Search Results: Titles starting with B from Lux Libri

(Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Publishing, 2015.) Spanish-language edition. Signed by Luke on the title page with a small drawing of a pumpkin. The story of a stray black cat named B (for Bernard) and his quest for a new home with the Willow Witch. A Halloween story for juvenile readers and children of all ages. Several color illustrations. All text is in Spanish.119 pages. Paperbound. 9 by 6 inches. Fine. Appears to have never been read.

NY: Local Gems Press, (2017.) 1st edition. Poetry by a new generation of writers working in the literary spirit of the Beat Generation. See images for contributors. 165, (11) pp. Paperbound 8vo. VG with light wear. Clean and securely bound.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (2010). 1st edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page with a brief inscription. A title in the American Land and Life series. 8vo trade paperback. Near Fine. Clean and securely bound. Appears to be unread. (American fiction - Pastoral literature - Great Plains - History and criticism.)

Woodstock, Vermont: Elm Tree Press, (1925.) 1st edition. A poem celebrating the small town of Plymouth, Vermont, and the election of native son Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States (1923-29.) 14 pp. Staple-bound booklet. Gray paper wraps. 12mo. 7.25 by 5.25 inches. Illustrated by a map of Vermont and small vignettes in the text. VG. Modest wear, light browning of the covers, minor stain to rear cover. Sound and securely bound. A nice copy overall of a scarce item.

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, (2012.) 1st edition. Signed by the author. A history of baseball in Savannah, GA, from the amateur era of the late 19th century to the minor league Sand Gnats. Trade paperback. 127 pp., index. Many photos and illustrations. Near Fine. Appears to be unread. "Autographed Copy" sticker on the front cover.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. 1st edition. Signed limited edition of 100 copies. This is no. 30. Poems by the late feminist poet and prolific author of more than 130 books and chapbooks. 8vo hardcover. Green cloth spine and decorative paper boards designed by Barbara Martin. 239 pp. Near Fine in the original clear dust jacket.

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2003. Reprint of the 1931 limited edition. A study of early printing in Utah. With four introductory chapters, a bibliography, 13 facsimiles, and a brief account of newspapers and periodicals in the territorial era. 91 pp. 8vo clothbound hardcover. Not issued with a dust jacket. Fine, unread condition.

Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, (2015). 1st edition. Signed association copy. A memoir by the noted American composer (b. 1925.) Signed/inscribed on the title page to Darren Woods, a former opera singer and director of the Fort Worth Opera in Texas. Laid-in press release announcing this title as winner of the 2016 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Outstanding Musical Biography. xiii, 199 pp., b&w photos. Pictorial 8vo hardcover. Not issued with a dust jacket. A Fine copy. Uncommon signed.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. 1st edition. A classic study in regional paleography, detailing the development and decline of the Beneventan script. A scholarly work on all aspects of the enduring script used from the 8th to the 13th centuries throughout southern Italy. Two facsimiles in the text + 15 facsimiles on 9 plates. Map of Italy showing Monte Cassino and other important Beneventan centers. Appendix listing more than 600 extant manuscripts and fragments. Clothbound quarto. 384 pp. VG in clear archival jacket. Owner signature from 1923. Endpapers browned, but text is clean. Laid-in Bernard Quaritch shipping label from 1967. A solid copy of the uncommon first edition. (Italian paleography; Medieval manuscripts.)

NY: Feiwel and Friends, (2017.) 1st edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. A historical fantasy novel for young adults that combines Norse / Viking mythology with the old American West. By the author of the Monument 14 trilogy. 343 pp. 8vo hardcover in dust jacket. VG/VG. Lower corners lightly bumped, some age-toning of the text pages. Clean and securely bound. Jacket is protected by a clear archival cover.

Italy: Fratelli Bocca, (1956.) 1st edition. A bibliography of work by Benedetto Croce (1886-1952), Italian idealist philosopher, politician, and influential liberal intellectual. Includes his extensive writings on philosophy, history, and aesthetics, along with his translations, reviews, essays, and miscellaneous works. Text is in Italian. 481 pp. 8vo. Issued in paperbound form, but this copy nicely re-bound in hardcover with patterned green paper and leather spine label. Original wraps bound in. Author signature in purple ink on the copyright page, but it appears to be a facsimile or stamp. Good condition. Modest external wear. Text pages browned, but not brittle. Sound, tight binding. A solid, attractive copy of this useful bibliography.

Two (2) bills from Denker & Sons of New York City for purchases in 1945 by Edelberg's Furs of Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks. Edelberg's bought 10 raccoon coats for a total of $1,610. Approx. 6 x 8.5 inches each. VG, as shown.

Elizabethtown, NY: High Peaks Audubon Society, 1997. 2nd edition. A guide to the birds of Clinton County in northeastern New York state. A rich birding area that includes a portion of the vast Adirondack Park and is bounded by Lake Champlain and Vermont to the east and the Canadian border and Quebec to the north. With birding routes, maps, photos, and descriptions of all 284 species recorded in the county, from its beaches to the summit of Lyon Mountain at 3,836 feet. 139 pp., with taxonomic index, breeding status and dates, general index. Paperbound 8vo. Fine, unread condition.

A novel with illustrations by Christopher Maynard. NY: Riverrun Press, (1995.) 1st edition. Signed by the author on the title page.
A moral fable about a man who discovers gnome-like creatures in his barren garden. A story of love, treachery and murder -- and a microcosm of human society. 145 pp. Hardcover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. VG in dust jacket. Sound, tight binding. "Autographed Copy" sticker on front panel of the jacket. Protected by a new clear archival cover.

Boston: Damrell & Moore, 1858. Early edition. First published in 1854 with the same title but different contents. Fifteen stories of Christian virtue and traditional values. Written by a blind girl from Vermont. 158 pp, woodcut illustrations. Small hardcover. 6 x 4 inches. Embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering. VG with moderate wear and signs of age. Sound binding. Foxing/stains to the title and frontispiece, but text is generally clean throughout. Early pencil inscription on a blank page reads: "Composed by a Blind girl / and bought for Albert H. Lindley." The author was from West Berkshire in the Green Mountains and says in the preface that she was blind from age 11. Little more is known about her, but she was part of a genre of blind female authors who found success with a sympathetic public in the mid-19th century. Writing was considered useful self-improvement in an era when traditional employment and marriage were not viewed as viable for blind women. Publishers marketed the novelty, and… Read More

NY: William J. Black, c. 1951 but published in 1952. Detective Book Club edition. Issued the same year as the true 1st, published in NY by Dodd, Mead as Mrs. McGinty's Dead and preceding the UK 1st. A village mystery with Hercule Poirot. 180 pp. 12mo clothbound hardcover in dust jacket. A nice copy in VG condition overall. Binding is sound, tight, and unworn. Jacket shows the usual browning, faded title lettering, and some surface wear and small spots. No tears or other significant flaws. Clean internally. Jacket protected by a clear archival cover.

Circa 1920 personal bookplate of Sonia Lustig (1867-1943), a Russian-born American bookplate collector. Lustig lived in Rhode Island, and her notable collection of 5,500+ bookplates is now housed at Brown University in Providence, RI. Lustig's pictorial bookplate features a child riding a mythological Pegasus, with a lush tree and Russian architecture in the background. The motto reads: "In Good and Truth is Our Strength." Signed in the plate with the interlocking monogram "CLD" [New England artist Chester L. Dodge, 1880-1950.] Approx. 2.75 x 3.75 inches. Mounted to a book page from 1922, with the single word "Kimono" printed at the bottom of the verso. Also included is the separate title page from Kimono, a novel by John Paris. Bookplate is VG with typical signs of age.

[Edinburgh]: National Library of Scotland, 1991. Paperbound 8vo in gray wraps. Fine. An illustrated catalog on the work of George Mackie, the noted book designer and artist who worked on more than 400 books for the Edinburgh University Press from the 1950s-80s. Issued for a 1991 exhibition at the National Library of Scotland and at Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire. 33-page introduction by Mackie + [34] pages of illustrations, some in color.

[Edinburgh]: National Library of Scotland, 1991. Signed by George Mackie in pencil with a brief inscription "for Hiram from George 1997." An illustrated catalog on the work of the noted book designer and artist, who worked on more than 400 books for the Edinburgh University Press from the 1950s-80s. Issued for a 1991 exhibition at the National Library of Scotland and at Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire. 33-page introduction by Mackie + [34] pages of illustrations, some in color. 8vo. Gray paper wraps. VG with light edge wear. Uncommon signed by Mackie (1920-2020.)

Braunschweig: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag, 1956. ***Signed presentation copy given to the first United States ambassador to West Germany. An illustrated book on the art and craft treasures of the historic city of Braunschweig, Germany. 104 pp. German text with 43 photographs in b&w. Quarto hardcover in dust jacket. 10 by 7.75 inches. VG with moderate wear. Sound, tight binding. With calligraphy inscription in German to the US ambassador on his visit in November 1956. Not personalized but the recipient was James Bryant Conant, a former Harvard president who was ambassador to West Germany from 1955-1957 in the early Cold War era. Inscription roughly translates: To His Excellency the Ambassador of the United States in greeting on the occasion of the visit. Signed by Otto Benneman, then the mayor of Braunschweig, and Dr. Erich Walter Lotz, the city manager. Round ink stamp of Stadt Braunschweig. (Found in New England with other books from the personal library of James Bryant Conant, 1893-1978.)