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1867D12669London: Bell and Daldy Chiswick Press 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's red cloth ornately stamped in blind and gilt on boards and spine a.e.g.; 8vo; pp. ix 1 398; plus 29 plates by C. W. Cope P. H. Calderon W. Millais W. Holman Hunt Otto Speckter G. H. Thomas E. Warren Lorenz Flohlich W. B. Scott E. B. Jones Harrison Weir John Tenniel Joseph Wolf W. P. Burton M. E. Edwards and Charles Keene. Complete. Cloth a little rubbed here and there; spine tips lightly chipped and fraying a bit along joints; some light bumping along edges of boards; joints and hinges tender with binding somewhat shaken. Internally bright and clean. Bookplate of Kenneth A. Lohf. <br/><br/> Bell and Daldy [Chiswick Press] hardcover books
1967008463Berkeley: Bill Donaho 1967. Progress Report 1 September 1967 illustrations by Johnny Chambers 8 unnumbered pages in stapled illustrated wrappers. Mostly containing the schedule for the upcoming convention. With Anthony Boucher listed as Toastmaster and Parliamentarian significant because inside rear cover of Progress Report 3 contains memorial tribute to Boucher. Progress Report 3 June 1968 cover illustrations by Vaughan Bode 28 unnumbered pages stapled illustrated wrappers full page map of Berkeley. From the collection of noted science fiction artist illustrator and writer Henry M. Eichner with original mailing envelope addressed to him. Both Reports are Fine. RARE Baycon ephemera with excellent sci-fi provenance. . First Printing. Pamphlet. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bill Donaho Paperback books
197748639NY: Harry N. Abrams 1977. Hardcover. Very good. First Printing. Light foxing to prelims and page edges else a very good hardback bound in publisher's illustrated boards and acetate jacket that has a large chip to the bottom of the front panel and a few closed tears but is otherwise complete and in very good condition. <br/><br/> Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1908286449Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Hermann Becker & August Horn. 270pp. Prospectuses for Saunders's Books for Nurses and Saunders's Hand Atlases laid in. Also laid in is Dr. Cullen's visiting card.Previous owner name; no markings in text; green cloth binding with light edgewear to extremities; slightly heavier wear at top and bottom spine; the front hinge has had a bit of later discreet gluing and is holding well. There is a previous owner name on the front endpaper. Mylar cut to protect boards. Very Good binding. W. B. Saunders Company unknown books
1896022553Berlin: Paul Kittel successor Peter Stanik 1896. Oblong Quarto. No pagination. A beautiful near fine copy depicting the life of the Prussian Queen Luise through color lithographs.Beautifully bound in light purple cloth pictorial pastedown of the Queern lettered andf decorated in black white and gilt decorative endpapers no names or bookplates small bump to foot of spine. Very nice. Paul Kittel successor Peter Stanik unknown books
1806WRCLIT68049London: Vernor Hood and Sharpe et al 1806. 55pp. plus portrait and fourteen plates. Small quarto. Original boards paper label untrimmed rebacked and recornered in later binder's cloth. Some foxing and offsetting but a good copy. First edition. Another edition appeared the same year priority not evident. The memoir is by E.W. Brayley. NCBEL III:367. Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe [et al] hardcover books
1840401753Paris: Aubert 1840. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. 12mo 140 x 89 mm. Numerous illustrations in text by Daumier and Janet-Lange. Original printed wrappers. Tear to spine. FIRST EDITION. Vicaire VI:621. <br/><br/> Aubert unknown books
19791341339Ohio: Self Published 1979. FIrst Edition. Other. Staple-bound comic; VG. Minor creasing to cover. Corners very slightly rounded. Cover white pages cream. Several pages have small cuts at lower margins from flaws in paper. Mild creasing/wrinkling of some pages ~1" in from spine. Staples original and centered but somewhat rusted. RH Consignment; Shelved case 8 1/4. 1341339. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Self Published unknown books
1915002601Berlin: Hermann Hillger Verlag 1915. First Edition. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated with 25 leaves a color plate on each of them not counting title leaf. The color plate is on the recto and the facing verso contains accompanying verse. The artwork bears the style of a darkish late impressionism as it moved towards an Expressionist sensibility. As not everything was by the same hand there is some diversity of style coloring literalism of course. Included is an original subscription or order form for the book. It would appear that the book was sold in part or perhaps entirely through direct sales spearheaded by the Crown Princess and conducted by aristocratic women at least in some measure. Light soiling to the cover pastedown. Scattered light soiling within. One gathering is partly loose. <br/><br/> Hermann Hillger Verlag hardcover books
195817090807Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo 1958. Limited Edition. Wraps. Near fine/near fine. Veroni Raul Vassena Leonor. Number four of ten printed on Pergamino Fabriano in Spanish octavo size 64 pp. signed by Alfredo Martinez Howard at the colophon and Leonor Vassena below the plate. A book of poetry in Spanish with haunting illustrations offered as issued in unbound signatures in original wraps with original glassine wrapper. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Paper wrappers with glassine jacket front wrap and spine printed in red and black unbound leaves mostly unopened title-page printed in red and black frontis and one signed etching Pergamino Fabriano paper octavo size 9" by 6.75" pagination: 1-8 9-52 53-64 index and colophon limited edition this number IV of ten copies I to X printed on Pergamino Fabriano total edition 50 signed by Alfredo Martinez Howard at the colophon and Leonor Vassena below the plate. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: A bright clean copy sole signature with minimal foxing that containing the plate the other signature bright and without foxing in the original glassine; a miniscule amount of wear to the glassine wrapper near fine. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Francisco A. Colombo unknown books
196821032123New York: Young Scott Books 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Gorey Edward. First printing oblong sixmo 48 pp. signed by Edward Gorey. Edward Lear 1812-1888 although being an artist and illustrator himself is remembered mostlhy today for his nonsensical works particularly his limericks. One of the most recognizable of these is "The Owl and the Pussycat" who "dined on mince and slices of quince which they ate with a runcible spoon."<br/><br/>"The Jumblies" was the first poem in Lear's "Book of Nonsense" published in 1846. Per the dust jacket flap Edward Gorey decided to illustrate this poem because it "was taught to me by my grandfather when I was four or five and it has always been one of my favourites."<br/><br/>Edward St. John Gorey 1925-2000 had a distinctive style evocative of a mystical gothic Victorian era and his vast body of work includes over one hundred books written by himself as well as those by many well-known authors such as T. S. Eliot Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll H. G. Wells and Virginia Woolf n. b. info from the Edward Gorey House website - and of course this work. Gorey dedicated the book "for Foss" Lear's cat who "died in 1886 and was buried with some ceremony in a garden at Villa Tennyson" n.b. quote from Wiki. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: In a reinforced library binding of tan cloth over boards Gorey illustration in black and white on the front board with decorative lettering black lettering on the spine illustrated title page with Gorey's signature above his printed name through which he drew a line per usual each stanze of the poem printed on the versos left-hand side with Gorey's corresponding illustration on the opposite page recto of the following page; oblong sixmo 6 1/8" tall and 9 1/8" wide unpaginated with 24 leaves including free endpapers. The dust jacket shows the original price of $2.95 mirrors the book on the panels and spine front flap a short summary by the publisher back flap with four Gorey characters. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume fine with clean boards straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; perhaps a light speck or two on the light binding else fine. The unclipped dust jacket could be deemed fine it is complete clean and almost without wear; a touch or two of scattered light spots and a hint of sunning to the spine. Overall a remarkable example. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Toledano B 38a. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Young Scott Books hardcover books
190613121401New York: The Macmillan Company 1906. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Bailey Vernon Howe and Ralph Lester. No. 2 of 200 copies printed on Japan vellum octavo size 420 pp. signed by Owen Wister. Owen Wister was an American writer and is known as the father of western fiction - his most famous work "The Virginian" is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. A classmate and friend of Teddy Roosevelt's like him Wister was attracted to the culture and lore of the West and on a visit to Yellowstone in 1893 he met Frederic Remington who remained a lifelong friend. This novel Lady Baltimore published four years after The Virginian is set in the East yet shares a similar theme of searching for aristocratic roots in everyday personas.<br/><br/>Limited edition of 200 copies printed on Japan vellum this being number 2 with dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Signed by the author on the limitation page with a tipped-in note on front free endpaper which states 'This is a presentation copy containing author's autograph.' <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Tan paper boards with author and title in a darker tan outlined in gilt vellum spine with same lettering top-edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Dust jacket is light brown woven paper with similar lettering outlined in dark brown slipcase also a light tan cardboard. Tipped in note as referred to above on front free endpaper denoting a signed Presentation copy same note pasted to the side of the slipcase. Octavo size approx. 8.5" tall pagination: i-xiv 1-406.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: The book is near fine minor rubbing to tail of the spine corners are perfect text block and hinges are strong and solid free of prior owner markings interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket good only with several large chips due mostly to the jacket having been cut larger than the book and so apparently often caught when returning the book to the slipcase. Slipcase is overall very good with no creases or tears however does exhibit overall soiling.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
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
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
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 books
18701284910New York: Stroefer and Kirchner 1870. First Thus. Hardcover. Folio; VG-; Rebound with leather spine and original boards; Spine has raised bands and red label with gilt lettering; Gilt lettering to front boards with gilt and tooled designs; Bumping to the corners with some fraying; All edges gilt; Light wear/scratching to gilt in areas; Binding repaired with new end papers; Some foxing throughout affecting some of the illustrations; Tissue guards present for illustrations; Note book is heavy please contact us for expedited or international shipping. Shelved above case 2. 1284910. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Stroefer and Kirchner hardcover books
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 books
188843842Boston: L. Prang & Co 1888. 1st Edition. Tan linen cloth binding with color printed spine & boards. Marbled edges. Modest shelfwear. Small label removal abrasions to fixed endpapers; light gutter break. 5 signed mss recipes entered herein. A VG - VG copy. Unpaginated though ~ 250. Tinted frontispiece. 16 chromolithographed divisional title leaves followed by a lithographed leaf of text poetry. Oblong format: 6-7/8" x 9-1/2" <br/><br/>A mostly blank recipe book adorned with Prang's exquisite chromolithographs. Each recipe signed by a different author; most in a contemporary hand and/or dated 1891 save the final recipe dated 1920. Recipes include: Sausages Tutti Frutti Oil Pickle Snow Pudding and Dandelion Wine. Somewhat scarce with OCLC listing but 5 institutional holdings. L. Prang & Co hardcover books
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
50327Prague: Grafická edice A. Chvála 1933. Octavo 22.2 à 16 cm. Original pictorial wrappers; 106 3 pp. Thirty plates including fourteen original woodcut plates and two linocuts. With a tipped-in photo-montage design by Sutnar. Very good only light sun-tanning and wear to spine; in protective mylar. Attractive volume reproducing a lecture on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Association of Czech Bibliophiles and the Association of Collectors and Friends of Bookplates held on March 9 1933 in Prague. Followed by thirty plates some in color including original woodcut and linocut prints among them one drawing by Toyen and one photo-montage design by Ladislav Sutnar. Other artists include V. Mašek J. Solar K. Svolinský A. Moravec and numerous others. Finally the book lists hundreds of greeting cards in the form of postcards photographs prints and bound volumes probably exhibited at the meeting as well as addresses of the artists. Scarce; as of November 2019 KVK and OCLC show two copies in North America. unknown books
005029Esslingen and München: Verlag von J. F. Schreiber. Hardcover. Front board: pictorial paper pastedown. Cloth spine. . Near Fine. An exceptionally clean and bright copy of this juvenile audience plate book depicting geography and domestic and work life. N.d. circa 1870s. Small folio. 32 by 21.5 cm. 5 7 1 pp followed by 30 double-sided hand-colored plates. Each plate measures 32 by 40 cm. The plates depict the home rural and urban the city the farm a vineyard tools a church interior a city market a winter skating scene a mountain landscape a railroad station a forest etc. The point was to educate children about the features of all these places and spaces and incidentally impart the vocabulary -- the many nouns -- associated with them. Nowadays the plates are simply wonderfully decorative with their bright chromolithography and evocation of a lost world. And the great Meggendorfer was responsible for three of the plates! Light wear to the cover. One of the plates has a minor closed tear by its fold. But as we indicated an unusually appealing copy. <br/><br/> Verlag von J. F. Schreiber hardcover books
19103818London: S.W. Partridge & Co. Lrd 1910. First edition. Original red cloth over color pictorial front board and advertisement on rear board advertisements on endpapers. Corners and board edges a little worn. Large quarto 10 3/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 259 x 195 mm. Pictorial title-page printed in blue 92 unnumbered pages and six full page color plates. Numerous other mono-color and black & white illustrations throughout the text including six by Louis Wain. Ink inscription on verso of color frontispiece dated Xmas 1910. A good copy of a very scarce book in fact the first time that we have ever seen this title. <br/><br/>The Louis Wain illustrations in this delicate book include the following:<br/>How Pride Betrays. three 0ne-third page printed in brown When the Cook's Away. full-page printed in blue<br/>Tubbing the Kitties. one-third page printed in green "You Naughty Kitties!" full-page printed in green. S.W. Partridge & Co., Lrd unknown books
19053802New York: McLoughlin Brothers 1905. First edition. New Chimney Corner series No. 37 1/2. Full color glazed pictorial wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout including ten full-page by Louis Wain of which two are signed and a title-page vignette by Palmer Cox. Transparent tape repairs to spine and the fore-edge to a few leaves. Pale gift inscription to upper wrapper. A scarce and attractive survivor to children's enthusiastic hands. Unrecorded by Dale.<br/><br/>At the end of the last century Louis Wain 1860-1939 the Edwardian cat artist who went mad became a household name as an illustrator of cats whom he depicted in all sorts of activities from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars attending dances and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style a cat society a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves" H.G. Wells. Here alongside illustrations from Palmer Cox who also specialized in Scottish fairytales and rhymes. McLoughlin Brothers unknown books
19143708London: Hodder and Stoughton 1914. First edition. Finely bound ca. 1914 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp-signed on rear turn-in in full dark blue morocco covers decoratively paneled in gilt with inlaid red morocco floral corner-pieces and in the center in gilt the Royal stamp of Princess Mary. Spine with five raised bands paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments all edges gilt cream watered silk liners and endleaves.Quarto 9 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches; 251 x 186 mm. vi 140 pp. Fourteen color plates tipped-in to captioned tan stock with brown line frame many black and white text drawings. Four figure ink number upside down on verso of rear blank leaf. An exceptional copy.<br/><br/>A relatively common book but scarce in fine condition. This may well be a special presentation binding that was done at the time of publication. "This was the first of a group of wartime books sponsored by prominent people and sold to raise money for worthy causes. The most popular it sold 604884 copies during the two years 1914-1916 that is was in print. The Times in an article November 21 1914 sought to promote the cause "The Queen's Fund" by directing the public to the display of the original drawings at the Leicester Galleries" Hughey.<br/><br/>The fourteen tipped-in color plates include:<br/><br/>"So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end" Arthur Rackham "True Spartan Hearts" Edmund Dulac<br/>"The Ant Lion" E.J. Detmold<br/>"A Holiday in Bed" W. Russell Flint<br/><br/>There are also many black & white drawings by C.E. Brock; E.J. Detmold; Arthur Rackham; Byam Shaw; H. M. Brock; Lewis Baumer and Edmund J. Sullivan<br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell 93. Riall 120. Hughey 34. Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
18131233158vo in 4s. London: R. Ackermann 1813. 8vo in 4s 4 xv 1 blank 215 1 blank pp. Twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece. Full crushed red morocco by Riviere covers gilt-ruled backstrip with five raised bands paneled in gilt gilt dentelles green coated endpapers all edges gilt. Joints lightly worn some offsetting from the plates a very good copy. § First edition. "The originals of the plates introduced in this volume were sketches made as souvenirs of the place during a visit to Scarborough 1812. They were not intended for publication but being found to interest many persons of taste several of whom expressed a desire to possess engravings of them and some gentlemen having offered to add metrical illustrations to each the present form of publication has been adopted. The several authors were not personally acquainted with each other" Advertisement. A delightfully silly satire on fashionable life at the seaside in Regency England perhaps better known to us today through the novels of Jane Austen. In later years Scarborough became a favorite place of Anne Brontë who was prescribed the spa waters and sea air for her tuberculosis and who died there in 1849. The versified descriptions of the spa the castle the ball room and sea-bathing among other things were here published anonymously; in the second edition the authors were identified as W. Coombe J. B. Papworth and F. Wrangham. "Plate 8 'The Warm Bath' is said to contain the portrait of Mrs. Robinson George IV's mistress" Tooley. Abbey Scenery 297. Tooley 422. R. Ackermann hardcover books