Search Results: Titles starting with B from Little Sages Books, ABAA

Baghdad : Government of Iraq: Directorate General of Antiquities , 1943 . First Edition. Staplebound. Very good. Stapled in printed wrappers, 8pp with two plates. No more than four copies of the later 1956 edition in domestic holdings at time of this writing.

New York: Chase Bag Co., 1930. Very good. New York: Chase Bag Co., 1930. Very good. 22p. + pirnted wraps, with illustrations. This issue memorializing Mr. James Frederick Allen, director who died suddenly from a heart attack. Columns and articles on Burlap Bags, apper bags, business and commerce. Four copies held in Worldcat.

North Montpelier: The Driftwind Press, 1928. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Tall, stitched leaflet, 8pp. in printed wraps, stamped in black. First printing.

Cape Town : Howard Timmons, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 9-1/2" x 7-1/2" 203p., brown paper covered boards with pictorial dustjacket, depicting tribal dance around a camp fire. Black and white line drawings throughout by Jillian Hulme with 14 full page pictures and 30+ cuts. Open and closed tears visible on jacket, with bit of paper loss at head and heel of spine, price clipped. Gift inscription in pen, front free endpaper.

Longmans, London, 1927. Hardcover. Very good. London. First Edition, 1927. pp. 318, 8vo. Hardcover in English green boards/gilt titling to spine. Lower corners lightly rounded, subtle rub and fade along lower rims. Endpapers and text block toned, a strong, solid copy in firm, accessible binding. An essential title on the early history of the Air Ministry and the various boards which preceded it. Easily the most prolific British writer on airpower during the first half of the 20th century, with over a dozen books to his name, his meticulous footnotes and references are an absolute gold mine for later historians.

Alianza Editorial SA, 6/30/2007. Paperback. Very good. Bright softcover in glossy wrappers, in Spanish. Limpia rustica en Espanol. Light wear/curl to front edge.

Munich : DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , 1978. Softcover. Good. Petite softcover, glossy and bright with edge wear to cream/photographic covers.

Ediciones Universal, 1990. Paperback. Good. [Cuba]Petite, slim softcover in glossy blue wrappers. Neat, quite bright. The Cuban bibliographer and professor, Dr. Elena Verez Peraza, shines with this biographic and bibliographic reference for Fermin Peraza Sarausa.

Philadelphia: King and Baird , 1850. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 16pp., removed or disbound. An address at the close of the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 16, A.D. 1850, offers a warning against 'Romanizing tendencies'.

Stockholm: Ahlen & Akerlunds Forlag, 1914. First Edition. softcover. very Good/very good. Large softcover folio in matte, illustrated wrappers, lithographed in gilt and color, showing an expressive boy in work or war boots, gripping the Swedish flag. B/w photographs throughout, primarily of the march and demonstrations in Stockholm. Within, two full color chromolithographed and heavily gilt folio pages laid in, suitable for framing. This compelling keepsake marks the occasion of the ‚Bondetaget, February 6, 1914, where 30,000 farmers marched to and rallied in Stockholm. It was there King Gustav V proclaimed the need for continued warship production and expanded defense spending. The Kings speech (Baileys Speech) created a constitutional crisis, a conflict between monarchy and ministry, which led to the ousting of the liberal Prime Minister Karl Staaff, whose defense reductions threatened the secure conservatism of the folk and farm population. A counter-demonstration of 50,000 followed two… Read More

Calcutta : Writer's Workshop, 1968 . Hardcover. Good/good. His first book, signed 'with compliments, Srinivas Rayaprol'. Quarter-bound in peach linen on paper boards. Dustjacket shows loss. Rayaprol, son of a leading modern poet in Telugu late Rayaprolu Subbara, was educated at Benares Hindu University and Stanford University. He discovered modern poetry in United States, the country to which he owed both an education and "my personal emancipation." It was a debt of gratitude, but it did not make him a wide eyed admirer of all things American. In the final issue of East and West, a magazine he founded and edited from 1956 to 1961, Rayaprol said reading contemporary American poetry with its "beatniks and Jazz poets and the daytime poets and nighttime poets, the poets in pony tails and the poets of hoola-hoop school, I feel sick - of myself, of this world and this present state of writing. "His opinions endeared him to some American poets; among them William Carlos… Read More

New York and London : M.F. Mansfield, The Bankside Press , 1900. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 95p., in green cloth with grapefine design and red lettering, along with illustrated endpapers, designed by Blance McManus, with an introduction by Richard Le Gallienne. Top edge gilt, paper spine label fully faded. Five tipped in or full page illustrations, including tissueguarded frontis. Taped in to free fly, a 1934 article entitled "Hashish in the Rubaiyat ID2730, Potter 610.

Canada: Canadian Pacific, 1929. First Edition. Staplebound. Very good. 8pp in stapled wraps.

Brazil : Government of Brazil, 1939. Leaflet. Very good. Color illustration of Peak of Itabira Do Campo, eight panel leaflet with diagram of Geographic deposits of Iron Ore Deposits in Brazil

Birmingham: Hopscotch Books, a division of Watermark, 1988. Later printing. Hardcover. fine/fine. Edward Gorey . Dark orange cloth with Gorey illustrated blind stamped covers. Glossy yellow bordered dustjacket. Price clipped. B31c. First Hopscotch Edition 1988 as called for.

New York: Atheneum, 1/1/1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed. Atheneum, 1961. Small 8vo, hardcover signed, in matte black/blue dustjacket, not priceclipped. Dustjacket shows sunfade, rubbing and wear along rims. Inscribed by Author on title page.

Brighton: Racial Preservation Society, 1966. Newspaper Format. Good. 4p., folded. right-wing pressure group opposed to immigration and in favour of white nationalism, RPS was founded in 1965 by Robin Beauclaire and Jimmy Doyle, whose followers would go on to comprise majority of National Front and other, like minded groups. One instance of U.S. holdings, within the Billy James Hargis Papers, University of Arkansas Special Collections. imited holdings in the U.K. of the serial publication.

Boston: The Allen School, 1940. First Edition. Wraps. Good. 14pp., on thick, deckled edge paper, in stapled, illustrated wrappers. Contains guide for admissions, requirements (French), application, costs, laid in sheet offering non-traditional time frames. 480 Beacon Street; black and white costumed illustrations throughout, with red/black/gilt stylized woman with compact on front cover.

Bisbee, Arizona : Pequeno Press , 2008. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 179 pp., 2 x 2 1/2". Limited to 50 copies, this 1/50 bound in deep purple leather over boards with lavender paper label on spine, dimensional silver plate on front cover. Printed on Neenah recycled paper in Baskerville Old Face and Harrington types, hand sewn and signed by the publisher on the colophon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865), an English writer whose works explored the detailed life of the Victorian society, wrote a biography of Charlotte Bronte shortly after Bronte's death in 1855. Here, a distillation of the text.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. [Small Press][Poetry] Limited to 125 copes on Whatmans Handmade Paper. 32pp. Foxing to borders, light scuff to deep ebony and cocoa comb-swirled paper boards.