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1910377807London: ScribnerHutchinson & Co 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 370; 6 ads pp. 27 illustrations including a photogravure frontispiece. Endpapers by Willy Pogany. Blue cloth gilt. Bookplate of Ivor G. Guest and light bookstore stamp both on the front pastedown and modest nicking at the crown very good. ScribnerHutchinson & Co hardcover
191028069New York and London: Printed in Scotland for Thomas Y. Crowell ND circa 1910. First edition thus the original British sheets with the American issue title-page. Beautifully illustrated with 16 full color tipped-in plates with wonderful decorative borders and incidental illustrations all by Willy Pogany. 8vo publisher’s original deluxe gift binding of soft brown reverse calf the upper cover decorated with an Arabesque design and stylized letters in gilt enclosed in the original box. A fine fresh copy highly uncommon in this condition slight and very small split to the paper at the bottom of the front join of the pastedown to the free-fly. The box with light wear only. VERY HANDSOME ISSUE OF THE POGANY ILLUSTRATED RUBAIYAT. An exquisite volume in a beautiful publisher’s gift binding. Based on Fitzgerald’s translation Pogany has filled each page with decorative Islamic style borders and decorations accompanied by 16 full page tipped-in color plates. A fine example of Pogany’s work a true gem is such condition and in this unusual binding. Printed in Scotland for Thomas Y. Crowell unknown
1909003690BLondon: George G. Harrap & Co 1909. Fine. Willy Pogany. A fine copy bound in full leather Mounteney Binding. First Edition 1909. Printed in colors within ornamental boarders throughout with numerous illustrations by Willy Pogany 24 tipped in plates All plates are in excellent condition. Crimson morocco gilt spine in six compartments with five raised bands gilt-lettered in one turn-ins gilt decorative paper doubllures and end papers top edge gold gilt. STAMP-SIGNED BY MOUNTENEY. George G. Harrap & Co unknown
193031122George G. Harrap 1930. The first and fourth renderings in English verse by Edward Fitzgerald and illustrated by Willy Pogany. This being #306 of 750 copies of the English edition signed by Pogany on the limitation page and again in pencil on an inserted print. 12 tipped in colour plates including the frontispiece. Some sunning to the spine but generally a clean collectible copy. George G. Harrap unknown
193010623London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. There are two iterations of this edition 750 in the British issue and another 500 for the United States. Each signed twice by Pogany first on the limitation page and then in pencil on the frontispiece etching. The work includes twelve tipped-in color plates mounted on tipped in backings numerous small tipped in decorative pieces braced with printed head and tail pieces. This was Pogany's second book for Harrap an earlier version of the same title printed in 1909 having established his reputation as a book illustrator. Pogany is said to have creditted Harrap for giving him his "first big chance." Minor shelf/edge wear spine evenly sunned else tight bright and unmarred. Full teal leather binding four raised bands gilt lettering and decorative elements red ink decorative element lightly marbled endpages frontispiece tipped in plates on mounts teg. 4to. 173pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Signed twice by the artist. Numbered limited edition this being 387 of 750. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd hardcover
19303114011New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition. Very good copy in tan cloth with gold decorartions and gilded top edge. lacking the ust jacket. Corners mildly bumped. Cloth covers lightly fixed with traces of shelf-soiling. Vintage book shop sticker at base of rear paste-down. Features 12 Willy Pogany full-color illustrations. G ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Thomas Y. Crowell Company. hardcover
1942003761Philadelphia PA: David McKay 1942. 102pp/illus. First McKay edition. Burgundy cloth blocked in gilt on spine and upper board. 20 finely printed b&w plates by Willy Pogany. Clean. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. David McKay hardcover
19091259George G Harrap & Co 1909. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket. W/ 24 tipped-in color plates. Blue cover w/ gold lettering. No DJ. The Book: Very Good w/ some minute edge/corner wears minute fading on spine a hint of red color on back cover some pgs have minor foxing. Binding is tight. <br/> <br/> George G Harrap & Co hardcover
190939209London: George G Harrap & Co. Ltd 1909. Front gutter cracked foxing to closed pages. Some very light rubbing to boards. A beautiful 1909 edition. Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to. George G Harrap & Co. Ltd Hardcover
19091868913248George G Harrap & Co 1909. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Leather shows moderate scuffing and rubbing; Binding is cracked at second front blank page; Inscription on front free page; 26 tipped-in illustrations with tissue guards intact; This could have light cosmetic flaws but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. George G Harrap & Co hardcover
1909CON-MEREDITH-OMAR-1-13-23George G. Harrap & Co. London 1909.Minor wear to green covers fading to spine and around edges. Partially broken front hinge edge tear on one page; binding cracked at #48 poem see photo.Signed by author on limitation page#325 of 525 copiesGeorge G. Harrap & Co. LondonInscribed on half title page24 tipped in color illustrationsVincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd. lithographers LondonLight age discoloration to pagesTop edge giltGilt decoration on front cover and spine George G. Harrap & Co. hardcover
1909021758New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. 1909. This book is stunning!!! Beyond stunning. Brown cover with lighter brown calligraphic lettering. Teal and many shades of brown eastern floral design. Gold gilt lettering on spine. Very worn around the edges but still so so lovely. Endpapers have an intricate teal purple and pink border and inset design. Deckled edges. Extremely clean with numerous watercolour plates that are loosely attached along the top edge. Calligraphic writing throughout. What a special gift this would make: for yourself or for others. Any picture found beside this listing may NOT actually be a picture of this book but a stock photo used by the listing site. 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at a time. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. Hardcover
1920IYC11837London: George G. Harrap & Co ca 1920. hardback. Fine full leatherbound boards with gold & turquoise stamped decorations and titling on cover and spine. Printed on uncut papers in turquoise and black with 16 full colour illustrations. Protected by supplied box. 8vo 230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"". Beautiful edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald 31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883. Omar Khayym 18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131 was a Persian mathematician astronomer philosopher and poet. Illustrated by Willy Pogany 1882-1955 prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. George G. Harrap & Co hardcover
1942345310New York : Published for the Classics Club by W.J. Black 1942. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 178 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; Fitzgerald's five versions collated with the originals edited with an introduction and glossary by Gordon S. Haight. Subjects; Persian poetry Translations into English. New York : Published for the Classics Club by W.J. Black hardcover
192083In the 1920s after the end of the civil war there was an upsurge in economic and cultural life. Cultural ties with Europe and America led to the penetration of modern films songs pop music into Soviet Russia. One example is music in style blues published in a attractive cover by an unknown artist. A small circulation active use has led to the fact that such music editions rarely get on sale. Triton
1934425772Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto. Illustrated with gravure plates designed by Willy Pogany. Publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver on the spine and front cover with a gravure plate mounted on the front board. Small inscription in ink dated 1934 on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy in very good publisher’s plastic sleeve housed in the original publisher’s cardbox box with two printed paper labels. Both the box top and bottom are splitting at the corners and sides the bottom of the box is lacking one side piece; else a handsome near fine copy of this classic illustrated edition. David McKay Company hardcover
1934512205Philadelphia: David McKay Co 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 135pp. plus illustrations. Translated from the Sanskrit by Sir Edward Arnold. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Recipient's attractive contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. cloth is lightly rubbed lightly bumped at tips of two corners else a very good copy. Inscribed by Pogany on the half-title: "To Julietta with best compliments Willy Pogany 1935. David McKay Co hardcover
197288005San Francisco: The Sunday Paper Inc 1972. First Edition. Tabloid 58cm; original color-pictorial newsprint wrappers; 8pp; illus. together with the 16pp supplement section printed in black & white laid in. Horizontal fold at center as issued very faint vertical bend with a small "For Machine Sale Only" sticker mounted to upper front wrapper; a bright Near Fine issue with a Near Fine supplement.<br /> <br /> Well-preserved issue of John Bryan's ambitious San Francisco weekly underground paper which appeared for only seven issues in early 1972. Each issue included a 2-page full-color section of comics and save for the final two issues which were abbreviated and most with an insert containing editorial contributions and advertisements. The editorial board included such underground all-stars as John Wilcock Chester Anderson and Diane DiPrima; comic contributions by Willy Murphy Gary Hallgren Justin Green and Bill Griffith whose earliest "Zippy" strips appear here. This issue contains contributions by Bill Griffith Willy Murphy Gary Hallgren Robin Morgan and others. 88005. The Sunday Paper, Inc unknown
197288003San Francisco: The Sunday Paper Inc 1972. First Edition. Tabloid 58cm; original color-pictorial newsprint wrappers; 8pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center as issued else a bright very Near Fine copy.<br /> <br /> Early issue of John Bryan's ambitious San Francisco weekly underground paper which appeared for only seven issues in early 1972. Each issue included a 2-page full-color section of comics and save for the final two issues which were abbreviated and most with an insert containing editorial contributions and advertisements. The editorial board included such underground all-stars as John Wilcock Chester Anderson and Diane DiPrima; comic contributions by Willy Murphy Gary Hallgren Justin Green and Bill Griffith whose earliest "Zippy" strips appear here. This issue features comics by Trina Robbins Willy Murphy and others with a black & white psychedelic centerfold spread and a portion dedicated the late Kenneth Patchen with a poem in his memory by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The Sunday Paper, Inc unknown
197288006San Francisco: The Sunday Paper Inc 1972. First Edition. Tabloid 58cm; original color-pictorial newsprint wrappers; 8pp; illus. together with the 16pp supplement section printed in black & white laid in. Horizontal fold at center as issued some very subtle toning to extremities else a bright Near Fine copy. Supplement has some foxing at folds and some old faint dampstaining at upper and lower edge; Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> Final issue of John Bryan's ambitious San Francisco weekly underground paper which appeared for only seven issues in early 1972. Each issue included a 2-page full-color section of comics and save for the final two issues which were abbreviated and most with an insert containing editorial contributions and advertisements. The editorial board included such underground all-stars as John Wilcock Chester Anderson and Diane DiPrima; comic contributions by Willy Murphy Gary Hallgren Justin Green and Bill Griffith whose earliest "Zippy" strips appear here. 88006. The Sunday Paper, Inc unknown
19135692London: Harrap 1913. First thus. Near Fine. Deluxe limited edition this copy number 34 of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Publisher's vellum stamped in gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Measuring 280 x 190mm and profusely illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Boards slightly bowed with minor toning. Internally clean. A Near Fine copy without the scarce publisher's slipcase.<br /> <br /> Inspired by Wagner's haunting opera The Tale of Lohengrin follows the titular knight son of Percival on his mission to rescue a damsel in distress. Here brought to life with Pogany's stirring visuals which highlight the romance and darkness inherent to chivalric epics. Near Fine. Harrap unknown
1913184178London: G. G. Harrap & Co. 1913. First trade edition in the publisher's deluxe leather binding. In this beautifully decorated production Pogany finds "a congenial theme for his exceptional powers in the high imaginings the terror and mysticism the symbolism and supernatural vision of one of Wagner's immortal romances. The pages are beautified with decorative drawings that are fittingly in tune with the changing moods of the text" Adcock. Large octavo. With 8 colour mounted plates illustrated and decorated throughout the text in various colours. Printed on pale grey paper. Original brown calf smooth spine decoratively lettered and stamped in gilt front cover with title and pictorial block in blind colour-illustrated endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket of Margareta Webber Melbourne. Spine sunned gilt bright front inner hinge split short split to rear inner hinge remaining sound. A very good copy. A. St John Adcock "The Colour of Christmas" The Bookman Dec. 1913 p. 158 hardcover
19141262623London: G. G. Harrap & Co 1914. large 8vo. unpaginated; VG; bound in brown leather blind stamped lettering on spine and front board gilt decoration on spine and front board; corners bumped; rebound; beautifully illustrated throughout with numerous illustrations and elaborate ornamentation; 8 mounted color plates; top edge of text block gilt others uncut; DC consignment; shelved case 0. 1262623. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. G. G. Harrap & Co unknown
1913016382London: The Thespian Publishing Co 1913. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. First edition. Stapled binding. 30 × 23cm 32pp. This is the first issue of the short-lived theatrical magazine The Thespian published in October 1913. A magazine for the theatre stage and drama with contemporary adverts play reviews theatrical events etc. Of chief interest among the contents are what looks like a satirical / spoof interview with Willy Clarkson the theatrical costumier wig-maker and colourful character by "Our Imaginative Interviewer" but there is also an advert for Clarkson's Wardour Street shop so probably with his blessing or authored by him. Clarkson was in and out of the papers in the late Victorian and Edwardian age he was even suspected of either being or kitting out Jack the Ripper due to his skill at disguising people!; the first part of Shakespearean actor Allan Wilkie's "An Actor in the Orient" his Shakespeare company had toured Ceylon India Japan etc in 1911-1913; articles on Gilbert and Sullivan Opera; The Worcester Shakespeare Festival; Hints on Make-Up; and with two loose as intended portraits of Mr W Harold Squire and Miss Kate Harris. Condition: This copy is in very good condition for age. There is some creasing and scuffing to the cover's edges and spine and some tanning to the pages but otherwise this remains complete and in good order. <br/> <br/> The Thespian Publishing Co paperback
195816107London: Frederick Muller. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Ink number and bookseller's small rubber stamp on front endpaper. Small tears and chips at ends of dustjacket spine and at corners of dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Text in English translated from the French by Edward Fitzgerald. 239 pages plates. Page dimensions: 196 x 128mm. Military history World War Two. "Among the greatest deeds of the war were unquestionably the exploits of the underwater men: the frogmen the underwater demolition tams the so-called human torpedoes and the crews of the midget submarines." Contents: "Sea-swine"; The Italian "Gamma" Men; The "Human Torpedo Mk. I"; The Midget Submarines; Frogmen and Underwater Demolition Teams; The Diver-Frogmen; The German Kampfschwimmer; The "Happy Dragons"; The Summing-Up. . Frederick Muller hardcover