BUCHAN, JOHN (LORD TWEEDSMUIR)

The Thirty-Nine Steps -and- the Power-House

London: The Folio Society, 2005. Hard Cover. A handsome, illustrated Folio Society edition of the gripping thriller by John Buchan. In this story, his protagonist Richard Hannay learns of a secret plot by sinister German spies to learn secrets of the Royal Navy just prior to World War I. He is forced to flee from London into the wilds of Scotland, where he learns more about the spies and their designs on British secrets. Also included is Buchan's earlier thriller, "The Power-House." The author, the first Baron Tweedsmuir, later served as Governor General of Canada. "The Thirty-Nine Steps" was followed by several sequels, and was made into various movies and a popular stage play. This edition illustrated by Nick Hardcastle, and introduced by Andrew Lownie. --- In full light green cloth-covered boards with Hardcastle image of Hannay being pursued in mountainous terrain to front cover & spine in red, green, black & gilt tones. Volume lacks the slipcase. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; xxix, 314 pages. Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 88493

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BUCHANAN, ROBERT WILLIAMS

North Coast, and Other Poems

London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1868. Hardcover. Mr. Buchanan's works displayed a respect for those living a simpler life. Author's 'North Coast Poems' comprise roughly 2/3 of this volume. --- Elaborately bound in blue beveled edge cloth-covered boards with gilt and red lettering and decorations, front, rear and spine. With 53 illustrations by T.(homas) and E.(dward) Dalziel and 5 others; all of which were engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Printed on heavy papers, with all three edges in gilt. --- Volume has noticeable tears to cloth at spine ends, many leaves with foxing. Sticker removal damage to front pastedown. Overall, a tight copy with some magnificent examples of the engraver's art. (Due to the considerable weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.) ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 250, (6, ads) pages. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 73780

Keywords: >>Poetry >>Illustrated Classics

BUCK, PEARL S.

Kinfolk

New York: The John Day Company, 1949. BCE. Hardcover. Book club edition. Pearl S. Buck's 1949 novel is the story of Dr. Liang and his Chinese family, who emigrate to America, but his children retain a strong attachment to China and Chinese culture. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with the familiar Buck sun-and-plowed-fields illustration in gilt to cover and spine along with cover & spine titling in gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With a little dulling to spine gilding, else a clean, tightly-bound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 406 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 86123

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BUCK, PEARL S

The Three Daughters of Madame Liang: A Novel of China Today

New York: The John Day Company, 1969. Hardcover. Stated second impression of the author's novel, centered around a Shanghai restauranteur and her daughters. --- In tan cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped rising-sun-over-farm image and titling on cover and spine. In unclipped jacket. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, otherwise a clean, firm copy. Dust jacket with plenty of tears and chips (some tape-repaired), otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 315 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 80953

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BUCKLEY JR., WILLIAM F.

The Story of Henri Tod (Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society Series)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition. Leather. A handsome full leather signed first edition of William F. Buckley's novel, featuring his Blackford Oakes character. Oakes is a Yale-educated CIA operative, involved in worldwide clandestine operations. With a two-page color illustration by Robert McGinnis, and a preface by Mr. Buckley. With the author's minimalist signature to a front endpaper. An entry in the publisher's Signed First Edition Society series. --- Bound in full black leather covers with elaborate gilt decorations stamped on covers and spine. Titling stamped on spine in gilt, with four raised bands. All edges also in gilt. Attractive faux marbled endpapers, with sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With a couple of slight scratches to textblock fore-edge gilding, otherwise an about Fine copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (16), 255 pages; Signed by Author. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 84041

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BULFINCH, THOMAS

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, the Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne (Modern Library Giant #G14. 1)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1950]. Hardcover. American author and banker Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) made it his life's work to bring ancient classical fables, folklore and myths to the modern world. Three of these works are presented in this single Modern Library Giant edition. Includes 16 black & white "aquatone" photos of famed artworks depicting the subjects herein. Volume wrapped in dark red jacket with charioteer image to front panel, likely the work of Rockwell Kent. /// In Toledano spine G5 / green cloth / gilt titling & torchbearer ovals on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Gd, verso advertises 347 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1950 (no publication date appears in book). ML #G14.1. /// A clean, tightly-bound copy lacking damages worthy of mention. Unclipped, unpriced dust jacket with tape applied to top & bottom edges, minor creasing to lower rear edge; otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xi, 778 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 88058

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BULFINCH, THOMAS

Legends of Charlemagne (Everyman's Library #556)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1911]. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0803209835. An undated, probable 1911 first edition. An Everyman's Library edition presenting Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) for a younger reader. Some of the legends surrounding the 8th & 9th Century King of the Franks and his twelve prominent knights are shared. With an introduction by the author. Number 556 in Everyman's Library catalog in their "For Young People" series, edited by Ernest Rhys, who has also supplied a brief introduction. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full red cloth-covered ribbed boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, dark topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With some discoloration to covers & slight sunning to spine. Interior is clean & unmarked and binding is sound.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); ix, 240 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 87275

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BULLETT, GERALD (EDITOR)

Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard: Earl of Surrey, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir John Davies (Everyman's Library #985)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1951. Hardcover. A 1949 reprint of the 1947 issuance. Editor Gerald Bullett has selected representative poems by five contemporaries of Shakespeare and Spenser, showing that these poets merited their own category, which he calls "Silver Poets." The work of Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard: Earl of Surrey, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir John Davies is included. Entry 985 in Everyman's Library Poetry series. --- In EL binding style 3 with full green cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. In green dust jacket with Ravilious 'EL-on-shell' design to front panel. --- With prior owner's dated signature to front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Dust jacket with a hint of darkening to spine, otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable clear plastic protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; vi, 572, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 88474

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BULWER-LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE (LORD LYTTON)

The Last Days of Pompeii

New York: The Heritage Press, 1957. Hardcover. An attractive illustrated Heritage Press edition of Lord Lytton's historical novel, set in Pompeii before the disastrous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. First published in 1834. With illustrations by Kurt Creamer. Includes an introduction by Edgar Johnson. Sandglass leaflet is missing. --- In full grey cloth-covered boards with patterned red period illustrations on covers; titling on black spine block in gilt, pale grey topstain. Book is housed in slipcase, which is covered in grey/brown paper. --- A tightly-bound, clean, sound copy but with discolored spine. Slipcase is torn along one corner, with general acidic staining and a bump to a corner, but mostly sturdy and able to protect the book.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; xxi, 513 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 85460

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure >>Illustrated Classics >>Heritage Press Editions

BULWER-LYTTON, SIR EDWARD G. E.

The Last Days of Pompeii

Garden City, New York: International Collectors Library, [c.1950s-60s]. Hardcover. A reprint edition of the famed historical novel set in Pompeii at the base of Vesuvius. First published in 1834. Publisher's flyer specific to this work laid in. --- This volume is made to simulate a book with leatherbound qualities, with gilt stamped decorations and titling on full dark green paper-covered boards and satin bookmark ribbon. Lacks a dust jacket. Volume bears 1946 date, but likely published c.1950s-60s. --- Outer paper covering is brittle and has a nick to top of spine, crack to covering at rear joint and prior owner's signature and notation to verso of front free endpaper; else a sound, intact copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (10), 356 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 80986

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BUNYAN, JOHN; WALTON, IZAAK; ELIOT, CHARLES W. (EDITOR)

The Pilgrim's Progress -and- the Lives of John Donne and George Herbert (#15 in the Five-Foot Shelf of Books Series, "the Harvard Classics")

New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909. Hardcover. The classic 17th Century Christian novel by John Bunyan is paired with Izaak Walton's brief biographies of John Donne and George Herbert, which also appeared in the 17th Century. With introduction and notes, tissue-guarded sepia frontis portrait of Bunyan, another tissue-guarded illustration and a facsimile of an arrest warrant issued against Bunyan for preaching to a non-Anglican group. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with conspicuous dulling to spine titling and general sunning & chafing to cloth. With tears to paper at front gutter, otherwise textblock is intact and intact.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); (4), 426 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 86520

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Religion and Spirituality

BUNYAN, JOHN

The Pilgrim's Progress, from This World to That Which Is to Come (Everyman's Library #204)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1913. Hardcover. A 1913 reprint of the 1907 issuance. John Bunyan's famous Christian allegorical work in a compact Everyman's Library reprint edition. First published in two parts in 1678 and 1685; this single volume contains both, each preceded by the author's apology in verse. With an introduction by Rev. H. Elvet Lewis, which includes a few illustrations. Number 204 in Everyman's Library catalog in their "Romance" series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full ribbed blue cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: tightly-bound and lacking interior markings (other than the penciled prior owner's signature on half-title page) though with slight mottling to front cover.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xx, 383 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 87305

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Religion and Spirituality >>Everyman's Library Editions

BURCH, MONTE

The Home Cabinetmaker Woodworking Techniques, Furniture Building, and Installing Millwork

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060103493. Very nice copy in brown half cloth and brown paperboard covers. Interior clean & bright. Dust jacket minor chips & tears at edges. ; Popular Science Books; 1.7 x 10.2 x 7.9 Inches; 543 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 72293

Keywords: 0060103493 >>Indoor Pursuits, Hobbies >>Home Repair, Design, Decorating

BURCHALL, MICHAEL J. (EDITOR)

1985 National Genealogical Directory

Brighton, England: Sussex Genealogical Centre, 1985. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 0907084109. [U. K. Genealogy] The sixth in the series. With fine-print listings of Subscribers, Surname Interests, and Special Interests. Back of volume with several pages of ads for genealogical search firms and people seeking family members. The 'National' in the title refers to the United Kingdom. --- In white paper wraps; volume is clean, firm and bright but with a bruise to tail of spine, inking on first page and a couple of tick marks inside. Scarce in this edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 77274

Keywords: 0907084109 >>England, Uk and Uk History >>Genealogy

BURCKHARDT, JACOB

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library #32. 4)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1957]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting Jacob Burckhardt's look at the "colorful period of Italian life and thought between 1350 and 1550." With details about the arts, fashions, manners and thought of the period. The Swiss-born author first published this work in 1860. It was commended for its treatment of the Renaissance period and social aspects of daily life. Translated by S. G. C. Middlemore, and with an introduction by Hajo Holborn. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with image of a Renaissance-era bridge crossing an Italian river. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 379 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1957 (though 1954 date appears in book). ML #32.4. --- A very well-preserved copy: bright and tightly-bound but with faint penciled notes to last page. Price-clipped dust jacket also in great shape but with penciled notes to rear flap; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" to 7-1/2" tall; xv, 424 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 85439

Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>European History