fil. Faint foxing at edges, otherwise about fine, largely unopened. ... more information

Paris: Librarie Jose Corti, [1939].. Printed wrappers. First edition, trade issue, after twenty-five lettered copies on pur fil. Faint foxing at edges, otherwise near fine. ... more information

Paris: Librarie Jose Corti, [1947].. Printed wrappers. New edition, after the first edition of 1942. Faint foxing at edges, otherwise very good. ... more information

Winter Park, FL: Rollins College, [1939].. Printed stapled wrappers. First edition. Issued as Volume XXXV:1 of the Rollins College Bulletin. Lightly dust-smudged, but near very good. ... more information

Oxford: Phaidon, [1979].. Quarto. Cloth. Plates (many in color). First edition, American issue, with the jacket priced in dollars. Fine, though the black jacket is a bit rubbed. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903.. Deep red cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt with a floral design by Decorative Designers, t.e.g. Ink name on free endsheet, minor wear to binding extremities; a very good, bright copy. First edition of this early and somewhat uncommon collection of verse by the author better known for her mysteries for juveniles and "girls'" books published under her married name. The binding design is the work of the Thayers at Decorative Designers, and the text... more information

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1740.. viii,197,[3]pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignette. Offsetting from binding to endsheets, a few occasional spots and smudges, joints cracked and binding 'varnished' at an early date, but internally a very good copy. First separate edition of Mallet's biography, which also appeared in the four volume edition of the works he edited the same year. GIBSON 480a. ... more information

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library / UCLA, 1962.. Printed wrappers. First edition. With the author's dated signature on the title. Spine sunned, otherwise very good. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.. [2],xii,[2],631,[3]pp. Quarto. Gilt burgundy cloth, t.e.g. Many facsimiles. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. First edition, trade issue. Slightly shaken, cloth somewhat rubbed and lightly marked, but a good copy. ... more information

Lyon & Paris: H. Pélgaud Fils et Roblot, 1870.. Two volumes. Handsome half calf and marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. New edition (first published, posthumously, in 1836). Spines a trace darkened, else very good or better. ... more information

London: Exculum typis Edwardi Griffini .... 1638.. [14],176,179-386,[16],475,[1]pp. (with occasional misnumbering as per Gibson). Large quarto. Contemporary gilt armorial calf, rebacked and recornered to style at some point in the 20th century, with the original label (chipped) laid down. Lacks the portrait frontis, marginal repairs and discolorations to title leaf and terminal leaf (not affecting text, and with a long closed tear in lower margin of title repaired), intermittent faint old marginal tide-mark... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935.. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in very good dust jacket. With printed broadside Christmas poem laid in. ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press, 1943.. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in near fine dust jacket. ... more information