Recent Arrivals from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: W. W. Norton, 1983. Fine in fine dust jacket. (A beautiful inscribed and signed copy of the first edition with only one defect, a 1 inch tear at the bottom of page 302, that does not interfere with text or the facing photograph of Ernest with Pauline Pfeiffer.) 555 pages including extensive notes, bibliography, and very helpful index.… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1953. Very good (spotted top edge of binding, edgewear at top and bottom of spine) in poor dust jacket (vertical tear across the entire back panel, poorly repaired with tape; some additional edgewear. See scans) 253 pages, ten short stories--some previously published in Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, or Esquire--all focused on the difficulty of managing the… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Edition with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Perhaps Gellhorn's best work, the novel centers on four characters involved on winter World War II at the time of Hitler's last ditch offensive of the Battle of the Bulge. Gellhorn is often thought of only as one of the wives of Hemingway but… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965. Fine in Very good dust jacket (sunned spine--see scans). The world of New York, rising men, war between the sexes, in three novelas: A Promising Career; The Clever One; The Fall and Rise of Mrs. Hapgood. 221 pages. Crisp, clean, fine copy. . 1st printing. Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 1993. Very good (some light foxing on the page edges and endpages along with a minor excavation by silver fish on the ffep, not very obvious; otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by James on the title page. We have called this science fiction since it is set in 2021 in a world where men are… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1953. Near fine (minimal edgewear at top of spine, slightly dusty top page edges, clean & unmarked pages) in good only+ dust jacket (soiled and edgeworn with some closed tears, now protected in an archival plastic wrap). This is the first volume of what eventually proved to be a five-volume biography of James. 350 pages including index… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Very good (edgewear at top of spine) without dust jacket except for two clippings from the original jacket laid in (see scans). A valuable addition to the library of readers interested in Henry James. Nowell-Smith long studied James and collected material useful to understanding his long, productive life. Thus, he assumes here the role… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2001. Fine book in fine dust jacket. 764 pages with voluminous references, notes, index and a helpful list of existing buildings in Amherst associated with ED; a family genealogical chart which aids in placing the many people that enter Emily's life; and finally a small but quite complete selection of photographs, all of family members or… Read more about this item

Chicago: Clara Laughlin Travel Services, 1924. These ten little "letters," published as small pamphlets, each about 3 1/2" x 6", cover the basics of travel to Italy by ship and travel within Italy by train... IN THE 1920s! You will be faced with the difficult choice of competing ocean liner services, avoiding "second-cabin" accommodations--which Laughlin assures us is not because… Read more about this item

New York: New York Review Books, 2019. Fine paperback copy, unmarked, pristine. A collection of essays from this wide-ranging writer: essays on the Greeks and Romans (eg.:"Epic Fail?: Reading the Aeneid in the Twenty-First Century"); on the Moderns (eg.: "Brideshead Revisited: Getting Waugh Wrong"); and "Personals" (eg.: "Stopping in Vilna: Stendhal Meets the Holocaust in Eastern Europe"). 378 pages.. 1st… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 2021. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, unmarked and pristine. The crazy story of the Forrest Fenn treasure hunt, complete with a cast of over-the-top treasure hunters, a real treasure worth over $1 million, and Forrest Fenn himself with his mysterious motives. 348 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Munn and Co., 1946. The sixth printing of the fourth edition of Amateur Telescope Making, featuring the contributions and art work of Russell Porter who is described humbly as "Associate in Optics" at CalTech but was well-known to the amateur and professional astronomical community because of his accurate and truly inspiring art work for, among other projects, Palomar Observatory and… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1971. Very good (heavily foxed covers and less foxed page edges; interior clean) in fair dust jacket (bright colors but marred by a heavy tear on the front panel--across the word "INTO" see scan--and moderate edgewear; foxing on inside of jacket; looks better in Brodart clear jacket). See scans. 308 pages. A brilliant evocation of mental illness,… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Very good (certainly not pristine but still presentable: sunned edges of binding and two bumped corners, interior clean) in poor dust jacket (foxed and very edgeworn). See scans: I have uploaded several pictures that show the book under different lighting and with one picture showing the book with its protective cover which improves its… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. First Ballantine Books Edition, dated March 1976. First edition thus with the error in ISBN number. Very good+ (a few foxing or soil spots on side page edges, light edgewear around spine. 155 pages. Large format soft cover with wonderful black and white photographs of the people and places of the area; folk-style drawings and… Read more about this item

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. Brand new condition (Fine in soft cover). 10 short stories aimed at teens and emphasizing the experiences of Latina/o young people. I was a little put-off reading these until I met Keri the babysitter in the story of the same name. 176 pages including a brief glossary of Spanish words and phrases. . Soft… Read more about this item

Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 2018. Very fine in like dust jacket. Oversize book (9 x 11), 769 pages including indexes. Includes 7 essays by contributing writers on selected photographers. Most of the book is devoted to a listing of thousands of photographers, subdivided into 27 western territories, including British Columbia. The major index lists all these photographers, showing… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Fine in fine dust jacket. Brand new condition. The author is the youngest of the Lindbergh children. She writes with special love for her mother Anne Morrow Lindbergh and with understanding for her father, Charles who was much the stricter of her parents. She refers to her home life--where her father was the dominant… Read more about this item

Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1939. Very good without dust jacket. Remarkably detailed, numerous illustrations, naval history, 404 pages. The "Laws of the Navy," a long poem is included in the appendix, ends, "Now these are the Laws of the Navy / And many and mighty are they. / But the hull and the deck and the keel /… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 2001. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page and dated in Los Angeles 6 June 2001. Witty exploration of a philandering university professor at the "University of Gloucester" which, as Lodge tells us, "is an entirely fictitious institution. At least, it was at the time of writing.". Signed by Author. 1st… Read more about this item