Search Results: Titles starting with B from Johnson's Used Books

Boston, Little Brown, 1946, stated 1st edition, stated pub Nov. 1946, 5-1/4""x8-1/8"" hardcover, beige cloth covers, near fine, slightest of rubs to extremities, fair edge-chipped dust jacket, still attractive slight chipping with paper loss along the top edge of the front panel, slight age toning to the white portions, 5-3/8""x8-1/8"". Dust jacket in an acetate liner, fxx

fwd by Maj Gen. Lewis Lyle, 2008. NY, Metro Books, coded 2nd printing, glossy color pictorial hardcover, good to very good, top outer corners of both covers bumped, no dust jacket (as issued?), 156pp, 10""x11-1/8"", shipping weight 4 lbs

illustrated by William Geldart, published by Thomas Nelson, Nashville, First American printing, 1992. This hardback children's book is bound in glossy pictorial boards and is in fine unread condition with a near fine slightly shelfworn dust jacket. No previous owner's name or markings. This charming book is a good one to read to your children at night for a bedtime story. cbxx

A Gallery of Masterpieces, published by Max Parrish & Co. Ltd, London, 1947. This 20 page book represents the entire tapestry and includes 3 tipped in color enlargements. The covers are stiff wraps and the book is in good sound condition with some rubs and wear to covers and edges. No previous owner's name or markings. acxx

translated from the Russian by Antonina W Bouis, published by Harper & Row, 1978, First American edition stated. This 200 page hardback book is bound in brown and tan cloth and boards and is in good sound condition without a previous owner's name or marking. Dust jacket is in very good condition and still has original publisher's price on flap. From dust jacket blurb: When Beem was born, his coloring was all wrong for a pure-bred Gordon setter. He was white with one black ear, and the breeder was prepared to destroy him. But a different sort of man, a recent widower, was beguiled by the infant pup and took him away to the quiet, book-filled room that was home. The dog led a happy life with his human until shrapnel, a souvenir of the war, landed his human in the hospital. The next door neighbor, fed the dog but he went in search of his human. It was Beem's fate to fall among evil people. Only his marvelous skill and his valiant soul carried him to the threshold of victory. This story has been… Read More

published by Roy Publishers, NY, 1956. This 159 page hardback book is bound in blue cloth and is in good sound condition without a dust jacket with some mild rubs and wear to edges and extremities. No previous owner's name or marginalia.

with 359 illustrations by the author, published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, 1926. 564 pages. This hardback book is bound in green cloth with gilt decoration on front cover and title on spine. Book is in good sound condition with some mild rubs and wear to edges and extremities of covers. Previous owner's name on free standing front endpaper. fxx

Berlin Germany, Breitkopf & Hartel, text in German, quite a few black and white plates (there is a 6-page/panel foldout plate section of Bach portraits), hardcover, brown cloth, good sound square tight copy, moderate rubs/bumps to cover extremities, very light and easy to erase pencil marginalia and underscores mainly confined to the first 30 pages, 5-1/2""x8-5/8"", 248pp, mild age-toning and occasional foxing, no dust jacket

NY, Crowell, (1970) 1st edition hardcover, green cloth, very good sound square tight unmarked copy, slight rubs to cover extremities, good to very good very slightly soiled unchipped untorn dust jacket, ill., musical examples etc. 6""x9-1/4"", 339pp.

NY, Walker, 1997, coded 1st edition hardcover, brown covers, fine square tight copy, gift inscription in light ink on the free front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, fine as new price-clipped dust jacket, 6""x9-1/4"". The author hiked the entire World War I no-man's land from the English Channel to the Swiss border, reported on the scars of the 1st World War that are still visible. 205 pages. mxx

NY, St. Martins, 2007 reprint, hardcover, dark green covers, fine square tight probably unread copy, coded 3rd printing, 5-1/2""x8-1/2"",285pp, fine dust jacket

Raleigh NC, NC Dept of Cultural Resources, 1986, stiff pictorial wrappers, very good, small price removal scuff on front cover at top, no previous owner marks, mild rubs to cover extremities, 6-3/4""x10"", ill., 108pp.

NY, Harmony Books, 1989, coded and stated 1st edition hardcover, black covers, very good to fine unmarked copy, good to very good dust jacket with very small tear at top corner outer corner of the front cover section of the dj, 8-1/2""x11-1/4"", color and black and white ills., 223pp, shipping weight 4 lbs

San Antonio TX, Naylor, revised enlarged edition, 1970, hardcover, burgundy pebbled cloth, about good or good, bumps/scuffing to cover extremities, internally very good, sound, square and tight and unmarked, inner hinges sound and uncracked, ill. Frank Anthony Stanush, 256pp, 5-5/8""x8-1/2"", no dust jacket

NY, Morrow, 1984, coded and stated 1st US edition 1st printing, hardcover, cream cloth spine with light gray boards, very good unmarked square tight copy, very slight rubs to cover extremities and VERY slight sunning to edges, very good attractive slightly edge-rubbed dust jacket. 5-1/2""x8-1/2"". fxx

ills. by Robert Quackenbush and SIGNED presentation from him on the free front endpaper dated 1970, stated 1st edition, purple illustrated cloth hardcover, oblong, fair worn and chipped but still serviceable dust jacket with old price sticker removal scrapes on front and rear panel, book is very good and unmarked with very slight rubs to cover extremities, stated 1st edition, 1970, 11-1/8""x8-5/8"".

Evanston IL, Northwestern Univ Press, 1956, 1st ed hardcovers, clean sound tight little-used ex-library copy with usual marks, otherwise very good, beige buckram cloth, 251+458pp, no dust jackets, slight rubs/bumps to cover extremities, ill., 6""x9-1/2"", shipping weight 6 lbs

Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. Johns Newfoundland, 2004, a facs. Of the 1933 edition, quality paperback, nice quality, stiff color pictorial self-wrappers, music for melody lines (not harmonized), 6""x9"", 395pp, shipping weight over 3 lbs

NY, Barse & Hopkins, copy. 1909, early US edition, green cloth with gilt lettering and décor, good sound solid square copy, moderate wear/rubs and age-specking to cover edges, text mildly age-toned, previous owner name/place in light ink on free front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, 5""x7-1/2"", 137pp, no dust jacket

ed. by R. Brimley. London, Alston Rivers Ltd., 1927, 1st British edition, hardcover, dark green cloth, gilt spine lettering, very good sound square tight copy except mild wear to the extremities, with 2 cover tips just barely worn through the cloth, very small light previous owner name on free front endpaper, internally near fine and bright with tight hinges, a very attractive copy, no dust jacket, 5-3/4""x9"".