Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe
by Bourne, Michael [Rex Stout]
Bloomington: James A. Rock & Company, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Illustrated by Sid Wright. Limited to 1500 numbered paperbound copies. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This work features the book publication of the Nero Wolfe novel Bitter End.
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After Piketty; The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
by Boushey, Heather; Delong, J. Bradford; Steinbaum, Marshall
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($35.00), faintly rubbed at the edges. Black cloth with orange ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few small stains at the bottom edge, clean internally. A collection of essays that comment on Piketty's ideas put forth in his best-selling work Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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Doctor Dealer; THe Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
by Bowden, Mark
New York: Warner Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed at the edges, creased throughout the surface. Quarter black cloth with purple paper on the boards, stains and mottling throughout. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean internally. The first book by the author of Black Hawk Down, the story of Larry Lavin and his life from Phillips Exeter Academy to running a $60-million-a-year cocaine... Read More
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Black Hawk Down
by Bowden, Mark
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($24), faded a shade at the spine. Red cloth, pushed at the head of the spine, with gold paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, Border's stamp on the bottom edge, a stain at the top edge, clean otherwise. Bowden's classic account of the October 1993 skirmish in Somalia, adapted to the Academy Award-winning 2001 Ridley Scott... Read More
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The Hotel
by Bowen, Elizabeth
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, lacking the jacket. Black buckram, generally rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, toned and chipped paste-down label on the spine. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear. Bowen's debut novel.
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An Updated Abstract from ERB's Working Notebook
by Bowman, Brad
[n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.]. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Spiral-bound with purple covers, unevenly toned. Firmly bound, clean internally. Bowman's list of Burrough's stories sorted into chronological tables drawn from the work of Heins and Porges. For Burroughs novels that combine multiple stories, Bowman provides the order in which the stories appear in the novel. A seemingly scarce Burroughs bibliographic work with only one institutional holding at the University of Louisville. From the collection of Joan Bledig.... Read More
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Plants of the Devil
by Boyer, Corinne
Richmond Vista: Three Hands Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 1000 copies. Illustrations by Marzena Ablewska. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price). Black cloth with red gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Billingsgate Shoal
by Boyer, Rick
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Boyer on the half-title. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), two short closed tears on the back panel. Blue cloth on the boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book in the Doc Adams series, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel.
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The Long Walk at San Francisco State and Other Essays
by Boyle, Kay
New York: Grove Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Boyle on the front endpaper to editor Morris Rubin. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.00), generally toned, some pulling to the laminate. Red cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of essays about the student and civil rights movements, including writing on S.I. Hayakawa, Huey Newton, and the Black Panthers.
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The Toynbee Convector
by Bradbury, Ray
Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc, 1992. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Anita Kunz. Fine. Glossy pictorial boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Dinosaur Tales
by Bradbury, Ray
New York: Bantam Books, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Cover illustration by William Stout. Very Good. Wraps lightly toned, creased at the front wrap near the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name and date on the first page, clean otherwise.
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The Illustrated Man 45th Anniversary Edition
by Bradbury, Ray
Springfield: Gauntlet Publishing, 1996. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Limited to 600 copies signed by Bradbury, William F. Nolan, and Ed Gorman. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, faded at the spine, complete in a Fine example of the slipcase. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of twenty stories by the science fiction master.
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The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
by Bradley, Alan
New York: Delacorte Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Bradley on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00). Quarter black cloth with purple paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The second Flavia de Luce mystery.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Bradley, Alan
London: Orion, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Bradley on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (£12.99). Black buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first Flavia de Luce mystery, winner of the CWA Dagger Award.
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Havana: Cinderella's City
by Bradley, Hugh
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), rubbed and with some short tears and chips at the edges. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, clean internally. Bradley's illustrated history of Havana.
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The Burroughs Cyclopaedia; Characters, Places, Fauna, Flora, Technologies, Languages, Ideas and Terminologies Found in the Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Brady, Clark A.
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. With a post-it note on the front endpaper reading "Joan's Copy." Fine. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. From the collection of Joan Bledig.
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Brainard-Freeman Notebooks; GQ 1112
by [Brainard, Joe; Freeman, Herm; Ashbery, John; Demeyes, Phil] Smith, Phil
New York, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Gegenschein Quarterly 1112. Introductions by John Ashbery and Phil Demeyes. Inscribed by Ashbery at the end of his introduction. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned, red ink lettering faded at the spine. Square and firmly bound, some erased pencil markings on the first leaf, clean otherwise. A collection in two parts, the first of which samples different series of Brainard's work that, according to Ashbery in his introduction, "presents us with... Read More
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Scientific Explanation; A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
by Braithwaite, R.B.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second American Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, toned at the spine, a chip at the head, a strip of loss at the rear flap fold. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and designs on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name inside the front board, clean otherwise. Based on Braithwaite's Tarner Lectures, this work examines the common logical features of all sciences.
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The Passion of Ayn Rand
by Branden, Barbara
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Branden on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95), bumped and with a short closed tear at the top edge of the back panel. Quarter blue cloth with grey paper on the boards, lightly rubbed gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first biography of Rand written by the co-founder of the objectivist-centered Nathaniel Branden Institute. ... Read More
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Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand
by Branden, Nathaniel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($21.95), bumped at the edges. Quarter brown cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, former owner's stamp on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.
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The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini
by Brandon, Ruth
New York: Random House, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.00), bumped at the edges. Quarter red buckram with orange paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Brandon's work that explains Houdini's famous escapes but also explains his various obsessions.
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The First Heretic; The Life and Times of Ikhnaton the King
by Bratton, Gladstone
Boston: Beacon Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Review copy with the publisher's slip laid-in. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), generally soiled, a few shallow chips and short tears at the edges. Quarter grey cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square, bound with some reading wear, foxing at the edges, clean internally. A biography of the child-pharaoh and brother-husband of Nefertiti who reigned from 1375-1358 B.C.
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Parables for the Theater: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Brecht, Bertolt
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. English version by Eric and Maja Bentley. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped but struck-through ($3.50), generally toned and rubbed, a chip at the bottom edge of the back panel. Black boards, rubbed at the bottom edge, with white ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book appearance in any language of these two plays... Read More
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Civil Blood
by Breckenrige, Jill
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Limited to 500 copies. Engravings by R.W. Scholes. Signed by both Breckenridge and Scholes on the title page. Presentation copy additionally inscribed by Breckenridge opposite the title page and with a laid-in thank you note to Rosellen Brown. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($19.50), flaps toned, bumped at the edges and corners. Red cloth, bumped at the corners, with a pastedown label on the front... Read More
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Jeane Dixon: The Witnesses
by Brian, Denis
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Foreword by Jeane Dixon. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($6.95), bumped and with creases and spots of rubbing. Quarter black boards with red paper on the boards, some rubbing. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A work supporting the prophetic powers of Jeane Dixon.
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