James B Black (156 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pamphlet of 52 pages, folded and stapled binding, stiff paper wraps, Very Good condition; Second Printing stated, an account of an address given at the Society chapter in New York.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of one short novel, two novelets and six short stories. Featured are short novel -The Fat Man by Brett Halliday. The two novelets are: Majorcan Assignment by Bill Pronzini, The Cinder Man by Jeffrey M. Wallmann. The short stories are: My Brother by Trevor Black, Medea by William T. Silent, The Sisters by Miriam Allen De Ford, Listen to the Dial Tone by James Holding, In The Bag by Herbert Harris, Fall Guy by Charles B. Victor. Light edgewear. Slight reading creases to the front cover near spine. In very good condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Seventh Printing. Book And Jacket In Very Good Condition, Minimal Shelf Wear And Soiling, No Markings, Nice Square Binding. By Black and White Photographs (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Second Printing. ivory stiff paper covers, staple binding, light soiling on spine, all else clean, illustrated with b&w art, 2 tipped in photos, 52 pages, US history; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. stapled wraps; 52 pages; 2nd printing; lite toning of covers. B&w photos tipped in (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. stapled wraps 52 clean, unmarked pages; 2nd printing. Frontis (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. stapled wraps; 52 pages; 2nd printing. B&w Illus (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. illustrated edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pamphlet with a stapled spine. Good quality cream colored paper. Black and white prints. Picture of San Francisco tipped in on frontispiece. A clean and well preserved copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, edges exposed, a few internal holes to cloth spine, pages toned, binding a bit shaken but holding, publisher's advertising insert entitled Best Books for Boys and Girls laid in. 1899 Hard Cover. Color frontispiece, color pictorial boards, engraved illustrations throughout. An illustrated collection of stories and poems for young readers by various authors, including: The Mysterious Choir Boy; Fluffy's Easter Joke; Phillip de Valogne; The Sea-Serpent; The American Coracle; The Ah-Goo Tongue; Arithmetic Among the Greeks; How the News Came; The Squeaking Fern; A Boy's Ideal; The Diver; An Iconoclast; The Doll-Lady; Chin Chin, Huang Ta-Ta!; Kevin the Fisher; Australian Tree-Climbing; An Old Stager; Boston's Girl-Sculptor; An Evening at Home; How Easter Came to the Little Nuremberg Maids; Egg-Rolling at the White House (A Bit of Washington Folk-Lore); A Primitive Form of Vise; Upper Nine (A Sleeping-Car Story); High Tea at Low Tide; A Pet Seal; How Jack Sailed with Leif Ericsson; The Pessimist; Almost a Deserter; Frog Music; A Masquerade; On the Shores of the Dead Sea; A Boy Editor and How He Runs the Sunny Hour; A Woodland Custom; The Child's Treasure; Raglan's Substitute; The Elf's Thanksgiving; The Legend of the Rhode Island Greening; Dandelion's Time; The Babies of the Zoo; The Narration of Irish Will of Galway; Somebody.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 164 pages. Illustrated. Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, George du Maurier, JHB Peel, A & C Black books, James Hadley Chase, Bernard Darwin's golf books, Cyril Connolly.

Soft cover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Binghamton NY: Gould Publications. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1995. . Soft cover. 8vo., 280pp., Addendum pages between pg 194 and 195 loose; light shelf wear; author inscription on title page; pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. New York, NY: The Viking Press. Good/Good. 1968. . Hardcover w/DJ. "With contributions by Edward H. H. Archibald, Jules van Beylen, Olle Cederlof, G. B. Rubin de Cervin, P. Devambez, Henning Henningsen, Marcel B. Keezer, Svein Molaug, C. Nooteboom, Gert Schlechtriem, Hans Soop, Gerhard Timmermann, Arthur L. Tucker, E. Tucker, Jaques Vandier, Alfred E. Weightman, and Helen L. Winslow. General Editor Hans Jurgen Hansen. Translated by James and Inge Moore" . 4to., 296pp., Dust jacket shelf wear to edges and corners, creasing and sunning and chipping to edges and corners, very few small tears to edges, light soiling, otherwise good; cover shelf wear to edges and corners, corners and spine tips bumped, otherwise good; edges of text block stained and foxed, foxing and staining to text pages typically around lead margin, otherwise pages unmarked. . Black & White/Color Plates & B&W Illus. (illustrator).…

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/G. 2nd Edition. Pittsburgh, PA: A. M. Buyers Company. VG/G. (1939). 2nd Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 7th Printing, 1950 . 8vo., 97 pp., toning . Black & White illustrations (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: G/Fair. 2nd Edition. Pittsburgh, PA: A. M. Buyers Company. G/Fair. (1939). 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 97 pp., DJ yellowing and stained, page edges foxing . Black & White illustrations (illustrator).

Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine (in mylar). 6th Printing. Vol. XII (12) ONLY. Textblock is very clean and tight. All page edges are crisp and sound. Paper boards minimally worn. Unclipped dust jacket, surface scuffed. 746p., including index. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Hardcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Slight wear at corners otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9.5" 196 pages, published 1995. The sailor's rum ration, known to the service as 'Nelson's blood', was an integral part of the life and image of the Royal Navy. When the Admiralty decided to abolish naval rum in 1970, so ended a tradition that stretched back over 300 years. In this fascinating book, Captain Pack sets the story of the tot against a background of Britain's maritime history throughout that period - wars, bloody battles, keeping the peace and long voyages of discovery - a period that witnessed the rise of Empire and the transition to Commonwealth. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**. Black & White (illustrator).…

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. G/G. 1947. Cloth w/DJ. The Terry Lectures. With 10 illustrations. . 8vo., 146 pp., Watermarks on edges of cover, margins and dj; jacket frayed and torn as well . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 8th Printing. A very nice unread copy. 8.5 X 11" 80 pages, published 1974. This book takes you step-by-step through the stages of upholstering a piece of furniture. It covers : Frame building, repair, and restyling; Springs and their supports; Edge softening and shaping; Stuffings and muslin covers, Channeling and tufting, Final covers, Cushions, pillows, and bolsters, Caning and rushing with special features including how to make slip covers, repairing 1970s style lawn and patio furniture etc. Illustrated throughout by black/white photographs and drawings. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**. Black & White Photographs & Drawings (illustrator).…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 24 pp. Wraps lightly tanning, tiny chips on edges. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Offered is "Bookishly Yours" by J. B. (James Black) Findlay published posthumously in 1987 by Magicana for Collectors out of York, Pennsylvania. A stapled booklet with brown covers and gold embossed lettering to the front cover, measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 28 glossy inside pages. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies, this is copy #265 as hand-numbered in blue pen. Containing 13 splendid photographs of Mr. Findlay's magnificent library of magicana, each with his brief description (he appears in three photos). With a Foreword by George Daily and an Introduction ("The Findlay Collection: A Personal Memento") by F. William Kuethe, Jr., the latter which reads in short part, "This booklet is a reproduction of a souvenir that Jimmy created for one of his dear friends, Sam Dreilinger" and "The decision [by his family] to sell his collection could not have been one that was made lightly, yet the end result was commensurate with Jimmy's collecting philosophy. Rather than sell the collection to an individual, who could then put his imprint on Jimmy's labors, or donate it to an institution, where it would repose in an archival setting, occasionally referred to for research purposes but more often mouldering in an uncaring obscurity, the Findlay family decision freed the books to bring joy to their new owners, just as Jimmy had reveled in the acquisition when he got them" (the collection required four separate auctions to dispose of its contents). In As New condition.…

StapleBound. Condition: Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Vienna, VA: American Fern Society. Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 2001. . StapleBound. Quarterly Journal of the American Fern Society; "Special Issue, The Evolution and Diversification of the Lycopods. Proceedings of a Symposium Held August 1999â¦" . Sm 4to., pages 73-177, cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, corners lightly bumped, small scuffed soil marks to top edges, spine lightly faded, few light fox spots (?) to spine, otherwise very good; edges of text block very lightly foxed, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. This is a First Edition. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! "The second volume in this series describing the appearance, life and habits of the birds of prey and waterfowl, with many maps and charts and over eighty illustrations by 'Fish-Hawk'. This book has got some water stain markings throughout and on front outer cover.! Pelican book number A176 Size: Mass Market Paperback. Numerous Black & White Drawings & Pictures By Fish-hawk,W.B.Alexander and Author. (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed. …

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.