Search Results: Authors starting with B from Idler Fine Books

Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011 First edition, hard cover, 239pp., with index. In excellent, fine condition.

New York: Random House, 1991 First printing of the stated first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a touch of rubbing and a light sticker ghost near bottom back cover, else fine.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld / Grove Press, 1990 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Nicholson Baker directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Random House, 1991 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Nicholson Baker directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Random House, 1992 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Nicholson Baker directly on the title page. Trace of shelf wear, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first book. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. A lovely copy.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld / Grove Press, 1990 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Nicholson Baker directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

New York: Dial Press, 1965 First printing of the first edition. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. A lovely copy.

Philadelphia, PA: The Alimni Association / U.S. Army War College, 1984 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Harry P. Ball directly on the front free end page and by General Paul G. Cerjan on a U.S. Army War College book plate laid-in. Book in fine condition, and in fine dust jacket, with light edge wear.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by John Ball directly on the title page, including a unique, pithy inscription from Ball, incorporating the most famous quote from the 1967 film that won five Academy Awards: "'They call me Mr. Tibbs.' / They call me / John Ball."

Book and dust jacket in fine condition, with minimal signs of wear. A beautiful copy of an historically significant work. Scarce thus.

The first appearance of African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs, receiving the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and made into an Oscar winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1987 First printing of the first British edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with minimal signs of shelf wear, else fine.

London: Collins, 1990 First printing of the first British edition. Signed by J. G. Ballard directly on the title page. A trace of wear, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Holt Reinhart Winston, 1979 First printing of the stated first edition. Light toning to endpapers, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a soft crease along upper front cover, faint toning to flap margins and a tiny nick to middle fore-edge of front cover, else fine.

New York: Random House, 1980 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first novel. A couple tiny rubbed areas, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. A lovely copy.

New York: Random House, 1964 First edition, stated first printing. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint sticker ghost to bottom back cover, else fine. An attractive copy.

New York: HarperCollins, 2004 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Russell Banks directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Fiction Collective, 1975 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first collection of short stories and first book to be published in hard cover.

A touch of rubbing to board edge, cloth overlay at spine ends gently pushed, and faint foxing to fore-edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a tiny closed tear/shallow crease to upper front cover, light rubbing to extremities, and light toning to spine and folds, else fine.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979 First printing of the first British edition. Green cloth, with gilt-lettered spine, 226pp. Yorkshire, author's first book. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Springer-Verlag, 2000 138 pages with bibliographical references and index. Light shelf wear to covers, else book in fine, as new condition.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1987 First printing of the first American edition. Signed by Clive Barker, along with an original full page drawing, directly on the first blank page; additionally signed and inscribed by Barker directly on the title page. Book with partial toning to fore-edge, else in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to flap margins, else fine.