Search Results: Titles starting with B from Bookfever.com, IOBA

Alamo, CA: : PhotoHutch,, (2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in illustrated boards, as issued. Promotional brochure laid in. . First printing. "Flying Through the ABCs with Fun Feathered Friends " - a beautiful and informative book, illustrated with over 60 full color photographs of North American birds. Includes a "who's who challenge" and several pages of additional facts about the birds. SIGNED on the title page. Square format, 80 pp.

New York:: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, (1985.). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. Book club edition. The second in the Kinsey Milhone mystery series, set in Southern California. 186 pp.

Chicago:: Reilly & Lee, , (1936.). Hardcover -. Good overall in red cloth with black lettering (prev owner's name, usual severe toning to paper.). First or early edition. Boy Scout adventure story set in New Mexico. 240 pp plus 2 pp excerpts from two other Reilly & Lee's boys' books.

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father.

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1994). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. SIGNED by both Belle Yang and Amy Tan on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father.

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1996). SIGNED -. Very good+ (covers slightly bent).. 1st trade paperback printing. The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication, with a drawing of a cat by Yang. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father.

New York:: Wonder Books,, (c 1940). Hardcover -. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards - usual toning to the pages, and only a small nick to the binding at the top of the spine, otherwise the binding is almost like new - unusual for these books. . Vintage hardcover. A version of this classic story written for the very youngest readers, translated from the French by Merle S. Haas. Wonder Books #592. Unpaginated, square format.

Paris:: Librairie Hachette, , (ca 1949, c 1941). Hardcover -. Good overall in illustrated boards with a green cloth spine - a line of foxing on verso of endpapers. corners slightly bumped, some age-toning and discoloration to the boards, but still quite attractive. . Early printing. A lovely book in the original large format edition from Hachette. Lists through the first 8 titles on the verso of the copyright page (also states "Copyright by Librarie Hachette 1941" on copyright page, "depot legal 8213-5-49" on last page.) Text in French / texte en francais. Red elephant endpapers. 40 pp

New York:: Random House,, (1983). Hardcover -. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.. 3rd printing. "Babar's ABC is the very nicest kind of teacher to have around the home. Use it first with very young children for simple object recognition; later for letter and word identification; and finally... For that satisfying first step into reading complete sentences." Illustrated in color. Large format.

New York:: Norton,, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Author's first book, a collection of nine linked stories, set in a Los Angeles of "seismic geologic change, of racial unease, of parched desert landscapes littered with the detritus of urban ambition." A New York Times Notable Book, and a Los Angeles Times 'Best Book of the Year.' SIGNED on the title page. 233 pp.

New York:: Random House,, (1996.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.). First US printing. The third of a planned quartet of novels set in the mid-twentieth century - in this massive novel, "in Byatt's vision the presiding genious of the 1960s seems to be a blend of the Marquis de Sade and The Hobbit. The resulting confusion, charted with a brilliant imaginative sympathy, is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre." 623 pp.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1968.). Hardcover -. Ex-library with the usual markings, and a missing title page, but otherwise tight and clean in a near fine, unmarked, dustjacket.. Hardcover. An evaluation of modern poetry and sixty poets by this National Book Award winning poet. Includes e e cummings, Theodore Roethke, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, Philip Booth, May Sarton, Rolfe Humphries, Hayden Carruth, Anne Sexton, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams and more. Index. 296 pp.

New York:: Crown,, (2002.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. A Chief Inspector Wexford mystery, 325 pp.

Mountain View, CA:: Two A's Industries, , (1983). First edition -. Very good in printed white wrappers (some soiling and toning to the covers). First printing, a trade paperback. A book written as a science fiction suspense novel, this story fertility experiments can be read as a prediction of the future of genetic research. 257 pp.

New York:: Macmillan,, 1959.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (corner of dj clipped, but price of 3.95 present, fading to spine of dj.). First printing. A novel of adventure set in 1872 in the diamond mines and the remote back country of South Africa. Dust jacket art by H. Lawrence Hoffman. 384 pp.

New York:: Monthly Review Press, , (1991.). Near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First thus- a trade paperback. A title in the Voices of Resistance Series. Historical novel originally published in 1934, the story of a slave and the Haitian Revolution of 1791. Foreword by Jamaica Kincaid. Afterword by David Barry Gaspar and Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Notes 199 pp.

Yosemite National Park, CA:: Yosemite Association,, 2006.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine (a new copy.). First printing. SIGNED on title page. Although Mama Bear is hungry, Baby Bear, a very curious cub, is much more interested in exploring her world and playing. When suddenly she finds herself in unfamiliar territory, she climbs a tree and starts to cry. A simple but appealing story enhanced by the double-page full-color illustrations of the bears in Yosemite Park. Unpaginated (24 pp), bound in illustrated boards.

Yosemite National Park, CA:: Yosemite Association,, 2006.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine (a new copy.). First printing. Although Mama Bear is hungry, Baby Bear, a very curious cub, is much more interested in exploring her world and playing. When suddenly she finds herself in unfamiliar territory, she climbs a tree and starts to cry. A simple but appealing story enhanced by the double-page full-color illustrations of the bears in Yosemite Park. Unpaginated (24 pp), bound in illustrated boards.

New York:: Beach Lane / Simon & Schuster,, (2013). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional postcard laid in. . First printing. Both a delightful counting book and an introduction to the changing seasons, as fall heralds winter. SIGNED on the title page by the author/illustrator with a drawing and the words "You are the one!" and dated in the year of publication. Unpaginated.

New York:: Walker,, (1983). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Mystery introducing wise-cracking, ex-cop, Vietnam veteran Mallory - not just the first in this series, but the first book by Collins to be issued in hardcover (Collins is also known for writing the Dick Tracy comic series for many years). SIGNED on the title page. Set in a small town in Iowa . 160 pp.