A statistical view of the number of sheep in the several towns and counties in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio: a partial account of the number of sheep in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky, in 1836. And an account of the principal woollen manufactories in said states. To which is added, a short sketch of the introduction of the merino and Saxony sheep into the United States, and the mode of treatment pursued by some of the principal growers of wool in New England. Cambridge: Folsom, Wells and Thurston, 1837.
by BENTON, C. and Samuel Barry, compilers
Cambridge: Folsom, Wells and Thurston, 1837. Book. 12mo, contemp. marbled boards, calf spine. Pp. vi, [1], 8-143, [1]. Binding worn; some foxing; otherwise internally very good. .
Offered by Savoy Books
Yarrott Benz : photographs
by Benz, Yarrott
Brooklyn, NY: Y. Benz, 1997. Softcover. VG. 1 portfolio (13 sheets) : chiefly bw illustrations. "Yarrott Benz was born in 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee. He received a B.S. degree from Vanderbilt University studying art history and poetry and received a M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. Benz's interest in photography was first stimulated at Vanderbilt. While studying Southern artists such as Eudora Welty, Walker Evans and William Christenberry, he received a grant to write and... Read More
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Sassetta: Un Peintre Seinnois de la Legende Franciscaine
by Berenson, Bernard
Paris: A. Michel, 1948. Hardcover. VP/VG: The dust jacket is in very poor condition. It is torn in two along the spine and the front cover is missing the inside flap. The front cover is tucked under the back cover for safekeeping. Wear to the edges and corners of this dust jacket. The book is in much better shape, with some tanning on the end pages, but majority clear body pages and illustrations. Dark text and solid binding.. ... Read More
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Den norsk Lutherske kirkes historie i Amerika
by Bergh, J. A.
Minneapolis: Forfatterens Forlag, 1914. 8vo, pp. 528; text in Norwegian; full burgundy cloth; boards bumped and soiled at corners, text clean and sound, very good. A history of the Norwegian Lutheran church in America, which had many members in the Minnesota area.
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting
by BERGREEN, Laurence
Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. First. hardcover. near fine/very good(+). Illustrated with b/w photographs. x + 300 pages. 8vo, black cloth backed black boards, d.w. (Some tears to edges). Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. First edition. Bumping to fore-corners of boards. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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Creative Evolution (ML 231).
by BERGSON, Henri.
NY:: Modern Library,. 1944. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Modern Library number 231. Translated from the French by Arthur Mitchell. A later printing. Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear) dust jacket. .
Offered by Grendel Books
Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher. in Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion, Against Those Who Are Called Free-Thinkers
by Berkeley, George
New-Haven, [Connecticut]: For Increase Cooke & Co, 1803. First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. First American edition, from the fourth London edition. Lacks front board, spine and rear board rubbed and drying, two light spots on fore edge, ink name and date on front endpaper, brief pencil notes on rear endpaper. 1803 Full-Leather. xiii, [2], 16-388, [2] pp. Complete in one volume. Alciphron is a Christian apologetic in answer to the 'minute philosophers' of Berkeley's day, who sought... Read More
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Peter Kropotkin; his federalist ideas
by Berneri, Camillo
Sheffield: Pirate Press, n.d.. 16p., 5x7 inch staplebound pamphlet; very good. Berneri, an Italian anarchist, was arrested and killed in Barcelona in 1937 while documenting ties between Italian fascists and Catalan nationalists. He influenced, among others, Noam Chomsky.
Offered by Bolerium Books Inc.
Survival Guide for the Suddenly Single
by BERSON, Barbara and BOVA, Ben
New York: St. Martin's, 1974. hardcover. fine/fine. x + 213 page. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. (crease to front flap). New York: St. Martin's Press, (1974). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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A small group of Type Specimens from Berthold
by Berthold
Berlin: H. Berthold AG, 1985. stiff paper wrappers. Type Specimens. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Text in German. All seven issues are in fine condition. The specimens included are: MARBROOK (Probe 110), BERLING (Probe 114), KENNERLY OLD STYLE (Probe 115), OLD FACE (Probe 116), BERKELEY OLD STYLE (Probe 118), DEEPDENE (Probe 119), and BODONI OLD FACE (Probe 121).
Offered by Oak Knoll Books
Cowboy Jim Puppet Book
by BERTON, Max
New York: Capitol Publishing Company, Inc, 1949. Richard POWERS. [MOVABLE BOOK] [TOY BOOK] [JUVENILE]. Richard POWERS, illustrator. K.M. PLOWITZ, designer. Small 4to (9 9/16" x 8"); [20]pp; color illustrated stiff board, die-cut window on the front board to represent a stage, title on front, imprint on rear; front board opens to reveal the stage with two tab moveable puppets and the story booklet affixed to the inside; color printing; light shelf-soiling to boards, old glue scrape to front of... Read More
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Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise: The Story of Caladesi Island.
by Betz, Myrtle Scharrer.
Tampa: University of Tampa Press, (2007). New and enlarged edition. This copy is inscribed and signed by Terry Fortner, who has added a Timeline, photos, and additional information to the earlier edition. Octavo, softbound, xv, 191 pp. Photos, maps. Fine.
Offered by Lighthouse Books
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
by Bhutto, Fatima
London: Penguin, 2014. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x7. 3rd printing. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2014 Trade Paperback. 230 pp. Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut novel chronicles the lives of five young people trying to live and love in a world on fire. Set during the American invasion of Afghanistan, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon begins and ends one rain-swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town... Read More
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for Timotha.
by BIALY, Harvey.
[Berkeley]: Sand Dollar, 1970.. First trade edition.. 11 x 6 1/8 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Very near fine. One of 200 copies printed at the Cranium Press. Produced on the occasion of Bialy’s farewell reading. SIGNED by Bialy.
Offered by Jeff Maser, Bookseller
The Runaway (Four original photographs from the 1972 film)
by Bickford Webber (director, screenwriter); Gilda Texter, William Smith, Rita Murray (starring)
N.p.: Group 1 Films, 1972. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. All photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A runaway teenager finds herself adrift in early 1970s southern California. 8 x 10 inches. Light soiling on the bottom margins of two of the photographs, else Near Fine.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Deuteronomy
by Biddle, Mark E.
Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2003. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xxiii, 513pp+indices. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Includes CD-ROM.
Offered by Kenneth Mallory
The Devil's Dictionary.
by BIERCE, Ambrose.
London:: Folio Society,. 2003. Hardcover. As New. Introduction by Miles Kington. As new in like slipcase. Still in original shrinkwrap. .
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The Devil's Dictionary.
by BIERCE, Ambrose.
London:: Folio Society,. 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine. Introduction by Miles Kington. First edition thus. Fine in an about fine slipcase. .
Offered by Grendel Books
CLINICAL SURGERY : EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORTS OF SURGICAL PRACTICE BETWEEN THE YEARS 1860-1876
by Billroth, Theodor, 1829-1894 [author] ; Dent, C.T. [editor]
London: The New Sydenham Society, 1881. Hardcover. Octavo, xx, 518 pages. In Fair condition. Ex-library with library stamps on endpapers, title page, and verso of rear plates. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth, gilt portrait surrounded by stamped design; fraying to spine caps and corners, torn rear hinge, cocked spine. Text block has red-tinted edges; name in ink on front pastedown, surface tear to rear pastedown, cracked hinges. Illustrated: "With nine lithographs and twenty-nine woodcuts"-... Read More
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[Title in Greek, then:] QUAE EXTANT OPERA
by (BINDINGS - PRIZE BINDING, 17TH CENTURY). (ESTIENNE IMPRINT). XENOPHON
[Geneva]: Excudebat Henrius Stephanus, 1581. Second Estienne Edition. 320 x 212 mm. (12 1/2 x 8 1/2"). 6 p.l., 584, 76 pp.Edited and with annotations by Henri Estienne. FINE 17TH CENTURY SPRINKLED CALF PRIZE BINDING, covers gilt with French fillet border, oblique fleur-de-lys at corners, SUPRA LIBROS OF CARDINAL MAZARIN AT CENTER, raised bands, spine compartments with fleurs-de lys at center and corners, edges gilt over marbling (old repair to head of spine). Printer's device (Schreiber 18) on... Read More
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WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG: MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDENTS' SONGS
by (BINDINGS - COSWAY BINDING). SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. No. 36 OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES. 283 x 207 mm. (11 1/4 x 8 1/4"). 4 p.l., 183, [1] pp.With a preface and explanatory notes by John Addington Symonds. SPLENDID CRIMSON MOROCCO COSWAY BINDING BY RIVIERE & SON from desgins by J. H. STONEHOUSE (stamp-signed on front turn-in), the morocco very densely stippled with gold, as a background from an allover design of grapevines, springing from a base at the foot of... Read More
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Marcus Aurelius; A Biography
by Birley, Anthony
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped (no price), bumped at the edges. Red cloth, pushed at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Squaer and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean otherwise. A revised edition of the standard Aurelius biography published two decades earlier.
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A SCENT OF NEW-MOWN HAY
by Blackburn, John
London: Secker and Warburg Limited, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 221 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine light pictorial green with off-white and black lettering. Exterior has slight plus wear including mild sunning and few chips to the head/tail edges. Boards have very slight wear including faint sunning and slight tilt to the spine. Text block has slight wear including slight foxing to the edges and... Read More
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The Lithographers Manual
by Blair, Raymond N.; Destree, Thomas M.
Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, 1988. Very Good. Blair, Raymond N.. The Lithographers Manual. Destree, Thomas M.. Pittsburgh: Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, 1988. Eighth edition. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Covers and edges rubbed. Soiling on covers.
Offered by Weller Book Works
Living Justice: Love, Freedom, and the Making of the Exonerated
by BLANK, Jessica; JENSEN, Erik
New York: Atria, 2005. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 303 pages. 8vo, black boards, pictorial d.w. New York: Atria, (2005). First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
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