Search Results: Authors starting with B from DuBois Rare Books

Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little Brown, 1996. First North American Edition, First Printing So Stated. Hardcover. 288 p. Includes index. : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm. 4to. "This publication accompanies the touring exhibition Der geduldige Planet : eine Weltgeschichte in 255 Fotos : du 1941 bis 1995 (The patient planet : a world history in 255 photos : du 1941 to 1995), which opened in September 1995 in Holderbank, Aargau, Switzerland"--T.p. verso. Book Condition: Remainder mark on top edge. Some bumping to the edges of the covers else fine. Dust Jacket Condtion: Very Good with mild shelf wear to the extremities.

London: Collins, 1964. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm. 12mo. Hardcover. Publisher's original patterned blue cloth over boards, shiny silver lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities, shallow chipping to spine ends. Robert Bain ; enlarged and re-edited by Margaret O. Macdougall ; heraldic adviser, P.E. Stewart-Blacker; with a foreword by the Countess of Erroll.

London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd, 1998. First Edition, First Printing with no additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 190pp. Octavo. Hardcover. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. Book condition: Gently pushed at foot of spine else fine. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good+. Mildly rubbed with an edge curl here and there. Beryl Bainbridge was the past recipient of the Whitbread Prize, twice. Her work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, she won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker, and at least five of her novels have been adapted for the screen (or made into movies, as we say in the states).

New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: One World, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 217 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original paper over boards. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities. A sharp copy. Contents: Notes of a native American: The story of a friendship in black and white / Sol Stein -- The correspondence: Mainly concerning the editing and publication of Notes of a Native Son / Sol Stein -- Erasing history / Sol Stein -- "Dark runner" / Sol Stein and James Baldwin -- Equal in Paris / Sol Stein and James Baldwin.

London: Harper Collins, UK, 2005. First UK Edition (True first edition). First Printing with full number line. Hardcover. 372 pages. Black paper over boards stamped on spine with copper gilt. Light pencil marking of dealer inventory number on free endpaper, 1" abrasion to front edge of front board else Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Correct price of £18.99 intact on DJ. A near pristine copy of author's well received first novel. No remainder marks, no bumping, bright and tight binding, square tips and apparently unread.

New York: Freundlich Books, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 329 p. ; 24 cm. Orange paper over boards, gilt spine lettering. Book has gently pushed spine ends else fine. Dust jacket is bright and intact with mild rubbing to panels.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking. 591 pages illustrations (some color) portraits. 26 cm. 4to. Hardcover. Publisher's original quarter-cloth and paper over boards, black lettering to spine, facsimile of artist's initials in gilt to upper cover. Book Condition: wear to spine ends and corners with boards peeking through corners; interior unmarked and pristine, binding solid. Dust Jacket Condition: sections laid in in pieces. A comprehensive biographical and critical assessment of Matisse's life and work, incorporates many of the artist's own evaluations of his creative anxieties and difficulties and examines public and critical reaction to his work over the years.

New York: DelMonico Books, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/None Issued. 121 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. Tall 4to. Photo-pictorial paper over boards. Book Condition: Very Good+; some finger soiling to covers, one bonked corner else fine. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Sharon Lockhart / Noa Eshkol, organized by the Israel Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Copiously illustrated with many full color plates.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 154pp. 24cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original maroon cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: none issued. A sharp copy. Reprint of 1908 edition published as part of Burt Franklin bibliography & reference series, 147.

New York: Putnam, 1981. Uncorrected Proof for Limited Distribution. Wraps. Near Fine. 457 p. 21cm. Light lavender colored wraps. Book Condition: Near fine; with light toning to spine, an almost invisible crease to upper corner of front panel and some smudge to lower edge of text block. Publisher's specs on front cover list page count of 464 though for this proof 457 pages is correct. Barthelme's collector cachet is low compared to his importance as a great American writer. Two theories why this might be so: 1) An entire generation of collectors who might otherwise have pursued his work had the bad luck of encountering "The Dead Father" (Barthelme's second novel) as their first exposure to the author's work and never recovered. 2) Universal ignorance of how to pronounce the author's surname throws wet blanket over any collecting interest.

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First Edition, First Printing so stated with full number line. Hardcover. About Fine/Very Good +. p. 158. illus. b & w. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. Navy blue cloth over boards, gold spine lettering, gold crown stamped on front cover. Illustrated with Barry Moser woodcuts. Book Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, bit of curling to top edge, couple tips have a nick. A sharp copy of a nicely produced book.

[Emeryville, CA]: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. Bound Galley/Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Very Near Fine. 331 pp. 23cm. Softcover. Photo illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Very near fine. A rarity, this uncorrected proof. We've only ever seen this one. By Donald Barthelme ; edited and with a preface by Kim Herzinger. Barthelme (1931-1989) was one of the great 20th-century American absurdists. The 45 stories in this collection include stories Barthelme himself excluded from his two major collections and little that went previously unpublished. Winner of the National Book Award, Donald Barthelme published sixteen books, including City Life, one of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year, and Sixty Stories, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was a founder of the renowned University of Houston Creative Writing Program where he taught for many years. He died in 1989.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. [Uncorrected Proof]. Wraps. Very Good +. 118 p. Tall set of [Cranes] galleys in robin's egg blue cardboard wraps with paper label and blue lettering to front cover. Refered to on the cover as an "uncorrected proof" and on the label as "A set of galleys"; Crane Duplicating Service Inc. stamp on inside back cover (these proofs were known colloquially as "Cranes" within the publishing industry). Covers show some toning and label has two small scritches else Fine. Hand written pagination. These would be the second issue galleys, we've seen a different set with a date of 11/72 while the date typed onto the label of this set is the more specific Nov. 15, 1972. Scarce.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Publisher's Advance Preview. Loose sheets in a box. Advance promotional preview prepared by the publisher in anticipation of the publication of Barthelme's first book, "Come Back, Doctor Caligari", consisting of reproductions of the typescript of two stories plus the publisher's title / explanation page. Loose Sheets in a publisher's red box, pages printed (mimeographed) on one side only, 8.5" x 11". 18 pages and 17 pages respectively. Publisher's label to box top. Box Condition: A bit banged around with a bruise or two, small closed tear to edge of bottom box being the worst of it, mild finger soiling to white label; overall the box top is solid and doing its job well. Pages Condition: Near Fine, with an occasional light crease from handling, bright and clean.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition, First Printing so stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. viii, 183 p. ; 21 cm. Orange cloth over boards, gold spine lettering, dark charcoal grey spine lettering. Book Condition: about fine with gently pushed spine ends and a sticker ghost on the front pastedown. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good plus; unclipped with v. mild wear to extremities, superficial shelf wear to panels and a nic to the edges here and there; back flap creased on bottom edge. A one of kind copy signed by Nelson Algren with a fantastic gaudy great big example of his famed customary drawing of a cat. It's the Nelsen Algren cat to be sure but this one is much bigger than usual and is in purple and yellow marker, a rarity. Barthelme was a very vocal admirer of Algren's work, as was just about every other writer of his (Barthelme's) generation. Why Algren signed this copy of Barthelme's 9th book, and with such gusto, we may never know... we do know however that it's a… Read more

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. First Edition, first printing with full number line. Hardcover. About Fine/About Fine. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1984. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. 217pp.. Blue cloth and pumpkin colored paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. A sweet copy of Barthelme's first novel. Apparently unread.

New York: Counterpoint Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Barthelme's 13th work of fiction.

U.S.A.: Privately Printed, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. Unpaged. Chiefly color illustrations. 23 cm. 8vo. Hardcover. Original illustrated paper over boards. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None issued. Inscribed by Alexander Barton: "S-----, Good Glut & guten blut. Alexander Barton." A fascinating record of the 2010 collaboration of Barton and Anagnostis which includes an interview excerpt in the last few pages. Two event cards for Alexander Barton's November, 2010 exhibition "Hot Hide" enclosed. Scarce. Worldcat shows no record of this title. From the "Machines with Magnets" website: "COMEX OR BECAMUS by: ALEXANDER BARTON & ADAM ANAGNOSTIS Alexander Barton and Adam Anagnostis join forces in a genre-bending artistic collaboration. COMEX OR BECAMUS will be debuting at Machines With Magnets on Saturday, August 28th 2010. Barton, a RISD graduate, and Anagnostis, a URI graduate, have spent the last year and a half constructing COMEX OR BECAMUS, a… Read more

np [Leipzig, Germany]: United States. Army. 438th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, 1945. Staplebound Wraps. Good. 53 pp. 20cm. 8vo. Softcover staplebound wraps. Typewritten and copied. Rare publication about the service of the 438th Coast Artillery Battalion, Antiaircraft Artillery from 1942-1945 during World War II. Written in journal/diary form in chronological order by date. Includes a list of the enlisted men and officers. Book condition: Good only; leaves are very fragile due to likely high wood pulp content. Chipping throughout including a small chunk taken from text block edge about midway on fore edge, just barely affecting text. Leaves toned throughout. Seams either splitting or will soon. Still, completely intact and complete. World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States -- 438th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. From "WWII Letters to Wilma" blogspot, where they have kindly posted scans of the entire booklet: "The Route of the Question Mark recounts the journey of the… Read more