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197821012601San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Wilson Joyce Lancaster. Review copy edition of 500 copies quarto size 114 pp. signed by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and Adrian Wilson. The Press in Tuscany Alley was one of San Francisco's small private press jewels. Adrian Wilson 1924-1988 was both a book designer and a scholar authoring "The Design of Books" which is regarded as a classic text on book design. As the New York Times stated in his obituary "Mr. Wilson designed and printed scores of books and became a mentor to younger men and women eager to learn the printer's craft. His many volumes while little-known to the general public are famous among print connoisseurs and many are collector's items." <br/><br/>When Adrian Wilson donated old proofs of "A Child's Garden of Verses" for a work not as of that date printed to the Silverado Museum devoted to the works of Robert Louis Stevenson the founder and curator urged him to publish a limited edition of the verses. They were the ones who suggested that he contact the Beinecke Library Yale University which had in their archives nine poems of Stevenson's that had "been eliminated from the first and all later editions"; the Beinecke provided copies of the verses and permission to print them and hence this book was born.<br/><br/>With colour illustrations by Adrian's wife Joyce Lancaster Wilson the Wilsons produced a heartbreakingly lovely book a perfect marriage of Stevenson's wonderful poems for children with Joyce Wilson's charming pictures designed by the master Adrian Wilson. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter green linen with a paper spine label decorative green paper covered boards printed at The Press green endpapers fore- and bottom edges uncut thirty-six decorative initials and ten illustrations in colour by Joyce Lancaster Wilson; types Centaur and Arrighi Arches Laid Text paper quarto size 10 1/8" x 6.5" pagination: 1-10 11-114 1 colophon limited edition this copy stated as a "Review Copy" on the colophon total edition size 500 copies only 300 of which were bound signed by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and Adrian Wilson on the colophon. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine the boards clean and unmarked straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. <br/><br/>___CITATION: "The Work and Play of Adrian Wilson" no. 182. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply 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. The Press in Tuscany Alley hardcover books
1892229294London Longmans Green & Co. 1892. 1892. First edition deluxe issue. 4to. 1 page introduction by Stevenson. Illustrations by Stevenson. Music by C. Villiers Stanford. Original red cloth stamped in gilt and black with a scene of four children marching down the street of a village a.e.g.; yellow coated endpapers. Very good fresh copy. 33 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Small bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. McKay 217 this is the deluxe issue; there were also copies issued in green wrappers. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. hardcover books
1929106314<p>4to cloth with illustrated pastedown on front cover gilt title illustrated 96 pp. Some edgewear and fading inscription on front endpapers normal aging; otherwise very good. This is a collection of numerous verses and poems by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 including The Gardener The Unseen Playmate Foreign Children and Windy Nights. Illustrations for this work were done by Ruth Mary Hallock.</p> Rand McNally & Company, books
190220151EChicago: Rand McNally 1902. 93 pages 6 1/8†x 7 3/4â€. Beautifully illustrated with color and black & white Art Nouveau style images. Near fine copy with a hint of use in the rare lightly used dust jacket with some tape repairs and reinforcements interior and exterior a bit of dust soiling and some small chips and tears. Stevenson’s classic collection of children’s poems. Rand McNally unknown books
1917288992New York.: Scribners. 1917. Hardcover black cloth gilt spine title top edge gilt color illustration on cover decorative endpapers. Light foxing to title page otherwise very good no dust jacket. 8vo. From the library of noted American illustrator John La Gatta with his bookplate. weight: 2.0 lb. 12 full-page color illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Scribners. hardcover books
104791London: Longmans Green and Co. 1885. Small 8vo x 101 pp. Blue-colored cloth over beveled boards backstrip lettered in gilt gilt publisher’s stamp on top cover. Top edge gilt. Trivial rubbing at extremities. Endpapers show some paste action. Internally fine. Housed in an Atmore Beach folding box and quarter-morocco slipcase. Very good. § First edition. 1000 copies printed in 1885 at five shillings each. Stevenson began work on this influential book of children’s verse after taking up Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children and proclaiming “these are rather nice rhymes and I don’t think they will be difficult to do.†Grolier Children’s 100 #49. Prideaux 14 Hayward 297 Osborne II: 662. Longmans hardcover books
1885123972London: Longmans Green and Co 1885. First edition first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo original cloth gilt titles to the spine top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail gilt "of" on spine in smaller type without advertisements. In near fine condition owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood from sailing boats down a river to waiting for the lamplighter to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
188599773London: Longmans Green and Co 1885. First edition first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo original cloth gilt titles to the spine top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail gilt "of" on spine in smaller type without advertisements. In near fine condition bookplate to the pastedown and name. Housed in a contemporary custom half morocco and cloth clamshell and chemise. An exceptional example. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood from sailing boats down a river to waiting for the lamplighter to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
192820873San Francisco: John Henry Nash 1928. Limited edition. Stiff card. Fine. One large sheet folded to make four pages folio. Title printed on obverse of page one the text of the Sermon on the inner two-page spread and the final page blank. Beautifully printed letterpress in a Gothic font. Each of the four sections of Stevenson's work is introduced by an illuminated capital with hand-colored foliage. The title runs across the top of both pages in gilt with more flowers lightly colored in pink blue and green. A fine copy. Housed in the publisher's stiff boards printed title pasted onto the upper board. The spine of the portfolio is nearly perished else it is is in very good condition. The copy of William Andrews Clark Jr. with his bookplate on the front pastedown. And with the bookplate of typographer H. L. Doolittle of Pasadena. Scarce Nash item. The limitation is unknown as it was not found in the Nash Bibliography. John Henry Nash unknown books
1900D16990New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Separate Edition. Another of the Merrymount Press editions of Stevenson. Nice copy. Original cloth. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1900128953New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. Small octavo cloth-backed boards. First separate edition. An essay published earlier in ACROSS THE PLAINS 1892. Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Smith 63. Beinecke 552. Cutler p. 143. Private owner's bookplate affixed upside down on front paste-down. Binding rubbed at spine ends and corner tips a very good copy. #128953 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
190012813New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. First separate edition printed at the Merrymount Press; 12mo pp. 4 23 3; vignette title-p.; very good in original green cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards light wear to extremities. Smith 63; Beinecke 552. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
190064486New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good. 1900. Hardcover. 23 pages untrimmed green cloth with blue paper covered boards title printed in navy on the front cover. The front free endpage is missing and the covers are scuffed with some soiling. Spine ends and corners are rubbed. Otherwise contents are bright and nice. A Good copy. . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1892138781892. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company 1892. 16 pp ads dated May 1892. Original dark green cloth. First Edition English -- published on the same day as the American of this account of "eight years of trouble" between the natives and the foreigners on the island of Upolu Samoa where Stevenson then lived -- due to his worldwide search for air suitable for his lungs. The Tauchnitz edition of this work was destroyed by order of the German government due to the "unfavorable" descriptions of German activities in the area. This is a fine copy. Beinecke Yale 566; Princeton 51. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1892WRCLIT58339London: Cassell & Company 1892. Early 20th century polished calf spine gilt extra gilt labels t.e.g. original cloth spine bound in the rear. First edition. Bookplate bound without the terminal adverts light rubbing to extremities otherwise a very good copy. BEINECKE 566. PRIDEAUX 35. Cassell & Company hardcover books
189232743London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Co 1892. First edition 12mo pp. viii 322 2 16 ads; original green cloth spine gilt-lettered; previous owner's inscription dated August 20 1892 but overall a very good copy. Beinecke 566. <br/><br/> Cassell & Co hardcover books
189229656London Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Co 1892. First edition 12mo pp. viii 322 2 16 ads; original green cloth spine gilt-lettered; previous owner's inscription dated August 20 1892 but overall a very good copy. Beinecke 566. <br/><br/> Cassell & Co hardcover books
18928245New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1892. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. viii322pp. Plus 12pp. publisher's catalog. Orig. decorative green cloth stamped in black & gilt. Gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1893. Bookplate on front pastedown. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
189240977London: Cassell & Company 1892. First edition. Frontispiece map. viii 392 2 pp. 8 leaves of publisher's ads dated as per the Beinecke copy. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Minor rubbing to edges corners a bit bumped but very good overall. First edition. Frontispiece map. viii 392 2 pp. 8 leaves of publisher's ads dated as per the Beinecke copy. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 566 Cassell & Company unknown books
1892239359London: Cassell & Company 1892. First edition. Frontispiece map. viii 392 2 pp. 8 leaves of publisher's ads dated as per the Beinecke copy. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Fine in fine half green morocco and green cloth slipcase. First edition. Frontispiece map. viii 392 2 pp. 8 leaves of publisher's ads dated as per the Beinecke copy. 1 vols. 8vo. Beinecke 566 Cassell & Company unknown books
45068Traduit de l'anglais avec autorisation par Lucien Lemaire. Préface de A. Angellier. Paris : Editions Emile Lechevallier, 1900. Un volume broché (16,5x25 cm), 313 pages. Avec un frontispice par Walter Crane et 6 reproductions de photographies hors texte. 2 tampons de bibliothèque en page de titre et un en dernière page de garde ("Fonds Gaëtan Sanvoisin" - "sorti des inventaires") sinon bon état. Edition originale de traduction sur papier grand in-8 raisin.
190229658East Aurora: Roycrofters 1902. 8vo pp. 6 44 2; frontis portrait title within a decorative border original limp reverse calf lettered in gilt on upper cover t.e.g. yapp edges pink moire pastedowns; near fine. <br/><br/> Roycrofters unknown books
192620549San Francisco: The Windsor Press 1926. Limited edition 1 of 750 copies on Rye Mill hand made paper 12mo pp. vii 1 27 1; title-page wood engraving by Julian A. Links; original tan cloth-backed boards; a bit shaken else fine. Not in Beinecke. <br/><br/> The Windsor Press hardcover books
190268686East Aurora New York: Roy Crofter's. Very Good. 1902. Softcover. 44 pages untrimmed. Limp suede wrappers with gilt printing. The covers show some light soiling. The contents are bright complete and nice. Very Good. . Roy Crofter's paperback books
1902014173East Aurora New York: Roycrofters 1902. Marbled boards and endpapers. Small armorial book-plate front pastedown. Hand-colored border on title-page and chapter heads. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue-guard. This special edition was printed on Japan Vellum and illuminated by hand. This is copy #23/100. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER ELBERT HUBBARD AND THE COLORIST JOSEPHINE DWYER with the printing mark of Roycrofters hand-drawn. 44pp. A clean and crisp copy of this fine Roycrofter printing. . Signed by Publisher. Limited Roycrofter Edition. 3/4 Mottled Black Levant. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo. Roycrofters Hardcover books
