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Black Room at Longwood, The: Napoleon's Exile on Saint HelenaKauffmann, Jean-Paul
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Black Room at Longwood, The: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena


Kauffmann, Jean-Paul

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471402


Price: $19.00 

Black Saga: The African American ExperienceChristian, Charles M.
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Black Saga: The African American Experience


Christian, Charles M.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Slight fading to spine. Some shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468236


Price: $23.00 

Black Star: 60 Years of JournalismNeubauer, Hendrik
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Black Star: 60 Years of Journalism


Neubauer, Hendrik

Hardcover. Cologne GR, Konemann, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, b&w and color photographs. Text in English, German and French. Cean.

Record # 407718


Price: $63.00 

 

Black White & Gold


Nelson, Hank

Softcover. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover without dust jacket, some wear on cover

Record # 2230446


Price: $31.00 

 

Black-man of Zinacantan, The


Blaffer, Sarah C..

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, First Edition, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with gilt decoration, gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light sunfade to edges & spine, now protected with a plastic cover. Faint erase marks of pencil to half title page. Faint foxing top edge. Features black & white drawings from Maya and Mexican codices, considered adaptations of original sources, among other illustrations. Tight binding, sharp corners, otherwise clean.

Record # 750974


Price: $15.00 

 

Blacksmiths' and Farriers' Tools at Shelburne Museum - A History of their Development from Forge to Factory - Museum Pamphlet Series, Number 7


Smith, H. R. Bradley

Softcover. Shelburne, Shelburne Museum, Inc., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages plus 10 page supplement. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on inside front cover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings relating to the blacksmith/farrier trade. Slight sun fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603665


Price: $45.00 

 

Blind Horn's Hate, The


Hough, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontis, black & white illus.

Record # 53803


Price: $18.00 

Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors Bliss, Chas. H.
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Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors


Bliss, Chas. H.

Softcover. Pensacola, Chas. H. Bliss, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Small format magazine measures: 6.5" H X 5" W. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Scarce.

Record # 614176


Price: $188.00 

 

Blue Jackets of '76


Abbot, Willis J.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers. Rear hinge cracked and back cover is holding with binders twine. Spine cloth faded with fraying at top and bottom. Text and illustrations clean and unmarked.

Record # 608833


Price: $30.00 

 

Bonaparte in Egypt


Herold, J. Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, with black & white illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854862


Price: $15.00 

 

Book of Acts in History, The


Cadbury, Henry J.

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 170 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A few pages with underlining. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Moderate fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild bumping to corners. A tight copy.

Record # 101000


Price: $30.00 

 

Book of Balloons, The


Norgaard, Erik

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st English, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Balloon history and developments. 400 illustrations in color and black-and-white. Fading, as well as rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Bumping to fore edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952548


Price: $19.00 

 

Book Of Indian Crafts And Indian Lore, The


Salomon, Julian Harris

NY, Harper and Bros. , rep., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by author and others. Illustrated end papers. Black & white photo frontispiece. Light edgewear to covers.

Record # 202551


Price: $30.00 

 

Book of Samplers, The


Fawdry, Marguerite & Deborah Brown

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 157 pages illustrated throughout with plates in color and b&w. History of the sampler from 16th century to present day. Each historical chapter is followed by a practical section explaining, with necessary diagrams, the stitches and motifs found on the samplers and includes full directions on how to work them. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to edges of spine, else like new.

Record # 805449


Price: $16.00 

 

BOOK OF THE AMERICAN WEST


Monaghan, Jay, editor.

Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. 4to. Gray cloth. Red color illustration of Indian buffalo hunt on front and back covers. Red spine title label with gilt titles. Gilt line decorations. Color pictorial spine panels. Neat name (pen) on front endpaper. Light wear to spine edges. Very Good. Color pictorial dust jacket. Some wear and tear along edges. Good.

Record # 219859


Price: $16.00 

 

Book of the White Mountains, The


Anderson, John and Stearns Morse

NY, Minton, Balch & Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY MORSE front flyleaf. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper. Black & white photos. 300 pages. Maps front and back pastedown and flyleaf. Small water stain top edge. Browning to pages.

Record # 500236


Price: $60.00 

Borders, Exiles, DiasporasShelton, Marie-Denise (Editor)
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Borders, Exiles, Diasporas


Shelton, Marie-Denise (Editor)

Softcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Softcover. Circular cup stains to back wrapper. Some shelfwear. An otherwise clean copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471422


Price: $15.00 

 

Boss Platt and His New York Machine: A Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas J. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others


Gosnell, Harold F.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 370 pages, hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titling to spine. A study and history of the New York political machine under Thomas J. Platt. Light underlining to pages 350-351. Faint rubbing and soiling to front panel. Age toning to top text block. Light bumping to corners. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 952138


Price: $50.00 

 

Boston - A Brief Description of the Principal Facts About the City


Walsh, Richard J.

Boston, Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1st , 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white photos of Boston circa 1910. 78 pages. Fold-out map of city in rear. Marbled end papers, previous owner's gilt name on cover.

Record # 66494


Price: $31.00 

 

Boston and the Parker House


Spring, James W.

Softcover. Boston, J.R. Whipple Corp., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A chronicle of those who have lived on that historic spot where the new Parker House now stands in Boston. A hotel history. Black & white photos. 230 pages. Cardboard spine detached, laid-in book.

Record # 58878


Price: $15.00 

 

Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1810-1840


Feld, Stuart P.

Softcover. New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly color illustrations, with a few black-and-white illustrations. A little wear around corners and spine. Some scratches on covers. Bottom corner of pages lightly creased. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856449


Price: $31.00 

 

Bound to Exile - The Victorians in India


Edwardes, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white plates. 283 pages. Dj with repaired shor ttears, soil

Record # 56832


Price: $18.00 

 

Bounty Ships of France


Villiers, Alan/Henri Picard

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear, with some wrinkling along top edge of front cover.. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609776


Price: $15.00 

 

Boys Book of Border Battles


Sabin, Edwin L.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 349 Pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge cracked with cloth holding. Gilt titles on cover and spine still bright with full color paste down intact. Majority of dust jacket sealed within a clear plastic Brodart cover. Text clean, and unmarked.

Record # 608748


Price: $35.00