Search Results: Titles starting with S from Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA

Easton Press, 1994. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed. As New, in publisher's original shrinkwrap. 1994. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Lois McMaster Bujold. Full color illustration by Pat Morrissey. Introduction by James Gunn. Full bound in hunter green leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

Henry Perkins, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Hardcover, 1840, Henry Perkins. 140 pages. Full bound brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and design to spine. Fair condition - boards faded and worn, with ring marks to front, ink splash at midpoint of left front board, and two 1/2 inch tears to cloth on rear exposing underlying board. Foxed throughout. Previous owner's name in very light pencil to front free endpaper "Miss N Lane(?) / Canterbury / Orange Co / N.Y." The town of Canterbury (now known as Cornwall On Hudson) is a few miles north of West Point, on the west bank of the Hudson. "Fred W Haida Collection" stamped to title page. Research shows bibliographic references to Sabin 58634 that apparently calls for folding map at front; no map present in this copy. "Hallowed by the footsteps of Washington and Kosciuszko, adorned by nature with surpassing variety of scenery, consecrated by a nation to the Spartan-like training of her chosen youth for… Read More

Naval Institute Press, 1998-06-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x6x1. Signed. Hardcover. Naval Institute Press 1998 reprint of the original 1940 text. With a new introduction by historian Geoffrey Footner, the author's son. Signed by Geoffrey Footner, with a birthday greeting to a friend, on the title page. In Very Good condition, with just a little dustiness and light spotting to top edge of page block.

Listening Library (Audio), 2004-11-23. Audio Cassette. Good. The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman; second in the Sally Lockhart series. Published by Recorded Books. Unabridged audiobook on 6 cassettes. Narrated by Anton Lesser. A retired library copy, with typical markings; case and cassettess in good condition.

Connecticut Printers, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, 1951, 95 pages. Full bound blue cloth boards, with gilt lettering to front and spine. Sticker remnant to upper right front board. Ex-lib, with "Return to General Public Utilities Corp Files" stamped to front free endpaper. Index card stapled to front free endpaper, with accession note written in pencil beneath. Bookplate with 'From the Library of Edward W Morehouse June 1962' to front pastedown (ie, inside front cover). Morehouse was vice-president of the General Public Utilities Corporation from 1940 to 1961. Biography of Samuel Ferguson, President and then Chairman of the Hartford Electric Light Company from 1924 to 1950.

HarperCollins, 2013-02-28. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. Signed. Hardcover, UK, 1st printing. Signed in full with no inscription on title page. Fine hardcover, Full bound in black cloth boards with silver lettering to the spine. Clean inside and out; binding solid and square. A period murder mystery set in British Manhattan in 1778, against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War.

Underwood Books, 1988. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 0x0x0. Signed. AS NEW hardcover, signed, limited and in slipcase. Underwood-Miller, 1988. Signed by the author on the limitation page and numbered #31 of 250. Fine hardcover, full bound brown boards with dark brown lettering to the spine. Clean inside and out; binding is solid and square. Unclipped dust jacket is in Fine condition. Cover art by Jon J Muth. Slipcover is in Fine condition, with light blue faux suede material. As New, collector's grade copy.

Frederick A Stokes Company, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed. Inscribed and signed by the author in full to the front free endpaper. Apparent first printing of Frederick A Stokes reprint edition from 1943; originally published by Lippincott in 1937. Illustrated by Robert Ball. Very Good hardcover, no dustjacket, 112 pages; clean with solid binding; some edgewear to extremities. Full bound blue cloth boards, with black lettering to front board and spine; black line drawing of the Rosewood Box to front board. Very clean inside and out; spine slightly darkened, and some minor rippling; binding solid and square. Some wear to head and heel of spine. Outer corners show some wear, in a few small spots down to the board.

Underwood Miller, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 0x0x0. Signed. As New collector grade copy. Limitation page bound in to Volume 1, signed and limited 61/500. Three hardcovers in a slipcase, all in As New condition. Full bound black cloth boards with red and gilt lettering to front boards and spines. No dust jackets, as issued. Marbled endpapers. Some light rubbing to bottom of the slip case, from shelf contact; otherwise in Fine condition. Collects 97 short stories in three volumes.

Rapture. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Paperback, no date but circa 1970? A scarce title, in Good condition, Some general surface wear and rubbing. Binding is solid and square, with no creasing to the spine. However, the red ink of the spine has almost entirely faded so that white lettering of the title is barely visible. Touch of fading to spot at upper left corner of front cover. A Rapture Novel - "The Finest In Adult Reading". The Receptor is a technological breakthrough that records the full senses of an actor - not just what they see and hear, but all the physical sensations of touch and smell and taste, the actor's emotions - even their very thoughts. Naturally, the device is immediately turned to the production of pornography. A very scarce SF sleaze PB, highly collectible even with the faded spine.

Recorded Books, 2008. Audiobook. Fair. Unabridged audiobook on 12 CDs, read by George Guidall. Approximately 13.5 hours. Ex-library with typical wear and markings. Plot description: "Author Terry Scarborough's new book suggests a strong link between slavery and the United States Constitution. Stirring a media frenzy, sales skyrocket and Scarborough hints that his next book will reveal even more dark secrets through a letter written by Thomas Jefferson himself. But on the day of his scheduled press conference, he is found murdered in his hotel room. A young man with neo-nazi connections has been charged, and veteran lawyer Paul Madriani takes the case. But when he uncovers a connection between the letter, Scarborough, and a Supreme Court justice, Madriani thinks his client may have been set up.

Thorndike Press, 2009-03-04. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, Large Print, ISBN 1410413195. Ex-library, but only indicator is stamp to rear free endpaper, and very light mark where sticker was removed from bottom of spine. Otherwise, book looks like new. From Publishers Weekly: "Manhattan publicist Aimee Albert, who is Jewish and whose first love, Sam, died during 9/11, has just split with her goy boyfriend Peter McKnight. Desperate for a Jewish husband and children reared in the faith, Aimee, relying on an imagined Jewish male penchant for non-Jewish women (shiksas), loses mega poundage on a Depression Diet, straightens and dyes her dark hair red, pops in green contacts and becomes a Shiksa Barbie.... Graff's prose crackles with winning wit, making her potentially annoying conceit go down like a chocolate-covered macaroon.

Ann Arbor Media Group, 2007-05. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Hardcover, ISBN 1587264307, 200 pages with bibliography. Book is retired library copy with typical markings. Full bound black boards and gilt lettering to spine. Binding is solid and square. Dustjacket in Fair condition, with library sticker to lower spine and upper left rear corner; front and rear inner flaps attached to boards; wrinkling to two pages. A fascinating history of the deep water Great Lakes wreck divers - men like David Trotter, John Steele and Paul Ehorn. It also tells the highly personal story of Danny Fader and his ill-fated last wreck dive, 200 feet down on the 1840's side wheel steamer Detroit. It is a story of bravery and the quest for a dream, of skill and experience pitted against an unforgiving environment that can kill in mere seconds. It is a story of luck, and what happens when the luck runs out.

Ann Arbor Media Group, 2007-05. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover, ISBN 1587264307, 200 pages with bibliography. Book is in Fine codition, with full bound black boards and gilt lettering to spine. Binding is solid and square. Dustjacket in Very Good condition, with two small indents to front panel, crease to upper corner of front flap, and vertical crease to rear flap. A fascinating history of the deep water Great Lakes wreck divers - men like David Trotter, John Steele and Paul Ehorn. It also tells the highly personal story of Danny Fader and his ill-fated last wreck dive, 200 feet down on the 1840's side wheel steamer Detroit. It is a story of bravery and the quest for a dream, of skill and experience pitted against an unforgiving environment that can kill in mere seconds. It is a story of luck, and what happens when the luck runs out.

Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1993-03. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature. Hardcover, 1993, ISBN 0879726121. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Light general wear, previous owner's name to front pastedown (ie, inside front cover). 174 pages with bibilography; each of the thirteen articles include notes and works cited. "[An] anthology of essays whib explore maanifestations of the significance of sibling realtionships in literature - and most particularly, the way in which that sibling bond has been articulated by women writers.... We have organized them according to the various types of sibling relationships - the only born, brothers and sisters, twins, and sisters. Our hope is that, taken together, they will provide a continuing dialog on the importance of birth order and the significance of sibling relationships in the formation of the individual." Includes discussions of Mallory's Works and… Read More

Cutchogue, New York, U.S.A: Buccaneer Books, 1976. First Thus. Hard Cover. As New. As new condition, no DJ as issued.

New Britian, Connecticut, U.S.A: Lexington Books, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Type: Review Copy As New, review copy with publisher's sheet laid in. 304 pp with chapter notes, bibliography and index. "[C]aptures in one volume everything an intelligent marketer needs to know about this powerful research technology: why it's important; what are the differences between simulated test marketing sytems; how to do a simple simulation; even the equations employed by researchers to make their forecasts.

Self, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri and Great Plains. Embracing the Author's Personal Recollections of Noted Frontier Characters, and some Observations of Wild Indian Life during a Twenty-Five Years' Residence in the Two Dakotas and other Territories, Between the Years 1864 and 1889." Howes T-68, Graff 4091. Pottstown, PA: Scarce: self-published by the Author and printed in a small quantity on a hand press, 1889. 1st edition. 200 pp. The Contents lists 21 illustrations, of which 2 are not found (Painted Woods Lake, and The Eagles). 5.25" x 8". There are three illustrations present that are not listed in the Contents (Aricaree Women and Children, White Chief North's Arapahoe Renegades Attack A Train, and Crow Flies High). And there are 19 illustrations that are listed in the Contents and present in the text (Son of the Star, Joseph Taylor, To the Land of Deseret, Distant View of Black Hills, Aricaree Hunting… Read More

CRC Press, 2004-11-30. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. ISBN 0824759494. Dekker; New York, 2005. 527 pages, with index. Ex-library, with label at bottom of spine, cardpocket to rear, stamps to front endpapers and page block fore edge. Binding solid and square, with no underlining or other markings. Collects 42 contributors, covering 24 distinct subject categories: historical perspective, animal models, total/partial deprivation and fragmentation, extrinsic factors (shift work, medication, etc), intrinsic factors (metabolic, physiological and neurophysiological, immunologic, genetic, etc), and so on.

Recorded Books, 2008. Audio Cassette. Good. Unabridged audiobook on 12 cassettes, approximately 14.25 hours. Narrated by Victor Slezak. Retired library copy, with normal markings; case and cassettes in good condition. "Five years ago, a fire erupted at the Charlestown, South Carolina, police station. Thanks to the hard work of four officers, only seven people died. But were the policemen truly heroes? ... A gripping tale of betrayal and disception, Smoke Screen examines how far the powerful will go in order to cover up their crimes.