Search Results: Authors starting with B from James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.

London: Oxford, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: The Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford 1935). First UK Edition. Large format, fine contents, very slight spotting on endpapers, all plates and drawings present and correct, in the VERY SCARCE VG+ D/W which is a little scuffed, with some slight corner wear, and which has two small chips on the upper edge of the rear panel and two tiny holes nearby. One of the author's most important works, here in the rarely seen Dust Wrapper. A very heavy book, so extra postage costs may be necessary

London, 2008. (Cecil Higgins Art Gallery 2008). First UK Edition. A neat gift inscription on the half-title otherwise a fine copy in like D/W. Limited to 2,000 copies. Colour plates throughout. A very nice copy indeed.

1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. (New York and London: D Appleton & Company 1913). First Edition. Likely Second State with the code (2) at the base of text on page 362. Publisher's salmon cloth gilt lettering to front board and spine and also blind-stamped to the front board. A 1.5 cm tear in the cloth at the head of the spine (which is also age-darkened) and soiling to the boards in places. Near VG. No D/W. Clairvoyant dreams, ghosts, murder, and intrigue abound in this short story collection. Dr. Stanchon might be a brilliant diagnostician, but the oddity of his cases more often involves the paranormal undercurrents of late nineteenth-century New York than curious illnesses. Whether he's counselling his patients to break free of their compulsions, keeping family secrets, or tending to his haunted house and its ill-fated tenants, Dr. Stanchon always seems to be in the middle of something mere science just can't explain! Uncommon.

1911. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher 1911). Sixteenth Revised Edition. With 10 maps and 19 plans (all present). Bright and tightly bound in red flexible red covers cloth with gold titles. Light fading to spine, edge wear and tear at top of spine. All maps are included and remain near fine. The text remains bright and unmarked. A nice copy. IN THE VERY RARE plain brown D/W which is darkened to the spine and with a 7 cm closed tear to the right hand edge of the front panel adjacent to the inside flap. In our experience copies of this book in the D/W are exceedingly uncommon. Indeed, this is the first example that we have handled. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London, 1940. (London: L Davenport & Co). Second Edition 1942. Softcover. 33 pages. Black and white illustrations. A VG++ copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London, 1940. (London: L Davenport & Co). Second Edition 1942. Softcover. 31 pages + 2 pages of Contents Page + Adverts to front and fear of both the front and rear covers. Black and white illustrations. A VG++ copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

1936. First Edition. (Hounslow, Middlesex 1936). First UK Edition. Softcover. Stapled booklet. Inscription to rear cover and bookplate to verso of front cover otherwise about VG. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London, 1940. (London: L Davenport & Co). Second Edition 1940. Softcover. 37 pages. Black and white illustrations. A VG++ copy (bookplate on verso of front cover). Photographs/scans available upon request

London, 1942. (London: L Davenport & Co). Second Edition 1942. Softcover. 37 pages. Black and white illustrations. A VG++ copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London, 1940. (London: L Davenport & Co). Second Edition 1940. Softcover. 44 pages. Black and white illustrations. A VG+ copy (bookplate on verso of front cover). Photographs/scans available upon request.

London, 1942. (London: L Davenport & Co 1942). Third Edition (first published in May 1933). Third edition has a Foreword by Will Goldston. Illustrated with 97 photographic Reproductions from the originator's own hands and 3-line drawings. A slim staple-bound softback. Staples (rusted) as usual, now re-sown by a skilled bookbinder. A VG copy. Clean interior. Photograph/scans available upon request.

London: Pelham Books, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with silver spine lettering. A near fine copy in like dustwrapper. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Pelham Books, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's black boards with silver spine lettering. Foxing to the page block edges and faint offsetting to the end-papers still a VG+ copy in a VG complete but mildly rubbed D/W with the red spine lettering faded to orange. Signed by the Author to the title page: "Best wishes/ Alan Ball". Quite uncommon (signed). Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition. Publisher's mustard-yellow boards, occasional thumb marks with light discolouration at base of spine else VG. No D/W. N.B: science fiction/ dystopian satire. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Michael Joseph, 2002. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE LATE GORDON BANKS. Publisher's black boards with gilt spine lettering. Pictorial end-papers. A fine copy in like D/W. Signed without dedication by Gordon Banks on the title page. Waterstone's orange sticker to front panel announcing "Signed by the Author - An Ideal Gift at Waterstone's". ISBN: 0-7181-4582-8. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Arthur Barker, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Publisher's green boards with gilt spine lettering. A VG copy in like D/W. ISBN: 0 213 16730 1. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Putnam, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. SIGNED COPY. Publisher's blue boards with gilt spine lettering. Just the merest hint of fading to the spine otherwise a fine copy in like dustwrapper priced 15s net to the inside flap (as called for). NO chipping, creasing or wear to the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the Author in an early example of the Author's hand in blue fountain pen ink: "To Ed Newman/ from/ Roger Bannister". A particularly nice, signed copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Scorpion Press, 1993. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. (Bristol: Scorpion Press 1993). A Limited Edition of 99 Numbered Copies in a Special Binding and Signed by the Author , this copy un-numbered being the "Binder's Copy. A fine copy quarter bound in dark green leather (pale green top edge) with marbled boards, in a fine clear acetate D/W. With an appreciation of the author by Julian Symons. Signed by the Author on the limitation page. A lovely production.

London: Scorpion Press, 1993. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. SIGNED, LETTERED, LIMITED EDITION. Copy lettered R of 15 lettered de luxe copies signed by the Author and Julian Symons (who wrote the introduction). These were produced for private distribution. Very fine in green goatskin with five raised bands, with green patterned marble paper sides with green top edge and green end-papers in transparent glassine D/W.

London: Harper, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. A near fine copy in like D/W