Search Results: Titles starting with B from James Arsenault & Company

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo, (22 cm), half red morocco with burgundy cloth, raised bands with six compartments, gilt spine, t.e.g, marbled endpapers. 315 pp., numerous b&w illus. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author. Portions previously printed in Atlantic Monthly etc. This profusely illustrated title by editorial cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winning Mauldin depicts life as a World War II veteran and includes commentary about the "red scare", Franco and Fascism, Zionism and more. Inscribed on the flyleaf "To John and Claire. Bill Maudlin." The recipients were Mauldin's friends John Evans, son of Mable Dodge Luhan of Taos, N. M. fame, and his wife Claire Spencer, author and ex-wife of Harrison Smith, publisher. CONDITION: Very good, light rubbing on covers, a few light white marks to lower portion of front cover, fore-edge lightly foxed, contents clean.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company. Hardcover. 16mo (18 cm), blue-green cloth with decorative gilt on upper cover. Vi, 85 pp. First American Edition. Includes such South Pacific and Scottish ballads as The Song of Rahéro, The Feast of Famine, Ticonderoga, Heather Ale, and Christmas at Sea. CONDITION: Very good, with light wear at extremities, ownership inscription in pencil on front flyleaf.

No. 169 Tremont Street, Boston; Maine Street, opp. Rodick's, Bar Harbor, Me.: Albert W. Bee, 1891. 12mo (6.25" x 4.75"), gilt title on royal blue cloth. [10] pp. ads., 1 tipped-in folded map, 18" x 21", xxxi, [3], 48 pp., 1 tipped-in folded map, 9" x 7", [5] pp. ads. 3 original albumen print photos mounted on plates. A rare issue of the Bar Harbor Blue Book illustrated with three mounted photographs. Includes routes to and from, tables, and individual chapters on Topography and History; Literature on Mount Desert; Laws concerning Carriages; Bar Harbor and Boating, Walks, Hotels, and more. Folding maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert are included as well. The Bar Harbor map is followed by the "Blue Book" section-a society directory listing residents, each numbered and located on the map. This is one of a small number of copies of this work that were illustrated with three original photographs. They are domed half-stereoviews and are likely the work of Bryant Bradley (1838-1890), originally from… Read More

Omaha: The Cummington Press, 1986. Hardcover. 8vo (9.75" x 6.25"), gray cloth, red paper label at spine. One intaglio print preceding text, 45 pp. CONDITION: Near-fine, spine and covers lightly sunned.

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House, 1934. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5"), half linen, patterned green paper over boards. Title illus., 27 pp., wood-engavings throughout. Bookplates of Wyman Parker on front pastedown. CONDITION: Near-fine, slight wear to extremities, offsetting on ffep from previous owner's bookplate. Fine press edition limited to 260 copies of this work first published in 1892. Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books.

Lynn, Mass.: [ca. 1875]. Albumen photograph, 4.5" x 6.6" plus margins, mounted on a cut-down broadside on card stock. An appealing shot of the Bay State Wheel Co.'s four-story curved brick building and employees, situated on the corner of Western Ave and Federal Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Posing in front of the building with the wagon wheel products are a variety of workers, some in aprons, others in vests and white shirts, one lady at the center, two parked horse and buggies. At least one man is hanging out a window, and wheels appear to be on display from the inside of the windows as well. Text on the verso for a canned goods store on 98 Broad Street, Boston. CONDITION: Good, with a 2 cm. closed tear at top, toning and light foxing.

London: Published for the Proprietors, by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, 1839. 4to, original half green morocco with ribbed green cloth over boards, spine in five compartments, gilt title and raised bands; light purple watered silk endpapers with leaf and tendril pattern. Engraved frontis. port., engraved half-title, [iv], 164 pp., 78 steel-engraved views and 1 full-page engraved map with inset. An intimate and rich observation of life in Constantinople in 1836 by Miss Julia Pardoe (1806-1862), in collaboration with popular topographical artist W. H. Bartlett, depicting the Ottoman empire during an era of growing European influence and illustrated throughout with delightful engravings after Bartlett. Miss Pardoe traveled to Constantinople with her father in 1836-7, inspiring first the work "City of the Sultan" in 1836 and then the collaborative "Beauties of the Bosphorus" in 1838. In the tradition of travel writer Lady Mary Wortley Montegu, Pardoe focuses her attention on the Turkish culture. According… Read More

Belfast, Maine, circa 1910. Silver print photograph. Image size: 4.375" x 6.375" on larger paper. With original black paper folder. A handsome view of the Public Library in Belfast, Maine, built in 1888, showing the dirt road in front with horses, buggies and a pedestrian. CONDITION: Very good, slight crease in bottom margin.

London, 1915. 11" x 8.5", printed blue wrappers. 132 pp., numerous photographic reproductions and facsimiles. A powerful compilation of images, report extracts, letters and more documenting the atrocities of the World War I German Occupation and the Belgian resistance. CONDITION: Good +, wrapper spine partially perished, bumped corners, sound binding, text clean on coated paper.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Hardcover. 4to (12 x 8"), red cloth. Frontis., 122 pp., [2], numerous hand-colored plates. CONDITION: Good +, spine sunned, covers faded and dampstaned at corners, remnant of white label at foot of spine, inner hinges starting to crack; interior clean, fresh, and tight. Limited edition, No. 1232 of 1650 copies. The pictures are "hand-coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press upon Van Gelder paper.

Bradford, MA: 1739. 1 p. manuscript document, 9" x 7.5". An interesting marriage financial agreement between Jonathan Kimball (1673-1749) of Bradford, Massachusetts and Jane Plummer of Rowley, Mass., signed by Jane Plummer, Joseph Pearson, John Hobson and Jonathan Kimball with two seals. Both parties widowed with a large number of children, Jonathan assures Jane that she will keep use of her estate and that on her death, her children will inherit all; in the event of his death, Jane will get 40 pounds and the "Least Lower Room" in his dwelling to live in. (Kimball married his first wife Lydia Day, in 1696; she died Sept. 16, 1739). Apparently, it was not a happy union as Jonathan's will states the following: "Since my wife Jane has eloped and refuses to live with me, I give her five shillings and a pair of leather gloves." This branch of the prestigious and prolific Kimball family originated with Richard Kimball, a wheelwright who migrated from England. His son "Cornet" Benjamin Kimball,… Read More

Troy, New York: L. R. Burl[e]igh; Charles H. Potter, [1891?]. Lithograph, 12.5" x 28.875", plus margins, folded into printed brown wrappers (5.5" x 3.5"). CONDITION: Light wear to wrappers. Map good, separations along old horizontal folds but no losses to the map, a few short separations along vertical folds. A scarce bird's-eye view of Bennington, Vermont by the prolific view-maker L. R. Burleigh, likely published around the time of the dedication ceremony for the Bennington Battle Monument, the tallest structure in Vermont. Based on Burleigh's larger view of Bennington published in 1887, this view shows the town situated on the Walloomsac River, which appears in the foreground. Seen at the center top is the 300-foot Bennington Battle Monument, begun in 1887 and completed in 1889. The lines of the Bennington & Rutland Rail Road and the Glastenbury Rail Road pass through the town, and many streets and roads are identified. The key at lower-left (a reduced version of the key to the 1887 view)… Read More

Europe, U.S.: 1960-1973. 4to photo album (13" x 11.5"). Total of 124 original photographs (approx. 2" x 3" to 8" x 10"), 33 of them inscribed, 25 color photos, 2 photos affixed to front and back paste-downs, 1 photo loose. Manuscript captions under the majority of images, rice paper protectors. A delightful photo album evidently compiled by Beppo and Mary Wallenda, chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the U.S. Vividly depicted in this album is the world of European and American circuses and traveling circus troupes with a mixture of publicity shots and intimate candid photos, many of them inscribed affectionately to Beppo and Mary. Beppo Wallenda here takes on the persona of both a Sad Clown with a trombone, as well as a goofy Cowboy Clown in a trio called the Wallenda Comp.-shown in the album making a movie. Multiple circuses are represented such as the Cirque Amar in France, Tom Pack's Show in New Orleans, Theatre Caumartin in Paris, Cirque Medrano, Mills Bros.… Read More

Bethel, Maine, [ca 1915]. 12mo (7.7" x 5.5"), printed pictorial black print on brown cardstock wrappers. 16 pp., numerous b&w illus.,1 4" x 5" map. A brochure beckoning visitors to the Bethel Inn with lovely images reflecting an era of elegant retreat in rustic Maine. Engravings signed by "Hope" depict The Three Elms, The Sun Room, The Parlor, A Sleeping Room, a stagecoach arrival, The Log Cottage on Songo Lake, Fuller's Shack, The Elms Cottage, The Willows Cottage and some wintry scenes. The Bethel Inn was on the Grand Trunk Railway, sixty-nine miles north of Portland, Me. The Inn began in 1913 as a hotel for Dr. John George Gehring's nervous disorder patients, thrived as a resort in the 1940's and 50's, was supported by philanthropist William Bingham II until 1979, and has currently expanded under new ownership.Not in OCLC.CONDITION: Very good, slight wear and soiling on covers, pristine interior, very appealing copy.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1891. Hardcover. 24mo (6.25" x 4.5"), half red cloth, white cloth covers stamped in red, t.e.g. 287 pp. Previous owner's name inscribed on preliminary leaf.CONDITION: Good, spine sunned, some damp-staining along spine, light mark in blue ink on back cover, slightly cocked. Later printing.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press,1889 [ca. 1895]. Hardcover. 24mo (6" x 4.75"), red cloth, gilt cover and spine, t.e.g., 287 pp. Inkstamp reading "Parental School, West Roxbury, Mass, July 8 1907" on front pastedown. CONDITION: Good +, spine sunned, white stain at edge of rear cover, cracked back inner hinge, remnants of a bookseller's ticket on ffep., clean interior. Later printing. Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman.

Pittsburgh: United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1864. 16mo (6.875" x 4.5"), printed beige wrappers. vii, 13-154 pp. CONDITION: Very good, dampstains to wrappers and light wear to extremities. A revised edition of this work by an important abolitionist whose writings were a source of information and inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe. Originally published in 1837 in The Anti-Slavery Examiner, this Biblical argument against slavery underwent several editions. Weld's introduction recounts how, "When first published, many copies were sent through the post-office into the Slave States Most of these were publicly burned at their places of delivery," but one copy, which "fell into the hands of Rev. Wm. H. Brisbane, a slaveholding Baptist clergyman and editor in that city" found that, in writing a refutation of Weld's arguments, "the faith he scouted had become his own. He left his native state, made his slaves free, settled them in Ohio, and pulished an able work, vindicating the Bible from… Read More

New York: Maurizio Martino 1997 (reprint of 1896, Gammel). Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 5.5"), red cloth. xvi, 268 pp. CONDITION: Near fine. This reprint of the first bibliography of Texas from 1898 is "strictly limited" to 100 copies.

Worcester: Privately Printed at the Private Press of Franklin P. Rice. MDCCCCIX [1899]. Hardcover. Sm 4to (10" x 8.25"), original green cloth, paper label on spine. t.e.g. Frontis. port., xii, 216 pp. CONDITION: Very good, wear to extremities and rubbing to spine, lightly bumped corners and top-edge of spine, spine sunned, front hinge slightly loose, no foxing. One of 25 large paper copies, signed by the author. This copy is number 16.

New York: Holiday House, 1993. Hardcover in dj. Oblong 8vo (8.75 x 10"), quarter green cloth over red paper. Color illus. throughout. CONDITION: Fine in, fine dj. Stated first edition. Inscribed by Kroll on half-title page: "For Mom and Dick, With loving thoughts of Maine! [?], Steven 8/17/89.