Search Results: Titles starting with B from Great Northern Books

1998: Faber and Faber, 1998. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, the late husband of Sylvia Plath, addresses the poems in Birthday Letters to Plath. The poems were written over a period of more than twenty-five years. Ships from USA

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. First printing. Thirty-two essays by the New Yorker magazine humorist. Dustjacket design by Paul Bacon. Edgewear to dustjacket else a clean unmarked copy.

New York: New Directions, 1971. Second printing. Trade Paperback. Good. A single long poem of linked verses, hand lettered and illustrated with Ferlinghetti's "doodles." Small gift inscription on inside front cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 1993:May. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. Text by Steven Grant and illustrations by Vincent Giarrano. Also includes an introduction by Frank Miller. A story inspired by the JFK assassination. A clean, umarked copy.

Cincinnati: Procter & Gamble Co., 1920. Paperback. Very Good +. Promotional cookbook featuring Procter & Gamble Company's 'Crisco' cooking fat. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. SIGNED IN FULL BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. Author's second novel. British dustjacket design very different from American dustjacket. A clean unmarked copy, ships from USA.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First printing. SIGNED IN FULL BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. Author's second novel, Small label shadow on front free endpaper, jacket price clipped, else a clean unmarked copy.

London: Macmillan, 1891. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A collection of German ballads, selected and arranged with notes and literary introduction by C.A. Buchheim. Introduction and notes in English, poems in German. Ex-library rebound with usual markings.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First printing. Translated, edited, with an introduction and notes by Stanley Rabinowitz. Includes black & white illustrations, glossary of names, bibliographic references, and index. A few pages have folded corners, else a clean, unmarked copy lacking a dustjacket.

New York: Viking, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a tipped in page. The nineteenth book in the Lynley Havers mystery series. A clean unmarked copy.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishering, 1972:April 13. First publication. Periodical. Good. The first appearance of "The Banshee Screams in Florida," by Hunter S. Thompson, later collected in the books," Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: the Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson" and "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail." Thompson covered the 1972 presidential election for Rolling Stone. Spine edge is tattered but still a complete, intact copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. The second volume of poetry but the recent National Book Award winning author. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Chicago: Time, Inc., 1969:June 6. Life Magazine v.66:no.22. Periodical. Good. The cover story, a fourteen page article, mostly photgraphs, on the Apollo 10 mission that was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 moon landing, in the June 6th, 1969, issue of Life Magazine, v.66:no.22, the full issue. Also includes the two page article, "Jockey With an Eye for Intrigue, Close Up / Dick Francis." Edgewear to bottom pages, not affecting text, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. New. Latest novel by the author of English Creek and Dancing at the Rascal Fair.

New York: Library of America, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. An intelligently selected and diverse collection of the best baseball poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. A clean unmarked copy.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. The author tells the story of the Pacific War from the viewpoint of the Japanese .Includes Japanese map endpapers, maps, black and white illustrations, index, and bibliography

Lawrence : University of Kansas Press, 1999. Seventh Printing. Trade Paperback. very good +. The Battle of Kursk was one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses." [from publisher] Includes black and white illustrations, bibliography, index, and maps. A clean, unmarked copy.

Lawrence : University of Kansas Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. "The Battle of Kursk was one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses. Going well beyond all previous accounts, Glantz and House now offer the definitive work on arguably the greatest battle of World War II." [from publisher] Includes numerous black and white illustrations, bibliography, index, and maps. A clean, unmarked copy.

Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair. 244 pages including map endpapers, numerous illustrations, charts, maps, portraits, and index. Dustjacket is chipped and rubbed along edges with slight foxing. Book itself is clean and unmarked.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Advance Reading Copy/Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Includes a glossy black & white publicity photograph laid in. Seventh novel by the National Book Award winning author. A clean, unmarked copy.