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Beatrix Potter's Letters, Beatrix Potter; Selected by Judy Taylor. Published by Frederick Warne, London, 1989. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 478 pp.; illustrated, index. Quarter black cloth over black boards, gilt titles. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket. A representative selection of letters documenting every stage of Potter's life.

Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman, Taylor, Judy. Published by Frederick Warne, London, 1987. Amended Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 224pp., illustrated, index. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Dustjacket has a light top edge ruffle and is otherwise fine.

A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Nasar, Sylvia. Published by Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 459pp., with notes, bibliography, index and photographs. Blue boards with gilt titles. Volume is in fine condition without marks, tears or folds. Unclipped dustjacket has scuffing to rear panel and otherwise fine. John Forbes Nash was a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.

Becoming Jane Austen, Spence, Jon. Published by Continuum, 2007. Card covers. 294pp. with Family tree, and black and white illustrations. In unread, unmarked condition with very light shelf wear to covers. Jane Austen was a great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton. Jon Spence's new biography focuses its attention away from the wider literary and intellectual currents that informed her writing and instead concentrates on the immediate influences on her life and work.

The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, Gibson, Graeme. Published by Doubleday Canada, 2005. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xiii, 369 pp. with colour illustrations; illustrated endpapers. Green cloth boards. In fine, unread condition; light top edge ruffle to unclipped jacket which is otherwise fine. "… an unprecedented and enchanting treasure trove of paintings, drawings, poems, essays, and scientific observations, beautifully captures the interest and emotions birds evoke. The illustrations range from early cave paintings to Audubon's famous portraits to abstract works created in the twentieth century. There are writings by Shakespeare, Coleridge, Poe, Ted Hughes, and Jorge Luis Borges, among many others. Excerpts from famous scientific works, including Darwin's observations on the tameness of the Galapagos Islands' birds, and popular nature writers as W. H. Hudson, Peter Matthiessen, Farley Mowat, and Barry Lopez."

Belle Starr "The Bandit Queen", The True Story of the Romantic and Exciting Career of the Daring and Glamorous Lady Famed in Legend and Story Throughout the West, Rascoe, Burton, Deputy Sheriff of Pottawatomie county, Oklahoma. Published by Random House, New York, 1941. First Edition/Stated First printing. 340 pages including a chronology and necrology from 1837 to 1924, a glossary of Western terminology, an extensive annotated bibliography plus index. Frontispiece of Belle Starr and 12 additional black and white illustrations and photographs. Gray cloth boards with red titles front and gilt titles blocked in red to spine, top edge stained red. Light soiling to endpapers and outside edges; text block fine without markings, tears, folds and pages remain bright. Light spine lean; binding and boards otherwise fine. Unclipped jacket has chips and tears and back flap is partially separated at hinge line.Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr (1848 – 1889), was a notorious American outlaw a "Female Jesse James"… Leer más

Bernard Shaw, Three Volumes, Holroyd, Michael. Published by Chatto and Windus, London. Vols. 1-3; 1988, 1989 and 1991 respectively. First Editions. Volume 1 - 1856-1898, The Search For Love; Volume 2 -1898-1918, The Pursuit Of Power; Volume 3- 1918-1950, The Lure Of Fantasy. 8vo up to 9½" tall. viii+486pp, x+422pp, x+545pp with black and white plates and indexes. Black cloth with gilt facsimile Shaw signature front, spine titles in gilt on green, blue and purple labels, decorated endpapers. Each volume is in fine condition without markings, folds or tears; each jacket is unclipped and in like fine condition. A very collectible set of the highly acclaimed Holroyd biography of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). An Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist, Shaw's influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than 60 plays during his lifetime and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

Between Me and Life: A Biography of Romaine Brooks, Meryle Secrest. Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1974. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xiv + 432pp. with 10 colour illustrations, 36 black and white photographs and in text illustrations by Brooks. Quarter black cloth over olive boards, silver spine titles; tail edge speckled. Contents in fine, unmarked condition; light age toning to board edges; unclipped jacket has light shelf wear. Romaine Brooks (1874- 1970) was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued palette dominated by the color gray and considered part of the Symbolist and Aesthetic movements of the 19th century. Her subjects ranged from anonymous models to titled aristocrats. She is best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress.

Beyond the Blue Mountains: An Autobiography,Woodcock, GeorgePublished by Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Markham, Ontario, 1987. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall.300 pages.Blue boards with gilt spine titles. Volume is in pristine condition; unclipped jacket has light rubbing to edges.George Woodcock (1912-1995) is one of Canada's best-known and most prolific authors.

Biography of Samuel Pepys: Vol. 1- The Man in the Making, Vol. 11- The Years of Peril, Vol. 111- The Saviour of the Navy, Arthur Bryant.Published by Collins, London, 1949. Vol I, 1949. 436 pp., with Index; Vol II, 466 pp., with Index; Vol III 452 pp., with Index. Illustrated throughout. First 2 vols with mapped endpapers. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. In very good condition: boards have average wear; small address label to free endpapers with no other markings and without tears, folds etc. Lacks dust jackets.

Bloodlust: Conversations with Real Vampires, Page, Carol. Published by Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 1991. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., viii., 192pp. Quarter black over red boards, red metallic titles, red endpapers. Both volume and unclipped jacket are in unread, as new condition.

A diverse group of real-life vampires discusses their favorite pastime of drinking blood and candidly revealing the techniques they employ to acquire fresh victims and explaining why their "blood-lust" is so powerful.

Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925, Meisel, Perry and Walter Kendrick. Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1986. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xii, 360 pp. with illustrations. Black boards with gilt spine titles, mapped endpapers. Name to blank endpaper and toning to text block, otherwise fine without marks, tears or folds; light wear to unclipped dustjacket. James Strachey was the younger brother of Lytton Strachey and one of the first people in England to train in and practise psychoanalysis. He translated Freud's work, and as a member of the Bloomsbury Group was instrumental in promoting it via publications with the Hogarth Press. The Letters of James and Alix Strachey is a record of the almost daily correspondence he exchanged with his wife Alix whilst she was being psychoanalysed as part of her training by Karl Abraham in Berlin.

The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary and Criticism, S. P. Rosenbaum (editor) Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 1996. Revised Edition. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 495pp. including notes, bibliographies of Group members, identifications, bibliography, index. Contents in fine, unmarked condition, binding remains tight. Covers have light shelf wear.

Bloomsbury a House of Lions, Edel, Leon. Published by Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1979. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 288pp. notes, chronology, bibliography and index; illustrated with black and white photos. Quarter navy over blue. Bit of fading to board edges, the number 2 in ink to free endpaper and otherwise volume is fine condition without markings etc. Unclipped jacket has edge wear, scuffing and inside toning. An examination of the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsburies": economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, critics Clive Bell and Desmond MacCarthy, and painters Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry.

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, Matthews, Chris. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2017. First Edition/First printing. Black boards, gilt spine titles, photographic endpapers, rough-cut fore-edge. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 396 pages including bibliography and index. Volume appears unread with the lightest of shelf wear to unclipped jacket. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Matthews pulls back the curtain on the public and private worlds of Robert Francis Kennedy. He shines a light on all the important moments of his life, from his early years and his start in politics to his crucial role as attorney general in his brother's administration and his tragic run for president. This definitive book brings Bobby Kennedy to life like never before and is destined to become a political classic.Chris Matthews is the host of MSNBC's Hardball. He is the author of Jack Kennedy—Elusive Hero; Tip and the Gipper—When Politics Worked; Kennedy and Nixon; Hardball; and now Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit.

The Bolter: The story of the wild, beautiful, fearless Idina Sackville, Osborne, Frances. Published by Knopf, New York, 2009. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 300pp Illustrated in black and white. Cream boards. In fine condition in fine, un-clipped jacket. Idina Sackville was cousin to the writer Vita Sackville-West. Idina Sackville had… "relentless affairs, wild sex parties, and brazen flaunting of convention [which} shocked high society and inspired countless writers and artists, from Nancy Mitford to Greta Garbo. But Idina's compelling charm masked the pain of betrayal and heartbreak. Now Frances Osborne explores the life of Idina, her enigmatic great-grandmother, using letters, diaries, and family legend, following her from Edwardian London to the hills of Kenya, where she reigned over the scandalous antics of the "Happy Valley Set."

Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family, Caine, Barbara. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xvii, 488pp.with illustrations. Black board with gilt titles. Moisture mark to lower part of rear dustjacket and board which does not affect contents; volume and jacket are otherwise in fine condition without markings, tears or folds; binding is tight.

Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from her Literary and Biographical Writings, Woolf, Virginia; Lyon, Mary (editor). Published by The Hogarth Press, London, 1977. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 221 pp. Orange boards with gilt spine titles. Dustjacket designed by Angelica Garnett, niece of Virginia Woolf and daughter of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Both volume and unclipped dustjacket are in fine, collectible condition. Virginia Woolf published two series of literary essays and critical reviews during her lifetime titled The Common Reader. Five additional volumes of essays were published posthumously. After the last appeared, in 1965, research uncovered well over a hundred more uncollected articles. From these Mary Lyon chose forty-eight that seemed, from both the reader's and the scholar's point of view, most important to preserve.

Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from her Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf, Lyon, Mary (editor). Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York. First American Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 221pp. Quarter black over lavender boards with gilt spine titles, lavender endpapers. Volume is in mint condition. Unclipped dustjacket has light shelf wear and is otherwise fine. Virginia Woolf published two series of literary essays and critical reviews during her lifetime titled The Common Reader. Five additional volumes of essays were published posthumously. After the last appeared, in 1965, research uncovered well over a hundred more uncollected articles. From these Mary Lyon chose forty-eight that seemed, from both the reader's and the scholar's point of view, most important to preserve.

Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds, Adamson, Joy. Published by Collins/Harvill, London, England, 1960. Seventh impression, August 1960. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 160pp. with photographic plates; illustrated cloth boards. Newspaper cuttings about Elsa and her cubs laid in as well as a lock of what appears to be lion's fur. Inscription dated 1960 to free endpaper, light pink marks to edge of one page. In very good condition in very good dustjacket.