This Is My Beloved
by Benton, Walter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.95), rubbed at the edges with a couple closed tears and chips, toned on the back panel. Quarter red cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square, bound with some reading wear and a red top stain. Benton's diary in verse that became one of the best-selling books of poetry of its time.
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The Third Reich of Dreams
by Beradt, Charlotte
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Translated from the German by Adriane Gottwald. With an Essay by Bruno Bettelheim. About Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped, a scuff to the lower-right portion of the front panel, generally rubbed and bumped. Black cloth, lightly mottled, with green gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a faint green topstain, clean internally. Beradt's work in which she analyzes the dreams... Read More
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by Berendt, John
New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.00). Black boards with green lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound. Berendt's inquiry into the meaning of a true American city. Adapted by Clint Eastwood into a 1997 film.
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The American Poetry Review (6 Issues)
by Berg, Stephen
Philadelphia: World Poetry, Inc, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Vol. 26/No. 1-5 and Vol. 27/No. 6. Very Good. Lightly toned from age, mailing label on the front page, clean otherwise. A nice small collection that features poems and interviews by some of the 20th century's most notable poets, including Sharon Olds, Czeslaw Milosz, Frank Lima, A.R. Ammons, Robert Hass, Edward Hirsch, Robert Bly, Derek Walcott, Allen Ginsberg, Stephen Dobyns, Louis Simpson, and others.
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Giant Brains or Machines That Think
by Berkeley, Edmund C.
New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sixth Printing. Signed by Berkeley on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price), a few short tears and shallow chips. Beige cloth with black ink lettering and rules on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Berkeley's general audience work about early computers and artificial intelligence.
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Index to the Case Files of Project Blue Book
by Berliner, Don
Mount Rainier: The Fund for UFO Research, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Foreword by Don Berliner. Near Fine. Wraps rubbed and lightly bumped. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A reproduction of the index of UFO cases created by the Condon Committee.
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UFO Briefing Document; The Best Available Evidence
by Berliner, Don; Galbraith, Marie; Huneeus, Antonio
New York: Dell Books, 2000. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Introduction by Whitley Strieber. Inscribed on the title page by Huneeus to Tom Benson. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of UFO cases drawn from government files and eyewitness testimony. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Near Miss with a UFO: Swissair Flight 127
by Berliner, Don; Durant, Robert J.
Fairfax: UFO Research Coalition, 1999. First Edition. Staplebound. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. A report that presents a complete description of the event with documents obtained from federal agencies and Swissair, followed by discussions about alternative explorations. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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A Life of Love and Music; The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz 1803-1865
by Berlioz, Hector
London: Folio Society, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Translated and Edited by David Cairns. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, a small tidemark at the bottom edge. Red cloth with a black ink panel and gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, clean internally.
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Homesick; New and Selected Stories
by Berlin, Lucia
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good. Quarter blue cloth with pictorial boards, bumped at the corners, a few spots of soiling. Square and firmly bound, stamped "BARGAIN" on the top and bottom edges, clean otherwise. One of 300 trade copies.
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Evening in Paradise; More Stories
by Berlin, Lucia
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00), bumped at the top edge. Grey paper on the boards with yellow ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A selection of twenty-two of Berlin's stories favorable compared to the work of Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, and Alice Munro.
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Three Blue Suits: Mr. Froelich, Herbert Wilson, Eugene
by Bernstein, Aline
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 600 copies signed by Bernstein on the limitation page. Forntispiece by John P. Heins. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Gray cloth, toned at the surface and edges, with a chipped label on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of three short stories from the writer, costumer, and muse of Thomas Wolfe.
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The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm; Chicago's Civil War Connections
by Bernstein, Arnie
Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Foreword by Senator Paul Simon. Near Fine. Wraps lightly bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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All the President's Men
by Bernstein, Carl; Woodward, Bob
New York: Touchstone | Simon and Schuster, 1994. Paperback. Near Fine. Later Printing. With a sticker from the Watergate Hotel on the colophon and with a letter from the Watergate addressed to Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, toned pages, clean otherwise. The political detective story of Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on the Watergate scandal. Adapted into the Academy Award-winning film by Alan Paluka starring Robert Redford and... Read More
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Two More Stories of the Port William Membership
by Berry, Wendell
Frankfurt: Gnomon Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of two of Berry's stories, "A Friend of Mine" and "The Inheritors.
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The Drawings of Raymond Bertrand
by Bertrand, Raymond
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by Emmanuelle Arsan. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($20.00), lightly toned at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A comprehensive selection of the French artist known for his sensuous fantasy and surrealistic images, with 88 black-and-white and sixteen-page four-color illustrations.
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The Demolished Man
by Bester, Alfred
Chicago: Shasta, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped (no price), soiled and rubbed, a shallow chip at the foot of the spine. Red boards, bumped at the edges. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Bester's Hugo Award-winning science fiction detective novel, one so great that the post-modern master Thomas Pynchon wanted to adapt it into an Opera as part of his Ford Foundation Fellowship.... Read More
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The Demolished Man
by Bester, Alfred
Chicago: Shasta, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly soiled, a scuff under the author's name on the front panel, a thin tidemark on the rear panel. Quarter blue cloth with red paper on the boards, some rubbing to the paper. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, a few stains at the fore-edge and endpapers, clean otherwise. Bester's Hugo Award-winning science fiction detective novel,... Read More
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A Research Report on Alcyone Craft from the Pleiades
by Bethune, Graham E.
[Toms River]: Cosmic Intelligence Awareness, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. With the laid-in Author's Note with a holograph correction by Bethune. Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed and bumped. Firmly bound with two staples, a couple instances of Bethune's holograph corrections, clean otherwise. A collection of color photographs of UFOs with notes on the location, camera equipment used, and propulsion methods of the crafts. No copies located in OCLC. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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The Voice of the Planet Clarion
by Bethurum, Truman
Prescott: Sanctuary of Thought, 1957. Pamphlet. Very Good. Second Printing. Enlarged Edition. Very Good. Green wraps toned at the edges, lightly bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. Bethurum's poetic accounts of his contacts with Aura Rhanes, the titular "voice of the planet Clarion." From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson. [Rasmussen 136].
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The Life of John Marshall
by Beveridge, Albert J.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Four volumes in two, each with the signature of MLB Hall of Famer Bill Veeck. Very Good. Half leather binding, rubbed at the edges and corners, toned at the spines. Square and firmly bound with gilt top edges, clean internally. An early edition of Beveridge's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the Chief Justice, unique with the signature of one of Major League Baseball's most prominent owners.
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Music for Mohini
by Bhattacharya, Bhabani
New York: Angus and Robertson, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (17s. 6d.), generally toned, soiled at the back panel. Red boards, lightly bumped, with back ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Bhattacharya's novel of parents seeking a traditional arranged marriage for their educated daughter with modern ideas.
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A Goddess Named Gold
by Bhattacharya, Bhabani
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled and rubbed, bumped at the corners. Quarter yellow cloth, faded at the edges, with black paper on the boards, bumped at the corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Bhattacharya's modern fable of India at the time of Independence, the story of a village girl who receives a magical amulet that turns copper into... Read More
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The Religious Experience of Revolutionaries
by Bianchi, Eugene C.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), crossed out in pencil, lightly rubbed. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, speckled edges, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Bianchi's study of important "religious" revolutionaries Che Guevara, Daniel Berrigan, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Abbie Hoffman, and Frantz Fanon.
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Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
by Bierce, Ambrose
New York: Forge | Tom Doherty, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second Printing. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Black paper with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of all of Bierce's Civil War stories published with six excerpts from his memoirs of his experiences.
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