[BARTLETT, John]. A Collection of Familiar Quotations, with Complete Indices of Authors and Subjects. Original blindstamped cloth, housed in custom brown morocco-backed cloth clamshell box. Cambridge, [MA]: John Bartlett, 1855. First edition. Grolier Hundred 64. Printing and the Mind of Man 418. Two small holes on spine, very old light.....
BARTON, Bernard. Poems. Original calf-backed paper-covered boards, gilt-decorated spine. Mountpleasant, OH: Printed by Elisha Bates, 1823. Third edition, with additions. Rare, Worldcat locates 1 copy of this imprint. Bates was an early Quaker printer and, like Barton, a Quaker. With the ownership signature of Nathan Smith. Smith, a Hicksite preacher.....
(JOHNSON, SAMUEL). BATE, W. Jackson. Samuel Johnson. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1977]. First edition. Very good or better.
BATES, H.E. The Country of White Clover. Drawings by Broom Lynne. Original cloth, dust jacket. London: Michael Joseph, [1952]. First edition. Fine copy.
FARMER, Peter. BATES, H.E. Day of the Tortoise. Illustrated by Peter Farmer. Original wrappers. London: Michael Joseph, [1961]. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy. A very good copy.
BATES, H.E. A Moment in Time. Original printed wrappers. London: Michael Joseph, [1964]. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. A fine copy.
BATES, H.E. Oh! To Be in England. Original printed wrappers. London: Michael Joseph, [1963]. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition with publisher's note in hand on front cover giving publication date and price. A fine copy.
(FIELDING, HENRY). BATTESTIN, Martin C. and BATTESTIN, Ruthe R. Henry Fielding: A Life. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust. London: Routledge, [1989]. First edition. Fine.
BAUDER, Emma Pow. Ruth and Marie. A Fascinating Story of the Nineteenth Century. Original decorated cloth. Illustrated. Chicago, Ill.; Phila.: American Bible House, [1895]. First edition with deposit copy imprint on title page. Wright III, 410. A fine copy.
BAUM, L. Frank. Tik-Tok of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: Reilly and Lee. Orig. cloth with pictorial pastedown. Later edition. Very good with former owner's name stamped on endpapers.
BAWDEN, Nina. Devil by the Sea. Original cloth, dust jacket (slightly soiled and frayed). Phila.: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1959. First American edition. A publisher's file copy, stamped on front free endpaper, "File copy. Please replace." Edges slightly worn, else a very good copy.
BAWDEN, Nina. Devil by the Sea. Original cloth, dust jacket. Phila.: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1959. First American edition. From the files of the publisher, though no markings substantiate such a provenance. A fine copy.
BAWDEN, Nina. The Peppermint Pig. Frontispiece by Charles Lilly. Original cloth, dust jacket. Phila.: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1975]. First American edition. A publisher's file copy stamped twice on the front free endpaper, "File copy. Not to be removed from office." A fine copy.
BAY, J. Christian. In the House of Memories (Table Talk). original cloth-backed boards. Cedar Rapids, IA: Privately Printed for the Friends of the Torch Press, 1946. First edition. Fine.
BAYLY, A. Eric. The House of Strange Secrets: A Detective Story. Original cloth. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1899. First edition. Very light shelfwear, else a very good or better copy.
(WHITMAN, WALT). BAZALGETTE, Leon. Walt Whitman: The Man and His Work. Translated from the French by Ellen Fitzgerald. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920. First edition. A fine copy.
BEACH, Joseph Warren. American Fiction 1920-1940. John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John P. Marquand, John Steinbeck. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First edition. An important study. Fine in a slightly chipped and darkened d/j.
BECKE, Louis. Sketches from Normandy. Original cloth. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1907. First edition. Spine faded and some fading and soiling to boards. A good copy.
BECKE, Louis. Tom Wallis. A Tale of the South Seas. With Eleven Illustrations by Lancelot Speed. Original pictorial cloth. London: The Religious Tract Society, [n.d.]. "Third Impression." Spine cocked. Some soiling and wear. A good copy.
BECKE, Louis. Wild LIfe in Southern Seas. Original pictorial cloth. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First edition. Covers soiled, spine darkened. Else very good.
BEDFORD, Paul. Recollections and Wanderings of Paul Bedford. Facts, Not Fancies. Original decorated cloth. London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1864. First edition. A very good copy in half-morocco slipcase. Former owner's signature bookshop blindstamp.
BEER, Thomas. The Road to Heaven: A Romance of Morals. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Knopf, 1928. First edition. One of 210 numbered copies signed by the author. Boxed. A fine copy.
(CRANE, STEPHEN). BEER, Thomas. Stephen Crane: A Study in American Letters. With an Introduction by Joseph Conrad. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. A fine copy.
BEERBOHM, Max. And Even Now. Original cloth with paper label on spine, dust jacket (darkened). London: William Heinemann, 1920. First edition. Gallatin & Oliver 15. A fine copy.
BEERBOHM, Max. More. Original green diced cloth with paper spine label. London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1899. First edition, but probably not the first issue. Gallatin & Oliver 4a. With no rubrication on the title page; but with the half title, the spine label printed in.....