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18961109717<p>Chicago: Powers Fowler and Lewis 1896. Novelty. Collectible - Good/No Jacket. Wood cloth covered case that opens up to an easel display. The clapse on the case is operating. The exterior of the case has fraying on edges and scuffing. There are 2 books on the lower part of the easel when it is opened. One is 'Pen Pictures' A short description of each of the books in the Bible. The second is Bible Study. The upper portion contains 2 interior scrolls with a window for each of bible pictures. These are in color. The metal key is in the pocket but the scrolls do not work. The entire scroll appears to be intact but will not turn. The case is about 16.5 x 16.5. 5 pounds.</p> Powers, Fowler and Lewis
185316150London: David Bogue etc. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. Hardcover. Chipping to spine heads and tails complete rear edge tear on second and fourth volumes some loose plates 1853 fold-out in two pieces gutter starting and some with hand-stitched repairs worn. With care still solid hardcovers. ; All nineteen annual issues from 1835 to 1853 bound in four volumes. Not the 1860 Hotten reprint as contains the calendars etc. The Almanack for each year has separate title page and paging. Contents: Comic Almanack 1835-37 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank published by David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1838-40 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for Charles Tilt Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1841-43 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for Tilt and Bogue Bibliopolists; Comic Almanack 1844-45 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1846 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1847 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1848 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1849 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by H G Hine and others imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack and Diary 1850 edited by Henry Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 edited by Henry Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank and H G Hine David Bogue; Comic Almanack and Diary 1852 illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1853 edited by Robert B Brough illustrated by George Cruikshank and H G Hine London: David Bogue. Fold-outs for 1850 and 1851 are hand-colored. Bookplate of Chas. Smith Jr Tappan Rockland Co. N. Y. "By My Books I Live" on volume one paste-down. Albert M Cohn; George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raisonne of the work executed during the years 1806-1877; 184. There are no covers nor advertising bound in. Per Cohn there should be 195 Cruikshank plates however in 1841 two plates are replace by duplicates of 1841 plates in 1842 one plate is replaced by a duplicate of another 1842 plate and the November 1842 plate is missing. Foldouts from 1852 and 1853 are not hand-colored. Therefore of the expected 195 Cruikshank plates only 194 are present and 191 are as called for. Additionally Cohn calls for the 1835-37 to have been printed by Tilt these have Bogue on the title pages. Overall a worn and slightly imperfect set of the full run of the Comic Almanack suitable for savoring the George Cruikshank plates and text illustrations. . David Bogue etc hardcover
191031601Edinburgh and London: Ballantyne Hanson & Co 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Twenty six numbered volumes plus 2 volume set of life and works plus 2 volume set of Our Mutual Friend all in matching publisher's bindings. Bound in full olive green cloth boards with paper title labels to spines. Minor wear to edges of boards and spine ends of all volumes. Wear / chipping / browning to title labels. Minor dampstaining to corners of boards of some volumes; although interior pages seem to be free from staining. Some volumes have minor soiling and/or discoloration to covers. Each volume contains illustrations - most in black and white with a few in color. Occasional smudge marks occasional tear to a page in the margin from opening the pages and sporadic spots of foxing - but overall very clean and bright interiors. Rippling to some of the illustrations which are printed on a different paper stock. Signature of previous owner in pen to front free endpapers of most volumes. All bindings remain strong. This set will require an extra shipping fee. LIT/010318. Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co hardcover
16-2564Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN 1898. Folio. Original wraps with original graphics by PeTITJEAN HIPPOLYTE & Theo Van Rysselberge.Söhn HDO: 52901- 34 lacking the other 4 prints Edited by Richard Graul and Caesar Flaischlen et al.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, 1898. paperback
70717Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. Mediaeval Literature LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto 29 x 21cm pp.6 xvi; 318 6; pp.4 xvi; 268 6. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt others untrimmed with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625 paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935 unknown
38609At the head of title: Greetings from Australia. Melbourne : Pater's Printery c.1911. Square duodecimo original pictorial wrappers with yapp edges edges worn a couple of small chips original string tie printed title page 11 eleven chromolithographic plates of Australian birds in natural settings; a good copy. Muir 704. A rare publication - both a souvenir and a children's book - designed and illustrated by Violet Teague and Geraldine Rede the two Australian artists most famous for their 1905 publication Night fall in the ti-tree. unknown
182267110London: Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket 1822. Parts I and II only of VI 8vo 7 hand-colored aquatint plates after Alken and Barenger by G. & T. Hunt; both issues in original pictorial wrappers; some tears creases and minor losses but generally good or better. Contained in a quarter red morocco folding box with red calf label lettered in gilt on the upper cover. This periodical is rare in the printed wrappers. Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket unknown
18289027029London: Jones 1828. Hardcover. Very good. Cruikshank George. Illustrated with three etched frontispieces by George Cruikshank and 84 woodcut illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank et al. "With a copious and classified index" in each volume. Bound in half black morocco with gilded bands spine stamped in both gilt and blind black cloth boards ruled in gilt printed endpapers. A few signatures loose but stilll holding otherwise binding is intact. A nice clean set. <br/><br/> Jones hardcover
186523803London: Day & Son 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt rebacked with most of original spine laid down. Aeg. Very good. Jones Owen. Small folio 28 x 22 cm. 52 chromolithograph plates on twenty-six leaves by Owen Jones and Henry Warren on stone by Albert Warren. Each illustration and accompanying text in a distinct decorative border. GORDON N. RAY The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 notes that in his later years Owen turned to "original designs of his own." This mid-Victorian time period was the heyday of chromolithography printing with this a brilliant example. Embossed cloth decorated in gilt and green with gilt lettering. Lovely example of Victorian binding beveled edges endpapers toned slight toning to a few fore-edges not affecting plates which are brilliant and clean. Endpapers renewed front cover lettered and decorated in gilt with green rectangular border in gilt. Day & Son hardcover
62247London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. Fantasy Tales FIRST EDITION THUS first impression. Octavo 19 x 12cm pp.x; 670 4 ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth gilt with top edge gilt in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean school prize label binding a little mottled fragile jacket mostly complete with a few chips to upper panel and to crown with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good uncommon in jacket. Kipling's complete series of popular tales told by 'Puck' traditionally a name for a malicious spirit or demon of popular superstition and from the 16th century the name of a mischievous goblin or Hobgoblin similar to that appearing in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' the fairy scene from which is acted out here. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature 277. BMC No.11984; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935 unknown
73245London: Secker and Warburg 1954. Modern Literature FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION first impression. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.109 1. With a colour frontispiece over two pages and 31 in-text line drawings. Elegantly bound in dark red half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin green labels further gilt decoration to spine and the original publisher's cloth over boards titled in silver to upper. A crisp clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Produced alongside the full-length cartoon film produced by Batchelor and Halas. London: Secker and Warburg, 1954 unknown
190921142851909. London; Adam and Charles Black 1909. Large 8vo. original white cloth with an armorial design blocked in orange green and gilt to spine and upper board top edges gilt; pp. xix i 320 4 publisher's advert.; with a total of 75 fine coloured plates after watercolours guarded by captioned tissues and a folding pull-out map at the rear; a near fine copy of this scarce and vulnerable book preserved in uncommonly clean condition both externally and internally with just light rubbing and dusting to boards with a previous owner's bookplate to inner upper cover another ownership inscription to front free endpaper and mild foxing to prelims.First edition of one of the scarcest titles in A. & C. Black's Twenty Shilling Series. Inman 37. hardcover
18289027029London: Jones 1828. Hardcover. Very good. Cruikshank George. Illustrated with three etched frontispieces by George Cruikshank and 84 woodcut illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank et al. "With a copious and classified index" in each volume. Bound in half black morocco with gilded bands spine stamped in both gilt and blind black cloth boards ruled in gilt printed endpapers. A few signatures loose but stilll holding otherwise binding is intact. A nice clean set. <br /> <br/><br/> Jones hardcover books
MOD22MCollection : Été1930. Publié par Kossuth, à Paris, Estampes rehaussées appartenant à la revue l’Homme Chic, de la collection d’été de l’année 1930. Chaque estampe est identifiée avec le code de publication et un timbre sec de « L’Homme Chic à Paris », chaque costume est numéroté de l’un jusqu’au 20. 12 gravures indépendantes, de 32x24cm, avec une marge en papier doré. Catalogue de la collection, 15 costumes de mode de l’époque, les costumes N° 6, 7, 9, 10 et 15 sont absents, représentant 3 plaques.
195769215Beijing: People's Fine Arts Publishing House 1957. First edition Chinese issue; folio approx. 14½" x 12 ¾" pp. 4 plus 73 stunning color illustrations on 60 sheets; introductory text in Chinese without the added title page and commentary in English; original publisher's box stamped in orange and yellow with bone closures and the outside shipping carton with the original price sticker from the Nanjing Bookstore still affixed. People's Fine Arts Publishing House unknown
1826H40537London: Sherwood Jones and Co 1826. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes large 8vo 9.5 x 6.25 inches full midnight blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe good set with strengthening to outer joints and inner hinges of three of the four boards neatly done. 71 handcolored plates mainly by Robert Cruikshank 1 uncolored woodcut plate and many in-text illustrations contents very good to fine spine color has mellowed to a pleasing dark brown. Sherwood, Jones, and Co hardcover
16-2562Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN 1897. Folio. Original wraps with original graphics by DENIS MAURICE; ORLIK EMIL 4; Ubbelohde Otto; lacking the Nicholson and rodinSöhn HDO: 52803- 1 2 3 5 6 7.Edited by Richard Graul and Caesar Flaischlen et al.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, 1897 paperback
19311412312New York: The Macmillan Company 1931. Limited edition 312/400. Hardcover. Quarto x 326 pages. In Fair plus condition in a Fair slipcase. Slipcase in black paper title label on spine illustrated pastedowns on front and rear panels; tears to corners and edges stain and crease to pastedown on rear panel shelf wear. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and light blue cloth to boards; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has deckle edges; spotting to edges and endpapers spine cracks at pages 178 and 194. Illustrated: color frontispiece and plates printed music. Signed in ink by the contributors on the limited edition page. <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 /> NOTE: Shelved in Net Desk work area. 1412312. FP New Rockville Stock. The Macmillan Company hardcover
201348117Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications 2013. Near Fine/Near Fine. Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications 2013. Publisher's Deluxe Gift Slipcased Edition. Small quarto; illustrated dust jacket; red silver and black boards; illustrated endpapers; 527pp. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket; mild shelfwear to slipcase; a Near Fine copy and lavish production for King's sequel to "The Shining. Cemetery Dance Publications unknown
191030841Paris: Hetzel 1910. Later printing. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 4 434 2pp. Elaborately decorated publisher's binding of red cloth stamped in gilt and printed in black and green on the front and spine. The head of an elephant in the upper left corner of the front panel with pictorial scenes in three ruled inset blocks entwined by a long sprig of green leaves; a fan device at the center has a stylized title motif with "Jules Verne" and "Voyages Extraordinaires" in a scroll below it. The back panel has a central medallion with the publisher's monogram printed within a frame of Greek-style decoration printed in black. All edges gilt. Blue-grey coated endpapers. Engraved frontispiece protected with a tissue guard. Title page vignette. "Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers" English: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. The original edition had no illustrations; this copy is identical to the first illustrated edition which was published in 1871. 111 illustrations by Riou 24 and Alphonse de Neuville 86 engraved by Hildibrand. Includes 6 chromotypographs and 2 full-page b/w maps. Some age wear on binding with upper spine somewhat rippled and moderate rubbing along edges. Book poorly recased with glue remain along gutters. Tissue guard and title page slightly foxed. Minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Slight age toning along paper margin. Text in French. Binding in overall good interior in good to good condition. Hetzel hardcover
MOD21MCollection : Hiver 1929. Publié par Kossuth, à Paris, Estampes rehaussées appartenant à la revue l’Homme Chic, de la collection d’hiver de l’année 1929. Chaque estampe est identifiée avec le code de publication et un timbre sec de « L’Homme Chic à Paris », chaque costume est numéroté de l’un jusqu’au 20. 13 gravures indépendantes, de 32x24cm, avec une marge en papier doré. Catalogue de la collection, 18 costumes de mode de l’époque, les costumes N° 10 et 17° sont absents.
18991803120045London : Grant Richards 1899. Hardcover. Good. Two octavo volumes 25 cm. 1899-1900. 12 issues of the entire reissue of the Butterfly. Contemporary 3/4 green Moroccan leather over green linen. iv 278; ii 294 pp; illustrated. Rubbing slight fading to spines. Occasional spotting. Original yellow wraps bound in rear of volumes. Wraps evenly faded and toned. <br> In 1899 Richards attempted to revive a literary monthly created by Walter Haddon in 1893 called The Butterfly. <br> Contributors to The Butterfly which only lasted twelve issues included H. D. Lowry Arthur Morrison Nora Hopper and many others. Each issue was heavily Illustrated with reproductions of drawings by Max Beerbohm S. H. Sime and Joseph Pennell among others. <br> Includes the first appearance of A Vision of Judgment by D.O. H. G. Wells and 3 pieces of fiction by Laurence Housman: The Palace of Content; A Gander and His Geese; and Tales of a Woodcutter The Old Yew Tree and The Whitethorn's Story. <br> From the estate of Jim Graham former Washington D.C. City Council Member 1998-2014. Graham was head of Whitman-Walker Clinic 1984–1999 and a noted gay community pioneer. London : Grant Richards hardcover
68181Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1961. Ornithology / Bondiana FIRST US EDITION THUS. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.256. With occasional colour plate illustrations and frequent line drawings in-text. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper. Cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Samuel Bryant priced at $6. A nice clean copy showing just a hint of spotting to top edge and some light wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. This new edition followed two earlier printings in America; Philadelphia 1936 and Macmillan New York 1947 under the title Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies. Gilbert page 616. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961 unknown
74728London: Macmillan and Co. 1908. Children's classic FIRST DETMOLD COLOUR ILLUSTRATED EDITION first impression. Octavo 22 x 14.5 cm; pp.xii 314 2 advertisements. With 16 full-page colour plates. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt top edge gilt. Contents clean a little toning to edges and endpapers binding carefully handled small pull at crown. Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Detmold were English graphic artists twins born on 21 November 1883. Due to the illness of their father they grew up in the care of their uncle Dr E B Shuldham who had acquired a notable collection of Japanese woodprints of plants and animals. This encouraged the twins to commence drawing animals and plants at a very early age and resulted in a debut aged 13 at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters with nature studies in the Japanese style. The Detmolds subsequently learned techniques of watercolour etching and of colour printing with copper plates. London: Macmillan and Co., 1908 unknown
65163London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1878. Strange Tale SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo 19 x 15cm pp.xii; 246. With 44 engraved illustrations including a tissue-guarded frontispiece by Jules Férat and Charles Barbant. Publiisher's pale blue cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper coated cream endpapers all edges gilt. No inscriptions inside paper hinges cracked contents clean cloth a little rubbed frayed to spine ends some ripples to cloth on rear board spine toned. A very good copy. The discovery of an apparent race of troglodytes holds up the development of a promising new vein at an old coal mine near Stirling in Scotland. First published in English in 1877. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878 unknown
