Search Results: Authors starting with B from mdpinc Books

New York: De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, 1928. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. This vintage sheet music is clean, tight, square and internally unmarked, but there is a very small name on the front. It is rubbed at the edges. It has 5, lightly toned pages. It includes a few bars of "Pompanola" by the same trio. The music includes diagrams for Ukulele. It's in green wraps with golf ball designs and is from the musical Follow Thru which also featured "Button Up Your Overcoat".

London: Seely Service & Co., 1959. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Thia book is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked in a very good dust jacket. It is very lightly rubbed at the edges. The dust jacket is clipped, has light edge wear and is sunned at the spine. It is extensively illustrated with black & white drawings and glossy plates several of which are in color. The boards are covered in red cloth, it has gold titles in a black box on the spine. It has 256 pages red edged at the top.

New York: Carlton & Phillips, 1854. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This hard bound copy of these magazines (no wraps) is clean, basically tight and square with good corners. The front paste down has a small area of pencil notes on some of the articles; otherwise it is unmarked. It is rubbed at the edges. There is a split at the first page that has little affect. It has a three-quarter binding with brown leather on the corners and spine where there are gold titles and raised bands. The boards are covered in green, marbled paper. It is extensively illustrated with black & white engravings very import for articles such as "A Trip from St. Petersburgh to Constantinople" and "The Catacombs of Rome". It contains "Nauvoo and Deseret" by Hobart, "Plymouth, the Pilgrims and Puritans" by Carey, "School of Reform, Westborough, Mass." by Pierce amon other articles. It has 572… Read more

Boston: Little, Brown, 1912. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is clean, tight and square with sharp corners. It has library book plate and very small book seller's paste down on the front end papers, a faint library withdrawn stamp on the title page and a number in ink on the first page and spine; otherwise it is unmarked. There is no dust jacket. The boards are covered in red cloth with black titles on the front and spine where there is a library number. There's light rubbing at the ends of the spine.

Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1864. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This assumed first edition is clean, tight, square with good corners and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed. It has pale yellow end papers and 360, clear, minimally toned pages bound in green cloth covered, blind stamped boards with gold & green titles on the spine.

Dunellen, NJ: Interstate Publishing Corp., 1945. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This magazine is clean tight, square and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed. It has 82, lightly toned pages illustrated with many photos and 8 full color portraits including one of Virginia Mayo on the cover. It contains "A Star at Home" by Carter among many other articles. There is a small scuff on the lovely Miss Mayo's cheeck.

New York: Little Leather Library, 1923. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. this little book (4" x 3") is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has brown end papers and 93, bright, clear pages bound in flexible, green, leatherette embossed with titles on the front and logo on the rear. It is undated, but they stopped publishing under this name in 1923. Iit's a bit age darkened and lightly rubbed.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. Leather Bound. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9. This book has fine binding in tan leather with gilt ruled boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt tooled panels and gilt titles on a red box. It is undated, but there is an ornate 1938, gift inscription on a rear end paper. It has 235, bright, clear pages, gilt edged at the top with a deckle fore edge. It has pale blue end papers and is identified as part of Books of The Verulam Club.

New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1869. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This book is clean, tight and basically square (a very slight roll) with good corners. It is signed and dated (1869) by J. W. French, but is otherwise unmarked. It is lightly bumped/rubbed, most noticeable at the ends of the spine. There's a small stain on the bottom page edges that does not penetrate to the pages. The blind stamped boards are covered with black cloth and there are gold titles on the spine. It has pale yellow end papers and 198 pages plus ads.

Victoria, Austrakia: Peleus Press, 2006. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Pascal Baetens. Thiis small (6.75" x 6.25"() assumed first edition is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked in an equall finr dust jacket. It has red/orange end papers and 250 pages of mostly photos most in color bound in black boards.

London: A. & C. Black, 1923. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is clean, tight, square and unmarked in a very good dust jacket that looks better in Brodart. It is lightly rubbed, more so along the bottom edge where it is through in places. The dust jacket has light edge wear with a couple of small chips at the spine top. It has 463, clear pages plus ads illustrated with black & white plates and fold-out maps bound in blue cloth covered boards with gold titles on the spine.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good- . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Esther Bailey. This book is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked in an about very good dust jacket. the dust jacket is rubbed. It has 73, bright, clear pages extensively illustrated with black & white drawings in a one-quarter binding with black cloth and bright, gold titles on the spine. The boards are covered in red pebbled cloth.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This seventh impression is clean, tight, square with good corners and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed, noticeable at the ends of the spine and tips of the corners. It has 128, bright, clear pages bound in blue cloth covered boards with gold titles on the spine and a gold facsimile signature on the front.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. this is number 244 of 430 printed. It has 3 very minot flaws: a very light bump at the top of the spine, some very faint discoloration on the end papers and a very small spot on the rear board that can probably be removed with the proper application; otherwise it is as new being clean, tight, square with sharp corners, unmarked, feeling as though it has never been opened and having many unopened pages. The plain, tissue dust jacket is yellowing and wearing in spots. The boards are covered in blue cloth with gold titles on the spine and a helmeted head with dragon decoration embossed on the front. The text on the 113 pages is outlined in red.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and internally unmarked, but there is a name on the front fly leaf. It has 121, bright, clear pages bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gold titles on the spine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This book is particularly collectible because in an envelope tipped in o a front end paper is a letter from ALdrich to the prior owner. This letter dated 1899 states: "Ponkapog, Mass. June 14, 1899 My Dear Miss Hyde, I regret to say that I am neither a lecturer nor a reader (aloud), and there fore cannot avail myself of a suggestion which otherwise would have led me to a great found(?) pleasure. Yours Very SIncerely, Thomas Bailey Aldrich". Miss Hyde signed and dated (1905) the first free end paper. Otherwise, the book is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It is rubbed, noticeable at the corners the tips of which are through and the ends of the back strip which are frayed, The boards are covered i n green cloth with embossed gold titles on the spine and front where there is also a drawing of boys at play (war). It is extensively illustrated with black & white… Read more

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This book is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed and lightly bumped at the ends of the spine with a small chip at the top. It has brown end papers and 184, bright, clear, minimally toned pages in beveled boards covered in green cloth with gold titles and a flower on the spine and the author's name inn a giltfdesign on the front.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author has signed a front flyleaf Thomas Bailey Aldrich Dec. 1889, on the opposite flyleaf the former owner has glued a copy of Aldrich's poem "To Oblivion" apparently published in the March, 1898 Collector without Aldrich's permission. This owner appears to have met Aldrich at the author's Mt. Vernon STreet home on 3/9/1907 and has left a note to that effect on the title page and has tipped a newspaper article about an interview with Aldrich in the same time period on the ffep (now crumbling with age and darkening the end papers. Otherwise, this book is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked. It is very lightly rubbed and has 80, clear minimally toned pages in a one-quarter binding with age darkened, gilt tooled, cream colored cloth and rubbed gilt titles on the spine. The boards are covered in green cloth with bright gilt titles and designs on the… Read more

Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1908. First Thus . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. This copy is lightly rubbed, has light surface soil and a split at the spine of the outer wrap. There is a small, discrete name at the top. White wraps with blue titles over a large picture of a woman playing a lute in a curtained room. The back wrap has a single page of "Marsinah" in an ad.

Boston: C. C. Birchard & Co., 1932. First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is basically clean, square and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed at the surface and edges and has some light surface soil. It has pale tan wraps with lists of music in black type on the wraps.