Search Results: Titles starting with B from Lighthousebooks, ABAA

Bradford County High School Alumni Association, 1992. 100th Anniversary Edition of the BHS B Book. Quarto, silver illustrated boards (hardcover), red letters and illustrations to upper cover, 144 pp. Near Fine, with bumped edges.

London: Ian Allan Ltd., (1977). Quarto, orange boards (hardcover), 192 pp. Former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine, in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: More words have probably been written about the Boeing B-17, the famed ‘Flying Fortress,’ than any other product of the United States aircraft industry. This book is not just another, reiterating what has previously been recorded. The author covers aspects that have hitherto received scant attention, presenting the aircraft as it was seen by those operating and maintaining it, exploring its combat attributes and deficiences and showing why it became a legend. The development and specification of the B-17, detailing in many earlier books, is only touched upon here where relevant to the Fortress at war. The research involved in seeking details of events rarely recorded in official records entailed the help of a hundred persons, including nationals of ten different countries. Several veterans have contributed… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. First Edition. 1st edition. This copy has inserted a transcript of a paragraph from page 46 of the book, "'I wish to offer a toast' he said, 'a toast for the old bachelors to drink. Wish you Merry Christmas and – and here's to her'!" Signed by the author and dated December 1897. Also inserted is a three-page autograph letter from the author, on his letterhead, dated "Dec. 12, 1897," addressed to "My dear Miss Laughlin." Clara E. Laughlin (1873-1941) was the author of more than 35 books, headed a Travel Service with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris, and published a monthly magazine with a circulation of more than 80,000. In this case, Grant (a popular novelist of his day) writes to the young Laughlin with "the congratulations of a philosopher on your entertaining article the 'Martyrdom of Fame' in the current Scribner. I have read it with much enjoyment & have heard others praise it." Later in the note he admonishes himself for not asking… Read More

New York: Pageant Press, Inc., (1958). First Edition, stated. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 252 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkening) to endpapers, lightly rubbed edges; in a Fair dust jacket with cello tape. From dust jacket: Life in the Florida back country was not easy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. To the normal hardships associated with wresting an organized community and a cultured life from a natural wilderness was added the disorganization of a post-Civil War era and its legacy of bitterness. Back Country is the thrilling story of how a hardy group of frontiersmen and women reestaablished the fabric of their shattered economic and social life, and gradually overcame their almost pathological hatred of the Yankees whom they regarded as the cause of their difficulties. But Back Country is no sociological treatise. It is largely an autobiographical novel which covers a year of the personal trials and tribulations, the little joys and triumphs of the… Read More

Newark: University of Delaware Press, (1987). First Edition. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 284 pp. Very Good, in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: As part of Ulysses S. Grant’s overall strategic plan to win the Civil War, Major General Benjamin Butler’s Federal army advanced up the James River in the spring of 1864 in an effort to operate against Richmond from the south while the Army of the Potomac approached the Confederate capital from the north. Opposed by Confederate forces hastily gathered from three states by General P. G. T. Beauregard, Butler’s army seized a base at Bermuda Hundred Landing and maneuvered for ten days between Richmond and Petersburg before being defeated at the Battle of Drewry’s Bluff. Withdrawing into a fortified position at Bermuda Hundred, Butler made three abortive attempts to seize Petersburg before the arrival of the Army of the Potomac in June ended both Butler’s independence and the Bermuda Hundred Campaign.… Read More

Southern Star Publishing, (2006). First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (stiff white, black & white photo. illustrated slick wrappers), 188 pp. From lower cover; Della Owens was determined to preserve the tradition and success that her late employers of the Becker Estate had enjoyed and instilled in her. Unfortunately, her intentions and dreams were challenged by an adversary. To complicate matters, a stranger shows up at the estate. Della must determine if this stranger offers true friendship or additional adversities. Jeffy S. Boatright continues to write about the area that he loves so. “Back Road Home” is set in North Florida where Boatright’s roots run deep. Boatright is a sixth generation Floridian whose previous novels are “Gray Hammock” and “Journey of Truth.”

Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1969. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, viii + 51 pp + 42 plates. Near-Fine, with age darkened pages; in a Near-Fine dust jacket with light rubbing. From dust jacket: Der kurzlich verstorbene Autor gibt eine auf langjahrigen Studien beruhende umfassende Geschichte der Glashutten und des Glasgewerbes in Baden. Durch intensives Quellenstudium und sorgfaltige Erforschung der geographisch-soziologischen Gegebenheiten gelingt es ihm, zum ersten Mal den weitverzweigten Zusammenhangen der Glasmacherfamilien und ihrer Huttengrundungen nachzugehen. Uber 50 Huttenplatze, von denen die erste 1218 gegrundet wurde, sind in diesem Band beschrieben und 35 weitere Glashutten listenmassig erfasst. Die mit einem umfassenden wissenschaftlichen Apparat versehene Studie gibt einen Uberblick uber die Entwicklung der Glasindustrie in Sudwest-Deutschland, uber die Schicksale der Glasmacher und Unternehmer und deren Beziehungen zu den Landesherren und Grundbesitzern...

University Press of Florida, (1997). Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), 235 pp. Fine (New) in Fine (New) dust jacket; still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. In the only scholarly treatment of Bahamian socio-economic history in post-emancipation years, Johnson begins by examining the last phase of slavery as one element in the foundation of later, and often more exploitative, labor systems. Looking at both urban and rural slave populations, Johnson discusses the systems of slave hire, apprenticeship, and indenture and highlights the ways in which the people of the Bahamas formed a proto-peasantry, often exerting more autonomy and power as slaves than as a “free” people. Following emancipation in 1838, ex

Munchen: Polyglott-Verlad, (1976). Reisefuhrer Polyglott. 12mo, softbound, 63, [i] pp. Maps, illus. Very Good.

Nassau, Bahamas: Published by Arrangement with Brice Publishing Co., (1973). First Edition. Limited Edition. Signed by the Author. Octavo, softbound, 192 pp. Photos.

Lisboa: Comp. Nacional Editora, n.d. Octavo, paperbound (stapled printed wrappers), 19 pp. Very Good+, with former owner signature.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1892. Octavo, bound by Root & Son in full crimson polished calf with gilt panels front and rear, calf labels, spine panels decorated with gilt-stamped lyres, original gilt-stamped cloth covers preserved and used as paste-downs, front and rear, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, xiii, 89 pp. 26 full-page plates, illus., & vignettes. Fine; former-owner bookplate.

London: Prentice-Hall International, (1962). First English Edition. Oblong octavo, slick color-illustrated boards (hardcover), 106 pp. Color plates, black & white photos, illus. Near-Fine, with bookplate.

Northport, AL: Sevgo Press, [1992]. 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, softbound, 240 pp. Photos. Fine.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966. Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), xv, 434 pp. Very Good+, with neat former-owner stamp & former-owner’s published review pasted to rear endpaper, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From jacket: This book is a distillation of a lifetime of experience in the study of bamboos. The author has seen living plants of more different kinds of bamboo than any other man, and he has acquired a knowledge of them that is unique in its comprehensiveness. There is no comparable work on bamboos in any Western language. The first part of the book described the plant’s component parts, its vegetative and reproductive states, and its role as a member of different genera and species...The book continues with a systematic treatment of seven important species, each from a differnt genus, and a thorough discussion of propagation methods...The author describes the flowering and fruiting behaviouf of some thirty different speicies, as a… Read More

Trenton, N.J.: The Trenton Historical Society, 1967. 1st edition. Octavo, blue cloth, 204 pp. Photos, illus., map endpapers. Near-Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket.

Barbados: Carib Publicity Co., (1972). Sixth Impression. Square octavo, color-illustrated stiff self-wrappers, stapled, 40 pp. Color photos throughout, map, illus. Very Good.

Barbados: Government Printing Office, 1962. Octavo, softbound, 162 pp. Photos. Very Good.

London: Andre Deutsch, (1964). First Edition. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), 256 pp, ads. Photos, maps. Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.

New York City: Life Publishing Company, (1900). First Edition (BAL 6088). Signed by Dedicatee, Julia Marlow, on endpaper. Inscribed to author and signed by Julia Marlow on her portrait, which faces the dedication to her. Octavo, hardcover (illus. boards), uncut, illus., 128 pp. Very Good, with rubbing to covers.