Search Results: Authors starting with B from Abacus Books

Unknown: Unpublished, 1905. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Bagshawe. Original art Sketch book (13 1/2" by 9 1/2") with printed East Lake design, containing within nine pencil sketches. Six sailing ships, titled, dated and unsigned. Two wildlife and one railroad scene dated and unsigned.Most tissue guards creased. Endpapers foxed else very good throughout.

Signed and inscribed by author to architect Carl A. Worthington. Soft cover in pictorial wraps. Octavo. [x] 165 pages. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Light shelf wear to cover.
Steamboat Springs — Phippsburg resident and longtime college educator Robert P. Baker has self-published an ambitious book, "Liberal Arts —Education and College Architecture in Steamboat Springs — a Personal HIstory," that succeeds in blending three story lines, including the history of the small college now known as the Alpine Campus of Colorado Mountain College. One story line is the arc of Baker's own career in higher education, including a four-year stint teaching at Stanford University. The second story line is the metamorphosis of Yampa Valley College in Steamboat Springs from a liberal arts college in a ski town into the modern Colorado Mountain College (CMC). And finally, Baker highlights the career of former Steamboat Springs architect Lincoln Jones whose buildings were integral to the early years of the… Read More

Hardcover Small octavo. [xii] 178pp. Red publisher's cloth with gilt title to front and spine. Former owner's stamp to preliminary pages otherwise clean throughout. Light shelf wear to cover. No dust jacket. A contemporary analysis of the New Deal, in political, historical, and economic terms, written at the end of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first year in office.

Soft cover. Octavo. SIGNED by author with a personal inscription to Keith Abbott. Slight fading to spine otherwise very good.
Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott was a colleague of Berlin's at Naropa University where he taught writing and art. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.

Soft cover. Octavo. SIGNED by author with a personal inscription to Keith Abbott. Fading to spine otherwise very good.
Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott was a colleague of Berlin's at Naropa University where he taught writing and art. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.

Soft cover. Octavo. SIGNED by author with a personal inscription to Keith Abbott. Fading to spine otherwise very good.
Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott was a colleague of Berlin's at Naropa University where he taught writing and art. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly., 1799. Later printing. Full leather. Good. Fourth edition. Full leather over boards. 12mo, Frontispiece xi, [1] 294pp [6] advertisements. Gift inscription to ffep in ink. Occasional Foxing. Covers show wear to edges and corners with a small open tear to front and beginning of separation of the back board at the top hinge.Berquin's stories consisted of events that might happen to children in their everyday lives... His books envision childhood reading as a familial exercise; for example, some of his "stories" are actually plays with parts for every member of the family. Berquin's books helped solidify the creation of the nuclear family, for "if Berquin's work has a theme, it is that parents and children live in a perfect symbiosis, the parents looking after their children's interests and the children, if behaving properly, filling their parents with joy." Introductory essay to L'Ami des Enfans.

New York: D. Appleton, 1885. Hardcover. Good. Folio. 242pp. Dark tan boards with red, black and gold design. Floral endpapers.Spine darkened. Back hinge starting.

First Edition. Number 49 of 50 copies on handmade paper. Hardcover. Octavo. [ix] 129pp and 16 plates. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Spine darkened and end papers tanned and with some foxing throughout.
A long introduction by May Sinclair. A collection of poems by the author in French with parallel translations in English by F.S. Flint and sixteen b/w illustrations by the author who has also provided numerous large b/w tailpieces.

Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 8vo. [xvii] 212pp. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket. 8vo. [xvii] 212pp. Inscribed to Marjorie Barrett by author and Fred Rosenstock.Near fine in very good dust jacket.

Quarto. Hard cover. Light orange cloth publishers binding depicting the ship at sea and a shore scene with nautically themed decorations. [iv] 192pp. Decorative end papers with repeating ship and swan motifs. Hand written gift inscription from the Whitefield Tabernacle Book Society (London) to the front free end paper. Shelf wear to covers and spine with a little "delamination" of the cloth. Front hinge starting.
Accounts of three separate voyages entitled "A Voyage in the Sunbeam", " Sunshine and Storm in the East" and "In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties." Each 64pp double columns and profusely illustrated.
Anna Brassey was an English traveler, writer and accomplished photographer who wrote bestselling travel diaries of her sea voyages around the world.

London: Atlas Press, 1985. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very good/good. Number 167 of 300 numbered copies. Paperback in dust jacket. 107pp. Clean and unmarked with a tight binding. Dust jacket shows a little wear to edges with a small nick at top of spine. Widely regarded as the first example of the Surrealist technique of automatic writing. -Encyclopaedia Britannica

Two Volumes. Octavo. [xvi] 587pp with 4 engraved plates, [xii] 584pp with 4 engraved plates. Both volumes beautifully rebound in green half calf with Morocco and gilt spine labels over original marbled boards. All edges marbled.
James Silk Buckingham spent four years in the United States, and in 1839 travelled across the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama to observe at first hand the inhumane treatment of slaves in a system that showed "reckless indifference to human life". This two-volume work documents Buckingham's findings and argues that the USA should follow Britain's example in abolishing slavery. Buckingham describes the use of slaves in industries as diverse as gold mining, cotton manufacturing, railways, canals, and agriculture. He highlights the economic, social and political implications of a change to free labor, and also relations between the slaves and their employers. Howes B923.

First trade edition. Quarto. Publisher's black cloth over boards. Silver stamped spine. Pogany illustration on paper label with a wide silver border to front cover. [xvi] 129pp. Pogany illustrations throughout. Firm binding. Light shelf wear. Very good.

Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth over boards with gilt titling and border. All edges gilt. 57pp with a blank leaf headed "Memoranda" between every leaf of recipes, plus 15pp of product advertisement. Eighth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Ink stamp of previous owner, F.L. Bassett of Baghdad, dated 1926, appears on the first three pages. Cover shows moderate wear with evidence of a small piece of tape having been removed from front cover. A prohibition era guide to the methods and techniques of compounding on a commercial scale. Over 100 specific liqueur recipes with weights and measures in three different systems, English Imperial, Metric and the Liquid Wine Measure of the United States.

Hard cover 8 1/2" by 7" Green publishers cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt. 320pp. Illustrated end papers. Numerous b/w illustrations. Small nick to spine with light shelf wear to spine ends. Cover sharp and bright. Very good.Fifteenth in the Zig-Zag series. Stories from United States Consulates of many Mediterranean cities.