Search Results: Authors starting with B from Uncharted Books

Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. 8vo. Olive cloth. Dust jacket. 210 pp. Price-clipped. Minor shelf wear. This is a first American edition critical biography of William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies and many other works.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901. Very good. 8vo. Full suede leather. Hand-illumined. Minor shelf wear. This is a leather-bound printing of Bacheller's story. Hand-illumined by Nellie Eldridge, handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 73).

Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Faux leather with gilt lettering on spine and cover. 190 pp. Sandglass Bulletin included. No slipcase. Excellent condition. This is a limited edition Heritage Press printing of Bacon's philosophical essays.

ERF Books, 2010. Paperback. Very good. 4to. Wraps. Full color. Minor shelf wear. Signed with an original illustration by Balder on title page. This is a signed self-published first volume of the webcomic Erfworld. Balder's signature is uncommon.

New York: Dell, 1974. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. Creases to covers. This is a vintage paperback copy of Baldwin's classic novel.

New York: Signet, 1949. Paperback. Good. The case of the murdered mistress." Minor shelf wear. Light discoloration inside front cover. This is a nice vintage paperback mystery book. Signet 730.

New York: Airmont, 1964. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

New York: Harper Collins, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. 287 pp. Signed on bound-in page. "Signed first edition" sticker on jacket cover. This is a signed first edition novel by Russell Banks.

New York: Rinehart, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. 8vo. Gray cloth. With a map and numerous woodcut illustrations by Edward Shenton. 592 pp. Signed by author on limitation page. Ex-library with mark on spine, bookplate inside front cover, card pocket on front free endpaper, and embossment on title page. Tight and clean. This is a limited edition, signed history of the Ohio River from the "Rivers of America" series.

New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Stamp on front free endpaper. This is an uncommon UFO conspiracy book.

London: Flamingo, 1984. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a nice vintage paperback printing of Barea's memoir of the Spanish civil war. UK import.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Stamp on bottom block edge and on first free endpaper. Stray pen mark on verso of first title page. This is a first printing horror novel by Barker.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. This is a first printing horror novel by Barker.

University of California, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Association copy. Inscribed on title page: "For Victor Cassidy -- I'm glad this introduced us. Mary Barnard, September 26, 1987." Barnard was a celebrated poet, biographer, and translator. Her tutelage under Ezra Pound and friendship with William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and other luminaries comprise the bulk of this elegant, poetic memoir. Her 1958 translation of Sappho has never gone out of print. Victor M. Cassidy, to whom this copy is inscribed, is a retired art critic and journalist in Chicago, and evidently a friend or colleague of Ms. Barnard. This is a unique and sophisticated volume of one of the finest literary memoirs in the latter half of the 20th century.

New York: Arbor House, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Quarter cloth. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to jacket, with a pair of 1/2" closed tears at bottom edge of front jacket cover. An excellent copy. This is an uncommon first edition of Barnes' second novel. Barnes was best known as a film and television actress, including as the gold-digging villain in the 1961 Parent Trap movie (she also played that character's mother in the 1998 remake).

Ulverston: Cast Iron Books, 2022. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Boards. Full color. This is a first printing of Sierra Barnes' anti-fascist fairy tale omnibus. This copy is from the collection of comics writer Chuck Satterlee.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1934. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage novel about Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. Uncommon in jacket.

New York: Putnam, 1986. First Edition, 3rd printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Quarter cloth. Dust jacket. 208 pp. Sticker residue on front jacket cover. Remainder stamp on bottom block edge. This is a first edition, 3rd printing of Barthelme's post-modern novel.

Ann Arbor, MI: Asa Gray Bulletin, 1961. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Green cloth. Many woodblock illustrations throughout. [3], VI, [2], 267, XIII. This is an uncommon essay on the development of natural history in Japan, on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts and on Japanese books of wood-block illustration. It is also the catalogue for an exhibition of Japanese botanical books and manuscripts held at the Clements Library, University of Michigan, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of America's first treaty with Japan (1954). These essays were originally printed in the Asa Gray Bulletin N S 3 pp 289-561 Spring 1961.

New York: John B. Alden, 1891. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. 8vo. 7.5"x5.25". Olive cloth with gilt lettering and embossed black decorations on spine and cover. 268 pp. S everal small stains on covers. Hinges overopened. Foxing to endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout. This is a first edition of Elder David Bartley's allegorical religious novel about a pious young girl. Bartley was a Primitive Baptist author who published numerous evangelical treatises, with Mercy Deering being among the scarcest. Upon its publication, The Primitive Monitor and Church Advocate praised Mercy Deering: "Next after the Bible and Bunyan's [Pilgrim's Progress], it would be difficult to find a more suitable or excellent book for parents to put into the hands of their children, in this vain, worldly, Mammon-worshiping age."