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44690With all his introductions notes various readings and notes by J. G. Lockhart Esq. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood after J. M. W. Turner Birket Foster & John Gilbert. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black North Bridge 1857. Thick royal octavo 250 x 175 mm original red morocco richly gilt fine; all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece additional engraved title title leaf 1 Editor's Notice 1 blank; pp. iv 2 823; binding firm foxing to first and last few leaves and at the margins of most plates otherwise internally clean and sound. unknown
1894416739London ; New York : Cassell 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original aniline calf over plain cloth with gilt-blocked motif to front and back boards. All edges gilt. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges bumped and worn as with age. Front board and preliminary pages starting to detach. Remains quite a good example in need of some attention. Physical description; 92 pages 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. Republished from ""Character sketches from Dickens"" 1879-85. Subjects; Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Illustrations. Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Characters. Dickens Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation. Characters and characteristics. Novelists English 19th century ; Biography. Biography Biographies Novelists Authors 19th Nineteenth Century. London ; New York : Cassell hardcover
18601086London: Ward & Lock. c.1860. First edition thus. Publisher's original colour-printed pictorial yellow card wrappers. Octavo 25 x 16.5cm. 8pp. printed on one side only and mounted on linen. Each page illustrated with a hand-coloured wood engraving by the Dalziel Brothers. Publisher's adverts to the rear cover verso. A very good copy the binding secure with a little separation to the covers at the foot of the spine a small chip to the head of the rear cover and minor wear to the extremities. The contents with scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order. A scarce mid-nineteenth-century edition of Sleeping Beauty the pages linen-backed and the illustrations hand-coloured. The title forms No. 11 in Ward and Lock's 'The National Nursey Tales' series which according to the publisher's advertisement are "handsomely printed with Coloured Illustrations price 6d. each or on Cloth indestructible 1s. as in the present copy. The attention of the Public is particularly called to this beautiful Series of Children's Books which are in every respect of a superior character. The drawings are by eminent Artists and the Engravings by Dalziel Brothers".</p><p>Only one institutional copy recorded in Britain according to Library Hub V&A. London: Ward & Lock. hardcover
81668hLondon: Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A tidy batch of sound Kingstons issued in the "Boys' Own Favourite Library" series. Circa late 1890s. Bound in publisher's red and blue gilt pictorial cloth hard covers with beveled edges. All edges gilt; black coated endpapers. All about very good or better with some handling & shelf-wear to covers and edges some with owner's names and toning to text but all with firm hinges and bindings. The first volume shows discoloration inside front cover from removal of a bookplate. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. An attractive and readable lot. There will be no upcharge requested for additional postage if shipping within Canada or the USA. Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Hardcover
1900250213-MB68Judge and Leslie's Weekly 1900. Very Good Large Folio Hardcover hinges reinforced Over 500 Camera Views and Colored Plates no date circa 1900 544 Pages . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dustjacket. large Folio. Judge and Leslie's Weekly Hardcover
194019330John C. Winston Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue blindstamped decorated cover has wear to corners and caps but is clean bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Illustrated end sheets and paste downs clean and very good with former owner's name on blank side. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket has . Wear to the extremities with a couple of short tears and soiling to back panel but bright and in good condition. DJ corners clipped. DJ protected by a brand new clear acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. If pictured shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ; 280 pages . John C. Winston Company hardcover
191567866New York:: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1915. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel in dust jacket illustrated with the same color plate. Faint reddish stain near the red cloth backstrip along short sections of the joint area; very slight wear to binding; clean tight and sound in a slightly dampstained dust jacket which is missing the bottom four inches of the backstrip. . Folio. With tipped-in color plates and text illustrations in black and white by E. Yarrow Jones and R. B. Brook-Greaves. Frederick A. Stokes Company, hardcover
1934861New York: Blue Ribbon Press. Very Good. 1934. Hardcover. 23.5 x 20 cm. Illustrated paper over boards. Light corner and edge wear. Minor soiling and a bit of foxing to covers. A couple of small scratch marks on the back cover. Small bookseller's label on front pastedown endpaper. All three pop-ups working and unrepaired. Soil or fingering marks to margins of a few of the pages but generally still bright and clean. Could not have passed through too many children's hands. Three colour pop-ups and black and white in-text illustrations. . Blue Ribbon Press hardcover
1981BOOKS343628New York NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. Good/Good. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Inscribed by author and illustrators see photo . Sm 4to. 44pp. . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. hardcover
1914mon0000950371Hodder & Stoughton 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Hodder & Stoughton 1914. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright no markings. Fine illustrations. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1949445952New York: The Limited Editions Club 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Three volume set in red paper-covered slipcase with printed paper spine label. Limited edition. Copy no. 1359 of 2500. Small folios. Each volume with color illustrations. All three are fine in fine clear acetate jackets. The box is near fine with a few small nicks and tears at the corners. Edited by Jean Hersholt this set is Signed by Hersholt and two illustrators: Edward Ardizzone and Everett Gee Jackson. The set consists of the following three separate works:<br /> <br /> The Tale of Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves. Translated from the Arabic into French by J.C. Mardrus; and then into modern English by E. Powys Mathers. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Signed by Ardizzone; The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated from the Dutch by Jean Hersholt. Illustrated by Everett Gee Jackson. Signed by Everett Gee Jackson and Inscribed by Jean Hersholt; The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood By Charles Perrault. Translated from the French by P.H. Muir. Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. A handsome set in fine condition. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
18931499London: Cassell & Co. Ltd 1893. First Edition. Very good. Gordon Browne and William Hatherell. 8vo 8 x 5 1/2 inches 223 x 140 mm; pp. xi 277 16 publisher's' listing. 28 illustrations including frontispiece and one color map preceding the first story. Bound in blue-green leatherette cloth with gilt title and illustration on front cover gilt title; floral endpapers top edge stained green; edges moderately worn spine and cover edges darkened chips at head and tail of spine; pages toned especially on edges; binding solid. A collection of the last completed works by the author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 1894 was a Scottish novelist essayist poet and travel writer who travel broadly and settled in Samoa in 1889 where he was prodigiously productive and where he became involved with local politics and culture gathering native stories and infusing some of his writing with these newfound themes. This first edition of the three short stories is accompanied by a set of engaging illustrations by Gordon Browne 1858 - 1932 and William Hatherell 1855-1928 both prolific illustrators who worked with publishers and magazines. Cassell & Co. Ltd unknown
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
26826Munich. Braun & Schneider. c. 188. Hardcover. folio 34cm with 99 double-page plates of nearly 400 colour illustrations in colour illustrated boards wanting the cloth spine cap boards dust worn some annotating to several leaves contents are in very good condition cgc The double page folio plates each contain 4 illustrations. c.18x13cm each. An impressive illustrated history of costumes from prehistory to 1886. Illustrated by W. Diez C. Frohlich C. Haberlin M. Heil A. Muller F. Rothbart and J. Watter. Very detailed studies with two or three people in each illustration. A very valuable theatrical or costume design reference. Munich. Braun & Schneider. c. [188?] hardcover
20031-0471360112John Wiley & Sons Inc 2003. Hardcover. New. 2nd sub edition. 640 pages. 11.25x9.00x1.50 inches. John Wiley & Sons Inc 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
1880H5089Tours: Camp du Ruchard 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Information taken from the spine title published ca. 1880 quarto 12.5 inches 31 cm tall quarter calf and mottled boards 13 double-page color lithographs showing the stocks mechanics and actions of various rifles including Remington Winchester Mauser Spencer Berdan Wetterli Beaumont Albini etc. Very good light rubbing to binding. Very rare we could not find any copies of this book or its text volume in OCLC nor by using the meta-search of vialibri. Camp du Ruchard hardcover
193746496New York:: Snellgrove Publications 1937. First edition. publisher's cloth illustrated in color. Cloth rubbed at extremities with tiny chips at the extremities of the spine. Folio. Illustrated by Willy Pogany and Natalie Harlan Davis including a color flower diagram with printed overlay. Snellgrove Publications, hardcover
5311First edition second issue. Lacking binding therefore loose signatures. 36 hand-colored hors textes plates. Includes fold-out sheet music. xvi 376 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. hardcover
2000james97Knopf New York 2000 Knopf New York 2000. First edition. First printing with full number line. Hardbound. A new copy in a new jacket. A pristine unread copy. Price $14.95 intact on front flap. SIGNED BY BRADBURY on title page as pictured. Smoke-free no defects. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Ferry-Art. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Knopf, New York hardcover
16-2555Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN 1895. Original wraps with graphics by Ubbelohde Otto & Otto Gampert. Reproduced is A POSTER BY MAbel Dearmer.Söhn HDO: 52605- 1 2 Edited by Richard Graul and Caesar Flaischlen.PAN the important German 21 volume art nouveau periodical 1895-1900 is a deluxe fin de siècle periodical with plates illustrations color initials vignettes and tail-pieces representing a multitude of processes of modern picture reproduction including original lithographs etchings and woodcuts. Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN, 1895 paperback
190121877London : Otto Limited 1901-1907 . First Editions . VG . 4TO . Bound in publisher's red-brick cloth. Extensively illustrated in black and white and colour with every kind of illustration. A treasure trove of period material. Copies bright and generally unworn. Hinges loose in some cases Not all covers or indices are present A very handsome set. Very heavy books special shipping considerations will apply. Otto Limited hardcover
70084London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue c.1851. Humour FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo 17 x 13cm pp.2; 47; 5; 59; 1; 30. With numerous plates and in-text illustrations by multiple artists includes frontispieces. First two tales with colour-printed title pages. Contemporary olive-green half morocco matching textured cloth over boards. Gilt titles to upper board and spine with raised bands and further gilt embellishment to spine. Edges speckled blue and red. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers sunning to spine bumping to corners wearing to leather at edges. Very Good. A unique text comprised of three separate editions perhaps combined by the binder or the owner. The first two stories are undated though 'The Crystal Palace' is a first printing published in 1851. Two classic fairy tales and one contemporary one inspired by the Great Exhibition. London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue, c.1851 unknown
68403London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1883. Russian Adventure 'New Edition'. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.xii; 377 1. With a folding map and illustrations by Ferat and Barbant including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Ink names to endpapers. Contents generally clean. Binding shows acceptable wear with joints rubbed corners pushed frayed at spine tips inner paper joints cracked as usual. Very good. Verne's classic tale of adventure and intrigue in the Russian Empire which was first published in English in 1877; also includes Verne's novella 'The Mutineers' which was omitted from most printings after 1912. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid M.A. 1912-2009 writer film-maker and cinema historian and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883 unknown
18754786London: Punch Office. 1875. Hardcover. Good. Boards rubbed especially spine. Most of the pages loose but present. Hinges cracked. Light foxing to endpapers ; Extremely scarce. Bound in dark blue leather boards with a closing flap. All edges gilt; 24mo; 192 pages . Punch Office hardcover
