Search Results: Authors starting with B from Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA

Lippincott, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Hardcover, 1869, Lippincott, 374 pages plus 10 pages of ads at rear. Ex-lib copy, with minimal markings - a single stamp to half title page. Solid binding. Full bound brown cloth boards, with somewhat faded gilt lettering to spine. Very worn with fraying and fabric loss at head and heel of spine. Rear joint (ie, exterior portion where the rear board meets the spine) is worn, with board showing through. Corners bumoed and worn; edges dusty. Some pencilled notes to one rear blank pages. John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe chronicles his six months of travel in Europe in 1868, with "the hope that it may of service to some one who may find himself ... in Europe for the first time without chart or compass.

John Benjamins Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, exlib with typical markings including stickers to lower spine and rear cover, library name stamped to top edge of page block, and "Withdrawn From Library" stamped to rear free endpaper. Otherwise clean, with no underlining or highlighting, etc. Binding is solid and square. A solid working copy, with price adjusted to reflect the condition. Volume 8 in the Creole Language Library. 352 pages, with appendix, bibliography and list of contributors. Book is divided into two sections - Part 1 Texts: that presents transcripts "in dialect" of eleven oral interviews with former slaves; and Part 2 Commentary that gathers nine essays on the linguistic analysis of the texts from Part 1.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 2003. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. Type: Galley/Proof Fine - as new. Advance Uncorrected Proofs.

G. Schirmer, 1971. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Type: Ex-Library Exlib copy, normal markings - cardpocket, a few stamps and stickers, tape to boards. Binding in excellent condition; pages are clean and bright except for noted library markings. DJ is not pasted down, original price of $35 present on front flap; sunning to spine; only on library sticker to lower spine with no other markings. Over 2100 pages of documented musical biography, with the 1971 supplement that presents the composers of the avant garde and modern popular music stars for the first time in any American music lexicon.

Frederick A Stokes Company, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed. Inscribed and signed by the author in full to the front free endpaper. Apparent first printing of Frederick A Stokes reprint edition from 1943; originally published by Lippincott in 1937. Illustrated by Robert Ball. Very Good hardcover, no dustjacket, 112 pages; clean with solid binding; some edgewear to extremities. Full bound blue cloth boards, with black lettering to front board and spine; black line drawing of the Rosewood Box to front board. Very clean inside and out; spine slightly darkened, and some minor rippling; binding solid and square. Some wear to head and heel of spine. Outer corners show some wear, in a few small spots down to the board.

Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 1988, ISBN 0898599288. Very Good Hardcover, fullbound in blue cloth with coper gilt lettering to front and spine. No underlining or highlighting; binding is solid and square. Previous owner's name in ink to front pastedown (ie, inside front cover). Very slight soiling to fore edge. No other faults. "The regulation of hunger, food intake, and satiey is of a complexity that defies the imagination.... This book presents information about what happens when such complex regulatory mechanisms some unstuck (Herman), what are the development antecedents of some regulatory disturbances in the stomach (Ackerman), and whether they can be treated (Stunkard) by pharmacological, behavioral, or social means to restore their proper functioning." 229 pages including Author and Subject index.

The Easton Press, 1990. First Edition. leather_bound. Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed. As New, in original shrinkwrap; never opened. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Greg Bear. Full color plate illustration by Frank Kelly Freas. Introduction by James Gunn. Full bound in dark red leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

William Morrow, 1980-04. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed. Hardcover, 1980, ISBN 0688036155, Morrow. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Signed and limited edition, number 17 0f 100 copies. Signed by the author on limitation plate from Signed Editions Limited, tipped in to front endpaper. Military fiction involving a Liberator squadron of the RAF Coastal Command, patrolling the coast of Norway during World War II.

Easton Press, 1994. First Edition. leather_bound. Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed. As New, in publisher's original shrinkwrap. 1994. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Gregory Benford. Full color illustration by Vincent Di Fate. Introduction by James Gunn. Full bound in dark green leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

Easton Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed. As New in original shrinkwrap. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Gregory Benford. Full color plate frontispiece illustration by Frank Kelly Freas. Introduction by James Gunn. Fully bound in brick red leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

Chatto & Windus, 1916. Hardcover. Good/None. First edition, second printing - 1916. Full bound blue cloth boards, with some bubbbling to front and creasing to rear board. Gilt lettering to front board, but gilt to spine has worn away. Solid binding, with slight lean. Some browning of pages. Frontispice tissue guard has left brown stain to near full extent of title page. 149 pages, 23 B&W photos. This book collects the letters written by Harold Rosher during the war years from August 1914 up to his death at age 22 in February 1916. These letters provide a uniquely personal glimpse of one young Englishman's experiences during World War One - all the more fascinating as they document a period early in the development of the aircraft as a weapon of war. As the Introduction states: "[The letters] are spontaneous and utterly unstudied documents, and they have been printed almost exactly as Harold wrote them. Many of them are quite ordinary; most are spiced with slang; the long ones… Read More

Thorndike Press, 2006-12-06. Hardcover. Fine. A Melanie Travis Mystery." Fine Hardcover, Large Print, pictorial boards, no DJ as issued. 2006, ISBN 0786291257. "When she receives the letter from the Champions Dog Food Company informing her that her standard poodle Faith has been selected as a finalist in their competition, Melanie Travis is mystified - until she discovers that her son, Davey, had entered Faith in the contest. Legally prohibited from withdrawing, Melanie and Faith tweak their topknots and enter the ring. But at the reception in New York where they meet the other finalists, Melanie immediately picks up the scent that this pack is a bone's throw away from a major dog fight." 434 pages.

Tiresias Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good. In Search of a Response by Leida Berg and Harold Steinberg; hardcover; Tiresias Press; 1973; ISBN 0913292001. No dustjacket. Ex-lib with typical markings including sticker remnant to front board, cardpocket scar and "Withdrawn" stamp to front free endpaper, and black marker lines to page block edges. No underlining, highlighting, etc inside. Binding solid and square. Studies of schizophrenic children and their relationships with their parents, presented in the format of ficitonalized diaries, and based upon amalgams of actual case histories. The title refers to the basic human impulse - the search for a response from one human to another - "And when this comes about we no longer are alien and alone - and the world is not a threatening place in which to be. We are available to one another in our response. 'I really do not want you to take care of me, to feel like me, in small particulars - I just want a response from you.'

Underwood Miller, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 0x0x0. Signed. As New collector grade copy. Limitation page bound in to Volume 1, signed and limited 61/500. Three hardcovers in a slipcase, all in As New condition. Full bound black cloth boards with red and gilt lettering to front boards and spines. No dust jackets, as issued. Marbled endpapers. Some light rubbing to bottom of the slip case, from shelf contact; otherwise in Fine condition. Collects 97 short stories in three volumes.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arbor House Pub Co, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author. Signed by Author Fine/NF first printing, signed by author (no inscription) on front free endpaper. Lightly pencilled price from previous bookstore, minor wear to heel of DJ spine.

Marva Daun, 1986. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed. Comb bound in stiff, glossy illustrated wraps. 148 pages, with index. Inscribed and signed by the author to half title page with black felt tip pen: "To Heather / Keep on Cookin' / Boog Powell / 6/9/92". Light general wear to the covers and edges. Heavier indents and damage from where old price sticker was removed from lower right rear corner. Boog Powell is the legendary ex-first baseman from the Baltimore Orioles baseball franchise. He was a four-time All Star player, was voted MVP in 1970, was inducted into the Orioles Hall of Fame in 1979, and still is a fan favorite.

Glencoe/Mcgraw-Hill, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. New. New hardcover, 2004 Teacher Edition, high school textbook. No highlighting or other markings of any kind. Additional Career Skills CD included.

Maryland Historical Trust, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Large format paperback, 8.5" x 11". Clean ex-library copy, with a couple stickers on back, stamp to rear endpaper, and barcode sticker to inside front cover. Clean inside, with no writing, highlighting, underlining, etc. Binding is solid, with no creasing to spine. The number "4" is stamped to bottom edge of page block, and there is scuffing and smudges along the bottom; other edges are clean. Some faint sticker pull marks to front and back at lower part of the spine, where library stickers were removed. Still very presentable, and a great reference copy. "The material in this book has been prepared to serve as a guide for a series of field tours organized for the annual meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, held in Annapolis in May 1998. The theme of the conference, "The Changing Landscape of the Chesapeake," shaped the content selected for the tours. A desire to emphasize pre-industrial with… Read More

Books On Tape, 2008. Audio Cassette. Good. Unabridged audiobook on 6 cassettes, approximaely 9.75 hours. Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris. A retired library copy, with typical markings; case and cassettes in good condition. When author Douglas Preston moved with his family to a villa in Florence, he soon learned that a nearby olive grove was the scene of one of a series of grisly murders attributed to the "Monster of Florence" - the Italian equivalent of Jack the Ripper. Publishers WeeklyStarred Review: "United in their obsession with a grisly Italian serial murder case almost three decades old, thriller writer Preston (coauthor, Brimstone) and Italian crime reporter Spezi seek to uncover the identity of the killer in this chilling true crime saga. From 1974 to 1985, seven pairs of lovers parked in their cars in secluded areas outside of Florence were gruesomely murdered. When Preston and his family moved into a farmhouse near the murder sites, he and Spezi began to snoop around,… Read More

Phantasia, 1990-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed. As New in original shrinkwrap. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Ben Bova. Full color plate frontispiece illustration by Toni L Taylor. Introduction by James Gunn. Fully bound in dark blue leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.