Search Results: Titles starting with B from Elk River Books

Ellsworth, ME: Pollet, Sylvester, 1994-2006. Fine. Complete set of the poetry series, each simply designed by Pollet's wife, MaJo Keleshian, on legal-sized paper folded into a narrow octavo with eight panels. Issues # 1-50 are hand-numbered from editions of varying sizes: 300 in the series' beginning, to 750 starting with issue #8. There are two copies of issue # 1, and one is signed and inscribed by Pollet on the rear panel to author and playright William "Gatz" Hjortsberg, from whose collection these come. None of the rest are signed.Chaplets are printed on paper of muted tones, with the poet's name, chaplet title, translator's name (if appropriate) and number on the front of each; poet bios with the Backwoods Broadsides logo on the rear panel. Only #56 (by Robert Vas Dias, Select Things) has an embellishment on the front cover. Most feature work by a single poet.This collection includes Pollet's signed farewell letter, dated July 2006 and listing all the contributors whose work was published… Read More

Oslo: Pantagruel Forlag AS, 2000. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed and inscribed by author and chef Hellstrom. Later printing. Quarto (28 cm), pp. 192. Pictorial boards with matching jacket. Richly illustrated, includes recipe index. Boards and jacket with light edge wear.

Cape Town: Maskew Miller Limited, 1962. Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 453 with index. Later printing. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tan jacket with red lettering. Includes map of "Distribution of Bantu-Speaking Tribes of the Union of South Africa." Jacket has moderate edge wear, along with substantial moisture damage to spine, back of jacket and back board.

Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1919. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. New edition of the 1903 original. Small octavo (21.5 cm), pp. [iv], v - xxi, [i], 1 - 410, [4 (advertising)]. Blue cloth with gilt titling. Top edge gilt, other edges deckle. Color frontispiece with tissue guard, 19 illustrated plates throughout. Previous owner's embossed initials on endpapers. Moderate bumping and wear to boards. No jacket. [Thacher p. 253]

Lesotho: Anthropological Studies, 1952. Paperback. Fair. Quarto (25 cm), pp. 87. Bound, typewritten manuscript with pictorial wraps. Anthropological study of Basuto people in southern Africa by Catholic priest Laydevant at St. Michael's Mission in Lesotho. Former owner's name (biologist Thomas J. Cox) inside front cover. Volume is intact and readable despite substantial water damage.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 134. Red cloth boards, pictorial jacket and endpapers. Includes index, fold-out map, b/w photos. Jacket has moderate wear, tears and chips along edges.

Basutoland: Catholic Centre, Mazenod Institute, undated. Pamphlet. Very good. Duodecimo, (18 cm), pp. 40. Tan and brown wrappers with black lettering, stapled binding. Part of a series of pamphlets put out by the Catholic Church in southern Africa. While undated, former owner (biologist Tom Cox) wrote name and 1965 inside front cover.

White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Near fine. Octavo (20.5cm), pp. 113. Full color photographs throughout.

Ithaca, NY: The Peregrine Fund, 1983. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 202. White pictorial wrappers have light edge wear and soiling. Includes charts, line drawings, list of literature cited, and three appendices.

New York: Viking Press, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo. 418pp. First American edition, appears unread. Black boards with silver text on spine. Slight bumping.

Jersey City: Jersey City Museum, 2001. Paperback. Very good. Small quarto (25.5 cm), pp. ix, 149. Illustrated wraps. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and full color plates. Catalog for the exhibit at the Jersey City Museum, September 12 - December 16, 2001, curated by Alejandro Anreus. Includes essays on the artwork as well as the Sacco and Vanzetti case, by Frances K. Pohl, Numzio Pernicome, Laura Katzman, Diana L. Linden and Anreus, plus a checklist and bibliography. Light edge wear and small creases at corners, else fine.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 335. Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Gray cloth boards with author's name stamped in silver on upper board, silver titling on spine. Cover design by artist/publisher Russell Chatham and photographer Cody Redmon. A historical novel drawing on the author's family roots in Montana.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 335. Association copy: Signed and inscribed by author to acclaimed novelist Richard S. Wheeler (from his estate) on title page: "For Richard Wheeler / with great admiration / Dorothy Bryant." Gray cloth boards with author's name stamped in silver on upper board, silver titling on spine. Cover design by artist/publisher Russell Chatham and photographer Cody Redmon. A historical novel drawing on the author's family roots in Montana, specifically the mining town of Butte. Wheeler's own historical novel of mining in Butte, The Richard Hill on Earth, was listed among the best fiction of 2011, and received a starred review by Kirkus Reviews. Very slight bumping to bottom of spine and rubbing to back of jacket, else fine.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. 335. Gray cloth boards with author's name stamped in silver on upper board, silver titling on spine. Cover design by artist/publisher Russell Chatham and photographer Cody Redmon. Jacket and boards bumped at corners, jacket has light edge wear. A historical novel drawing on the author's family roots in Montana.

New York: Liveright Publishing, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by author on title page. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 248. Pictorial jacket, in green cloth slipcase. Includes black and white map of Payton Living Center.

San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by multiple contributors, including Andrew Greer, Peter Orner,Jess Walter, Dave Eggers, Andrew Bradford and Jordan Bass. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 624. Navy blue cloth with white-stamped contributor's list, double-sided pictorial jacket. Published to commemorate McSweeney's 15th anniversary, the volume includes contributions by David Foster Wallace, Michael Chabon, Sarah Vowell and Zadie Smith, as well as panels (in color and black and white) by five comic strip artists.

New York: The John Day Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo (19 cm), pp. 250. Brown cloth with feather motif on upper board and spine, publisher's red ink on top edge of text block. No jacket, spine is very slightly bumped. This was the final book Linderman published before dying in 1938.

New York: Portfolio, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 194. Orange boards with blue quarter cloth binding and copper lettering on spine. Jacket has moderate wear.

New York: Vantage, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 134. Black boards with silver spine text. Jacket with Peter S. Corbin painting on front and author photo on rear. Light bumping to corners, minor edge wear and chipping to jacket. "Beyond the green coastal waters lies a secret aquatic world of cobolt blue, the mysterious home of the majestic and challenging billfish." Scarce in the trade: no copies listed in OCLC.

Chicago: Normandie House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 94, [2]. Signed and inscribed by Dos Passos to his editor Lovell Thompson on free front endpaper: "For Lovell & K- When you get sick of it you can turn it over to the research dep't of Houghton Mifflin - it's gotten up by a very nice young guy in Chicago who seems to have done a good job. Yrs ever, Dos." Limited edition (#12/365). Brown cloth with gilt spine titling and Dos Passos facsimile signature on upper board, deckle edge. Includes Addenda of periodical articles tipped in on recto of final leaf. Boards have mostly light edge and corner wear and some rubbing, with two indentations at top of upper board. Glue from Addenda has bled through onto verso of final leaf.A unique association copy. Dos Passos was called "Dos" by his friends, and often signed books to them in this manner. Thompson, who was head of HM's trade division for most of the 42 years he spent there, was called a "brilliant conceptualizer"… Read More