Search Results: Authors starting with B from Trolls Treasure

New York: St Martins Press, 1987. First US edition, stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Juggernaut was first published in Great Britain by William Collins & Co. This St Martin's edition was first published in 1987. The juggernaut is a massive electrical transformer that American Neil Mannix must see through war-torn, oil-rich West Africa. This was Bagley's last novel, published posthumously. Book is near fine with light edge wear. The dust jacket, not clipped, has moderate edge wear, rubbed on all edges, especially at the spine and corners. There is a small closed tear on the front cover, taped from the inside, and two small closed tears on the lower spine.

New York: Atheneum, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good +. Includes color photographs of the adventure. "The upper Yangtze River is the dragon, a beautiful and savage beast.... The authors tell firsthand what its like to pit your nerve and skill against a primal force of nature." -- from the jacket flap. Publishers Weekly -- "From the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau at more than 17,000 feet above sea level, the Yangtze sweeps nearly 4000 miles to the East China Sea near Shanghai. Its source, in a remote and sparsely populated area, was discovered in 1985; few travelers had seen the upper river in one of the last unexplored regions on Earth. Bangs and Kallen, coauthors of Rivergods , wanted to be the first Americans to raft the uncharted "Great Bend'' section of the upper Yangtze. They lost out to Ken Warren and his Sino-USA Expedition; in addition, two Chinese groups planned to run the river from its headwaters… Read More

Bloomington, IL: McKnight Publishing Co, 1983. First Edition stated, but suspect 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. From the back cover of the book -- Using Step-By-Step Instructions, Learn How To -- Make Your Equipment Or Select Suitable Ready-Made Equipment; Prepare Stencils : Paper, Film, Mimeoqraphic or Photographic; Make Your Own Heat Transfers For Teeshirts or Other Fabrics; Prepare Decals and Pressure Sensitives; Add Interest With Special Techniques like Posterization, Solarization, Tone Line, Reticulation and Bas Relief. Book is in very good condition with minor edge wear, rubbed along edges and corners, surface scuffing of the boards. There is a faint smudge on front fly leaf. Interior clean and binding tight. No dust jacket.

New York: Minotaur Books, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Book is in very good condition with moderate edge wear, rubbed places along upper edge of front cover and with lightly bumped spine edges and corners. There is a scratch on the back cover about an inch and half long. Interior clean and binding tight.

Times Books, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book and jacket are fine with little edge wear. The jacket is not clipped.

New York: Anchor, 1997. Paperback. Very Good +. Barth's first two novels. Book is in very good condition with mild edge wear. The bottom corner of the front cover has a small crease.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine. Book is near fine with minor edge wear, except for a good bump to back upper corner. No Dust Jacket.

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Book is fine with little edge wear. The book is signed by both Baumans on the title page. The dust jacket is clipped and is in very good condition with one tiny closed tear on lower back corner and front lower corner well-rubbed.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/near fine. Bayard's first two novels (Fool's Errand; Endangered Species) were contemporary romantic comedies, a far cry from his third, an audacious and triumphant entertainment that imagines the post-Christmas Carol life of Tiny Tim, transformed from an iconic representation of innocent suffering ("the iron brace was bought by a salvager long ago, and the crutch went for kindling") into a fully realized young adult struggling to find his place in a cruel world. Having lost his parents and become estranged from his remaining family as well from as reformed Ebenezer Scrooge, Mr. Timothy Cratchit has found a niche in a brothel as the tutor to its madam. Haunted by his failure to connect with his father, as well as by his father's ghost, Timothy has developed a thick skin to guard against the oppressive misery endemic to 1860s London. His defenses are penetrated when he encounters Philomela, a 10-year-old waif… Read More

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992. Later printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 772 p. "This is a tome which occassionally tells you just a little more than you really want to know about the three great voyages to the Pacific, but anyone seriously interested in the western penetration into the Pacific will want to read this book. It is also an articulate and formidable defense of Cook's character, seamanship, and wisdom. While Cook is not quite so venerable now in a time of great sensitivity to the depradations western invasion inflicted on indiginous people, this book presents us with an undoubtedly great man interested not in conquest but in geography, exploration, discovery, science, anthropology and peaceful relations between cultures. The aftermath was a tragedy, (see Alan Moorehead's The Fatal Impact) but Cook was simply too high-minded and short-sighted to forsee what would come after. Cook was for better and worse a man of his time--and it was an age of… Read More

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning, The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading. When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads… Read More

Texas: KBA Publishing, 1995. Soft Cover. Very Good +. This book provides questionnaires to help you determine which areas of your brain are most dominant. Other sections of the book describe how to use knowledge of brain dominance to communicate in various scenarios, ranging from work to relationships. Also interesting and useful are the sections of the books where Dr. Benziger describes how you can develop more competence in areas of the brain where you are not dominant. Benziger believes it is better to operate in harmony with your natural brain dominance(s) or type. Benziger links falsification of type (operating primarily outside of one's type preferences) to fatigue, illness and depression, among some symptoms. Working within one's dominant function or brain quadrant(s) leads to energy and joy." -- one reviewer."BRILLIANT! A Must Have for Creatives & Practitioners. Wow, I am just so impressed with the information Katherine has put together. It has sat on my… Read More

New York: Health Program Planning Inc,, 2002. Soft Cover. Very Good. '...bite-sized pieces of easily digested Nutrition Tidbits.' Food & Nutrition tips for a hectic lifestyle; Answers to over 100 frequently asked questions; over 50 menus and recipes; Comprehensive index to find the tidbit you need. Book is in very good condition with only light edgewear. The pages are clean and binding is tight. It doesn't look as if its been read.

UK: Abacus Travel, 1997. Paperback. Very Good +. More hilarity from the author of "French Lessons in Africa." This is Peter Briddlcome's account of his experiences as a businessman struggling to cope with life in 20 cities of the world and 20 airports. He travels from Vienna to Ho Chi Minh City, Reykjavik to Dakar, and it all ends with an exciting adventure at the luggage enquiries desk at Heathrow. "Recounting adventures with the relish of a latter-day Baron Munchhausen, Biddlecombe is a raconteur of genius." -- INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY. Book in very good condition with light edge wear. Pages are just beginning to tone.

London: Phoenix Press, 2003. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo. A special illustrated edition of Hiram Bingham's classic work captures all the magnificence and mystery of the amazing archeological sites he uncovered. Early in the 20th century, Bingham ventured into the wild and then unknown country of the Eastern Peruvian Andes--and in 1911 came upon the fabulous Inca city that made him famous: Machu Picchu. In the space of one short season he went on to discover two more lost cities, including Vitcos, where the last Incan Emperor was assassinated. "This is the stuff of dreams, a story as romantic as any in the annuals of exploration." -- Sunday Times. Book is fine.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1944. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Red cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine and illustration on cover; 932 p. At the time of publication, B A Botkin was in charge of the the Archives of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. For its age this book is in good condition. Edges bumped and the corners worn, upper back cover has a small tear. General tanning. Previous owner's name on front end page with date 1945 Interior pages clean and tight. No dust jacket.

Bridgewater Books, 1996. First edition. Near Fine/good. Book is near fine with light edge wear and bumped on corners and at the bottom of the spine. The dust jacket has a small closed tear on the back and a small open tear at the top of the spine. The picture is a scan of the actual book.

New York: Viking Press, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. In March 1895 twenty-six-year old Bridget Cleary fell ill, then disappeared from her cottage in rural Tipperary. Even before she vanished, rumors circulated that she was a changeling, left behind by faries or evil spirits. The "real" Bridget would return on a white horse. Then her badly burned body was discovered in a shallow grave, and her husband, father, aunt and four cousins were arrested and charged with her murder. Book and jacket in fine condition with minimal wear.

Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Beloved Australian broadcaster & his wife explore the north-west of Westen Australia in their trusty 4WD, Penelope. Lovely combination of travel, memoir & history. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by By Photographs A follow-up to Tim Bowden's "Penelope Goes West", this time covering the intriguing adventures of Tim, Ros, Penelope (the car) and The Manor (the caravan) as they travel across the grandeur and spectacle of Broome, the Kimberleys and various points south and west. Bowden's fascination with rarely seen Aboriginal rock art is a major theme in his continuing love affair with Australia. On their journey Tim and wife, Ros, explore the Kimberley by land and sea, where dramatic 12-metre tides guard coastal locations unchanged by time - still as 17th-century buccaneer William Dampier first described them. For three months, Tim and Ros and their trusty… Read More

New York: Rndom House, 2005. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is near fine with little edge wear. The covers curve up slightly, otherwise book looks new. The picture is a scan of the actual book.