Search Results: Authors starting with B from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

New Haven: Printed and published by S. Babcock, circa [1841]., [1841].. Good. - Sextodecimo (16mo), 5-3/4 inches high by 3-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in yellow wraps illustrated with 11 vignettes framing the title on the front cover, including one depicting boys playing baseball (or possibly cricket). The covers are soiled with a few minor stains. The lower edge of the spine is split with a small tear extending into the front cover and a tiny chip along the rear cover. 24 pages, illustrated with a title page vignette, and 6 wood engravings on 3 pages. There is foxing throughout with a stain to the front edge of the title page. Good. "Babcock's Moral, Instructive and Amusing Toy Books" series.The American Antiquarian society has identified the text as "typographically identical to an issue dated 1841".

New Haven, CT: S. Babcock, circa [1844]., [1844].. Good. - 32mo. chapbook [3-5/8 inches high by 2-1/8 inches wide] softcover bound in printed blue wraps sewn with tan cord with a vignette & a decorative border on the front wrap and an ad for Babcock's Toy Books on the rear cover. The binding is lightly bumped & soiled with 2 stains to the front wrap & a chip to its inner edge. 16 pages. Illustrated with a woodcut title vignette, a decorative border at the top of the first text page & 6 full-page woodcuts in the text. There is a stain to the inside front wrap, partially obscuring an owner's faded name. The text pages are unevenly darkened. Good.

(Copenhagen; The Information and Welfare Service of the Danish Defence, 1977).. 1977).. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue & white wrappers. The extremities are slightly darkened. 55 pages. Black-and-white illustrations.& maps. The book is disbound with the leaves in the second half detached or nearly detached. Good working copy. <p>First edition. Translated into English by H. Johannesen.

(Milano): Ricordi, (1957).. (1957).. Very good. - Quarto [12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan & cream wrappers. The binding is very slightly bumped. [iv] & 59 pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog. Very good. <p>Edited and with a preface by Gioacchino Maglioni. The preface is printed in Italian, French, English and German.

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: Publishers, (1928).. (1928).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in dw. The dw is chipped & soiled with small pieces out. 316 pp. The page edges are very slightly darkened. Very good in a good dw. <p>First edition.<p>Bacheller was born in 1859 into a New England family pioneering in the St. Lawrence Valley, north of the Adirondacks.

Circa [1900]., [1900].. Very good. - A 2-1/4 inch high by 3-1/2 inch wide slip of cream-colored paper is signed "Irving Bacheller". 2 pieces of tape adhere to the verso where the autograph has been removed from an album. Very good. In the mid-1880s journalist and author Irving Bacheller [1859-1950] founded the Bacheller Syndicate, the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States,Through this business,which provided specialized articles to the major Sunday newspapers, he brought to American readers the writing of such British authors as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. He also established a working relationship with young author and journalist Stephen Crane whose "The Red Badge of Courage" became famous after it appeared in syndication. Bacheller was also the author of several successful novels.

Lipsiae: Sumtibus Frid. Chr. Guil. Vogelii, 1826, 1826. Very good. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. Bound in early marbled boards with a green paper label on the spine. The covers are rubbed and the head & tail of the spine are very slightly chipped. viii, 64 pages. There is occasional minor foxing and a piece out of one page corner, not affecting any text. Very good. First edition.The book is a commentary by Nicolaus Bachius on fragments by the Greek elegiac poet Mimnermus. It is followed by emendations to Bachius' 1825 book on Solon the poet. The Hellenistic poets regarded Mimnermus as the founder of the love elegy genre. Only fragments of his poetry survive.The poet's text is in Greek with the commentary in Latin.

Albany: E.F. Backus, 1817.. 1817.. Good. - Octavo, contemporary period marbled boards backed with a tan calf spine. The covers are heavily rubbed and scuffed. [iv] & 67 pages, mostly consisting of music with lyrics, plus a one-page index. The front and rear endpapers and pastedowns are darkened and foxed. The text block is cracking opposite the preface. The pages are toned with occasional minor creases. Good. <p>First edition. RARE. [WorldCat locates only 7 copies]. [Shaw & Shoemaker #40519].<p>From the library of James Suydam, Jr. of 97 William Street, with his name, address, and the date "June, 1818" variously penned on the front cover, the front endpaper, and the title page.<p>Printed typographically by William Williams of Utica. This work was possibly influenced by the American composer Thomas Hastings, author of "Musica Sacra" which William Williams also printed in Utica in 1816. Hastings, at that time, had a singing school in… Read More

New York: The John Day Company, (1961).. (1961).. Very good. - Squarish octavo [10-1/4 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], brown cloth. The spine is faded. [x] & 318 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. There is staining to the front pastedown with an ink name & address along the top edge & with some light staining to the front endpaper, else a very good copy.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861., 1861.. Good. - 8vo, brown cloth (bumped & rubbed; spine faded; small dent to top edge of front cover) titled in gilt (somewhat faded) with frames & decorations stamped in blind on both covers. xix & 424 pp. (pencil name & white ink name on front endpaper with offsetting to pastedown; scattered foxing; small stains to fore-edge with tiny stains to front edges of a number of pages). Good. In his first chapter, the author writes that Spedding's new edition of Bacon's work "has drawn men's thoughts to the character of Bacon as painted by his foes; and the instinct, strong as virtue, to reject that spume of satire and falsehood, has sprung at the voice of Mr. Spedding into lusty life. To aid in some small part in this good work of obtaining from men of letters and science a reconsideration of the evidence on which true judgement will have to run, the new facts, the new letters, the new documentary illustrations comprised in this Review… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., circa [1910].. [1910].. Good. - 12mo [approximately 3-3/4 inches high by 2-3/4 inches wide], gray boards backed with white cloth & titled in gilt on the spine & front cover. The top edge is gilt. The bottom edges of the boards are darkened & there are 3 small dents in the rear board. 93 & [1] pages with a decorative running head along the top edges of the pages. Illustrated with a color portrait frontispiece. There is light soiling to the front pastedown & endpaper and the bottom corner of the endpaper is creased. Very good. <p>Number 30 in the series "Sesame Booklets".

NY and London: Harper & Brothers, 1925.. 1925.. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on spine & front cover. The covers are lightly rubbed & the spine somewhat faded. Half-title, title, 2 l. & 76 pp. The verso of the half-title is slightly soiled. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>Signed in full by Leonard Bacon on the front endpaper.

Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1914.. 1914.. Good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt. The binding is rubbed & lightly bumped with the head of the spine lightly chipped. viii, 425 & [1] pages. There is offsetting to the endpapers & pastedowns with some rippling to the endpapers & half-title. There is scattered light foxing. Good. <p>First edition.<p>The fourteen essays are in the languages of the contributors. Four are in German, two in French and the remainder in English.<p>The bookplate of Edward Andrew Donaldson is mounted on the front pastedown.

New York: George Braziller, (1968)., (1968).. Very good. - Quarto, 11-5/16 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide. Hardcovers, bound in tan cloth titled in white on the front covers and on the spines, in pictorial white dust wrappers. The 3 volumes are housed in their original pictorial slipcase. The spines of the price-clipped dust jackets are slightly darkened with some minor stains. The edges of the slipcase are soiled and the case's pictorial label is foxed. Each volume consists of 223 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good.
First American edition.
"The French Drawings" was curated by Maurice Serullaz with the collaboration of Lise Duclaux and Genevieve Monnier. It was translated from the French by Victoria Benedict.
"The Italian Drawings" was curated by Roseline Bacou with the collaboration of Francoise Viatte. It was translated from the French by Victoria Benedict.
"The German, Flemish and Dutch Drawings" was curated by Roseline Bacou with the collaboration of Arlette… Read More

Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1897., 1897.. Very good. - Octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Limp red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & the spine. The covers are bumped and lightly soiled. xxxiv, 442 & 11 pages, illustrated with 33 maps & 56 plans, including color folding maps. The pages are slightly toned. Very Good. Twelfth Revised Edition.From the library of Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Prince di San Faustino (1867-1917), signed by him "Carlo Bourbon del Monte / Prince of San Faustino / Palazzo Barberini / Roma (Italy)" on the front endpaper and with 2 pages of notes penned by him on the rear blanks. The prince was the father of Virginia Agnelli (1899-1945), the wife of the Italian industrialist and head of Fiat Edoardo Agnelli.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948.. 1948.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is rubbed, soiled & chipped with part of the surface of the front panel rubbed away. There are tears to the head of the jacket spine & the top corner of the front panel & the corners of the front flap have been clipped. [xi] & 115 pages. Illustrated in black & white with tables, graphs & diagrams. Very good in a fair dust wrapper. <p>First edition.

New York: Playbill Incorporated, (1950)., (1950).. Good. - Small quarto, 9 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide. Stapled white wraps illustrated with a caricature of Ethel Merman by Peter Arno on the front cover. The covers are creased with a few small chips and a small stained hole above the play's title. 56 pages, with illustrations throughout. Good. Boldly inscribed by heavyweight champion Max Baer to Billy Farley, likely the boxer who won 2 bouts back in 1904-05: "Billy Farley - Hello 'Champ' Your pal Max Baer 1950".The world heavyweight champion from June 1934 to 1935, Max Baer (1909-1959) won the title by defeating Max Schmeling in 1933. He subsequently lost to James Braddock in 1935. Both fights were named "Fight of the Year" by "The Ring" magazine. Baer went on to referee boxing matches and performed in occasional film and television roles.

London, U.K.: Frederick Muller Ltd., (1943).. (1943).. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is bumped with the top edges of the covers dampstained. The head & tail of the spine are darkened & slightly chipped. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with its flaps partially detached & pieces out of the head & tail of the spine, affecting the titling. The top edges of the panels are darkened. v & 159 pages. 14 black-and-white photographic illustrations. The top page corners in the rear half of the book are lightly bumped & 2 corners are creased. The upper halves of the pages are lightly rippled. There is a pencil marking in the margin of 1 page. Good only. <p>First edition.<p>From the library of American literary agent Harold Ober with his address label mounted on the front endpaper. The initials "JB" are penciled on the label. Ober [1881-1959] worked for the Paul R. Reynolds Literary Agency where he represented Jack London and H. G. Wells.… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926.. 1926.. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth. The covers are rubbed & bumped with the extremities faded. The spine is darkened with the head & tail chipped & the titling completely faded. xxvii, [ii], 464 & [1] pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with 32 black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece, and with 1 folding black-and-white map & 4 color maps, 3 of them folding. Also with a 2-page synchronistic table of the Amarna Age. There is occasional light soiling & the edges of the pastedowns & endpapers are darkened with an owner's name & date on the front endpaper. There is a crease to the large folding map in the rear. Good. <p>First American edition.

New York: The Newcomen Society in North America, 1958.. 1958.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wraps with an illustration on the rear wrap. The edges of the wraps are slightly darkened & there is a light crease to the bottom edge of the rear wrap. 24 & [4] pages. Illustrated with facsimiles in black, red & cream. Very good. <p>Second printing.<p>This pamphlet publishes the Newcomen Address delivered at the "1958 New Jersey dinner" by Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., a member of the Newcomen Society in North America and Director of Princeton University Press. He was introduced by Charles Scribner, Jr., President of the press.