Search Results: Authors starting with B from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Publishers, 1827 Hard cover, 8vo. In tan paper-covered boards with spine in brown cloth, printed paper label attached, page edges untrimmed. Collation: 8pp. publisher's adverts dated 1827, 303 pp., complete with two fold-out maps, and one fold-out elevation plan. Condition Good Plus. Although several corners are bumped, the spine and hinges remain firm and in good repair. A bit of water staining and pencil marks the top board, along with the near contemporary owner's numerical designation in old ink. Water staining is apparent to the rear board, and to bottom of last signature. Pages are moderately browned, with offset, showing small losses at corners, or the occasional foredge tear. Map offset to title page. Overall, however, the text block is firm and the binding remains in solid shape. A former owner's signature in old ink appears to the ffep, dated Topsfield, Jamaica, 1831. Published several years after La Gran Colombia's (ie., modern-day Colombia, Panama,… Read More

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005 Hard cover, octavo, in quarter-leather black leather binding with black cloth covered boards. A gilt lozenge decorates both covers. The spine has five raised bands with decoration and titles in gilt, 268pp. All edges gilt, with ribbon bookmark. Condition: As new. *** The story of Sally Miller (c1814 - ?), an American slave in who successfully won a Supreme Court case, Miller v. Belmonti (1845), arguing for her freedom. The argument was that she had been born as Salomé Müller and emigrated with her family from Germany as an indentured servant, not a slave.. Special Edition for the Classics of Law Library. Hard Cover. Fine.

Hampton, New Hampshire: Peter E. Randall, Publisher, 1973 Hard cover, 8vo., in green cloth with gold print to front board and spine. Contains two complete facsimile works reprinted from the originals in one volume, with additional introduction and portrait illustrations. Kidder: 184pp including Index, originally published by Joel Munsell of Albany, NY (1868). Baker, 23pp. originally published at The Rumford Press, Conncord, NH, 1903. Condition: Very Good Plus. Ballpoint inscription to ffep. and former owner's bookplate. Otherwise clean, bright and showing little wear. The Kidder Manuscript examines how the individuals of the fabled the New Hampshire Regiment were able to out-maneuver the British in the various expeditions of the Revolutionary War, relying on diaries and other first-hand accounts and provides the roll of individuals and dates involved. The Baker manuscript is an adress delivered to the New Hampshire Society of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution in 1902. . "New… Read More

New Haven, Conn.: L. H.Young, 1833 Hard cover, 12mo, 106pp + 2 pp.ads. Half-leather with original marbled paper-covered boards. Wonderfully illustrated history of the early settlement of America by the pilgrims, with some accounts of the traditions of the Native Americans. Some notable New England religious founders, The Death of King Philip, Whitefield and the Religious Revival, Departure of thee Missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, and more. Author John Warner Barber ( 1798-1885) was an itinerant artist who travelled around his native Connecticut and Massachusetts and New Jersey environs sketching scenes, later engraving them on boxwood. This was one of his earlier titles, and one of America's first "local histories." Condition: Fair. Water damage causing some staining or mold throughout, with some old ghosts of tape repairs. Some pages with illustrations are loose from the binding. Complete with all 19 woodblock carved engravings done by the Author. Covers very worn, with losses to the marbled… Read More

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Owlseeall Publishing, 1998 111pp. Signed by the author to title page. Story of a road-trip across America, where the protagonist asks the people he encounters about UFOs. Condition: Near Fine, with some edgewear.. Signed by author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907 (Fourth Printing) Hard cover, 8vo, finely bound and signed "Hatchards 187 Piccadilly" on front turn-in,(presumed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe,) in full blue morocco with decorative bandings in gilt, onlaid red circles to both boards and the spine compartments. Five raised bands terminate in hinge-like design on the boards, each finished with a three-leaf sprig tooled in blind. Board edges are gilt, as well as head and foot of spine. All text block edges gilt, pale blue end papers, with 11 black and white illustrations by the English artist, William Hatherell, R.I., 452pp., stated fourth printing.**CONDITION: About Fine. Some very small spots of rubbing to corners and edges. Offset at turn ins. ** Scottish Author J.M. Barrie ( 1860-1937), famed creator of the Peter Pan stories, as translated to both stage and screen, tells a semi-autobiographical, tragi-comic tale of the hardscrabble upbringing of young Tommy and Elspeth Sandys and their widowed mother Jean.… Read More

Concord, New Hampshire: I.S. Boyd, 1842 Hard cover, 8vo (measuring 5 3/4 x 9 inches), in full calf, the spine banded in gilt, with title on applied black leather label, all edges of the text block marbled, 456 pp., First Edition. With tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait, errata slip bound in at rear. Condition: Very Good. Both exterior hinges are cracked but holding firmly. The inner joints of the binding are firm. There is some loss to leather at the rubbed corners and edges , with small chips to title label. Several names are inscribed to ffep. in old ink (all of the same family.) The pages are generally bright, clean and unfoxed, with only the odd spot of soiling. Author George Barstow, (1812-1883) was a Dartmouth graduate from Haverhill, New Hampshire, who worked as a journalist in Boston while training as a lawyer. This was the period during which he wrote this History. After a later stint in New York, he relocated to SanFrancisco in 1858 and began careers in teaching and ,eventually, politics.… Read More

Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co., Publishers, 1859 Hard cover, 8vo., in full calf with a blind-stamped border. The title is in gilt upon a red leather label to the flat spine. The owner's name is inscribed on the spine in old ink. Also, owner's signature to front end paper: " H.S.K. Morrison." Collation: [3], 16, 6, 273, [4]. A classic of the British legal author Charles Barton(1768-1843), first published 1847. The revised edition includes a Preface, Analytical Table, Introduction to the History and Jurisdiction of the Court in Chancery, Rules of Practice in the Circuit Courts of the United States, and the English Orders in Chancery. CONDITION: Good: loss to head and foot of spine, some marks and dust soiling to exterior. Three defective outside joints. Generally foxed and blotted with old ink. A well-used item once belonging to the Virginia jurist, H.S.K. Morison. After serving in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, Morison would go on to study law at the Univ. of Virginia, where… Read More

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937 No. 11/950 copies. 2 Vols., 417 pp. Hard cover, 8vo. in red linen, with pictorial cover and titles printed in gold to spine, housed within the original slipcase. Condition Near Fine in a Very Good Slipcase. Spines sunned.**The Derrydale Press, founded in the 1930's by Princeton grad Eugene V. Connett III, specialized in sporting titles. This book was recommended thus in an enclosed newspaper clipping: "Horse-racing, fox-hunting, landed proprietors of New Jersey and Virginia a century and a quarter ago; mysterious and sinister marital contracts on the part of a father that leave a son doubtful of his exact parentage; a secretary and blackmailer who does not hesitate at murder, and who, as rightfully in romance, meets with his come-uppence; high-spirited thoroughbred horses and thoroughbred ladies of still higher spirits; a legendary fox of mammoth size and ferocity...a hunt that races through three States and and covers two hundred miles..." The title was supplied to… Read More

Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1999 463pp. Illustrated book of folklore and superstitions concerning the sea. With chapters on Weather Lore, Songs, Art, Mermaids, Spectre Ships, Reavers Privateers and Smugglers etc. Condition: As New. Dust jacket protected in mylar.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Washington DC: Volta Bureau, 1894 Hard covee, 8vo., 102pp. In publisher's black cloth binding. Condition: Very Good Minus. Binding cracked but firm. Some marks and chips to spine. Some marks/foxing to pages. ** Alexander Melville Bell (1819 - 1905) was the creator of "Visible Speech" which was used to help the deaf learn to talk, and was the father of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. OCLC 63635033.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little Brown, 1979 Hard cover 8vo, in tan linen with blue paper-covered boards, in a pictorial dust jacket with author photo, now in mylar, stated First Edition, (xv), 537pp. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Owner name in ballpoint to ffep.**Literary biography of John P. Marquand (1893 -1960), journalist, Newburyport-resident, and novelist whose work has been compared to that of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Lewis, in the category of "great twentieth-century American authors." Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he was named "the most successful novelist" by Life Magazine in 1944. The Biographer, Millicent Bell, gleans her observations on the author's need for recognition and success from the stratified society he generally satirized. Using Marquand's own writings, correspondence and interviews with his contemporaries, she also manages to paint a nuanced portrait of the places--Harvard, Curzun's Mill at Newburyport, Boston, which shaped the man and his career.… Read More

Framingham, Massachusetts: Old America Company Publishers for the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 Hard cover, 4to ( 7 x 10 inches), in light blue cloth, with Massachusetts seal and title in gold to front, and titles to spine, top edge gilt, First edition, (xx), 212pp. Condition: Very Good Plus. A few small spots of discoloration to the exterior. Very light rubbing at head and foot of spine. Gilt bright, pages are tight, clean and very lightly toned. The Massachusetts Tercentenary Commission (1630-1930) presented this panorama of Massachusetts historical houses, portraits and cultural artifacts including domestic furniture and silver, accompanied by brief biographies. Many black and white photographs are reproduced, a number of them credited to Wallace Nutting, (1861-1941) the Massachusetts minister, antiquarian and photographer who published many books on colonial life in the Bay State. (The publishing company of this volume was owned by him.) Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard… Read More

Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1828 Hard cover, 8vo., 117pp. Three quarters leather bound. Condition: Very Good. Light wear to covers, with small amounts of fraying to edges of boards. ** Printed for the Bannatyne Club from a manuscript. The siege of the castle happened just after the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, in which William of Orange took over the throne of England from James VII, whose supporter, the Duke of Gordon, held the castle and refused to hand it over to the "Protestant Conventionists". The Bannatyne Club was founded by Sir Walter Scott to print rare works of Scottish interest. The book is inscribed and signed by the Duke of Sutherland, saying that it was given to him by a fellow member of the Bannatyne Club, Sir David Dundas, in 1849. . Signed by Bannatyne Club Member. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1907 Second Printing. Hard cover, in publisher's original decorative boards in an Arts and Crafts style, featuring sprigs of clover, shafts of wheat and flying swallows in shades of brown and cream, with titles in gilt. Reprint of the first edition, dated April 1907. R & R. Clark, Edinburgh Printers. 197pp + single page publisher's advert. plus foldout map. Condition: Very Good. Light wear to board edges, and a few light marks to cover. Slight lean, mild toning to text. Very mild fox to prelims only. Gilt at top edge remaining bright. The 75 color lithographed scenes of picturesque Sussex, England remain lovely and bright. Plates are protected with labelled tissue guards.** An early number of the A& C Black Twenty Shilling Series, in the second printing of 2130 copies (no reprints appear after the year 1907.) British artist Wilfrid Williams Ball (1853 - 1917) was best known for his landscape and marine subjects. Inman tells a good story about the unnamed author,… Read More

New York: The Typophiles, 1964 Hard cover, quarto, 114pp. Reminiscences of Frederick B. Adams Jr, John T. Winterich, Lawrence Thompson, Kneeland McNulty, Al Hine, David Jackson McWilliams, Edward Naumburg Jr, Philip C, Duschnes, Elmer Adler. Elmer Adler (1884 - 1962) was an American book designer and collector. He founded Pynson Printers in 1922 and began designing books with Burton Emmett and John T.Winterich. Condition: Very Good, with light bumps to corners of back board.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London/ Annapolis: Batsford/ United States Naval Institute, 1977 Hard cover, 8vo. (measuring 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches), in blue cloth, titles in gold, in a pictorial dustjacket, now in mylar. Top of textblock is in a grayish stain, other edges uncolored. Printed label applied to title page over English publisher's name says published and distributed in the United States by the Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. Condition: Very Good with one chipped corner, in a Very Good dust/jacket (price-clipped). This compendium of original source material relating to the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) includes many maps and other black and white illustrations of the famous naval battle pitting the British, under Lord Nelson, against the combined might of the French and Spanish fleets in the conduct of the Napoleonic War. English Author Capt. Geoffrey Martin Bennet, DSC FRHS (1908-1983), wrote a number of well-regarded naval histories in retirement. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Venice: Presso Marco Ginammi, 1633 Hardcover, 2 books in one with continuous numbering. pp[32]417. Collation: [2]a6 b8 A8-I8 K8-T8 V8 X8-Z8 Aa8-Dd8. Page 361 misnumbered as 347. Volume Primo: as titled above; Volume Secondo (with separate half-title page) entitled: Relatione del Tratto Della Tragua di Fiandra, che si conclusive in Anversa alli IX d'aprile MDXIX. Fatta dal Cardinal Bentivoglio in tempo della sua nuntiatura. Appresso I Serenissimi Arciduchi Alberto et Isabella Infanta di Spagna. Large 8vo, measuring 6 ¼ x 8 ¾", bound in full leather, rebacked, First Edition Thus. In Italian. The original goatskin-clad volume has been re-backed, and is blind-stamped with concentric rectangular decoration of a double filet, a rolled floral banding, and with corner fleurons to the front and rear boards. The spine, with remnants of raised compartments, has bits of the original gilt decoration applied with charming irregularity. An applied leather label is illegible. Page edges are deckled with red… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Company Inc, 1970 Hard cover, 8vo., 2265 pp. over the 2 volumes. Sweeping survey of plays and playwrights from Ancient Greece to modern times, with critical essays interleaved. Condition: About Near Fine, with bookplate and ghost of tape marks to front free endpapers of each volume. Heavy set may require extra postage if shipped abroad.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1995 339pp. A history of the Mongol people created for an exhibition in 1995-1996. Showing the cultural artifacts displayed in the exhibition with wonderful color plates. Condition: About Fine in like dustjacket, which shows very light shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.