Search Results: Titles starting with B from finecopy ltd

Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1922. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Babbitt, first edition, second issue, inscribed to the front end-paper "To Dr. & Mrs Ball, with the affection of Sinclair Lewis", original decorated cloth, pre-publication issue with Harcourt Brace red ink stamp "Sample Copy Publication Date September 14, 1922" to title page, preserved in cloth solander box, paper lettering label, 8vo., New York, 1922.Note second issue distinguished by "Lyte" rather than "Purdy" on p49 Signed by Author

W.H. Allen & Co, London, 1956. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First British edition, London: W.H. Allen, 1956. a few odd light spots to fore-edge. Original red cloth, previous owner's neat gift inscription on front blank (from Mr and Mrs Fraser 1956), dust-jacket with trivial rubbing to corners, not clipped, in an acetate protector. An exceptionally clean and bright copy of a book that is rare in UK and USA first editions. Book was the basis of the Orson Welles film 'Touch of Evil'. 'Whit Masterson' was a pseudonym for the literary partnership of Robert Allison 'Bob' Wade and H. Bill Miller.

Riverside Press/ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1908. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition thus. No. 140 of 440. dark brown paper boards, paper spine-label with extra label tipped in at end, untrimmed except the top edge, 8vo, The Riverside Press, Boston and New York, 1908, lacks slipcase.

Genesis Guildford 1999. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. No. 814 of 2500 Signed by both authors. Two volumes in original illustrated box Mint. Unread. Signed by Author

Grolier Society 1900. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition thus. One of 1000 Edition de Luxe with hand coloured frontispieces, numerous plates with captioned tissue-guards. Occasional light spotting intermittently, generally bright clean and crisp. Contemporary deep purple morocco, decorative gilt fuchsias to upper covers and spines, gilt turn-ins, top edges gilt. Spine uniformly sunned to crimson. Minor rubbing to heads of spines, overall a very good library set. Biographies include Laurence Sterne, The Sheridans, Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson, Beau Brummel, Fanny Burney, Charles James Fox, Horace Walpole, Nell Gwyn et al. The set is complete with all 29 volumes.Provenance: Phyllis Bryant - bookplates

Published by London, Heinemann Contemporary Fiction 1964. later edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Second edition, 1964 issued with her pseudonym Victoria Lucas (as was the first edition). A Fine copy with the author's real name ("Sylvia Plath") added in ink by a previous owner neatly to the title page (see photo). Dust jacket is very close to Fine and is unclipped with just a little fading to spine

Doubleday London 1995. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition, First Impression UK first edition Doubleday 1995. A double signed copy with the authors autograph to both the half title and title. A Fine copy in a Fine Jacket.No ownership markings, not clipped, in a protective acetate.

New York, Assouline, 2013. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Beyond Extravagance. A Royal Collection of Gems and Jewels, 353 of a deluxe edition of 600 with publisher's card mounted to title verso, profuse whole page colour illustrations, indigo-coloured silk and gold metallic threads in a Tibetan style brocade, handwoven in India, and housed within a red velvet clamshell box. Folio, New York, Assouline, 2013. A fine example of this sumptuous work published by Assouline. Exploring the Al Thani collection of Indian jewellery, which spans over four hundred years from the royal courts of the Moghul Empire to 21st century innovations, this work catalogues and analyses the uniquely sophisticated tradition of jewellery within India, and its evolution of style and technique.

Published by Paris: Editions du Carrefour, 1929-31, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Dessaignes (Georges Ribemont) edit. Bifur, Paris: Editions du Carrefour, 1929-1931, eight volumes, numbered limited editions of either 3000, 2000 or 1700, original printed wraps. Volumes 3 and 8 with the original glassine wrappers, all 8 in their original card wrappers. A Very Good set.

Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, 1931. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition first printing 1931 Original orange cloth. Super copy, fore-edge of text lightly spotted else Fine.

Methuen 1924. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition First Issue 8vo 1924. A Very Good copy without the Jacket. Original red cloth, very minor soiling to upper cover else clean square and bright. No ownership marks.

Princeton University Press,, Princeton:, 1971. later edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Later Edition 1971 Bound in black half morocco Marbled boards and endpapers. spine gilt tooled with twin red leather labels, Handsome copy. Internally clean and bright.

Virago, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. A Fine proof Advance copy of the author's second book. Powder blue wrappers. Flat signed to title. No ownership markings. In a protective wrapper. Superb copy. Signed by Author

London Limited Editions 1993. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. First Editions thus, Signed limited edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine acetate Jacket as issued, with one small tear to corner. One of 150 numbered copies. Signed by Author

Trianon Press 1965. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Limited Edition thus, Trianon Press 1965 No. 138/380 of the standard edition from a total 426. Publisher's quarter tan morocco, spine slightly faded, A Fine copy. Internally as new, in a Fine slip-case. Folio

Philippe Pigouchet, Paris, 1512. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. Book of Hours, printed single vellum leaf hand-illuminated recto and verso in colour and gold, prepared by Simon Vostre for Nicolas Higman, c. 185 x 118mm. Ruled Latin text (French captions in panel borders) printed in red and black on vellum. Initials paragraph markers and endings illuminated by hand in gold on grounds of blue or magents. In Fine condition.

Paris or Rouen c. 1450. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book of Hours, single vellum hand-illuminated leaf, printed recto and verso, done under the influence of The Master of the Eschevinage de Rouen, enhanced with brown gall ink, colour tempera and gold, c. 164 x 116mm. Minor mlight soiling to margins but overall clean and bright.

Trianon Press 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First Limited Edition thus, Trianon Press 1973. No. 14 (XIV) of 32 of the Deluxe edition fully leather bound in black morocco housed in the publisher's marbled slipcase. A Fine copy. Probably unread, in mint condition. Note each copy of the 32 Deluxe edition contains an original guide-sheet, stencil and copperplate, and a set of plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process.

Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1990. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition First printing Flat Signed on title page, Fine in a Fine DJ. In a protective cover. Not clipped Signed by Author

Padua 1713. First Edition. No Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. Copperplate map of the British Isles, originally in Magini’s ‘Descrittione Universale della Terra Partita (1598)’. This reissue is from Lasor à Varea’s ‘Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus…’published by J.B. Conzatti, Padua 190 x 145 mm