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187461425Philadelphia: Verlag von Jg. Kohler 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. Amerikanische stereotyp-ausgabe. frontises 106 149p. plus 16p. publisher's adverts. Cloth. 15cm. Covers heavily spotted. Tiny frayed spot at fore-edge of front cover. Three small stickers on endpaper. Name on first blank. German text. <br/><br/> Verlag von Jg. Kohler hardcover books
1892000450London: George Routledge and Sons 1892. Cloth. Good. 123 pp. Includes 63 games. Occasional foxing throughout with a bit heavier in front and rear pages. Spine sunned. Break to front hinge. Book nonetheless tight. Still attractive copy. Good minus condition overall. <br/><br/> George Routledge and Sons hardcover books
187361426Philadelphia: Verlag von Jg. Kohler 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. Amerikanische stereotyp-ausgabe. frontises 114 101p. Cloth. 16cm. German text. <br/><br/> Verlag von Jg. Kohler hardcover books
18901294494Philadelphia: Kohler Publishing Company circa 1890. Hardcover. Quarto. VG/no DJ - hardcover. In German. Saddle stitched mounted in age-toned illustrated boards with a blank black cloth spine; boards show some rubbing and a few moisture exposure staining; some mild edgewear noted; binding is strong; textblock is age-toned but clean. 1294494. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Kohler Publishing Company hardcover books
1845277601845. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 370 pp. 8vo. Green marbled paper boards with black cloth spine and gold embossed titling light scuffing from shelf wear. Interior pages have age toning otherwise quite clean. hardcover books
18901299522Philadelphia: David McKay 1890. Hardcover. Octavo; G; hardcover; bound in blue cloth gilt and black lettering; boards slightly bowed general shelfwear general edgewear rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges open tears on tail fore corners and spine edges fraying on spine head edge spine sun toned rubbing on hinges soiling on front soiling and foxing in interiors open tears on end papers tape on front interior gutter separation visible in rear interior; text block age toned gutter frequently visible open tears on blanks soiling and foxing throughout occasional penciling soiling on exterior edges; xi 457pp. 1299522. Full-priced Rockville. David McKay hardcover books
1827008736Edinburgh: William Tait 1827. SCARCE. Four volumes rebound in later 19th c. quarter calf over marbled boards a Very Good set calf worn at corners boards a bit rubbed lacking half titles and added engraved title pages p.145 in Vol. IV misnumbered 149. From the personal library of noted medievalist Charle W. Jones his signature FEP each volume. Thomas Carlyle's 3rd book appearance to which he contributed a preface to the whole work and biographical and critical introductions for the authors here included. The last volume comprises the first English edition of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Travels". . First Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Tait Hardcover books
1885137623London: John C. Nimmo 1885. Octavo two volumes: pp. i-ix x-lxxii 1 2-332; 1-8 1 2-399 400: blank 20-page publisher's catalogue dated "SEPTEMBER 1884" inserted at rear flyleaves at front and rear eleven inserted plates with etchings by Lalauze title pages printed in orange and black original gray bevel-edged cloth spine panels stamped in gold all edges untrimmed white endpapers with floral pattern printed in purple. First edition of this collection. According to the "publisher's notice" "One thousand copies of this Edition have been printed and / the type distributed. No more will be published." One of the standard English translations of Hoffmann's short fiction. Collects eleven stories all but one taken from DIE SERAPIONS-BRUDER 1819-1821. "Rivals Poe whom he influenced in his importance as a creator of the modern supernatural tale." - Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural pp. 204-05. "The celebrated short tales and novels of . Hoffmann . are a byword for mellowness of background and maturity of form . they convey the grotesque rather than the terrible." - Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature p. 45. Not all stories collected here are fantastic; includes "Signor Formica" perhaps Hoffmann's best historical tale and "Mademoiselle de Scuderi" sometimes viewed as the first detective story. Barron ed Fantasy and Horror 1999 1-69 and 1-71. Barron ed Horror Literature 1-40. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 827. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV pp. 1547-53. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV pp. 1848-53 "The Sandman". Tymn ed Fantasy Literature pp. 97-8. Tymn ed Horror Literature 1-164. Bleiler 1978 p. 101. Reginald 07315. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips a bit of soiling to cloth still a clean tight very good set. #137623 John C. Nimmo unknown books
18703617Frankfurt: M. Literarische Anstalt Rutten & Loening 1870. Maroon cloth spine patterned paper covered boards. Full-page hand-colored title page and 26 pages of hand-colored illustration most quarter page but many pages containing two illustrations. Some wear and repair to title page but overall presentable and quite scarce title. <br/><br/> M. Literarische Anstalt, Rutten & Loening hardcover books
1893152989Erfurt und Leipzig: Bacmeister's Verlag 1893. Octavo pp. 1-3 4-106 107-109 110-112: ads original gray-green wrappers printed in black. Ninth printing. A utopian novel in the tradition of Edward Bellamy and Theodor Hertzka set in the year 2398 in Africa in Thomasville the capital city of the "Freilandstaat" that provides a history of the city's progress during the 500 years since its founding. Lexikon 1 pp. 129-30 citing this printing. Bloch 2002 2371. Not in Nagl. A very good copy bound into green cloth with front and rear wrappers preserved. KVK reports 6 copies. Rare. #152989 Bacmeister's Verlag unknown books
18513616Frankfurt am Main: Literairische Anstalt Rotten & Lining 1851. Brown cloth spine pictorial paper covered boards. A childhood story in pictures. With a hand-colored title page 33 half-page hand-colored woodcuts. Illustrated cardboard. Heinrich Hoffmann's second picture book. Hoffmann let the toy figures which he had bought probably for his children during a trip to Nuremberg now coming to life in a fabulous way. -Heinrich Hoffmann 1809-1894 was a physician and treated patients suffering from pancreatic cancer. In Frankfurt he had a new clinic for psychiatry in which the patients were not blocked off but treated a tremendous novelty for that time. On the whole in spite of some wear and aging the book is well preserved. <br/><br/> Literairische Anstalt (Rotten & Lining) hardcover books
189068489With 68 Original Photographs of the Jute Production in India Showing How to Make Paper and Other Products JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN photographers. Jute. Photographic Album of the Jute Production in India. Calcutta: Johnston & Hofman n.d.c.a 1890. Four oblong quarto photographic volumes. mounts: 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches; 290 x 199 mm; photographs: 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 128 mm With 68 black-and-white photographs mounted one per page on stiff cardboard. Uniformly bound in original half navy cloth over green cloth. Front boards lettered in gilt. Volume one with water damage mainly to rear board and affecting the last seven photographs but the images are still clearly visible. A few other photos in this volume have some minor fading or spotting. Back endpapers to this volume have been replaced. Some minor spotting to the cloth on other volumes and a bit of wrinkling to the cloth of volume IV. All other volumes internally clean and crisp and the photographs are in very good condition. Overall a very good set. Complete sets are rare. Comprises: Volume I: "Cultivation and Preparation" 25 photos. Volume II: "Its Manufacture" 21 photos. Volume III: "Assorting and Baling" 20 photos. Volume IV: "Baling and Export" 22 photos. "Theodore Julius Hoffmann and P.A. Johnston. Calcutta Studio established in 1882. Probably after the studios of Bourne and Shepherd the second largest commercial photographers in India with their large catalog of views of North and Northeastern India Sikkim and Nepal." luminous-lint dot com. HBS 68489. $3000 Johnston & Hofman hardcover books
1899108273Seven vols. Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann 1899-1905. Seven vols. folio 120; 96; 96; 96; 96; 96; 96 ll. Fully illustrated leaves printed to recto only in green phthalo blue sepia peach burgundy and black. Quarter red cloth with color printed gray boards vol. 1 has inlaid illustration in green and red title printed in black to backstrips. Backstrips on all volumes have some minor fraying and boards are slightly rubbed at edges and bumped at corners; otherwise a very good bright and complete set. § First edition seven volumes complete. The most comprehensive illustrated encyclopedic lexicon of Art Nouveau design ever published. Each page packed with images including but not limited to ceramics glass jewelry wallpaper furniture book bindings book plates ornamental alphabets book art metalwork silver china lace and advertising art represented with photographic reproductions and sketches. All seven volumes are very scarce rarely found complete. Julius Hoffmann hardcover books
