Titles starting with B from Amanda Willis Rare Books

George G. Harrap, London, printed by the Penn Publishing Company, USA, 1914. First edition. 82pp. Illustration over blue boards; illustrated endpapers, colour plates, line drawings; (157 120mm).... more information

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Percival Marshall, London, 1949. First edition. Book good, red boards with damp mark to lower edge, faded gilt title to spine, illustrated dust wrapper present in part; internally the book with black and white frontispiece, tile and full page drawings is just fine; name neatly written in ink; 8vo.... more information

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London, Collins, a New Naturalist Monologue, 1948, First edition. Book VG, green cloth, faded spine lettering, book label on front paste down, DW VG, designed by Clifford and Rosemary ELLIS, frontispiece colour photograph taken by the Author, 29 B&W photographs, 12 maps and diagrams., this is the first in the New Naturalist Monograph series.... more information

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John Lane, the Bodley Head, London, 1941. First English edition. 125pp, 2pp. adverts; book very good, orange boards, faded title to spine, slightly grubby but intact dust wrapper; black and white frontispoiece photograph; introduction by John Cowper Powys; drawings by Gertrude Mary Powys; a posthumous collection of essays; some spotting; 8vo.... more information

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Longman, London, 1971. First edition. Book near fine, blue boards, gilt title to spine, price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Graham Humphries near fine; a rollicking, action-packed adventure chasing pirates on the high sea; 8vo.... more information

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Jonathan Cape, London, 1952. First UK edition.Book very good, slight foxing to endpapers and edges, previous owners' name in ink and bookplate, mylar wrapped dust wrapper by Laterka; 8vo.... more information

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Miramax Books, Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 2003. First edition. Book and dust wrapper as new, darkly tantalizing..;8vo.... more information

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Chapman and Hall, London, 1963. Limited edition of 750 copies, this copy unnumbered; 49pp. Glassine dustwrapper missing several chunks, blue buckram boards; colour frontispiece by Kathleen Hale; inscribed "a belated wedding present for Bertie from Evelyn" Bertie was Sir Robert Abdy, (1896-1976) Sixth Baronet, Art collector and dealer; 8vo.... more information

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Allan Wingate, London, 1954. First edition. 64pp. Book very good, bright green boards, gilt title, endpapers browned; frontispiece by Lucien Freud; 8vo.... more information

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The British Library, London, 2004. First edition; 159pp; book as new; grey boards, silver title to spine, dust wrapper; lavishly illustrated; square 8vo.... more information

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Lutterworth Press, London, 1949. First edition; 200pp; blue boards, silver blocked illustration to front boards and title to spine, top edge coloured; wood-engraved frontispiece, chapter headings, title page and eight further full page engravings; neat owner's name dated Soltau April 1949 to front endpaper; spotting to page edges; 8vo.... more information

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London, Viking, 1996. First edition, paperback as issued, VG, someone has written 2 telephone nos.(?) on the inner lower cover and the word "skylark" on the inner upper cover, two small ink stains on TE otherwise a clean copy, illustrated with B&W drawings.... more information

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Viking Press, New York, 1963. First edition. 277pp; orange boards, dust wrapper missing a small chunk from upper edge but complete with sun reflector; designed by Samuel N. Antupit; illustrated with line drawings by Chas. b. Slackman; Steinem's first book in which the reader is invited to tan, read, entertain and educate themselves; nothing feminist here; 4to.... more information

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Secker and Warburg, London, 1980. First edition. 256pp. Book near fine black cloth, silver title to spine price-clipped dust wrapper; illustrated with black and white photographs; 4to .A heavy book so please contact me directly re postal charges etc.... more information

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John Murray, London, 1933 579pp. Cheap edition (3/6d), book very good, light brown cloth, brown lettering to spine and upper board, illustrated dust wrapper has tiny piece missing from top edge and a tear at lower spine; illustrated endpapers; frontispiece photograph of the author with tissue guard; four colour plates and 25 black and white illustrations by Helen McKie; "The Song of the Legion" which was the March theme of the Paramount Picture "Beau Geste" included; a fat 8vo.... more information

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Sotheby's, London & New York, 2008. 3 catalogues + 2 supplements housed within slip-case in Sotheby (new York) carrier bag; the catalogues of the record-breaking auction held in London 16-18 September; in mint condition; extremely heavy, please contact us directly; 4to... more information

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The Viking Press, New York, 1978. First edition. Book and pictorial dustwrapper near fine grey boards, black spine, title; illustrated with black and white photographs and plans; 4to.... more information

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Gautier et Languereau, Editions de la "Semaine de Suzette", Paris, 1919. First edition. 64pp; quarter bound illustrated boards, green cloth spine, illustrated endpapers; illustrated comic strips; corners rubbed otherwise a very good copy; 4to.... more information

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William Heinemann, London, 1921. First edition, second impression. Book good, scruffy yellow boards, and black cloth spine both with title labels; colour frontispiece, title vignette, head pieces and six further illustrations with titled tissue guards; an essay on Lovat Fraser by John Drinkwater; tall 8vo.... more information

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Heinemann, London, 1987. Reprint. Book and dust wrapper near fine, blue boards, gilt title to spine, maps to endpapers; winner of the Thomas Cook Prize for travel writing; 8vo.... more information

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