Search Results: Titles starting with B from Singularity Rare & Fine

Aerospace Publising Ltd / AIRtime Publishing Inc., 1997. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Aerospace Publising Ltd / AIRtime Publishing Inc., 1997-98. A special issue, assembled from reprints from World Air Power Journal, devoted to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Quarto, wraps, unpaginated. Near fine; two corners just barely touched, else a gleaming fine. Replete with color photos of the Spirit, and every kind of information - the commands and sqaudrons who fly it, its past, present and future weapons, even a sectional detail. Scarce piece, in this form and condition. L63

Omaha: Abattoir Editions & The Cummington Press/The Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, 1974. 1st Edition . Cloth. Fine. 10 1/2" x 10. Mall, James W.. Omaha, NE: Abattoir Editions & The Cummington Press/The Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, 1974. First Edition and Limited Edition, one of 430 copies. Illustrated by James W. Mall. Cream/beige cloth with decorated rice paper label on cover. Unpaginated. Faint soil, no salient flaws. Fine. A sharp copy; please see scan. Schwermer (d. 1999), a Belgian immigrant in 1935, became a post-war experimenter in poetry - at the "maximalist" end, say some, because of the diverse and thorough self-education present in his work - and showed native humor and philosophical depth in this and his other best-known works, "The Tablets", "Cantos From Dante's Inferno", and "Selected Shorter Poems". Perhaps over-interpreted - the mark of a poet of texture and substance - Schwerner gets into sensory and cerebral appeal… Read More

Winter Park, FL: Self-published, 1940. Soft cover. Fine. Winter Park, FL: full-page autograph letter signed (ALS) by Irving Bacheller, written to his friend Richard Lloyd Jones, a conservative journalist and long-time editor of the Tulsa (OK) Tribune (Bacheller was himself a journalist as well as a novelist, and was the founder of the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States), and dated February 3rd, 1940. See scan: 8" x 6" letterhead stationery bearing Bacheller's address in Winter Park, Florida; the stationery is four-fold, but is written on only on the first of four sides. The condition of the letter is Fine, though of course it was folded for mailing, and is now tipped in to Jones' copy of one of Bacheller's most popular novels, "D'ri and I", which bears Jones' (presumed ownership) signature. Its condition is otherwise fine. The book is itself an unremarkable Grosset copy, and is ex-lib from the Tulsa Public Library, though in stout and… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New; immaculate. See scans and description. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. 'Back Home with the Neelys: Comfort Food from Our Southern Kitchen to Yours', by Pat and Gina Neely, with Ann Volkwen. Tall octavo (9 1/4"), illustrated jacket, brown and robin's-egg blue illustrated boards with white and robin's-egg blue spine imprinting, robin's-egg blue endpapers, 221pp. (10 + 209 + 2). New, and immaculate. See all scans. Seriously delicious looking southern chow recipes of all categories (see contents scan), sumptuously color-photographed. Jeeze. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LT31

New York: Berkley Books (Penguin Group), 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New. First Edition and First Printing. See scans and description. New York: Berkley Books (Penguin Group), 2013. Scott Haas' memorable tale of a restaurant, "Back of the House - The Secret Life of a Restaurant". Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, xviii + 302 pp. A brand, squeaky New first/first. Collectible. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L25

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Brett Helquist. New; signed by author. See scans and description. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. This is a stated First Edition, though this a later printing. 'The Bad Beginning. Book the First of A Series of Unfortunate Adventures', by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). Illustrations by Brett Halquist.12 mo, illustrated 3/4 semi-gloss illustrated boards with navy blue cloth spine which is imprinted in white, 172 pp. (7 + 162 + 3). Issued signed, and issued without jacket. New. Signature is on the second free endpaper, as "D. Handler", and box there is checked as "Official Representative" (for Lemony Snicket, though Handler, of course, IS in fact Snicket). Date stamped on same page, by publisher, "Nov 24 2017". Confusing, to be sure - but Handler handled signing in a seeming plethora of ways. He is playful in some of… Read More

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Brett Helquist. New; signed by author. See scans and description. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. This is a stated First Edition, though this a later printing. 'The Bad Beginning. Book the First of A Series of Unfortunate Adventures', by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). Illustrations by Brett Halquist.12 mo, illustrated 3/4 semi-gloss illustrated boards with navy blue cloth spine which is imprinted in white, 172 pp. (7 + 162 + 3). Issued signed, and issued without jacket. New. Signature is on the second free endpaper, as "D. Handler", and box there is checked as "Official Representative" (for Lemony Snicket, though Handler, of course, IS in fact Snicket). Dated stamped on same page, by publisher, "Nov 25 2016". Confusing, to be sure - but Handler handled signing in a seeming plethora of ways. He is playful in some… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. 1st Edition . Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First Edition, "California Set-Aside". Signed by Vonnegut. Octavo, 295 pp. Crisp, bright, As-New book & jacket copy of a special set: one of 100 copies of the first edition signed and set aside for California friends of the author, so stated on a set-plate on the ffep (see scan). Bagombo Snuff box is Vonnegut's own selection of twenty-three of his favorite stories never published before in book form, with his 11 page introduction and a 7 page coda in which he recounts his life as an author for periodicals. Preface by Peter Reed, a noted Vonnegut scholar. Includes a number of very early stories from the fifties written for Cosmopolitan and The Saturday Evening Post, including the 1954 title story, as well as several from 1999. A pristine collectible, scarce with the signature and downright rare as one of… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A strong Very Good, and striving hard for Near Fine. See scans and description. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895 copyright (on copyright page), 1909 publishing (on title page). The Ballads and Other Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson (which includes A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, and Ballads; Volume XVI in the overall Scribner's Stevenson series). Octavo, textured red cloth boards with gilt imprinting on front cover and spine, Top Edge Gilt, uncut fore-edge, frontis with tissue-guard, contents + 359 pp. + 3 blank leaves. Better than Very Good, with just a modestly sunned spine keeping this example out of Near Fine condition. No writing or other besmirchment of the immaculate interior, either. Sharp, handsome and more than deserving of a Very Good Plus rank. Firmly bound. See scans. L20n

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1856. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1856. First Edition. The May 24, 1856 issue, Volume X, No. 21, Whole No. 255. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. About Very Good, with an old faint dampstain throughout and darkening to some edges, only very moderate roughness to edges at places. One short spine slit at left (see scans). Standard age-toning to the paper. A sturdy example. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - here, regarding: cover article, The Thousand Islands, with text and a half-page engraving; The Texan Cruiser: Calypso The Wanderer / A Tale of the Last War, by T. Burlingame Ross (several chapters in an ongoing serial); Labuan Island, Borneo, with… Read More

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1856. First Edition . Self-wraps [newspaper]. Very Good Plus. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1857. First Edition [newspaper] . Newsprint wraps, large elephant Folio size, 16 pp. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Some edge wear and moderate foxing. Better than very good; sharp, healthy, well-preserved copy. This issue contains articles - and/or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings accompanying many of them - on Boston Common, The Contrabandist [fiction], Theater, Albany (six engravings of older Albany buildings, some shown in scans), Calcutta, Bashi-Bazouks, the American Prairie, Samuel Rogers, and a number of smaller items and/or engravings dealing with the Boston area. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of American history when he, as managing editor of Gleason's Pictorial, bought it - the first successful illustrated weekly newspaper in America - from… Read More

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1855. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1855. First Edition. The April 21, 1855 issue, Volume VIII, No. 16, Whole No. 198. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Very Good; some darkening, small patches of soil (see scans); some edge wear, and of course a bit of age-toning to the newsprint paper (not excessive), and not much else to point to here. See scans. High grade. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - here, regarding: Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, with a stately portrait engraving; Secrets of the Cells, or Leaves From My Diary (continuing) by Rev. J.H. Ingraham; Mozart's Requiem, by William Melbourne; Crimean War Scenes, two rich pages of text with four… Read More

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1855. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Very Good. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1855. The July 21, 1855 issue, Volume IX, No.3, Whole No. 211, of Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Eleven illustrations from engravings. Expansive Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Very Good, with the inevitable moderate age-toning and some further corner darkening at the front cover (scan). Almost no internal foxing. See scans. A sturdy example. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings. Here, there are 11 sizable (less than the average of 15 or 16, because of the vast, two-page-wide engraving of "Constantinople and the Bosporus from the Point of the Seari". Most of the engravings are associated with articles or stories; in addition… Read More

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1856. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1856. First Edition. The February 16, 1856 issue, Volume X, No. 7, Whole No. 241. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Better than Very Good, with very little of the common peripheral darkening, modest edge wear, a few spots of foxing. Not all that far short of Near Fine. See scans. A sturdy and handsome example. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - here, regarding: cover article, St. Valentine's Day, with large half-page engraving; several more chapters of serial fiction by the editors, The Contrabandist - The Secret of A Life. A True Story of Southern France / with two engravings illustrating that; Paris by Night;… Read More

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1857. First Edition . Self-wraps [newspaper]. Very Good Plus. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1857. First Edition [newspaper] . Newsprint wraps, Elephant Folio (large), 16 pp. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Some edge wear and moderate foxing. Better than very good; sharp, healthy, well-preserved copy. Ballou used supple paper, for newsprint.This issue contains articles - and/or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings accompanying many of them - on Chicago, the Emperor and Empress of Austria, Persia, Punjab, Hugh Miller, Ferouk Khan, Leeds, Lt. George H. Preble, Pifferari, Henry the First, and a number of smaller items and engravings. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of American history when he, as managing editor of Gleason's Pictorial, bought it - the first successful illustrated weekly newspaper in America - from owner Frederick Gleason in 1855. l-lng1

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1855. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1855. The February 24, 1855 issue, Volume VIII, No.8, Whole No. 190. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Expansive Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Very Good; modest external age-toning), small corner creases, small stains at rear cover. See scans. Contents are virtually near fine, actually. A sturdy and handsome example. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings. Here, there are 19 sizeable engraving, plus one map, not counting advertiser's engraved illustrations. They include the ornate cover top engraving, Niblo's Theater (New York), Copper Mines of Algeria (3 engravings), The Appian Way at Rome, 5 Engravings of homes, buildings and scenes in… Read More

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1856. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Very Good. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1856. The January 5, 1856 issue, Volume X, No.1, Whole No. 235. Thirteen illustrations from engravings. Expansive Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Very Good, the inevitable moderate age-toning and a chip at rear cover affecting one engraving being the only notable flaws. Less edge wear than is typical, as well. See scans. A sturdy example. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings. Here, there are 13 sizable engravings - including a rather mammoth one, spanning two the the elephant folio pages, of the Battle of New Orleans. They include the masthead, a winter sleigh ride, two illustrations for the serialized story, "The Contrabandist", two arctic… Read More

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1856. First Edition . Self-wraps [newspaper]. Very Good Plus. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1856. First Edition [newspaper] . Newsprint wraps, Elephant Folio, 16 pp. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Some edge wear and a bit of edge darkening. Better than very good; sharp, healthy, well-preserved copy. See scans. This issue contains articles - and/or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings furnished by of M. Ballou - on Chelsea, Taunton, the Cape Ann Wreck, War, Armenia, and short serial fiction and a number of smaller items, ads and editorials. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of American history when he, as managing editor of Gleason's Pictorial, bought it - the first successful illustrated weekly newspaper in America - from owner Frederick Gleason in 1855. lLng1

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1857. First Edition . Single Issue Magazine. Very Good Plus. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1857. First Edition [newspaper] . Newsprint wraps, Elephant Folio (large), 16 pp. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Some edge wear and a bit of edge darkening. Better than very good; sharp, healthy, well-preserved copy. This issue is a particularly remembered one for its Shakespearian-interest lead article on Edwin Booth as Sir Giles Overreach, with an engraving of him in that role as well as a very large full-page engraving on the last page of an ensemble of As You Like It, but also contains articles - and/or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings accompanying many of them - on Sumo/ Japanese Wrestling, Walrusses, Quebec/Montreal, Col. John T. Heard, the Yacht "Emperor", and a number of smaller items and engravings. Maturin Ballou's 16-page newsprint periodical was already a piece of… Read More

Boston: Ballou, M.M., 1855. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. From Engravings. Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1855. First Edition. The April 14, 1855 issue, Volume VIII, No. 15, Whole No. 197. Numerous illustrations from engravings. Elephant folio size, sewn newsprint wraps, 16 pp. Very Good; some darkening, small patches of soil (see scans); some edge wear, and of course a bit of age-toning to the newsprint paper (not excessive), and not much else to point to here. See scans. High grade. Maturin Ballou's paper was quite supple, not at all fragile, and it shows. Sharp, healthy, well-preserved. This issue contains stories, articles, and / or the diverse and now somewhat legendary engravings - regarding as follows: The Aurora Borealis, cover story, with a beautifully executed engraving; Secrets of the Cells, or Leaves From My Diary (continuing) by Rev. J.H. Ingraham; massive two-page spread on Nice and the Chartreuse of Val Pesio, text and four large… Read More