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19127834New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1912. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1912 1st edition in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG in its lavishly gilt-decorated front panel and spine. Light foxing to the endapers tender but still perfectly sturdy inner hinges. In a bright VG dustjacket with light chipping to the spine ends and the tips and light wear along the flap folds. Still though a very presentable copy. Thick 12mo 646 pgs. nicely illustrated in color and black-and-white by M.V. Wheelhouse. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover books
200078810NY:: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0198564783 . Illustrated. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press, hardcover books
19899025894Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books 1989. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Princess Grace Irish Library 4. <br/><br/> Barnes & Noble Books hardcover books
196382809London: Hodder and Stoughton 1963. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. First Cija novel part of the popular Atlan series. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. Corner gently bumped a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with slight bumps and rubbing to corner tips. #82809 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
197193896London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1971. Hardcover. B01K3JY0P8 . Edited with an introduction by Winifred Gerin. First edition. About fine in like slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
19292312463London: John Murray 1929. 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1929 sixth printing of Hayworth Edition. Smudges on front board bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 659 pp. Volume seven of the uniformly bound series The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters comprising a complete biography of Charlotte in one volume. Green cloth gilt titles. Introduction and notes by Clement K. Shorter. Includes photographic plates. "Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte 1857 is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bronte and having been invited to write the official life determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters interviews and observation establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. John Murray hardcover books
1905185241Edinburgh: John Grant 1905. Hardcover. VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt bw frontispiece with protective tissue guard; xvi 526 pp; 13 unnumbered leaves of plates; bw illustrations. Introduction and notes by Temple Scott and B.W. Willett. John Grant hardcover books
1967S2375London & New York:: Academic Press 1967. 1967. 235 x 162 mm. 8vo. xiv 509 pp. Numerous tables and figs. indexes. Orange cloth gilt spine. Ex library spine label labels removed from front paste-down rubber stamp. Very good. Academic Press, 1967. hardcover books
196887954New York: Paperback Library 1968. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Paperback Library 64-019. The third Cija book. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy. #87954 Paperback Library unknown books
19662283London: Hodder and Stoughton 1966. Octavo boards. First edition. The third Cija novel. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #2283 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1966104455London: Hodder and Stoughton 1966. Octavo boards. First edition. The third Cija novel. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #104455 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
195765557London: Hutchinson 1957. Octavo boards. First edition. The author's first book. A fantasy set in a mysterious fourth-dimensional fairyland where the inhabitants are engaged in a fierce ideological war. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 675. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 265-66. Reginald 05835. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #65557 Hutchinson unknown books
199914103Cambridge MA: Harvard University Art Museums 1999. Softcover. VG corner bumped. Color wraps. 179 pp. 207 bw plates. This volume is devoted to the greatest sculptor and architect of the Roman Baroque Gian Lorenzo Bernini on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth in 1998. Studies in detail clay sculptures acquired by Edward Forbes that are clearly associated with projects by Bernini. Concentrates heavily on technical analysis of the physical character of art objects. Contents as follows: An economy of seventeenth-century clay sculptors' models / Ivan Gaskell -- Of clay and the initial stages of sculpture / Colette Czapski Hemingway -- Technical studies: rationale and techniques / Henry Lie -- Clay analysis / Eugene F. Farrell Henry Lie and Suzanne M.M. Young -- The clay modeling techniques of Gian Lorenzo Bernini / Anthony B. Sigel -- Technical observations and petrographic analysis / Anthony B. Sigel and Eugene F. Farrell -- Fingerprints / Nancy Lloyd -- Decorative coatings on the St. Longinus and St. Ambrose modelli / Kendra Roth -- The Fogg Silence: a Bozzetto by Melchiorre Cafà / Jennifer Montagu -- Bernini's St. Ambrose for the Cathedra Petri: a model and the metamorphosis of a figure / Jeannine O'Grady -- Bernini drawings and Bozzetti for the Ponte Sant'Angelo: a new look / Mark S. Weil -- Borchini Félibien and five angels for the altar of the Blessed Sacrament / Colette Czapski Hemingway -- Bronze casts after Bozzetti and Modelli by Bernini / Francesca G. Bewer -- Conclusion / Henry Lie. Harvard University Art Museums unknown books
1990164118London: Sotheby's/Philip Wilson Publishers 1990. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black boards with gilt design in the center and gilt lettering on spine. Black dust jacket with color illustration and white lettering. 552 pp. Color and BW illustrations. A catalogue of 128 paintings produced during this period in which the art of portraiture was transformed religious imagery dynamized and new genres such as flower painting were established. The art of Holland's Golden Age is perennially popular with collectors and gallery visitors alike and this book provides a new insight into this unique private collection. Sotheby's/Philip Wilson Publishers hardcover books
199042702Cambridgeshire U.K.: Roger Gaskell 1990. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy. Unpaged. Sq. 8vo. 88 items described. Mainly Physics Mathematics Astronomy Medicine and related well described. Roger Gaskell unknown books
1907112429London: Smith 1907. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-357 358 359-360: publisher's ads. original gray cloth front and spine panels stamped in reddish brown fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. Thirteen short stories set in the western part of Yorkshire the dialogue written in dialect style. A clean tight very good copy. #112429 Smith unknown books
197870503NY: Scribner’s 1978. First US edition. 231 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Michael Ashley with his preface and introduction. Seven stories. NY: Scribner’s unknown books
1978139280New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. Octavo boards. First edition U.S. issue. Collects six tales and a poem "The Scholar's Story" by William Gaskell a Breton ballad translated from the French of the Vicomte de la Villemarque selected and introduced by Michael Ashley. "Gaskell's supernatural fiction ranks among the best of the Victorian period . Together with Dickens' work Gaskell's ghost fiction helped consolidate the association of the supernatural tale with the Victorian Christmas . Her ghost stories are scattered throughout various periodicals and books and no single collected existed until 1978 when Michael Ashley produced MRS GASKELL'S TALES OF MYSTERY AND HORROR." - Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 226. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-29. Tymn ed Horror Literature 2-38. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with tiny stain to inner surface at lower spine end which does not show through. #139280 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1978137349New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. Octavo boards. First edition U.S. issue. Collects six tales and a poem "The Scholar's Story" by William Gaskell a Breton ballad translated from the French of the Vicomte de la Villemarque selected and introduced by Michael Ashley. "Gaskell's supernatural fiction ranks among the best of the Victorian period . Together with Dickens' work Gaskell's ghost fiction helped consolidate the association of the supernatural tale with the Victorian Christmas . Her ghost stories are scattered throughout various periodicals and books and no single collected existed until 1978 when Michael Ashley produced MRS GASKELL'S TALES OF MYSTERY AND HORROR." - Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 226. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-29. Tymn ed Horror Literature 2-38. Remainder stripe to bottom edge of sheets else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some scuffs and scratches. #137349 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1958104456London: Hutchinson 1958. Octavo printed brown wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Gaskell's second novel a fantasy set on the legendary continent of Mu during a period of earth's pre-history when there was no moon. Reginald 05832. Light stain to spine panel wrappers just a bit dusty a very good copy. Scarce. #104456 Hutchinson unknown books
1907004264London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1907. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Beautiful Kelliegram full morocco inlay binding with gilt detailing both front and rear cover. 8vo. 18 by 12 cm. xxx 297 1 pp. The front depicts Mr. Jenkyns strolling down a lane the rear a sedan chair. Kelliegram bindings such as this one were produced by the English bookbinding company Kelly & Sons at the turn of the twentieth century. The gilt stamp of the bindery can be found on the inside lower edge of the rear board. Light sunning of the spine. Otherwise fine condition. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
195948110Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1959. First edition 4to pp. xxiii 1 71 1; facsimile illustrations; with facsimile specimen of Baskerville's types loosely inserted in rear pocket; very good or better in original red cloth beige dust jacket spotted w/minor edgewear & clipped. <br/><br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover books
19735271Chicheley: Paul P.G. Minet 1973. cloth dust jacket. Baskerville John. 4to. cloth dust jacket. xxxii 72 pages and 17 plates and a facsimile of a type specimen in a pocket at the back. Reprinted with additions and corrections to the 1959 edition. The definitive work to-date. Jacket faded along top of back cover. Paul P.G. Minet unknown books
195138927Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes 1951. stiff paper wrappers. Mason William. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv 41 pages. Monograph No.1 issued by the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. Full bibliographical descriptions of this 18th century English author. Wrappers soiled top rear corner at spine chipped bottom rear corner creased. Bowes and Bowes unknown books
1952102825Oxford: Oxford University Press 1952. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pg. 77-110;149-177. 2 volumes. Article from "The Library" begins in Fifth series Vol VII No.2 June 1952 continued in Fifth Series Vol. VII No.3 September 1952. Both have some wear on spine and No. 2 has some creasing both are slightly soiled. Oxford University Press) unknown books
