Fourth Napoleon:
BENHAM, Charles. The Fourth Napoleon: A romance. Original decorated cloth, T.e.g. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897. First edition. Wright III: 480. Kramer 136. Bleiler, p.47. Very good.
BENHAM, Charles. The Fourth Napoleon: A romance. Original decorated cloth, T.e.g. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897. First edition. Wright III: 480. Kramer 136. Bleiler, p.47. Very good.
BENNETT, Arnold. Accident. Original cloth, dust jacket (spine darkened). London: Cassell & Co., [1929]. First edition. A fine copy.
BENNETT, Arnold. The Author's Craft. Original cloth. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. First edition. A fine copy.
BENNETT, Arnold. The Plain Man and His Wife. Original holland-backed boards. London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. First edition. A very good copy.
BENNETT, Arnold. Riceyman Steps. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York; Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d.]. A famous bookselling novel. Some wear to d/j, else very good.
BENNETT, Arnold. Things That Have Interested Me. Third Series. Orig. cloth; printed paper label.London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition. A very good copy.
BENNETT, Emerson. Rosalie Du Pont; or, Treason in the Camp: A Story of the Revolution. Original printed wrappers. Cincinnati: U.P. James, [1853]. An early reprint of Wright II, 282. BAL 1067 dates this edition to 1875. A fine copy of a fragile item. Wright locates only 5 copies.
(WOOLF, VIRGINIA). BENNETT, Joan. Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist. Orig. cloth, dust jacket (slightly soiled). N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace, (1945). A fine copy.
BENNETT, Johonnas. La Belle San Antone. Original pictorial cloth. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909. First edition. Kirck 31. A romantic novel during the Texas Revolution.
(BENNETT, ARNOLD). BENNETT, Mrs. Arnold. Arnold Bennett. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. London: A.M. Philpot, 1925. First edition. A fine copy in a torn d/j.
BENSON, E.F. The House of Defence. Original cloth. London: Heinemann, 1907. First English edition (the BM Catalogue lists a Canadian edition for 1906). A very good copy.
(CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.). BENSON, Ivan. Mark Twain's Western Years. Together with hitherto unreprinted Clemens Western Items. Illustrated. Original cloth, dust jacket. (Palo Alto): Stanford University Press, (1938). First edition. BAL II, page 254. A near fine copy in a slightly chipped d/j.
BERGSMA, Stuart. Sons of Sheba. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1933. First edition. Historical novel set in first century C.E., Ethiopia. Minor chipping to ends of spine panels and corners, else very good.
(CRANE, STEPHEN). BERRYMAN, John. Stephen Crane. Original cloth, dust jacket. N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, [1950]. Second printing. Front hinge cracking, d/j chipped. Else very good.
BERRYMAN, John. Poems. Original boards, dust jacket. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, [1942]. First edition of the author's first book. One of 500 copies (from an edition of 2000) bound in boards. Bruccoli & Clark I, page 31. A near fine copy.
BESANT, Walter. Beyond the Dreams of Avarice. Orig. decorated cloth with floral endpapers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. First edition. Sadleir 181. Wolff 433. A near fine copy.
FORESTIER, A. BESANT, Walter. For Faith and Freedom. With Illustrations by A. Forestier and F. Waddy. Three vols. Orig. decorated cloth. London: Chatto and Windus, 1889. First edition. Not in Wolff or Sadleir. With a 2pp. ALS from the author tipped into Volume I, concerning his alleged "cynicism." Extremities rubbed.....
BESANT, Walter. The Master Craftsman. Two vols. Orig. cloth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. First edition of Volume I; second edition of Volume II. Wolff 455. Library labels removed from front covers and some soiling, else a very good copy of a scarce Besant title.
BESANT, Walter. All in a Garden Fair. The Simple Story of Three Boys and a Girl. Three volumes. Orig. pictorial cloth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. Sadleir 177. Wolff 429. A very good set.
(JEFFERIES, RICHARD). BESANT, Walter. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies. Portrait. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1888. First edition. Extremities rubbed, else a very good copy.
BESANT, Walter. In Deacon's Orders. With a frontispiece by A. Forestier. Original decorated cloth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. First edition. Wolff 450. A very good copy.
BESKOW, Elsa. Aunt Brown's Birthday: A Story Told and Illustrated by Elsa Beskow. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. New-York: Harper and Brothers, 1930. Oblong 4to. First edition. 11 full page color plates, nine black and white illustrations, color title page. Boards lightly rubbed, some wear to corners and spine ends, light.....
(DETECTIVE FICTION). BETHUNE, J.H. Hands Up! Or, The Great Bank Burglary. Original pictorial wrappers. N.Y.: United States Book Co., n.d. [ca. 1890]. Number 8 in Lovell's Detective series. Wrappers a bit soiled and chipped, else a good copy. Text browned as usual.
BETJEMAN, John. Collected Poems. Compiled and With an Introduction by the Earl of Birkenhead. Original printed wrappers. London: John Murray, 1958. Proof copy of the first edition. Two dates stamped on fly title and slightly dust soiled, but a fine copy.
BETTS, Doris. The Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1954]. First edition of the author's first book. Long presentation inscription from the author, dated 5 May 1954, on front free endpaper to Louis and Mildred Graves, "Our first-and warmest-friends in Chapel.....