Search Results: Authors starting with B from 64 Books

Signed and inscribed by both authors on the title page, with a hand-drawn cartoon. VG condition quarto softcover, 120 pp.

Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author. Near fine condition softcover with a few scratches on front cover, 319 pp.Sarah Barnes and her husband, Jim, had big plans. She was a rising journalist. He was a rocker with an eye on law school. They traveled, laughed, loved, made plans, and married. But when their daughter, Meredith, was seven months old, they received a devastating diagnosis about her brain, and happily-ever-after became differently-ever-after from that point on. Although they faced many obstacles, their determined daughter helped them find hope and humor in the face of unthinkable challenge.

Signed on the half-title page by the author. VG+ condition softcover, uncreased spine, 250 pp.

VG condition softcover, clean and unmarked.
The first English language translation of the author's work, with a five-page introduction by the translator, 129 pp.

VG condition softcover, slightly soiled fore-edge, else clean and unmarked, uncreased spine, 188 pp.
Malcolm Beck is known throughout the country as a leading authority and practitioner in the field of organic growing. Widely sought-after as a speaker on the subject, Beck's home-spun approach to farming and gardening is based on the belief that if you work with nature, nature will reward your efforts.

French language VG condition oblong quarto softcover, inscription written on first page else clean and unmarked, creases on covers. Illustrated with "then and now" b&w photos, approximately 116 pp.

Fine condition softcover, 9.6" x 10.2", clean and unmarked. Illustrated with color photos, 48 pp.

Near fine condition softcover, clean and unmarked, 208 pp. Originally published in 1952 by Gold Medal. "Flight to Darkness is at once a pulp fiction classic and a sly masterpiece of amnesia literature. At his best, Gil Brewer was as good as James M. Cain and Charles Williams, and this is Brewer at his absolute best." --Jason Starr, best-selling author of Panic Room

Signed on the title page with a small cartoon drawing by the author. Fine condition small softcover (5" x 6.5"), illustrated with color drawings, 144 pp.

Signed by the author on the title page. VG condition softcover, first thus edition 2007.

Limited edition of 200 copies, signed on the title page by the author. Very good condition small softcover (4.2" x 5.9"), 158 pp,

Signed by the author on the title page. VG+ condition softcover. "Hardboiled, but hot as a door knob after a nuclear blast. Tim Bryant's work is blessed not only with originality, but with a kind of madness that makes it one of a kind and as special and surprising as a one eyed, three hundred pound toad with a picnic basket. I love this guy's stuff. Seems to me, his success is assured." -- Joe R. Lansdale. Part TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and part UGETSU, Bryant's DUTCH CURRIDGE examines the life of early 1950s Fort Worth from the bottom up. Alvis Curridge is an ex-employee of the Fort Worth Sheriff's Department. When he isn't found at Peechie Keen's Bar & Kanteen, drinking and swapping stories with buddies, he is busy trying to Keep things in line around Cowtown. Even if that means occasionally tangling with his former boss. In his spare time, he enjoys taking in the local music scene. He likes western swing and jazz music almost as much as he likes Ruthie Nell, the spunky writer for the Fort… Read More

VG condition hardcover in like dustjacket; text has lots of highlighting, 520 pp.
This book articulates a systematic vision of an international legal system grounded in the commitment to justice for all persons. It provides a probing exploration of the moral issues involved in disputes about secession, ethno-national conflict, "the right of self-determination of peoples," human rights, and the legitimacy of the international legal system itself. Buchanan advances vigorous criticisms of the central dogmas of international relations and international law, arguing that the international legal system should make justice, not simply peace among states, a primary goal, and rejecting the view that it is permissible for a state to conduct its foreign policies exclusively according to what is in the "national interest." He also shows that the only alternatives are not rigid adherence to existing international law or lawless chaos in which the world's one superpower pursues its own interests… Read More

Pollenex promotional edition, signed on the ffep by the author. Near fine condition hardcover in very good dustjacket with several chips and tears. Illustrated with black and white photographs, 187 pp.

Bottom corners of several dozen pages have chipping and bumping, else very good condition, 130 pp.