Search Results: Authors starting with A from B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA

New York: Harper Collins, 1991 First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Aaron on 2/22/91 in blue marker to the front endpaper. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. An excellent copy, in an unclipped dust jacket with the spine ends lightly bumped, else fine. Aaron's career with the Negro leagues was rather short lived, playing with the Indianapolis Clowns for a mere three months in 1951 when his exceptional performance was quickly recognized with offers from the New York Giants and Milwaukee Braves. A contract difference of $50 is all that kept Aaron from joining Willie Mays and the Giants in New York. By 1954 and gaining more experience in the minor leagues, Aaron made his major league appearance with the Braves and his new teammates, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn. After only four seasons, Aaron helped lead the Braves in 1957 to a 7 -ame World Series Championship over Casey Stengel's New York Yankees and winning the NL MVP the same year. The next three years, the hard hitting… Read More

New York City: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1929 Illustrated with 48 full-page drawings and pictorial flyleaves by Katharine Beverley and Elizabeth Ellender. First edition. Publisher's red cloth, front board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Good, with light fading to spine, some staining and soiling to cloth, moderate to heavy dimming to front board and spine, very light spotting to endpapers, small closed tear to top edges of first three pages in book, and light scattered soiling to pages. Overall, a sturdy copy, with striking illustrations. The Snow Queen is one of Hans Christian Andersen's longest and most beloved stories. In it, two children, Kai and Gerda, are separated when Kai is taken away in a sleigh by the cold-hearted Snow Queen. Gerda travels far and wide to find her friend, encountering a sorceress, a raven, a reindeer, and other intriguing characters along the way. The Snow Queen was the inspiration for the animated Disney sensation, Frozen (2013), which won Academy Awards… Read More

Paris: Blanchard, 1816 With a frontispiece and additional engraved title page. Second edition. Contemporary tan sheepskin, ruled in blind to boards and stamped in gilt to spine with red leather spine label lettered in gilt, edges tooled in gilt, green silk marker present. A very good copy with some wear to extremities, bottom edge of front hinge gently starting, bookplate with Patris-Cougousse coat of arms to front pastedown. This short biography of King Louis XVII (1785-1795) tells the story of the young king who spent nearly half of his short life in prison. Recognized as a duke at birth, Louis XVII would be named King of France at age eight, after the death of his father. Despite the title, the young king had been imprisoned when France was declared a Republic by revolutionaries the year before, and would remain so until his death just three years later, at the age of ten.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Targ Editions, 1981 Limited first edition, first printing. One of 250 copies signed by Asimov on the limitation page, this being number 11. Publisher's Belgian linen over flexible boards, with blue titles label to front board, blue decorated endpapers, and J. Barcham Greene's handmade paper; in its original onion skin dust jacket. About fine book, with just few light spots of staining to boards; very good dust jacket, with light edgewear, a small chip to foot of spine, a small hole to bottom left of front panel, slightly nicked corners, and some light toning. Overall, a very handsome signed copy. This collection includes three science fiction stories previously published in magazines by Asimov: "The Last Answer," "True Love," and "Fair Exchange?" In these tales, a dead man meets a god-like entity called the Voice, a man uses an advanced computer program to find a romantic partner, and a Gilbert and Sullivan aficionado travels back in time to recover… Read More

New York: George L. Lockwood, [ca. 1870]. Three volumes. Illustrated with 155 hand-colored lithographic plates by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and John Wodehouse Audubon. Fourth octavo edition. Royal 8vo. Publisher's original full brown morocco, with elaborate design in blind to borders of boards, spines with five raised bands, gilt lettering, and decoration in blind, red marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Very good or better set, with light rubbing to spines (bright gilt) and corners, early 20th century ownership inscription by industrialist J. G. Bradley to front flyleaf of Vol. I, some occasional light staining and soiling to pages and plates, discrete repair to "Moose Deer" plate between pp. 178-179 in Vol. 2, and a closed tear to bottom edge of "Carolina Shrew" plate between pp. 176-177 in Vol. 2. Overall, a gorgeous set. First published as "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America" in 30 parts between 1845 and 1848, this was the last major… Read More

London: Robert Riviére & Son, [ca. 1934], 1898 Six titles bound in five volumes. Finely bound by Riviére, with half blue calf, blue marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands to spines with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, and tissue-guarded frontispieces to all volumes (Sense and Sensibility with frontispiece portrait of Austen, other volumes with frontispiece illustrations by William Cubitt Cooke). About fine set, with some toning to spines and top edges of boards, very mild edgewear, and some light ink staining to rear endpapers of Mansfield Park. Overall, a very well-preserved set that presents beautifully. This set includes Austen's six complete novels - Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818) - in five volumes (Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously, are included in the same volume). Austen is… Read More