Bacon, Edward

Digging for History: Archaeological Discoveries Throughout the World, 1945 to 1959. With an Introduction by William Foxwell Albright

New York: The John Day Company, (1961). (1961). New York: The John Day Company, (1961). (1961). Very good. - Squarish octavo [10-1/4 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], brown cloth. The spine is faded. [x] & 318 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. There is staining to the front pastedown with an ink name & address along the top edge & with some light staining to the front endpaper, else a very good copy. Very good .

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Book number: 5104

Catalogue: Archaeology

Keywords: ARCHAEOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGISTS; DISCOVERIES; EXCAVATIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; EDWARD BACON; WILLIAM FOXWELL ALBRIGHT; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Bacon, Francis

Little Essays / Abbreviated from Bacon

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. circa [1910]. [1910]. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. circa [1910]. [1910]. Good. - 12mo [approximately 3-3/4 inches high by 2-3/4 inches wide], gray boards backed with white cloth & titled in gilt on the spine & front cover. The top edge is gilt. The bottom edges of the boards are darkened & there are 3 small dents in the rear board. 93 & [1] pages with a decorative running head along the top edges of the pages. Illustrated with a color portrait frontispiece. There is light soiling to the front pastedown & endpaper and the bottom corner of the endpaper is creased. Very good.

Number 30 in the series "Sesame Booklets". Good .

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Book number: 26540

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; ESSAYS; AUTHOR; PHILOSOPHER; ENGLISH; ELIZABETHAN; FRANCIS BACON; LITTLE ESSAYS ABBREVIATED FROM BACON; SESAME BOOKLETS.

(Bacon, Francis). Dixon, William Hepworth.

Personal History of Lord Bacon from Unpublished Papers.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 1861. - 8vo, brown cloth (bumped & rubbed; spine faded; small dent to top edge of front cover) titled in gilt (somewhat faded) with frames & decorations stamped in blind on both covers. xix & 424 pp. (pencil name & white ink name on front endpaper with offsetting to pastedown; scattered foxing; small stains to fore-edge with tiny stains to front edges of a number of pages). Good. In his first chapter, the author writes that Spedding's new edition of Bacon's work "has drawn men's thoughts to the character of Bacon as painted by his foes; and the instinct, strong as virtue, to reject that spume of satire and falsehood, has sprung at the voice of Mr. Spedding into lusty life. To aid in some small part in this good work of obtaining from men of letters and science a reconsideration of the evidence on which true judgement will have to run, the new facts, the new letters, the new documentary illustrations comprised in this Review of the Personal History of Lord Bacon are given to the world. Good .

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Book number: 641

Catalogue: History

Keywords: HISTORY; POLITICS; BRITISH; ENGLAND; FRANCIS BACON; EARL OF ESSEX; JOHN SMYTH; IRISH PLOT; ELIZABETH I; KING JAMES; WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON; BIOGRAPHY.

Bacon, Leonard.

Ph. D. S: Male and Female Created He Them.

NY and London: Harper & Brothers, 1925. 1925. - Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on spine & front cover. The covers are lightly rubbed & the spine somewhat faded. Half-title, title, 2 l. & 76 pp. The verso of the half-title is slightly soiled. Very good.

First edition.

Signed in full by Leonard Bacon on the front endpaper. Very good .

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Book number: 1100

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; POET; LEONARD BACON; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Samkoff-Bader, Shayne Rochel.

In Gerangi Funm Lebn: Dertseylungen Un Noveletn. 2 Volumes. (Romanized Title from the Yiddish).

New York: Shayne-Rohel Poblishung Komite, 1949. 1949. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The spine & its titling are faded. 253 & [2] and 287 & [1] pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece and a pictorial half-title in each volume. Very good. First edition. A collection of short stories in Yiddish. A second title page in English gives the title as "Life's Turmoil: Stories and Novelettes". Very good .

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Book number: 95342

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; YIDDISH LITERATURE; FICTION; SHORT STORIES; IN GERANGI FUNM LEBN: DERTSEYLUNGEN UN NOVELETN. VOLUME ONE; LIFE'S TURMOIL: STORIES AND NOVELLAS; SHAYNE ROCHEL SAMKOFF-BADER; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Baedeker, Karl.

Northern Germany As Far As the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers. Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker. With 33 Maps and 56 Plans. Bound with the Index of Streets and Plans of Berlin.

Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1897. 1897. - Octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Limp red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & the spine. The covers are bumped and lightly soiled. xxxiv, 442 & 11 pages, illustrated with 33 maps & 56 plans, including color folding maps. The pages are slightly toned. Very Good. Twelfth Revised Edition. From the library of Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Prince di San Faustino (1867-1917), signed by him "Carlo Bourbon del Monte / Prince of San Faustino / Palazzo Barberini / Roma (Italy)" on the front endpaper and with 2 pages of notes penned by him on the rear blanks. The prince was the father of Virginia Agnelli (1899-1945), the wife of the Italian industrialist and head of Fiat Edoardo Agnelli. Very good .

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Book number: 97000

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: TRAVEL; EXPLORATION; NORTHERN GERMANY AS FAR AS THE BAVARIAN AND AUSTRIAN FRONTIERS; HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS; KARL BAEDEKER; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FULL AND DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS; COLOR FOLDING MAP; PLANS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; GUIDE BOOK; CAR

Baekeland, George

Gunner's Guide

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. 1948. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. 1948. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is rubbed, soiled & chipped with part of the surface of the front panel rubbed away. There are tears to the head of the jacket spine & the top corner of the front panel & the corners of the front flap have been clipped. [xi] & 115 pages. Illustrated in black & white with tables, graphs & diagrams. Very good in a fair dust wrapper.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 11065

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: SPORTING; HUNTING; SHOOTING; GUNS; SHOTGUNS; GUNNER'S GUIDE; GEORGE BAEKELAND; GAME BIRDS; TABLES; STATISTICS; BALLISTICS; SHELLS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Baer, Max (1909-1959). World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

Original "Playbill" for the Imperial Theatre 1950 Production of "Call Me Madam", Inscribed & Signed by Heavyweight Boxing Champ Max Baer to Billy Farley.

New York: Playbill Incorporated, (1950). (1950). - Small quarto, 9 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide. Stapled white wraps illustrated with a caricature of Ethel Merman by Peter Arno on the front cover. The covers are creased with a few small chips and a small stained hole above the play's title. 56 pages, with illustrations throughout. Good. Boldly inscribed by heavyweight champion Max Baer to Billy Farley, likely the boxer who won 2 bouts back in 1904-05: "Billy Farley - Hello 'Champ' Your pal Max Baer 1950". The world heavyweight champion from June 1934 to 1935, Max Baer (1909-1959) won the title by defeating Max Schmeling in 1933. He subsequently lost to James Braddock in 1935. Both fights were named "Fight of the Year" by "The Ring" magazine. Baer went on to referee boxing matches and performed in occasional film and television roles. Good .

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Book number: 97068

Catalogue: Sports

Keywords: SPORTS; BOXING; BOXER; HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPION; MAX BAER; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; THE PLAYBILL; CALL ME MADAM; ETHEL MERMAN; ILLUSTRATIONS; ILLUSTRATED; BILLY FARLEY.

Baerlein, Henry

Baltic Paradise

London, U.K.: Frederick Muller Ltd. (1943). (1943). London, U.K.: Frederick Muller Ltd. (1943). (1943). Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is bumped with the top edges of the covers dampstained. The head & tail of the spine are darkened & slightly chipped. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with its flaps partially detached & pieces out of the head & tail of the spine, affecting the titling. The top edges of the panels are darkened. v & 159 pages. 14 black-and-white photographic illustrations. The top page corners in the rear half of the book are lightly bumped & 2 corners are creased. The upper halves of the pages are lightly rippled. There is a pencil marking in the margin of 1 page. Good only.

First edition.

From the library of American literary agent Harold Ober with his address label mounted on the front endpaper. The initials "JB" are penciled on the label. Ober [1881-1959] worked for the Paul R. Reynolds Literary Agency where he represented Jack London and H. G. Wells. In 1929, he opened his own agency, Harold Ober Associates, representing such authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Pearl Buck and J. D. Salinger. Good .

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Book number: 29531

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: TRAVEL; DENMARK; DANISH ISLAND; BORNHOLM; ARCHIPELAGO OF CHRISTIANSO; BALTIC PARADISE; HENRY BAERLEIN; ILLUSTRATIONS; AMERICAN LITERARY AGENT; HAOLD OBER; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

(Adagio Press). Bahr, Leonard; et al.

Da [Direct Advertising]: Graphics and Small Presses: The Paper Quarterly for the Graphic Arts. Volume LIV Number 2 Second Quarter 1968. Issue Theme: The Private Press.

Westfield, MA: Paper Makers Advertising Association, 1968. 1968. Westfield, MA: Paper Makers Advertising Association, 1968. 1968. Good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed wrappers with a black-and-white vignette on each cover. The binding is bumped & soiled with some light creasing & chipping to the edges of the wraps & a few tiny ink stains to the front wrap. There is some foxing to the spine & to the front wrap at the tail of the spine. 28 pages of text plus a large section of advertisements with paper samples & examples of graphic design by association members. The last few paper samples are detached. Good.

This issue contains an article on the Adagio Press by Leonard F. Bahr. Bahr [1934-1992]founded the press in 1956, working out of his home in Harper Woods, Michigan and specializing in fine and limited editions. He worked as an advertising typographer with George Willens and Company in Detroit for thirty-four years, retiring in 1991. Good .

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Book number: 33647

Catalogue: Books-on-Books

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; GRAPHIC DESIGN; PRINTING; SMALL PRESSES; ADAGIO PRESS; LEONARD BAHR; DA [DIRECT ADVERTISING: GRAPHICS AND SMALL PRESSES: The Paper Quarterly for the Graphic Arts. Volume LIV Number 2 Second Quarter 1968; PAPER MAKERS ADVERTISING ASSOCIATIO

Baikie, James, Rev

The Amarna Age: A Study of the Crisis of the Ancient World. With a Preface by Stanley A. Cook

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. 1926. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. 1926. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth. The covers are rubbed & bumped with the extremities faded. The spine is darkened with the head & tail chipped & the titling completely faded. xxvii, [ii], 464 & [1] pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with 32 black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece, and with 1 folding black-and-white map & 4 color maps, 3 of them folding. Also with a 2-page synchronistic table of the Amarna Age. There is occasional light soiling & the edges of the pastedowns & endpapers are darkened with an owner's name & date on the front endpaper. There is a crease to the large folding map in the rear. Good.

First American edition. Good .

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Book number: 5403

Catalogue: History

Keywords: HISTORY; ANCIENT HISTORY; EGYPT; ANCIENT EGYPT; JAMES BAIKIE; STANLEY A. COOK; EGYPTIAN EMPIRE; AMENHOTEP; MINOANS; HITTITES; MITANNIANS; BABYLONIANS; ASSYRIANS; AKHENATEN; ATEN-WORSHIP; AMARNA LETTERS; THE AMARNA AGE; TELL EL-AMARNA; MAPS; ILLUSTRATIONS;

(Bailey, Phyllis). Kyger, Joanne.

The Persimmons Are Falling Early and Rotten from the Tree. [an Original Broadside Illustrated by Phyllis Bailey, Signed by the Poet Joanne Kyger].

[San Francisco]: [East Wind Printers], [1964]. [1964]. SIGNED BY THE POET JOANNE KYGER - A 20 inch high by 13 inch wide broadside on tan watermarked paper. Joanne Kyger's poem is handsomely printed in italics within an elaborate brown & tan woodcut by Phyllis Bailey portraying nude figures and hands held out to pick & catch the fruit. Signed in pencil "Joanne Eliz. Kyger" by the poet at bottom right. There is minor creasing to the edges, else near fine. Limited edition of only 300 copies signed by the poet, created for the San Francisco Art Festival Poetry Portfolio, 1964 by East Wind Printers. Very good .

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Book number: 96048

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED; POETRY; BROADSIDE; THE PERSIMMONS ARE FALLING EARLY AND ROTTEN FROM THE TREE; POET; JOANNE KYGER; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; LIMITED EDITION; ART; PRINT; WOODCUT; PHY

Bailey, Herbert S., Jr

Princeton University Press: Publishers for the World of Learning. (Cover Title)

New York: The Newcomen Society in North America, 1958. 1958. New York: The Newcomen Society in North America, 1958. 1958. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wraps with an illustration on the rear wrap. The edges of the wraps are slightly darkened & there is a light crease to the bottom edge of the rear wrap. 24 & [4] pages. Illustrated with facsimiles in black, red & cream. Very good.

Second printing.

This pamphlet publishes the Newcomen Address delivered at the "1958 New Jersey dinner" by Herbert S. Bailey, Jr. a member of the Newcomen Society in North America and Director of Princeton University Press. He was introduced by Charles Scribner, Jr. President of the press. Very good .

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Book number: 14832

Catalogue: Books-on-Books

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; PRESSES; PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS; HERBERT S. BAILEY, JR; SPEECH; ADDRESS; NEWCOMEN SOCIETY IN NORTH AMERICA; ILLUSTRATIONS; FACSIMILES; HISTORY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS; PAMPHLET.

(Bailey, Peter). Meltzer, David.

Station. Shadow of the Tiled Roof Along the Long Platform... [an Original Broadside Poem by David Meltzer, Signed by the Collage Artist Peter Bailey].

[San Francisco]: [East Wind Printers], [1964]. [1964]. LIMITED EDITION BROADSIDE SIGNED BY THE ARTIST PETER BAILEY - A 20 inch high by 13 inch wide broadside on cream watermarked paper. David Meltzer's poem is printed as a collage illustration by Peter Bailey. Signed in ink by the artist Peter Bailey at bottom left. The top edge is very lightly darkened and there is minor creasing to the edges. Near fine. Limited edition of only 300 copies signed by the artist, created for the San Francisco Art Festival Poetry Portfolio, 1964 by East Wind Printers. Very good .

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Book number: 96049

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED; POETRY; BROADSIDE; STATION; SHADOW OF THE TILED ROOF ALONG THE LONG PLATFORM; POET; DAVID MELTZER; PETER BAILEY; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; LIMITED EDITION; ART; PRIN

(Baillairge, Charles). Cameron, Christina

Charles Baillairge: Architect & Engineer

Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. 1989. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. 1989. Very good. - Small quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. xxvi, [1] leaf & 201 pages plus 8 pages of color illustrations, including 2 double-page. Also with numerous black-and white illustrations. Near fine.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 33166

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; ENGINEERING; ARCHITECT; ENGINEER; FRENCH CANADIAN; QUEBEC CITY; CHARLES BAILLAIRGE; BIOGRAPHY; CHRISTINA CAMERON; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.