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Bloch, R. Howard The Scandal of the Fabliaux
Univ of Chicago Pr
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. 1986 0226059758 First Edition Hard Cover Fine no Jacket as Issued
156pgs. light red cloth. like new. author argues that medieval French comic tales are shocking not so much for their dirty words, scatology, and celebration of the body in all its concavities and protrusions, but moreso for their insistent exposure of the scandal of their own production. 0303491
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905 |
Blofeld, John Eaton Calthorpe The Chinese Art of Tea
Shambhala
USA 1985 0877733201 First Thus Soft Cover Very Good
205pgs.illustrated. previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. light wear and bump to corners of pages, otherwise internally fine. The Author, a scholar of Chinese tradition and culture, draws on twenty years of travel throughout China. Sections on the purchase and enjoyment of fine teas, accessories, and kinds of teas. 104610
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Bock, Carl The Head-Hunters of Borneo
Oxford University Press
New York/Singapore 1986 0195826299 Second Ediition Softcover Very Good
344pgs.map. frontispiece. 30 color plates. Stiff illustrated wrappers. a couple of corners worn, otherwise tight, clean copy. This is a reprint of the 1881 Edition. plates are wonderfully reproduced. Account of author's travels through Borneo and Sumatra in the late 19th century. 0303807
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939 |
Bodenheim, Maxwell Minna and Myself
Pagan Publishing Co.
New York 1918 First Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket
91pgs. True First Edition of author's first book(has uncorrected "Master Posner" on Page 67, should be "Master-Poisoner". Brown Cloth.Collection of poetry, and two plays. intro. Louis Untermeyer. Previous owner inscription on front endpaper. Bookplate. Some wear to extremities of spine and corners. Internals clean. 007746
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942 |
Bodner, Allen When Boxing Was A Jewish Sport
Praeger
New York 1997 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine
207pgs. Black Boards. gilt lettering. photos. one corner lightly bumped., otherwise fine copy. Unclipped jacket has minor creasing along extremities. in fresh mylar sleeve. Author shows that college wasn't an option fo many 2nd generatin Jews in the 20s and 30s, so they took up fighting to earn money. 107319
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944 |
BOECK, WILHELM & JAIME SABARTES Pablo Picasso
Harry N Abrams Inc
NY 1955 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good-
524pgs. Illustrated boards(Designed by Picasso). 40 handtipped color plates, over 600 illustrations. A hint of toning to spine edges, otherwise text block is fine. Color illustratred jacket has fraying, closed tears on upper edge of spine., closed tear on corner of rear panel. in fresh mylar sleeve. 105840
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945 |
Boethius, Kempis, Thomas, A., Browne, Thomas The Consolation of Philosophy
Modern Library
New York 1943 Early Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good
406pgs. Green Cloth, black spne labels, gilt lettering..light wear to spine extremities, corners tipped. pages lightly toned, otherwise clean, unmarked.. Unclipped jacket has original $1.25 price on uipper flap.DJ chipped on upper and lower edge of spine, corner of front panel creased,closed tear. 0303275
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Bogarde, Dirk Snakes and Ladders
Chatto & Windus
London 1978 070112377X Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good +
Second Impression. 8vo. DJ has some darkening to front panel on top and spine. Small rub on back. Back panel has some soiling. Price intact. Book is clean and tight with some speckling on top. 339p. 021323
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952 |
Bogen, Elizabeth Immigration in New York
Praeger Pub Text
Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. 1987 0275921999 First Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine
268pgs. Black Cloth. Silver lettering. unread copy. Jacket has closed tear on front panel. in fresh mylar sleeve."An In-depth study of how immigrants fare in the nation's largest city" 104524
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Bolitho, Hector Marie Tempest the Great Lady of the Stage
Lippincott
Philadelphia 1937 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
319pgs. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. photo frontispiece, 24 illustrations in aquatane. Rubbing to spine, some discoloration along the bottom outer edges of panels, otherwise a tight clean copy. Rear inner hinge starting, but intact. Unclipped pictorial jacket dampstained on spine, with chips on extremities. front panel with photo of Miss Tempest is in nice shape. in fresh mylar sleeve. Biography of the English actress who worked with Noel Coward,Somereset Maugham, others. 0302737
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959 |
Boll, Heinrich The Stories of Heinrich Boll
Alfred a Knopf Inc
New York 1986 039451405X First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good
685pgs.black cloth, copper lettering.. light corner wear, otherwise unmarked, clean copy. Unclipped jacket a little rubbed at lower extremities, closed tear on rear panel. in fresh mylar sleeve. Collected stories of this renowned German writer. 0303851
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960 |
Bolloten, Burnett The Spanish Civil War Revolution and Counterrevolution
University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A. 1991 0807819069 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Stout Quarto
1,074pgs. Blue Cloth, silver lettering. Massive volume, corners square, light spotting, wear to outer page edges, otherwise fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped illustrated jacket, has light creasing on spine, dampstain on inner side of jacket, not visible. in fresh mylar sleeve. A comprehensive history and analysis of Republican political life during the Spanish Civil War. Completed by Burnett Bolloten just before his death in 1987. 107411
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Boni, Margaret Bradford Fireside Book of Folk Songs
Simon & Schuster
NY 1974 0671285362 Reprint Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good+
large 4to, full yellow cloth with blue endpapers, block is clean and tight; some toning to edges and foxing lightly on the dustwrapper which still looks very bright in afresh mylar sleeve, Internals as new throughoutThe dustwrapper is unclipped and a large closed tewar (3-4inches) across the top is o/w neat fine - bright in a dustwrapper. 323p 019938
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968 |
Bonner, Arthur Jerry McAuley and His Mission
Loizeaux Brothers
Neptune, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1990 0872130606 Revised Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine
123pgs. superficial wear.illustrations, photo throughout. endpapers. Jacket has small closed tears, otherwise bright. Story of the Jerry McAuley who set up the first rescue mission for the down and out of society. 105581
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980 |
Booth, Martin Opium: A History
St. Martin's Press
NY 1998 0312186436 First Printing Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine
Dustwrapepr in a fresh mylar sleeve, 8vo, gray paper over bds with red gilt spine titles. Illustrated unclipped dustwrapper. Perhaps the most detailed and varied study of the history of opiate use and abuse. 381p Baiscally looks brand new. 200995
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981 |
Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction
Univ of Chicago Pr
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. 1983 0226065588 Second Ediition Soft Cover New Octavo
572 pages. stiff wraps. In original Shrinkwrap. Standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels acceissible and how readers recreate texts. 0304022
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985 |
Borge, Victor My Favorite Intermissions
Doubleday
Thomas Winding
New York 1971 Early Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good
189pgs. Light brown boards with white sketch design of the author at the piano. Dampstain on rear pages, doesn't affect the text block. otherwise clean, square copy.Price-clipped jacket has wear to extremities. Lives of the Musical Greats with amusing and shocking facts by the clown prince of music, Victor Borge. 0302392
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987 |
Borges, Victor My Favorite Intermissions
Doubleday
Thomas Winding
N Y & Chicago 1971 038502651X 3rd Printing Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine
Minor wear at extremities, otherwise book is finefine; The dustwrapper is price-clipped and has a light even spine fade that has not affected the density of the black titling, Embossed cover art of man at a piano in white outline, some line drawings throughout, overall and excellent copy in a fresh mylar sleeve. 189pp. 008823
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989 |
Borland, Hal THIS HILL, THIS VALLEY
J.B Lippincott
Peter Marks
Philadelphia 1957 Reprint Hardcover Very Good Very Good
315pp. Book is somewhat cocked, spine a little darkened. Jacket shows wear to extremities. Top and bottom jacket spine show nicks, closed tear at the bottom and a slight chip missing at the top. Jacket corners bumped/worn. Rear jacket somewhat darkened around the edges. Illustrated endpapers. Some illustrations throughout by Peter Marks. 005679
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993 |
Borns, Betsy Comic Lives: Inside the World of American Stand-Up Comedy
Fireside
1987 0671626205 First Thus Hard Cover Near Fine
304pgs. photos. Written during the comedy boom of the eighties, the writer interviews the famous and not so famous of that era An insight into the emotiional roller-coaster of Stand-up Comedy. Includes interviews with Richard Belzer, Richard Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser, others. A touch of wear to the covers. otherwise fine. 105378
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996 |
Borsig, Tet Designs In Nature
Viking
New York 1962 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good-
80pgs. Off-white Buckram boards, Blue lettering on spine. light toning along the edges of covers. foxing on blank preliminary pages. Attractive Black ahnd white photos of plant life and their natural designs. . Unlcipped illustrated jacket has closed tears along the edge of spine and corners. in fresh mylar sleeve. 0301155
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997 |
Borsos, Bela Staghorn Powder-Flasks
Corvina Kiado
F6 Utea, U.S.A. 1982 9631314421 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good Octavo
96pgs., plus 40pgs. of color illustrations. Cocoa brown cloth with unicorn emblem on front panel. corners square. light fading to extremities, erasure on rear endpaper, otherwise internally fine, unmarked copy.Unclpped jacket has wear to upper left and lower right corners of front panel. in fresh mylar sleeve. Hunters' powder-flasks made from antlers of the red deer indigenous to the area of the former kingdom of Hungary, 16th-18th centuries. 0303882
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999 |
Borua, Profulla Chandra Assamese Proverbs
P.C Borua
1962 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Good
edge tatty and foxy dustwrapper in a mylar sleeve. printed paper over boards, bookplate on front pastedown, some wear to board edges, and a tiny store stamp on the front endpaper, printed letterpress in India. 019988
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1000 |
Bosch, Hieronymus;Bruegel, Pieter;Tokyo Intanashonaru Shuppan Bosch/Bruegel
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
New York 1971 0151136009 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine 7 1/2" x 712"
122pgs. white boards, gilt lettering. color illustration on front panel. Beautiful, unmarked copy, light toning to spine, otherwise fine copy 74 color plates, as well as scores of black and white photos. Clear jacket is bright, with no tears. Great examples of the works of Bosch and Bruegel, presented in a square format, housd in a color slipcase. , which is rubbed at corners. 0303236
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