88 résultats
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
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
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
275504New York: Frederick A. Stokes n.d. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. There is a previous owner gift inscription on the endpaper; otherwise a clean copy. Collates complete with all illustrations present. In the publisher's green cloth with color pictorial pastedown. Very Good binding. Frederick A. Stokes unknown 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
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
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
19202558Paris Mishan Publishing Co. Editions d'art "La Cible. 1920. Dvenadtsat. Khudojestvienoe izdatelstvo "Michen". Art Editions "The Target". 13 rue Bonaparte. Paris. 1920. 8vo 24 x195 cm 27 ff. : flexible printed card covers. This book contains the two most famous poems of Alexander Block One of Russia's most famous poets. Two plates by Gontcharova six plates and a small illustration by Larionov refined typography. Natalia Gontcharova 1881-1962 was one of the most famous artists of the Russian Avant-garde. Trained in Moscow where she met Larionov 1881-1964 he was to become her life companion. She contributed to a great number of important exhibitions and both Gontcharova and Larionov played a crucial role in the development of Russian art. They settled in Paris shortly before the present edition became French citizens in 1938 and were married in 1955. Larionov exhibited his Rayonnist works at The Target exhibition in 1913 in Moscow. . The illustrations by Larionov showed his freedom in changing from one style to another within the same book as he liked to do in 1912-1913. Name chosen by the bookseller Jacques Povolozky for his publishing house. The most striking work of the symbolist poet Alexandre Block 1880-1921 the twelve red guards representing the new world. Printed by "Union" The most outstanding work of the poet ALEXANDRE BLOCK 1880-1921 were The TWELVE Red Guards and THE SCYTHIANS Both are poems announcing the revolution. REF:Goncharova Larionov. Centre Pompidou. Paris. 1995. Mishan Publishing Co. Editions d'art "La Cible. paperback 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
1984245330New York: Madison Square Press 1984. hardcover. fine. Illustrated with over 500 full-color reproductions. Thick folio black cloth inlaid color plate on front cover. New York: Madison Square Press 1984. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Madison Square Press unknown books
1985207517New York: Madison Square Press 1985. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated with 668 full-color reproductions. 440 pages. Thick folio blue cloth d.w. d.w. has small sticker ghost on top corner of front cover else clean. New York: Madison Square Press 1985. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Published for the exhibition held in the Galleries of the Society of American Illustrators in New York from January 30 through April 10 1985.<br/><br/> Madison Square Press unknown books
196417492New York: Harcourt Brace and World 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly edgeworn with a handful of short closed tears. Touches of shelf-soil. Price-clipped. Interior bright and lcean. Very good. 128pp. <br/><br/>Collection of twenty-six tales gathered by folklorist Harold Courlander. Harcourt Brace and World hardcover books
183918051101London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Browne Hablot K. 'Phiz"; Meadows Kenney. First printing mixed state octavo size 707 pp. This was writer Charles Dickens' 1812-1870 third novel widely anticipated and loved. He is often considered the greatest of the Victorian era novelists blending drama and comedy into compelling stories. In this novel Dickens explores the social issues that his works are known for such as harsh boarding schools the privilege of royal title and wealth social customs of the day and the plight of the working class. The plot focuses on the hardships courageously navigated by young Nicholas Nickleby after his father passes away. <br/><br/>The extra illustrations provided were drawn by Joseph Kenny Meadows 1790 - 1874 best known for his drawings published in Punch magazine. He was a friend of Charles Dickens and several other writers of the period. These caricatures add a visual element to the characters depicted by Dickens n.b. above information from Wiki. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Half red morocco leather over marbled paper boards six compartments on spine five with gilt title and author in gilt to one compartment embossed decorative and gilt borders to front and rear boards all edges marbled frontis of a young Charles Dickens supplied thirty-nine plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" and twenty-four plates of various characters in the novel by Kenny Meadows the extra plates. This is a mixed state in that two of the first four plates have the Chapman and Hall imprint further the correction on p.123 has been made but "latter" for "letter" still appears on p.160 line 43. Octavo size 8 1/2" by 5 1/2 " iii-vii viii-xvi 1 2-624. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Overall very good internally this volume is quite clean the text block is square the hinges are sound and the gilt on the spine is bright. Rubbing to front and rear joints corners rubbed rubbing and slight loss to marbled papers on front and rear board both front and rear hinge have been professionally repaired prior owner bookplate with inscription of "To David from Dad" vintage bookseller stamp and prior owner notes in pencil to the front pastedown offsetting from turn-ins to front and rear endpapers 1/8" tear to margin of frontispiece not affecting the image lacking the half-title hence our pagination begins with romanet iii slight damage to the foredge of plate between pages 174 and 175 not affecting the image the images have slight toning and foxing which is common. Even with these few flaws a better than very good copy with extra illustrations by an artist whose work complements that of Phiz and adds interest to the story.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Podeschi A41 Eckel p. 64.<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. Chapman and Hall 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
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
198024235NY: Viking 1980. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. F/NF spine sunned. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen. Oblong 8vo. <br/><br/> Viking hardcover books
19561312563Cambridge: Riverside Press 1956. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition published 1913 New edition published 1956; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine blue with blue print; Boards in blue cloth with blue print mild wear to corners and spine caps owner stamp on front fading and spotting; Text block has owner stamp on front flyleaf and half-title page spotting to edges else clean and tight; xxx 381 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w. 1312563. FP New Rockville Stock. Riverside Press hardcover books
197118978New York: Atheneum 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good . Small 8vo. Green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Very good plus in like DJ. Small tears rubbing touches of soil to DJ. Interior clean bright with trace soil at title page. Otherwise sharp. Good and sound. Reinfoced library binding as issued. Unpaginated. <br/><br/>Charming first printing of this story depicting the journey of Peter the Rat Peter the Butterfly and the boy named Peter. Atheneum 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
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
190893748London:: Archibald Constable & Co. Good. 1908. Hardcover. B000R9D11E . With about 130 illustrations color frontispiece and title page - all other illustrations are black and white. First edition thus. Shelf worn starting to separate at the front hinge else good in paper covered boards with color illustrations on front board and spine. No dust jacket. ; 435 pages . Archibald Constable & Co., 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
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
197851286NY:: David McKay Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0679209751 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine small corner crease on front flap dust jacket. . David McKay Company, hardcover books
19451340125Santa Barbara: Privately Printed 1945. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo; Limited edition 135/275; G; Hardcover; Spine blue with black print on tan label; Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and grey paper to boards light bump to bottom fore corner light peripheral toning; Text block clean and tight; "Christmas 1945"-- cover; Inscribed in ink by author on front endpaper; 39 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w. 1340125. FP New Rockville Stock. Privately Printed hardcover books
