Titles starting with B from Yellow House Books

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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Viking, NY, 1993. First printing, a thoughtful children's illustrated book, with the author's pictures evoking dramatic events throughout eons of history, as played out in his own back yard. The visionary illustrations are well suited to the meditative nature of the text. Near fine in dust jacket with a little wear at the top of the rear cover.... more information

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Dutton, NY, 1941. First edition of a relatively scarce Margot Austin title. This is a review copy, with the notice attached to the front free endpaper by a paper clip (indentations from the paper clip are visible on the fixed endpaper and on the title page). Square octavo, VG-, no dust jacket--edges are rough, corners are bumped, and a small dent is visible at the top of the back cover. Pages are clean, story is a page-turner. ... more information

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Canterbury Publishing Co., Canterbury CT, 1971. First edition, folio bound in green illustrated wraps. Ostensibly a catalogue for Kenneth Lynch & Sons of Wilton, CT, the volume features hundreds of photographs and designs for park, garden and waiting benches. Many imaginative approaches, and some colorful writing by Lynch, who apparently views the manufacture of benches as an art. Included is a 1974 Addendum, actually a 16-page booklet in stapled wraps, which contains "new illustrations, errata... more information

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World, NY, 1971. First printing. Ex-library copy in a beautiful dust jacket with no markings. Book stamped on front & rear endpapers; library pocket, tape residue on boards & endpapers; one page crinkled along fore-edge; some wear to pages but this is noticeable mostly on pages with text; illustrations look clean and undamaged. Dust jacket is price-unclipped; trace of label removal from base of spine w/ small area where laminate has come away, mostly visible on back cover. Very scarce Asimov t... more information

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Macmillan, NY, 1967. First printing, quarto, 307 pp. VG in a VG dust jacket (a few tiny checkmarks in book; price clipped on dj). This copy is INSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "To Walter, in appreciation of his help and support." The author's previous books include "Love and Orgasm"; this title continues his thesis that bodily pleasure is the root of well-being. Although it has been reprinted in paperback a number of times since 1967, the original hardcover edition has become scarc... more information

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PPU, Tel Aviv, nd. Octavo in wraps, 152 pp. Published in Hebrew as Koortov Shel Mavet, translated into English by Louis Williams. This novel takes place in September of 1973--no date is given on copyright page. A glance at the volume shows it to be strangely prophetic of 9/11, not only because of the title, but also because of the cover illustration: a jet taking off with a rising sun with an Arab face in the background. The back cover presents a brief synopsis which also seems prophetic: "Bewar... more information

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Warne, London, 1949. First edition. Octavo, 175 pages. Illustrated by the author. Book is VG+, gift inscription; dust jacket is VG with light wear along top edge and along folds; price clipped. An attractive copy of this book, with the scarce dust jacket. ... more information

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Galignani, Paris, 1829. First Paris edition (printed in English). Two volume set, small octavos, three-quarter leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers. Lady Morgan, born Sydney Owenson, is one of the most colorful of the female contributors to Irish literature. Born in 1783 to an Irish actor, she travelled with him throughout Ireland and developed strong nationalistic sympathies. To help extricate her father from financial difficulties, she began to write conventional romantic novels; her thi... more information

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Crossroad, NY, 1982. First printing of this collection of essays about the Kyoto School of Mahayana Buddhism. The essays were taken mostly from a publication called The Eastern Buddhist, and include four previously unpublished essays written by D.T. Suzuki near the end of his life. As the editor says, the volume is an anthology of "significant but unavailable writings of the Kyoto School." The book has been slightly underlined and there are a few scholarly annotations. Scarce material. Near ... more information

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Volland, Chicago, 1922. lst edition, 20th printing (gift inscription dated 1925). In the original cardboard box with book's cover illustration reproduced on top of box and title printed on side. A title in the Volland "Nature Children Books" series. Book is VG+ with wear along edges of spine and at corners; cover shows light soil. Box has three taped corners and is missing the fourth corner; book fits snugly into box; cover illustration is quite attractive. ... more information

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