Search Results: Authors starting with B from Saucony Book Shop

London: Chapman and Hall, 1858. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Royal blue limp cloth, illus. and lettered in gilt, decorated in blind. Stated 2nd ed. Covers spotted and soiled with vintage dampstaining, only modest actual wear. Some soiling to endpapers, interior mostly clean. Former owner's signature in pencil on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Authorship appears to be variously attributed to H. C. Bunbury or Augustus Frederick Blyth; realizing that we are rather off our areas of expertise, we leave that matter unresolved..

Koln and New York: Benedikt Taschen, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Stiff color pictorial wraps. Slight corner wear, a few light thumbing creases to covers. 96 pp., illus. w/ color, b&w photographs..

Taschen, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Dark blue illus. paper-covered boards. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket VG with mild surface rubbing to front panel and more pronounced surface scratching to rear panel, now in mylar. 1st ptg..

New York, NY: New York Academy of Sciences, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff color illus wraps. ix,269 pp., illus. Slight shelf/handling wear, nearly as issued, with square, uncreased binding. 2nd ptg.: 1991..

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son Ltd., 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Color illus. paper-covered boards. 143 pp., illus. Mild soiling along text block edges and to endpapers, modest surface rubbing to covers with a few light scratches to upper back cover. Binding shows several stress creases but is firm. 1st ptg. Scarce..

Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission [PHMC], 1973. Book. Near Fine. Unbound. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Unbound series of [20] plates, each black and white with caption, in original envelope. Plates Fine, envelope with light wear..

Backbeat Books, 2002. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Stiff white color pictorial wraps, French flaps. Just a hint of shelf wear, essentially as issued. 1st ptg. thus (of Revised Edition). 256 pp..

Harper, 2006. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff pictorial wraps. Essentially as issued, showing only a hint of handling wear and minor unavoidable tanning to text block from age. Square, uncreased binding, unmarked interior. 506 pp., illus. 1st ptg. thus..

Paoline, 1998. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff blue wraps, lettered in orange and white. Just a hint or two of handling wear, essentially as issued. Text in Italian. Publication to accompany 22-25 September 1997 Simposio Internazionale..

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Stiff pictorial wraps. As issued. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society Vol. 36. Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series No. 3..

Tucson, AZ: Self-Published, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author-Illustrator. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Color illus. paper covered boards, oblong format. 36 pp., illus. in color. As issued. Personalized inscription by author/illustrator (as "Mary") on Dedication page, accompanied by a single sheet of her personal stationery with a personalized note filling the entire front and about half of the rear side, also signed. Very scarce..

Philadelphia, PA: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1871. Book. Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown cloth, bordered in blind, lettered and with front cover illus. in gilt. Moderate shelf wear, soiled covers, narrow strips of loss to cloth at both spine extremities with light exposure to top corners and moderate to bottom. Firm binding. Text block edges somewhat dulled by age, light scattered internal foxing/soiling. "Compliments of Ritter & Co." (an Allentown printer of the era) hand-written on front blank. viii,9-258 pp., frontis., decorative head- and tail-pieces. Acceptable reference copy of a scarce issue. Early collection of Native American myth and fable, or, as the preface states in a ghastly bit of cultural imperialism, "the heritage of the red man of America, and now the property of the white man, who alone is capable of giving them literary form.".

Boston, MA: John B. Bachelder, 1875. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt. Mild shelf wear, a bit rubbed at corners, toned text block edges. Firm binding, intact hinges with minor evidence of neat repair to rear hinge, clean interior. 364 pp., illus. w/ reproduced engravings. Large color folding map preceding half-title shows light toning along fold lines, minor separation at several junctures, torn and reattached with archival tape along binding edge..

Dayton, OH: Morningside House, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in three (3) volumes, uniformly bound in blue 1/4 buckram, gray cloth, lettered in gold foil with color Union/Confedrate flags device on front covers. Issued 1994-95. 2,081 pp., continuously paginated. As issued..

Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1942. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. PGS Vol. XLIX (49). Stiff light blue wraps, lettered in dark blue, rough-cut text block edges. Front cover shows mild foxing toward edges; binding lean with stress creases, typical of issue, and mild rubbing to head of spine. Former owner's signature/date inked on front flyleaf. xxx,294,[3] pp. This volume also contains a summary of the 1939 and 1940 PGS annual meetings in Doylestown and State College..

Reading, PA: I. M. Beaver, Publisher, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Dark turquoise cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt. Cover cloth modestly soiled and with light dampstaining toward bottom front cover corner. Firm binding, clean interior. Text block edges typically tanned. 348 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. A scarce Berks County imprint recounting an Algeresque tale of a young man who leaves the Lehigh Valley to seek his fortune in New York City..

Reading, PA: I. M. Beaver, Publisher, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Dark turquoise cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt. Minor shelf wear, text block edges a bit tanned by age. Firm binding, clean interior. 348 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. A scarce Berks County imprint recounting an Algeresque tale of a young man who leaves the Lehigh Valley to seek his fortune in New York City..

Reading, PA: I. M. Beaver, Publisher, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Dark turquoise cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt. Mildly soiled cloth, text block edges tanned. Firm binding, clean interior. 348 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. A scarce Berks County imprint recounting an Algeresque tale of a young man who leaves the Lehigh Valley to seek his fortune in New York City..

Morgantown, PA/Asheville, NC: Masthof Press for Swiss Americasn Historical Society, 2010. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff white pictorial wraps. As issued. Nov. 2010 issue, devoted to the tricentennial of New Bern. vi,163 pp., illus. Very scarce..

Reading, PA: I. M. Beaver, Publisher, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Dark turquoise cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt. A few areas of soiling to cover cloth, text block edges typically tanned. Firm binding, clean interior. 348 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. A scarce Berks County imprint recounting an Algeresque tale of a young man who leaves the Lehigh Valley to seek his fortune in New York City..