Search Results: Authors starting with B from Parnassus Book Service

New York:Criterion Books, (1955). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. New York:Criterion Books. (1955). 1st edition. 381pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good condition, inside and out, with just slight soiling to top page edges and a bit of age-toning to end pages. No previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn along edges, with a bit of sun-fading to spine strip. It is not price clipped. *With an Introduction by Lionel Trillling.

Sovetsky Khudozhnik Publishers, 1982. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Sovetsky Khudozhnik Publishers. 1982. 247pp. + [List of illustrations, and list of artists]. Hardcover, in very good, clean condition. With a lightly soiled and shelf-worn dust jacket. A very good plus copy. Bi-lingual: Russian and English.

NY:Doubleday, Page & Co, 1906. hard cover. Very Good. NY:Doubleday, Page & Co. 1906. 442pp. + 34iilus. Rear hinge cracked but repaired; title on spine worn-off; otherwise, a very good clean tight copy. S006.

Gregg Press, 1966. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. (Farnborough, Hants., England): (Gregg Press). (1966). Hardcover, no jacket. 224pp. Reprint of Oxford, 928 edition. We obtained this book directly from the publisher, it hs never been privately owned.  In VG+ condition. Faint mottling to spine. Faint dust spotting to top edge. Internally clean and bright, unmarked, with a square and tight binding. (cfm)

New Haven: Yale College., (1846). First Edition. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. New Haven: Yale College. (1846). 100pp. Soft cover. Foxing on wrappers and first few front leaves and last few pages. Balance, internally very good. Ex-library discard stamp at top of front cover. Original owner's name inked in at top of front wrapper. TS073.

Gregg Press Limited, 1966. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. [Farnborough Hants., England: Gregg Press Limited. 1966.]  Hardcover.no jacket as issued. vi+ 118pp. Twenty-four page English introduction, then Latin. Gregg reprint of the 1911 edition. Very Good+ condition. Some minor glue discoloration to pastedowns; otherwise nearly as new. We obtained this book directly from the publisher over fifty years ago, it has never been privately owned. Treatise by the 13th century philosopher and theologian. (cfm)

London:Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. London:Longmans, Green, and Co. 1896. 488pp + folded map. Ex-library copy. Hardcover. Binding is lightly shelf-worn. Front board is lightly rippled. Faded library sticker at the bottom of the spine. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, save for a library bookplate pasted to the inside front board and another small plate pasted to the inside rear board. Many pages remain uncut. Folded map is in fine condition. Overall, this is a very good copy.

1975. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/Very Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2015/09/0_361.jpg. 210pp. Illus. With dust jacket. Internally a fine copy. Dust-jacket lightly soiled or faded. A survey of Lancashire history as seen by fourteen contemporary diarists, autobiographis, and collections of letters. 

New York:Doubleday Doran and Co. for The Crime Club, 1939. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2016/12/0_img_3147.jpg. New York:Doubleday Doran and Co. For The Crime Club. 1939. 303pp. Stated 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Red boards lightly soiled with very light shelfwear to edges and edge points. Internally, age-toning to end pages with previous owners name and thoughts on reading the book on the 1st free end page. Page edges soiled with dust residue.  Dust jacket is in good + condition, with overall shelf-wear and small chips and tears to edges with one larger tear to rear panel bottom edge. Overall, a very good/good+ copy. 

Garden City, NY: Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1937. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. Garden City, NY:The Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc. 1937. 1st American edition, stated. viii+299pp. Hardcover. Red baoards soiled, sunfaded, and shelfworn with wear along edges, spine ends and edge points. Top page edges stained red but soiled and faded.  Internally, end pages darkened and age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The rear inside board has some ink scribbling, as well as the outer margins of page 163. The binding is tight with front hinge intact but rear starting before last page. *Published in England under title Clunk's Claimant

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott., 1913. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. 335pp. Illus. Hard-bound. Ex-library copy. Internally a very good to fine tight copy. Library book-plate pasted down inside front binding. An excessive large size library hand-stamp on front fly-leaf. Inside back binding is an angled card holder. Binding shows minor wear ay spine ends. Altogether a very satisfactory copy. S021.

Indianapolis:The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1923. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Illustrated by Vera Stone. Indianapolis:The Bobbs-Merrill Company. (1923). 156pp. Hardcover. Binding is lightly worn at the edges and spine ends, with some gentle soiling to the boards. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings, save for a bookplate pasted onto the inside front board. Overall, a very good, tight copy.

London:Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. London:Longman, Browne, Green and Longmans. 1854. 1st edition. xii+409pp. Illustrated, with 6 full color plates with tissue guards. Hardcover.  Bound in 3/4 leather with brown buckram boards and marbled end-pages. The leather along spine edges (gutters), spine ends and edge points worn and scuffed (to boards in places),  but with boards still firmly attached. Top page edges darkened with fore-edges stained. Internally, some penciled and ink notes to verso of 1st free end-page, with a previous owners name/date inked to 2nd free end-page. Otherwise, aside from an occasional smudge or age spot, a very good, clean copy. All plates in very good condition, all with tissue guards still in place. The bound in ribbon is still attached with discoloration to pages 402/403 where it has resided. The binding is tight with hinges intact. 

Macmillan and Co., 1867. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London; Macmillan and Co., 1867. 2 vols. Hard Cover, no jacket. xxx+371pp, and x+372pp. Condition is Good.  Gilt decorated green cloth boards are shelf worn, have bumped corners, and some fabric fraying at the extremities; the gilt decoration remains bright; NOTE that on Vol 1, the upper front corner of the board has been nibbled away, about 3/8" on each side of the corner.  Vol 1 has a newspaper photo taped to one of the endpapers.  Light foxing, primarily to preliminary pages of both volumes.  Fold out map also lightly foxed with small tear at margin where attached to volume.  Otherwise pretty clean and securely bound. "I must take the reader of these volumes by the hand, and lead him step by step along my rough path from the beginning to the end; through scorching deserts and thirsty sands; through swamp, and jungle, and interminable morass; through difficulties, fatigues, and… Read More

Hartford:O. D. Case and Co., 1868. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. Interspersed with Highly Exciting Adventures of the Author, Among Elephants, Lions, Buffaloes, Hippopotami, Rhinoceros, Etc.  Accompanied by Expert Native Sword Hunters.  With a Supplementory Sketch Relative to the Captivity and Release of English Subjects and The Career of the Late Emperor Theodore by Rev. W. L. Gage.  Hartford:O. D. Case and Co. 1868. 1st American edition. xx+(24)-624pp. Illustrated, with 2 maps (one folding). Hardcover.   Pebbled brown boards with title in gilt on spine strip soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with wear along edges, spine ends cipped and frayed and edge points worn to boards. Spine edges of front cover rubbed and worn, fraying and starting to separate from top edge. Page edges soiled.  Internally, brown end-pages lightly soiled with a previous owners name stamped and penciled to 2nd free end-page. Otherwise, aside from an occasional… Read More

(Burlington, VT):Verve Editions, (1999). First Edition. hard cover. Fine/Fine. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/06/0_dsc07544.jpg. Signed by authors. (Burlington, VT):Verve Editions. (1999). 1st edition, signed by the author on the verso of the 1st free end-page. 64pp. Illustrated by the author.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  A fine copy with a fine dust jacket.  *This colorful book is an endearing visual description of one of the nation's most eclectic towns by a resident whose specialty is humorous art--a medium that actually does justice to Provincetown. It's filled with inside jokes (the man who applauded for hours at nothing; the harbormaster who dived off the wharf after his false teeth, which fell out when he was arguing with some tourists), and gossip about the celebrities who have lived in P'town (Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee Williams, Jackson Pollock, Norman Mailer). The History of Provincetown is dedicated "to… Read More

London:Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. London:Routledge & Kegan Paul. (1979). 520pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good condition. No previous owners marks or signatures but with light soiling/dust residue to page edges. Dust jacket in very good condition, but with light soiling and dust residue as well.

1907. hard cover. Very Good. 1907. 148pp. Bound with original wrappers. Front wrapper brittle and partially loose. Balance of book in very good tight copy. Ex-library copy. Token library marks and book-plate. Front paper cover loose, otherwise rest of book in very satisfactory condition. BIBLIOTEKA DEKABRISTOV', Vyp. vtoroi, chast pervaya.

Stamford. CT: Overbrook Press, 1950. Limited edition. hard cover. Very Good/Fair. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2016/08/0_042.jpg. Stamford, CT:Overbrook Press. (1950). pp. (48)+(2). Illustrated by Richard F. Nordhorn.  Limited edition of 250 copies. Hardcover with glassine dust jacket. Boards lightly soiled at edges where dust jacket is worn. Internally a very good, clean copy. The glassine dust jacket, darkened with age, is heavily worn at edges with quite a bit of chipping. 

New York:Robert Carter & Brothers, 1864. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Robert Carter & Brothers. 1864. 440pp. Illustrated with 8 color lithographs by Vincent Brooks.In very good condition. Blue boards with blind stamped borders and decorations in gilt in the center and on the spine. The gilt has faded but still quite visible. There is light wear to edges and points. Brown end-papers have previous owners signatures in pencil (not really noticeable) with more notes on the verso of the end-page. Otherwise, save for an occasional smudge or very slight bit of foxing, a very good clean copy.