Search Results: Titles starting with B from Browsing Is Arousing

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Non-paginated. Features black & white cartoons by Barney Tobey. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy. Record # 610530

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981. 1st. Softcover. Good/None. 141 pages. Illustrated color and b&w captioned photographs throughout text. Light edge wear to wrappers. Small water stain on bottom of front cover. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 809181

Paris: Editions Hazan ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2012. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 224 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography by Abbott throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 350905

Berlin GR: Nicolai, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 125 pages, b&w duotone photos throughout. Documents life in post-war Berlin. Essays by Edzard Reuter and Janos Frecot. GERMAN TEXT. Clean in a bright dust jacket. Record # 361008

University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press , 1986. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Weintraub's compilation of Shaw's diaries reveal the day to day life of one of Britain's most famous playwrights. 558 pages. Vol. 1 only of a two volume set. Clean. Record # 381859

Hartford CT: American Publishing Company, 1867. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, brown cloth with bright gilt design on front cover and spine. Half title and two page map. Profusely illustrated with full page plates and text drawings. 572 pages. Albert Deane Richardson (1833-1869) was a well-known American journalist, Union spy, adventurer, and author. This work describes a trip through Texas, from Preston to El Paso, on the U.S. Mail coach. Full of keen with observations. Light edgewear to covers, clean copy. Record # 381968

NY: International Polygonics, 1991. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 365 pages. Known for her hard-boiled mystery plots combined with screwball comedy, Georgiana 'Craig' Rice was the author of twenty-three novels, six of them posthumous, numerous short stories, and some true crime pieces. In the 1940s she rivaled Agatha Christie in sales and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946. However, over the past sixty years she has fallen into relative obscurity. This mystery was first published in 1942. The murder of a show biz midget whom everybody feared and hated brings lots of plot twists and goofy suspects. Lots of surprises. Great fun. Clean, like new. Record # 381890

NY: Rodale, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game will not disappoint basketball purists longing for Oscar Robertson's play-by-play of favorite games, the attraction of this autobiography is Robertson's perspective on the evolution of the sport and on the racial struggles that were the context of his formative years. Called by many basketball experts the greatest all-around player ever, Robertson earned an astonishing array of honors including an Olympic gold medal, 12 NBA All-Star appearances, the NBA Rookie of the Year award, and the 1964 NBA MVP award. Most remarkably, Robertson remains the only player in basketball history with a triple-double season (double-digit averages for scoring, rebounds, and assists).While Robertson could have easily candy-coated this impressive record for his retrospective, he devotes large sections of his book to the racial battles he faced off court, and his final chapters… Read More

London: Hard Case Crime, 2013. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Glen Orbik. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction—and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is.When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together—but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people…including the President of the United States? Like new. Record # 372463

London: Hard Case Crime, 2007. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Glen Orbik. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. From the Academy Award-Nominated Screenwriter of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Comes a Breathtaking Story of Murder and Mischief...IT’S THE STORY of a big-game hunter, fisherman, fighter, visitor to Cuba, drunk, and Nobel Prize-winning author, recently deceased of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, whose final unpublished manuscript could fetch a mint...IT’S THE STORY of a short, balding man with a high-pitched voice and a vicious wit, whose cocktail parties are the talk of the town, especially when a beautiful woman dies at one of them. And it’s the story of Dick Sherman, intrepid New York publisher, on the trail of the literary find of the century—and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it from being found. Like new. Record # 372485

NY: Summit Books, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 216 pages. Record # 450184

London: Hard Case Crime, 2019. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/None. Dylan Struzan. Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by the author. In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor. With this act, the U.S. Congress also created organized crime as we know it. Italian, Jewish, and Irish mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to the millions of people still eager to drink it. Men like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone in Chicago and Nucky Johnson in Atlantic City, waged a brutal war for power in the streets and on the waterfronts. But if you think you already know this story...think again, since you’ve never seen it through the eyes of one the mobsters who lived it. Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition… Read More

NY: Vanguard Press, 1929. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, green cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt, gilt faded. 165 pages, 20 Native American myths. Emdossed stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good. Uncommon title. Record # 383835

London: Hard Case Crime, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Michael Koelsch. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket featuring a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide—with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY—the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with...MEG—the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds...LILY—the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by...CASSIE—the redhead with her own private agenda...and WEAVER—the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging! This is MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block at his rawest and most visceral, a bloody, bawdy, brutal story of passion and punishment—and of lines that were never meant to be crossed. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new. Record # 373228

Portland OR: Pomegranate, 2017. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 124 pages. MF Cardamone creates artwork that harks back to centuries past but is deeply rooted in the present. Her cultural and sociological commentary, delivered in words and images, reveals her sly sense of humor and love of all things botanical. An artist fluent in various media, including painting, sculpture, and limited-edition clothing, Cardamone discovered her passion for plants when she restored a garden at her seventy-five-year old farmhouse near Philadelphia. She enrolled in the Barnes Foundation Arboretum School and learned to collect specimens and create herbarium sheets, documenting the many medicinal uses of plants along with their history and landscaping potential. She picked up old books of botanical illustration, and herbals from a time when a pharmacist might prescribe a homemade tea to cure whatever ailed you. When her studies expanded to medical QiGong and Hatha yoga, her… Read More

New York : Pantheon, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover. Illustrated paper over boards. Pages clean and colorful. Using the Pop paintings of the artist, Hendra conjures the Adventures of Brad, shy young man from New Jersey, A wannabe Artist who Yearns to Be Famous, To be Loved, to move to NYC. Clean, bright copy. Issued without a dust jacket. Record # 352427

London: Hard Case Crime, 2014. 1st. Softcover. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a special set of rules: no relationships, no ties...no alcohol, no women...no talking...and never, ever look inside the bag you’re carrying. For more than ten years, despite suffering from a rare brain disorder, Paul Page was the perfect bagman. But that ended the day he say a beautiful Mob wife become a Mob widow. Now Paul is going to break every one of the rules he’s lived by to protect the woman he loves—even if it means he might be left holding the bag. Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise like new. Record # 372535

Boston: Waverly House, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Excellent history of the Boston Braves written after their '48 Pennant Year. 224 pages, clean copy. Record # 381927

London: Hard Case Crime, 2019. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Paul Mann. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. What will a group of monks do when their century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Though Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, BROTHERS KEEPERS offers not only a master class in comedy from one of the most beloved mystery writers of all time but also a surprisingly heartfelt meditation on loss, temptation, and how we treat our fellow man. Like new. Record # 372436

Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Revised Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 319 pages. B&w illustrations. A well-researched and authoritative study of 'negro' soldiers who wished to remain in the United States Army following the Civil War. They were eventually organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments their service in controlling Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unpraised. With Bibliography and Index. Clean copy. Record # 381591