Search Results: Authors starting with B from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Munich: Knorr & Hirth Verlag, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full patterned white cloth with black titles, 80 pp including 36 pp color plates of paintings in the museum, index. DJ has 4 cm tape marked tear to top edge of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 1 lb.. . Fine/VG. 18 X 18 cm.

New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 2008 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, foil titles on spine, [xiii], 206, [4] pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). Later printing. . Fine/Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1927 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright renewed 1927, date of printing uncertain. Sewn in wraps printed in dark blue ink on pale blue-grey card stock, vii, 199 pp. Seven paper clips, many pencil notes, otherwise very good. The vocal score includes piano accompaniment. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fair/No dj. 26 X 17½ cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter white linen with blue paper-covered boards, xi, 217 pp, map. Top corners bumped, spine slightly cocked, pp 49-50 dog-eared. DJ worn at extremities, with a few tears at top edge, the largest of which is about a quarter inch long; in Brodart archival cover. "This is a book about the Connecticut River the way Walden is a book about a pond in Concord...." Travel narrative about a trip up the Connecticut River by tugboat, canoe, train, and on foot, with discursions into the wildlife, plant life, and history of the river and its valley. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Plain white paper with black titles, stapled through fold, 36 pp including covers, 7 b & w photos. Small tears of a few mm to edges of front cover, otherwise very good. This is a pamphlet aimed at parents of a child with either cleft lip or cleft palate, describing the surgical treatment, and, in the case of cleft palate, later therapy to develop a functioning soft palate and normal speech. Shipping weight 3 oz. in envelope.. 10th ptg. Pamphlet. G+/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

New York: Pardes Publishing House, Inc., 1940 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Solomon Katz. Brown cloth blocked to simulate leather, gold ink titles on front board & spine, v, 220 pp, index. DJ has a 4 X 6 cm dampstain around bottom of front joint, several edge tears 1 to 4 cm long; in Brodart archival cover. Contents: life in Palestine during the creation of the Jerusalem Talmud; Rabbi Jehudah N'siah the First & his successors; the Hagadah & its authors; Rabbi Jochanan, the compiler of the Jerusalem Talmud; Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish; Jehudah & Ezekiah, the sons of Rabbi Chiya; Rabbis Jannai Raba, Jonathan ben Elazar, Oshaia Raba, Chanina bar Chama, Joshua ben Levi, Shmuel bar Nachmani, Simlai bar Aba, Elazar be Pedath, Avahu of Caesaria, Chiya bar Aba Hacohen, Ami, Asi, Yitzchak the Blacksmith, Aba Kahana, Chanina bar Papa, and Zeira. We have not direct information on whether this is a first American edition, but the… Read More

Grenoble: Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect bound in stiff paper wraps, [xiii], 210 pp. Contains seven articles on speech production and vocalic systems. About half the text is in French and half in English; abstracts are given in both languages for each article. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark green cloth, gilt titles & device on spine, ix, 319 pp, frontis., 24 plates (includes 2 photos, painting, and 8 manuscript facsimile pages not in pagination, plus 11 pp of scores included in pagination), notes, bibliography, index. Cloth fraying slightly at bottom corners & tail of spine, else fine. DJ has a 2 cm tear and a 2 cm chip, spine sunned, otherwise fine; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Mozart died a mere 170 years ago, but so much has changed since then in the musical world that nowadays performances often misrepresent him. Neither scholarship nor musical intuition is always able, on its own, to ensure characteristic performance, and it is the special merit of the authors--the one a concert pianist of world renown, and his wife a distinguished musical scholar--to throw light on the subject from both directions at once...." Shipping weight 3… Read More

Computer Science Press, Inc., 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright date is 1980. Purple, white & chartreuse boards, xv, 626 pp, index. Rather fragile paper-covered boards, paper is starting to peel from fore-edge. Contents: historical survey; description of computer systems; arithmetic algorithms; powerful central processors; the memory hierarchy & its management; control unit & microprogramming; input-output; from microprocessors to superminicomputers; cupercomputers; trends in computer systems architecture. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . G+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, endpaper map, xv, 537 pp, notes, index. Bookplate on half-title, else fine. DJ has a 3 cm tear about halfway down rear joint, slight rubbing to extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Translated from the Hebrew by Lotte Levensohn, Hillel Halkin & Shulamith Nardi. From the DJ: "This volume describes the background of the widespread riots of 1391; it gives a more complete story than can be found anywhere else of the dramatic disputation at Tortosa; it details the steps in the establishment of the Inquisition and its frinal triumph through the trumped-up ritual-murder case of the La Guardia child." Based in part upon extensive research in the Spanish archives. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition in English. . Near Fine/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Washington, D. C: National Press Books, Inc., 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, 324 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates. DJ in Brodart archival cover. History of the Communications Workers of America labor union since the AT&T breakup by its president. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Washington, D. C: National Press Books, Inc., 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on recto of ffep. Black boards, foil titles on spine, 324 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates. DJ in Brodart archival cover. History of the Communications Workers of America labor union since the AT&T breakup by its president. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Quarter black cloth, grey paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, red endpapers, xv, 461 pp, 12 ff b & w plates, 18 figures including maps, genealogical charts, and arms, bibliography, notes, index. Remainder mark is purple spray to bottom edge, a few small spots to rear board, else fine. DJ has some wear to corners & spine ends, small tear to top edge of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. The authors sued Dan Brown, author of bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, for plagiarism and lost the case because what he appropriated from Holy Blood, Holy Grail was not the text but the idea, which is not protected by copyright. This copy of the US edition was printed in the same year as the first edition. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). 7th ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Waltham, MA: NEJM Books, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue covers, white titles, white & green dec., xxvi, 425 pp, figures, notes at end of each chapter, index. Yellow highlighting in one chapter, otherwise very good with some cover wear. Contains 20 articles by 24 authors including the editors, most previously published in the New England Journal of Medicine and gathered under the headings: broad concepts & analytic techniques, analysis, communicating results, communicating among experts, and reviews & meta-studies. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Trade Paperback. Good/No dj. 23½ X 14½ cm.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards, brown spine with gilt titles, ix, 290 pp, bibliography. Covers inverted. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The well-read author combines travel narrative with allusions to past writers on Wales. From the DJ: "Baily followed no set route. In the warm Welsh sun and wet Welsh rain he sauntered and strode along city streets, Roman roads, mountain paths, country lanes, and coastal cliffs and beaches. He stayed in B-and-Bs, small hotels, and hostels. Whether in primary schools or village pubs, hill farms or mining communities, in conversations with sheep shearers or professors, with Welsh patriots or refugees from urban England, Bailey gets close to a land which has both a tantalizing foreignness and endearing familiarity." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burgundy boards, gilt titles on spine, x, 185, [3] pp, 2 ff color plates, 65 figures in text (mostly portraits), notes, index. Publication data on two reviews noted in pencil on verso of flyleaf, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Using visual documentation--portraits, architecture, allegorical engravings--as well as written sources, Bailyn, one of our most esteemed historians, paints a complex picture of that distant but still remarkably relevant world." He gives special attention to Jefferson, Franklin, and the Federalist papers (and their authors, Madison, Hamilton, and Jay). Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Viking, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan boards, black spine with gilt titles, xvii, 797 pp, 16 ff b & w plates, 7 maps in text, notes, bibliography, index. Slight shelf wear. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Washington, D. C: Government Printing Office, 1907 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Side-stapled in printed paper wraps, xii, 155 pp, 3 maps bound in including 1 fold-out map, 2 maps in rear pocket, index. Covers and map pocket disintegrating, internally very good. Lacks plates III, IV, V, and VI (we see no evidence that they were ever present, other than the table of contents). Plates IX and XI-XV were intentionally omitted according to the note on page xii. This is a special state edition of U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 294. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Wraps. 23 X 15 cm.

Washington, D. C: Government Printing Office, 1919 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in brown printed paper wraps, viii, 250 pp, many plates, folding plan, index. Small chips to covers at and near spine ends and near one corner, tears to spine, one gathering loose (apparently never properly sewn in), else VG. Blank physician's disability report and cover memo laid in. Contents: treatment of war wounds; developments in war surgery (anesthesia, joint lesions, fractures, trephined cases, amputations, plastic & oral surgery); trench fever; care of wounded from firing line to convalescent camp; reeducation for the disabled; conferences of surgeons; auxiliary forces, miscellaneous. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Wraps. Good/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

Boston: The Beacon Press, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, bronze ink titles on spine, top edge dyed brown, xi, 276 pp, 24 b & w illustrations, bibliography, index. Slightly musty, slight edge wear. Gummed Minnesota Co-Op book store bookplate laid in. Bainton condenses a vast amount of information into a readable and relatively brief overview of the Reformation to the end of the 16th century. After a look at the Church before the Reformation, he covers the Lutherans, Calvinists, Zwinglians, Anabaptists, Anglicans, and the Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.