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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
185756178New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. A Fine copy but with spine faded as usual. Signed by Alfred Schermerhorn on endpapers. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
185721489New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American Edition. Two octavo volumes 18.75cm.; original blind-patterned brown cloth gilt-lettered spines yellow glazed endpapers; viii28516;viii26917-14pp.; engraved frontispieces tissue-guarded. Boards a bit rubbed especially at spine ends spine gilt almost entirely perished though cloth itself remains unfaded textblocks rather foxed especially at preliminaries else a Very Good sound set complete with original publisher's advertisements including one leaf bound before the front free endpaper of Vol. I. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1857Embry 184547Smith Elder & co. London: 1857. First edition. Spines very slightly faded else fine. Engraved frontispiece in both volumes and additional facsimile plate in volume one. One-half maroon morocco by Bayntun simply titled in gilt and with central floral device to remaining compartments and with original cloth bound in at rear. Smith, Elder & co., London: 1857. First edition. hardcover 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
18572306147New York: D. Appleton & Company 1857. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light general wear. 1857 Hard Cover. viii 269 14 pp. Volume II of II. A biography of Charlotte Bronte author of Jane Eyre by Elizabeth Gaskell. D. Appleton & Company 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
1857140939975London: Smith Elder & Co 1857. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Two volumes bound without ads but with half-title pages in contemporary tan calf over marbled boards with green and red gilt-stamped title labels to spines all edges marbled. Bindings lightly rubbed at extremities. Pages toned foxed at preliminary and terminal leaves. Bookplates and clippings from former owner tipped in. A charming set of Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend. Smith, Elder & Co unknown books
185719321New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First American edition 2 vols. sm. 8vo viii 285; viii 269; engraved frontis portrait plus one engraved plate; bound without ads or half-titles in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards green and black morocco labels on spines; very good set. <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Co 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
2001S12551Washington DC:: Smithsonian Institution Libraries 2001. 2001. 23 cm. xvi 48 pp. Illus. Printed wrappers. Near fine. br Smithsonian Institution Libraries, (2001). unknown 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
20081825Bisbee Arizona : Pequeno Press 2008. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 179 pp. 2 x 2 1/2". Limited to 50 copies this 1/50 bound in deep purple leather over boards with lavender paper label on spine dimensional silver plate on front cover. Printed on Neenah recycled paper in Baskerville Old Face and Harrington types hand sewn and signed by the publisher on the colophon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810 - 1865 an English writer whose works explored the detailed life of the Victorian society wrote a biography of Charlotte Bronte shortly after Bronte's death in 1855. Here a distillation of the text. <br/><br/> Pequeno Press hardcover 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
1854JC14259Philadelphia: T. K. Collins Jr. 1854. Paperback. Good. Original printed wraps; 8vo; pp. 32. Covers scuffed and lightly chipped and stained with early ownership signature and library stamps; small inkstain at top margin of first 3 leaves; the occasional faint library stamp. A good working copy. Uncommon -- OCLC locates just 7 copies. <br/><br/> T. K. Collins, Jr. paperback 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
