Search Results: Authors starting with B from DuBois Rare Books

[Denver]: [Denver Art Museum], 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. About Fine. 28 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. 4to. Staplebound wraps. Book Condition: about fine. Brochure to accompany an exhibition by the Denver Art Museum concerned with basic elements of the visual world. The brochure and exhibit update and synthesize previous Museum publications and exhibits on the topic. Written and edited by Cile M. Bach. Description:.

New York: Broude Bros, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Very Good +. 30pp. 18cm. 12mo. Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book Condtion: upper cover dog eared at top corner, wear to extremities to both covers, chipping to spine, predominently at ends but all along, hinge to upper cover tender and calls for care in handling. PO name in red crayon to title page. Additional sheet laid in at back consisting of English translation of the cantata "made by Henry S. Drinker to be substituted word for word as indicted." Scarce. Based on the Bach-Gesellschaft edition.

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.

New York/London: Phaidon, 2001. A Phaidon 55 first printing. Wraps. Fine. 125 pp.. : ilustr. ; 16 cm. Square 24mo. Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book Condition: fine. This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Eugene Atget - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

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: A.J. Balaban Foundation, 1964. Memorial Edition [numbered and signed (not really) 5000 copy limitation]. Wraps. Very Good. 144 pages, 54 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; Includes index. 24 cm. Softcover. Stiff photo-illustrated wraps with French flaps. Book Condition: Very good with some evidence in the covers of being knocked around a bit, small stain to rear cover, spine a little bowed. Interior quite untouched and the binding is rock solid. (Parenthetically, we're sure that Ms. Baliban did not mean to mislead us, so the responsibility should really be ours to break the bad news that what Ms. Baliban must have meant by "Signed" was at best: "Stamped with my signature", or even more likely: "Printed with a facsimile of my signature." From the ffep: "Author's memorial edition CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE by Carrie Baliban." "This edition is limited to five thousand signed and numbered copies of which this is: 3395" Followed by (ahem) Carrie Balaban's signature. Sort of.

London: Nova Publications Ltd., 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Good +. Softcover. Perfectbound in wraps. Book Condition: Good only; with puckering to spine, wear to extremities. "The Day of the Triffids" film issue, with cover art and back pages featuring film stills and full credits. Film review inside. Ashcroft, John. E. C. Tubb.

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.

Wayne, NJ: Loaded Barrel Studios, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Fine. Unpaged. 27cm. 4to. Perfectbound illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Fine. A very sharp copy signed with initials in silver marker ink to front cover (though it's not certain which brother signed since both are J.B's). Not to be confused with 2007 comic book released at that year's Comicon. Art, Direction, Lettering, and Design by Jared Barel. Written by Jared and Jordan Barel. Photography by Jared Barel & Alex Goz. NOTE: ISBN numbers listed here and in book do not correspond to any such numbers registered with Worldcat.

North Adams, Massachusetts: Tupelo Press, 2015. Advance Reader's Copy of Paperback Original. Wraps. Fine. xi, 140 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Softcover. Illustrated glossy wraps. Book Condition: Fine. This is the Advance Reader's Copy with publisher's materials laid in. OCLC Number: 910073108 Description: Other Titles: Poems. Responsibility: by Tony Barnstone ; drawings by Amin Mansouri.

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: Random House, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. About Fine/Very Good. 308 pages ; 22 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original rust colored cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine; title stamped in blind to upper cover. Book Condition: a couple small faint splashes to edges, spine ends gently pushed, else fine; binding solid, silver spine lettering brilliant and fresh, almost certainly unread. Dust Jacket Condition: clipped, salt and pepper wear to tips and spine ends, almost imperceptible toning to the extreme 1/16" upper edge.

[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: 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.

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: 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: 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). Faint old paper clip mark to front cover and a couple interior pages. Covers show a tiny ding or two else Fine. Hand written pagination. These would be the first issue galleys, we've seen a different set with a date of typed onto the label of this set is the more specific Nov. 15, 1972 while this set simply states 11/72. Scarce, the definitive Barthleme bibliography estimates a scant 20 copies printed. From the Donald Barthleme bibliography (1977 Archon Books, Klinkowitz, Pieratt, & Davis): "Approximately twenty sets of galleys, set… Read More

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

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.