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Brandon, VT: A History of the Town 1761-1961


Selectmen of Brandon, VT

Paperback. Vermont, Town of Brandon, reprint, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. bright red paper wrappers with black print. light rubbing, Binding cracked in center. Foxing on fore and top edge. Black & white photographs in center, some paper separation from binding.

Record # 408626


Price: $23.00 

 

Brantford Pottery, The


Webster, D. B.

Softcover. Ontario, Canada, Royal Ontario Museum, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Royal Ontario Museum Art and Archaeology Occasional Paper 13. Black and light pink wrappers, perfect binding, 78 b&w plates, sections titled "History of the Pottery," "Excavations," "Excavation Recoveries," and others. Very slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a clean, tight copy.

Record # 807853


Price: $26.00 

 

Bread, or Bullets! - Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898


Casanovas, Joan

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 203810


Price: $20.00 

 

Breakfast, Dinner & Supper: How, What and When.


White, J.E., Mrs. M.L. Wanless

Hardcover. Battle Creek, MI, J.e. White Pub. Co., 1s Edition, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 445 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (engravings) throughout. Red-dyed edges. Brown cloth cover boards, black/gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Damage to top of spine (see image). Decorated endpapers. A touch of tanning from age throughout. In impressive condition for its age. "In Five Parts: 1. Ethics of eating. 2. Etiquette of the Home. 3. Hygiene of the Home. 4. Hints to Housekeepers. 5. How to Cook.

Record # 32889


Price: $63.00 

 

Brearley Book, The - Volume V


Wood (Editor), Edith S.

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Brearley School, First Edition, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages followed by 12 pages of ads. Hardcover "published by three upper classes of the Brearley School." Frontis illustration of Constance Allington, in black & white & the 1924 yearbook is dedicated to her memory. Faint tone to edges throughout. Black boards with gilt stamped coat of arms & gilt numbers to front cover. Else clean & unmarked.

Record # 751566


Price: $25.00 

 

Brearley Book, The - Volume X, Class of 1929


Houston (Editor), Helen

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Brearley School, First Edition, 2029, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Hardcover with classmate autographs covering one of the final pages. Frontis illustration of Elizabeth D. Littell, in black & white to whom the yearbook is dedicated. Minor tone to edges throughout and a couple small spots of soiling to endpapers. Blue boards with gilt stamped coat of arms & gilt numbers to front cover board. Else clean & unmarked.

Record # 751565


Price: $31.00 

Bridging Two Oceans & Linking Four ContinentsCanadian Pacific Railway
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Bridging Two Oceans & Linking Four Continents


Canadian Pacific Railway

Softcover. Montreal, Canadian Pacific Railway, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Softcover booklet. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings and fold-out illustration of the "Quadruple Screw Turbine Steamship Empress of France" in rear of booklet. Center 2 pages loose from booklet. Heavy foxing to covers, and to edges of front and rear preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613943


Price: $235.00 

Brief History of the Universalist Society of Hartland, Vermont - 1802-1902  - During its First Century with Biographical Sketches - Illustrated with Views and PortraitsDarling, Nancy
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Brief History of the Universalist Society of Hartland, Vermont - 1802-1902 - During its First Century with Biographical Sketches - Illustrated with Views and Portraits


Darling, Nancy

Softcover. Castleton, Nancy Darling, 1st, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover. Faint foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked.

Record # 613928


Price: $75.00 

 

British Aeroplanes 1914-18


Bruce, J. M.

Hardcover. London, Putnam, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 742 pages, b&w illustrations and specifications for all of England's WW1 aircraft, Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 406620


Price: $150.00 

 

British Atlantic, American Frontier - Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America


Hornsby, Stephen J.

Hardcover. Lebanon, University Press of New England, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Single black line on each edge - similar to remainder marks. Clean, unmarked text. Light wear.

Record # 611792


Price: $75.00 

Brother, The - The untold story of atomic spy David Greenglass and how he sent his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chairRoberts, Sam
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Brother, The - The untold story of atomic spy David Greenglass and how he sent his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chair


Roberts, Sam

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 543 pages. Half-cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with minor edgewear.

Record # 602096


Price: $13.00 

Brussels: Fin DesiecleRoberts-Jones, Philippe
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Brussels: Fin Desiecle


Roberts-Jones, Philippe

Hardcover. New York, Taschen International USA, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. 309 illustrations in color and black & white.

Record # 471556


Price: $25.00 

 

Buffalo Bill's Wild West - Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History


Kasson, Joy S.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of Buffalo Bill and history and analysis of his show. Really great condition. dust jacket and internal pgs are all clean and look unread. Many black & white photos and illustrations. hardbound, 319 pgs.

Record # 108809


Price: $20.00 

 

Buffalo Public Library, The: Commemorating Its First Century of Service to the Citizens of Buffalo, 1836 - 1936


Goldberg, Arthur

Hardcover. Buffalo, NY, Privately Printed, First Edition, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with light wear to edges. Limited first edition, total of 1800 copies printed. Deckled edge, some pages unopened. Black & white illustrations, tight binding clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670086


Price: $25.00 

 

Building of Boats, The


Phillips-Birt, Douglas

Hardcover. Partridge Green, UK, Maurice Michael, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 287 pages. Mostly black-and-white illustrations, with a few color illustrations. Light shelf- and edge-wear to dust jacket, with slight de-lamination along top edge. Flaps a little tanned around edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856613


Price: $25.00 

 

Building Portsmouth - The Neighborhoods Architecture of New Hampshire's Oldest City


Candee, Richard M.

Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, Portsmouth Advocates, Inc., First Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Bright illustrated wraps with light, marginal wear to edges. Profusely illustrated in black & white, including numerous architectural plans, diagrams. Tight binding, clean inside and out.

Record # 751481


Price: $15.00 

 

Building the Escorial


Kubler, George

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st. edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages plus plates and fold-out floor plan. B/w illustrations. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on black, on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, wrapped in protective clear, plastic brodart. In beautiful condition. Using previously unavailable archival collections, Professor Kubler enables us to "relive" the Escorial's "entire gestation and construction" as he connects building history with architectural criticism.

Record # 32326


Price: $38.00 

 

Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de l'Art Francais


N/A

Softcover. Paris, Societe de l'Histoire de l'Art Francais, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 361 + pages. For the year 1998. Contains some black & white photographs. Light shelfwear. A small area of brown specs on fore-edge, otherwise very good. French text.

Record # 220984


Price: $30.00 

 

Bunker, The


O' Donnell, James Pau.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 202554


Price: $15.00 

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin WallMohr, Tim
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall


Mohr, Tim

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471844


Price: $19.00 

 

Burning Tigris, The: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. A History of the International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes


Balakian, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 5th, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 475 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233784


Price: $19.00 

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesHochschild, Adam
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves


Hochschild, Adam

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453215


Price: $12.00 

 

Byzantine Art and the West - The Wrightsman Lectures


Demus, Otto

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Faint foxing to edges. Includes Errata slip. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611855


Price: $25.00 

 

Cairo


Raymond, Andre/Willard Wood (Translation)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp, clean dust jacket. Clean text, unmarked copy.

Record # 751540


Price: $15.00