Search Results: Authors starting with B from poor mans books

George B Thearer. Fair with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; About 30 pages of neatly written notes, balance of sheets unmarked. Dated 1898-1899 disbound leather notebook with poetic newspaper clippings neatly arranged on onion skin paper- two sheets. .

London: Stanley Gibbons, Limited. Very Good with no dust jacket. ca1901. Presumed 1st. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 168 pages plus 16 pages pages; Bound in light green cloth with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows mild external wear, with light soiling to covers. Binding is sound. Volume has decorative endpapers and top gilt edge. Foxing can be seen on title page, with sporadic light foxing in text. Profusely illustrated with in-text reproductions. Width: 6.25" Height: 9" Worldwide issues reminiscent of Album Weeds. .

Boston: Ginn & Co.. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Guide Book; We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; various b/w and 8 Color maps; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 190 pages; In scarce glassine DJ. DJ chipped- see graphicPrepared for the Convention of the National Education Association, July 6-10, 1903. .

Amstelaedami: Ex Officina Wetsteniana. Fair with no dust jacket. 1685. Leather. 328, [3] ; 287 pages; . ..accedunt Faber Fortunæ, Colores Boni et Mali, &c. Bound with Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica, civilia, et theologica. Nunc primum edita. Cura & fide (W. ) Rawley. Una cum nobilissimi auctoris vita. Amsterdam, Ravestein, 1663. 2 volumes bound in one. Bound in contemporary leather. Spine heavily chipped, front cover detached, spine starting to split. Nonetheless an impoortant two books. 3 x 5.25". .

London: Reeves and Turner. Good with no dust jacket. 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Authors; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 832 pages; THE WORKS OF LORD BACON WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND A PORTRAIT [VOL II ONLY OF TWO] Publisher's black cloth, shallow wear to head and foot of spine, contents clean and VG with minor foxing to a few pages. Front hinge reinforced. Various of this polymath's writings. .

N Y, N Y: Franklin Watts. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; DJ has small chip , price-clipped. On ffep, Inscribed by Peggy Bacon ("Much to Longlost from Longlost." ) with an original ink sketch of a cat on a pillow near bowl. Accompanied by her greeting card [from a 1964 drawing], with reproduced sketch and greeting , signed "love Peggy." ; Signed by Author .

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Joannis Ravensteinii. Good with no dust jacket. 1660. 2nd Amsterdam edition. Leather. frontis; [xxiv], 404 pages; 2.825" x 5.375". Early printing of this seminal work. Bound in 17th or 18th century leather. Spine strip lacking, covers heavily worn and held by binding cords. Engraved title page with two ships. Front end paper frayed at edge. Last blank detached and toned. Collates complete. A philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin and published in 1620. This is an early printing of that book. " title page of Novum Organum depicts a galleon passing between the mythical Pillars of Hercules that stand either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, marking the exit from the well-charted waters of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic Ocean. The Pillars, as the boundary of the Mediterranean, have been smashed through by Iberian sailors, opening a new world for exploration. Bacon hopes that empirical investigation will, similarly, smash the old scientific… Read More

Paris: Marcel Giard.. Good with no dust jacket. 1922small 4. First Edition. Paperback. Ex-Library; 513 pages; Ownership in ink of half title. Discrete embossed library stamp with sold stamp and small spine label. Contents toned. Capital flows in the German Empire. Some bio-predation to bottom extremities. .

Saalfield. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Presumed 1st. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 38 pages; Saalfield locates just a single copy. Spine frayed. Color and black and white illustrations. Provenance: Gilbert Huebner, signed. Unpaginated, illustrations on almost every page. .

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea,. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1831. Hardcover. 12, 319; iv, 322 pages; Oriignal boards with paper labels. Contents rough-cut with foxing to the front catalogs in each volume. Complete. James Baillie Fraser (June 11, 1783 – January 1856) was a Scottish travel writer and artist who illustrated and wrote about Asia Minor and India. .

Paris: Les Freres De Bure. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1775. First Edition. Hardcover. Engraved ; 3 folding engraved plates. [2], xxii, 526 pages. 4to, 245x195 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt with morocco lettering piece, leather surface is partly worn on spine and rear cover; scattered minor spotting . Sewn in silk marker ribbon. An attractive and solid book. First edition of the first of Bailly's historical works, presenting his eccentric theories concerning the Atlantean origins of astronomy. DSB I, 402. Houzeau & Lancaster 22. Atlantis, Fantasy, Magic, Lost Worlds. A nice solid copy. PROVENANCE-Astronomy and Science Books from the Collection of Martin C. Gutzwiller. .

Rosemont, IL: Amer Academy of Orthopaedic. New with no dust jacket. 2005. Dvd. 0892033355 . 0.6 x 7.5 x 5.4 Inches; DVD in unopened opriginal shrinkwrap. .

Sucesores De Rivadeneyra,. Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Paperback. History, American; Exploration; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 28 pages; This encapsulates a conference dealing with discoveries of America, history of Spain. Spanish language text. original printed wrappers. pages unopened, unread. moderately heavy toning- see graphic. .

Warner Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; Second Printing. Paperback. 0446614459 . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 496, [3] pages; Signed by author on title page. Lower rt corner with short crease- see graphic. ; Signed by Author .

Scribner & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1901. Leather. b/w; 8VO; Nicely bound in brown pigskin spine and corners. Two volumes with frontis'. Patterned end papers. Couple of rubs to the spine. .

Paris ET Bruxelles: G. Vanoest. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; 38 pages; 32 plates of arts and architecture of the orient. Original buff printed wrappers. Sound copy. .

Boston: Maturin M. Ballou. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1856. Includes "The Art of Sleeping", Haunted Sheep" "George Washington". Morocco spine over plain baords. Toning and foxing. Largely literature. .

London: Nimmo. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1890. Hardcover. Wood engraving; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 418, [2] pages; Limited ed 181/780 plus 52 speical copies. .

Philadelphia: T. W. Stuckey,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Quakers; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages; A Persuasive to Unity, Setting Forth the Ground of That Source of Comfort: In the Temple of God publisher's brown cloth with faded speckles. Provenance Joseph Horner, signature on first free endpaper. Also includes laid in funeral notice , done in the simple Quaker style, for him dated 5/20/1890. .

Wash DC: Gpo. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library; Portraits; "...Delivered At The Request Of Both Houses Of The Congress Of America Before Them In The House Of Representatives At Washington On The 12th Of Febuary, 1866.1853 And Hon William R King And Hon Henry Clay 1852 Leather backed in funereal boards. Ex Library. Panegyric. Four title pages with Four Frontis vignettes. 1853 And Hon William R King And Hon Henry Clay 1852 .