Authors starting with B from Yellow House Books

Milton Bradley, Springfield MA, 1914. Quarto, 89 pages, bound in brown ribbed cloth with paste-on photograph of young girl on front cover. The author's aim is "to offer those very old folk songs and games of various nations which form a natural starting point because of their simplicity for the child's musical development." An ex-library copy with no markings except for stamps on endpapers and two interior pages (the stamps on the brown endpapers are hardly visible). A well-preserved, tight copy... more information

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Macmillan, NY, 1924. Reprint of 1916 edition. Subtitle: "A new method of physical development for boys and girls based on the Ten Elements of Simple Tumbling and adapted from the practice of professional acrobats." An unusual book: a practical system of physical training built around the circus idea. Contents include how to prepare a show with fake elephants and lions (as well as real animals), clowns, tumbling, acrobatics, and "The Old-Fashioned Minstrel Show" with dialogues. Book is VG+ in blue cloth... more information

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Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1965. One of 500 copies; a series of drawings of human and non-human figures, with references to Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Durer. Printed on one side of the page only. Size of drawings range from quite small to full-page; color of pages ranges from white to grey to tan to various shades of brown. Quarto. Near fine (tiny crease on back cover) in near fine slipcase. ... more information

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Boer, Munich, 1990. Slim quarto, 60 pp. The Book of Esther told in German. Illustrations in color by David Bennett. Laid in is a handwritten one-page letter from Bennett dated June 14, 2003, referring to work he has done since 1990. Also laid in are a current (June-Sept. 2003) catalogue of the artist's work at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and a sheet of paper with six color xeroxed examples of the artist's work, Book and dust jacket are near fine save for a dent to the top right corner. ... more information

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Graupner, Boston, nd. Very early U.S. printing of the time-honored classic, first heard in England in 1823. Folded folio sheet with music lithographed on first three sides, last side blank. No date given, but circa 1830s. Underneath the title, in various forms of ornate type, is printed: "Sung By Miss M. Trees, in Clari, or The Maid of Milan, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Composed & Partly Founded on a Sicilian Air." Henry R. Bishop was the first Englishman to be knighted for his s... more information

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Whitman, Racine WI, 1927. First printing, 29 pages. Text block sewn into cardboard covers with color illustrations. Each page of text has bright color illustrations by Harrison Cady. One of a series of Burgess books beginning with The Neatness of Bobby Coon. VG: name erased from front endpapers with a slight amount of abrasion; pages very nice; illustrations beautiful, especially the center double-page spread; covers show slight wear, with a small abraded area in lower left corner ofback cover; spine a... more information

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