Search Results: Titles starting with B from Parnassus Book Service

1967. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. 1967. 288pp. 1st. ed. A very good copy despite light wear at top of spine. Some marginal pencil notes and underlining. Originally appeared in #8-10(1966) of YUNOST'. Novel dealing with the murder of Kievan Jews by Germans. Reprinted in 1969 in the West after author's defection inserting passages cut by the Soviet censors as well as passages left out by himself in anticipation of difficulties with the censor.

New York:McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905. 1st edition. xxiv+286pp. Illustrated by A. B. Frost. Hardcover.  Decorated boards lighlty soiled and shelfworn with light mottling to the front board and spine strip, with title rubbed from spine strip. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. A very good, tight copy.

London:Faber and Faber, 1967. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. London:Faber and Faber. (1967). 181pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket in very good, clean condition.

Cambridge:Riverside Press, 1899. First Edition Thus. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2015/04/0_00530.jpg. Signed by authors. Cambridge:Riverside Press. 1899. 257pp. Number 110 of a limited edition of 250. Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. Title page designed by Bruce Rogers. Numbered and signed by the author on the copyright page.  Covers are age-toned and the spine darkened with title label edges curling. Edge points worn to boards. Internally, aside from a previous owners bookplate on the inside front board and a small bookseller ticket to rear board, a very good, clean copy.

New York:McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1937. 1st edition. vii+421pp. Hardcover.  Green boards soiled and sun-faded, with wear along edges and spine ends. Top page edges soiled. Internally, end-pages are slightly age-toned, with a previous owners name neatly inked to 1st free endpage, but otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy. 

Boston:L. C. Page and Company, 1908. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Boston:L. C. Page and Company. 1908. 1st edition. 368+6+4pp ads. Illustrated with color frontispiece by H. R. Reuterdahl. Hardcover.  Green decorated boards in very good, clean condition. Internally, a few penciled ownership notes to 1st free end-page, but otherwise a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact.

Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 1972. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press. 1972. 1st edition. (xxviii0+412pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good, clean copy, inside and out, with a very good, not price clipped, but with a small tear to rear flap fold, dust jacket. 

New York:Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1922). First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/02/0_img_677097.jpg. Inscribed by author. New York:Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers. (1922). 1st edition. 351pp. Hardcover. Signed by the Author twice on the 1st free end page. Embossed blue boards soiled and shelfworn with spine strip darkened and spine ends edgeworn. Page edges soiled.  Internally the front cover of the dust jacket has been secured to the inside front board with a dust jacket flap attached to the inside rear board.  The 1st free flyleaf has two inscriptions signed (and dated) by the Author.  The first to a "W.F.W. in token of friendship, William Dana Orcutt; 20 March 1922" and the second " 'Somewhere between conflicting elements there is always a balance'. Inscribed for Marion Chapin (?) by her friend 'the Author' William Dana Orcutt, 19 June, 1930".  Other than… Read More

MoskvaL Izdatel'stvo Nauka., 1969. First Edition. soft cover. Good. 197pp. Soft cover. A very good copy. Light shelfwear and soiling to covers and freying to top of spine. There is a small stain on front fly leaf where a paper clip was once used.Pages are age-toned.

NY: Harper & Brothers., 1927. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. NY: Harper & Brothers. 1927. 11pp. Hard-bound. Illus. Charles Cullen. A very good, tight copy. Title on spine chipped. Light wear of spine and points. S012.

New Haven:Press of Timothy Dwight College, Yale University, 1941. First Edition. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. Inscribed by author. New Haven:Press of Timothy Dwight College, Yale University. 1941. 36pp. Illustrated. Wrps. 1st edition. Covers are lightly soiled and sun-faded; interior has a previous owners name written on the first free end-paper in pencil, and an inscription, signed and dated by the author on the half title page. Otherwise, aside from some light soiling at page edges, a very good, clean copy. 

Morristown, NJ:The Jerseyman Print, 1896. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Morristown, NJ:The Jerseyman Print. 1896. 1st Ed. (vii)+168pp. Illutstrated, with folding map. Hardcover. Black boards with title in gilt on front cover and spine slightly dulled, soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges and spine ends and what looks to be silverfish flecking along cover edges.  Internally, end-pages lightly age-toned with a few small closed tears to fore-edges of 1st free end-page but otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. Map is still very good but with several extra creases. The binding is tight with hinges intact.

Boston:Forbes and Company, 1905. First Edition Thus. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Signed by authors. Boston:Forbes and Company. 1905. 2nd edition. 223pp. Pevious owners bookplate on the inside front board, otherwise a very good, clean copy. *With 1p. TL signed acknowledging receipt of a contribution which would be used in author's column in the CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1872. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London:Longmans, Green and Co. 1872. 1st edition. x+164pp. Hardcover.  Beige boards are soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges. The spine ends are chipped, the edge points bumped and the binding along the front gutter has started to crack.  Internally, aside from an occasional penciled note, a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A good solid copy.  *Author's first book.

(London):The Sylvan Press, 1947. First Edition Thus. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. (London):The Sylvan Press. (1947).[1-6], 7-214pp.With 60 illustrations.  With dust jacket. Front and back end-papers medium foxed. Internally very good, tight, clean copy. Dust jacket lightly soiled and frayed with small tears. All together a very good copy.

Berkeley:Oyez, 1975. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. Berkeley:Oyez. 1975. 1st edition. No Pagination. Softcover. Green covers lightly soiled but otherwise a very good clean copy. 

Salem:The Marine Reserach Society, 1930. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Salem:The Marine Reserach Society. 1930. 192pp + 1p advertisements. Includes 36 plates 48 full-page plans. Hardcover. Binding is lightly worn at the edges and spine with some gentle soiling to the covers. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, a very good, tight copy. A detailed history of the development and use of the Baltimore style schooner.

New York;W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, (1938). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:W. W, Norton & Company, Inc. (1938). 1st edition, stated. 273pp. Hardcover.  Maroon boards with blue band lighlty soiled and shelfworn, with mild scratching to boards and light wear along edges, spine ends and edge points gently bumped. The spine strip has darkened from soiling.  Internally end pages slightly age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures.  The binding is tight with hinges intact.  Overall, a very good, clean and tight copy.

Caernarfon:Gwynedd Archives, 1988. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2015/09/0_100.jpg. Caernarfon:Gwynedd Archives. (1988). 208pp with one folded map. Illustrated. Wraps.  Covers are only mildly shelf-worn at the edges and spine. Otherwise in very good, near fine condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good, near fine copy.

New York:The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:The Outing Publishing Company. 1907. 1st edition. 385pp. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth and F.. E. Schoonover. Hardcover. Red decorated boards lighlty soiled and shelfworn, with spine strip sun-faded. Page edges soiled. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. There is some light foxing scattered throughout, usually adjacent to plates. The binding is tight but slightly cocked with hinges intact.