Search Results: Authors starting with B from A Cappella Books

New York, NY: ABRAMS, October 1979. Cloth . Very Good/Very Good. {9 & 1/2' x 12'} In very good dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards. Black end papers.

Yale University Press, July 1998. Oversize Softcover . Good. Of all the Impressionists, only Pierre-Auguste Renoir earned distinction as a professional portrait painter. For more than fifty years Renoir explored the genre of portraiture, experimenting and pressing forward in his determination to become -- as he explained to Monet in January 1884 - 'a painter of figures.' This sumptuously illustrated book is the first devoted exclusively to Renoir's portraiture, bringing together the finest examplesof the portraits he painted during each period of his prolific career. In these delightful paintings Renoir created uniquely endearing and enduring images of pleasure, comfort, and prosperity. Of all the Impressionist artists, only Pierre Auguste Renoir earned distinction as a professional portrait painter. This sumptuously illustrated book is the first devoted exclusively to Renoir's portraiture, gathering examples of the portraits he painted during each period of his prolific career.… Read More

HarperTrophy, October 2000. Trade Paperback . Good. This beloved classic, first published forty years ago, is now available with brand-new, exquisite illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Fred Marcellino. Simple yet stunningly beautiful art brings to life Louis, a trumpeter swan who came into the world lacking a voice, and his story of determination and love. Young and old will cherish this new edition of a treasured classic for generations to come. Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet. This beloved classic is available with new illustrations that bring Louis to life. As is. Underlining.

Edinburgh University Press, July 2020. Hardcover . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Very good all round. Appears unread.

Longman Publishing Group, January 1995. Trade Paperback . Very Good.

Buckinghamshire Record Society, January 1990. Trade Paperback . Very Good.

The Unconscious in Translation. Trade Paperback . Very Good.

Apollp, 1966. Trade Paperback . Good. Octavo with well worn cover. [339}

General Publishing Group, December 1995. Trade Paperback . Very Good.

Hill and Wang, January 1973. Hardcover . Good/Good. Previous owner's name.

Dell, January 1962. Mass Market PaperBack . Very Good. Light creasing. Pages yellowed, otherwise in great shape.

Ballantine Books, April 2003. Trade Paperback . Very Good.

Viking, February 2024. Hardcover . New. A novel that 'opens in the year 1834 as a Black woman with magical powers named Saint founds a small settlement north of St. Louis with some slaves she has liberated, making the town invisible to the outside world by placing conjure stones around its perimeter. As the inhabitants of the town discover, however, Saint has provided them safety but not necessarily freedom. As the next four decades pass, more characters enter the novel, including two young boys who come of age in the settlement, a troubled young woman from New Orleans, a person of indeterminate sexuality who has the power to heal wounds and see what people have been through, and a set of twin girls that mysteriously appear in Saint's arms one day'--

Yale University Press, April 2011. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good.

Berkley Publishing Group, April 2000. Trade Paperback . Good. Spenser has his hands full when he takes on two cases at once. In the first, a high-minded university might be hiding a killer within a swamp of political correctness. And in the other, Spenser comes to the aid of a stalking victim, only to find himself the unwilling object of the woman's dangerous affection.

Harper Perennial, March 1993. Trade Paperback . Very Good. A New York Times bestseller with 90,000 hardcover copies sold, Outerbridge Reach is distinguished writer Robert Stone's latest literary triumph--a towering story of a man pitting himself against the sea, against society, and against himself. 'An intensely dramatic story'.--New York Times.

Ecotrust, September 2010. First Edition. Oversize Softcover . Good. Cover has light shelf wear, corners slightly bumped.

Senate Books. Trade Paperback . Good.

London: Published under the authority of the Board of Education, January 1927. First Edition. Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket. No dustjacket. Quarto; {6' x 10'} Vermillion red cloth covered boards gold lettering on spine. One serious bruise bottom board edge. Otherwise relatingly mild wear considering it is 94 years old. Previous owner's bookplate affixed front pastedown. 123 pages plus: entire 2nd half of book is 60 photographic plates printed double-sided.

Wordsworth Editions, September 2000. Paper Back . Fair. This volume includes all of Yeats's published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics by which he is still best remembered, to the later work which some argue put beyond question his status as one of the foremost poets of his age.