Search Results: Authors starting with B from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed Shannon green-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 227, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Cunard was formed in 1840 by Samuel Cunard after he decided to start a company that would carry mail from England to the United States. England paid for the costs of this service, since the country wanted a more regular service than the sailing ships of the time could do. Cunard started with four steam ships that made crossings of the Atlantic Ocean once a week. The company became known for its record of good safety–while ships of other companies often sank, killing many people, these sorts of things rarely happened to Cunard. By the early 1900s, though, Cunard was faced with many other ships from several countries also competing with it for passengers going across the Atlantic. This caused… Read More

Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press, 1983. Limited Edition of 1500 Copies. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Introduction by Nicholas Wilder. Fully illustrated with 100 Drawings. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Donald Jess "Don" Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years. Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Slade School of Art in London. His first one-man exhibition was held in October 1961 at the Redfern Gallery in London. He met the writer Christopher Isherwood on Valentine's Day 1953, when he was 18 and Isherwood was 48. They remained together until Isherwood's death in 1986. A number of paperback editions of Isherwood's novels feature Bachardy's pencil portraits of the author. A film about their relationship, titled Chris & Don:… Read More

New York: Early Childhood Education Council, c. 1970. Paperbound. VG Very Good; however underlined/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [21.25cm/8,5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. , indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Her NY Times Obituary noted: Mrs. Bacmeister taught at the Manhasset Bay School in Port Washington, L.I., in the 1930's. In World War II she set up day-care centers in Philadelphia for children of women working in war plants. After the war she was director of the Manhattanville Nursery School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was a native of Northampton, Mass., and a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Chicago, where she earned a master's degree. Mrs. Bacmeister wrote four books on early childhood education and four on literature for children.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1986. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. In exceptionally good condition save bookplate/No dust jacket. Richard Sparks. Royal octavo, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed brown calf sans dust jacket, pp. ix, 190. Illustrated with colour frontis by Richard Sparks . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against another. While the original edition included 10 essays, a much-enlarged second edition appeared in 1612 with 38. Another, under the title Essayes or Counsels,… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. First Impression. Hardcover. New/New. Demy table, [27.75cm/11inches], full chrome-embossed Aegean-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xii, 385, indexed. Illustrated with, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Metropolitan noted: "The most celebrated view painter of eighteenth-century Venice, Canaletto was particularly popular with British visitors to the city. This wonderfully fresh and well-preserved canvas shows one of the city's most emblematic locations, the Piazza San Marco. Canaletto reduced the number of windows in the bell tower and extended the height of the flagstaffs, but otherwise he took few liberties with the cityscape. In fact, this painting can be situated among the artist’s other views of the square because of his meticulous documentation of various stages in the laying of its pavement between 1725 and 1727."

London: TheReligious Tract Society, Undated, (1920s). Hardcover. In quite good condition./No . Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed Agean-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 252, indexed. Illustrated with 32 b-w halftone plates &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Other works by James Baikie include The Amarna Age, A Century of Excavation in the Land of the Pharaohs, The Land of the Pharaohs and Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus-Hunting,

London: The British Museum, 1982. First Impression. Paperbound. As new/No . Royal octavo [27.5cm/ 11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 55; Fully illustrated with 33 b-w halftone and pen & ink plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. ... Wiki notes: "Khemenu ( mnw), the Egyptian language name of the city, means "Eight-Town", after the Ogdoad, a group of eight "primordial" deities whose cult was situated there. The name survived as Coptic Shmun, from which the modern name el Ashmunein survives. The city was the capital of the Hare nome (the fifteenth nome of Upper Egypt) in the Heptanomis. Hermopolis stood on the borders of Upper and Lower Egypt, and, for many ages, the Thebaid or upper country extended much further to the north than in more recent periods. As the border town, Hermopolis was a place of great resort and opulence, ranking second to Thebes alone.

New York: Macmillan, 1940. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In quite good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. x, 354, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Inscribed: Presented to L. M. Klauber, with the best wishes of one desert man to another. -Philip A. Bailey 9/24 1940. Lawrence Klauber was a noted expert n rattlesnakes. Golden Mirages is a collection of tales about the desert and mountain areas that Philip Bailey knew best. Although his yarns cover territory as far away as Tucson and the tip of Baja, most center on the mountain and desert country within a half day's drive from San Diego. This was probably because Bailey made his home here from 1911 until his retirement in 1950. From San Diego he ventured into the back country and across the border into northern Baja to interview old timers.Philip Bailey conducted a one-man oral history project. He was less interested in facts, however, than… Read More

Kutztown, Pennsylvania, &tc.: Automobile Quarterly , 1962+. Hardcover. All VG. Demy tables, [27.75cm/11inches], full embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. . Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The magazine started in Spring 1962 with the sub-title "The Connoisseur's Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow" or in the words of the founder—"a cross between The New Yorker and Encyclopædia Britannica in the world of auto mania". The founder and first editor was L. Scott Bailey , working from offices in New York City. In 1963, an "office of publication" was opened in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, which operated first as Automobile Quarterly, Inc. Bailey retired to live in the English Cotswolds and CBS Magazines purchased Automobile Quarterly in 1986 and then sold the magazine to Kutztown Publishing in 1988. In October 2000, Automobile Quarterly was sold to a newly formed company, Automobile Heritage… Read More

Salem, Massachusetts & Munich, Germany: Peabody Essex Museum and DelMonico Books/Prestel,, 2015. Hardcover. As new/As new. Demy folio, [28.125cm/11.25inches], full copper-embossed quarter-bound cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 240, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Issued in conjunction w/ the traveling exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, June - September 2015. The Peabody's blurb notes" "Thomas Hart Benton was a thoroughly American artist. His regionally focused paintings and murals depicted everyday American life as well as the country's history. This volume focuses on one of Benton's most American associations: Hollywood. Not only did Benton create commissioned murals and portraits of film stars and movies, but he also developed a style that was highly cinematic. This volume is the first to collect all the works conceived by Benton for the film industry. It includes… Read More

Crescent. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. . Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... William Avery Baker 1911 – 1981) was a distinguished naval architect of replica historic ships iand a maritime historian. He was curator of the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum at M.I.T. i.1963–1981. In 1934, Baker joined the shipbuilding division of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and became a registered professional engineer in the states of California and Massachusetts. Baker served with them until 1964, when he became curator of the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum. He was the compiler of plans and specifications for a number of historic Ship replicas, including Gjoa in 1948, Mayflower II in 1957, Adventure in 1970, and Maryland Dove in 1978.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table [7.75 by 10.25inches], full gilt-embossed ebony-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, unpaginated. Illustrated with b-w halftones, schematics &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Holland, Michigan: Baker Furniture Company, circa 1965. Paperbound. In quite good condition./No . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with blue pictorial covers, pp. 263. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The earliest lines of Baker and its predecessors were bookcases and desks in Golden Oak, with vague Mission or Art Nouveau influences. By the 1920s bedroom and living room suites had been added to the inventory. Authentic period reproductions of Duncan Phyfe designs were made from pieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as early as 1923, and soon afterwards Baker became established in its niche of mahogany, walnut, and maple period reproductions from 18th-century England ... Through most of its history, Baker Furniture was controlled as a family business. Siebe Baker was a founder of Cook, Baker & Co. in 1890, and became sole owner in 1915. Upon his death in 1925, presidency fell to his son… Read More

Bennington, Vermont: SB Journal, 1987. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Bennington, Vermont: SB Journal, 1986. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Bennington, Vermont: SB Journal, 1986. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Bennington, Vermont: SB Journal, 1985. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Bennington, Vermont: SB Journal, 1986. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Bennington, Vermont: SB Journal, 1987. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Bennington, Vermont: SB Journal, 1988. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ...