Search Results: Authors starting with B from The Old Mill Bookshop

Tokyo: Kobunsha, 1888. Illustrated throughout [23] pp. 1 vols. 4.5 x 7 (approx.). Folded paper stitched with pictorial wrappers. Cover soiled and right folded edge split, else fine. Illustrated throughout [23] pp. 1 vols. 4.5 x 7 (approx.).

New York: Greenberg: Publisher. A Gun Room Library Book, 1951. First trade edition. Decorations by William J. Schaldach. [xii], 237 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine. First trade edition. Decorations by William J. Schaldach. [xii], 237 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1947. First Edition. Drawings by Augusta Rembert Wittkowsky. 284 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original maroon cloth. Very good copy (spine sunned) lacking the dust jacket. First Edition. Drawings by Augusta Rembert Wittkowsky. 284 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "The scene of all stories in My Health Is Better in November is the South; most of the incidents recorded took place in South Carolina. They constitute a delightful expression of one of the major aspects of life in the South, and therefore represent a genuine contribution to regional literature" (Blurb). Bruns B3

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Minor edgewear, else About Fine, in Very Good, chipped dust jacket. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo.

Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1950. Third Printing. Drawings by Augusta Rembert Wittkowsky. 1 vols. 8vo. Original burnt orange cloth. With some dampstaining to upper cover and spine, in almost fine dj. Wittkowsky, Augusta Rembert. Third Printing. Drawings by Augusta Rembert Wittkowsky. 1 vols. 8vo. His Best Known Work. "The scene of all stories in My Health Is Better in November is the South; most of the incidents recorded took place in South Carolina. They constitute a delightful expression of one of the major aspects of life in the South, and therefore represent a genuine contribution to regional literature" (Dust jacket flap). Bruns B3

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First edition. Drawings by G. Don Ray and Mathew Kalmenoff. 144 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Drawings by G. Don Ray and Mathew Kalmenoff. 144 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1940. First Edition. Illustrated with two paintings by Clifford R. Babson and photographs taken by Carl H. Lester, Jr., and others. 261 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good in slightly chipped dust jacket. First Edition. Illustrated with two paintings by Clifford R. Babson and photographs taken by Carl H. Lester, Jr., and others. 261 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With an Autograph Postcard Signed. A wildlife sanctuary in Morris Co., New Jersey. Inscribed: "To Franklin Decker with the best wishes of the author Wm. Arthur Babson Sept. 17th 1945". With-- Autograph Postcard Signed by Arthur Babson to Marion Decker: "July 16 Dear Marion. It was good of you to find for me two beautiful kittens striped grey & black. I shall be very glad to accdit this gift if your friend will accdit from me in return six beautiful kittens, black, white, black & white, white and black and mud color. Best wishes to you & Joe. Sincerely Arthur Babson."

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1970. One of 1000 copies. Includes a facsimile of the letter. 1 vols. 4to. Blue wrappers. About Fine. One of 1000 copies. Includes a facsimile of the letter. 1 vols. 4to.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911. First edition. Illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner. 1 vols. 12mo. Green pictorial cloth. Fine. Bookplate of Mrs. William Hamilton Moseley Norfolk, CT. First edition. Illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner. 1 vols. 12mo. With 1-1/2 page inscription to Mrs. Moseley.

Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1913. First edition. Fold-out chart, musical examples throughout. vi, 468 [2] pp. 4to. Publisher's wrappers with printed French-fold jacket. Covers loose from spine, spine ends worn. First edition. Fold-out chart, musical examples throughout. vi, 468 [2] pp. 4to.

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. First edition. 1 vols. 4to. Blue cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial paste-down on upper board. Small, minor dampstain to bottom corner of first few leaves, else Near Fine. First edition. 1 vols. 4to.

London: Macmillan and Company, 1926. Title vignette. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Attractively bound in blue calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf. Some mino wear and sunning to spine, else fine. Title vignette. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Part of the "Golden Treasury Series"

Oxford: Scrivener Press, 1950. First edition. 1 vols. 4to. 1/4 cream cloth and boards. Fine. First edition. 1 vols. 4to. The standard bibliography of Bacon.

New York: Robert McBridge, 1934. Third printing. 1 vols. 4to. Original brown cloth, spine slighty soiled. In dust jacket iwht smal chip and minor soiling. Bacon, Peggy. Third printing. 1 vols. 4to. SIGNED. Signed by Bacon on the flyleaf. A brilliant display of nearly fifty sketches of public figures, along with her sharp and funny verbal portraits.

Berkeley [CA], 1916. 1p. on "Pacific School of Religion" letterhead with postscript in halograph, tipped onto larger sheet. 8-1/2 x 11 inches, folded and tipped onto separate sheet. Old fold else fine. 1p. on "Pacific School of Religion" letterhead with postscript in halograph, tipped onto larger sheet. 8-1/2 x 11 inches, folded and tipped onto separate sheet. A letter written in response to congratulations offered on his wedding engagement, by a versatile scholar best known for his association with John Muir. Reading in part: "I am starting westward on the fourteenth, stopping to lecture in Chicago, thence on to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and San Diego. We will be married on the twelfth of January, and then start on a trip to Florida, Cuba and Jamaica." Minnesota native, William Frederic Badè (1871-1936) was an ordained Moravian minister, a professor of ancient languages, a theologian and bible scholar, a mountaineer, a conservationist and naturalist, and an archaeologist, but is… Read More

London: Routledge, 1910. The "Oval" Series. Fourth edition, revised. Originally published in 1897. Illustrated. 175, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Red cloth, upper cover pictorial. Spine faded, about very good. Bookplate of William J. Clothier. The "Oval" Series. Fourth edition, revised. Originally published in 1897. Illustrated. 175, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Phelps & Sabine p. 18

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth; head of spine chipped, hinges starting; esle very good. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The writer's purpose is "to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle." (Prefatory notice). Westwood & Satchell p.20

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original purple cloth. Spine faded, upper joint frayed, some fading to boards. Internally Fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The writer's purpose is "to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle." (Prefatory notice). Westwood & Satchell p.20

London: John W. Parker and Son, West End, 1854. 552 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary brown polished calf, gilt spine, edges marbled. Presentation to William Otto N. Shaw on leaving Eton Xmas 1864. Very Good. 552 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The writer's purpose is "to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle." (Prefatory notice). Westwood & Satchell p.20

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. First edition, one of 550 copies. Quarter buckram and blue paptterned baords. Fine. First edition, one of 550 copies.