Montserrat.
by Berleant-Schiller, Riva; Comp.
Oxford, England: Clio Press, (1991). World Bibliographical Series No. 134. First Edition. Octavo, slick orange boards (hardcover), xxviii, 102 pp. Map. Fine.
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Antigua and Barbuda.
by Berleant-Schiller, Riva and Susan Lowes with Milton Benjamin, comps.
Oxford, England: Clio Press, (1995). World Bibliographical Series No. 182. First Edition. Octavo, slick orange boards, xxxviii, 210 pp. Maps. Fine.
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Bronzes: Sculptors & Founders, 1800-1930.
by Berman, Harold.
Chicago, Illinois: Abage Publishers. First Edition. Signed by the Author. Quarto, brown cloth, gilt letters, 224 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkening) in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Here is the first definitive reference book dealing exclusively with collectable bronzes and the men who made them. Because of the commercial nature of these bronzes, they and their makers have largely been ignored, while a few scultors -- and painters... Read More
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The Cat That Hated Dogs and Other Children’s Stories. Illustrated.
by Berman, Morris.
New York: Vantage Press, (1968). First Edition, Stated. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), 86 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers and page edges, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light foxing and slightly rubbed edges. From jacket: How Lady, a beautiful but strongly anti-dog cat, scared all the dogs in the neighborhood to the other side of the street; and how Gwendoline, a little brown duck, became a household pet until... Read More
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Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War. Illustrated with Photographs.
by Bernard, Kenneth A.; Professor of History, Boston University.
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1966. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), xix, 333 pp. Good, with cello tape to endpapers; in a like, mylar protected dust jacket. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From dust jacket: The Civl War was, in a sense, a “musical war.” During the first year alone, an estimated two thousand musical compositions were produced, and the outpouring continued so that by the end... Read More
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Lecons sur les Proprietes Physiologiques et les Alterations Pathologiques des Liquides de l’Organisme. Volume I [of 2].
by Bernard, M. Claude.
Paris: J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1859. Volume I of two. Octavo, quarter calf & marbled boards (hardcover, leather). Engraved plates. Good; lacks spine labels, front joint very tender. “Thre greatest physiologist of modern France.” -- Garrison, Morton-Garrison 1234.1. “This work covers the physiology and pathology of blood and other body fluids.” -- Heirs of Hippocrates, 1796. “Bernard’s series of lectures on the liquids of the organism contains his first usage of... Read More
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Ascent: Of the Invention of Mountain Climbing and Its Practice.
by Bernstein, Jeremy.
New York: Random House, [1965]. First Edition, First Printing, As Stated. Octavo, blue cloth & board (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, illus. endpapers, xv, 124 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner inscription, in a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing and light edgewear. “...This book is a superb account of mountaineering in the Alps -- its history ad its continuing fascination. Mr. Bernstien begins by describing the birth of Alpinism...with de Saussure’s dream of climbing Mount Blanc and the... Read More
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Bugle of the Elk. Illustrated by Richard E. Amundsen. [Wilderness Adventure Series].
by Bernsen, Paul.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., (1977). First Edition. Royal octavo, brown leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 82 pp. Fine (As New) in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light chipping along top edge. From jacket: The vast tract of awesome mountainous land in the most westerly corner of Washington State is the setting for this story of Tatonka, a majestic bull elk who matured from a spike calf into the leader of his... Read More
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For Those Who Wait: A Story for Bomber Crew Next-of-Kin.
by Berry, F/Lt. S. L.
Dublin: Morris & Co., n.d. [ca. 1946]. First Edition. Octavo, tan boards, 333 pp. Very Good, with bookplate.
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Living Apart: South Africa under Apartheid. Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
by Berry, Ian.
London: Phaidon Press, (1996). First edition. 4to, black boards, 256 pp. Illustrated with photos throughout. Fine in dust jacket. Photography. Large, heavy volume will require additional shipping for international orders.
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Henry’s Fate & Other Poems, 967-1972.
by Berryman, John.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. First edition. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), xviii, 93, [i] pp. Very Good in dust jacket.
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The Art of the Commonplace. The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Edited and Introduced by Norman Wirzba.
by Berry, Wendell.
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2002). First Edition. Octavo, burgundy & tan boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, xx + 327 pp. Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes -- geobiography, an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, and agrarian religion --... Read More
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Raminagrobis and the Mice.
by Berson, Harold.
New York: The Seabury Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo, coral cloth (hardcover), illus. of mouse standing on a stool to lower corner of the upper cover, unpaginated, [32] pp. Near-Fine, with light rubbing along upper edge, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: There was a family of mice who lived in a tower, safe from the claws of a terrible cat who was always very hungry... Read More
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A Literature without Qualities: American Writing Since 1945.
by Berthoff, Warner.
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1979]. First Edition. Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 204 pp. Fine, in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. Recent American literature is a survivors’ literature, suggests Warner Berthoff in this summary characterization of American writing since the Second World War..A chapter looking back to Henry Miller in prose and Wallace Stevens in poetry as major forefunners of these postwar developments leads to final questions of where and how, for literature,... Read More
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Broadmoor Memories: The History of the Broadmoor.
by Bertozzi-Villa, Elena.
Missoula, Mont.: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, [1998]. 1st edition. Quarto, blue cloth, 196 pp. Color photos, b&w photos. Fine in dust jacket.
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Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida’s Big Bend.
by Bertolaet, Todd.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (!998). First Edition. Oblong quarto, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xvi, 64 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Big Bend is a crescent-shaped coastline where the peninsula of Florida merges with the underbelly of the southeastern states. From Tampa Bay to the Ochlockonee River, the land meets the sea in an ecologically abundant system of swamps, salt marshes, and wet cabbage-palm forrests. ... Read More
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Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida’s Big Bend.
by Bertolaet, Todd.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (!998). First Edition. Oblong quarto, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xvi, 64 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The Big Bend is a crescent-shaped coastline where the peninsula of Florida merges with the underbelly of the southeastern states. From Tampa Bay to the Ochlockonee River, the land meets the sea in an ecologically abundant system of swamps, salt marshes, and... Read More
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Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida’s Big Bend.
by Bertolaet, Todd.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (!998). First Edition. Oblong quarto, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xvi, 64 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Big Bend is a crescent-shaped coastline where the peninsula of Florida merges with the underbelly of the southeastern states. From Tampa Bay to the Ochlockonee River, the land meets the sea in an ecologically abundant system of swamps, salt marshes, and wet cabbage-palm forrests. ... Read More
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According to Queeney.
by Bainbridge Beryl.
London: Little, Brown and Company, 2001. First Edition. Signed by the Author on title page. Octavo, burgundy boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, ribbon marker, illustrated endpapers, 242 pp. Near Fine, with darkened pages; in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius, unparalleled wit and the toast of all society, is plagued by ill health and has become jaded with his bickering dependants. Suffering from... Read More
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941 - 1945.
by Beschloss, Michael.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). Octavo, blue & black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 377 pp. Near-Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: From one of America’s most respected historians, The Conquerors reveals one of the most important stories of World War II. As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten... Read More
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Der Heilige Stuhl und Hitler-Deutschland: Die Faszination des Totalitaren.
by Besier, Gerhard.
Munchen: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (2004). Octavo, grey boards, 415 pp. Fine (As New) in a Near-Fine dust jacket with small tear along lower cover flap. Pius XI. und Pius XII. standen seit Jahrzehnten unter dem Generalverdacht, zu den Verbrechen der Nazisund zur Vernichtung der europaischen Juden geschwiegen zu haben. Ihr Urteil sei durch den Antisemitismus und den einseitigen Antibolschewismus der katholischen Kirche getrubt gewesen...
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Jacob Bidermann.
by Best, Thomas W.
Boston: Twayne, [1975]. Twayne’s World Authors Series No. 314. First Edition. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 244 pp. Very Good.
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Cuba: Bringing the Background to the Foreground. With an Introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz.
by Betancourt, Ernesto F.
Miami: The Free Cuba Center of Freedom House, 1997. First Edition. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers, staples, 34 pp. Former-owner signature on title page; otherwise, Fine.
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Chronicles: The Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, Florida, 1889-1964.
by Bethesda-by-the-Sea.
Bethesda-by-the-Sea, 1964. Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color photo. illustrated boards), 216 pp. Fine. Illustrated with numerous photographs.
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Bethlehem of Pennsylvania: The First One Hundred Years, 1741 to 1841.
by Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce.
Bethlehem, Pa.: Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce, 1968. 1st edition. Quarto, cloth, paper label, 226 pp. Color illus., b&w illus. Former-owner name stamp, light cover wear; Very Good.
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