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1889276169New York London: White & Allen 1889. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. In the publisher's green cloth with slightly faded titling and decorations in green and in gold. Illustrated throughout with quite attractive sepia chromolithographs and a few in green. There is very minor surface loss to the verso of the title page where the chromolithograph on the adjacent rector adhered slightly with a small amount of paper still on the illustration. Otherwise all plates and decorations are fine. Very Good binding. White & Allen unknown books
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
18463650Paris: J. Hetzel 1846. First edition. Two large octavo volumes 10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 263 x 175 mm. Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco ruled in gilt over black morocco-grain paper over boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities head of spine of Volume II expertly and almost invisibly repaired front hinge of Volume I cracked but sound. Minimal foxing and soiling. Small area of surface abrasion to upper blank margin of plate Artistes —6 facing page 160 in Volume II where it was once adhered to the facing page. Bookplate Bibliothèque de A. Vautrain on front pastedown of each volume. Collating 4 xxxii 380; 4 lxxx 364. Wood- engraved title vignette in each volume 212 wood-engraved plates 208 after Gavarni and four after Bertall with tissue guards and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces vignettes and initials. This copy with a duplicate of the plate facing in Volume I. Music. Overall an excellent copy.<br/><br/>"The book appeared in part-issues at the rate of one or two a week between April of 1843 and December of 1845. The major attraction of Le diable à Paris resides in Gavarni's plates which are of even greater interest than the 320 wood engravings of his Oeuvres choisies 207. The engraving is superior for the most part and they are new conceptions not versions of his lithographs. He limits himself almost entirely to single figures or pairs evoked with his usual concentration and psychological subtlety. He had a free hand with his subjects since his designs are quite unrelated to Hetzel's text. As usual he arranged them as series some of which those devoted to writers and politicians for example are largely unprecedented in his previous repertory. He invaded Daumier's world with success in the fifteen plates of ‘Bourgeois' exampled in the self-satisfied worthy reproduced II 328" Ray.<br/><br/>Hiler 237. J. Hetzel unknown books
1891WRCLIT70057New York: New York Printing Co / The Republic Press 1891. Oblong octavo. Contemporary three-quarter calf. Portrait plates and decorations. First edition. Upper board detached and spine chipped; properly deaccessioned institutional duplicate with bookplate and small label each bearing a small release stamp. New York Printing Co / The Republic Press unknown books
196582424NY:: Bonanza Books. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. A reprint edition. Worn at the upper corners age toning else very good in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Bonanza Books, hardcover 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
19001288287London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1900. First edition. 12mo; G/no-DJ; Light blue spine with gold text; Boards have sunned spine with minor shelf wear otherwise clean & sturdy panels; Text block is slightly age toned with previous owner's name on ffep good binding; pp 371. 1288287. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd unknown books
197953059NY:: Abrams. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0810909553 . 171 illustrations including 141 in color. Devised by David Larkin. Text by Sarah Teale. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Abrams, hardcover books
197919407NY: Abrams. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0810909553 . 171 illustrations including 141 in color. Devised by David Larkin. Text by Sarah Teale. First edition thus. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Abrams hardcover books
1867293365London New York: Cassell Petter and Galpin 1867. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 16mo.; in the publisher's "window-shade" green cloth with an elaborately stamped gilt device to the center of the upper board; vii. 2 10-309 including the Index; with 8 unnumbered leaves of plates including the frontispiece; followed by 10 pages of ads for Cassell's Illustrated Children's Books; all edges gilt; an exceptionally attractive copy.~~A splendid source book for life during quarantine -- Acting Charades Drawing Room farce; Tableaux vivants; In-door games Intellectual games; Catch games and trick games; Puzzles. Near Fine binding. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin unknown 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
001956Bruges and Ostende: J. Buffa. Half Morocco . Very Good. Cham Victor Eeckhout H. Borremans van Cuyck Gerlier F. Stroobant J. Van de Putte Baldisseroni de Nestele spellings of these names somewhat elastic. N.d. circa 1860. A fabulous collection of hand-colored plates of the popular Belgian beach resort with a mix of character studies mostly of the local non-fashionable citizenry humorous genre scenes and views of the beach the architecture the beachgoers the sea. 52 plates in all all but one of which is hand-colored the final plate is a folding tinted panorama of the beach looking in from the sea . Some of the beach scenes are evocative of Boudin. The mix of humor and more sober portraits lends a balance from which we can better approximate the culture and atmosphere at this early destination resort. And through the pictures we can sense the uneasy embrace of the vacationing bathers with the sea. The colored plates are all 13.5 by 10 inches or 34 by 25 cm including their margins. The plates are mostly clean but there is some finger soiling and the like in the margins and a few plates have chips and small chunks of card missing never affecting the images. Rebacked with attractive green morocco. The contemporary cloth boards are soiled with a few minor edge dings. No title and no evidence there ever was one. <br/><br/> J. Buffa unknown books
2017220965Crescent City CA: Flashpoint Press / PM Press 2017. Paperback. 158p. 8x10 inches color illustrations as NEW. Mythic short stories illustrated by a variety of artists. Flashpoint Press / PM Press paperback 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
190346074New York: The Hobart Company 1903. 1st Edition. Red cloth gilt lettering to upper board and back strip colored pictorial onlay to upper board. A VG copy gilt bright light soiling to boards corners and edges slight rubbed and lightly frayed some age toning to edges of leaves foxing and a couple small tears to end papers some light pencil marks to ffep illustrations and text clean and bright. 306 pp. Eight black and white illustrations including frontis all accounted for. 7-1/2" x 5" <br/><br/> The Hobart Company hardcover books
19761334291Harmondsworth: Kestrel Books 1976. Hardcover. Quarto; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with orange and black print; DJ has edgewear smudging on rear mild shelfwear; Boards in glossy illustrated paper mild wear to spine caps and corners; Text block has inscription in ink on front flyleaf light spotting to front endpapers else clean and tight; unpaged illustrated color. <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. 1334291. FP New Rockville Stock. Kestrel Books hardcover 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
19621336986New York: Golden Press 1962. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine gold and black without print; Boards in illustrated paper slight edgewear light rubbing/shelfwear; Text block has red tinted edges ink mark inside front cover slight age-toning to paper else clean and tight; "Hanna-Barbera"- at head of title; unpaged illustrated color. 1336986. FP New Rockville Stock. Golden Press hardcover books
19265867Chicago and Toronto: Bookhouse for children 1926. Later printing. Good/One of three titles in the "My Travelship" series of readings for home education. The highly illustrated text consists of stories songs and folklore from the Netherlands. 28 cm; 190 pages. Illustrated in color throughout. Bound in sturdy red cloth with color illustration mounted to front cover. Pictorial endleaves. Covers worn at spine ends and a bit cocked but still sound and entire free of internal blemishes. Bookhouse for children hardcover books
19275943Chicago and Toronto: The Book House for children 1927. Later printing. Poor/One of three titles in the "My Travelship" series of readings for home education. The highly illustrated text consists of stories songs and folklore from France. 28 cm; 191 pages. Illustrated in color throughout. Bound in blue cloth with color illustration mounted to front cover. Pictorial endleaves. Covers quite worn; first leaves loose. Cover illustration a bit scratched The Book House for children hardcover books
19871335667New York: DC Comics 1987. Softcover. Octavo; First printing; G; Paperback; Spine black with yellow print; Cover has light edgewear creasing to hinges and spine light shelfwear; Text block is clean and tight light age-toning to paper; variously paged illustrated color. STOCK IMAGE. 1335667. FP New Rockville Stock. DC Comics unknown books
1882WRCAM36493BWashington: text: Government Printing Office; atlas: Julius Bien & Co. of New York for the Government Printing Office 1882. Quarto text volume with folio atlas. Text: 1p. advertisement series title title as above. Forty-two plates maps and charts including two chromolithographed views by Sinclair after Holmes seventeen wood- engraved views eight after Thomas Moran nine after Holmes four "Heliotype" plates ten double-page. Atlas: Mounted on guards throughout. 1p. letterpress text otherwise lithographed throughout. Title-leaf twelve double-page map-sheets after Dutton eleven printed in colors ten double-page sheets of views after Holmes 9 and Moran 1 five chromolithographed and five printed in tints all printed by Julius Bien & Co. Text: Original cloth neatly rebacked to style. Minor shelf wear. Atlas: Original cloth titled in gilt on front board. A bit of shelf wear corners bumped. Ink stamp on titlepage. Text and atlas both very clean internally. A very good set. "One of the grandest publications of the scientific expeditions in the American West.depicting the Grand Canyon in a series of magnificent panoramas" - CREATING AMERICA. The work includes illustrations by arguably the two greatest American topographical artists to record this era of westward expansion: William Holmes and Thomas Moran. The handsomely illustrated text volume was intended to accompany Dutton's impressive atlas of maps and panoramas of the Grand Canyon. Many of the plates in the text volume are from drawings by W.H. Holmes. <br> <br> The atlas includes eight beautifully executed maps of the region on twelve sheets as well as the ten sheets of views. The views include a number of images that are designed to form larger continuous panoramas. The greatest of these is Holmes' view from Point Sublime in the Kaibab: the three chromolithographed sheets numbered XVI- XVII if joined would form a single panoramic view with an image area measuring approximately 17 x 90 inches. It is interesting to note that the first of these sheets includes what may be a self-portrait and portrait respectively of Holmes and Dutton: two figures are visible at the edge of the canyon one is seated and clearly sketching Holmes while the second figure bends down to examine his companion's work Dutton. William Goetzmann calls W.H. Holmes "the greatest artist-topographer and man of many talents that the West ever produced.his artistic technique was like no other's. He could sketch panoramas of twisted mountain ranges sloping monoclines escarpments plateaus canyons fault blocks and grassy meadows that accurately depicted hundreds of miles of terrain. They were better than maps and better than photographs because he could get details of stratigraphy that light and shadow obscured from the camera.his illustrations for Dutton's TERTIARY HISTORY OF THE GRAND CANON DISTRICT are masterpieces of realism and draftsmanship as well as feats of imaginative observation." <br> <br> The team assembled to carry out this geological survey of the Grand Canyon included some outstanding talents: C.E. Dutton the scientist; Jack Hilliers the photographer; and Holmes and Moran as artist- topographers. The intention of the survey was strictly scientific but as Dutton wrote in his preface "I have in many places departed from the severe ascetic style which has become conventional in scientific monographs." This is also true of Moran and Holmes: both were clearly inspired by their subjects. The overall result is of a quality that would not be possible today. As Wallace Stegner wrote in his introduction to the 1977 reprint: <br> <br> "Later specialization has eliminated from scientific publications most of the elements that make THE TERTIARY HISTORY so charming. No report written as this one is written would now be published by any government bureau. No illustrators like Moran and Holmes would be permitted to illustrate it.A great book.THE TERTIARY HISTORY has kept its value precisely because it does not specialize." FARQUHAR BOOKS OF THE COLORADO RIVER & THE GRAND CANYON 73. Goetzmann EXPLORATION AND EMPIRE pp.512-13. REESE & MILES CREATING AMERICA 40. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 197. [text:] Government Printing Office; [atlas:] Julius Bien & Co. of New York (for the Government Printing Office) hardcover books
188228652Washington: text: Government Printing Office atlas: Julius Bien & Co. of New York for the Government Printing Office 1882. 2 volumes quarto text and folio atlas. Text: 2xiv264pp. plus forty-two plates plans and maps including two chromolithographed views by Sinclair after Holmes seventeen wood-engraved views eight after Thomas Moran nine after Holmes four "Heliotype" plates ten double-page. Atlas: 2title leaf1p. letterpress text otherwise lithographed throughout with twelve double-page map-sheets after Dutton eleven printed in colors ten double-page sheets of views after Holmes 9 and Moran 1 five chromolithographed and five printed in tints all printed by Julius Bien & Co. Short horizontal tear to outer margin of one leaf pp.101-02 slightly longer tears to outer margins of pp.165-66 and pp.245-46 just touching a few words. Repaired tear to front blank of atlas volume a few instances of minor marginal thumb-soiling. Publisher's cloth gilt atlas rebacked with original cloth laid down. Spine ends of text volume chipped with a few small nicks to the cloth along the joints spine lightly sunned corners rubbed<br/> <br/>"One of the grandest publications of the scientific expeditions in the American West. depicting the Grand Canyon in a series of magnificent panoramas" Reese & Miles. `Depicting America.' The work includes illustrations by arguably the two greatest American topographical artists to record this era of westward expansion: William Holmes and Thomas Moran.<br/> <br/>The atlas includes eight beautifully executed maps of the region on twelve sheets as well as the ten sheets of views. The views include a number of images that are designed to form larger continuous panoramas. The greatest of these is Holmes' view from Point Sublime in the Kaibab; the three chromolithographed sheets numbered XVI-XVII if joined would form a single panoramic view with an image area measuring approximately 17 x 90 inches. It is interesting to note that the first of these sheets includes what may be a self-portrait and portrait respectively of Holmes and Dutton: two figures are visible at the edge of the canyon one is seated and clearly sketching Holmes whilst the second figure bends down to examine his companion's work Dutton. W.H. Holmes whom William Goetzmann calls "the greatest artist-topographer and man of many talents that the West ever produced.his artistic technique was like no other's. He could sketch panoramas of twisted mountain ranges sloping monoclines escarpments plateaus canyons fault blocks and grassy meadows that accurately depicted hundreds of miles of terrain. They were better than maps and better than photographs because he could get details of stratigraphy that light and shadow obscured from the camera.his illustrations for Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District are masterpieces of realism and draftsmanship as well as feats of imaginative observation." The team assembled to carry out this geological survey of the Grand Canyon included some outstanding talents: C.E.Dutton the scientist; Jack Hilliers the photographer and of course Holmes and Moran as artist-topographers. The intention of the survey was strictly scientific but as Dutton writes in his preface "I have in many places departed from the severe ascetic style which has become conventional in scientific monographs." This is also true of Moran and Holmes: both were clearly inspired by their subjects. The overall result is of a quality that would not be possible today. As Wallace Stegner wrote in his introduction to the 1977 reprint "Later specialization has eliminated from scientific publications most of the elements that make The Tertiary History so charming. No report written as this one is written would now be published by any government bureau. No illustrators like Moran and Holmes would be permitted to illustrate it. A great book. The Tertiary History has kept its value precisely because it does not specialize."<br/> <br/>Francis P. Farquhar The Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon Los Angeles: 1953 73; Goetzmann Exploration and Empire pp. 512-513; W.B. Reese & G.A. Miles Creating America New Haven: 1992 40. [text:] Government Printing Office, [atlas: Julius Bien & Co. of New York (for the Government Printing Office)] 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
