Search Results: Titles starting with B from McBlain Books

Six items bound together in a single volume. Contemporary vellum. 21cm. Moderate cover warping. Tear at head of front joint. Modest worming on a few leaves. A couple of blank corners missing, Contents generally sound with various bits of wear, etc. [1st item]: Lipsiae & Francofurti: Joh. Cap. Meyeri, 1695 for first part and Lipsiae: Joh. Casp. Meieri, 1694 for second part -- there is no third part. 7 (of 10) folding tables, [22], 279, 199p. Lacks leaf Q1 (pp. 121/122) in first part. Old ink underlinings on a handful of leaves. [2nd item]: Kiloni: Gottfried Liebezeit, 1696. 3 folding tables, 196p. [OCLC listing shows [12] unnumbered pages at end which are not present here. [3rd item]: Lipsiae: Joh. Casp. Meyeri, 1699. 2 folding tables, [8], 156p. [4th item]: Lipsiae Joh. Caspari Meyeri, 1691. 3 folding tables, [8], 268, [64]p. [5th item]: Wittenbergae: Typis & Sumptibus Fincelianis, 1666. [6], [3]-166p. One leaf missing (pp. 1/2). [6th item]: Wittenbergae: Typis & Sumptibus Fincelianis, 1666. [8], 126,… Read More

Baltimore: Barnard, Roberts, 1994. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, photos, 207p. 28cm. No Jacket. SIGNED on title-page by Roberts.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. 32, 372p. Original blue cloth. 21cm. Reprinted from the 1918 edition.

Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good. xxxii, 372p. Rebound (blue quarterbinding). 24cm. Some pages lightly browned. Some red ink underlining and marginal markings. French text.

Beijing: Wen wu chu ban she: Xin huan shu dian jing xiao, 1998. Di 1 ban. Hardcover. Fine. illustrations (black & white), 211p. Hardcover in slipcase. 36cm. Almost as new. No jacket (presumably as published). Chinese text. English translation of the captions for the 492 illustrations at pages 193-208 followed by a brief English summary on pages 209-210. English title on back cover of book and slipcase: Stone engravings and decorated bricks of Han Dynasty in Sichuan.

n.p., 1922. Paperback. Very Good. (8)p. introductory material plus 36p. photos and (2)p. adverts. Original tied wrapper. Oblong 18cm. Head of backstrip chipped. SIGNED by Harriz (signature dated Nov. 22, 1922). Souvenir Booklet.

Very Good. 26 x 19 cm. Photo No. 287937 dated 2/3/26 from Wide World Photos. From the printed information mounted on back: "Whippet tanks operated by the Kentucky State Militiamen with machine gunners and bombers were scattered throughout Lexington yesterday to prevent any attempt to lynch Ed Harris, negro who was sentenced to death for the slaying of Clarence W-Bryant [sic] and his two children and the assault of the dead man's wife. There were no disorders and the Negro was sentenced to death sixteen minutres after court convened." He was executed by hanging a month later, having said, according to the New York Times, "I'm prepared to go. My sin was great, but I prayed and overcame it."

New York: Carlton & Phillips, 1853. Hardcover. Good. map, 211p. Hardcover in contemporary quarterbinding. 15 cm. Head of backstrip chipped. Foxing.

Syracuse: Just's Food Co, 1901. Paperback. Very Good. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. (24)p. Tied softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Embossed cover. Printed in New York by Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press -- information at bottom of last printed page. Unused.

New York: Brentano's, 1921. Paperback. Fair. ciii, 300p. Softcover in original wrapper (Shaw's image on green front, rest of wrapper white with green print). 19cm. Wrapper split at front joint and also chipped and rather worn. Spine concave. Contents sound and clean. "Ready about May 25" on front flap and "Order Now" on back flap. Written in pencil on page facing title-page is "Review not to be released until after June 1st."

Calcutta: Calcutta Standing Congress Committee, 1899. Paperback. Very Good. 36, (iv)p. Wrapper. 25cm.

Graz: Akademische Druck u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. maps, xiii, 255. Original cloth. 28 cm. Ex. lib. (M.I.T., with wiithdrawn stamp). Later owner's name stamp. No jacket. Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan, Vol. 1.

Baghdad: The Government Press, 1922. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. vii, 114p. Hardcover in green paper-covered boards which are backed in blue cloth. 19 cm. Cover lettering worn but still readable. Former owner's name ("Ismail Seid Dostki") on front free endpaper. Endpapers split along hinges. No jacket (did it ever have one?). An uncommon linguistic item. OCLC locates about a dozen holdings.

New York: Harcouart Brace Jovanovich, 1992. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 229p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 23 cm. Black remainder mark on top edge of pages. Signed on title-page by Naylor (in 2006). Popular novel. Enthusiastic blurb on jacket from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Hudson, N.Y.: Sampson, Chittenden & Croswell, 1802. Good. An 8-page weekly newspaper (pages 201-208). Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 29cm. Later horizontal fold. Leaves separating at fold. Includes this brief note on page 206: "Authentic intelligence is received, via Norfolk, that the negroes in Hartford [probably Hertford?] County, N. C. were embodied on the 10th inst and under arms ; and that they had committed great havoc. In short, the whites throughout the state are much alarmed." This uncommon newspaper ceased publication in 1807 and is perhaps most remembered for its early use and definition of the word cocktail in one of their 1806 issues.

Hamden: Archon Books, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. index, x, 338p. Original blue cloth. 23 cm. No jacket. Originally published in 1942 as Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XXVI, Nos. 1-4.

Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1988. Paperback. Near Fine. 196p. Wrapper. 24cm. Published twice a year. This issue contains papers from the First Greek-French Symposium at Thessaloniki, Oct. 1987 which was titled "La France, la Grece et les Balkans dans les Annees Trente."

London: Luzac & Co, 1932. Illustrated Small Format Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 3 polo miniatures in color (including frontis), 31p. Green cloth. Gilt lettering on front cover. 22cm. No Jacket. First published in 1931 but with no illustrations.

New Haven: The Profile Press, 1931. Paperback. Very Good. (6) unnumbered, Softcover in original stapled wrapper. 22 cm. "Being part eighteen of The New Yale Guide, to be issued in twenty parts for subscribers A. & W. Head, 21 Broadway, New Haven, Ct. where subscriptions up to the total of one hundred will be accepted."

n. p., 1960. Paperback. Very Good. Heireman, Luis Alberto. Ballads of the Blind Man: A Play in two acts. n.p: n.d. Translation of "Versos de ciego" into English by Virginia L. Iverson. 81p. Typescript (a few copies were probably prepared). Text on one side. Stapled softcover in plain covers. 33 cm. A section of duplicated text is crossed out on pages 20-21. The play was first performed in Santiago, Chile on April 26, 1961 by the Teatro de Ensayo of the Catholic University of Chile, then by the same company at Teatro Espanol in Madrid on June 19, 1961 and in the Teatro Vieux Colombier, Paris on June 23, 1961 or the Fifith International Festival of the Theatre of Nations. OCLC locates two holdings (Univ of Miami and Univ. of Texas at Austin) of a 92 page version of Iversion's translation but no copies of this 81 page version.