Search Results: Authors starting with B from James Arsenault & Company

Hawaii, 1920. 102 silver print photographs (approx. 1.5" x 2.5" to 4" x 6") on 18 paperboard leaves (7" x 9.5"), lacking covers. Several real photo postcards, 1 photo reproducing a painting of an outrigger on the water at Waikiki. Some captions in French. CONDITION: Good, moderate wear to some images, but generally good; one leaf detached. An album of over 100 original photographs documenting a French tourist's trip to Hawaii at the time of the centennial of the arrival of American missionaries, with images of apparently related celebrations, two photos of Duke Kahanamoku-the noted father of modern surfing and Olympic swimmer-and an engaging variety of other images, including several of Edward, the Duke of Windsor (later Edward the VIII). The two images of Kahanamoku-likely commercially produced-show the handsome Hawaiian waterman in a bathing suit standing next to an upright surfboard (bearing the name "Duke"); the other image (annotated "Kahanamoku") captures him as he is about to dive into the… Read More

[Leeds, Massachusetts]: The Gehenna Press, 1989. 4to, half black morocco and black and gray paste-paper over boards, gilt author and title on upper cover. [13] pp., 7 etchings (6 pencil-signed). In original red linen clamshell box with gilt black morocco author/title and publisher's labels at spine, author/title label on upper cover. CONDITION: Fine. One of fifty special copies out of a total edition of 325, all numbered and signed by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. With six portrait etchings of Baldwin on various papers, each signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, and an etching of a pomegranate printed in red. From the colophon: "Three hundred & twenty-five copies of 'Gypsy & Other Poems' were printed by The Gehenna Press during the Spring of 1989. The poems are copyrighted by David Baldwin. The special casting of Centaur was made by Harold Berliner's Typefoundry at Nevada City, Calif. The presswork was achieved at Wild Carrot letterpress of Hadley, Mass. The etchings have been printed from… Read More

[Leeds, Massachusetts]: The Gehenna Press, 1989. 4to, gray paste-paper over light gray cloth spine with gray paste paper over boards, gilt-stamped red morocco title labels on spine and upper cover. [13] pp., 2 etchings, colophon. Pencil signed. One of 325 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. Copy #161. With a portrait etching of Baldwin printed on blue paper and an etching of a pomegranate printed in red. From the colophon: "Three hundred & twenty-five copies of 'Gypsy & Other Poems' were printed by The Gehenna Press during the Spring of 1989. The poems are copyrighted by David Baldwin. The special casting of Centaur was made by Harold Berliner's Typefoundry at Nevada City, Calif. The presswork was achieved at Wild Carrot letterpress of Hadley, Mass. The etchings have been printed from the copperplates. The edition is arranged as follows: copies numbered 1-50 have a portfolio of etched portraits, signed & numbered by the artist and are specially bound; copies 51-325 have a… Read More

Worcester: Thomas and Sturvtevant 1807. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 5.25"), original full calf. Frontis. port., vii, 552 pp. Early ownership inscription of "Curtis Stearns" in ink at front pastedown. CONDITION: Good, worn binding, .5" crack at front foot of spine, .25" loss at head of spine, dampstain on front pastedown and preliminaries, ink impression on ffep of ownership inscription, 2" tear at foot of pp. 1, light foxing throughout. First edition of this popular early biography of George Washington, written by important Congregationalist Minister and American Antiquarian Society founder Aaron Bancroft. Published just eight years after the death of George Washington, this biography emerged from Aaron Bancroft's wish to provide "the great body of his countrymen" an accessible, one-volume "memorial" of the man "who was preeminently distinguished as Soldier and a Statesman." Bancroft, who graduated from Harvard in 1778 and was present as a minuteman at the battles of Lexington and Concord, settled in… Read More

Memphis, TN; Camp Well near Memphis; and Benton Barracks in St. Louis: 14 February-4 November 1864. Six 8vo letters (9.75" x 7.5" to 8" x 5"). A total of 20 pp. of manuscript. 1 original envelope included. Three letters include writing from both brothers. CONDITION: Good to fair, one letter with a 2.75" tear along old horizontal fold (but no losses to the text), one letter dampstained, two small holes to two letters with partial losses to a few words. An engaging group of six Civil War letters written by two brothers to their parents. Both brothers saw action in the pivotal 1864 Battle of Nashville, and one later died from wounds received there. Born in McDonough County, Illinois, Joseph Gilmer Banning (1843-1908) and Pinkney "Pink" Asa Banning (1845-1865) moved to Kansas as children with their parents in the mid 1850s after Kansas Territory was created in 1854 with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Their parents, Ephraim (1819-1878) and Louisa Banning (1817-1887), moved the family to a farm… Read More

Crawfordsville, Indiana: Wabash College, 1949. Hardcover. Sm 4to (11.25" x 8.75"), brown cloth, leather label at spine. xviii, 352 pp. CONDITION: Very good, worn extremities, soiling to bottom edge of text-block.

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1775. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5"), original full calf, raised bands, red morocco lettering piece at spine, later paper author label at spine. [i-xii], 574 pp., [18] pp. Bookplate of "Henry Wood Lothrop" on front pastedown. Early ownership inscription in ink on front and back endpapers of "Ebenezer Thornton" with an accompanying manuscript family register of the "Thorntons" with nine entries on the front and verso of ffep and repeated on back free endpaper. CONDITION: Good ex-library, worn cover with cracked front hinge, front cover coming loose, head of spine-edge chipped, library call number on paper label at upper left corner of front cover, two ink library stamps at title, residue of library pocket at rear pastedown. "Ninth edition in English. " Quaker Ebenezer Thornton was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, in 1742, and married Martha (Keith) Cornell (b. 1753) in Scituate in 1767. The couple had five children, all of whom are listed in the family register.… Read More

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), pictorial green cloth. Frontis. port., [4], 230 pp., 15 b&w plates. CONDITION: Near fine in very good dust jacket with some fading and toning at edges and a few small losses at corners. First edition, later printing (but same year). This work is based on Barker's time as a steamboat captain, sporting camp owner, river driver, etc. in Maine's Rangeley Lakes region. Chapters include "The Indian Chief Metalluk," "First Experience in Logging," "Guiding Days," "Camp Bemis and the Birches," "Experiences on the Ice," "Camp Life as it Was," and "Some Old-Time Lumbermen's Songs." Barker also wrote Hunting and Trapping on the Upper Magalloway River (1882).

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), pictorial green cloth. Frontis. port., [4], 230 pp., 15 b&w plates. Original dust jacket with recent dj cover.CONDITION: Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition, later printing (but same year). This work is based on Barker's time as a steamboat captain, sporting camp owner, river driver, etc. in Maine's Rangeley Lakes region. Chapters include "The Indian Chief Metalluk," "First Experience in Logging," "Guiding Days," "Camp Bemis and the Birches," "Experiences on the Ice," "Camp Life as it Was," and "Some Old-Time Lumbermen's Songs." Barker also wrote Hunting and Trapping on the Upper Magalloway River (1882).

Paris, 1915. Folio, original mule hide with hand-painted Celtic knot and war cross with horse figures design. Illuminated calligraphic manuscript of 38 pp., with 19 original watercolors, including title-page illus., 1 full-page illus., 14 large head-pieces, 2 illus. in text, and 1 tail-piece; watercolor border designs and initials. A unique and truly delightful Arts & Crafts illumination of an account of the pursuit and capture of wild horses in Nevada, calligraphed, illustrated, and bound by San Francisco artist Otis Oldfield. This seems to be the only example in book form of horse-breaker Charles "Pete" Barnum's vivid, first-hand account of this quintessential western subject. It was originally published in the August, 1908 issue of Sunset magazine. Oldfield created this manuscript while living in France during World War I, where he was for a time under the tutelage of a French bookbinder. In 1926, he added a note to an endpaper explaining that "The material covering this book is the original… Read More

New York: the Museum of Modern Art, 1936. Hardcover. Sm 4to (10 x 7.75"), green cloth. 248 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Very good, 1" white paint streak on spine, light discoloration to covers, offsetting to endpapers and pastedowns, otherwise clean and bright interior, sound binding. One of "three thousand copies of this catalog...printed for the Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in December, 1936.

City of Mexico, New York City, 1903. 8vo, green cloth, gilt title on front cover. [19], 186 pp., [24] pp., numerous b&w illus., ads, 1 p. map. A substantial and interesting guide to early 20th c. Mexico City, with practical, historical, and cultural information on "Manana Land." The street "Map of the Central Portion of the City of Mexico" shows the Alameda at its center, with the Plaza de Armas, the Plaza Republica and the Estacion F. C. Center along the north, and the National Palace and Cathedral in the South. Illustrations include numerous market scenes, country workers carrying impossibly large loads of corn husks, pottery and the like to the city; Mexican horsemen, churches and historic sites, panoramic views; group shots of families, "peons," pulgue gatherers, wedding processions; bull-fighting, art, mechanical systems, town buildings; and a portrait with printed signature of Porfirio Díaz by H. F. Schlattman.Barrett observes the following: "The Mexican Indians are, on the whole, a… Read More

Printed at Boston, by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, Faust's Statue, No. 45, Newbury Street, MDCCXCII [1792]. Sm 4to (8.5" x 7"), self-wrappers. [1-5], 6-40 pp. Early owner inscription in ink on upper wrapper: "Honble William Baylies Esq Dighton." Inscription in ink on p. 15: "Governor Bowdoin." CONDITION: Good, some curling to edges of a few leaves, occasional foxing and moderate stains. Bartlett reports on techniques for reviving or re-animating persons thought to be no longer breathing. The Acts of Incorporation for the Society appear in an appendix. William Baylies (1776-1865) of Dighton, Mass. was an attorney and U.S. Representative. He served as a Federalist in the 13th and 14th Congresses (1813-1817) and an anti-Jacksonian in the 23rd Congress (1833-1835). REFERENCES: Evans, 24078; Austin 132.

New York: The Viking Press, 1982. Hardcover, dj. 4to (14" x 10"), green cloth, gilt upper cover. [4], 5 -123 pp., [3]., numerous color illus., musical scores, text in Hebrew and English. CONDITION: Near fine, dj with slight wear.

[Northampton, MA:] The Gehenna Press, 1976. Imperial 8vo (11.625" x 8.25"), marbled paper spine and boards, black morocco lettering piece at spine with gilt author/title/press. 6 blank leaves; [1] title p.; [3] quotation from St. Bernard of Clairvaux; [5-39] drawings; [41] colophon with pressmark; 5 blank leaves. Bookplate of Wyman Parker at lower left corner of front paste-down. Printed and typed receipt from The Gehenna Press for Wyman W. Parker, dated 21 March 1977 laid in. CONDITION: Covers very good, slight wear to extremities; contents near fine. A marvelously captivating book of monsters. The text consists solely of a passage from St. Bernard of Clairvaux, which serves as a sort of preface. This is copy #30 of 450 numbered copies. REFERENCES: Baskin, The Gehenna Press : The Work of Fifty Years, 79.

New Haven: [Yale University], 1967. Verona: Officina Bodoni. Hardcover with gray paper board slipcase. 8vo (9.5" x 6.25"), half brown morocco, gray paper over boards, 28 pp. Previous owner bookplate on front paste-down. CONDITION: Near fine, light rubbing at spine-edges; slipcase fine. Limited to 300 copies. This copy number 159. Color frontis. after William Blake.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo, viii, [64]. First edition. Baumel's first book. Winner of the 1987 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Fine/Fine.

Portland: The Thurston Print, 1900. Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series. Hardcover. 8vo (9.25" x 6.25"), black cloth, gilt spine title. xvi, 526 pp. Early ownership inscription in ink on flyleaf, " Willis W. Washburn." CONDITION: Good, insect damage to head of spine and front cover, 1 cm tear to foot of spine (no loss), cracked front inner hinge, binding generally sound. A collection of documents from 1641-1689 pertaining to Maine legal history, including petitions, court orders, letters, and surveys.

Portland: The Thurston Print, 1897. Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series. Hardcover. 8vo (9.25" x 6.25"), black cloth, gilt spine title. xvi, 556 pp. CONDITION: Good, spine cocked and lightly sunned, partial cracking of inner front hinge, sound binding. A collection of Maine documents in facsimile, including depositions, military orders, commissions, letters and petitions in chronological order from 1689 to 1701.

Portland: Brown, Thurston & Company, 1889. Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series. Hardcover. 8vo (9.25" x 6.25"), black cloth, gilt spine title. xvi, 506 pp. CONDITION: Good, spine sunned and somewhat cocked, wear at extremities, endpapers foxed, sound binding. A collection of seventeenth-century Maine documents in facsimile including depositions, letters and petitions, in chronological order from 1629 to 1689.