Search Results: Authors starting with B from The Sensible Magpie

Huntington, NY: Robert Krieger Publishing, 1971. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Faint speckling to top edges. Slight nudges to lower front corners of both volumes. Gilt lettering debossed to spines, deep midnight blue cloth-covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. 348 pp / 1,173 pp with index of names, index of subjects and corrigenda et addenda.HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. Original edition, "Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin," by Baas published 1889 (one volume). Translated, and in conjunction with the author revised and enlarged, by Handerson, reprinted 1971 (two volumes). "The history of medicine, of all the branches of that art, is the one to which least attention is devoted by physicians; and yet its study not only possesses great scientific value, but likewise includes an important germ of practical information. [The author's] plan has been to consider first the genetic side of the subject, introducing for this purpose a sketch of even prehistoric… Read More

New York: Octagon Books, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine. REPRINT. Very slight lean. Silver metallic lettering debossed to spine of burgundy cloth-covered boards. Photograph of Horace Greeley to frontispiece. Seven additional black and white photographs throughout text. Clean, tight, bright. 420 pp with notes on sources, footnotes and index. Foreword by Royal Cortissoz. Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia. Founded by Horace Greeley in 1841, his editorial slogan was, "Spread the Truth". "The pages of the present work offer abundant evidence of the constructive energy with which that aim has ever since been pursued," (Foreword).

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1950. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus. Fabuous, lurid cover of white-dressed and bepearled classy dame, bespattered by blood: Caption reads: "The dead man's blood splattered her dress." Slight edge and cornerwear. Pocket Book # 736. Complete and Unabridged. Second Pocket Book printing (November, 1950).

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Good Plus. Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket good plus. Tiny chips and two small tears to edges of lightly tanned jacket edges. Silver metallic lettering debossed to spine of burgundy, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 311 pp. ". . . a heady blend of the everyday, the fantastic, and the picaresque," (front flap)

Detroit, Michigan: Lotus Press, 1985. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Donaldson, Jeff. Very mild shelfwear. Black lettering to spine and front of white covers. Music to Long Road, by Bessie Smith, illustrated in blue to front cover and inside rear cover. Clean, bright and solidly bound. 59 pp. Divided into four sections : Kin, Guardians, Earth and Ancestors, and Downhome Blues. Baker is an American scholar specializing in African-American literature. Other works include, The Journey Back : Issues in Black Literature and Criticism, (1993), and Betrayal : How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era, (2009).

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Paperback. Near Fine. One tiny smudge to lower text block edge. Oblong 4to. Cover illustration : Westminster from Waterloo Bridge, ca. 1858. Frontispiece : Roger Fenton, Self-Portrait, ca. 1854. A total of 99 plates, 78 figures. Illustration in black and white and quadratone. Map, xiv. Clean, bright, solidly bound. 290 pp with list of plates, notes to the essays and chronology, bibliography, index. Roger Fenton was England's most celebrated photographer during the 1850's. This remarkable collection presents ninety of Fenton's finest photographs, exactingly reproduced. Six leading scholars have contributed nine illustrated essays that address every aspect of Fenton's career, as well as a comprehensive, documented chronology. An amazing amount of information in this beautifully published volume. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1915. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Moderate scuffing to board surfaces and edges. Small bump to bottom front corner. Sunning to spine. Lightly age-tanned text. Acid transfer to endpapers. Front hinge started With sixteen full-page illustrations and twenty diagrams in the text. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, of the first pure cotton. No markings to text. 221 pp with appendices and index. Solid binding. The history of the development of cotton-lint.

New York: Scholastic, 2000. Paperback. Near Fine. STAPLEBOUND. ALL STICKERS PRESENT. NO MARKINGS. STILL BLANK. Hardly noticeable shelfwear. Red and goldenrod lettering to front of glossy, illustrated covers. Clean, bright, solid binding. 48 pp. Pokédex Power : Fact Files for the Top 33 GS Pokémon Secrets & Stats, (front cover). Collect 33 Big stickers of brand-new GS Pokémon. Catch 80 Action stickers of your favorite original Pokémon. Check out Stats and Secrets on the top 33 GS Pokémon, (rear cover).

New York: Bramhall House, 1962. Hardcover. GOOD IN GOOD ONLY DJ. Lacks FFEP. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper

London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. FIRST EDITION. A tiny bit of spotting to upper board edges. Bump to bottom spinecap. Mildly scuffed jacket now Mylar protected. Pictorial boards with matching cover. Interesting and imaginative color illustrations by author. Clean, tight, bright. Unpaginated (33 pp). "A boy's fairy-tale dream takes him into the world of a tapestry lion with whom he performs three daring deeds to free the embroidered princes. A marvelous variety of techniques is used to convey the adventures : every opening is a painting in its own right so that the visual excitement and interest is the dominant feature and lasting impression," (front flap).

New York: Harper Collins, 2001. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Near Fine Dustjacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on preliminary page. FIRST EDITION. Gilt lettering on black cloth spine of dark grey boards. Near Fine dustjacket Mylar protected. 676 pp. Clean, tight, bright. A Hollywood ghost story.

Northbrook, Illinois: DBI Books, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. FIFTH EDITION. REVISED. Moderate shelf and edgewear. Small folds to front bottom corners of first few preliminary pages. Small separation to corner of front cover. Light age-tanning to text. Loaded with illustrations. White lettering to spine and illustrated front cover. Clean and solid binding. 416 pp with ballistics tables, index. The book for every shooter, collector and handloader. Complete and authoritative data on rifle and pistol cartridges -- centerfire and rimfire -- shotshells, loads and ammunition components. Fully illustrated general and historical notes on each cartridge...factory and handloading ballistic data...scores of dimensional drawings (front cover).

Washington DC: Federal Board for Vocational Education, 1927. Paperback. Very Good. 188 pp., As Yet Untrimmed. Intended for those entrepeneurs who would start larger commercial laundries. Front cover bears the round-stamp of the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Small corner chip to cover page missing, and creasing to bottom corners of next two pages. Developed by a Committee of the Laundryowners National Association in Cooperation with the Federal Board for Vocational Education, this is the second bulletin in the commercial field issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. The technical information in it was supplied by a committee of laundry managers representing the Laundryowners National Association.

San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1988. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Barbour, Karen. Mild shelfwear. A 1.5 x 1.25" light brown spill on front corner of first 18 pages. Clean, bright, solid binding. Bright, colorful covers. Loaded with traditional recipes. Clean, bright, solid binding. 366 pp with index.  Each chapter begins with recollections of the holidays for that month, followed by tantalizing recipes.

Astoria, OR: Gaff Press, 1993. Hardcover. FINE. SIGNED. HANDMADE! "This book was written for writers, teachers, students, artists and anyone else interested in learning how to create attractive hard or softcovered books by hand, using inexpensive and common materials." Barrett has done many workshops, lectures, radio and television shows, taught at schools and libraries, and says, "One cannot so such things without making a lot of mistakes and learning a great deal. The purpose of this book is to relate these things to you." Step-by-step instructions from the physical production of the book to getting a copyright, doing the marketing and pricing. 164 pp. A small .75" faint sticker residue to rear cover, very slight wear to extremities, spine lightly sunned. Black lettering to spine and front board, red cloth-covered boards. Very instructive clear illustrations and easy to follow directions. Two distinct signatures -- perhaps the other is the principal of Gaff… Read More

London: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England in association with Allison & Busby, 1988. Paperback. Near Fine. Light corner crease to front bottom corner. Black lettering to pink spine, red and white lettering to front of pink and grey illustrated covers. Photograph of Fleet Street, ca. 1890, to rear cover. Illustrated with 2-page map and 36 black and white figures / photographs. Clean, bright, solid binding. 60 pp with notes, further reading and acknowledgements. The results of an historic and architectural study of Fleet Street and the London newspaper industry undertaken by English Heritage's London Division. "The authors trace the development and evolution of the industry in its unique metropolitan setting since 1500 and review the changes taking place to newspapers and newspaper buidings and to the Fleet Street area itself today, (rear cover).

LONDON: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. First Edition. HARDCOVER. NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKETS. An offering of Routledge and Kegan Paul's INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ANTHROPOLOGY (Series Editor Adam Kuper, University of Leiden). Professor Barth is a Norwegian anthropologist educated at the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge who is perhaps best known for his methodological dictum that "everything influencing the shape of an event must be there asserting itself at the moment of the event." The first volume (243 pp. including index) in this two-volume series contains a selection from the period 1955-1972, with two additional essays written especially for this collection. The essays therein "reflect Professor Barth's particular concern with the need to acknowledge the position of the individual and with the discongruity between varying interests and varying levels of collectivity...Among topics covered...are: models of social organization; the study of social… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FINE. Dustjacket fine. Silver metallic lettering debossed to spine of black cloth-covered boards. Numerous beautiful color illustrations, maps. Beautiful volume. Clean, bright, solidly bound. 192 pp with acknowledgements and index. Foreword by D. Bruce Means. This is the companion volume to a Discovery Channel television series.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Nice sharp edges. Dustjacket near fine. Light edgewear. Thin diagonal crease down front flap. Gilt lettering debossed to royal purple cloth spine and grey boards. Clean, bright, tight. 267 pp. Author of The Italians. Barzini has "written a book of the utmost importance to American's understanding of its European allies and to the Europeans' comprehension of the United States," (front flap).

New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1872. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. FIRST EDITION. Previous owner's name, in pencil, to front endpaper dated 1879. Notations, in pencil, to RPDEP. Corners bumped and worn to cardboard. Spine caps lightly freyed and folded under. Spine and board edges lightly worn. A light 2" raised crease to lower half of spine. One 0.5" light stain to front board with several lighter stains to front and rear boards. Double lined border, in blind to perimeter of boards. Gilt debossed lettering to spine of brown cloth-covered boards. Chocolate brown endpapers. Five tiny dings to front endpapers. 311 pp. Clean and tight. These 12 lectures were delivered, one year previous to book publication, before the Lowell Institution of Boston. "Science and philosophy, starting with certain common ideas, take up each of them distinguishing notions, and, moving along independent lines of inquiry, meet again in religion," (preface).