Search Results: Authors starting with B from Type Punch Matrix

n.p.: n.p., 1935. Very good.. Mock-epic manuscript in six cantos, offering meticulously footnoted anonymous rhyming invective against the New Deal, the Nietszschian Superman, and the unappreciative American publishing industry. This never-published satire presents an array of politico-philosophic opinions and prejudices, refined to a high degree of erudition and incomprehensibility, unified by the author's displeasure with Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Teutonism" in all its forms. Refused by two cowardly American periodicals in previous drafts, the author then turned his furious aspirations across the Atlantic, adding in several verses of explanation and entreaty. These seem to have had no effect on the hard hearts of British editors, who perhaps could not tell from invocation of "The Saxonism which took itself to be / Chief of all 'eaches' in a 'pluriverse'" whether they were being complimented or insulted. W.B.A.'s crackpottery, stuffed with classical allusions and furnished with appeals to William… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this heartwarming story of a handsome cat's journey from the alley to a loving home - rare in a beautifully intact original jacket. Celebrated for her caricatures featured in periodicals such as VANITY FAIR and THE NEW YORKER, Peggy Bacon was noted for her refusal to "repeat herself" artistically (Taylor, 14). Nevertheless, she would often return to favorite themes in her artwork, one of which was cats. In BUTTONS, she lovingly depicts the rough-and-tumble King of the Alley Cats as he comes to realize that love can be nice, too. This title rarely found with dust jacket so whole and clean. 12'' x 9''. Original red cloth boards with pictorial onlay. Original unclipped ($2.00) red, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. [32] pages. Jacket with light edge chipping and mild toning, a few tiny closed tears carefully repaired to verso. Binding with a bit of toning to edges. Clean.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First edition (stated). Fine in very good jacket.. Inscribed first printing of the book about a ghost cat and a haunted house, notoriously scarce in this edition and even moreso signed. 8'' x 5.5''. Original cloth green cloth stamped in magenta including vignette of a sleeping cat. In original unclipped ($4.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Bacon with 16 full-page, 20 half-page and numerous smaller black-and-white illustrations throughout. [8], 243, [1] pages. Inscribed by Bacon on front endpaper. Jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and rubbing alone edges and folds, some sunning to spine and rear panel.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1928. Very good plus in very good dust jacket.. First edition of this collection of stories themed around the values of the Girl Guides/Girl Scouts, in the rare original dust jacket. From stories of shipwreck survival to silly rhymes about an underwater dinner party, THE SECOND TRAIL annual was full of entertainment for 1920s Girl Guides (known stateside as Girl Scouts). Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, penned and illustrated one of the 16 stories in this collection, inspired by his time in Africa as an officer in the British Army (with its attendant colonial stereotyping). This copy of THE SECOND TRAIL, already difficult to find in the original dust jacket, is especially well preserved and lovely. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original blue pictorial cloth binding. Original unpriced color pictorial dust jacket. Color portrait of the Duchess of York tipped onto grey paper facing Foreword; illustrated in black and white throughout. 282 pages. Jacket with… Read More

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1976. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this key picture book reference work, tracing the genre in the US from the 19th century to the 20th. Barbara Bader highlights the work of such pillars of the picture book art form as Charles G. Shaw, Ann and Paul Rand, and Lois Lenski, among a whole host of others. One of the first research stops for getting a sense of the history of the medium. 10.5'' x 7.75''. Original brown cloth boards. Original unclipped ($45.00) color typographic dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white and color. 616 pages, including index. Jacket with light edgewear, a few tiny closed tears. Binding with tiny bump to lower edge. Clean.

Moscow: Detizdat, 1937. Very good.. Pre-WWII Russian picture book about a little boy with a hunting rifle in the woods with his dog. This copy was once in the inventory of Aleph-Bet Books, and the description uses their images; if you would like further photos of the book, please contact us. 8.5'' x 6''. Original pictorial wrappers. Corners nipped and paper toning. Illustrated by Andre Brei with five full page black and white lithographs.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield, 1933. Very good plus.. Bright and intact Depression-era farm toy book, complete with animals, pens, and farming implements. Containing 6 leaves of color die-cut farm objects - buildings, animals, machines and people - that can be punched out and used to play with against the large double page color farm backdrop. 12.5'' x 18.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in color. [6] leaves with die-cut shapes, printed one side only. Wrapper with mild edgewear, short crack to spine. Clean and bright.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this vibrant book of images from influential fashion photographer David Bailey. 13'' x 10.25''. Original red cloth boards. Original unclipped ($60.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 224 pages. Jacket with mild edgewear, one tiny closed tear. Sharp and bright.

A Londres... Et A Paris" [Paris]: Chez M. Elmesly... Chez les Freres Debure, Quai des Augustins, 1777. One of two editions first published in 1777, no priority established. Very good.. First edition of this provocative thesis written by a French astronomer in response to Voltaire, arguing that modern civilization owes its scientific roots to Asia rather than Europe. Called "The French Revolution's Benjamin Franklin, " Bailly made a name for himself as a historian of science in the years leading up to the Revolution. In the course of researching his HISTORY OF ANCIENT ASTRONOMY (1775), he became convinced that many of the most important astronomical innovations occurred in India, ahead of the Greeks. "It was Indian astronomy above all, with its useful tables, that fascinated academicians... The first exact knowledge informed Europeans had about India concerned the traditions of mathematical astronomy." (Peiffer in Dauben and Scriba, 15). In this work, Bailly first wonders whether the Indian… Read More

(Geneva): (Rousseau), 1972. First edition. Near fine.. Beautiful and complex livre d'artiste by the avant-garde Italian anarchist, pataphysician, and founder of the movimento d'arte nucleare. Baj's collection of screen prints, collages, and mixed media assemblages, with a connecting throughline of semi-narrative text in French. 15'' x 14.75''. Original white cardboard enclosure in embossed white leatherette portfolio in slipcase. Edition of 200; this copy out of series. With an original collage included, not numbered or signed. Issued without the LEGO cover. Very faint touches of soil to portfolio and slipcase; some scuffing to slipcase edges; the ghost of a crease to the corner of one leaf.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1946. Very good plus.. First edition of this story about a family of pigs, illustrated with fantastic silhouettes. 8.5'' x 6.5''. Original pictorial cloth. 83, [1] pages. Name rubbed out from endpaper. First edition.

New York: Duffield & Green / The Junior Literary Guild, 1933. Fine.. Junior Literary Guild edition of this Irish fantasy, in which young Patsy O'Flaherty plans to make a fortune capturing leprechauns. 9'' x 6.5''. Original pictorial cloth. Illustrated with charming full page and in-text silhouettes.

New York: Random House, 1996. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of these collected essays and journalism, including Baker's 1994 piece on the destruction of library card catalogs. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original green cloth spine over green boards. In original unclipped ($25.00) dust jacket.355, [1] pages. Spine somewhat sunned.

Boston: Bullfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First English language edition. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition in English of Baldacci's massive survey of de Chirico's early life and works. Monograph on the period from Giorgio de Chirico's birth through February 1919, the "date of Roberto Longhi's savage criticism of his first solo exhibition at the Bragaglia Gallery, and as such the first clear manifestation of the Italian art world's rejection of the 'ideology' inherent in Metaphysical art." Remains an important reference. 13'' x 11''. Translated by Jeffrey Jennings. Original blue cloth. In original unclipped ($95.00) dust jacket. 444 pages. Black remainder mark to lower edge of text block. Mild wear to book and jacket.

London: Michael Joseph, 1957. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Baldwin's second novel, a story of love and and fear that first revealed Baldwin's full capacities as "the greatest American prose stylist of his generation" (Tóibín). GIOVANNI'S ROOM is one of the great twentieth century studies of masculinity and sexual identity; in his creation of an expatriate American whose desires are weighted with ambivalence, shame, and anger, Baldwin proves himself a worthy successor to Henry James. The novel, Baldwin said in a 1980 interview, tells "what happens if you are so afraid that you finally cannot love anybody. That's what the book is about." 7.75'' x 5''. Original brown cloth. In original unclipped (15s) dust jacket designed by William Belcher. 220, [2] pages. Offsetting and faint foxing to endpapers. Light edgewear to dust jacket; short closed tears to rear panel.

New York: The Dial Press, 1979. Fine in fine slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Baldwin's last and longest novel, an attempt to "face [his] own legends," built around the story of a Black musician's life told by his brother. Baldwin's epic and ambitious late novel, written from the author's house in St-Paul-de-Vence, works toward a glimpse of a "utopian domestic space occupied by two black men in love" (Zaborowska) in its final pages: a much longed for, hard-won, and briefly held space for work and happiness. "It was beautiful to watch them; freedom is an extraordinary spectacle." 9'' x 6''. Original burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front board. All edges gilt, cream endpapers. In original burgundy cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt to one side. 597, [1] pages. Signed by Baldwin on limitation page, number 258 of 500 specially printed signed and numbered copies.

[Carbondale]: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Fine in very good jacket.. First edition, illustrated on every page reproducing the texts of 100 ABC books. Fascinating and a good reference tool. 11.75'' x 8.75''. Original cloth. In original dust jacket. 296 pages. Jacket rubbed.

New York: Mason / Charter, 1977. Very good.. Advance uncorrected proofs for the first edition of this study of Mailer and Baldwin, whose oppositional relationship eventually led to a legendary fight at an NYC literary party, featuring extensive accounts and interview with each. 9'' x 5.75''. Original printed wrappers with perfect-bound lining of spine visible (as issued), publisher's printed label with publication date ("March 7, 1977") and price ("$8.95") tipped onto front wrapper. vi, 217, [1] pages. Notable wave to text block, some bumping to bottom edge, short closed tear to front joint.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of this reference book surveying of the life and works of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka. The second in a series; the first volume covered earlier writers through the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes. 9'' x 6''. Original black paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket. xii, 187, [1] pages. Publisher's review slip laid in. Jacket with light toning, shallow edgewear. Book bright.

New York: Ecco, 2018. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed special first printing of this surreal tale of a very unusual census undertaken by a dying man and his disabled son - issued with slipcase as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original black boards. Original unclipped ($25.99) color pictorial dust jacket with "Signed first edition"… Read More