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1865292296New York: James Miller 1865. Hard Cover. Good binding. With "some slight abridgments" from the Advertisement. The publisher is so self-effacing about Gulliver's Travels that he derides it a bit as a "present reprint"."intended simpley as an edition to our increasing but yet not too numerous stock of books of recreation". Swift's name is not included on the title or the half-title page. The engravings by S. P. Avery have charm.~~Brown embossed cloth stamped in gilt with image of Gulliver both on the upper board and the spine. Lacking the front endpaper and the first blank leaf. Previous owner name on the pastedown the recto of the frontispiece the half-title and the tile page. Good binding. James Miller unknown 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
19061330553New York: The Macmilliam Company 1906. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; Hardcover; Spine green with black print; Boards in green cloth wear to corners and spine caps mild shelfwear cocked spine; Text block has cracked rear hinge tanning to endpapers small stains on front endpapers intermittent spine breaks large portion of p. 165/166 torn out mild age-toning to paper; xiii 406 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w plates. 1330553. FP New Rockville Stock. The Macmilliam Company hardcover books
1963140940527Highlands North Carolina: The Nantahala Foundation 1963. First Edition. Very Good. First edition copy #32 of 100 signed by Jonathan Williams and illustrator R.B. Kitaj. Stringbound wraps. Very Good with wear to back wrap from removed sticker. Jargon 61. The Nantahala Foundation 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
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
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
197825094Danbury: Addison House. Near Fine. 1978. Paperback. 0891690239 . Text by Tomie de Paola. First edition paperback. Near fine in oversized illustrated wraps. . Addison House paperback 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
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
18653790London: Bradbury & Evans 1865. First edition. Third issue with Part I's title Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in solid lettering in the original twelve monthly parts May 1864-April 1865. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm.Collating vi 2 391 1 with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates two to each volume heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt save Part VI which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin and Part VII lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt.<br/><br/>"Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised however to being in January 1862 and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book in August 1864 to The Field where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings but never lived to complete the work which was carried on byPhiz" Field.<br/><br/>Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II 237. Podeschi 207. Bradbury & Evans unknown books
1993007311New York NY: Watson-Guptill Publications Incorporated 1993. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Hardcover binding. Unclipped dustjacket protected in archival mylar. Contains 493 illustrations most of which are in color. Almost new condition. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated Hardcover books
1987237013New York: Madison Square Press 1987. hardcover. fine/fine. Thick 4to black boards d.w. New York: Madison Square Press 1987. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> From the Exhibition Humor '87 Held at the Society of Illustrators New York City September 1987.<br/><br/> Madison Square Press unknown books
1998263645New York: Society of Illustrators 1998. hardcover. fine/near fine. Hundreds of color illustrations. 4to white cloth d.w. New York: Society of Illustrarors 1998. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Society of Illustrators unknown books
1939179237New York: Society of Illustrators 1939. Softcover. VG- general wear around wrap and spine edges. Red and B&W illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated in B&W. Unpaginated. Includes list of pictures for sale. Published to accompany an exhibition which took place April 13-May 6 1939 Grand Central Fifth Avenue Galleries Fifth Avenue at 51st Street New York. Society of Illustrators 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
186935984Boston: Bradlee Whidden 1869. Folio. 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington A.B. Frost Fred Cozzens R.F. Zogbaum Henry Sandham and others. 32 ff. letterpress. Expertly bound to style in full dark purple straight grained morocco.<br/> <br/>A rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America including Frederic Remington's first two published prints in color a rare A.B.Frost image of deer-hunting and images from Fred. S.Cozzens and other top illustrators of the day.<br/> <br/>The present work includes six angling plates three of fly-fishing four plates of game-bird hunting and five of hunting larger game. Each of the fifteen subjects is first described in general terms on a single leaf of text followed by a second leaf giving a first-hand account of catching or shooting the subject followed by a chromolithograph illustrating the first-hand account. According to Gould's preface the plates are all from water-colours especially commissioned for the work which were subjected to the critical scrutiny of a group of anglers/sportsmen who judged them for technical accuracy. The plates are as follows: 1. Killing the Salmon. Henry Sandham. 2. A Moose hunt. Henry Sandham. 3. Trout fishing. Henry Sandham. 4. Fly-fishing for Black Bass. S.F. Denton. 5. Hunting Antelope i.e. Prong-horn. Frederic Remington. 6. Catching a Tarpon. Fred. S. Cozzens. 7. Mallard shooting. S.F. Denton. 8. Catching a Mascalonge. Frank H. Taylor. 9. A Wild Turkey hunt. R.J. Zogbaum. 10. Sailing for Bluefish. Fred S.Cozzens. 11. Hunting the Virginia Deer. A.B. Frost. 12. A day with the Prairie Chickens. R.F. Zogbaum. 13. A hunt above the timber-line Big-horn. Edward Knobel. 14. Canada Goose shooting. Frederic Remington. 15. Stalking the Wapiti. Henry Sandham. The two plates by Frederic Remington Hunting Antelope Hassrick & Webster 434 and Goose Shooting Hassrick & Webster 435 are also listed by Peggy and Harold Samuels Remington The Complete Prints New York 1990 pp.152-3 with the comment that they are the first and second Remington prints to appear in color. They were preceded only by a series of four monochrome photogravures for John Muir's Picturesque California 1888 and two other individual prints both black and white. Arthur Burdett Frost is now perhaps best known for his sporting pictures and prints but an aversion to deer-hunting meant that he rarely pictured shooting scenes that featured anything other than small game. His image Hunting the Deer is recorded and illustrated in Henry M.Reed's The A.B.Frost Book Charleston 1993 pp.101 104-5 but the author was apparently unaware that it was issued as part of the present work which is not included in the extensive appendix of books illustrated by Frost.<br/> <br/>Phillips p. 141; Wetzel p. 146; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 238; Bruns G120; Heller 1:502; Bennett p.48; Tyler Prints of the West pp.127 & 174; not in Reese Stamped with a National Character. Bradlee Whidden unknown books
19043810London: John F. Shaw 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards corners a little worn.Small quarto 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm. A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with fifteen drawings by Louis Wain and an unrecorded text drawing by Arthur Rackham so initialed on page 40. Unrecorded and scarce with no copies noted in the Wain or Rackham bibliographies.<br/><br/>Anytime an unrecorded book illustration by Arthur Rackham comes to light it's an item for collectors to note. Buried within this book unheralded on page forty is a black and white text illustration of four chickens in various states of distress as they observe in high dudgeon and with no little annoyance a cat within their food bucket chowing down the chicken feed. And at the lower left of the bucket as small as can be are Rackham's initials as typically drawn. Latimore and Haskell and Riall make no mention of this illustration in their Rackham bibliographies and the Arthur Rackham Society expressed no knowledge of it when we inquired. A true scarcity -- a previously unknown Rackham during his transitional period when his fairies and goblins were emerging but had not yet fully vanquished the simple pay-the-bills work of his early years.<br/><br/>Cf. Dale 34 and 35. John F. Shaw unknown books
