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19143708London: Hodder and Stoughton 1914. First edition. Finely bound ca. 1914 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp-signed on rear turn-in in full dark blue morocco covers decoratively paneled in gilt with inlaid red morocco floral corner-pieces and in the center in gilt the Royal stamp of Princess Mary. Spine with five raised bands paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments all edges gilt cream watered silk liners and endleaves.Quarto 9 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches; 251 x 186 mm. vi 140 pp. Fourteen color plates tipped-in to captioned tan stock with brown line frame many black and white text drawings. Four figure ink number upside down on verso of rear blank leaf. An exceptional copy.<br/><br/>A relatively common book but scarce in fine condition. This may well be a special presentation binding that was done at the time of publication. "This was the first of a group of wartime books sponsored by prominent people and sold to raise money for worthy causes. The most popular it sold 604884 copies during the two years 1914-1916 that is was in print. The Times in an article November 21 1914 sought to promote the cause "The Queen's Fund" by directing the public to the display of the original drawings at the Leicester Galleries" Hughey.<br/><br/>The fourteen tipped-in color plates include:<br/><br/>"So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end" Arthur Rackham "True Spartan Hearts" Edmund Dulac<br/>"The Ant Lion" E.J. Detmold<br/>"A Holiday in Bed" W. Russell Flint<br/><br/>There are also many black & white drawings by C.E. Brock; E.J. Detmold; Arthur Rackham; Byam Shaw; H. M. Brock; Lewis Baumer and Edmund J. Sullivan<br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell 93. Riall 120. Hughey 34. Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
198564103NY:: Viking. Near Fine. 1985. Hardcover. 067042384X . All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Fourth printing. Short tears to two of the pop-ups else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Viking, 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
194432258New York: Macmillan 1944. Later printing. Linen cloth binding with blue stamped lettering. Yellow dust jacket. VG/VG. 119 1 pp. Color blue & white illustrations by the Petershams. 12mo. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
197375146NY:: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0027731006 . Caldecott Medal winner. Twenty-ninth printing 1990s. Fine in a near fine sun faded along the spine dust jacket with the Caldecott Medal emblem on the front panel. . Simon & Schuster, hardcover books
19791341339Ohio: Self Published 1979. FIrst Edition. Other. Staple-bound comic; VG. Minor creasing to cover. Corners very slightly rounded. Cover white pages cream. Several pages have small cuts at lower margins from flaws in paper. Mild creasing/wrinkling of some pages ~1" in from spine. Staples original and centered but somewhat rusted. RH Consignment; Shelved case 8 1/4. 1341339. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Self Published unknown books
195327100302Kingsport TN: Kingsport City Schools 1953. This is a brochure prepared for parents of children in public schools in Kingsport Tennessee. It is directed towards the parents who are sending their kids to school for the first time. The brochure is divided up into categories: Rules & Regulations Visits & Conferences Health & Safety Readiness in Subject-matter Areas Home-School Cooperation Suggested List of Children's Books and References of Interest to Parents of School-Beginners. Along with the information presented there are cartoon line drawings throughout. 26 pp. Illustrated wraps. Measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". <br/><br/> Kingsport City Schools paperback books
197957456London:: Octopus Books Limited. Very Good. 1979. Hardcover. 0706410297 . All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Second impression thus. Light age toning else very good or better in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Octopus Books Limited, hardcover books
190056072New York: R. H. Russell. Very Good. 1900. Hardcover. Red boards white stamping gilt stamping to spine a very good copy. . R. H. Russell 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
