Search Results: Authors starting with B from Bartlebys Books

New York: Outdoor Life, 1945. The first publication of Babcock's most famous story. Vol. 96, No. 5 (this issue only). 4to. 138 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs and line drawings, some color illustrations, many ads. Also includes contributions from Ben East, Francis Lee Jaques, Elliott Barker, Bert Popowski, regular columnists Jack O'Connor and Ray Bergman, and others. Very good. Original color illustrated wrappers (chipped, several tears into front wrapper). (#7940).

Columbia, (SC): USC Press, 1947. First edition. 8vo. (6), 284 pp. Line drawings, title page vignette. Quail hunting in South Carolina. Despite the worn dust jacket, a very good copy. Gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, decorated dust jacket (price-clipped, joints and edges rubbed, spines somewhat chipped, a little wear and tear to the extremities). (10667).

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. First edition. 8vo. ix, 262 pp. Chapter head vignettes. Quail hunting, bass fishing, and other southern outdoor pursuits. Very good. Cloth-backed boards, color decorated dust jacket (somewhat browned). (10704).

New York: Henry Holt, 1958. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 8vo. (8), 184 pp. Quail and deer hunting in South Carolina, "tales of dogs, and men, and of that aristocrat of game birds, the bobwhite quail." Very good. Cloth and boards, color illustrated dust jacket (a little chipped at head of spine). (#8104).

(Buffalo,NY: J.W. Clement Co.) For the author, 1930. Third edition (previously issued in 1920 and 1921), with additions, 1/ 250 copies (this #197). 8vo. 135 pp. Illustrated from line drawings. Bruns B-5. Callahan "Partial Tarpon Bibliography," p. iii. Very good. Original stiff green wrappers, pictorial paper only on upper cover. (10713).

Columbia, (SC): U. of South Carolina Press, 1947. First edition. 8vo. (6), 284 pp. Line drawings, title page vignette. Quail hunting in South Carolina. Very good. Gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, decorated dust jacket (some browning to the cream edges). (875).

London: Henry G. Bohn, (1814). First edition (plates are dated 1811). 4to. xii, 61 pp. 150 engraved plates, 10 hand-colored, engraved title page with an ornamental border, engraved chapter head and tail-pieces. Includes a short essay by H.H. Baber (per a citation in the British Museum Catalogue) on each of the categories covered, primarily antiques from Ancient Greece. Lowndes vol. II, pp. 1021-1022 (attributing the essays to Thomas Hope). Plates with rather persistent foxing, but an attractive copy. Somewhat later black morocco, gilt, with gilt-rule panels on upper and lower boards, ornamented in corners and surrounding a Greek vase, spine richly gilt with ornaments, title, and raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. (#5972).

(Washington, DC): Communicated by authority of the Treasury Dept, 1857. First separate edition, extracted from the American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. XXIII, second series, Jan., 1857. 8vo. 17 pp. Tables, two folding plates (lithographed by J. Bien, New York), one showing the effects of tides along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. "On the Gulf Coast, the tides are small, and therefore easily influenced by extraneous circumstances, and, as a rule, on more than two thirds of the coast the semi-diurnal tides are very small, and in fact are masked by the diurnal tides." Inscribed at the head of the front wrapper "Chester County Cabinet, / from Prof. A.D. Bache. / April 7, 1857." Sabin 2588. OCLC locates two copies (Harvard, Library Company). Very good. Orig. plain tan wrappers. (#7571).

[Washington, DC?], 1857. First separate edition [from Blunt's American Coast Pilot, 1857, pp. 47-53]. 8vo. pp. [47]-53 pp. [p. 52 blank]. Folding "Chart of the Gulf Stream" (from Florida to Long Island), folding plate of tables. "Taken as a whole, Bache's instructions [for the survey of the Gulf Stream] encompass physical, chemical, geological, and biological oceanography. He also touched on the interaction of meteorology and oceanography ... the underlying philosophy of observation and parameters to be observed remains the same for today's oceanographers as they were for Bache's captains" (NOAA online). OCLC locates nine copies, none in southern research institutions. Original plain blue wrappers (chipped and worn, manuscript author/title on front wrapper); ex-Franklin Institute, with its full range of markings. Good copy.

Boston: The author, 1875. Third edition, revised. 8vo. 361 pp. Large folding map (short tear at hinge); complimentary slip tipped-in. Primarily focused on the New England states, but includes the Shenandoah Valley and other southern routes. Original gilt-stamped green cloth. Very good.

Montevallo, AL: The author (Printed at the Office of the Mobile Daily Register), 1867. First edition. 8vo. 59 pp. Ownership signature of prominent Alabama urologist C. H. Mastin on front wrapper. Ellison 1469. OCLC locates three copies (Columbia, National Library of Medicine, Minnesota). Original printed blue wrappers (fore-edges chipped, removed from a pamphlet volume, with residue left along the spine). Very good.

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. 3 volumes. Large 8vo. cxvii, 455 pp.; viii, 589 pp.; xv, 584 pp. Publisher's original brown blind stamped cloth, with gilt stamping on spine, interior with scattered foxing. Previous owner's signature on pastedown and title. Slight variations of color in binding caused by fading, uncommonly good example of this period binding.

London: William Pickering, 1852. 12mo. (4), xxiv, (4), 349 pp. Title in red and black, printed within an arch; 4-page publisher's catalogue at the front. Original rose cloth (spine darkened), printed paper spine label (rubbed and darkened). A little fraying to spine ends, but very good.

Each of the letters is franked "free," but we have been unable to discover an official position for the letter writer (possibly former Massachusetts Congressman Ezekiel Bacon, serving in Washington as First Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury). The first letter recounts a misunderstanding between White and Lt. Twiggs, a fellow junior military officer, leading to a duel in which White took a ball in the hip and endured its surgical removal; the following two letters report on his recovery, visiting friends, and public sentiment, which seems to have favored him. To the third letter Francis White has himself appended a one-page signed autograph note reassuring Mooses. He recovered from this wound but was not so lucky in a second duel. Although neither Lorenzo Sabine (Notes on Duels and Duelling, Boston, 1855) nor Ben Truman (Field of Honor, New York 1884) record this 1814 duel, both cover White's 1819 confrontation with Lt. William Fonch, whom he challenged for "indignities suffered on board the… Read More

Washington: Columbia Historical Society, 1912. 1st ed. 8vo.; viii, 277pp., (1). Frontis. portrait & illus. Author's presentation copy ("Complements of the writer", at head of title page). Blind-stamped brown cloth; gilt lettering on spine. Lower corner of front cover & bottom of spine slightly mottled, else a very good copy.

[Moseley, Worcestershire], 1887. Manuscript of local travels. 4to. (114) pp. Sectional title pages for the several excursions. Illustrated with 17 pen-and-ink sketches and vignettes, 3 nicely finished in watercolor, 5 pen-and-ink maps, with walking routes highlighted in red, 13 mounted photographs, with captions, mounted clippings, and a few pieces of ephemera, all related to the sights they saw on their "rambles" through the countryside. The walks are amusingly reported upon for the "The Jolly Ramblers" (gilt-stamped cover title), originally E. W. Badger and Roland Parry, both of Mosely, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham), who added a few members for some of their adventures afoot. With a Christmas, 1910, presentation inscription from Badger to Parry on a preliminary leaf. The seven walks chronicled here were taken in the surroundings of Moseley and Northfield, in Worcestershire, Coventry and Rugby in Warwickshire, and Wells & Glastonbury, in Somerset. An evocative relic of Victorian… Read More

Richmond, [VA]: Printed by Thomas W. White, opposite the Bell Tavern, 1833. 19.5 cm. 21 pp., [3] blank. Disbound pamphlet.

Philadelphia, (PA): H. Hooker, 1849. First edition. 12mo. 105, (1) pp. Dated at the end of text "Raleigh N.C., October, 1849." The author, at the time serving in the United States Senate, argues against various powers for bishops in the Episcopal church claimed by Ives, "the rule of judgement will be, not what said the Bishop, but what said the Lord." George Badger (1795-1866; Secretary of the U.S. Navy, 1841, U.S. Senator from North Carolina, 1846-1855), a native of New Bern, attended Yale before reading for the law, being admitted to the bar in 1814; he served on the North Carolina Superior Court, 1820-1825. Thornton 507. Numerous pencil corrections through the text, a good copy. Disbound pamphlet (lacking outer yellow wrappers, persistent light foxing). (10253).

Philadelphia, (PA): M. Carey, 1816. First American edition (first published in London, the same year). 8vo. 2 volumes: 402, 388 pp. Illustrated with the nine engravings called for in the plate list, along with ten others, a total of 19 engravings, a portrait of the author, 16 plates and views, several folding, plan (torn, without loss), folding map (torn, repair on verso). Blackmer sale 384 (for the London, 1816 edition): "The author of this work was a Spanish traveler who disguised himself as an Arab and thereby gained access to many places throughout Asia Minor and North Africa forbidden to Christians, particularly the mosques of omar and Mecca itself. When Spain was invaded by the Napoleonic army he joined them and so was forced to withdraw with them and to reside in Paris." "American Imprints" 36782. Heavily foxed, one leaf torn through, and, despite the foxing, an attractive copy of a work usual found with only a few of its required plates. Contemporary red half-calf (rubbed) and marbled boards… Read More

Baltimore, (MD): John Work Garrett Library, 1949. First edition, 1/300 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. 4to. xxix, 219 pp. Illustrated with 209 plates, mostly title-page facsimiles. Preface: "Compiled to provide a survey of the early history of Maryland, up to and including the year 1700, as reflected in the printed books issued during those years." Edges spotted, some foxing, a good copy only. Original gilt-stamped decorated black cloth (old tideline around edges), top edge gilt. (#5706).