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12 vols. Hardcover Very good condition in lightly worn dark red cloth
1784ALDR0270London, Printed for T. Lowndes, T. Caslon, T. Davies, W. Nicoll, S. Bladow, and R. Snagg 1784. 2 Bde. Gr.12°. Gest. Frontisp. (Sr G. Kneller Pin. M. Vder Gucht sculp.), 339 S. enth. 2 gest. Taf., 4 nn. Bll. (Verlagsanzeigen); 419 S., enth. 2 gest. Taf. (Fr. Hayman inv. et del. C. Grignion sculp.), mit Zierleisten. Marmorierte Lederbände d. Zeit, Rückenschildchen u. ?verzierung goldgeprägt, mit dreiseitiger goldgeprägter Stehkantenverzierung, bestoßen, Goldprägung verblasst, Schadstellen teilw. restauriert, Vorderdeckel gelockert, Vorsatz des ersten Bandes etwas schmutz-, des zweiten Bandes schwach stockfleckig. Seiten wenig vergilbt u. nur gering fleckig. Mit e. gestochenen Ex-Libris mit dem Wappen der Baronets v. Antrobus (Crawfurd Antrobus) auf beiden vorderen Innendeckeln. Graesse 2,250. Vgl. Aikin 3,102ff. - Werksammlung in siebenter Auflage des englischen Dichters William Congreve (1670-1729). Der vor allem als Dramatiker tätige Congreve gehörte zu den bekanntesten Autoren sogenannter ?Restaurationskomödien?, welche zur Zeit der ?Englischen Restauration? verfasst und aufgeführt wurden. Sein Opernlibretto ?Semele? wird, nach einer ersten Vertonung durch einen englischen Komponisten von Georg Friedrich Händel zum dramatischen Oratorium umgearbeitet, noch heute aufgeführt. Mit dem Porträt des Autors nach einem Gemälde des bekannten englischen Porträtisten Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) gestochen von Michael (Michiel) Van der Gucht (1660-1725), sowie vier Illustrationstafeln gestochen von Charles Grignion (1717-1810) nach Entwürfen von Francis Hayman (1708-1776). Vgl. dazu Thieme-B. 15,187f. u. 15,32f.
12943CONSTABLE. LONDON. 1914. THREE VOLUMES IN BROWN CLOTH. NO DUSTWRAPS. THIS EDITION CONSISTS OF 1040 COPIES OF WHICH 1000 ARE FOR SALE. PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE IN EACH VOLUME. SLIGHT FOXING. A VERY GOOD SET. CONSTABLE. LONDON. 1914 paperback
1604978848.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
186712280London: Bell & Daldy 1867. Hardcover. Good. A New Edition stated; unread copy pages uncut; bound by unknown binder in 3/4 green leather with marbled paper matching eps; spine handsomely restored; good leather and paper boards faded; frontis and title page are moderately foxed; untrimmed top edge is soiled; front hinge cracked; cracked at p496-7; pages from half-title page to Contents page foxed; bookseller sticker on rear pastedown; 712 pp. Often referred to as the "most lovable figure in English literature" Lamb was an English poet essayist and antiquarian who often worked with his sister Mary Lamb in poetry and essay work. <br/> <br/> Bell & Daldy hardcover
13271THE FANFROLICO PRESS LONDON. QUARTO NICELY BOUND COPY IN GREEN BOARDS. GILT TITLE ON SPINE AND GILT PICTURE OF MAN ON FRONT BOARDS WITH TWO LIONS THE ATHEIST`S TRAGEDIE SERRATED EDGES TO PAGES . PRINTED ON HAND-MADE PAPER AND LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. WITH DECORATIONS BY FREDERICK CARTER. THE FANFROLICO PRESS LONDON hardcover
181238150London Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson etc. 1812 hardcover. This is the fourth collected edition of Otway's 1652-1685 works in two volumes DNB. Frontispiece portrait of the author. -- Hardcover beautiful 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards raised spine bands with elaborate gilt decoration with top-edge-gilt and marbled endsheets heavy rag paper. Condition: near fine small scuff spots light corner wear showing boards--pages bright and binding tight. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie [a]nd Robinson [etc.] hardcover
190317935New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1903. Third Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt medallion on cover fore-edge deckle top edge gilt. 12 Volumes: Volume 1: Neighborly poems; Volume 2: Sketches in Prose; Volume 3: Afterwhiles; Volume 4: Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury; Volume 5: Ryhmes of Childhood; Volume 6: The Flying Islands of the Night; Volume 7: Green Fields and Running Brooks; Volume 8: Poems Here at Home; Volume 9: Armazindy; Volume 10: A Child-World; Volume 11: Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers and Hom-Folks; Volume 12: The Book of Joyous Children . Spines lightly sunned spine of volume 12 slightly singed else tight square unmarked and clean. NEAR FINE. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
19680006905London: Collins 1968. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine. 12mos full red leather <br/><br/>Edited with Preface Introductions to each play and Glossary by Alexander who was the Regius Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Collins hardcover
17576219London: London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes et al 1757. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 x 6 1/4 in. Vol 1 - xiii 308 pgs plus epilogue. Vol 2 - 406 pgs plus epilogue. Vol 3 - 382 pgs. Full contemporary calf with gilt rules 5 raised bands red calf gilt labels. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and ends of spine worn covers have some rubbed areas esp Vol 1. Minor cracking to joints bindings solid. Text very clean. Engraved bookplate of Carlos B. Lumsden with armorial device on all front pastedowns. Drama. RGR London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al hardcover
19474655Odhams Press Ltd and Basil Blackwell 1947. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/None. Spine binding and cover all fine. Spine slightly faded and mildly worn on top & bottom edges; tips of corners very slightly exposed. Gilt design and logo on front board. Contents clean and no inscription; one single page is loose. 1264 pages. Odhams Press Ltd and Basil Blackwell hardcover
NINA400OLIVER S. FELT. Acceptable. 0x0x0. This book needs some TLC! Spine partly missing and detached; front cover and first several pages hanging on by a thread; marbled endpapers; scratched and stained cover; writing on first page stamped name on second page; small stains throughout and residue from flower petals pressed between some pages -- BUT STILL it's a great old book for a collector to own OLIVER S. FELT unknown
133449214X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
201354513Universal Pictures Germany GmbH, 2013. Auflage: Standard Version Blu-ray Blu-ray
143p. Hardcover Very good condition, spine lightly faded
47 pages. Features: I Like Hollywood Children - so says Montreal artist Eva Prager, who has painted portraits of leading stars' youngsters; I became a spy for the man I loved - Ethel Gee, Harry Houghton and the Lonsdale Spy Ring; Lovely full-page colour ad for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles; The Royal Commission on Publications; Salute to the Salmon - mosaic depicting salmon swimming upstream is part of a fountain in Nanaimo, B.C. which was a belated centennial gift from the city's Italo-Canadian community - two nice colour photos with text - great Nanaimo history; Man O' War's farewell drama - $80,000 thrill for Windsor, Ontario; 10 Photos of Canadian MPs exercising; Terry the tricky dog - drives tractors, water skis, and more; Toronto taxis set up their own theatre; They got what they wanted - Gerry and Elspeth Burnett of Matane Air Services, Matane, Quebec; Muscle men rented out for photo shoots; Sunnyview Outdoor Science School on Toronto Island; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1936053835Washington Dc: Anderson House 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 133 Pp. Gray Cloth Lettered In Maroon. First Edition Stated. Book Near Fine Slight Fading To Covers. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50 Near Fine. Autographed By Maxwell Anderson And Dated 1937. Also Signed By Burgess Meredith With Greeting "Best Wishes". Also With An Inscription "Happy Birthday To Eileen From Mary" Dated 1937. Actor Burgess Meredith Made His Credited Film Debut As The Avenging Son Rio Romagna In "Winterset" A 1936 American Crime Film Directed By Alfred Santell; Meredith Had Starred In The Broadway 1935 Play Of The Same Name By Maxwell Anderson In A Loose Dramatization Of The Sacco And Vanzetti Trial And Execution In 1928. The Movie Script Retains Elements Of The Blank Verse Poetic Meter On Which Anderson Based His 1935 Winterset Broadway Theater Production. <br/> <br/> Anderson House paperback
188310057New York: De Witt Publishing Co 1883. Printed yellow wrappers. Gd spine paper worn/soiled/vertical fold line/old store stamp on front wrapper & title page. 14 pp 8 pp of adverts at rear. Diagram of scenry placement. 12mo. <br/><br/> De Witt Publishing Co unknown books
49p. Hardcover Good condition in worn d.j. fair A play set in 12th century Iceland
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, and with the signatures of 15 leading members of the company on rear endpaper.
Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
224p. Hardcover Good condition in chipped d.j., marginalia in ink fair
19160005542Oxford: University Press 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. engravings. Quarto 231pp. three quarter blue crushed morocco marbled endpapers; scuffed with top joint repaired coat of arms in gilt on top cover. <br/><br/>"The nucleus of the Welbeck collection of miniatures consists of portraits of members and connexions of the families of Cavendish and Holles which were inherited by the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles wife of Edward Harley second Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. To them were added miniatrues of the Harley family into which she married and those painted for and acquired by her husband he being the son of Robert Harley who was successively Speaker Secretary of State Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord High Treasurer in the reign of Queen Anne and who was created Earl of Oxford and Earl Morimer in 1711." 29 plates of portraits - most multiple images including British royalty Shakespeare Inigo Jones Abraham Cowley and European royalty. Laid-in is a sheet of stationery from Welbeck Abbey presenting this volume "With the Duke of Portland's Compliments" in holograph. University Press hardcover
pp. xxiv, 108. Illustrated with drawings by T. M. Cleland, printed by The Photogravure and Color Company, and hand-colored by Walter Fischer; designed by Mr. Cleland; set in monotype Janson on Curtis Ragston paper. Sm. 4to. 7 1/4 x 10 inches. Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in full maroon cloth, with black leather gold letter spine label, sides embossed in blind design by Mr. Cleland. Original slip case. Number 769 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the artist, M. T. Cleland. A Fine Copy. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W37
201554494Peccadillo Pictures, 2015. Auflage: UK Import DVD DVD