Authors starting with B from Interesting Books

1991. 54 pages, quality trade paperback. "For centuries, wealth has been successfully created by individuals armed with the right knowledge. In all methods of wealth creation there are common ingredients. THE SECRETS OF WEALTH explores these common ingredients and compiles them to show you how money accumulates and how fortunes can be made. It presents these principles as a step-by-step guide which can be followed by almost anyone. With little more than an understanding of these facts, the average pers... more information

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NY: G. Schirmer, 1947. The 1947 date isn't accurate but it's the newest one I could find; I'm guessing 1970's; has a $1.25 cover price if that means anything. 31 pages, oversize stapled booklet with slick, illustrated covers. Very nice copy: heel of spine very slightly bumped, covers slightly rubbed/a little marked, pos on front else nice and clean with NO highlighting/underling/notes/stamps. NOT an ex-library, NOT a book club, NOT a remainder. Very Good+.. Later Edition. Booklet. Very Good+. ... more information

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NY: Mills Music, 1949. At least I THINK it's a 1st; no statement of printing; it has a $1.50 cover price if that means anything. 64 pages, oversize stapled booklet with colored/heavy paper stock covers. Nice copy: covers have a little staining/minor creasing, music has just a few pencil notations (though NO highlighting/stamps) else very nice. NOT an ex-library, NOT a book club, NOT a remainder. Very Good.. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Booklet. Very Good. ... more information

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Milwaukee, WI: Harley-Davidson, 1993. 227 pages, oversize hardcover in a very attractive leatherette binding with silver stamping. The book has illustrated endpapers and two very useful sections at the back that list "Harley-Davidson Production Figures and Model Descriptions" for the covered years. From the editors' Introduction:"Collecting and restoring vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycles has become a favorite pastime, not just here in the United States, but worldwide. Often times, the e... more information

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NY: Stein and Day/Publishers, 1984. 124 pages with a group of pictures. "George Burns's hilarious Foreword introduces the funniest and warmest book ever written about the triumph of man against medicine. Here's how an internationally famous Hollywood couple went to war against an illness that puts most people into wheelchairs - and won! Who else but Jim Backus - America's beloved Mr. Magoo - could laugh at an illness that left him literally 'shaking, rattling, and rolling' and threa... more information

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NY: BDD Illustrated Books, 1993. 284 pages, oversize hardcover with illustrated endpapers and a photo-illustrated frontispiece/title page. The book includes a ton of pictures/illustrations/maps (many in color) and an Index. "D-DAY is a major examination of the planning that led to June 6, 1944, as well as of the events of the day itself and beyond. Written by a military historian, this authoritative and fascinating book provides an insight into one of the most significant military actions of the modern... more information

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Pasadena, CA: Westernlore Publications, 1980. 300 pages in an attractive/durable full-cloth binding, includes quite a few pictures/maps and an Index. "The greatest revolution in Navajo economy was consequented upon the introduction of domesticated animals. While the horse has been singled out as the one element that led to tribal expansion, the role of sheep has largely been disregarded as a source to widened tribal range and increased the frequency of contact with other peoples. True, the horse provid... more information

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London: Constable/Constable & Robinson, 2004. 163 pages, oversize quality trade paperback with an illustrated frontispiece, includes a ton of interior illustrations (one group in color) and a few pictures. "Celtic Art is the only indigenous British art form of world significance and this book is a graphically eloquent plea for the establishment of this great national art to its rightful place in schools and colleges where the history of ornament is being taught... When this book first appeared it w... more information

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NY: Arthur Gray (grey), 1897. 144 pages in a very attractive small format hardcover. The binding is textured (I think it's supposed to look like a tobacco leaf) with gold stamping on the front (including three small tobacco leaves), upper edge of page block gilt. Those features are the reason I called it the "Deluxe Edition"; it's probably also the 2nd edition. The book has a small one-color illustration on the title page (of a tobacco plant, of course), several small illustrations through... more information

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Garden City, NY: Ace Books/SFBC, 1993.. 1st hardcover edition. 1st printing. Hardcover. Dj art: Bruce Jensen. ONLY hardcover edition of Baird's 1st novel. Publisher's prospectus ("Things to Come" booklet, dated "November 1993", this book featured) included. New, unread copy. Very Fine in Very Fine dj.. New/New. ... more information

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NY: Random House, 1992. Mr. Baker's 3rd novel, 4th book, 165 pages in an attractive/durable full-cloth binding. "A man and a woman, strangers to each other and residents of distant cities, call an adult party line. Finding each other's voice enticing, they soon switch to a private, one-on-one connection. In VOX, Nicholson Baker's astonishingly intimate, groundbreaking new novel, we join this telephonic pair as they commence their mutual seduction...Funny, original, tender, and arousing, VOX... more information

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NY: Random House, 1991. Mr. Baker's 3rd book, 179 pages in a small format hardcover binding. "Nicholson Baker...has now turned his attention to a true story: that of U AND I. The U is John Updike, the I is Nicholson Baker, and their confrontation on these pages is an unexpected, hilarious tour de force. Not literary criticism, nor an essay or thesis, U AND I is an entirely new genre of creative exploration - an examination of how a life's worth of reading colors and affects (sic) the mind."... more information

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NY: Random House, 1992. Mr. Baker's 3rd novel, 4th book, 165 pages in an attractive/durable full-cloth binding. "A man and a woman, strangers to each other and residents of distant cities, call an adult party line. Finding each other's voice enticing, they soon switch to a private, one-on-one connection. In VOX, Nicholson Baker's astonishingly intimate, groundbreaking new novel, we join this telephonic pair as they commence their mutual seduction...Funny, original, tender, and arousing, VOX... more information

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NY: Random House, 1991. SIGNED by Mr. Baker (NOT inscribed to anybody) on the title page, his 3rd book, 179 pages in a small format hardcover binding. "Nicholson Baker...has now turned his attention to a true story: that of U AND I. The U is John Updike, the I is Nicholson Baker, and their confrontation on these pages is an unexpected, hilarious tour de force. Not literary criticism, nor an essay or thesis, U AND I is an entirely new genre of creative exploration - an examination of how a life's wo... more information

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Westport, MA: Crosby & Baker Books, 1981. 37 pages, stapled booklet with an illustrated title page, quite a few pictures/illustrations and an Index. From the Introduction: "This book is written for those of you who want to brew your own beer. With the raw materials available today, and a reliable recipe, you can brew good beer quickly and easily the FIRST time. It will not take long for you to develop your brewing skills, so that you can produce beers of quality and character exactly the way you wa... more information

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NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997. Ms Bakis' 1st novel, 291 pages. The book is as new with NO highlighting/underlining/notes/stamps. The dj is as new, also, with NO tears/chips/creases. NOT an ex-library, NOT a book club, NOT a remainder, dj NOT price-clipped ("$23.00"). Fine in Fine dj.. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Dj Art: Debra Lill. ... more information

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Harrisburg, PA: Historical Times/Sponsored by The Air Force Historical Foundation, 1982. Oversize hardcover in an attractive photo-illustrated binding. This book is a part a series: each book includes one or two essays (authors of essays listed above) at the front, then three to five issues of IMPACT (a Confidential monthly magazine published during WWII by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence in Washington, D.C.; each issue is from 38 to 66 pages, full of contemporary air war pictur... more information

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London: Little,Brown/Abacus, 1997.. 1st edition. 1st printing. Hardcover. Dj art: Peter Brown. True 1st: this British edition preceded the US edition by a year. New, unread copy. Very Fine in Very Fine dj.. New/New. ... more information

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NY: International Music. At least I THINK it's a 1st; no statement of printing. Has "'59" printed on back and somebody wrote "Jan. 1965" next to it. Eight pages, oversize stapled booklet with textured/colored covers; includes a separate two page version for trombone. Nice copy except that there are quite a few pencil notes; NO highlighting/stamps, though. Also, there's a pos on the front. NOT an ex-library, NOT a book club, NOT a remainder. Very Good+.. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Booklet... more information

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NY: Bantam Books, 1952. Bantam #1076 (no price), 180 pages. "The killer had to return but now Harry waited - with a gun." Decent copy: previous owner's first name written on first page, spine slightly cocked/worn, small piece of upper corner of back cover cut off. Otherwise the book is in nice shape with NO bookplate/highlighting/underlining/notes/stamps. NOT an ex-library, NOT a book club, NOT a remainder. Very Good.. 1st Paperback Edition, 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. ... more information

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