Lauren Bacall --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (1) Lauren Bacall By Myself [Price: $5.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, c1978, Hard Cover Very Good/Poor jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 418 pgs (This is a Borzoi book with 24 leaves of plates. Some soiling on book edges. Dj is chipped and torn, but still intact. Picture of author on dj.) Richard Bach --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (6) CHECK READING LIST (3) Jonathan Livingston Seagull [Price: $5.00] New York, New York, The Macmillan Company, pub1972 c1970, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 13th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 93 pgs (DJ price clipped) Irving Bacheller --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (4) Silas Strong: Emperor of the Woods [Price: $6.00] New York, Harper & Brothers, pub1906 c1906, Ex-Library & Ex-Libris Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 339 pgs (Spine sunned and chipped. Boards lightly soiled. Some bumping and rubbing to cover & edges. Hinges loose. Usual ex-library distinctions. Interior yellowed.) John H. Backer Winds of History: The German Years of Lucius DuBignon Clay [Price: $12.00] New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, c1983, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 323 pgs (Dj has small closed tear at bottom front corner.) Temple Bailey (Irene Temple Bailey) --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (3) The Blue Cloak [Price: $7.00] New York, Grosset & Dunlap, c1941, Hard Cover Poor/Poor jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 300 pgs (Cover and lining papers heavily soiled with extensive water damage. Spine is chipped, faded, and cocked. Dj is torn and chipped. Reading copy only.) The Blue Window [Price: $5.00] New York, Grosset & Dunlap, pub1926, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 5th ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 328 pgs (Cracked hinge, edge wear, foxing, previous owner's name pencilled on ffep, good reading copy) The Tin Soldier, Illustrations by F. Vaux Wilson [Price: $30.00] Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, pub1918 c1918, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 456 pgs (Back flyleaf is torn and binding is somewhat loose. Shows signs of wear. Slight soiling on edges.) Leonard Baker John Marshall: A Life in Law [Price: $12.00] New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., pub1975 c1974, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 846 pgs (Spine bumped. DJ chipped and town at spine.) Augusta Baker and Ellin Greene Storytelling: Art and Technique [Price: $9.00] New York, R.R. Bowker Company, pub1977 c1977, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 142 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators and wear.) Ilsa Barea Vienna [Price: $10.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1966 c1966, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Very Good jacket, stated 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 381 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. FFEP ripped out. Wrapped in mylar.) Joseph P. Bark Skin Secrets: A Complete Guide to Skin Care for the Entire Family [Price: $7.00] New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, c1987, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 318 pgs (DJ slightly soiled.) Bruce T. Barkley and James H. Saylor Customer-Driven Project Management: A New Paradigm in Total Quality Implementation [Price: $27.00] New York, McGraw-Hill, Inc., c1994, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 508 pgs (In almost new condition. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Binding straight and tight.) Margaret Ayer Barnes --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (2) Within This Present [Price: $6.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1933, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 611 pgs (Ex-Libris plate with former owner's name on front inside cover. A little corner bumping, minor soiling to boards, light edge rubbing, some page yellowing and some soiling to endpapers.) William Barrett Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy [Price: $5.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday Anchor Books, c1958, Hard Cover Good/Poor jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 278 pgs (Slight browning, Boards soiled. DJ worn and stained with tears at spine and corners.) Sir James Matthew Barrie --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (23) CHECK READING LIST (2) A Window in Thrums: and My Lady Nicotine [Price: $20.00] New York, A.L. Burt Company, pub19**, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, The Home Library ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 352 pgs (Red cloth with gilded top. Corners bumped and worn. Stain on text fore edge.) Dave Barry --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (5) Dave Barry Turns 40 [Price: $7.00] New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 179 pgs (In almost new condition. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Binding straight and tight. Picture of author on back dj cover.) John Barth --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (2) Giles Goat-Boy: The Revised New Syllabus [Price: $8.25] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1966, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 710 pgs (A little corner bumping, minor soiling to boards, light edge rubbing, some page yellowing and some soiling to end papers. Some soiling to dj. Dj has small nicks and tears around the edges. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Bernard M. Baruch --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Baruch: My Own Story [Price: $15.00] New York, Henry Holt and Company, pub1957 c1957, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 337 pgs (Very slightly cocking of spine otherwise nice copy.) Jacques Barzun --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) The American University: How It Runs Where It Is Going [Price: $6.00] New York, Harper & Row, c1968, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 319 pgs (Previous owners' inscription on FFEP. Ink bleeding from bottom of spine through DJ.) Pleasures of Music: A Reader's Choice of Great Writing about Music and Musicians from Cellini to ... [Price: $25.00] New York, The Viking Press, pub1951 c1951, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 624 pgs Walter Jackson Bate --- CHECK READING LIST (1) The Achievement of Samuel Jackson [Price: $10.00] New York, A Galaxy Book - Oxford University Press, pub1961 c1955, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 1st Galaxy ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 248 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Ffep torn out. Perma-Bound plastic-type cover.) Marston Bates Gluttons and Libertines: Human Problems of Being Natural [Price: $6.00] New York, Random House, c1967, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 244 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. FFEP torn out. Covered in mylar.) Lyman Frank Baum --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (1) The New Wizard of Oz, Illustrations by Evelyn Copelman. Adapted from pictures by Denslow. [Price: $60.00] Indianapolis, Indiana, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, c1944, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 209 pgs (Book is bound upside down. Says "The Wizard of Oz" on spine and cover but "The New Wizard of Oz" on title page. Soiling to book cover and endpapers. Spine loose.) Theodore Baumeister Marks' Mechanical Engineers' Handbook: Revised by a Staff of Specialists [Price: $30.00] New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., pub1958 c1952, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 6th ed, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 2280 pgs (Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. End flyleaf torn. Some rubbing, brumping and age-toning.) Rex Beach --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (4) The Ne'er-Do-Well, With Four Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy [Price: $4.50] New York, A.L. Burt Company, c1911, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 401 pgs (Back hinge cracked. Lettering on boards and spine faded. Cover edges are lightly frayed. Cover picture is faded. Inscription to previous owner on ffep. Some discoloring on end pages and text edges. Interior aged but text is clean.) Sybille Bedford Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education [Price: $8.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1989 c1989, Remainder Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 328 pgs (Remainder mark on text bottom. DJ has edge wear.) Samuel Nathaniel (S.N.) Behrman Duveen, Illustrations by Saul Steinberg [Price: $8.00] New York, Random House, c1952, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 302 pgs (Blue cover slightly marred with spine faded and minor corner wear.) The Suspended Drawing Room [Price: $7.00] New York, Stein and Day, c1965, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 253 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Wrapped in mylar.) Henry Bellamann (pseudonym of Heinrich Hauer) --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Kings Row [Price: $6.00] New York, Simon & Schuster, pub1942 c1940, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 674 pgs (Some soiling and rubbing to boards. Some bumping to cover and book edges. Missing front flysheet. Interior age-toned but text is clean.) Saul Bellow --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (8) CHECK READING LIST (6) Herzog [Price: $8.00] New York, The Viking Press, c1964, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 341 pgs (Mild rubbing to boards. Pages clean and unmarked. DJ is faded and has several rips and chips. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories [Price: $4.00] New York, Harper & Row, pub1984 c1984, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 4th ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 294 pgs (Possible remainder mark. DJ has edge wear and small tears at corners and spine.) It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future [Price: $7.00] New York, Viking, c1994, Hard Cover Fine/Fair jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 327 pgs (DJ has horizontal cut on front.) Peter Benchley --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (2) Ocean Planet: Writings and Images of the Sea, Edited by Judith Gradwohl [Price: $20.00] New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., c1995, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 192 pgs Robert Benchley --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (9) Chips Off the Old Benchley: With an Introduction by Frank Sullivan, Drawings by Gluyas Williams [Price: $6.50] New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, c1949, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 360 pgs (Spine is slightly cocked. A little corner bumping, minor soiling to boards, some edge rubbing, some page yellowing, and some soiling to end papers.) David L. Bender and Bruno Leone The Elderly: Opposing Viewpoints [Price: $5.00] San Diego, California, Greenhaven Press, Inc., c1990, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 216 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators.) William Rose Benet The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts [Price: $10.00] New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1948, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 1242 pgs (Boards and spine soiled and worn with corners bumped.) Nels A. Bengston and WIllem Van Royen Fundamentals of Economic Geography [Price: $20.00] New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc., pub1937 c1935, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 4th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 802 pgs (Previous owner's name inscribed on front papers, some text is underlined) Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett) --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (13) CHECK READING LIST (3) The Old Wives' Tale [Price: $8.25] New York, Grosset & Dunlap, c1911, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 612 pgs (Brown cover corners bumped and frayed. Spine head torn. Front hinge split. Pages starting to brown.) John Berendt --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story [Price: $3.50] New York, Random House, c1994, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 388 pgs (Light shelf wear to dj. One small wrinkle in bottom of text pages. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Tight binding. Picture of author on inside back dj.) A. Scott Berg --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Max Perkins: Editor of Genius [Price: $15.00] New York, Thomas Congdon Books (E.P. Dutton), c1978, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 498 pgs (DJ has edgewear bottom of spine and small tears back top edge.) Ellin Berlin The Best of Families [Price: $4.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1970, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 352 pgs (Spine is cocked. Previous owner's name in ink on FFEP. The book has light shelf wear. The jacket is soiled and has some tears and chips. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Jeremy Bernstein A Comprehensible World: On Modern Science and Its Origins [Price: $7.50] New York, Random House, c1967, Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 269 pgs (Edge wear with 2 small tears to top of bastard title page. Red "H" stamped on ffep. DJ soiled with several small tears top and bottom.) Richard Bernstein Fragile Glory: A Portrait of France and the French [Price: $9.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1990 c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 349 pgs William W. Betts Lincoln and the Poets [Price: $10.00] Pittsurgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, c1965, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, possible 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 140 pgs (Usual ex-library marking, mylar covered) Lary E. Beutler, Bruce Bongar and Joel N. Shurkin Am I Crazy, Or Is It my Shrink?: How to Get the Help You Need [Price: $8.00] New York, Oxford University Press, pub1998 c1998, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 214 pgs Helen Bevington When Found, Make a Verse Of [Price: $8.00] New York, Simon and Schuster, pub1961 c1961, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 314 pgs (FFEP missing. DJ price clipped with one-inch open tear and chipping at top edge.) Geoffrey Bibby Four Thousand Years Ago: A World Panorama of Life in the Second Millennium B.C. [Price: $6.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1961 c1961, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 398 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. General wear with cracked hinge. DJ wrapped in mylar.) Ray Allen Billington Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier [Price: $7.00] New York, The Macmillan Company, pub1967 c1967, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 3rd ed, 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 933 pgs (Usual library markings. Large marker blotch on one leaf of index at back.) Lisa Birnbach The Official Preppy Handbook: Writers: Lisa Birnbach, Jonathan Roberts, Carol McD. Wallace & Mason Wiley, Illustration by Oliver Williams; Photography by Robin Holland [Price: $13.00] New York, Workman Publishing, c1980, Trade Paperback Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 224 pgs (Gentle wear to cover. Cover bent near spine. Interior clean, bright and unmarked.) James E. Birren and Linda Feldman Where to Go from Here: Discovering You Own Life's Wisdom in the Second Half of Your Life [Price: $15.00] New York, Simon & Schuster, c1997, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 171 pgs Jim Bishop --- CHECK READING LIST (2) The Day Christ Died [Price: $8.00] New York, Harper & Brothers, c1957, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 319 pgs (Maps on end papers. Previous owner's name stamp on front flyleaf. Picture of author on inside back dj cover. Tight binding and clean text. Minor dj bumping, rubbing and soiling.) Walter Blair, Theodore Hornberger and Randall Stewart The Literature of the United States: Volume One - An Anthology and a History from the Colonial . . . Amer Renaissance [Price: $8.00] Chicago, Illinois, Scott, Foresman and Company, pub1957 c1953, Ex-Textbook Hard Cover Good/No jacket, revised ed, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 1115 pgs (Usual textbook/library markings. Some underlining in TOC.) Robert Blake Disraeli [Price: $8.00] New York, St. Martin's Press, pub1967 c1966, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 4th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 819 pgs (Corners bumped. Text edges soiled.) Alexander Bloom Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals & Their World [Price: $15.00] New York, Oxford University Press, pub1986 c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 461 pgs John M. Blum Public Philosopher: Selected Letters of Walter Lippmann [Price: $15.00] New York, Ticknor & Fields, pub1985 c1985, Hard Cover As New/As New jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 652 pgs Ronald Blythe The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age [Price: $10.00] New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1979, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 270 pgs Giovanni Boccaccio --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (5) Tales from the Decameron, Translated by Richard Aldington [Price: $4.00] Chicago, Illinois, Puritan Publishing Company, Inc., c1930, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 378 pgs (Lettering faded on binding. Light soiling on edges.) Ivan F. Boesky --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) Merger Mania: Arbitrage: Wall Street's Best Kept Money-making Secret [Price: $50.00] New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pub1985 c1985, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 242 pgs Paul Bohannon and Philip Curtin Africa & Americans: Revised Edition [Price: $6.00] Garden City, New York, The Natural History Press, c1971, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 391 pgs Paul F. Boller, Jr. Congressional Anecdotes [Price: $7.00] New York, Oxford University Press, pub1991 c1991, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 357 pgs Erma Bombeck --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (8) CHECK READING LIST (6) Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist [Price: $9.45] Kansas City, Missouri, Andrews and McMeel, pub1996 c1996, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 4th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 273 pgs Theodore Bonnet The Mudlark [Price: $6.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., pub1949 c1949, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 305 pgs (A little corner bumping, a little soiling to boards, light edge rubbing. Interior age-toned but clean. Binding tight and straight.) Daniel J. Boorstin --- CHECK READING LIST (1) The Creators [Price: $15.00] New York, Random House, pub1992 c1992, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 811 pgs (Jacket price clipped. Slight shelf wear.) The Discoverers [Price: $7.00] New York, Random House, c1983, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 6th ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 745 pgs Nicholas Booth Exploring the Solar System [Price: $15.00] Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pub1996 c1995, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 176 pgs Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico, Drawings by the authors [Price: $20.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, pub1970 c1970, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 1st prtg, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 404 pgs (Part of the Peterson Field Guide Series. Some color plates. DJ ripped and wrinkled in several places. Top section of dj taped. Writing on inside front of dj. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf.) Catherine Drinker Bowen --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family [Price: $10.00] Boston, Massacusetts, Little, Brown and Company, pub1944 c1944, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Very Good/Poor jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 475 pgs (Bookplate pasted on ffep. DJ worn and torn.) Robert Boyers and Peggy Boyers The Salmagundi Reader [Price: $8.00] Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, c1983, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 622 pgs (Slight water staining at bottom of DJ.) Kay Boyle Words That Must Some-How Be Said: Selected Essays of Kay Boyle 1927-1984, Elizabeth S. Bell, editor [Price: $12.00] San Francisco, North Point Press, pub1985 c1985, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 262 pgs Mary Elizabeth Braddon --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (11) CHECK READING LIST (1) Lady Audley's Secret [Price: $7.00] New York, Hurst & Co., pubN/D, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 286 pgs (Pictoral cover. No publication date given, possible early 1900s. Owner's signature on front & back inside cover pages. Hinges loose. Interior age-toned with some spotting to pages. Some bumping to corners and cover edges.) Neville Braybrooke The Ackerley Letters [Price: $8.00] New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1975, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, stated 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 354 pgs (Cover stained.) Jimmy Breslin --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (1) Damon Runyon [Price: $7.00] New York, Ticknor & Fields, pub1991 c1991, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 410 pgs The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight [Price: $8.25] New York, The Viking Press, Inc., c1969, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 254 pgs (Some bumping to spine. Tight binding. DJ lightly soiled with short nicks and tears.)
The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French From the Philosophers & Poets made in 1915... [Price: $10.00] London, Longmans Green & Co. Ltd, pub1944, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 1st cheap ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall) (Text browning. Yellowed DJ has edge wear at spine) William Bridgwater The Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia: Two Volumes: A-K and L-Z [Price: $20.00] New York, The Viking Press, c1960, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 1417 pgs (Spine is cracked. Some soiling to edges. Some wear on top of spine on both volumes.) William Bridgwater and Seymour Kurtz The Columbia Encyclopedia [Price: $25.00] New York, Columbia University Press, pub1963 c1964, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 3rd ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 2388 pgs John Brinkley Lettering Today: A Survey and Reference Book [Price: $10.00] New York, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, pub1965 c1964, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/Fair jacket, 1st ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 144 pgs (Usual ex-library indicator. Ffep missing and last text page taped. DJ has worn edges.) Gwen Bristow --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Jubilee Trail [Price: $25.00] New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1950, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 564 pgs (Literary Guild Review of book from March 1950 included. Some page yellowing and minor soiling to endpapers. DJ edges lightly bumped.) Dr. L.P. Brockett (Linus Pierpont Brockett) Lights and Shadows of the Great Rebellion: Or The Camp, the Battle Field and Hospital Incl. Thrilling Adventures...the War, Illustrated with Beautiful Descriptive Engravings [Price: $30.00] Philadelphia, William Flint, pub18** c1866, Ex-Library Hard Cover Poor/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 512 pgs (Usual ex-library disclaimers. Front hinge worn through on the bottom. Spine and boards severely faded and soiled. Interior aged. End pages and text edges discolored. Although this edition is scarce, this is a reading copy only.) Tom Brokaw --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (2) The Greatest Generation [Price: $5.00] New York, Random House, c1998, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 412 pgs (Small smudge on bottom book edge. Otherwise, in almost new condition. Book and dj are clean and bright. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Louis Bromfield --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (8) CHECK READING LIST (8) The Rains Came: A Novel of Modern India [Price: $6.00] New York, Harper & Brothers, pub1937 c1937, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, stated 3rd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 597 pgs (Front hinge loose and partially separated. Front endpapers present but detached. Some fading & soiling to boards. Age-toned interior.) Twenty-Four Hours [Price: $8.00] New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, pub1930 c1930, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 463 pgs (Some corner bumping and edge rubbing. Some soiling to boards. Age-toned interior. Small tear at top of spine.) Jacob Bronowski --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (5) CHECK READING LIST (1) The Ascent of Man [Price: $12.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, c1973, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 448 pgs (DJ top and bottom slight curling.) Alfred Mansfield Brooks Readings in Art Appreciation: Great Artists and Their Works By Great Authors [Price: $10.00] Boston, Marshall Jones Company, c1931, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 291 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Worn, corners frayed, spine sunned.) John (Nixon) Brooks Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938 [Price: $9.00] New York, Harper & Row, c1969, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 307 pgs (Previous owner's name on FFEP. DJ is worn at corners and spine.) Francis Brown The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew and English Lexicon: Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Coded with Strong's Concordance Nos., With the Cooperation of S. R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs [Price: $25.00] Peabody, Massachusetts, Hendrickson Publishers, c1979, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 1118 pgs (Based on the lexicon of Wm Gesenius, as translated by Edward Robinson. With a 58 page appendix containing Indexes to All Editions of Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon compiled by Maurice A. Robinson. Some rubbing to spine.) Jared Brown Zero Mostel: A Biography [Price: $6.00] New York, Atheneum, pub1989, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 334 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators.) Anatole Broyard Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir [Price: $10.00] New York, Carol Southern Books, pub1993 c1993, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 149 pgs Frank Buck --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (2) Bring 'Em Back Alive, With Edward Anthony [Price: $15.00] Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Co., pub1935 c1930, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 291 pgs (Illustrated. Some soiling to boards. Small tear on corner of spine.) Pearl S. Buck (pseudonym of Pearl Walsh nee Sydenstricker) --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (3) Dragon Seed [Price: $6.50] New York, The John Day Company, pub1942 c1942, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 378 pgs (Crease across middle of front board. Some soiling and fading to boards. Light edge rubbing and corner bumping. Age-toned interior.) William F. Buckley, Jr. God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom [Price: $15.00] Chicago, Illinois, Regnery Books, c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 240 pgs (Former owner's name inscribed inside front cover) Overdrive: A Personal Documentary [Price: $6.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., pub1983 c1983, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 262 pgs (DJ has minor edge wear and a small closed tear on front top otherwise very good.) Amy Budish and Armond Budish Golden Opportunities: Hundreds of Money-Making, Money-Saving Gems for Anyone Over Fifty [Price: $10.00] New York, Henry Holt and Company, pub1992 c1992, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 654 pgs Diana Buff Custom Made: A Catalogue of Personalized and Handcrafted Items [Price: $5.00] New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 191 pgs Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (327) CHECK READING LIST (5) The Last of the Barons [Price: $10.00] New York, A.L. Burt Company, pub1917, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 600 pgs (Undated reprint published as part of the Home Library Series. Light edge rubbing and corner bumping. Age-toned interior. Light shelfwear to top and bottom of spine.) Rienzi: The Last of the Roman Tribunes [Price: $6.00] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, pub1902 c1902, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 637 pgs (Somewhat fragile with loose front and back hinges. First page of Preface present but detached. Some fading and soiling to boards. Age-toned interior.) Gilbert Burck The Computer Age: And Its Potential for Management [Price: $8.00] New York, Harper & Row, c1965, Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 6th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 148 pgs (Some rubbing, bumping & soiling to dj. Small tear in top back of dj. Minor discoloring to end pages and text edges. Rusted paper clip marks & wrinkling to several interior pages. Interior aged, but text clean. Binding straight & tight.) Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Fail-Safe [Price: $5.00] New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., c1962, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 286 pgs (A little corner bumping, light edge rubbing, some age toning to endpapers and interior text. DJ is soiled and has a large chip missing from the bottom edge of the spine. Picture of authors on back dj cover.) Kenneth Burke Perspectives by Incongruity and Terms of Order: (2 books in one), Edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman and Barbara Karmiller [Price: $10.00] Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, c1964, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 398 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Minor edge wear. DJ wrapped in mylar.) James Burke The Day the Universe Changed [Price: $10.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, pub1986 c1985, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st American ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 352 pgs Frances Hodgson Burnett --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (4) The Shuttle [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) T. Tembarom, Illustrated by Charles S. Chapman [Price: $8.00] New York, The Century Co., pub1913 c1913, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 518 pgs (Previous owner's signature and address on ffep. A little corner bumping, minor fading & soiling to boards, light edge rubbing, some page yellowing, & some soiling to endpapers. Some wear to top & bottom of spine.) W.R. Burnett Little Caesar [Price: $13.00] New York, The Dial Press, pub1929 c1929, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 308 pgs (Hinges cracked. Series of dates written on back lining paper. Some fading and soiling to boards. Shelf worn. Age-toned interior. Good reading copy.) George Burns --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (5) CHECK READING LIST (1) Gracie: A Love Story [Price: $3.00] New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1988, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 319 pgs (Dust jacket is soiled and shows signs of wear. Picture of George Burns on back cover.) The Third Time Around [Price: $6.50] New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1980, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 219 pgs (Gentle shelf wear. Internal text clean and bright. Binding tight. Light bumping and rubbing to dj. One small closed tear on back bottom of dj.) James MacGregor Burns The Power to Lead: The Crisis of the American Presidency [Price: $7.00] New York, Simon and Schuster, c1984, Possible Remainder Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 288 pgs (DJ has edge wear, small tears, and chipping.) Edgar Rice Burroughs --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar [Price: $15.00] New York, A.L. Burt Company, pub1918 c1918, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 350 pgs (Boards bumped and soiled. Both hinges cracked. Several small holes in spine. Discoloring on end pages and text edges. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Interior is aged, but text is clean.) Maurice Burton Under the Sea: Illustrated Science Books [Price: $6.00] New York, Franklin Watts, Inc., c1960, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, stated 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 256 pgs (Usual ex-library markings.) Samuel Butler (2) --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (5) CHECK READING LIST (2) The Way of All Flesh [Price: $15.00] New York, The Heritage Press, c1936, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, Unknown ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 588 pgs (Copyrighted by The Limited Editions Club. Has a silver papered slipcase marred where price tag removed. Beige cloth cover with spine darkened.)
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