Search Results: Titles starting with B from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

New York and Cincinnati: Fr. Pustet & Co., 1881. [2], viii, 499 pages. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt and black. 19.5 x 10.5 cm. Spine a little sun-faded; wear and tiny tears to spine ends; moderate spotting to covers. Edges are a bit soiled, but the surface of the leaves, though mildly toned, are clean. Good plus. Early bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown: "Edward Perry, Bookseller, Stationer, & Printer, Charleston, S.C." FIRST OF THIS EDITION, being the first English language edition of Heinrich Himioben's "Die Schönheit der Katholischen Kirche" (1841), but substantially revised and augmented by the translator to adapt the work for use in the United States. Himioden's book was itself a heavily revised version ("almost a new work" writes Shadler, p. viii) of Gregor Rippel's "Alterhumb, Ursprung und Bedeutung aller Ceremonien, Gebräuchen und Gewohnheiten der Heil. Catholischen Kirchen" (1723). Shadler's… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1924. xviii, 398 pages, plus color frontispiece and 19 double-sided plates, all from photographs. One full-page map printed with the text. Original dark green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt with a mounted color plate on the front cover. 22 x 15 cm. Very good plus in good plus dust jacket. The rear hinge is cracked but holding well. Some moderate foxing to pages facing plates and minor foxing to the margins of a few of the plates themselves, but in no place affecting the images. Still a bright and attractive copy. The scarce jacket has a dime-sized chip where the spine and front panels meet, a few smaller edge chips, several short, closed tears, and some minor soiling. FIRST EDITION. An attractively illustrated introduction to Mexico designed for the traveler or general reader. Many of the plates reproduce the photographs of Hugo Brehme (1882-1954), a German who emigrated to Mexico in 1908, who is "considered to be one of the founders of Mexican pictorialist… Read More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Library, 1955. 52, [1] pages. Original green cloth with gilt cover title. [23.4 cm.] Very good plus. Foxing to endpapers and a few minor traces internally. Bookplate on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. Harris (1892-1973), a native of Wake County, North Carolina, and a graduate of Meredith College, wrote a number of novels portraying life in her native area. "Bernice Kelly Harris belongs with those novelists, who, through a series of works, present a time and place and way so skillfully that the total of the books conveys a social history of the age and the geographical section." --p. 52.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958. viii, 597 pages. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 23.5 x 16 cm. A fine, fresh copy. FIRST EDITION. Based on the North Carolina Collection at U.N.C., the work contains over 15,000 entries and remains a standard reference for North Carolina books. It is the companion volume to Thornton's “Official Publications of the Colony and State of North Carolina, 1749–1939” (1954). Mary Lindsay Thornton (1891-1973) was the first curator of the North Carolina Collection (1917-1958).�

Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1935. 95, [3 - index] pages. Original tan buckram with gilt spine lettering and printed paper cover label. [24 cm.] Spine sun-darkened and with a few small spots and a little speckling, minor foxing to gutters of prelims; about very good. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered and stamped "For Review Only" on the colophon. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, Norman W. Forgue, on the front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "To J. L. Frazier, with the cordial regard of Norman W. Forgue." The recipient was Julius Leroy Frazier (1885-1966), who wrote and published "Modern Type Display" (1920) and "Type Lore: Popular Types of Today" (1925). Frazier also worked for a time as an associate editor at the Inland Printer Company. Norman W. Forgue (1904-1983) founded the Black Cat Press in 1932. He was responsible for the typographic design of the present volume and collaborated with the author in… Read More

[New York: Exhibitor's Trade Review; distributed by D.W. Griffith Service, 1920]. Quarto-sized pamphlet measuring 30.8 x 23.6 cm (approx. 12 x 9 in.). 36 pages; illustrations printed with the text. Original printed wraps with a portrait of Griffith on the front cover. Good plus. Front wrap shows light foxing and toning and some faint offsetting (from contact with another publication previously stored with this item); uneven marginal browning to rear wrap. A few minuscule edge tears to wraps; tiny chip to the unprinted rear wrap. Central horizontal crease throughout. (One other trade copy we have encountered and the digital reproduction of the Univ. of Iowa copy both have such a crease and it was possibly the result of the distributor folding the pamphlet for mailing.) A few tiny fore-edge tears, most of which are associated with the crease. Small stain to the portrait of Richard Barthelmess; a few minor marginal smudges. Several instances of ghosting (printer's error), most evident on the margin of p.… Read More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. 140 pages, plus frontispiece and one double-sided plate. Original maroon cloth. [21.8 cm.] Very good in good plus dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown; light foxing to plates, facing pages, and endpapers. Some wear and rubbing to jacket with minor loss at ends of spine panel; small internal repair on verso; light soiling evident on rear panel. FIRST EDITION. "Joseph Blount Cheshire, for nearly forty years Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, was known and loved throughout the state as a man of great personal charm, good sense, and the ability to get things done. Beyond his ecclesiastical career, he was lawyer and a writer, who made many contributions to the formal history of the state as well as to the church. This book is an account of his life with particular emphasis on his life in the church." --Books from Chapel Hill, pp. 159-160.

New York: Philosophical Library, [1966]. 120 pages. plus frontispiece facsimile. Illustrated with full-page drawings by Claude Howell (printed with the text). Original cloth. [21.5 cm.] About fine in very good plus dust jacket. Some very faint foxing to endpapers due to contact with original dust jacket. Jacket is bright, but shows light rubbing, traces of faint foxing, and a tiny closed tear to rear panel. FIRST EDITION.

New Haven: Yale University Press, [printed at the Earl Trumbull Williams Memorial], 1923. [10] pages. Original blue boards with silver cover lettering. [23.9 cm.] Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Tanning to free endpapers, rear hinge started, but sound, otherwise a nice copy. Jacket has small tape-repaired tear at head of front panel and several tiny chips. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. A poem set during the First World War. Allen fought in the Aisne-Marne campaign of 1918. The poem was originally printed in the North American review in 1919 and also appeared in the author's second book, "Wampum and Old Gold" (1921). As is discussed on the rear panel of the dust jacket, "The Blindman" was commemorated by the Poetry Society of South Carolina with an annual prize of the same name.

Nashville, Tenn.: Printed for the author [by] Publishing House M.E. Church, South, 1927. 461 pages. Original blue cloth stamped in gold. [19.9 cm.] A bright, very good plus copy in good dust jacket. Light rubbing to spine ends, minor foxing to endpapers, light offsetting to four pages from clippings. Jacket has chip to head of spine panel, not affecting lettering, a few other small chips, several tears with internal repairs, small scuff to rear panel affecting several letters of text (easily inferred from context), sun-darkening to spine panel, and small stain to front panel. Scarce with the jacket in any condition. Third edition, but the first from this press. The first two editions (1918, 1920) appear to have been self-published as well and were printed by the Appeals Press, Richmond. Stories of the North Carolina mountains. Joseph Medley Rowland (1886-1938), a native of North Carolina, became a preacher in Lynchburg and Richmond, Virginia, and published several books.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 310 pages. Original paper-covered boards. 24 x 16 cm. Very nearly fine in like dust jacket. Covers show just a hint of sun fading, but a tight, clean copy. Jacket has a minor, short scratch to the front panel. FIRST EDITION. The author analyzes sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals and compares the advice found therein with practices and beliefs revealed in contemporary letters and diaries.

Washington: Published for the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. 93 pages. The catalog (beginning on p. 33) is illustrated throughout with photographs; additional photographs and a map appear with the text. Original illustrated stiff paper wraps. [29.6 cm.] Near fine. Some very slight evidence of soiling to wraps, head of spine just a trifle bumped, still an excellent copy. Ownership stamp of Richard Eugene Lyons and his wife Marjorie on the front free endpaper. Lyons (1920-2000) was a poet and longtime professor of English at North Dakota State University. FIRST EDITION. A catalog of an exhibition held at the Renwick Gallery, Nov. 13, 1973 - Nov. 9, 1975. Introduction by Sturtevant. Several prefatory essays include, "Functions of the Containers," by Ira S. Jacknis and "Structure and Design," by Bill Holm.

[Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College Press, 1935]. 4 pages. Original printed blue wraps. [22.4 cm.] Near very good. Wraps a bit faded and with some minor soiling. Leaves slightly toned and with some faint traces of foxing or soiling. FIRST EDITION. An address delivered while Allen was serving as a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program at Middlebury College, Vermont. Allen also participated in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In this address, he discusses the "Bread Loaf idea," which he describes, in part: "The idea that literature, that writing, is a constant state of becoming, that it went on in the past, that it continues now, and that it stretches into an almost but yet not entirely unpredictable future." --p. 3. Scarce.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [2000]. xxiii, 326 pages, plus four double-sided plates. Original quarter cloth and boards. [23.5 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

New York: Twayne Publishers, [1992]. xv, 151 pages. Original cloth. [22.2 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Review copy with slip laid-in.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1990]. vi, 170 pages; illustrated with a few photographs printed with the text. Original cloth. [23.4 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

Savannah, Ga.: Printed for the [Georgia Historical] Society, [by] Townsend, Printer and Binder, 1888. 25 pages. Original printed pale green wraps with cover title reading: "Sidney Lanier." [24 cm.] Good plus. Tiny chips to spine ends, short closed tear and minor crease at base of front wrap. Front free endpaper has three very short tears due to slightly rough opening, but its conjugate, the titie leaf, is unharmed and the pamphlet is otherwise unopened. Excepting a sliver of foxing to base of one leaf, the interior is clean and bright. A nicer than usual copy. FIRST EDITION. Charles Nephew West (1844-1900) was, like Sidney Lanier, a native of Macon, Georgia and a Confederate veteran. He was an attorney and an active member of the Georgia Historical Society. He also published "The Life and Times of William Harris Crawford" (1892). BAL (Lanier) vol. 5, p. 296.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924. 216 pages. Original black cloth stamped in gold. [23 cm.] Some very light rubbing to cloth, corners and base of spine a trifle bumped, tiny nick to edge of front board, three small, inconspicuous bubbles to cloth at base of front board, still a very good copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on front flyleaf. It reads: "For Herman & David Salinger: Hearty Greetings, from Charles J. Finger." Complete with eight colored woodcuts (including frontispiece) by American artist, Paul Honore. Tales of outlaws in the Australian bush, including Ned Kelly.