Titles starting with B from David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

1925. A Fine Set of Anthony Trollope’s “Barchester Novels”TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Barchester Novels. London: Robert Hayes, [n.d., 1925]. Six octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 210 x 135 mm.). ix, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank], 492; vi, 492; vi, [1], [1, blank], 648; vi, 514; [6], 279, [1, blank]; vi, 475, [1, blank] pp. Eighty black and white plates (including frontispieces).Comprising: Doctor Thorne, with eight plates by H.L. Shindler; Framley Parsonage, with six plates by Sir John E. Milla... more information

1835. first edition. “I Have Never Been Able to Find One in Reliable (Even Though Dingy) Condition”—Michael SadleirMITFORD, Mary Russell. Belford Regis; or Sketches of a Country Town. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1835.First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (7 13/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 198 x 125 mm.). x, [1, contents], [1, blank], 318, [2, blank]; [4], 317, [1, printer’s imprint]; [4], 348 pp. Complete with the half-title and the final blank leaf in Volume I, but bound without t... more information

1986. Limited to 425 Copies Signed by the PhotographerWith 38 Duo-Tone Photos To Dramatize the Text[ARION PRESS]. CHANDLER, Raymond. STOUMEN, Lou (photographer). POWELL, Lawrence Clark (intro.). The Big Sleep. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1986. Limited to 425 copies, signed by the photographer. Octavo (10 x 7 7/8 in; 254 x 198 mm). 249, (1, blank), (1, colophon), (1, blank) pp. Forty blue/black duo-tone photo-lithographs. Printed laminate vinyl over buckram boards. As new. ... more information

1912. Heath Robinson’s Wittiest DrawingsROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill the Minder. Written and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. London: Constable & Co., 1912.Edition de Luxe. Limited to 380 numbered copies (this copy being No. 5), signed by the author/artist. Large quarto (11 3/8 x 9 inches; 289 x 228 mm.). xiv, [2], 254, [2] pp. Sixteen mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards. Black and white line drawings in the text.Original vellum over boards pictorially stampe... more information

c.1890. Original Art From "Another Brownie Book"COX, Palmer. "The Brownies on the Race-Track". Original pen and ink drawing, undated, c.1890. Signed at lower left. Depicts eight brownie-jockeys atop a thoroughbred and hanging on for dear life as their steed leaps off the track and over a fence, their brownie friends looking on through the fence, wide-eyed. One of Cox's most delightful and skilled compositions, the position of the horse and the brownies atop and their shading drawin... more information