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1992180787Pakistan: Royal Book Company 1992. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. some light smudging to the textblock edges; contents clean and binding sound; dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Royal Book Company unknown books
193818041741Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press 1938. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Angelo Valenti. One of 1450 copies duodecimo size 70 pp. This collection of fables contains ten stories from the Chinese fairy tale tradition with myths and morals drawn from ancient legends. This volume is decorated and illustrated by Italian printmaker and illustrator Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 who created stunning linocuts of the American Southwest as well as book illustrations for the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Angelo's illustrations accompany the gentle humour of the stories and showcase his delicate and detailed style of drawing.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full blue paper with concentric black and cream rectangles surrounding a small illustration on both boards black lettering on the spine top edge stained blue fore- and bottom edges uncut a few signatures throughout unopened title page with a two-colour illustration by Valenti Angelo blue decorative running borders throughout eleven two-colour illustrations by Angelo throughout; Electra type Coronet paper duodecimo size 7.5" by 5.75" pagination: 1-6 7-69 1 colophon one of 1450 copies unnumbered. In a slipcase covered with glossy black paper.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some overall dustiness to the boards and sunning to the spine light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and some off-setting to the page opposite the title page else fine. The slipcase is very good strong and sturdy clean overall; some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the corners of the opening and the boards at the top and bottom of the opening are beginning to split. Overall a lovely copy illustrated by Valenti Angelo. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Valenti Angelo Bibliography p. 58.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
200441938London: Orion 2004. First edition first prnt. Illustrated by Geoffrey Taylor. Signed by Paver on the title page. Includes an illustrated booklet with the same title containing the first four chapters of the novel and author's note distributed for promotional purposes by Ottaker's. 5.5 x 8.5 inches glossy pictoral stapled wraps. 30pp. The booklet is an unread copy in Fine condition. The book is an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. First volume in Paver's "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" series. Paver's first book. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Excerpt. Orion Hardcover books
1918L0253i-ii i-x-175printer's imprint with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo 7 1/4" x 4 7/89" bound original publisher tan cloth with brown lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original jacket. BAL: 7168 First edition.<br /><br />Joel Chandler Harris December 9 1845 – July 3 1908 was an American journalist fiction writer and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton Georgia where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady 1880–1889 stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris fiction writer and folklorist he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some staining to back cover previous owner's neat ink gift inscription to front end paper. Jacket edges and spine ends chipped else a very good copy in like jacket. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
