Authors starting with B from Spirit Tomes and Treasures

New York, New York, USA: Facts on File Publications , 1985 FIRST PRINTING by this publisher. Reprint (1983). Well-researched and thoughtful manual that documents the real nature and performance of policing. Describes methods and techniques of the art of policemanship. Many useful street tested tips and tricks of the trade. A how to guide for the rookie, a reference for the streetwise peace officer. . First Thus. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... more information

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Tucson, AZ USA: Westernlore Press, 1990 Vol LIV of Great West and Indian Series. Fascinating story of the West's greates manhunt for accused killer Rafael (Ralph) Lopez in 1913 Utah. After 5 frostbitten days chased through the Lake Mountains he holed up in a mineshaft where the manhunt continued with attempts to fumigate and starve him out. His body was never found. Cover is red leather-look in fine condition. Gold lettring on spine. Copious Illustrations and maps. Dust jacket is Good Plus: moderate yello... more information

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Dallas, Texas, USA: Taylor Publishing Company, 1994 300 never before published photographs. Published for Movie-release trade. Life and Times of the Most Controversial Man Who Ever Played Baseball. The most shrewd, inventive, lurid, detested, mysterious, and superb of all baseball players. A detailed and unblinking look at Cobb's life. NF- Pictorian Wrapper softcover. Slight edge soiling and edge yellowing. Forward by Ernie Harwell. 194 pp.. Second Printing. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine Minus/No Jacket. 4to ... more information

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Duluth, Georgia, USA: New Thought Publishing, 1949 Scarce FIRST EDITION. A scientifically conducted survey and study of New Agers and New Age concepts conducted by author to correct misconceptions and presentations in the media and by Christian authors and clergy. Draws on her 13 years corporate experience in interviewing, analysis and project management to answer questions: who are these people, where do they come from, how did they get involved, what are their spiritual beliefs and how have their lives b... more information

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New York, New York, USA: Ballantine Books, 1988 The Guide to the Other Half of the Astrological Art: Sun signs show you to the world where Moon signs reveal you to yourself. A Short, Power-packed guide for Sensitive, Meaningful Horoscope Interpretation. Fascinating, informative handbook revealing your child's special qualities and needs. Appendix with astrological tables. Low VG- white softcover with two childrens faces in red oval surrounded by Zodiac animals. Yellow-dyed page edges. Covers have slight e... more information

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Blauvelt, New York, USA: Steinerbooks, 1976 Reprint (1835) First Paperback Printing by this publisher, now somewhat scarce. Intro by Paul M. Allen. One of the great occult novels of the world, and a keystone of the entire structure of Balzac's writings. His Le Livre Mystique. Reveals profound Rosicrucian secrets. Incorporates the ideas of the Great Mystics Jacob Boehme, Theoprastus Paracelsus, Claude Saint-Martin and especially Emanuel Swedenborg. Book is in NF condition marred only by some general scuffi... more information

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Spokane, Washington, USA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1991 SIGNED; Murder in Paradise. Accounts of 40 murders in the Last County in the Last Wilderness of America and the Sheriffs who investigated them. 22 illustrations. NF+/VG Red cloth hardcover: gilt lettering on spine. binding tight spine straight. Page edges have slight edge soiling. Pages clean and unmarked. DJ scuffing and edge tattering, rubbing at folds. One inch rip at top front edge, 2 chips at top spine ege, less than 1/2 inch each , ... more information

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Boulder, Colorado USA: Johnson Publishing Company, 1962 Tragic Rags to Riches to Rags story of Baby Doe Tabor nee Elizabeth Nellis McCourt by the authoress of The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown. A life of splendor come crashing down with the crash in the Colorado Silver Boom. Wonderful period photographs. Introduction by Edwin C. Johnson, twice Governor of Colorado.Illustrated. yellow pictorial wrapper in very good condition, some spotting on back. Center photgraph page taped in.. Seventh Edition. Stapled Paper.... more information

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Moab, Utah, USA: Real People Press, 1982 A practical book to make the techniques of Neuro Linguistic Programming with Self-Suggestion, Self-Persuasion and Self-hypnosis available to everyone. Use to banish phobias, quit smoking, lose weight and achieve new levels of competency. Ericksonian conversational hypnosis. Edited by Connirae Andreas. NF condition purple softcover with rainbow and girl wizard on front. Slight edge wear and page edge soiling. Binding tight; pages unmarked. Owner signature on insid... more information

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New York and Toronto,: Rinehart & Company , 1949 FIRST EDITION. Illustrations, photos, and maps. Exciting panorama of life on the Ohio River from the time of the Mound Builders, to "discovery" by De La Salle, Miami Wars, the heyday of Steamboat river pilots of the 1850's days to the deepening of the channel and industrial build up of the 1940's. Another volume in the Rivers of America series edited by Hervey Allen and Carl Carmer.. NF-/NF- Grey cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine... more information

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Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983 FIRST EDITION. A great approach to examining the many preconceptions on love and sexual relations, some even correct. For men and those who love them. Written by two well known authors on the subject. Frank and informative text. F/VG- black hardcover with red cloth backstrip with argent lettering on spine. Front cover has blind-stamped Anchor Press/Doubleday logo. Slight bottom page edge spotting. Text in Fine condition with no underlining,... more information

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Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977 FIRST EDITION. Wonderful, whimsical collection of humorous newspaper articles written in dialect by Finley Peter Dunne in 1890's in Chicago Evening Post. Featuring Martin J. Dooley, a fictional Irish saloon owner on Archer Avenue in Bridgeport with a clear-eyed view of life and politics in Chicago. A regular character was Chicago (Brighton Park) author John McKenna. Period Photos. VG Quarter-bound black boards with black cloth hardcover with... more information

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New York & Chicago, USA: Ives Washburn, Publisher, 1928 FIRST EDITION. Personal account of adventure and smuggling on the high seas. Black cloth boards with orange lettering in very, very good condition for its age. Deckle edged side pages. Red dyed top edges. Slight rubbing on front, fading of spine. Pages have minor age toning. Fancy wallpapered end pages. VG+. No DJ. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tallx. ... more information

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Bismarck, North Dakota, USA: The Bismarck Tribune , 1996 FIRST EDITION. Biography of Mark Kellogg, Reporter for the Bismarck Tribune and New York Herald who died with Custer at the Little Big Horn Massacre. From his early life in pioneer La Cross, Wisconsin, difficult years in Council Bluffs, until he was sent to cover the "expected sensational military victory". Beautiful red leather look hardcover with large gilt lettering on front and spine. Book in NF+/Fr conditon shows only the lightest, s... more information

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Coffeyville, Kansas, USA: Coffeyville Historical Society & Dalton Centennial Committee , 1992 Scarce, SIGNED, FIRST EDITION. The Complete History of the Hapless Bank Robbers Who became Famous because they Bit Off More than they could Chew!! Book published for Centennial of the Coffeyville Raid. Many, many period Illustrations and color photos of Dalton paraphernalia. Book published for Centennial of the Coffeyville Raid. As New/ NF Brown hardcover with gilt lettering on front cover. Authoress insc... more information

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Secaucaus, New Jersey, USA: Carol Publishing Group, 1974 Two books bound as one. Reprint (London, Lackington, Allen, & Co., 1801) The only published writing of this expert in medieval and occult knowledge. Includes illustrations from ancient magical texts, magic tables, planetary tables, talismans, portraits of demons and angels. tranlations of kabalistic and other occult lore never before translated into English or extremely rare. VG condition green softcover with illustrations of talismans: magic wan... more information

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Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1986 On January, 1932 a massive manhunt in two states ensues when 6 police officers are killed trying to bring in two budding juvenile car thieves on their farm home near Springfield, Missouri. (Wonder if they used this event to land that Simpsons movie deal??) Photos. NF softcover some minor edge staining and soiling. . . Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Austin, Texas USA: The Texas State Historical Association, 1961 FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING. (Civil) War Centennial reprint (1885) of this historic memoir, now scarce. Preface by H. Bailey Carroll. An insiders account of the mob hysteria after discovery of a plot by local Union sympathizers to stage a bloody uprising to re-establish the Constitution in part of North Texas, breaking off this part of secessionist Texas, thus keeping it in the Union. Much as part of Virginia split off and eventually became the... more information

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Fort Davis, Texas, USA: Ed. Bartholomew, 1982 SIGNED; FIRST EDITION. Scarce in this edition. Title on cover is Texas Ghosttown Encyclopedia. All the Texas settlements that no longer are, from Ables in Hudspeth County to Zylach in Wheeler County. VG+ Yellow softcover with illustration of river forks with Indian and Pioneer in foreground. Has edge yellowing, sunfading of spine and minor surfacr soiling. Inscribed to Paul Montgomery on copyright page. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Stapled Pictorial Cove... more information

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Gloucestershire, England, UK: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1999 FIRST EDITION. Popular historical narrative of the Crusades in the Middle East from about 1095 to loss of Acre in 1291. Clash of three Great World Powers, Islam, Byzantium and Western Catholicism. Brings to life the characters involved as well as the battles, sieges, and marches. AN/AN black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. DJ has illustration in brown and yellow of knights in armour on horseback on front;. castle with massed troo... more information

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