Search Results: Authors starting with B from Irving Book Company

Lipsiae (Leipzig): B.G. Teubneri (Teubner), 1958. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Moderate edgewear & soiling, with sunning to spine; 1959 ownership signature to front pastedown, with one line of ink to rear free endpaper & small bookstore sticker to rear pastedown. Binding square & sound, text otherwise clean & bright.. 8vo. 5.375 x 8 in. xxviii, 126 pp. Third Printing of Bruno Snell's edition of Bacchylides' poetry, including fragments, after the editions edited by Blass & Seuss, first published in 1898 & 1912 respectively. Teubner's vermillion quarter-cloth over salmon cloth, titles in black. Text in Greek, Preface in Latin. Teubner critical text, published as part of the Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. A poor scholar's copy.

Asheville: Cooper and Posey, 2022. First Edition. Paperback. New. Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.5 in. 19, [1] pp. Saddle-stitched pamphlet. Printed via offset lithography.

San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket, with heavy worming to spine panel. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Demy 8vo. 691 pp. Original black boards, in grey dust jacket printed in red & black. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Covers moderately soiled and edgeworn, with two small scuffs to top edge. Text lightly toned at margins, with some spotting to preliminary and end pages. Binding secure, text unmarked. Lacking dust jacket.. Demy 8vo. 5.625 x 8.5 in. 285 pp. Preface by Justice WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS. Review copy with complimentary slip laid in, signed by author STRINGFELLOW BARR in year of publication.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed. Light edgewear, light soiling to covers, with moderate toning to spine. Light offsetting to endpapers. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.375 in. xxx, [i], 160 pp. Blue cloth, with printed title lables to upper cover & spine.

Chicago: Reilly and Britton, 1907. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good. Neatly rebacked, with original spine laid over (original bottom third missing); some mottling to covers, moderate to heavy wear to extremities. Color stamping remains very fresh and vivid despite prior heavy wear to cloth binding. Textblock somewhat worn, and very lightly browned at margins; occasional small open and closed tears, occasional dog-ears to text. 'This book belongs to' filled in with previous owner's signature, text otherwise unmarked. Overall a clean and bright text, many pages rather crisp. Binding square and tight.. Large 8vo. 7.125 x 9.25 in. 270 pp. + [1 blank], [1 advert.] pp. Neatly rebacked, with original spine laid over. Original light-tan cloth, titled and illustrated in black, red, yellow, and blue. Profusely and marvelously illustrated with full color reproductions of drawings by John R. Neill; illustrated endpapers printed in full color. Satisfies all First Printing Issue Points, including… Read More

New York: Modern Library, 1925. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A trace of edgewear. Previous owner's bookplate to verso of half-title.. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.625 in. xi, [iii], 297, [1] pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 4 in chocolate brown 'limpcroft leather' with Bernhard torchbearer device in gilt on upper cover; Brodzky endpapers. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Dedicated to Beebe's close friend Theodore Roosevelt ( 'to Colonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt I offer this volume with deepest friendship'), with ROOSEVELT's foreword. A fresh, crisp copy. Andes 30.2.1F. Toledano 30.2.

Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Light soiling to covers. Very occasional foxing, especially at plates. Lacking jackets & slipcase.. Royal 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 623, [1] pp. Publisher's navy blue ribbed cloth, titled & double-ruled in gilt on spine. Complete with six illustrations, including folding maps. This copy from North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey, and includes his contemporary review folded & laid in. 'Altogether, "The Old Free State" is a very satisfying book to all who look back to Virginia for their ancestral origins and who have the least pride in the history of that state. Mr. Bell, it might be added, formerly lived in Asheville and married an Asheville girl....'.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in poor jacket. Jacket lacking spine panel.. Demy 8vo. 280 pp. Original charcoal cloth, in black dust jacket.. Edited with an introduction by HANNAH ARENDT. Translated by HARRY ZOHN. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1974 ownership signature to front flyleaf, and copious annotation.

(Berlin): Suhrkamp, 2013. First Thus. Hardcover. Just about fine. A touch of shelfwear, spine slightly cocked.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 722 pp. Dark grey quarter-cloth over grey boards. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Published as Vol. 16 of the 'Works and Legacy Complete Critical Edition'. Text in German.

London: William Heinemann, 1967. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Binding square and tight. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 442 pp. + adverts. Original green cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt. LCL 65. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1972 ownership signature in pencil to front flyleaf, several pencil annotations.

London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Philadelphia's notable Rittenhouse Club bookplate to front pastedown, with the Club's library numbers tastefully stamped in gilt to spine. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 398, [2] pp. Original green cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with some annotations in red ink. An uncommon copy.

London: William Heinemann, 1968. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very good in good jacket.. 16mo. 631 pp. + adverts. Original green cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt; in green dust jacket. LCL 47. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1972 ownership signature in pencil to front flyleaf, several pencil annotations.

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Small ding to rear board, else near fine in good jacket. Moderate edgewear & rubbing to jacket.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xii, 276 pp. Full light grey cloth, titled in black on spine, in light grey pictorial dust jacket. Translated, with an introduction, by Father BRUNO SCOTT JAMES. Foreword by THOMAS MERTON. Approbations. 'Perhaps our own century needs nothing so much as the combined anger and gentleness of another Bernard....'.

Freiburg / Montreal: Herder / Palm, 1967. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine in near fine, price-clipped jacket, with a touch of edgwear. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 207 pp. Original black boards in blue & white dust jacket. Edited & translated by KEVIN SMYTH.

Paris: Edme Couterot, 1669. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Cracked at upper joint, with some loss to crown of spine. Sparse notes in neat contemporary hand to preliminary pages, including margins of title page. Small, handsome library bookplate to front pastedown, with purple stamp. Binding square & tight, text otherwise quite bright & unmarked.. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. [22], 562 pp. Contemporary full calf, titled & ornamented in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled red. Illustrated with floral capitals, headpieces & tailpieces. Contains Sermons for Christmas, Circumcision, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday; on the Infant Jesus, on the Passion of Jesus Christ. Dedicated to Charles de Rosmadec, then Bishop of Vannes, who would soon be appointed Archbishop of Tours. Approbations. Jacques Biroat (d. 1666) was a Benedictine priest, theologian, and preacher to King Louis XIV; known chiefly for his sermons. Uncommon.

New York: Boni & Liveright [Modern Library], 1920. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Closed tear to p. 131, otherwise near fine. A touch of wear to upper edge of spine. Binding square & tight, text unmarked.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.625 in. xli + [i], 278 pp. Chocolate brown flexible leatherette, with gothic BL ornament on upper cover, titled in gilt with double bars on spine; Brodzky endpapers. With a 30-pp. introduction by W.B. Yeats. A crisp copy.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Slightly cocked at spine, else near fine.. 4to. 320 pp. Original black boards, in pictorial dust jacket. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with July 2001 gift inscription to him from the Latin in Rome Staff.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. First Sandpiper Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine in near fine, lightly worn jacket.. Demy 8vo. 5.625 x 8.75 in. xii, 259 pp. + adverts. Original Oxford blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in glossy blue typographic dust jacket. Sandpiper Books Reprint of the 1925 Oxford University Press Edition.

[Paris]: Gallimard, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Light edgewear, some creasing at spine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 8vo. 5.5 x 8 in. 307, [7] pp. Glossy white pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by author Patrice Bollon on preliminary blank.