Titles starting with B from Ad Infinitum Books

David R. Godine, Boston: 1985. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition but dustjacket is worn. Written in the same lively, anecdotal, and irreverent style (but always with impeccable scholarship) as its predecessor, A.B.C. Et Cetera covers an abecedarian spectrum of Roman history and society - a wild and woolly range of facts and gancies you may have forgotten or never known. The book is arranged alphabetically; each chapter follows some of the Latin words that begin with a particular letter through th... more information

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The New York Times Book Co., New York: 1976. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Prresents a completely new handbook on the ABC of Flower Arranging. Based on wide and sympathetic experience it is a goldmine of instruction and inspiration: every basic point is explained in nontechnical language with over a hundred step-by-step photographs. If you have never arranged flowers before, this is the book for you. ISBN: 0812906357.... more information

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Harcourt, Inc., Orlando: 2006. Softcover. Brand new book. As children watch over the course of a year, builders construct a roller coaster using tools and materials that begin with each letter of the alphabet. For children ages 2 - 5. ISBN: 0152057749.... more information

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McGraw-Hill, NY: 1988. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Dustjacket slightly worn. A memoir of life with the famous and infamous that is filled with the wit, ad libs, pithy remarks, risque roasts, one-liners, and anecdotes that Milton Berle collected. A treasure trove of stories about politicians, actors, sports stars, singers, writers, comedians, gangsters, band leaders, drinkers, gamblers, and lovers - and several who combinations thereof. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0070049130.... more information

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Penguin Books, New York: 1973. Softcover. Good condition. Fakery and hypocrisy in American communications are the subjects of this outspokenÑand hilariousÑbook. Uncovering our thought-pollution problem for perhaps the first time, Arthur Herzog exposes Executalk ("name of the game" for "point" or "purpose," "ball-park estimate" for "rough guess"), Quote Facts (opinions made to seem like facts by virtue of being quoted), and Complex Complex (th... more information

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G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York: 1958. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fair condition. Dustjacket badly creased and torn in spots. Celebrated Marine flyer's story of service in World War II as squadron leader and POW. ... more information

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Lodestar Books, New York: 1991. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. ISBN: 0525673318.... more information

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Khayats, Beirut: 1961. Softcover. Reading copy. ... more information

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Albert GUILLOT, Paris: 1959. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition considering its age. French Text. ... more information

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Macmillan, London: 1926. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Reading copy. As W. S. Gilbert wrote in 1897, "I collected the most popular of the songs and ballads which I had written for the series of light operas with which my name is associated, and published them under the title of "Songs of a Savoyard." It recently occurred to me that these songs had so much in common with "The Bab Ballads" that it might be advisable to weld the two books into one." This is, briefly, the history of ... more information

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Grosset & Dunlap, New York: 1922. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt's world - the solid successful world of a solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely middle-aged man who doesn't understand his family, who has an unsuccessful fling at an affair, who voices sympathy for some striking workers and is almost financially ruined by his action, who finds his only safety lies deep in the fold of those who... more information

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New American Library, New York: October 1961. Softcover. Reading copy. On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt's world - the solid successful world of a solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely middle-aged man who doesn't understand his family, who has an unsuccessful fling at an affair, who voices sympathy for some striking workers and is almost financially ruined by his action, who finds his only safety lies deep in the fold of those who play it s... more information

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New American Library, New York: October 1961. Softcover. Reading copy. Name of former owner appears on first page. On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt's world - the solid successful world of a solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely middle-aged man who doesn't understand his family, who has an unsuccessful fling at an affair, who voices sympathy for some striking workers and is almost financially ruined by his action, who finds his only safety ... more information

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Harcourt, Brace & World, New York. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt's world - the solid successful world of a solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely middle-aged man who doesn't understand his family, who has an unsuccessful fling at an affair, who voices sympathy for some striking workers and is almost financially ruined by his action, who finds his only safety lies deep in the fold of those wh... more information

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Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York: 1922. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Reading copy. Cloth on one side of the spine is torn. On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt's world - the solid successful world of a solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely middle-aged man who doesn't understand his family, who has an unsuccessful fling at an affair, who voices sympathy for some striking workers and is almost financially ruined by his action, who finds his only s... more information

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ReganBooks, New York: 1996. Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Good condition. Library discard. ISBN: 006039188X.... more information

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Random House, New York: 1996. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Every bit as brilliant and ambitious as its predecessor, but with a more contemporary setting: the 1960s, a decade of turbulence and passionate ideals that Byatt uses both to frame and propel the lives of her characters. ISBN: 0679405135.... more information

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York: 1970. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. In the vast literature of World War II, no story is more tragic, more awesome than the two-year occupation of Kiev by Nazi troops. Here is the first extensive account - fiction or non-fiction - of that terrible period of time from 1941 to 1943 in which the Germans systematically murdered some 200,000 people, beginning with the barbaric massacre of 50,000 Russian Jews at the ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Ba... more information

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Saturnalia Books: 2004. Softcover. Brand new book. Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark's debut collection take readers on a wild ride. Premier winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Contest, judged by renowned poet Jane Miller (Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected Poetry). Of The Babies, poet Claudia Rankine writes, "Rarely do we encounter poems that are so precisely framed, though on their surface seemingly whimsical and erratic. These poems are gorgeous, int... more information

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Doubleday, Garden City: 1959. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. A doctor speaks out on contraception, infertility, sterilization, abortion and artificial insemination. The author laces his views with anecdotes from his practice, some of which are heart-warming, some of which may shock. Includes an Index. ... more information

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