Authors starting with B from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. 18 cm; 157 pages, half-tone frontispiece. Bound in original green cloth. ... more information

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. 31cm; 428 pages. Richly illustrated. Very Good in Good DJ ; pages lightly toned at edges. The modern world's discovery of ancient civilizations as originally reported in the pages of the Illustrated London News from 1842 to the 1970s. ... more information

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1973. 30 cm; 25 pages, illustrated with 26 half-tone figures. Bound in wraps with color illustration. ... more information

Venice: Bernardinum de Bindonis, 1539. Reference: Renouard, Badius, II, 542, 15; Schweiger Latin I, 503; . Folio (32 cm); [6], CLXII leaves;15 woodcut illustrations in text. Title page printed in red and black, with title framed within elaborately illustrated border. Remains of extensively decorated and inscribed endleaves, as described below. Bound in recent one-quarter tooled leather over wooden boards in period style, with leather and brass clasps. One clasp missing; lower board stained, with one c... more information

London: A. & C. Black, limited, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. 2 vols. 23 cm. With illustrations and maps. Somewhat soiled, spine faded. ... more information

London: A. and C. Black, 1917. Second edition. Cloth. 22cm; xv, 379, [1] pages, with 32 full-page illustrations from photographs, 49 illustrations in the text, and two maps. Shelf worn and sunned. ... more information

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1925. 23 cm; 324 pages and 32 plates, some in color. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, no dust jacket. Some light foxing at fore edge and on end leaves. ... more information

New York: Crescent Books, 1991. 31 cm; 98 pages, illustrated. Cloth in dust jacket. In the "Masters' Gallery" series. Extra shipping charges may apply. ... more information

London: Macmillan, 1868. Second edition. 23cm; xii, 596 pages, and 24 wood-engraved plates, two colored maps (one folding). Bound in later half tan polished calf over marbled boards in period style. Endleaves renewed. Light to moderate foxing. Repair to folded map. ... more information

London: Macmillan, 1874. First edition. 2 volumes. 23cm; 447, 588 pages, 2 maps (one folding), and 50 wood-engraved plates. Bound in half red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, worn at extremities. Scattered light foxing. Hinges split. One plate loose. ... more information

1950; Rpt. New York: Russell and Russell, 1960. Full cloth. Fundamental ... more information

Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, 1925. First edition. Offprint. 29 cm; pp. 140-170, and one leaf with two folded maps printed in colors laid in. Bound in recent cloth, with original wraps bound in. Original wraps fronted with laminate. Visiting card of Kamal el-Din Hussein, the member of the Egyptian Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk, laid in. ... more information

Cairo: national Printing Department, 1907. First edition. 28 cm; 121 pages, and 13 plates (including folded color maps) . Bound in later cloth. Reader's yellow highlighting in text. ... more information

[Geneva]: A. Skira, 1947. 103 p. Wraps (with portrait), glassine, unopened. "La petite collection Balzac, #12" The focus of Barthes's S/Z. ... more information

London: Privately printed, 1874. 23cm; viii, 366 pages. Fifty illustrations. Bound in 1/2 blue russia over marbled boards by Bayntun. Slightly rubbed at front joint and extremitites. Top edge gilt. ... more information

Queenston, 1841. 185 x 80 mm engraved bank note, accomplished in manuscript . Vignettes of a bridge over a river, of St. George on horseback slaying a dragon, a dog's head with a banner ("fidelity"), and a portrait. Engraved by Rawdon, Wright and Hatch, New York. Pay on demand note made out to C. Noble, endorsed by the bank's president and its cashier. Somewhat worn, yet sound and entire. Canadian chartered bank notes were paper money issued by private banks. The Niagara Suspensi... more information

London: Edward Arnold, 1976. Soft Cover. 64 pages. Critical study in English on the Camus's 1942 novel The Stranger. ... more information

Beirut: Khayats, 1961. First edition. Octavo, 128 pages. Cloth in dust jacket. Suntanned dust jacket. Pencil notes on pastedowns. ... more information

Londres [but Paris?]: chez G. Owen; Fleet-Strett [sic]; & T. Cadell, dans le Strand, , 1772. References: Quérard, La France Littéraire, I, 173; Weller, Die falschen und fingirten Druckorte, II, 189.. 12mo (16 cm); 2 volumes in one. [12],179,[1] ; [4],163,[17] pages. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards with paper title label on spine. Red-spotted edges. Binding a bit soiled but sound and entire, hardly worn. Paper a little toned at edges. but unblemished. Owner's pen marks o... more information

Quebec: Libairie Garneau, 1936. First edition. 21cm; 173 pages. Bound in "class project" half calf over tan buckram, raised bands. Original illustrated endleaves retained. Original illustrated front wrap bound in. This copy inscribed by Regina Lenore Shoolman, one of the persons named by the author on the dedication page. Custom cardboard slipcase. ... more information