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.....
BEVIS, Leura Dorothy. Silver Farthing. Original cloth-backed boards, spine slightly rubbed. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933. First edition. Limited to 325 copies. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. A very good copy.
BEWICK, Thomas. Memoir of Thomas Bewick. Written by Himself. Embellished by Numerous Wood Engravings, Designed and Engraved by the Author for a Work on British Fishes, and Never Before Published. Original cloth decorated in gilt and blind. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. First edition. Faint toning, else very.....
BIDDLE, A.J. Drexel. Word for Word and Letter for Letter. A Biographical Romance. Illus. Original pictorial cloth, t.e.g. London and Philadelphia: Gay & Bird and Drexel Biddle, 1898. First edition. Very good. Wright III, 517. Scarce; only 3 locations in Wright.
BIDDLE, Moncure. A Christmas Letter. George Borrow: Redivivous. Original printed wrappers. Phila.: Moncure Biddle & Co., 1942. First edition. Minor rubbing to spine, else fine.
BIERCE, Ambrose. Black Beetles in Amber. Original cloth (spine dulled). San Francisco: Western Authors Publishing Co., 1892. First edition. BAL 1111. A very good copy.
BIERCE, Ambrose. A Horseman in the Sky. A Watcher by the Dead. The Man and the Snake. Orig. cloth-backed marbled boards with paper label on spine. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1920. Limited to 400 numbered copies printed by John Henry Nash. BAL 1133. A fine, unopened copy.....
BIERCE, Ambrose. The Shadow on the Dial and Other Stories. Original cloth. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1909. First edition. BAL 1127. A fine copy edited by S.O. Howes.
BIERCE, Ambrose and DANZIGER, G. A. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Original pictorial cloth, T.e.g. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1907. First Neale edition. BAL 1125. Krick 35. Faint foxing to pastedowns and foredge, else near fine.
BIERCE, Ambrose, and DANZIGER, Gustav Adolph. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Illustrated by Theodor Hampe. Original pictorial cloth. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. First edition, cloth bound issue, preceded by the copies in two forms of printed wrappers. BAL 1112. Wright III:524. An important association copy, inscribed by.....
BIERCE, Ambrose. Battle Sketches. Original yapp-edged vellum. London: The First Edition Club, 1930. First edition. BAL 1144. One of 350 copies. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. With eight wood engravings by Thomas Derrick. Some light soiling to vellum, small bookplate on front pastedown, else a very good or better.....
BIERCE, Ambrose. Can Such Things Be? Original cloth. Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1903. First Neale edition. BAL 1121. Krick 33. Light rubbing to spine, else near fine.
BIERCE, Ambrose. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Original linen-backed marbled boards, printed paper spine labels, T.e.g. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909. 12 Vols. First edition thus. BAL 1129. Krick 34. Starrett 24. One of 250 numbered sets. This set is not signed by Bierce. Some volumes have.....
BIERCE, Ambrose. In the Midst of Life Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. Orig. blue cloth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. First English edition of Bierce's best known work BAL 1110. A fine copy.
BIERCE, Ambrose. Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Original red cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: Walter Neale, [1909]. Krick 36. BAL 1128. Later issue, with corrections noted by Starrett 23 for the second or third issue. A little light speckling to cloth, else a very good.....
BIERCE, Ambrose. Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Original red cloth. New York: Walter Neale, [1909]. Krick 36. BAL 1128. Later issue, with corrections noted by Starrett 23 for the second or third issue. A fine copy.
[BIERCE, Ambrose]. The Fiend's Delight. By Dod Grile. Original gilt-pictorial cloth. New York: A.L. Luyster, 1873. First U. S. edition of the author's first book. BAL 1097 "Apparently manufactured at the same time and place as the [London] edition." Minor wear to spine ends and corners, inner hinges starting, else.....
[BIERCE, Ambrose]. Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California by Dod Grile. Collected and Loosely Arranged by Milton Sloluck. Original pictorial wrappers, housed in cloth clamshell box. London; Chatto and Windus, [1873]. First edition. BAL 1099, printing B (no table of contents), endpapers state b. "The sequence has not been.....
BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Behind that Curtain. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d.]. Jacket worn, chipped, hole on front panel near spine, and lower outside corner lacking, toned as usual, else very good.
BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The Black Camel. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d.]. Jacket somewhat worn, some chipping, lacks foot of spine panel, else very good.
BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The Chinese Parrot. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d.]. Jacket spine panel sunned, a few small nicks to head of jacket, else a very good copy.
BIGNEY, T. O. A Month with the Muses, Colorado Tales and Legends of the Earlier Days, in Verse and Some Fugitive Rhyming Lines. Original cloth. Pueblo, CO: Published by T.O. Bigney, 1875. First edition, considered the first volume of poetry "written, printed and published in Colorado." Colorado Imprints 229. Cloth.....
(WHITMAN, WALT). BINNS, Henry Bryan. A Life of Walt Whitman. Orig. cloth. Illustrated. London: Methuen & Co., [1905]. First English edition. Wells & Goldsmith, p. 96. A fine copy.
BINYON, Laurence. The Idols. An Ode. Small 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. London: Macmillan & Co., 1928. First edition. A fine copy.
BINYON, Laurnece. Penthesilea: A Poem. Original cloth, T.e.g., dust jacket. London: Archibald Constable and Company, Ltd., 1905. First edition. Scarce. A few closed tears in dust jacket, else a near fine copy.