Search Results: Titles starting with B from Crooked House Books & Paper

New York: Frederick Warne & Co LTD. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Evans, Edmund. Pictorial paper with backed in brown cloth, 12mo, 56 pages, engraved and printed in color by Edmund Evans; boards are a bit worn, especially visible to corners, pages are clean and illustrations are bright. A book of old rhymes with new dresses by the earliest masters. 0

London: Fulcrum Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Full tan boards under brown dust jacket, 9-1/2" x 6-1/4", 112 pp. Turning in to head of spine, minor fading to spine panel of jacket, a nice copy overall. Fulcrum did a limited edition of this, but this copy is the trade edition.

New Directions, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First US edition (simultaneous with UK edition.) Full green cloth with black lettering to spine, under pictorial dust jacket, 8-1/4" x 5-1/2", 128 pp. Very minor toning to white rear panel of DJ.

Brentano's, from The Alexander Kogan Publishing Company sheets, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bakst, Leon. Signed by Illustrator(s). Limited numbered edition of 250 copies for America; tipped-in signature of Leon Bakst to half-title page; large photo of Bakst tipped in to front endpaper. Full vellum binding, decorative lettering to front board, five raised panels to spine with decorations and lettering in compartments; 14-1/2" tall; 240 pp. Modest warping to boards, moderate foxing to boards and some leaves, discoloration to front endpaper opposite photograph; hinges professionally repaired. -- A beautiful production for one of the most celebrated artists of his day, who was mostly known for his costume & set design for Sergei Diaghilev & the Ballets Russes. The pencil signature is dated the year of his death (he died December, 1924); the photograph is of Bakst late in life, casually dressed, perhaps in a robe. Additional postage required for international shipping, book… Read More

Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Light blue cloth boards under pictorial DJ, priced at 15s net. Fading to cloth spine, light wear to DJ spine ends.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1920. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Williams, J Scott. Pictorial paper cover backed in brown cloth with black titles, 12mo, 300 pages, illustrated throughout by J Scott Williams; boards show wear to edges and are dust soiled, hinges repaired with Japanese tissue tape, many pages are still uncut. A handsome copy of this collection of musical history of Old New York with beautiful endpapers and illustrations by J Scott Williams.

Routledge, 2008-08-11. paperback. Like New. 8x0x11. Fine copy, appears unread.

New York: Macmillan, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed by Author(s). First printing stated, signed and inscribed by the author on half title page; 8vo, 256 pages, photographic illustrations, maps in endpapers. Boards worn at extremities with bumped top corners, slight lean to spine; dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with some yellowing on rear, now in protective mylar cover. Autobiography of the first solo pilot to pass directly over the true North Pole in a light aircraft.

Applewood Books, 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Barks, Carl. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover, full black cloth with gilt lettering & decoration to cover, gold embossed dust jacket, 10" x 9-3/4". "Stock Certificate", essentially the colophon, signed by Barks laid in. A series of 40 tipped-in plates extending and rounding out Barks' great work with Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Kredel, Fritz. Pictorial paper covered boards in matching dust jacket, 12mo, 62 pages, two color illustrations throughout; mild bump to top rear corner, price clipped dust jacket in protective mylar cover. An attractive copy of one of the beautiful Peter Pauper Press vintage books.

Viking Press, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Full blue cloth with white & black lettering and decoration, 8-1/4" x 5-1/2", 148 pp. Edgewear to boards, light stain to rear board. Gift plate "With best wishes to French's on the opening of Oregon for sale of liquor by the drink." from White Rock Bottle Co. in Portland. Measure 15 (1952) allowed liquor to be sold in Oregon by the drink, ending one of the last effects of Prohibition in the state. In addition to the cocktail recipes, there are introductory essays on the history of various drinks.

New York: Random House, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing; 4to, 1485 pages, black and white photo of bust of Aristotle at frontis. Occasional dust soiling or age spots, previous owner's bookplate in front endpaper, clipped dust jacket is rubbed and edge worn with a couple of small closed edge tears, now in protective mylar cover. A handsome copy. Large and heavy book, extra shipping charges may apply.

Jonathan Cape, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, magenta batik boards under typographic dust jacket, 7-3/4" x 5-1/2", 287 pp. Rubbing and some wear to jacket, book itself shows minimal use. A noted author of his day, he married Conrad Aiken's ex-wife, thus becoming young Joan Aiken's stepfather.

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Signed by Author(s). Miniature hardcover; one of 75 copies; 3 x 2.25 inches; v, 46, [1] pages; signed by the author on colophon. Bound in decorative paper with title on paper label pasted to spine, hint of wear at extremities, else fine. Beach-La-Mar is an English based pidgen, spoken by some in the South Pacific. It was once more widely used, primarily by the islanders dealing regularly European and English speaking merchants.

London: Ferret Fantasy Lrd, 1974. Soft cover. Fine. Sime, S.H. Quarto, stapled orange wraps with black lettering. Edition of 500 copies. A fan-issued reprint of the basis of Bogey Beasts, which was the original appearance in The Sketch magazine as "The Sime Zoology." All 12 images from the magazine, some with improvements, and with four on the same page as originally issued. Minor fading to edges.

Sudbury, MA: Kurbel Books, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Miniature hardcover in card stock slipcase; Deluxe edition of 200 numbered copies of which this is 043; 2.5 x 2.5 inches; accordion fold; unpaginated; 12 illustrated pages, 11 of which are in color plus 4 pages of 20c dog stamps. Cream leather (goat) boards with blue titles to spine, marbled end papers, tiny exlibris book plate in front end paper for [Kalman} Levitan (co-founder of the Miniature Book Society), red stock slipcase with tiny color paste-down illustration to front, edges of slipcase are lightly creased, else no notable flaws. This little fold-out book is amazing and adorable! The artist E. Helene Sherman was occasionally visited by a toy poodle named Beau Pierre, and she made this little book to honor him. Ten pages numbered 1-0 each with a different illustration of Beau being the dog he is, followed by four pages of beautiful stamps of different breeds of dogs.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth, 12mo, 373 pages; inscription in elegant pen on front free endpaper; attractively illustrated dust jacket a bit soiled and edge worn. The fifth installment in the Beau Geste series, chronicling the adventures of the men of the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. From the dust jacket: "Against the background of color- the red and blue uniforms of the Legion, the flaming desert, the green of the oasis- is this gallant theme: a man running desperate risks to save the husband of the woman he loves- a soldier's heroism in a barbarous and terrible country".

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Full red leather decorated with gilt. Banded spine. All edges gilt. Moire end papers. Ribbon bookmark. Fresh, unopened binding. 335 pages. Handsome special limited edition reprint of Hersey's 1944 novel which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels.

Covici Friede Publishers, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Wallace Smith is best known in Oregon as the illustrator of the Pendleton Round-Up poster (you know the one). However, he was also an author. This novel of a Chicago prostitute was published in England a year after the American edition, but was declared indecent & banned there. Later editions were printed in Paris by the Obelisk Press. This indecent ruling was despite the lifting of the ban on Ulysses in 1933 which generally indicated a loosening of such restrictions. Unlike the sexy cover of the 1950s pulp paperback reprint by Berkley, this cover art has just a subtle reference to the red-light content of the book. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. Foxing to page edges, toning to endpapers; DJ has short closed tear & associated crease to bottom of rear panel. A stunning example of an exceedingly scarce book, important in the history of the suppression of modernist literature, and for being an early modern novel about a sex worker.

New York: Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint; red cloth with black title blocks, 12mo, 517 pages, Toledano binding style 8, Kent endpapers, 344 titles inside dust jacket; name at top of front endpaper, dust jacket has light edge wear and faint crease from head to tail of spine.