Search Results: Titles starting with B from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

Burbank, CA: Greg Shaw, 1978. First Edition. Saddle-stapled magazine with glossy wraps. Very Good. 4to (8.5 x 11 inches). Pp. 63. Illustrated throughout with black and white photography. Full-color cover featuring Joey Ramone on stage (sorry for glare in photo). Quarter-size dampstain to lower fore-edge corner creating waviness to all leaves (please see representative photo with the Dangerhouse ad). Light foxing to fore-edge of last leaf and rear cover. In this issue Greg Shaw, along with contributing editor Alan Betrock (publisher of the New York Rocker), fully embrace the burgeoning underground scene with a review of the Ramones tour of England, an interview with Joey Ramone, a review of the Dead Boys, an article on the nascent German punk scene, etc. The Toronto scene is given a few pages of attention, citing the Viletones (and their recently released EP, featuring the brilliant "Screaming Fist") and Teenage Head (another top-shelf combo.) Phast Phreddie writes about the aesthetics of… Read More

Huntington Beach: James Cahill Publishing, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase Near Fine. Fine Press. Updike, John. Baby's First Step. Huntington Beach: James Cahill Publishing, (1993). Limited Edition. 8vo. Pp. 22. Edition limited to 26 lettered copies, of which this marked "R." Fine in cloth slipcase that shows very slight fading on cover. Of this edition, 100 numbered copies were printed and 26 lettered copies that included the slipcase, of which this is one. Story first appeared in The New Yorker, 1992. Signed in full by Updike on the colophon-limitation page.

New York: Juniper Press, 1956. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Fine Literature. 8vo. Pp. 319. Translated by Frances Frenaye. Gray cloth with lettering stamped in black on spine. An attractive copy in the dust jacket, modest fading on spine. A nice English-language edition of La Rabouilleuse, a volume in the publisher's sporadically-issued series of Balzac novels under the title "The Human Comedy." Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

New York: Covici-Friede, Publishers, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good-. Arthur Hawkins, Jr. (dust jacket illustration). 8vo. Pp. [2], 3-260. Bound in yellow cloth with black lettering and red dots stamped on front board and spine. In the color illustrated dust jacket with old tape reinforcement to interior head of spine, slight stain to tail of spine, and with spine faded from red to brown. Flap price of $2.00 intact. Hardboiled fiction by the noted mystery writer bubbles over in this novel involving an ex-prizefighter, speakeasies, hangovers and "a hard little soft girl" (flap copy). Dedicated by the author to several men "and my other friends behind the bars." The dust jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. ably captures Jazz Age effervescence, with a flapper in red lipstick and a slinky dress amid martini glasses. Scarce. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Torrance, CA: Fred Patterson, 1975. First Edition. Saddle Stapled Wraps. Near Fine. 4to. Pp. 18. Illustrated with black and white photography. Bound in black-and-white wraps, saddle stapled. Very slight age-toning, and with a decal shadow over the front cover list price. Withal, a bright, well-preserved copy. An early issue of Back Door Man, the fanzine that was waiting for the punk scene to emerge. Articles focus on Sweet (cover article) Kiss vs. Grand Funk vs. Stones, a lot of emphasis on Blue Oyster Cult, and reviews of Beefheart and Zappa.

Torrance, CA: Fred Patterson, 1977. First Edition. Saddle Stapled Wraps. Near Fine. 4to. Pp. 18. Illustrated with black and white photography. Bound in black-and-silver wraps, saddle stapled. Slight wear to cover. A very well preserved copy. This "Third Anniversary Issue" introduces glossy cover stock and enhanced production. Moreover, the issue successfully completes the transition from coverage of corporate rock to devotion to the emerging underground sound. Phast Phreddie contributes a great article on Pere Ubu, while others take on the Dead Boys, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, et al. A three-panel centerfold presents Johnny Rotten on stage. The full page inside-cover ad offers Iggy Pop and James Williamson's Kill City.

New York: Macmillan, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. ix, 285. Bound in full yellow cloth with art nouveau green and black lettering stamped on front cover, gilt title label on spine. Bookseller tag on the front pastedown ("Unity Peques Old and New Books, 6520 Hollywood Boulevard"). Dust jacket, price-clipped and with very slight chips, mimics the design of the stamped lettering. Roland Oliver was a critic, a historian of the theater, and a playwright himself; he is perhaps best known for "A Tense Human Comedy," which ran in 1927 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Jacket, designed by "CKS," is bright and well designed, and is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Berkeley: PalOmine Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Stiff Paper Wraps. Fine. 16mo. Unpaginated [Pp. 20]. Bound in light green paper with printed label, Yapp edges, hand sewn. Typeset and printed by Jason Davis on light blue-gray stock. Edition limited to 126 of which 100 are numbered and 26 lettered. This copy lettered R and signed by Den Boer. Preserved in a clear archival sleeve.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. Early Reprint. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good-/Good. Arthur Hawkins, Jr.. 8vo. Pp. [2] 3-275 Bound in green cloth with black lettering and rules stamped on front cover and spine. A bright copy with dust soiling on top edge and a bit of darkening to head of spine. In the illustrated dust jacket that with a couple chips, notably to head of spine, and with spine darkened and with a dime-size dampstain and a perforation the size of a chickpea. Please see photos. Early reprint, published a few months after the first printing. The sensational debut novel by Vina Delmar (1903-1990). Addressing taboo subjects including premarital sex and pregnancy set among tenement life, the novel gained initial notoriety and success by being banned in Boston. To capitalize on her popularity, Delmar quickly published two successive titles, also suggestive and gritty Kept Woman and Loose Ladies) before departing New York for Hollywood. There she wrote for the movies, with… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. 324. Endpaper maps. Bound in pale grey half-cloth over grey paper-covered boards. In the price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by Raban in full on the title page. First printing of the first edition. Verlyn Klinkenborg, in a New York Times review, suggests "America has always been nourished by the optimism of its immigrants." That's the very subject of Raban's thesis, whether fulfilling a Jefferson ideal or a Monroe doctrine. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable archival sleeve.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Christopher Rule (dust jacket illustration). 8vo. Pp. [1-8], 9-371, followed by five pages involving a capsule biography of Hergesheimer and synopses of his novels. Bound in bright green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. In the color illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped and with the spine slightly darkened. Withal, book and spine are in especially well preserved condition. First edition, trade issue, of Hergesheimer's novel set in colonial Virginia. In the superb dust jacket illustrated by Christopher Rule, now protected in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

(New York): Aperture Foundation, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Nan Goldin. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holbron and Suzanne Fletcher. Oblong 4to. Pp. 144. Illustrated with 125 color plates. Bound in blue cloth, letters blindstamped on front cover, in gilt on spine. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket. A solid copy with dust jacket showing a trifle fading to spine, light rubbing. (Please see photos.). First printing of the first edition of Goldin's groundbreaking collection documenting her life amid the gritty East Village No Wave scene. Includes a few photos of illustrious figures from that scene, including doomed lovers Cookie Mueller and her husband Vittorio at their wedding, not long before both died, victims of the AIDS epidemic.The most important photo book of its decade. In his New York Times review, Andy Grundberg wrote, "What Robert Frank's 'The Americans' was to the 1950's, Nan Goldin's 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency' is to the 1980's."Dust… Read More

New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1909. Early Reprint. Suede Gift Binding. Good-. 12mo. Pp. 5-159. Top edge gilt. Bound in tan suede with yapp edges, gilt lettering stamped on front board. Former owner name and address stamped on the title page. The half-title has been excised; small spot on fore-edge. That said, the suede binding has been well preserved. The Bard of the Yukon who gained international fame for evoking the life of gold-seekers, even if his banker hands were soft.

New York: Program Publications, 1942. First Edition. Stiff Illustrated Wrap. Good-. Marcel Vertès (cover). Folio. Unpaginated. Lavishly illustrated with photo reproductions and advertisements, of which four pages in color. Halftone color illustrated wrap, saddle stapled. Damp stains throughout, cupstains to the cover, edges rubbed and age toned, cover nearly split at the spine, date marked in ballpoint pen on the cover. Laid in loose leaf program for the 16 January 1943 performance at the Portland Public Auditorium: mellowed creases, date marked in ballpoint pen. Formed in New York in 1939 with Mikhail Mordkin's touring company and artists fleeing war in Europe, and renamed American Ballet Theatre in 1957. This tour presented by impresario Sol Hurok. On the Portland program: Anton Dolin and Peter Tchaikowsky's Princess Aurora, Pas de Quatre by Dolin and Cesare Pugni, Bluebeard by Michel Fokine and Jacques Offenbach, arranged and conducted by Antal Dorati, scenery and costumes by Marcel Vertès.… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine. 12mo. xxi (2) 355. Frontis. 2 pp. color map. With three additional maps, also color. Index, followed by 4 pp. of ads for publisher's guide books. Bound in red pebble-grain cloth with gilt lettering stamped on cover; gilt lettering on spine. A four-leaf bifold in the table of contents is loose; slight fading to spine. Else, exceedingly well bound and bright. Despite the two detracting qualities, one of the freshest copies of the pocket edition we've handled. SMITH, 502 WICKERSHAM, 6429 (references 1890 edition). Bookseller inventory R10182X28B.

Ann Arbor: Mike McDowell, 1977. First Edition. Stapled fanzine. Near Fine. March 1977. 4to (8.5 x 11). Pp. 11. Black-and-white photocopy fanzine. Saddle-stapled. Staples a bit rusty, else quite presentable. "Michigan's Rock & Roll Fanzine." With a heavy emphasis on '60s garage bands, as so many pre-punk fanzines featured due to the absence of a listenable alternative. This issue with a sign of things to come, with "1977 is the year" and "a veritable rock explosion is happening, everywhere." Plenty of info on Cheap Trick, the Sonic's Rendezvous Band. This is the Michael Nesmith Collector's Edition.

Dunbar, Scotland: Brian Hogg, 1980. First Edition. Stapled fanzine. Fine. 4to (8 x 10 inches). Pp. 39. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photos. Saddle stapled. Condition is quite presentable, with no detracting qualities. High production quality with a heavy and deep emphasis on '60s bands, which became ingrained in so many pre-punk fanzines due to the absence of a listenable alternative. This issue with a focus on the Buffalo Springfield, Beach Boys and Manfred Mann, including discographies.

New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to. Pp. 64. Foreword. Introduction by Robert Goldwater. Bibliography. With 114 illustrations, mostly b&w photographs. Many photos by Charles Uht. One map. Frontispiece. Blue paper-covered boards printed with black and white lettering. A well preserved copy in dust jacket showing slight age-toning to top edge of of dust jacket and short closed tear. Gift inscription from Seattle newspaper journalist John Robinson to Virginia and Bagley Wright, longtime Seattle arts patrons. A handsome, bright copy. A seminal production, being one of the first books exclusively devoted to Bambara sculpture. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Weatherhill: New York and Tokyo, 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to. Pp. 215. With information on planting and cultivation. Tables of species. Bibliography. Decorated endpapers. Green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering. Owner's blindstamp on title page, else a lovely, attractive copy with no detracting qualities. Exquisite photography by Dana Levy perfectly complements the informed and worthy text. A well-designed book, in superlative shape. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. Pp. x; 346. Foreword by Kenneth Thimann. An expansive overview of the subject with detailed analysis of propagation, bases of classification, the vegetative and reproductive stages of the plant, etc. With a bibliography and index. Illustrated throughout with b&w line drawings and photographic reproductions. Bound in quarter cloth, khaki, over brown cloth-covered boards. Owner's name on title page, and a couple drips on front panel of dust jacket. That said, an attractive, well-preserved copy. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.