Titles starting with B from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

New York: Richard W. Ellis, The Georgian Press,, 1927.. 8vo, printed on handmade paper. Boards. A fine copy.. One of 500 numbered copies, with the signature of Arthur Ellis, one of the founders of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles. ... more information

Chicago: University of Chicago, , 1942.. 8vo, xi, 131pp, 18 illus. Orig. terracotta cloth, gilt, minor dampstaining to lower front board, browning to endpapers, neat owner's sig. on endpapers, about 10 scholarly pencil annotations, very good.. First Edition, reproduced from type-written copy, scarce. Study of the 'creation stories of Babylonia, and the problem of their relation to our Old Testament literature.' The scholarly notes are erasable, should you disagree with the prior owner's corrected transla... more information

London: Office of the British Medical Association,, 1936.. 8vo, 21pp. Maroon cloth, gilt lettered, fine.. Reprint form the British Medical Journal, October 24th, 1936, vol. ii, p.793. ... more information

Los Angeles: Reprinted courtesy of Glen Dawson,, 1954.. 12mo, (3), 32, (1 map)pp. Decorated cloth. Very good.. Inscribed by Meadows on the title. A re-issue of the 1951 edition made as a keepsake for a conference on Northwestern mexico at Occidental College. ... more information

New York: Ben Abramson,, 1947.. 8vo, wrappers. Very good.. Vol. II, no. 2. Contributions by Christopher Morley, Paul McPharlin, and a 17 year old Stephen Saxe. De Waal 4182. ... more information

Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company,, 1935.. 8vo, (40)pp, illus. in various color. Red wrappers. Very good copy with the bookplate of California printer Ward Ritchie.. Dwiggins, here at his finest, sent the drawings to Benet who responded with cryptic quatrains. Includes WAD's comments on the design of Electra. Agner 35.01. ... more information

Paris: Librairie Georges Courville, , 1936.. 8vo, xx, 484pp, with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Orig. printed wrappers, a very good copy.. ... more information

Paris: Gallimard, , (1955).. 8vo, 540pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Back wrapper missing half inch section, spine lightly worn, otherwise a very good copy. . 12é;me edition. ... more information

Paris: Editions Stock, Delamain & Boutelleau, , 1941.. 8vo, 191pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Few ink notes on half-title page & scattered in text, lightly browned. Otherwise a very good copy.. ... more information

Berkeley: Gillick Press,, 1945.. Oblong 4to, 109pp, 12 full-page reproductions of paintings, 2pp of facsimile ms.. Cloth. Fine.. One of 500 copies, signed by the author. ... more information

Buenos Aires: (Fundacion Banco de la Nacion Argentina),, (1983).. 2 vols, Sq 4to, 345pp, b/w illus. throughout; 257pp, b/w illus. throughout. Quarter calf over beige cloth, lettered in gilt, gilt-stamped vignette, dust jacket, mild soiling to both vols, bumps to edges of upper board vol. 2, very good in like djs.. First Edition. Produced in conjuction with the Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones en Historia de la Arquitectura y del Urbanismo, this work details the design and expansion of the Bank of A... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1938.. 8vo, 250pp, illustrated with line drawings by Joseph Low, who also did the colorful dust jacket. Very nice copy.. First Edition of a mystery set in China. The author grew up in China and writes with detailed description of the people, customs. houses, and cities. ... more information

Philadelphia: n.p.,, 1892.. 8vo, 84pp, 1 foldout chart. Publisher's original brown cloth, gilt lettering and orn., blindstamped ruled borders, mild wear at extremities, otherwise clean, bright, fine.. First Edition. ... more information

Düsseldorf,, 2000.. 4to, 176pp, illus. throughout. Wrappers. Fine.. ... more information

New York: New Directions, , (1949).. 8vo, vi, 186pp. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. Light wear to spine ends, otherwise a very good copy.. First Edition in English of Michaux's travels through India, China, Southeast Asia and Japan, with elegant notes on the local cultures and pychobotanicals. A Connolly Modern Movement title. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran,, 1929.. Sm 8vo, 70, (2)pp, frontispiece. Brown roan, onlaid color illus., publisher's roan slipcase, mild edgewear, 2 sigs., otherwise tight, internally clean, near fine in very good slipcase.. Limited Edition of 367 copies, of which this is letterpressed copy 49. Designed and made by Ernst Reichl, with decorations by Valenti Angelo. The copy of Oscar-winning actress Dorothy McGuire, with her signature. ... more information

Buenos Ares: La Cultura Argentina,, 1915.. 8vo, wrappers, worn. A good copy.. Alberdi discusses the Argentine Constitution and the necessary steps to maintain its integrity. ... more information

Chicago: Paul Theobald,, 1948.. 4to, xii, 208pp, approx. 460 illustrations (155 in color). Orig. black cloth, front board & spine lettered in red. Barest dustsoiling, nearly fine. First Edition of this beautifully illustrated and clear explanation of Ostwald's color science, which incorporated everything from color standardization to a definitive set of laws on color harmony. Diagrams of color schemes in famous paintings are included, by which the student is taught the both the laws of harmony and the pr... more information

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,, 1949.. Tall 8vo, (10)pp, x-xviii, (192)pp. Orig. slate gray wrappers, paper label. Label marked in crayon, general wear, otherwise very good.. Uncorrected proof of the first printing of the revised edition of Brill's great popular exposition of psychoanalysis, edited by Philip Lehrman, who finished revising this manuscript as Brill was dying in 1948. Brill (1874-1948) was Freud's (and for some while Jung's) great translator and proponent in America and was in fact the first... more information

Pasadena: The Basket Fraternity,, 1903-04.. 5 issues, Vol. 1, no. 4, Vol. 2, nos. 1 through 4. Very light wear to spines, otherwise very good.. ... more information