Search Results: Titles starting with B from Monkey House Books

New York: Golden Press, 1964. Softcover, stapled picture book. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated by Craig M. Pineo. A Golden Shape Book. For young children to learn the names of baby animals and some of the things they do. Moderate wear & tear.

Racine: Golden Press, Western Publishing Company, 1979 [1956]. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Classic cute animal illustrations by Williams. Wear to covers, especially spine and corners, text pages unmarked.

Brooklyn: Albert T. Huntington, 1908. Olive cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrated. First issued June 1908. Covers pregnancy through age 2, general care, dietary, illnesses, record-keeping. Includes a mother's inked memoranda of her 1913 infant.150 pages. Covers worn, frayed, soiled, lightening at spine. Some toning and light spotting to pages.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1963. Hardcover pictorial boards. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated by Mary Jane Chase. Short rhymes and large print for young children or early readers. Learn the names of a child's animal toys through simple rhymes. Cute, charming pictures. A Rand McNally Junior Elf Book. Spine torn at base, small gift inscription on fep. 39-cent cover price.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition fine. 209 pages, crease in jacket flap. Personal essay collection about being a modern, single 30-something woman. By the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles. Most were originally published in various periodicals including Elle and the New York Times. First trade edition.

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Political and philosophical dialogue between two 20th century humanists, with thoughtful and reasoned discourse on the tangled world of the 1960s. Both men were eminent lawyers and discussed the pressing issues of the day. Signed and inscribed on the ffep by Ernst; inscription refers to voting in the June 23 Primary. Privately printed, 123 pages. Wear & small tears to jacket. Ernst, 1888-1976, was an attorney for the ACLU who promoted the right to privacy and freedom from censorship.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1967. Hardcover pictorial boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illustrated by Dorothy Grider. After going to the circus, a pair of children enlists the help of their friends (and pets) to put on a circus of their own. Rand McNally Publishers, educationally sound, A Start-Right Elf Book. 39 cent cover price. Brief gift inscription on fep, else very good, clean and bright.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Fourth Edition. 548 pages. Well-illustrated with figures. Overview of the subject, with some chapters on disease. Spine darkened, edges & corners worn & frayed. Endpapers and pages darkened. Some creasing, dog-ears. Owner's name inked on ffep.

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. BCE, book club edition with insert, Summer 1975 Selection. 88 pages, slight age-darkening to jacket spine. Opened in the spring of 1974 directed by Robert Drivas and starring F. Murray Abraham and Cynthia Harris. McNally, 1938-2020, was a librettist and screenwriter whose awards and honors include 5 Tony Awards, induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame, American Academy of Arts & Letters, and the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Acheivement Award.

Prentice-Hall, Inc., [no date, c.1990s]. Softcover. Good. Map NOT included. English translation by James Hogarth. 256 pages.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [no date]. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Foldout road map. 200+ color photos. Corners lightly bumped.

New York: Bantam Books, 1983. Hardcover, black boards. Fine/Dust Jacket condition very good. Cover illustration by Hiram Richardson. Murder/suspense novel set in a small city in Southern California, written by a forensic scientist & criminalist. 337 pages. Binding tight, light wear to jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Hardcover, olive green cloth boards. Good. Tragic love story of a Virginia aristocrat of 1800. 371 pages, ex-library with card pocket. By the author of Cytherea and Java Head. Hergesheimer, 1880-1950, was a popular early 20th century American writer.

Naples, 1945. No binding. Very Good. British Army Welfare Services present The Ballet Russe starring Alanova, Monday March 19 and Tuesday March 20 at 19.00 hours. 8 pages, tanning, gray paper wraps. Ballet program included Tiepolesco, Don Giovanni, Quadro Flamenco, and Carnival. Prime ballerine Marisa Colaiocomo, Claudia Fernstrom, Medy Fernstrom, Argene Moret, Rossana Pacciarelli, Wally Podelvento; primi ballerini Giovanni Brinati, Adriano Vitale; and primo solista Fino Tesori. Choreography by Alanova. Some scenery and costumes by Prampolini. Orchestra conducted by Alastair Royalton-Kisch. From the collection of a veteran of the 45th General Hospital during World War II. Unusual piece of World War II ephemera. Kyra Alanova, 1902-1965, was a Russian-born American ballet & cabaret dancer and choreographer. She was active throughout the 1920s and 30s, and she was best known for dancing in the Nutcracker Suite.

Garden City, New York: A Gross Associates Book, Dolphin Books; Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. Softcover. Good. Foreword by Patricia McBride. Edgewear & rubbing. 239 pages. B/w photos. Ballet questions & answers. Slight musty odor.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Hardcover, blue paper boards, tan cloth spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Uncommon first book by this early 20th century poet. Collection of somewhat amusing poems about Biblical lands and characters, ancient dignitaries, and the like. 102 pages, edges untrimmed. Some darkening to spine and endpapers, boards sunned, corners bumped.

New York: A Spotlight Dramabook, Hill and Wang, 1984 [1964]. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. BCE, book club edition, 115 pages, clean and tight. Also includes Ludlow Fair and Home Free! American playwright Lanford Wilson explores themes of physical and spiritual decay, family conflict, and loneliness; he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for Talley's Folly.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1997. Softcover. Very Good. Wilson's first full-length play shows us New York City's seedy underbelly. Set in an all-night coffee shop in October 1965, peopled by junkies and prostitutes. 116 pages. Name blacked out inside front cover, else Fine.

New York: Pocket Books, 1969. Softcover, mass market paperback. Good./No Jacket. Durrell's tetralogy is a study of love and relationships in the exotic society of the city of Alexandria, first published in the late 1950s. Each volume offers a different point of view and new information on the same group of characters. Incomplete boxed set, mass market paperbacks in slipcase. Missing Justine, volume 1. Wear, rubbing, and soil to box. Volumes have some spotting inside covers, otherwise very good. Durrell, born in 1912, was an Anglo-Irish novelist, poet, and playwright; the publication of Justine in 1957 established his reputation.

London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1938. Small hardcover pictorial boards. Good/No Jacket. Pictures by Decie Merwin. Story of Barko the 'seal' (sea lion), who performs in the seal orchestra, and his adventures & new experiences when he gets lost after a circus train derailment. 71 pages, edgewear and rubbing, boards slightly warped. Vintage children's book. This author and illustrator also collaborated on Saturday Magic, Fairy Kittens, and other children's books. Charming illustrations.