Titles starting with B from Rulon-Miller Books

Metuchen & London: the Scarecrow Press. 1985. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 594, [1]; fine in original red cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in white. Review copy with slip laid in. Nearly 400 American directors of the 1930s and 40s in more than 11,500 feature films, with complete filmographies for each director. ... more information

London: S.O. Beeton. 1865. 8vo, [6] & 140pp., text in double column; spine partially perished, some wear, else good in original printed wrappers. Parlor book with after- dinner fun for the Victorians. ... more information

Brussels: Em. Rossel. 1904. 8vo, pp. xx,528; illustrated throughout, original pictorial wrapper preserved; contemporary black cloth, green morocco label, very good; ex- MHS. Issued in conjunction with the Belgium exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. ... more information

London: Elliot Stock, 1881-1883.. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo; pages slightly browned, some signatures starting, extremities rubbed, covers and spines soiled and stained, spine bottoms frayed, tops of spines chipped to level of pages, spine of vol. I partially detached, else good in contemporary white paper covered boards, paper printed levels on spine. Three volumes dating from December 1881 to May 1883. Ex-MHS. ... more information

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. n.d. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. [10], 52, [1]; frontispiece illustration and 4 plates; near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. The Bohemian Flats lay along the Mississippi just below the falls of St. Anthony, between Minneapolis and St. Paul, where settled many northern European immigrants. This is its brief history. ... more information

London: Cassell and Co. Ltd.. 1930-1934. 8vo, 12 issues plus a duplicate, Vol. 1, (December 1930 - February 1931) through Vol. XVI (October - December 1934), lacking Vols. IV, XI, XIII & XIV, some illustrations throughout; small tear from corner of one lower cover, slight browning, else good or better, internally sound in orig. printed wrappers. Contributors include Eric Gill, A. W. Pollard, Michael Sadleir, P. H. Muir, Holbrook Jackson, D. H. Lawrence, & A. J. A. Symons. ... more information

New York Public Library. 1943. Only edition, 8vo, xiii-[xiv] & 573-[575]pp., frontis portrait of Lydenberg; fine copy in orig. maroon cloth, without a dust-jacket, as issued. Contributed essays on varied aspects of books and the book trade, by authors such as Lawrence Wroth, Randolph G. Adams, Charles Eberstat, H.L. Mencken, Emily Skeel, Margaret Stillwell, Charles Goodspeed, George Parker Winship, Archibald MacLeish, and John Mulholland. ... more information

Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts. [1973]. First edition, 8vo, xxv-[xxvi] & 294pp., 143 illustrations, fine copy in very good jacket. Volume 46 of the Society's publications. Review copy with slip laid in. ... more information

Boston: Printed for the Society. 1930. First edition, 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. xii, 117-[120]; ornamented title-p., 40 full-p. illus. (mostly portraits); original olive green cloth-backed rose paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine and front cover, t.e.g., printed presentation plate at inside front cover; extremities worn, revealing boards at lower corners, else very good. Smith 707. ... more information

London: Pickering. 1834-36. 8vo, full polished blue calf, gilt spines, red morocco labels, elaborate gilt borders on covers; slight wear at the joints but generally a very good, sound set. This set with a leather presentation bookplate from the Mayor of Norwich dated 1838, and also a 1 page autograph letter of transmittal from the Mayor to the recipient. A series paid by the bequest of The Right Honourable and Reverend Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater to the Royal Society for the creation of 1000 copies o... more information

London. 1852. Broadside, linen-backed, approx. 26” x 28” showing 26 individual graphs, neatly and attractively hand-colored, the whole folding down into an octavo red cloth binding lettered in gilt on upper cover, front cover detached; ex-MHS. Statistical graphs, with comparisons, of population, births, deaths, wheat production, sugar consumption, national debt, exports, mineral production, etc. ... more information

Boston: James R. Osgood and Co.. 1878. First edition, square, thin 8vo, pp. [44]; wood-engraved illustrations throughout; original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spine, and in gilt and black on upper cover, beveled edges, a.e.g.; spine ends worn, else very good. BAL 298: "Reprinted from The Ballad of Babie Bell…, 1859." ... more information

Durham and London: Duke University Press. 1989. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. xvi, 184; illustrated; fine copy in a fine jacket. ... more information

New York: Booktab Press. [1946]. First edition (there was a second printing the following year), 8vo, pp. 127, [1]; 11 illustrations from photographs and a double-p. map of Moscow; very good in original pictorial wrappers. The author was the Chauffeur Extraordinary for the U.S. Ambassador at the Kremlin. ... more information

[Stockholm, Wisconsin]: Midnight Paper Sales. 1998. First edition, 1 of 200 copies, 12mo, pp. [4], 42, [3]; illustrated with color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec; cloth backed decorated boards, printed paper spine label, slipcase with pictorial label; fine. ... more information

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1940. First printed edition of America's first medical book, 4to, pp. xxiv, 341, including 118pp. of color facsimile of the illustrated ms.; other illus. in text; fine copy in orig. brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and preserving the original printed dust jacket, slightly faded on the spine; spine also with a very mild dampstain. A beautifully illustrated Aztec herbal from a manuscript discovered in 1931 in the Vatican which hold "a unique place in the medical histor... more information

Paris. 1926. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies printed by Maurice Darantiere, sm. 4to, pp. [5]-58, [5]; 20 small pouchoir illustrations by Bonfils; orig. stiff pictorial wrappers; fine copy in a near perfect glassine sleeve, and the printed copy designation slip laid in. Tessie was the talented daughter of the famed collector of rare Americana, Herschel V. Jones, of Minneapolis. ... more information

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d.. [ca. 1960's].. Small 8vo, pp. 190, [2]; very good copy in a dust-jact which shows small breats at the top of the spine. Journalistic account of industrial development in Siberia, Baikal Lake being one the world's great dumping grounds of toxic and nuclear waste. ... more information

Jena: Friedrich Frommann. 1822. 12th, and apparently last of the German bilingual editions of Bailey, edited by Adolf Wagner, 2 volumes, tall 8vo, xl, 1223-[1224]; xii, 955pp., contemporary half calf over marbled boards, boards rubbed (much of the paper on boards of vol. II has perished), joints tender, but generally a very good set. The earliest German edition listed by Kennedy is 1761. ... more information

[Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California. 1971]. 8vo, pp. 80; maps, black & white illustrations throughout; near fine in original light brown pictorial wraps. ... more information