Authors starting with B from Charles Agvent, ABAA

(New York): Masses & Mainstream, 1952. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Light soiling to rear cover. Some separation of text block from wraps. Very Good. Pictorial wraps, also published in hardcover. . INSCRIBED on the half-title page "For Van Wyck Brooks" and SIGNED by the author and subject, W. E. B. Du Bois. Brooks's description of the author as, among other things, "an artist and a prophet" in THE CONFIDENT YEARS is cited by Shirley Graham in one of her comments on page 11 of the present book. A rare p... more information

London: William Hunt, 1653. Second Edition. calf. Very Good copy of a most interesting title. Quarto (5-1/2" x 7-1/4") bound in early calf with a recent calf spine; [50 (of 52)], 559, [31] pages. Lacks the frontispiece, as in the Wing copy (B5461), leaf A1 (The Intent of the Frontispiece), and the portrait. The Table leaf is bound with the extra leaf containing three engravings between S2 and S3. Illustrated with 174 engravings in the text. Pforzheimer 115: "The subject and abundant illustrations ... make... more information

Washington: Byron Adams, 1916. First Edition. Nick to cloth at edge of spine on rear otherwise Near Fine. Illustrated with plates and maps. Howes B-4; New Howes B-4 "b". Inscribed by Iowa congressman William Green. ... more information

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, [1942]. First Edition. Cloth. Some scattered foxing. Very Good in a Good, complete dustwrapper with tears. The fourth in a series of facsimiles of memorable books and documents printed by the Chiswick Press. ... more information

Boston: Bachelder, 1875. Third Edition. Decorated cloth. Lacks front free endpaper. Very Good. Original decorated green cloth; 361 [3] pages. Revised Edition. Describes the principal summer retreats in the U.S., mostly in the northeast but including a few pages on Yellowstone, Yosemite, and other western attractions. Illustrated with a large folding map and 152 engravings. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in slightly worn glassine and spine-darkened clamshell box. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #670 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Half buckram. Fine in glassine and about Fine clamshell box. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #1035 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page. ... more information

New York: Heritage Press, (1944). Cloth-backed dec. boards. Fine in slipcase. Quarto. Intro. by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach, designed by Bruce Rogers. ... more information

New York: Willey Book Co., 1944. 3/4 morocco. Very minor wear. Near Fine. Revised Edition. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") attractively bound in 3/4 greenish brown morocco with gilt lettering and stamping on the spine. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Cloth-backed boards. Light wear to corners. Near Fine, lacking the box. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #380 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Cloth-backed boards. Slightly cocked. Near Fine in a Near Fine clamshell box with wear at the spine tips. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #75 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page. ... more information

New York: Scribner, (1963). First Edition. Cloth. Fine in dustwrapper with lightly faded spine. ... more information

New York: MacMillan, (1974). First Edition. cloth. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs. Facts from the TV newswoman who scooped the FBI. ... more information

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's second book, a marvelous tour de force. ... more information

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Very thin, light remainder stripe on bottom edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book. ... more information

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book. ... more information

London: Granta, (1991). First Edition. F/F. First British Edition. ... more information

New York: Random House, (1992). First Edition. Decorated wraps. Fine in plain brown paper sleeve. Advance Reading Copy in decorated wraps of this unlikely bestseller about phone sex. ... more information

Pittsburgh: University of Pitt., (1974). First Edition. F/NF. Vietnam vet's first full-length book, with the Lamont Prize card laid in. ... more information

New York: King's Crown Press, (1947). First Edition, Second Printing. cloth. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Pictorial frontispiece by Yves Tanguy. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. ... more information