The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources
by BAKER, Samuel White
London / Philadelphia: Macmillan / J. B. Lippincott, 1866. First one-volume edition. Octavo (22cm). Half tan calf with marbled paper over boards, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xxvi,516pp; 1 tinted lithographic plate, 2 color maps (1 folding), 13 black and white relief plates, numerous in-text wood engravings. Erratum slip at rear. Complete, including the plate at p.464 not called... Read More
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Adobe Walls: The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post
by BAKER, T. Lindsay; Billy R. Harrison
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.5cm). Black cloth titled on spine in silver, in pictorial dust jacket; [xxii],413,[1]pp; black and white halftones on inserted leaves. Sound and straight, with minor shelfwear; Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed: Near Fine. [62373].
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Mikhail Bakhtin
by [BAKHTIN, Mikhail] CLARK, Katerina and Michael Holquist
Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[1],2-398,[2]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy.... Read More
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Hval og Hvalfangst: Vestfold-Minne 1964
by BAKKEN, Asbjørn; Erling Eriksen (eds)
Vestfold: Vestfold Historielag, [1964]. Octavo (23cm). Striped paper over boards, backed in cloth, with original dust jacket laid in at rear; 188pp. Ex-library, with stamp to verso of title page. Sound and straight, lightly rubbed, internally clean: Very Good.
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New Perceptions of Old Appearances in the Art of Samuel Bak
by [BAK] LANGER, Lawrence L.
Boston: Pucker Art Publications, 2005. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 9"). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 117pp; chiefly illus. Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper.
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Guide Africain de la Santé: Manuel d'Hygiene
by BALA-MBARGA, H.
Paris: Librarie Hatier, 1963 [but 1966?]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated boards; 111pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear at corners, else Fine. Title page dated 1963 while the printer's slug in rear dated 1966.
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The Brancacci Chapel
by BALDINI, Umberto & Ornella Casazza;
1992. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Quarto (28.5cm x 26cm). Green cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 380pp; illus. Near Fine copy; one gently bumped corner, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper, slight sheld ward to extemities, with clean and crisp. A detailed exploration of the early Renaissance frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel... Read More
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Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches
by BALDWIN, Joseph G.
San Francisco: Sumner Whitney and Company, [n.d. - ca 1876]. Reprint (originally Appleton, 1853). 12mo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; clay-coated endpapers; 330pp; [4]pp ads. Mild external wear, but a bright, straight copy, solidly Very Good. Prose sketches of the antebellum American South, by a prominent California jurist. First published... Read More
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![The Delectable Country [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/438/126/1246126438.0.m.jpg)
The Delectable Country [Signed]
by BALDWIN, Leland D.
New York: Lee Furman, [1939]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],715pp. Shallow chips and tiny losses to jacket extremities, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page. Historical novel set in 1790s Pittsburgh during the Whiskey Rebellion, much of it based on the author's previous works on the... Read More
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The Aero Field: with Supplements to the Aero Field Handbooks
by BALDWIN, N.C. (editor); B.G. Challis and John N. Myer (contributors)
[Sutton Coldfield, England]: Francis J. Field, Ltd, [October, 1940]. Vol. 4, No. 7, softcover. Octavo (21.5cm); stapled blue pictorial paper wrappers; [i],134-152pp. Lightly tanned, with modest soil to wrappers and interior, shelf-wear, and occasional marginal creases; Good. Includes "Pioneer Air Services in New Guinea" by B.G. Challis and "The Alleged First Air Mail Stamps of Honduras" by John N.... Read More
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[Drop title] The Crisis. To the People of Connecticut
by [BALDWIN, Simeon, attr.]
[Hartford, n.d. but 1819]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); self-wrappers; 16pp. Spine perished and rear leaf separated but present, quite dark tide mark, chipping to extremities. Good only. Attributed to old-guard Connecticut Federalist Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851) whose fortunes had taken a turn the previous year when, after a decade as judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, the position... Read More
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One More Day's Journey: the Story of a Family and a People
by BALLARD, Allen B.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 288pp. Tight, clean, unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $17.95 on front flap); very mildly worn, Near Fine. Chronicle of one Black family's experiences during the Great Migration, beginning in Greenwood, Missisisippi and ending in Philadelphia. Ballard (b. 1930) was a long-tenured... Read More
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The Drowned World
by BALLARD, J.G.; FRENCH, Dick [Illustrator]
USA & Netherlands: Dragon's Dream, 1981. First American Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps. 158pp. A little inoffensive wear to the edges and corners, small corner crease to upper rear cover; internally clean, illustrated throughout. A very good, clean copy indeed. A newly presented and fully illustrated edition of Ballard's 1962 post-apocalypse, global warming novel where most... Read More
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The Ballantyne Press And Its Founders 1796-1908
by [BALLANTYNE PRESS] [CARRIE, William and William Dobson]
Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Publisher's green cloth gilt; dustjacket; top edge gilt; x,190pp; frontispiece and nine unnumbered leaves of halftone plates; two folded facsimiles; text illus. Offsetting and slight foxing to prelims and back-matter, else a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy in the scarce original dustwrapper, rubbed at folds with a... Read More
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Duties Payable on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, Imported Into the United States of America, From and After the 30th June, 1800. The duties of tonnage, rates of fees, drawbacks, &c. with the necessary forms for the direction of merchants, masters of vessels, and others, doing business at the customs-house
by BALL, Edward I.
New-York: James Oram, 1803. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 20cm.); disbound; 47pp.; woodcut Finis on final leaf of text. Title page (serving as upper cover) nearly separated but present, last two leaves dog-eared at top fore-edge corners, else Good to Very Good overall. Detailed list of import taxes ranging from ale and beer (8% for American ships, 8 4/5% for... Read More
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UR VOX: A Journal of the Underlying Voice, Volume One
by Ballentine, Lee (ed.); Philip Lamantia, John M. Bennett, John Yau , et al.
Denver: Ur Vox, 2001. First Edition. This is Volume One of the journal. 6.5” x 9.75.” In white, glossy photographic wraps. Still in shrink wrap. As new.
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The Williamsburg Forgeries
by BALLINGER, John
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 276pp. Fine in fine jacket. Biblio-mystery with a Williamsburg setting, written by the prominent Virginia antiquarian bookseller.
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Un Quotidiano della Resistenza: "La Nazione del Popolo." Organo del Comitato Toscano di Liberazione Nazionale (11 agosto 1944 - 3 luglio 1946)
by BALLINI, Pier Luigi, ed
[Firenze]: Edizioni Polistampa, [2008]. New Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers housed in matching pictorial card slipcase; 390; [2],[391]-744pp. Corners a bit bumped, a hint of dust-soil, slipcase worn, else Very Good overall. Collected articles first published in the Tuscan Resistance newspaper "La Nazione del Popolo" at the end of World War II. Text entirely... Read More
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La Nazione del Popolo": Organo del Comitato Toscano di Liberazione Nazionale (11 agosto 1944 - 3 luglio 1946)
by BALLINI, Pier Luigi, ed
[Firenze]: Regione Toscana / Consiglio Regionale, [1998]. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 426; [2],437-774pp. Corners a bit bumped, a hint of dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Complete despite error in pagination. Collected articles first published in the Tuscan Resistance newspaper "La Nazione del Popolo" at the end of World War II. Text... Read More
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The Paris of Henry IV: Architecture and Urbanism
by BALLON, Hilary
New York: Architectural History Foundation / MIT Press, 1991. First Edition. Small quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 378pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn dustwrapper.
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The Girl With the Golden Eyes
by Balzac, Honoré De; Ernest Dowson (trans.)
New York: Williams, Belasco and Meyers, 1930. Reprint. Large octavo (24.5cm); black cloth boards, stamped in gilt, beveled edges; 154pp frontis.,5 plates. Gilt dulled on spine; extremities rubbed, thin spots along spine and leading corners; mild soiling and wear. Top edge stained black, fore edge dackled; some interior toning and handling wear, else Very Good overall. This 1833... Read More
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Princesse Mandapu: Roman
by BAMBOTÉ
Paris: Présence Africaine, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original yellow pictorial wrappers; 187,[2]pp. About Fine. Novel by a native of the still newly-independent Central African Republic. Set in a small village in the 1930s during the French colonial occupation.
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Le Desert des Kel Ahaggar
by BANCAUD, Henri (photographs); André Bourgeot (text)
[n.p.]: Atelier edition / Chaîne graphique, 1982. First Edition. Oblong octavo (23.5cm x 32.5cm); photographic paper-covered boards; photographic endpapers; photographic slipcase; [n.p.]; colorful photographs. Text entirely in French. Lightly spine-tanned, with modest shelf-wear to spine ends; Very Good+. In publisher's photographic paper-covered slipcase, with price sticker to spine, modest shelf-wear and soil, and light rubbing to edges; Very Good.... Read More
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![Index to Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study. Volumes I. to VII. Inclusive [Index Volume Only]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/044/849/1403849044.0.m.jpg)
Index to Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study. Volumes I. to VII. Inclusive [Index Volume Only]
by BANCROFT, Hubert Howe
San Francisco: The History Company, 1892. First Edition. Octavo. Original publisher's cloth over beveled boards; 113pp. Faint label residue to front board, else mild external rubbing and soil; interior clean, tight and unmarked. Very Good, in the original two-color cloth.
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![A Great Man Speaks: A Threat to World Peace [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/882/300/829300882.0.m.1.jpg)
A Great Man Speaks: A Threat to World Peace [cover title]
by BANDA, H[astings] Kamuzu
[Yaba, Nigeria: Asroi Press, 1965]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers (a bit dustsoiled); 11pp. Light wear from handling, else About Fine. Contents of Malawi Prime Minister Hastings Banda's 1964 lecture on communism, delivered to the Zomba Debating Society. Edited by F.K.C. Nwosu, organizer of the Young Nigeria Book Club.
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