Search Results: Authors starting with B from acornbooks

London, Great Britain: Hamish Hamilton, 1985 Slight fading along lower edges of boards and light rubs at spine ends. No prev. owner name. DJ with slight rubs at edges and a few scuff marks on surface of rear panel. B&W drawings at beginning of each chapter (illustrator not identified).

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1926 Rubs to extremities, light soiling, short tear on front cover, and 1 inch separation tear of covers from lower end of spine. Covers secure with three binding staples. Lightly penciled children's markings on several pages. No missing pages or text. Illus. in color and blue tone and white.

San Francisco, California: A Byzantium Book / Chronicle Books, 1994 Audio tape is unused, new. Book and tape in Fine slipcase box. Shrinkwrap on slipcase opened only for author's signature, which Nick Bantock has signed on both inside spine panel of box and on title page of book. "...twenty-three playful and savage poems about the social life of animals and their humans" (from the rear cover of book) written, illustrated in color and performed by Bantock. Tape is 30 min. and companion book is 60 pp.

New York, New York: A Byzantium Book / Viking, 1993 Rubs to corners of boards. No prev. owner name. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. A mystery and picture-puzzle book illus. in color with Nick Bantock's fantastic eclectic style.

Latham, New York: Paris Review Editions / British American Publishing, 1989 Incomplete crease at upper corner of front cover and first page. Tiny bit of rub to corners and spine ends.

New York, New York: The Art Institute of Chicago / Thames and Hudson, 1991 DJ in plastic cover. Illus. in color and B&W. Published in conjunction with a retrospective of Puryear's work with exhibitions in Chicago, Washington, D. C., Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Incl. Catalogue of the Exhibition, Chronology, Exhibition History, and Selected Biblio. 160 pp. Large heavy book.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005 Fine. DJ in plastic cover. Signed by Buzz Bissinger on the title page (without personalization). Incl. A Note on Sources, and Index. (xxi) 280 pp.

New York, New York: Random House, 2012 Fine. No 'winner' logo on front panel of DJ. Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2012 by editors of The New York Times Book Review. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Winner of the 2013 PEN Literary Award (John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction), 'Signed' by Katherine Boo with her personal stamp as per her usual form of 'signing'. (xxii) 256 pp.

New York, New York: Viking, 1998 Hint of rubs to lower edges of boards, otherwise Fine. DJ in plastic cover. Review Copy with publisher's review info laid in.

New York, New York: Viking, 1998 Light rubs to lower edges of boards and softening of spine ends. DJ with rubs at corners and spine ends. DJ in plastic cover.

New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009 Fine. DJ in plastic cover. Illus. with B&W photos. Indexed. 707 pp. Heavy book.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010 Small light smudge at leading edge of dedication page, otherwise Fine. Incl. 5 photographs and 8 maps in B&W, and A Chronological List of Arctic Explorations, 1818-1880, Sources, Biblio and Index. (xvi) 441 pp.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1986 Rubs to corners and lower edges. 1/4 inch tear lower corner of front cover at spine. Light soil at edges of text block. No prev. owner name. Signed by Berke Breathed on the half-title page. Cartoons in both B&W and color.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1985 Slight rub at spine ends, and a 1/2 inch tear at tail of spine. No prev. owner name. Signed by Berke Breathed with signature only on the title page. Most cartoons in B&W, some in color. 120 pp.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1994 Black rem. mark on lower edge of text block near spine. Hint of rubs at corners of covers. No prev. owner name. Signed by Berke Breathed on the half-title page. Illus. in color.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1987 Light rubs at corners and edges of covers and light soil at edges of pages. No prev. owner name. Signed on the title page. Most cartoons in B&W, some in color. 45 rpm plastic record intact and bound-in between pages 10 and 11. Plus, extra record laid-in.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1989 Slight curl to lower corner of front cover. No prev. owner name or markings. Smell-O-Toons page intact between pages 74 and 75. Signed by Berke Breathed on the half-title page. Most cartoons in B&W, some in color.

New York, New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1995 Slight bump to lower corners of boards; light rubs to corners, lower edges and spine ends. A few pages near the end with a tiny tan stain at top edge. No prev. owner name. DJ with light rubs to corners and ends of spine panel, and slight darkening at upper edges of endflaps. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Author's first book. Incl. Glossary, Selected Biblio and Index. (xi) 255 pp.

New York, New York: A Del Rey Book / Ballantine Books, 1997 Slight rub to lower corners of boards and light rubs to spine ends. DJ with slight rubs to corners. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. A fantasy novel of good and evil played out in the theater of the present and real world.

New York, New York: A Del Rey Book / The Ballantine Publishing Group, 2000 Hint of rub to corners of boards, otherwise Fine. DJ with hint of rub to corners and tiny superficial scratch at tail of spine panel. Signed by Terry Brooks on title page. Endpapers are illus. with maps.