Search Results: Titles starting with B from Steven Schuyler Bookseller

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1891. 10th revised edition. Distinctive Baedeker red binding. Fair, first map torn.. 12 mo (4 x 6.5). pp. lxii,404. With maps and plans. Indexed. Ownership signature on front free page.. As with all of their publications, the definitive travel book on any region. Well researched and "illustrated." As always, great period pieces and beautiful slices of history.

Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2010. First edition. Original Wraps, with illustration. Very Good in Wraps. Small octavo, pp 190, plus 2 pages in publishers literature.. A great example from the Krause Publications Library Press with a quirky illustration on the front cover. We have in inventory a large selection of these 1960's and 1970's "adult fiction" titles. Please consult our website for further listings.

Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1994. First edition. Gilt, Embossed Full Leather. Near Fine, no DJ. Quarto, pp. 230. Illustrated with numerous b/w and color photos. Limited edition, No. 1188 of 1,500). Special limited edition of this well-researched history of this beloved baseball team, signed by the author of the foreword, Brooks Robinson.

Newark, NJ: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1925. Original edition. Cloth over Boards, Bright Yellow. Good condition. Quarto, xxi index, pp 602. Detailed b/w illustrations on every page.. An extensive, detailed catalog of tools, milling machinery, cabinets, furnaces, stools, and many more items required for construction, manufacturing, and industrial uses. Very scarce!

London: Oxford University Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Very Good, mild ex-library. Folio (10 x 13), pp. 118 w/ 4 plates (1 color, 3 b/w). No other copies listed in USA! Childrens book about the Bank of England

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1945. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good, mild ex-library. Ex-library, hardbound, no DJ. Octavo. pp. iv, 86. 19 fold-out ship's plans (plate #11 of 20 missing). An interesting piece of U.S. Naval history, documenting the officers and ships of the U.S. Navy that served in the Barbary Wars..

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good in Good DJ, mild ex-lib in dj acetate. Octavo, pp. vii, 162, indexed, 143 black/white illustrations by the author. History of barn building techniques in the 18th & 19th centuries; explores wide variety of architectural styles and shapes..

Dessau, Germany: Bauhaus Dessau, 1993. Original Wraps. Fine. Quarto (9 x13), pp. 52, many color and b/w photos, some ads in back. very scarce (not another copy on the market currently). An early statement on the arts and architecture after the fall of the East Bloc wall.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1938. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Very Good+ in tattered DJ . Octavo, pp. xiv, 318, indexed. Very nice copy of scarce and important anthology of comments by Harvard scholars on the question of America entering the war against the Axis powers. This copy inscribed as a gift by Reg and Julia Phelps, Harvard Dean, art scholar, teacher, and museum curator

Chicago. IL: Masonite Corporation, 1950 (circa). Brochure w/Illustrated Cover. Near Fine. Oblong quarto brochure, pp 7. b/w photos and illustrations on every page.. An explanation of what and how masonite board was created and its many uses in construction.

Cincinnati: Benziger Brothers, 1871. First edition. Purple velvet covered cloth over boards, most of the velvet missing from front cover, present on back. Cross medallion on front cover. Decorated metal clip, gilt edges.. Very Good (but one page in Anhang mostly torn out). 12 Mo (3 x 4 3/4),pp. 382 plus 62 pp. Anhang, illustrated w b/w engravings, some full-page and tissue-protected.

Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag, 1969. First edition. Linen. Very Good, mild ex-library. 8° (octavo), pp. 308. Olwd. Büchereistempel auf Schnitt, Bibilotheksschild am Rücken, sonst ausgezeichneter ZustandHerausgegeben von Historische Kommission des Börsenvereins zu Leipzig. Herausgegeben von Historische Kommission des Börsenvereins zu LeipzigBeiträge: Christa Schwarz: Die Stellung der sowjetischen Belletristik im deutschen Verlagsschaffen 1917 bis 1933, Harry Fauth. Zur Geschichte des Jungbuchhandels in Deutschland 1923 bis 1933, Horst Hoffmann: Bibliographien und Verlage der deutschsprachigen Exil-Literatur 1933 bis 1945

Stuttgart: Erhard Walther, Verlag für Nationalsozialistische Schriften, 1933. First edition. Cardboard Covers. Very Good. 8° (Octavo), pp. 86, Opbd mit Titelillustration. Beschabt und etw. bestoßen, Papier altersbedingt gebräunt, sonst sehr ordentliches Exemplar.. Karl Grunsky gehört zu den bekanntesten Nazionalsozialistischen Historikern. Diese Ausgabe, erschienen im Jahre 1933, vergleicht die Judenpolitik des NS Regiemes mit der des 16. Jahrhunderts.Einzig weltweit verfügbares Exemplar!

Berlin: C. Fischer Verlag, 1954. First edition (Stockholmer Gesamtausgabe). Publisher's cloth. Good in Good DJ. Octavo, pp. 442, text in German. First edition in a decent dustjacket of a Mann classic.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. First edition. Boards. Very Good in Chipped/Torn (Price-Clipped) DJ. Octavo, pp. 633, indexed, illustrated with 104 half tones and 42 line cuts.. This is the first full-length biography of America's first professional architect and a valuable contribution to American cultural history. Making full use of the voluminous Latrobe papers - letter books, journals, sketchbooks, and drawings - the author has produced a living and vivid record of a fascinating character. Latrobe was not only a brilliant architect and the designer of many of the most distinguished buildings in the United States, but also an artist and engineer, a man with a creative imagination far ahead of his time.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1926. Third edition reprinted from 2nd London edition from 1853. Dark Blue Vellum. Very Good. 12mo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2). pp xxxi, 427; ix, 875. with a few b/w plates.. second edition introduction by Aldous Huxley. Haydon was English artist specializing in biblical subjects.

Stockbridge, MA: Cottage Press, Inc., 1984. Sixth edition. Paperback. Very Good in Wraps. Octavo, pp. 240, indexed, illustrated in b/w & color. . Book is about the the Berkshire Cottages and acts as an historical guide to these beautiful homes. This was the country seat of the rich during the Gilded Age and it was called the American Lake District (home of poets and authors) before that. Among the many cottages, Edith Wharton's The Mount is discussed.

Duesseldorf: Droste, 1989. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 12mo (5 x 7"). pp.308. Series of travel descriptions about Berlin, from 1505 to 1980s. Well illustrated, with sources. In German (even Thomas Wolffe's report about the Oluympics in Berlin in 1936.. A lovely little compendium on an important European capital.

Berlin: Ausstellung der Landesbildstelle Berlin, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps (softbound) with illustrated front cover.. Very Good. Ocatavo, pp. Not paginated, 86 pages, an exhibition catalog from the archives of Berlin, dozens of b/w photographs of Berlin during WWII. Text in German. . Rare, Richly photoillustrated in black and white. Scarce title documenting the post war turbulence in Berlin. Scarce title.

Berlin: W. Spemann, 1898. Second edition. Cloth over Boards. Very Good+, light edgewear, inscription, "C. Lemcke," dated 1899. Octavo, pp. 463, profusely illustrated w/ b/w plates.