Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind; Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.
by Bryan, C.D.B.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£20.00), a few short tears at the spine edge. Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stray stains at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. Bryan's book inspired by his hearing abduction stories at an M.I.T. conference. Here he attempts to answer the question proposed by Professor Mack: "If what these abductees... Read More
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Trilobyte and The Shadow on the Doorstep
by Bryant, Edward; Blaylock, James P.
Seattle: The Axolotl Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Introduction by Tim Powers, Illustration by Donna Gordon; Introduction by Lewis Shiner, Illustration by Donna Gordon. Limited to 300 copies signed by Bryant, Powers, Blaylock, and Shiner. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped (no price), generally toned and soiled. Purple cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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UFO Politics at the White House; Citizens Rally 'round Jimmy Carter's Promise
by Bryant, Larry W.
Arlington: The Invisible College Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Association copy. Inscribed on the title page by Bryant to ufologist Tom Benson. With a laid-in announcement about the book's release. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed and bumped. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of letters sent to President Carter after he announced to the public his personal experience with UFOs.
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Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer
by Bry, Doris
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Alfred Stieglitz. No additional printings listed. Fine in an about near fine jacket, unclipped ($15.00), lightly toned and edgeworn with a closed tear at the top edge. Black cloth with silver lettering, fine. Square and tight, a fresh and clean copy. Illustrated with sixty-two actual-size plates, including the portrait of O'Keeffe.
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Atlantic High; A Celebration
by Buckley Jr., William F.
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine. Photographs by Christopher Little. Near Fine. Blue leather with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound, blindstamp on one of the preliminary pages, gilt edges, sewn-in bookmark. Published as part of the Nautical Library.
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Open City No. 5 June 2-9 1967; A New Weekly Review of the Los Angeles Renaissance
by [Bukowski, Charles] Bryan, John
Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Very Good. Very Good. Tabloid with browned paper, stained at the spine fold, a few small chips and tears at the fore-edge. This issue features articles about Melvin Hayes's murder in Watts at the hands of the LAPD, the California Black Conference, the Vietnam War, avoiding the draft, the Israeli beatniks, as well as an early installment of Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column.
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Open City No. 10 July 7-13 1967; A New Weekly Review of the Los Angeles Renaissance
by [Bukowski, Charles] Bryan, John
Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Good. Good. Tabloid with browned paper, stained and with multiple tears at the spine fold, a few small chips and tears at the fore-edge. This issue features articles about Love-ins, the Angry Arts Festival, police brutality, the Vietnam War, as well as an early installment of Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column.
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Open City No. 29 November 17-23 1967; A New Weekly Review of the Los Angeles Renaissance
by [Bukowski, Charles] Bryan, John
Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Very Good. Very Good. Tabloid with browned paper, a few stains throughout and with a few smaller tears and chips at the fore-edges. This issue features contributions from Alex Apostolides, Robert Gold, Humble Harve, Robert Igriega, Frank Kofsky, Derek Taylor, Frank Wolf, among others, with an early installment of Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column.
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Open City No. 4 May 26-June 1 1967; A New Weekly Review of the Los Angeles Renaissance
by [Bukowski, Charles] Bryan, John
Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Very Good. Very Good. Tabloid with browned paper, stained at the spine fold, a few small chips and tears at the fore-edge. This issue features articles about Stokeley Carmichael, avoiding the Vietnam War draft, dropping out of school, as well as an early installment of Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column.
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Open City Vol. 2 No. 1 May 5-11; A New Weekly Review of the Los Angeles Renaissance
by [Bukowski, Charles] Bryan, John
Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Good. Good. Tabloid with browned paper, stained and with multiple tears at the spine fold, a few small chips and tears at the fore-edge. The first issue of the Los Angeles iteration of the tabloid Bryan previously printed in San Francisco under the title Open City Press. This issue features contributions from Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, William and Barbara Margolis, as well as Charles Bukowski's review of A.E. Hotchner's biography of Ernest Hemingway.... Read More
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UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery Volume 1: Comparative Study of Abduction Reports
by Bullard, Thomas E.
[Mount Rainier]: Fund for UFO Research, 1987. Paperback. Good. 402p. Signed by Bullard on the front cover. Very Good. Acetate covers discolored, blue card covers toned at the edges and with a few stains at the surface. Firmly bound in the comb binding, clean internally. Bullard's extensive report on UFO abductions drawn from analyzing more than 300 reports. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Spider-Man Season One
by Bunn, Cullen; Edwards, Neil
New York: Marvel, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap. Glossy boards. Square, presumably firmly bound and clean internally.
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The Lost Get-Back Boogie
by Burke, James Lee
Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Burke on the title page. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95), faintly rubbed at the back panel. Green boards with orange ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Burke's Pultizer Prize-nominated novel that travels from southern Louisiana to Montana as two ex-cons try to move on from their sordid pasts.
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Here and Elsewhere; The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke
by Burke, Kenneth
Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Introduction by Denis Donoghue. A Black Sparrow Book. Fine. Green pictorial boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of stories from the literary predecessor of Calvino, Gass, and Nicholson Baker.
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The Panoramic Photography of Eugene O. Goldbeck
by Burleson, Clyde W.; Hickman, Jessica
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Complete in a Very Good example of the slipcase. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), bumped at the head of the spine. Grey cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A history of Goldbeck's life and techniques illustrated with 72 reproductions of his photographs.
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The Secret Garden
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
New York: Barnes and Noble, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. Sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap. Fine. Blue leather with gilt and ink lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, sewn-in bookmark.
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Communications of an Advertising Man; Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett
by Burnett, Leo
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. With a laid-in bookmark presenting this copy to a named employee upon her entry into The Five Year Club of Leo Burnett Company, Inc. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generally toned and bumped, a few tears and chips at the top edge. Grey cloth with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of "Inside Burnett"... Read More
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Bitter Ground
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Inscribed by Burnett on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50), lightly toned, a few small closed tears. Quarter brown cloth with blue paper on the boards, ghost marks on the panels. Firmly bound with a forward lean, dark top stain, former owner's initials on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A western tale about the fight between a murderous outlaw, a... Read More
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Iron Man
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh | The Dial Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Blue cloth, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with yellow ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear and a red top stain, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The follow-up to Burnett's classic novel Little Caesar.
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Little Caesar
by Burnett, W.R.
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh | The Dial Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Presentation copy inscribed by Burnett to film producer Sam Marx. About Good, lacking the jacket. Blue buckram, bumped at the corners and rubbed at the edges, with yellow ink lettering on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, slices to the fore-edge of the first two leaves with the pieces present and seemingly easy to mend,... Read More
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Ambrose E. Burnside; Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Forty-Seventh Congress, First Session, January 23, 1882, with the Proceedings Connected with the Funeral of the Deceased
by [Burnside, Ambrose]
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good. Brown cloth, generally mottled and soiled, with gilt ink lettering and blindstamped designs on the boards. Square, bound with some reading wear, ownership inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.
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How to Live to Be 100 or More; The Ultimate Diet, Sex and Exercise Book
by Burns, George
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Burns on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), a short tear at the top and bottom edges of the front panel. Quarter black paper with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Hemingway: The Toronto Years
by Burrill, William
Ontario: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.95). Quarter black cloth with dark grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book to feature the previously unknown stories Hemingway wrote for the Toronto Star.
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Frontispiece and illustrations by J. Allen St. John. About Near Fine, lacking the jacket but with a reproduction. Green cloth, minimal fraying at the head and foot of the spine, with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally. The fourth Mars novel. From the collection of Joan Bledig. [Zeuschner 801].
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A Princess of Mars Screenplay January 13, 1992
by [Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Smith, Mark Allen
[n.p.]: Mark Allen Smith, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. 117p. Near Fine. Fastback binding with a clear front cover, some soiling. Firmly bound, some minor bumps to the pages, clean otherwise. An unproduced screenplay adaptation of the first novel in Burroughs's Barsoom series. From the collection of Joan Bledig.
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