Search Results: Authors starting with B from Underground Books, ABAA

Saint Laurent, Monaco: Monte-Carlo Productions, 2006. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 11". 247pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges. Light crease to spine. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. A highly presentable copy of this book of photography on automobiles and racing by French photographer, Rouffignac.B.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10" X 7". xix, 601pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Description logics are embodied in several knowledge-based systems and are used to develop various real-life applications. Now in paperback, The Description Logic Handbook provides a thorough account of the subject, covering all aspects of research in this field, namely: theory, implementation, and applications. Its appeal will be broad, ranging from more theoretically oriented readers, to those with more practically oriented interests who need a sound and modern understanding of knowledge representation systems based on description logics. As well as general revision throughout the book, this new edition… Read More

Gemenos: Alixe, 1998. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 11 1/2" X 7 3/4". 95pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Bumps to bottom edges of front and rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A clean, solid copy of this collection of erotic/BDSM art.

San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 359pp. Stated first edition. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Gentle bump to top corner of brown paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A highly presentable first printing of this debut novel by Paolo Bacigalupi, a masterwork of biopunk science fiction, and the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an… Read More

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1935. Leather_bound. Good +. Leather_bound. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". 231pp. Half bound in red calfskin leather with marbled paper over boards. Four raised bands to spine with two gilt compartments. Mild wear to boards with rubbing to covers and edges and gentle bumps to corners. Top edge gilt. Light toning and dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Text is in Swedish. Original 1935 text in leather binding, not a reproduction. In 1935, Backman wrote the popular science The Human Races and Modern Racial Problems, which is for the most part an overview of the knowledge of the time about physical differences between the races, their origin and spread. In the chapter Psychological Differences Between the Different Human Races, he seeks to demonstrate that these differences are rather small and that notions of the superiority of the European races above all others are unfounded. He refers instead to… Read More

Boston: Godine, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Joan Baez in ink at front endpaper. First Edition, First Printing. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 157pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in red paper over boards with spine and front cover lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her art, this collection is an inspiring personal diary in the form of poetry. While Baez has been writing poetry for decades, she's never… Read More

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 434pp. Signed by Julianna Baggott at title page and dated 2/8/12. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. MIld shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket. Black paper over boards, with spine backed in black and lettered in white. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A beautiful signed first printing of the first in Julianna Baggott's dystopian trilogy by the same name.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". xviii, 429pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of green paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: First published in 1993, this book is based on two years of intensive field study in Kruger National Park in South Africa. Ted Bailey examines leopard population characteristics, activity and habitat use patterns, movements, feeding ecology, and social organization, and provides new information on leopard mortality, scavenging, and relationships to other large predators and to humans. Illustrated with photographs, maps, graphs, charts, and tables. For professional wildlife biologists, students, and others concerned with the natural history of large carnivores.(Publisher).

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/8". xxxii, 703pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in dark green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with hard bumping to corners, chipping and fraying to head and tail of spine, and scattered rubbing or faint dampstains to cloth in places. Previous owner's name and old prices to front free endpapers. Hint of spine at gutter of Preface; text block rather shaken. Binding remains sound. Age-toning to pages throughout, else unmarked. The Senses and the Intellect, together with its follow-up The Emotions and the Will, cemented Bain as a major contributor to the emerging field of psychology, and his insistence on psychological explanations rooted in physiology proved to be part of Bain's enduring influence, predating the development of experimental psychology and behaviorism that would come in the following century. This… Read More

New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc, 1964. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good +. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Ten Volume Set. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". Mild shelf wear to green cloth over boards with sunning and toning to spines and gentle bumps to some corners and edges. Light dust-spotting to top edges of text blocks, and spots of soiling and mild discoloration from use to some volumes. Stamp from West Georgia Library to edges of text blocks. Ink marks to pages 11 and 15 in Volume 1; otherwise pages of set are clean and unmarked. Bindings of all 10 volumes remain sound. An overall clean, solid collection on The History of the English Novel. SET INCLUDES: Volume 1: The Age of Romance: from the Beginnings to the Renaissance Volume 2: The Elizabethan Age and After Volume 3: The Later Romances and the Establishment of Realism Volume 4: Intellectual Realism: from Richardson to Sterne Volume 5: The Novel of Sentiment and the Gothic Romance Volume 6: Edgeworth, Austen, Scott Volume 7: The Age of Dickens and Thackeray Volume 8:… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". ix, 168pp. Mild rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Light toning to edges of text block. Erased penciled notation at front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. "The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to life -eighty-six Texas ghost towns for the reader's pleasure. Baker lists three criteria for inclusion: tangible remains, public access, and statewide coverage. In each case Baker comments about the town's founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. There are maps and instructions for reaching each site and numerous photographs showing the past and present status of each. The contemporary photos were taken, in most instances, by Baker himself, who proves as adept a photographer as he is researcher and… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1921. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 276pp. Ex-First Church Sabbath School Library of New Britain, with label to front pastedown and card and envelope to rear free endpaper. Green cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in gilt. Spine sunned and gilt rubbed away to spine. Corners bumped and rubbed to boards, chipping to head and tail of spine, moderate edgewear, and scattered rubbing to binding. Bookseller label to front pastedown. Both hinges cracking. Spine visible at several pages, with some pages starting to come loose. Dogear creases to pages throughout, with occasional spot of foxing, toning, or soiling, with no losses. All plates by Charles Livingston Bull present. An admittedly quite worn but charming 1920s copy of Olaf Baker's novel of a feral child raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest.

New York: Lane & Scott, 1852. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 6" X 4". 271pp. Embossed red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in gilt. Moderate edgewear and soiling to binding, with open tears at head and tail of spine, bumping to corners, and rippling to boards and pages due to water damage. All edges gilt. Soiling to bottom edge of text block. Hinges a touch tender. Previous owner's name pencilled to front free endpaper. Binding remains sound. Heavy foxing to pages throughout, occasional unobtrusive dampstains to margins, else unmarked. A worn but quite solid copy of this exploration of ways and means of fulfilling evangelical duty by Sarah Schoonmaker Tuthill Baker (1824-1906), who wrote many popular Christian children's books under the penname of 'Aunt Friendly.'.

Camden: Briar Patch Press, 1987. Leather_bound. Poor. Leather_bound. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx, 606pp. Rather heavy wear to brown leather over boards with rubbing, bumps, toning, and scuffs to covers, corners, and edges. Hinges are cracked with leather missing in some places. Boards are slightly warped. Three raised bands to spine. Gilt stamping at spine and front cover is rubbed and faded in some spots. Spotting and toning to all-edges gilt. Foxing to endpapers. Faint musty smell to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Orange silk bookmark sewn in. Binding is sound. Due to its heavy wear this volume is a reading copy only. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sir Samuel Baker writes in his introduction, "This being a concise summary of the Nile system, I shall describe twelve months' exploration, during which I examined every individual river that is tributary to the Nile from Abyssinia." But how can you resist a book that includes such chapter sub-headings as "Save me from my Friends" or "Pest Spots of the World"?… Read More

New York: Routledge, 2015. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10" X 7". xxiii, 500p. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us. The purpose of this book is to map the research terrain of entrepreneurship, providing the perfect starting point for new and existing researchers looking to explore. Topics covered range from emerging perspective, through issues at the core of the field to innovative methodologies. Starting off with a preface by Bill Gartner, each section of the book brings together a world class set of established leading researchers and rising stars. This considered, comprehensive and conclusive companion integrates the… Read More

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xxiii, 484pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.(Publisher).

Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". v, 332pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Bump to head of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for Viktor Duvakin, Mayakovsky scholar, fellow academic, and head of an oral history project, who in 1973 taped six interviews with Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source of Bakhtin's personal views: on formative moments in his education and exile, his reaction to the Revolution, his impressions of political, intellectual, and theatrical figures during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and his non-conformist opinions on Russian and Soviet poets and… Read More

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 306pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in gray paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A haunting mystery about lost girls and the woman driven to find them, from the author of the contemporary classic Lives of the Monster Dogs. Anna Fort wants to be a supportive wife, even if that means accompanying her husband for the winter of 1918 to a remote, frozen island estate so he can finish his book as the guest of an eccentric millionaire. When she learns three girls are missing from a school run by their host, Anna realizes finding them is up to her even if that means risking her husband's career, and possibly her life. Her… Read More

West Chester: Story Line Press, 2010. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 9" X 5 1/2". viii, 85pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Winner of the 2010 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems incorporates pop culture and references the monsters and heroes of horror films, science fiction novels and television series. The father of modern horror, Edgar Allan Poe, himself provides a thread running through this book-length meditation on adoption and identity, on love and heartbreak, alienation and belonging.(Publisher).

New York: Warner Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 420pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of white paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Two ex-Secret Service agents must face a dark world of violence, codes, and spies at a secret CIA training camp in this #1 New York Times bestseller about a mystery that could destroy the nation. Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, ex-Secret Service agent Sean King encounters a dark world of mathematicians, codes, and spies. His search for answers soon leads him to more shocking violence-and an autistic girl… Read More