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1981BOOKS343628New York NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. Good/Good. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Inscribed by author and illustrators see photo . Sm 4to. 44pp. . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. hardcover
1914mon0000950371Hodder & Stoughton 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Hodder & Stoughton 1914. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright no markings. Fine illustrations. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
185757314Alexander Ireland & Co 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son 186 Strand 1857. 1st edition. Hardback. Cloth G. viii3004pp 2 chromolithographic frontis b/w plan 32 fulll page b/w engraved illustrations & 120 b/w illustrations in the text index all edges gilt pastedown gutter cracked cloth grubby & worn at the edges some slight marking & staining to the contents occasional offsetting but generally a nice copy of an unaccountably scarce item. A bound copy of a weekly souvenier publication which was produced to mark the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition which was held in Manchester. It remains the largest art exhibition ever to be held in the UK if not the World with over 16000 exhibits. It attracted over 1.3 million visitors in the 142 days it was open. The two chromolithographs show the building - a temporary iron-and-glass structure similar to the Crystal Palace in London 656 feet long and 200 feet wide with one central barrel vault 56 feet wide. Its selection and display of artworks had a formative influence on the public art collections that were then being established in the UK such as the National Gallery National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alexander Ireland & Co, 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son, 186 Strand hardcover
1949445952New York: The Limited Editions Club 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Three volume set in red paper-covered slipcase with printed paper spine label. Limited edition. Copy no. 1359 of 2500. Small folios. Each volume with color illustrations. All three are fine in fine clear acetate jackets. The box is near fine with a few small nicks and tears at the corners. Edited by Jean Hersholt this set is Signed by Hersholt and two illustrators: Edward Ardizzone and Everett Gee Jackson. The set consists of the following three separate works:<br /> <br /> The Tale of Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves. Translated from the Arabic into French by J.C. Mardrus; and then into modern English by E. Powys Mathers. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Signed by Ardizzone; The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated from the Dutch by Jean Hersholt. Illustrated by Everett Gee Jackson. Signed by Everett Gee Jackson and Inscribed by Jean Hersholt; The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood By Charles Perrault. Translated from the French by P.H. Muir. Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. A handsome set in fine condition. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
192439243Paris: Editions Pellet 1924. Louis Legrand. A quirky illustrated book about the mythical Breton town of Ys and its destruction illustrated throughout with drawings and with TWO MORBIDLY EROTIC ORIGINAL HORS-TEXTE DRYPOINTS BY LOUIS LEGRAND AND TWO EROTIC ORIGINAL HORS-TEXTE LITHOGRAPHS BY FELICIEN ROPS actually two impressions of the same lithograph one in color and one in bistre. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies all printed on fine Arches wove paper. 4to. Bound in contemporary three-quarters cloth and marbled boards. Original wrappers and backtrip preserved. A little bit of minor foxing snd binding a tiny bit worn at extremities but still a very good copy of this most unusual collaboration. <br/><br/> Editions Pellet hardcover
18931499London: Cassell & Co. Ltd 1893. First Edition. Very good. Gordon Browne and William Hatherell. 8vo 8 x 5 1/2 inches 223 x 140 mm; pp. xi 277 16 publisher's' listing. 28 illustrations including frontispiece and one color map preceding the first story. Bound in blue-green leatherette cloth with gilt title and illustration on front cover gilt title; floral endpapers top edge stained green; edges moderately worn spine and cover edges darkened chips at head and tail of spine; pages toned especially on edges; binding solid. A collection of the last completed works by the author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 1894 was a Scottish novelist essayist poet and travel writer who travel broadly and settled in Samoa in 1889 where he was prodigiously productive and where he became involved with local politics and culture gathering native stories and infusing some of his writing with these newfound themes. This first edition of the three short stories is accompanied by a set of engaging illustrations by Gordon Browne 1858 - 1932 and William Hatherell 1855-1928 both prolific illustrators who worked with publishers and magazines. Cassell & Co. Ltd unknown
1885D2538Paris: A. Quantin 1885. Paperback. Very Good. Plain paper wraps with full-color illustrated jacket in glassine. Illustrated throughout with vignettes and tissue-guarded full-color plates. Includes a nice band of placeholder ribbons. Some light browning along edges of text block; glassine just a little chipped at spine tips and corners; first four pages starting. Nice. <br/><br/> A. Quantin paperback
26826Munich. Braun & Schneider. c. 188. Hardcover. folio 34cm with 99 double-page plates of nearly 400 colour illustrations in colour illustrated boards wanting the cloth spine cap boards dust worn some annotating to several leaves contents are in very good condition cgc The double page folio plates each contain 4 illustrations. c.18x13cm each. An impressive illustrated history of costumes from prehistory to 1886. Illustrated by W. Diez C. Frohlich C. Haberlin M. Heil A. Muller F. Rothbart and J. Watter. Very detailed studies with two or three people in each illustration. A very valuable theatrical or costume design reference. Munich. Braun & Schneider. c. [188?] hardcover
2002BN206474HarperCollins Design International 2002. 2002. Hardcover. Illustrators 43 - The Society of Illustrators 43th Annual of American Illustration <br/><br/>Illustrators 43 - The Society of Illustrators 43th Annual of American Illustration The Society of Illustrators Author; Jill Bossert Editor; James Bennett; Anita Kunz; Mark Ryden; Tom O'Brian; Roberto Parada; John Thompson; Victor Gadino; David Uhl; Raymond Olivere u. a. Illustratoren HarperCollins Design International hardcover
20031-0471360112John Wiley & Sons Inc 2003. Hardcover. New. 2nd sub edition. 640 pages. 11.25x9.00x1.50 inches. John Wiley & Sons Inc hardcover
187515560New York: McLoughlin Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Edgewear with rubbed corners and rear spine edge gutter weakness light tone Christmas 1876 inscription otherwise light wear. Still solid oversize hardcover. ; Notable for containing Thomas Nast's only political juvenile illustrations the uncommon first edition of this delightful chromolith illustrated collection also offers Nast illustrations for Rip Van Winkle and his cover paste-on illustration. Rip Van Winkle and Yankee Doodle are in verse. "Aunt Louisa's child's delight. $1.50 contains four standard stories--Rip Van Winkle Yankee Doodle Pocahontas and Putnam--with twenty-four full-paged illustrations in colors. 4to. Cloth beveled edges embossed in black and gold with fine chromatic illustration mounted on cover."--McLoughlin Bros. New York. Catalogue of toy books games &c. for 1875-'76. ; 54 24 pl pages . McLoughlin Brothers hardcover
1900274959Edinburgh: Blackwood 1900. hardcover. very good. Historical descriptions by John Hill Burton. Illustrated with 240 fine steel engravings with tissue guards and many text illustrations in woodcut. 4 volumes tall 4to blue cloth. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd n.d. ca. 1900 Very good.<br/> <br/> Blackwood unknown
1880H5089Tours: Camp du Ruchard 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Information taken from the spine title published ca. 1880 quarto 12.5 inches 31 cm tall quarter calf and mottled boards 13 double-page color lithographs showing the stocks mechanics and actions of various rifles including Remington Winchester Mauser Spencer Berdan Wetterli Beaumont Albini etc. Very good light rubbing to binding. Very rare we could not find any copies of this book or its text volume in OCLC nor by using the meta-search of vialibri. Camp du Ruchard hardcover
193746496New York:: Snellgrove Publications 1937. First edition. publisher's cloth illustrated in color. Cloth rubbed at extremities with tiny chips at the extremities of the spine. Folio. Illustrated by Willy Pogany and Natalie Harlan Davis including a color flower diagram with printed overlay. Snellgrove Publications, hardcover
5311First edition second issue. Lacking binding therefore loose signatures. 36 hand-colored hors textes plates. Includes fold-out sheet music. xvi 376 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. hardcover
2000james97Knopf New York 2000 Knopf New York 2000. First edition. First printing with full number line. Hardbound. A new copy in a new jacket. A pristine unread copy. Price $14.95 intact on front flap. SIGNED BY BRADBURY on title page as pictured. Smoke-free no defects. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Ferry-Art. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Knopf, New York hardcover
1909656820G.P. Putnam's Sons 1909. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8 volumes complete. A good set in period 3/4 navy blue morocco over marbled boards spines with raised bands and two gilt-ruled compartments covers sectioned with a single gilt filet top edges gilt marbled endpapers spine faded to brown with rubbing; some rubbing to boards; some nicking to spine tips. Illustrated with photogravures after Coburn and Dore. G.P. Putnam's Sons paperback
16-2555Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN 1895. Original wraps with graphics by Ubbelohde Otto & Otto Gampert. Reproduced is A POSTER BY MAbel Dearmer.Söhn HDO: 52605- 1 2 Edited by Richard Graul and Caesar Flaischlen.PAN the important German 21 volume art nouveau periodical 1895-1900 is a deluxe fin de siècle periodical with plates illustrations color initials vignettes and tail-pieces representing a multitude of processes of modern picture reproduction including original lithographs etchings and woodcuts. Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN, 1895 paperback
190121877London : Otto Limited 1901-1907 . First Editions . VG . 4TO . Bound in publisher's red-brick cloth. Extensively illustrated in black and white and colour with every kind of illustration. A treasure trove of period material. Copies bright and generally unworn. Hinges loose in some cases Not all covers or indices are present A very handsome set. Very heavy books special shipping considerations will apply. Otto Limited hardcover
70084London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue c.1851. Humour FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo 17 x 13cm pp.2; 47; 5; 59; 1; 30. With numerous plates and in-text illustrations by multiple artists includes frontispieces. First two tales with colour-printed title pages. Contemporary olive-green half morocco matching textured cloth over boards. Gilt titles to upper board and spine with raised bands and further gilt embellishment to spine. Edges speckled blue and red. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers sunning to spine bumping to corners wearing to leather at edges. Very Good. A unique text comprised of three separate editions perhaps combined by the binder or the owner. The first two stories are undated though 'The Crystal Palace' is a first printing published in 1851. Two classic fairy tales and one contemporary one inspired by the Great Exhibition. London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue, c.1851 unknown
61524London: J. Hogarth 1854. Illustrated Togography FIRST EDITION. Quarto 28 x 19cm pp.2 lx; 164 4. With thirty engraved plates after Turner and Girtin as well as an engraved frontispiece portrait of Turner after Count D'Orsay and three facsimile letters written by Turner. Publisher's blind-decorated cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and gilt decoration to upper. All edges gilt. Plain bookplate of Harold Josse Johnson to front pastedown and verso of first blank. Spotting to frontispiece and facing leaves. A touch of spotting to some plates but mainly crisp and clean. Toning and rubbing to spine and board edges. Very good. A publication occasioned by the chance discovery of thirty long-forgotten engraved plates of works by these two important late eighteenth-century landscape painters. London: J. Hogarth, 1854 unknown
68403London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1883. Russian Adventure 'New Edition'. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.xii; 377 1. With a folding map and illustrations by Ferat and Barbant including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Ink names to endpapers. Contents generally clean. Binding shows acceptable wear with joints rubbed corners pushed frayed at spine tips inner paper joints cracked as usual. Very good. Verne's classic tale of adventure and intrigue in the Russian Empire which was first published in English in 1877; also includes Verne's novella 'The Mutineers' which was omitted from most printings after 1912. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid M.A. 1912-2009 writer film-maker and cinema historian and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883 unknown
18754786London: Punch Office. 1875. Hardcover. Good. Boards rubbed especially spine. Most of the pages loose but present. Hinges cracked. Light foxing to endpapers ; Extremely scarce. Bound in dark blue leather boards with a closing flap. All edges gilt; 24mo; 192 pages . Punch Office hardcover
1843540812London: Wm. S. Orr & Co 1843. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Printed on various color leaves with a publisher’s advertisement on recto of final leaf. Humorous articles verses etc. by Dickens Thackeray and others. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings designed by Alfred Forrester known under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill John Leech and others. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket and later owner’s small bookplate on front pastedown autograph note in pencil on front free endpaper. Contemporary half polished levant and pebbled cloth over boards gilt decorated spine with red titling label cream endpapers all edges gilt. Head and tail of spine and one corner tip neatly refurbished in matching leather joints are rubbed with light wear at corners a few small stains on endpapers very good. Wm. S. Orr & Co hardcover
191578995Wien:: Munk 1915. publisher's blue cloth with applied color illustration on front panel. Some staining and soiling to the applied color illustration; cloth a little frayed at joints and extremities; but tight and sound; the contents fine. . Folio. Complete with twelve spectacular full-page color illustrations by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban and elaborate border decorations on every page. . Contents: Die wilden Schwaene. Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse. Das Meerfrauelein. Die Galoschen des Gluecks. Die Reisekamerad. Die roten Schuhe. Des Kaisers neue Kleider. Die Schneekoenigin. Der Fliegende Koffer Das Maerchen vom Paradiesgarten. Der Schweinhirt. Die Nachtigall. Munk, hardcover
