Titles starting with B from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1977. 26 cm; 315 pages. Color photo illustrations. Cloth in dust jacket. VG/VG. ... more information

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1896. First edition. 32 cm; iv, 44 pages, and 59 leaves of plates, some in photogravure, including maps and plans. Bound in original printed boards, worn at edges. Foxing on boards and endleaves only. Pencil marks on title page. Contents clean. Sound and entire. Egyptian Research Account, first season. ... 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

Nihonbashi-ku [i.e., Tokyo]: eto Kibe, 1880. First edition. Woodblock book in hanshi-bon format (23 cm). Volume 1 only (of 5). 19 double leaves, most of them illustrated. Traditional fukurotoji style binding, but lacks stitching. Disbound, pages thumbed, yet without marks or blemishes. Illustrates Japanese decorative motives and themes. ... more information

N.p.: Mercure de France, 1971. 318 p. Wraps. Edges of wraps stained. A perennial study. ... more information

Montreal: The Redpath Library, McGill University, 1966. 24 cm; [20] pages and 8 facsimiles and portraits. Printed wraps, staple bound. Fine condition. Reproduces a fragment in Beethoven's hand from "Freu dich des Lebens" that he wrote out for the Canadian music teacher Theodore Molt in 1825. According to the text, this is Beethoven's only known communication with North America. A note by Edgar Andrew Collard glosses the fragment and explains its history. Texts in English and French. Editi... more information

London and Philadelphia: W. Heinemann and J. B. Lippincott, 1907. First edition. 24cm; 271 pages, and 60 color plates with letterpress tissue guards. Original blue decorated cloth, sound and entire, yet somewhite tired. Some mild scattered foxing to text pages only. Kalfatovic, 1046. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Color and black-and-white photos. Maps on endpapers. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed along edges. ... more information

London: Ascent Books, 1979. First Edition. Paper covered boards. ... more information

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975. 317 p. Blue cloth. VG but for stain on top board. ... more information

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

New York: Burt Franklin, 1973. Reprint. 19 cm; 272 pages. Bound in red cloth. No dust jacket. Very light shelf wear only, else unblemished. Reprint of the 1907 edition, of which only volume 1 was published. ... more information

Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1974. 31 cm; 179 pages. Printed wraps. ... more information

London and Emmaus: Rodale Press, 1954. 19cm; 42 pages including four full-page color illustrations and several vignettes by Wragg. Bound in patterned boards. Endleaves are a facsimile of Flaubert's manuscript from the original in the Stefan Zweig collection. Advertising half-wrap present. ... more information

Paris: June 5 & 6, 2007. Wraps. Auction catalogue. ... more information

Montreal: Redpath Press, 1958. Limited edition. Sewn patterned wraps.. 16cm; [15] pages. (on double leaves). One leaf illustrated. Redpath Press Trifles series, number 2. Colophon: "Thirty copies of Biscay Ballads on Hosho paper have been hand-set and hand-printed by Richard Pennington at the Redpath Press in the McGill University Library, Montreal, Canada... ... more information

London: Methuen, 1937. First edition in English. 22cm; x, 374 pages, and 16 plates. Appparently lacks maps, which were originally printed on endleaves. Errata slip laid in. Bound in full red plush leather. Marbled endleaves and edges. Silk signet. Some shelf wear to extremeties. ... more information

London: Hamlyn, 1972. Hard Cover. 29cm; 128 pages. Illustrated. Creased dust jacket. Inscription on front blank. ... more information

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. First edition. 25 cm; Book xxvi, 345 pages. Bound in green cloth, stamped in gilt. Published as volume 13 in the Nag Hammadi studies series. The Coptic gnostic library. ... more information

London: James Speirs, 1882, 1887. First English edition. 2 volumes; 23 cm; xxxviii, [i], 794; xvi, 645 pages. Original brown cloth with portrait medallion on upper boards and arms on lower boards. Binding somewhat blemished; private shelf mark on spines. Front free endleaf of volume 1 loose and laid in. Hinges split and repaired with binder's tape. Volume one crown frayed and split. Gift inscription on front blank. Otherwise clean and entire. First edition in English of Swedenborg's original... more information