Search Results: Authors starting with B from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

This was only Nicholson Baker's second novel, in which he refines an early, signature style of entering someone's mind and following their drifting thoughts. In this case, a sleepy father muses over the aspects of his childhood, as memories randomly occur to him during his own baby's feeding time.
Hardcover, now somewhat rare.

New York: Random House. . Stated First printing. . Hardcover.. As New in fine, now in a DEMCO covered dust-jacket. . One of Nicholson Baker's most successful works to date as two lovers seduce eachother without actually meeting. A perfect copy of this modern classic.

First UK edition thus, later printing. Illustrated with drawings and 8 colour plates by Leo Bates.
From the Childrens' Illustrated Classics series produced by Dent Dutton comes the stirring tale of savages, pirates and missionaries seen through the eyes of three boy adventurers in the islands of the Pacific.
First produced in this format in 1949, this is a reprint from 1967. Hardcover.

This novel is a sequel to the author's 1984 novel Empire of the Sun.
Drawing on the author's boyhood in Shanghai during World War II, the novel presents a lightly fictionalized treatment of Ballard's life, through to adulthood in England.
Book and jacket are in very good condition, with slight aging to paper edges.

First printing, a fine copy, in second state dust jacket with six reviews on the rear panel.
A monumental war story, highly effective in the bluntness with which man's brutality is so casually described, through the eyes of a child.
Made into a powerful film by Stephen Spielberg.
Hardcover, with slight age tanning to pages and small owner name.

Possibly 1940s printing and probably missing a dust jacket, this still a rare example of one in a series of highly collectible books, produced by Bannerman, after her success with Little Black Sambo.
Book has slight faded patch to front. Internally clean.

Marvellous, rambling appreciation of Flaubert and his style.
Julian Barnes' best book, in my humble opinion, and getting scarcer to find.
Hardcover.

New York: Knopf, 2006. . First printing. . Hardcover.. As New in fine, now in a DEMCO covered dust-jacket. . A perfect copy of Barnes' imagined life of Conan Doyle and his era. SIGNED in the author's tiny fashion, on the title page.

Accompanying one of the first major exhibitions in America, this catalog of 464 works by 40 artists was a ground-breaking revelation.Featuring unknown works by Mark Chagall, Naum Gabo, Vasilii Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich, amongst many others, it also presented highlights from the collection of renowned Polish scholar Szymon Boyko, for the first time.

H. M. Bateman
The Evening Rise - Fifty Years of Fly Fishing
London: Duckworth, 1960.
First printing

A rare, late work by master cartoonist H. M. Bateman, who gently pokes fun at all fishermen, particularly himself.

Illustrated with a few of his drawings, and concerned with all aspects of social unease, which the English delight to apply to every situation.

Hardcover.

Fourth printing, from same year as the first.
An instant classic of comic country life, the adventures of the Larkin family have been delighting British readers since the 1950s.
This first installment defines their gypsy charms and semi-legal schemes for having a good time at the expense of their more respectable neighbors.
Jacket spine and corners show wear, otherwise a very good copy, with wrapper design by Broom Lynne.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. First paperback edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 334 pp. A huge catalog that accompanied the major retrospective of Zurbaran's work at The Metropolitan Museum and Grand Palais in Paris, in 1987. With photos of many of the sites that works come from and detailed analysis of the artist's career and contemporaries.

This old-fashioned adventure is a swashbuckling tale of life on the high seas at the end of the eighteenth century.
Georgina escapes her mad family by disguising herself as a boy and joining the British Navy.
Her adventures include a long voyage to the South Seas, under the command of Captain Cook and every type of adventure, except discovery.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2009. First American edition, third printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Simply the best and funniest thriller I have read for years, this debut novel by a real-life medical student is as ferociously comic as it is violent. A kind of Scrubs meets The Sopranos, it features a Mob cast and revolves around a Doctor's brilliant attempts to escape his own execution.

Beaton was at the center of world of fashion, theater, and film. He chronicled many aspects of the British Empire at war.
His diaries from this never-before-published decade are left unedited, although not without entertainingly waspish comment from his literary executor, Hugo Vickers.
Hardcover. 508 pp.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First edition thus.. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First published in 1940 in this collected edition with all the unique illustrations by B.T.B, as wellas new ones and an introduction by Quentin Blake. This immortal work contains Cautionary Tales for Children; New Cautionary Tales; A Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts for Worse Children; More Peers; A Moral Alphabet. Included are such favorites as Matilda, who told lies and was Burned to Death; Jim, who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a Lion; Rebecca, who slammed doors for Fun and perished Miserably; and the curiously instructive beasts who range from microbes to frozen mammoths. If you do not know whole chunks of this book by heart, then you should remedy that at once.

Revised collected edition, second printing.
Belloc's complete serious poetic output, and more importantly, the comic verse for which he is now chiefly remembered.
All the Cautionary Tales for children are here as well as The Modern Traveller.
296 pages.

Hardcover with jacket.

Signed by the author, without inscription, on the title page.
Bellow's last novel, after the author had received three National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1976, the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Book is fine. Jacket is clipped and has a Harvard Book Store Signed sticker to front cover.

This is a very good copy of Bemelmans' twelth novel, in which he returns to his native Tyrol and sets the simple folk of his childhood against the more sophisticated tourists who flock to the resort hotels on a mountain called the Eye of God.
A comic novel from the creator of the Madeline books.
Jacket has slight wear and fading to edges, otherwise clean. Hardcover.

Bemelmans's caustic tale of a celebrity pig in Hollywood allows him to poke fun at every level of the business.
No writer, producer, agent, star or director escapes his shrewd eye in this comic novel.
Chip to dust jacket spine and closed tear to front top.