Search Results: Authors starting with B from Charles Agvent

New York: Various publishers. First Edition and reprints. Hardcover. Two or three volumes with pages roughly opened resulting in a few tears. A bit of light wear and rubbing to corners and spine tips, but a Near Fine, bright set in an attractive binding. A collection of 9 books by Bacheller, some signed and some first editions, all uniformly bound in 3/4 red morocco leather and marbled boards with gilt rules, five raised bands, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Includes: DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES [Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company (1903)], First Edition, SIGNED by the author on the front blank; EBEN HOLDEN [New York: Harper & Brothers (1900) Reprint, part of the Pine Tree Edition of his Works] with a full-page SIGNED INSCRIPTION in 1918 to Edmund L. Dow "my friend and benefactor" on the front blank. In part: "I send this my first child and other members of my library family. You can rely upon them to sit quietly in a corner and speak only when they are spoken… Read More

[Edinburgh]: (Otto Schulze & Co.), n.d. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Some soiling to spine and edges; internally clean. Very Good. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-3/4") in cloth-backed boards. The third in the series of Early English Prose Romances, attractively illustrated by Harold Nelson. One of only 500 copies.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and about Fine clamshell box. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #834 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page.

London: Simon Miller, 1659. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing, pencil notes on endpapers; small chip to head of spine. Near Fine and very scarce. Small duodecimo (3-1/8" x 5-1/2") bound in early calf with gilt-ruled covers and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine; [xii], 51, [7 - ads] pages. First separate printing and First English Edition of Roger Bacon's letter to William of Paris that first appeared in Dee's BACON'S EPISTOLAE, published in Hamburg in 1618. Bacon begins this long essay denying the existence of magic, but concludes showing how to create a "Philosophers Egg." He writes about optics, gunpowder (Bacon is believed to have introduced gunpowder--a Chinese invention--to the West), and petroleum in warfare. Bacon makes some bold futurist statements such as “admirable Artificial Instruments” of locomotion (“It's possible to make a Chariot move with an inestimable swiftnesse and this motion to be without the help of any living creature”), of flight (“It's possible to make… Read More

New York: Random House, (1992). First Edition. Decorated wraps. Fine in plain brown paper sleeve. Advance Reading Copy in decorated wraps of this unlikely bestseller about phone sex.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Very thin, light remainder stripe on bottom edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's second book, a marvelous tour de force.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Poet's first full-length book, with the Lamont Prize card laid in. Balaban is best known now for his translations into English of Vietnamese poetry.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1979. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Burt Silverman. Bound in full brown decorated leather. The First SIGNED Limited edition of Baldwin's first book with a previously unpublished introduction by the author. Illustrated by Burt Silverman.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1981). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in orange wraps decorated with the publisher's logo of an early science fiction title by the author of CRASH.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First American Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in printed yellow wraps.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First American Edition. wraps. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof in light blue wraps by the author of CRASH.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Light rubbing to the spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the Atelier Beaufume in Paris. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Light wear. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the Atelier Beaufume in Paris. Copy #380 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Light wear to the spine tips with some fraying to the rear spine edge of the first volume. About Very Good, lacking the slipcase. W. A. Dwiggins. Three volumes bound in cloth-backed boards decorated by W. A. Dwiggins who also designed and decorated the book. Copy #1246 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page.

London: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Slight sunning to spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Of 1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered but labeled "Office Copy" with a presentation blindstamp by the publisher.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Fine in torn glassine in a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the Atelier Beaufume in Paris. Copy #258 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

London: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

Boston: Noyes, Platt & Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Early inscription mostly erased on the front endpaper. Light rubbing to cloth. Near Fine. Peter Newell. BAL 753: Second (Third?) printing. Cloth with an attractive color design by Peter Newell. Charmingly illustrated with 15 full-page color plates by Newell, creator of the even more charming THE HOLE BOOK. Early owner name and date mostly erased from front endpaper; a little rubbing to the covers.