Search Results: Titles starting with B from Evening Star Books

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 401, [7], [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Bound in dark blue cloth with orange lettering and blocking on the front board and the spine. First state of the text as per Pastore, 111. A satirical novel about middle-class American life in the early twentieth century and one of Lewis' best known works. An attractive copy, difficult to find in dust jacket. Very Good with light wear to the extremities and some minor discoloration to the top of the front board in a Very Good price-clipped and lightly edge-worn dust jacket with a closed tear to the top of the front panel.

Berkeley, California: Parnassus Press [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Square 12mo. Unpaginated. Light grey cloth with dark grey decorations on the boards and dark grey lettering on the spine. Beautiful endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Caldecott medal sticker has been applied to the jacket's front panel. Illustrated with several full-page color drawings throughout done by Nicolas Sidjakov. Baumgarten 183. The winner of the 1961 Caldecott Award. A beautifully-illustrated story of a Russian woman's pilgrimmage to see the Christ child. A small tape ghost and closed tear on the rear panel of the dust jacket.

New York: Walker and Company [1983], 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 1-160, [2] pp. Black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Edgar Blakeney. A very slim crack to the rear hinge; jacket with a touch of edge wear and foxing.

Berkeley: North Atlantic Books (1999), 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, 424, [4] pp. White cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $30.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a photograph of Sturgeon. Edited by Paul Williams. Foreword by David Crosby.

New York: Simon and Schuster [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. [8], 9-186, [4] pp. Blue cloth with a silver decoration on the front board and silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. Two remainder marks to bottom textblock, else Fine; minor edgewear and two scratches to the rear panel.

London: Barrie & Jenkins (1973), 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], 7-190, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price neatly clipped (price sticker on front flap), a few short scratches to the spine panel.

New York: William Sloane Associates [1947], 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [4], 315, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over green cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. With several in-text drawings representing scenes from Mauldin's life. Mauldin's book about his return to the U.S. following the Second World War. A name and date written on the free front endpaper and a moderate lean, notable age darkening to the pastedowns; mild age toning to jacket and a few traces of wear to its extremities.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 3-221, [7] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Very near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.

[New York]: The Mysterious Press (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], 1-292, [4] pp. Blue paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Price of $20.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket.

[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Warner Books (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], 1-292, [4] pp. Blue paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Price of $20.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Very light wear to the boards' edges.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [10], 13-386 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a frontis portrait of George Rogers Clark. Includes an index and notes. A Near Fine book in a Very Good+ jacket with a few traces of edge wear.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, 396, [4] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Price of £3.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by several black and white photographs. Tiny push to the top textblock; dust jacket is Near Fine with a hint or two of edge wear.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1873. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [3], iv-xxiv, [1], 2-620, [2] pp. Half maroon sheep over marbled paper boards, boards ruled in gilt, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. With Bacon's writings on suitors, atheism, superstition, and other topics relevant to Christian theology. Rubbing to the boards' edges, a few marks of private ownership to the front preliminaries.

Milwaukee: E.M. Hale and Company [1939], 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [8], 9-570, [6] pp. Blue cloth with gold rules and gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with numerous full-page and in-text black and white illustrations. A map of Wisconsin, along with several prominent citizens and historical locals are depicted. Signed by the author on the free front endpaper. Jacket shows minor fading to its spine panel and a few hints of edge wear.

New York: A Dutton Book (1991), 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 276 pp. Quarter white cloth over blue paper boards with orange and gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Traces of foxing to the top textblock, name written on free front endpaper; wrinkling to top left corner of rear panel.

New York: J.H. Sears & Company, Inc. Publishers [1928], 1928. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 300, [4] pp. Green cloth with black lettering and a decoration on the front board; black lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen black and white plates: photographs of Palmyra, Mosul, Baghdad, Babylon, Syracuse, and other sights of Iraq and Syria. The author's travel narrative of his journey around Iraq and Syria. Offsetting to the preliminaries and a small white spot of discoloration on the rear board; jacket shows traces of edge wear and a small discoloration to the rear flap.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 11-232 pp. Blue paper over boards quarter-bound in navy blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine, red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $14.95 on front jacket flap. The story of Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles with particular focus on the 1983 season. A sharp copy.

Berlin: Verlag C.V. Engelhard [1942], 1942. First edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo. [2], 3-55, [1] pp. Staple-bound, beige wraps printed in brown. Front wrapper with an illustration of rural Belarus. With a folding map and a folding chart. A review of agriculture in what is now Belarus, with information on other Baltic states as well. Part of a series of small works written for the "Society for German Economic Order". All the works in the series were published during the Second World War. It appears the series concentrated on agricultural history and capabilites in countries and regions around Russia. Foxing and general wear to the extremities.

New York: Random House (1955), 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [11], 4-375, [1] pp. Beige cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; yellow topstain. Price of $3.95 on front flap of jacket. Title page printed in orange and black. Ahearn APG 024a. A Near Fine book with two extra front endpapers in a Very Good+ jacket with a few traces of wear to the extremities.

Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc, 1964. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [9], 12-190, [2] pp. Brown cloth with brown lettering on the spine. Illustrated by several woodcuts throughout. With notes and a bibliography by Jerome Peltier. Becker 413a. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket that is price-clipped and has two faint tape ghosts on the reverse.