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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
1910341925London: The Boys Own Annual 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn copy bound in the original gilt decorated pictorial cloth. Boards and spine starting. Lacks the title page. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 840 pages. Subjects; The Boys Own Annual. Children's Periodicals. 20th century periodicals. London: The Boys Own Annual hardcover
1879403845London : ""Boy's Own Paper"" Office 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over bevelled boards. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 840 pages 29 cm heavily illustrated illustrated endpapers. Subjects; Children's literature English ; Periodicals. Adventure stories English ; Periodicals. Children's periodicals English. Boys ; Juvenile literature ; Periodicals. Boys ; Periodicals. London : ""Boy's Own Paper"" Office hardcover
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
66989London: Hodder & Stoughton December 1912. Literary Magazine ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio 34 x 23cm pp.xvi; 133-196; 217; xvii-xxxv. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Dulac and also lacking the frontispiece portrait of Kipling. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations and occasional colour plates by various artists. Publisher's brown soft cloth-covered covers titled and decorated in red with a black and white photograph of Rudyard Kipling to upper priced at 2s. Moderate wear to covers including some chips and tears to spine. Frontispiece carefully removed otherwise plates appear intact. Internally clean. Good. A bumper selection of bookish articles focusing on subjects including Rudyard Kipling George Meredith Mrs Gaskell The Loeb Library Lord Byron William Morris and Thomas Hardy. London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1912 unknown
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
19351380449New York: The Platt & Munk Co 1935. Hardcover. Quarto 125 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is blue with brown print. Boards in blue cloth with brown print. Wear to spine caps edges and corners light shelf wear. Text block is missing front flyleaf name in ink on front pastedown bookplate on front endpaper small tear at bottom of page 63. Illustrated: color frontispiece and plates brown and white text drawings. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. <br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #1. 1380449. FP New Rockville Stock. The Platt & Munk Co hardcover
19038306New York: Frederick A. Stokes. Very Good. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards are worn - see image. 2" closed tear at bottom edge of title page. ; Interior of the book is in excellent condition - exception noted. A truly oversize "lap" book that was meant to entertain a child as depicted on front cover. This copy was admired and enjoyed carefully while being read which remains clean and unmarked. Tight binding. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Frederick A. Stokes hardcover
1926638159Longmans Green 1926. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. A good copy in the original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind cloth has some fray and wear; small dampstain to lower corner of front cover; ink name and writing on upper cover; some minor stains and browning to text; ink name initials and bookseller's ink stamp on front endppaers; at least one page corner folded. Longmans, Green hardcover
19321405385Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1932. Hardcover. Quarto Two volumes xxii 691 pages 49 leaves of plates ; xv 821 pages leaves of plates numbered 50-90. In Fair condition. Spines green with gold print. Boards in green cloth gold print; fraying to spine caps and corners mottled fading overall. Text blocks has spotting to endpapers insect damage vol. 1 pages 671-686 ; vol. 2. plates 81-90 and rear endpapers. Illustrated: b&w drawings photographs color plates. Signed in ink by the author on the title page of each volume inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf of first volume.<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. 1405385. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Minnesota Press hardcover
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
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
449739Studio Vista. Paperback. Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Stock Image Used may show difference to actual copyGood condition commensurate with age with some tanning to edges and some signs of shelf damage. Content remains clean and binding sturdy. Illustrations all remain vibrant and thus a good condition copy Studio Vista paperback
185757314Alexander Ireland & Co 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son 186 Strand 1857. 1st edition. Hardback. Cloth G. viii3004pp 2 chromolithographic frontis b/w plan 32 fulll page b/w engraved illustrations & 120 b/w illustrations in the text index all edges gilt pastedown gutter cracked cloth grubby & worn at the edges some slight marking & staining to the contents occasional offsetting but generally a nice copy of an unaccountably scarce item. A bound copy of a weekly souvenier publication which was produced to mark the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition which was held in Manchester. It remains the largest art exhibition ever to be held in the UK if not the World with over 16000 exhibits. It attracted over 1.3 million visitors in the 142 days it was open. The two chromolithographs show the building - a temporary iron-and-glass structure similar to the Crystal Palace in London 656 feet long and 200 feet wide with one central barrel vault 56 feet wide. Its selection and display of artworks had a formative influence on the public art collections that were then being established in the UK such as the National Gallery National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alexander Ireland & Co, 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son, 186 Strand hardcover
185757315Alexander Ireland & Co 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son 186 Strand 1857. 1st edition. Hardback. Half calf over silk G. viii300pp 2 chromolithographic frontis b/w plan 32 fulll page b/w engraved illustrations & 120 b/w illustrations in the text leather grubby & worn at the edges glue splash to the rar cover some slight marking & staining to the contents occasional offsetting but generally a nice copy of an unaccountably scarce item. A bound copy of a weekly souvenier publication which was produced to mark the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition which was held in Manchester. It remains the largest art exhibition ever to be held in the UK if not the World with over 16000 exhibits. It attracted over 1.3 million visitors in the 142 days it was open. The two chromolithographs show the building - a temporary iron-and-glass structure similar to the Crystal Palace in London 656 feet long and 200 feet wide with one central barrel vault 56 feet wide. Its selection and display of artworks had a formative influence on the public art collections that were then being established in the UK such as the National Gallery National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alexander Ireland & Co, 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son, 186 Strand hardcover
Folio, First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous illustrations and reproductions throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's laminated pictorial board slip-case. Scarce.
198073444New York, Harry N. Abrams, (1980). 278 S.Mit 165 s/w u. 94 farbigen Illustr. Quer-4to (27,5 x 30 cm). Farbig illustr. OLn m. transparentem, bedruckten Kunststoff-Umschlag.
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
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
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Complete with separate "Directory" booklet of the artists featured in the book, silk bookmark. About 50 current fashion artists represented with several full color, full pages each.
372p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
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
