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1952445954New York: The Limited Editions Club 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Three volume set in red paper-covered slipcase with printed paper spine label. Limited edition. Copy no. 873 of 2000. Small folios. Each volume with color illustrations. All three are fine in very good glassine jackets with a few small tears. The box is near fine with a few smudges. Edited by Jean Hersholt this set is Signed by Hersholt and Henry C. Pitz. The set consists of the following three separate works:<br /> <br /> The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Re-told by Jean Hersholt and illustrated by Malcolm Cameron; The Story of What Happened to Hansel and Gretel. As told by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Translated by P.H. Muir. Illustrated and Signed by Henry C. Pitz; The Whimsical History of Bluebeard By Charles Perrault. Translated from the French by Arthur Quiller-Couch and illustrated by Hans Bendix. Signed by Hersholt. Note: there is a tear to the top right corner of the glassine jacket. A handsome set. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
19841394451Novato: Presidio 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto Volume One only: 464 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket has light edge wear. Price unclipped: “$55.00â€. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Illustrated: chiefly b&w photographs drawings some color plates. Errata sheet laid in. Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Netdesk Column QC ND-QC. 1394451. FP New Rockville Stock. Presidio hardcover
19781380552Novato: Presidio Press 1978. Hardcover. Quarto 576 pages. In Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket in mylar. Taped to interior pastedowns.Price unclipped: "$45.00". Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has owner name stamp on front flyleaf. Illustrated: b&w photographs. Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf.<br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. <br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #1. 1380552. FP New Rockville Stock. Presidio Press hardcover
1791854London: C. Clarke for T. and J. Egerton 1791. Full calf. Near fine. 12mo 7.1 in 18 cm. 2 xvi 152 2 pp. <br/><br/>First edition: Joseph Ritson 1752-1803 was a literary scholar anthologist and bibliographer. Here are seven Middle English poems including Tom Thumbe. Thomas Bewick 1753-1828 is known for reviving the art of wood engraving; his younger brother John Bewick 1760-1795 was his apprentice until he established his own career. <br/><br/>ESTC T149587. DNB. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt decorated and titled spine and gilt decorated board edges. 15 woodcut headpieces and tailpieces by Thomas and John Bewick. Glossary. Joints starting with long thin cracks without spring. Tight clean and bright. Well-preserved first edition illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick and John Bewick. C. Clarke for T. and J. Egerton unknown books
44690With all his introductions notes various readings and notes by J. G. Lockhart Esq. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood after J. M. W. Turner Birket Foster & John Gilbert. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black North Bridge 1857. Thick royal octavo 250 x 175 mm original red morocco richly gilt fine; all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece additional engraved title title leaf 1 Editor's Notice 1 blank; pp. iv 2 823; binding firm foxing to first and last few leaves and at the margins of most plates otherwise internally clean and sound. unknown
1894416739London ; New York : Cassell 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original aniline calf over plain cloth with gilt-blocked motif to front and back boards. All edges gilt. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges bumped and worn as with age. Front board and preliminary pages starting to detach. Remains quite a good example in need of some attention. Physical description; 92 pages 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. Republished from ""Character sketches from Dickens"" 1879-85. Subjects; Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Illustrations. Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Characters. Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation. Characters and characteristics. Novelists English 19th century ; Biography. Biography Biographies Novelists Authors 19th Nineteenth Century. London ; New York : Cassell hardcover
18601086London: Ward & Lock. c.1860. First edition thus. Publisher's original colour-printed pictorial yellow card wrappers. Octavo 25 x 16.5cm. 8pp. printed on one side only and mounted on linen. Each page illustrated with a hand-coloured wood engraving by the Dalziel Brothers. Publisher's adverts to the rear cover verso. A very good copy the binding secure with a little separation to the covers at the foot of the spine a small chip to the head of the rear cover and minor wear to the extremities. The contents with scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order. A scarce mid-nineteenth-century edition of Sleeping Beauty the pages linen-backed and the illustrations hand-coloured. The title forms No. 11 in Ward and Lock's 'The National Nursey Tales' series which according to the publisher's advertisement are "handsomely printed with Coloured Illustrations price 6d. each or on Cloth indestructible 1s. as in the present copy. The attention of the Public is particularly called to this beautiful Series of Children's Books which are in every respect of a superior character. The drawings are by eminent Artists and the Engravings by Dalziel Brothers".</p><p>Only one institutional copy recorded in Britain according to Library Hub V&A. London: Ward & Lock. hardcover
40 pages. Features: A group of canvases by James Chapin; An Evening in the Studio of James Chapin; Gordon Aymar looks at art directing; Leaves from Harry T. Fisk's War Sketchbooks; Printmakers in a Berkshire Hay Barn (part III of III); Article on Fabric Design; A Visit to the Golden Hind Press - private press of Arthur W. Rushmore; Society of Illustrators; Tempera (part V of V); Imagination is a Muscle; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
81668hLondon: Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A tidy batch of sound Kingstons issued in the "Boys' Own Favourite Library" series. Circa late 1890s. Bound in publisher's red and blue gilt pictorial cloth hard covers with beveled edges. All edges gilt; black coated endpapers. All about very good or better with some handling & shelf-wear to covers and edges some with owner's names and toning to text but all with firm hinges and bindings. The first volume shows discoloration inside front cover from removal of a bookplate. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. An attractive and readable lot. There will be no upcharge requested for additional postage if shipping within Canada or the USA. Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Hardcover
1900250213-MB68Judge and Leslie's Weekly 1900. Very Good Large Folio Hardcover hinges reinforced Over 500 Camera Views and Colored Plates no date circa 1900 544 Pages . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dustjacket. large Folio. Judge and Leslie's Weekly Hardcover
194019330John C. Winston Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue blindstamped decorated cover has wear to corners and caps but is clean bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Illustrated end sheets and paste downs clean and very good with former owner's name on blank side. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket has . Wear to the extremities with a couple of short tears and soiling to back panel but bright and in good condition. DJ corners clipped. DJ protected by a brand new clear acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. If pictured shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ; 280 pages . John C. Winston Company hardcover
191567866New York:: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1915. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel in dust jacket illustrated with the same color plate. Faint reddish stain near the red cloth backstrip along short sections of the joint area; very slight wear to binding; clean tight and sound in a slightly dampstained dust jacket which is missing the bottom four inches of the backstrip. . Folio. With tipped-in color plates and text illustrations in black and white by E. Yarrow Jones and R. B. Brook-Greaves. Frederick A. Stokes Company, hardcover
1934861New York: Blue Ribbon Press. Very Good. 1934. Hardcover. 23.5 x 20 cm. Illustrated paper over boards. Light corner and edge wear. Minor soiling and a bit of foxing to covers. A couple of small scratch marks on the back cover. Small bookseller's label on front pastedown endpaper. All three pop-ups working and unrepaired. Soil or fingering marks to margins of a few of the pages but generally still bright and clean. Could not have passed through too many children's hands. Three colour pop-ups and black and white in-text illustrations. . Blue Ribbon Press hardcover
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
198073444New York, Harry N. Abrams, (1980). 278 S.Mit 165 s/w u. 94 farbigen Illustr. Quer-4to (27,5 x 30 cm). Farbig illustr. OLn m. transparentem, bedruckten Kunststoff-Umschlag.
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
1916293181New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1916. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Fair dust jacket. Large 8vo; in the publisher's blue green cloth still with publisher's glassine wrapper and housed in the original publisher's box; xi 150 pages 1; with 16 leaves of plates some colored; and decorations throughout. While a bright copy there is some staining to the front board from the glassine. The very uncommon box is printed green paper-covered with a color pastedown. There are no ownership or other marks in the book. There are a few spots of foxing.~~Period story of life in the old South full of "dialect". Penned by Sallie Dooley who with her husband James left Maymont House to the City of Richmond -- one of our treasures. Dem Good Ole Times "offers glimpses of Sallie Dooley's perceptions of African Americans . ~capitalizing on the current popularity of dialect literature by such writers as Joel Chandler Harris Paul Laurence Dunbar and Virginia-born Thomas Nelson Page" O'Leary; From Morning to Night: Domestic Service in Maymont House and the Gilded Age 2003 p. 54. Near Fine binding / Fair dust jacket. Doubleday Page & Co unknown books
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
