Search Results: Authors starting with B from Brief Street Books

A lovely gift, with worn dark red thin hard cover and gilt title to front and spine. Sun fading and wear to spine, slight loss to top of spine as seen, binding all good. Inscription on front flyleaf, otherwise no markings. Twelfth edition, with 14 maps and 21 plans. 1897, 418 pages.

Near fine softcover, 159 pages, gatefold cover.

A graphic novel (illustrated comic form) about four girls going to a religious high school in a small town in middle American. Friendships, business dealings, adventure, romance, LGBTQ+ themes. Gorgeous book.

Gorgeous graphic primer by illustrator Molly Bang on composing an image/illustration. Both the language and layout are wonderful in describing art and psychology - a great book. This is the sixth printing of the first edition, printed in 2010 and in very good condition indeed.

Omnibus Edition with all the original pictures by B.T.B., plus introduction and new pictures by Quentin Blake. 357 pages. In very good condition.

Paperback first edition in very good condition, slightest curve to top right cover corner, see photo, 88 pages.

Includes tributes by Annan, Hampshire, Margalit, Williams and Kelly. 141 pages. Near fine book in very good dust jacket.

First paperback, as was published originally 1999 UK Chatto & Windus. Text of Berlin's Mellon Lectures delivered in Washington DC in 1965. 171 pages. Very good condition, no marks at all internally.

76 numbered pages. With foreword by Margaret Thatcher. A book published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Kharitonenko Mansion. Bi-lingual book in English and Russian, with photographic illustrations. A time capsule and bound to be collector's piece! Near fine hardcover in very good dust jacket, first edition. Few in institutional libraries.

Printed 20 December 1934. Les Cinq Dernières Journées is the second volume of the famed Brunelleschi illustrated version of the Decameron with their erotic content. Wonderful condition as seen in photos, perfect for a collector or bookseller looking to complete the set. Softcover in very good+ condition.

2 volumes, 487 and 649 pages. Each 18 x 11 cm. Written in 1958, a view of America from 60 years ago. In very good condition, slight wear to covers as seen.

In French, Translated from the Italian by Jean-Marie Van der Meerschen. Includes photographic illustrations of Hora and Van de Velde. 29 gorgeous photographic illustrations in colour, 221 black and white including architectural plans and more. Summaries in English provided. Oversize hardcover in very good/Near fine condition, with dust jacket in only good condition as having a few intact tears to the front cover and a triangular section missing to back cover, 2 cm x 4 cm. 260 pages.

375 pages. Edited and abridged by Christopher Hibbert, based on the 1799 edition. Frontispiece drawing from National Portrait Gallery London. In very good condition, no markings or writing.

Hardcover, without slipcase, in very good condition. With pictorial binding. Folio Society edition. 365 pages.

First edition and printing from Ace Books Limited. Red and white card cover with photo of Bowen to front. In very good condition. With cover quotes by V.S. Pritchett and Lord David Cecil, and half title verso ad for Between the Acts by Woolf, also by Ace. 125 pages with ads for Ace books at rear. 15 short stories.

1970 printing of the 1968 edition. In very good condition with distinctive bright cover. No markings, tiny crease to rear cover bottom corner. 655 pages including index, plus 6 catalogue pages to back. Translated from the German by CV Wedgewood.

Very good softcover, 47 pages, published to accompany exhibition at The National Gallery.

1974 Third Printing. Very good hardcover edition in dust jacket. Sun fading to edge of right side of front jacket and edge of cloth binding, see photo. Full page reproductions in landscape format, 206 pages.

Very good hardcover in very good jacket. Full and double page photographs, with poems in Norwegian and translated into English. Some creasing, minor tear and edge wear to dust jacket, see photo. 173 pages. A beautiful gift.

First edition, flat signed on title page by Bryson, of this modern classic. Very good book in very good jacket, with blue illustrated endpapers, initial map page and author photo to back flap. Wonderful gift.