BAKER, DENYS VAL

The Face in the Mirror

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Gary Gore. Cover Art; Limited to 2000 copies (Actually 2045 copies according to The Arkham House Companion). This book is in Fine condition and has Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some very beginning rubbing to the spine ends. This book contains a series of short stories including: The Face in the Mirror, The Inheritance, The Anniversary, Voice from the Past, Passenger to Liverpool, The Trees, A Woman of Talent, The Cruise of the Morwenna, A Tall Tale, The Old Man of the Towans, The Tune, and, The Last Laugh. "As a writer of fiction his career really started with Selected Stories, which was a little stapled paperback issued in 1944. This was quickly followed by Worlds Without End, a hardback published in 1945, and then his first novel The White Rock in the same year. The latter was also published in US and the Netherlands. A second novel The More We Are Together soon followed and then a third The Widening Mirror in 1949. Val Baker was also increasing his output of short stories, many of which were not only published in magazines, but also read on the BBC’s Morning Story programme. Over the years, he had well over 100 stories read on BBC radio." (from Wikipedia). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 38516

Catalogue: Horror

Keywords: Horror Denys Val Baker Gary Gore Arkham House Limited Editions Small Press Science Fiction Fantasy Horror

BAKER, KAGE

In the Garden of Iden

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0340708255. Illustrated by Michael Koelsch. Cover Art; This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. This is the author's first book & the First book in The Company series. "And now the news. And it's grim, we regret to say: today England's first official victim of the Counter-Reformation was burnt at Smithfield. John Rogers, Canon of Saint Paul's, longtime Reformation agitator and translator of the Matthew Bible, died in the presence of his wife and children in a ceremony lasting twenty-five minutes." "She is best known for her "Company" series of historical time travel science fiction. Her first stories were published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1997, and her first novel, In the Garden of Iden, by Hodder & Stoughton in the same year. Other notable works include Mendoza in Hollywood (novel, 2000) and "The Empress of Mars" (novella, 2003) , which won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and was nominated for a Hugo Award. In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. In 2009, her short story "Caverns of Mystery" and her novel House of the Stag were both nominated for World Fantasy Awards, but neither piece won.". Fine in Fine dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 34395

Catalogue: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Keywords: 0340708255 Science Fiction Kage Baker A Novel of the Company cyborg Science And Technology Technology Time Travel Tudor England

BAKER, TIFFANY

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing, 2009. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1607515121. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a very short inscription, on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, with the exception of a couple of smnall spots of rubbing to the top spine end. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 46252

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 1607515121 Modern Fiction First Edition Tiffany Baker Signed Edition Author's First Book Family Relationships

BAKER, MARTHA

Raven, Bow Maker Northern Indian California Education Project

Eureka, CA: Northern Indian California Education Project, 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations. Very Good- .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 36125

Catalogue: Californiana

Keywords: Californiana Martha Baker Ravens NICEP Native Americans Myths & Legends Californiana

BAKER, RICHARD

Restless Lightning Breaker of Empires, Book 2

New York, NY: Tor Books, 2018. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0765390752. Illustrated by Larry Rostant. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Richard Baker is an award-winning game designer and a best-selling author. He's worked on the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game lines since 1991. Rich traces his D&D experience back to 1979, when he began playing the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game as a 7th-grader. He spent a significant amount of his high school and college years playing D&D at every opportunity, and after serving as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy, Rich decided to take a shot at working on the game he grew up playing - and so he joined the staff of TSR, Inc, and became a game designer." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 46418

Catalogue: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Keywords: 0765390752 Science Fiction And Fantasy Richard Baker Larry Rostant Space Navy Alien Uprising

BAKER, SIMON

The Ship Retracing Captain Cook's Endeavor Voyage

Irvington, NY: Hydra Publishing, 2003. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1592580041. Color and B&W illustrations and Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one small tear to the top rear spine joint.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 43512

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: 1592580041 Ships & Sailing Simon Baker Captain Cook The Endeavor Travel & Exploration

BAKER, E. D.

Unlocking the Spell a Tale of the Wide-Awake Princess

New York, NY: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2012. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1599908417. Illustrated by Erwin Madrid. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 48555

Catalogue: Young Adult

Keywords: 1599908417 Young Adult E. D. Baker Erwin Madrid Fairy Tales Sleeping Beauty

BAKER, H. A.

Visions Beyond the Veil Missionary to China, Tibet, and Formosa

Panorama City, CA: Glen Miller, 0. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a smaller than trade sized paperback booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light toning / sunning to the bottom edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the title page. "Harold Armstrong Baker (1881–1971) , known as H. A. Baker, was an American author and Pentecostal missionary to Tibet from 1911 to 1919, to China from 1919 to 1950, when forced to leave the mainland, and then in Taiwan from 1955 until his death in 1971. With his wife and co-worker Josephine, Pastor Baker began the Adullam Rescue Mission for street children in Yunnan Province, China. The children in the home, mostly boys aged from six to eighteen, began to have spiritual experiences, having seen Heaven through a series of visions. These visions were recounted in Baker's book Visions Beyond the Veil." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 48280

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Relgion H. A. Baker Missionaries Far East Evangelism

BAKER, NICHOLSON

Vox a Novel

New York: Random House, 1992. Advance Review Copy. Paperback. ISBN: 0140140573. This is an Advanced Reading / Review Copy. This is a trade paperback with its original brown paper wrapper. This book is in Near Fine condition with a Very Good+ wrapper. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The wrapper has one very beginning edge tear to the top front corner and the rear flap has a light, but noticable crease. "Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature were distinguished by their minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness. Out of a total of ten fiction books, he also wrote three erotic novels: Vox, The Fermata and House of Holes. Among others, Baker has published articles in Harper's Magazine, the London Review of Books and The New Yorker. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 41627

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: 0140140573 Modern Fiction Nicholson Baker Modern First editions Sexuality adult novels erotic fiction erotica

BALAKIAN, PETER

Black Dog of Fate a Memoir

New York, NY: Basic Books, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 046500704X. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 47803

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 046500704X Biography Peter Balakian Armernian Geonocide Armenia Genocide Armenian Genocide

BALDERSTON, JOHN L.

Berkeley Square a Play in Three Acts

New York: MacMillan Company, 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Poor dust jacket. The book is in clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a prevoius owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks spots and large chips missing, especially from the spine4 ends and corners. "John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. He wrote the plays Berkley Square and Dracula." "In 1927, he was retained by Horace Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane's stage adaptation of Dracula for its American production. Balderston did some significant work on the adaptation, which was an enormous success when it debuted in October, running for 261 performances and making a star of Bela Lugosi. Deane then hired Balderston to adapt Peggy Webling's 1927 play version of Frankenstein for American audiences. However this did not make it to Broadway. Berkley Square was produced on Broadway from 1929–30, starring Leslie Howard. It ran for 229 performances. " (from Wikipedia) This play is not found in Bleiler even though it deals with time travel.. Very Good+ in Poor dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37745

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Drama John L. Balderston Time Travel Fantasy Science Fiction Drama

BALDERSTON, L. RAY

Laundering

Philadelphia, PA: L. R. Balderston, 1914. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and edge wear. The text pages are generally clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have previous owner's inked notations. "Laundry has been part of history since humans began to wear clothes, so the methods by which different cultures have dealt with this universal human need are of interest to several branches of scholarship. Laundry work has traditionally been highly gendered, with the responsibility in most cultures falling to women (known as laundresses or washerwomen). The Industrial Revolution gradually led to mechanised solutions to laundry work, notably the washing machine and later the tumble dryer. Laundry, like cooking and child care, is done both at home and by commercial establishments outside the home. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 38100

Catalogue: Domestic Arts

Keywords: Domestic Arts L. Ray Balderston Clothing And Dress Laundering Clothing Early Washing Machines Domestic Arts

BALDWIN, FAITH

District Nurse

New York, NY: Triangle Books, 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are generally clean, though there is some generalized toning due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket has a couple of small to smallish edge tears, and there are spots of bumping and chipping to the corners and spine ends. "Baldwin's writing career began in earnest when her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill, was published in 1921 by Boston publisher Small, Maynard & Company. Six years later, in 1927, she sold her first serial to a magazine, Good Housekeeping. This led to more serials for "women's magazines" that published romance novels as six-part serials, and her popularity with the middle-class and working women audience quickly grew. Eventually she was able to command upwards of $55,000 for serialization rights to her novels, which appeared in publications such as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and The Ladies Home Journal. In 1935, she was described as the newest of the "highly paid" women romance writers by Time magazine. Her popularity was at its peak in the 1930s, and in 1936 she earned over $300,000 (approximately equivalent to $4 million in 2005). In the 1950s, she was still going strong, with earnings over $2 million, sales over 10 million in all editions, and "one of the handful of living novelists to complete a five-foot shelf"." (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 45190

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Faith Baldwin Nurses Romance Nursing 1950's

BALDWIN, STANLEY

Happiness and Success the Alfred Fripp Lecture Delivered at University College, London, February 26th, 1932

London, England: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1932. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is a small format book (approximately 3" x 5"). The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light edge wear. The endpapers are marbled. The text pages are clean and bright. "Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC, PC (Can) , JP, FRS (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British Conservative statesman who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as prime minister on three occasions. Born to a prosperous family in Bewdley, Worcestershire, Baldwin was educated at Hawtreys, Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the family iron and steel making business and entered the House of Commons in 1908 as the Member of Parliament for Bewdley, succeeding his father Alfred. He served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1917–1921) and President of the Board of Trade (1921–1922) in the coalition ministry of David Lloyd George and then rose rapidly: " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 39951

Catalogue: Social Issues

Keywords: Social Issues Stanley Baldwin Alfred Fripp Lecture Prime Ministers England Social Issues

BALDWIN, FAITH

Private Duty

New York, NY: Triangle Books, 1943. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Illustrated by Meredith Law. Cover Art; This is a Triangle Books printing. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean, though the text pages have some generalized light toning. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and a couple of small tears, along with one small chp to the top front flap corner. The reverse of the dust jacket has noticeable foxing. "Baldwin's writing career began in earnest when her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill, was published in 1921 by Boston publisher Small, Maynard & Company. Six years later, in 1927, she sold her first serial to a magazine, Good Housekeeping. This led to more serials for "women's magazines" that published romance novels as six-part serials, and her popularity with the middle-class and working women audience quickly grew. Eventually she was able to command upwards of $55,000 for serialization rights to her novels, which appeared in publications such as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and The Ladies Home Journal. In 1935, she was described as the newest of the "highly paid" women romance writers by Time magazine. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 45187

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Faith Baldwin Meredith Law Nurses