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1843140947309London: Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans 1843. First Edition. Near Fine. 1843 1845 1846 1846 1848. First editions of all five of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books Smith II.4-6 II.8-9. A Christmas Carol is the first issue with title page printed in red and blue dated 1843 in Roman numerals; half title and verso of title page printed in blue; "Stave I" on page 1. The Chimes first edition second issue with the publisher's name below the plate on the vignette title page. The Cricket on the Hearth first edition second issue with 2pp. ads. The Battle of Life first edition Todd's fifth state of the engraved title page with "A Love Story" in a scroll held by a cupid; terminal ads announce the publication in parts of Dombey and Son and the bound volume of Oliver Twist. The Haunted Man first edition first and only issue.<p>All five volumes bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt seasonal stamping unique to each book. Morocco title labels to ribbed spines gilt dentelles all edges gilt. Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp in gilt to front turn-in of each volume. Original cloth covers and spines bound in rear of all volumes but the last. Housed in an open-ended slipcase moderately rubbed and toned covered in the same floral gilt-embellished paper used for endpapers. Near Fine with slightly rubbed spines. Light edge toning to interiors occasional thumbing and staining and spots of foxing. <p>No writer is more closely associated with Christmas than Charles Dickens who began with the immortal A Christmas Carol in November 1843. It was published on December 19 and sold so well there were seven editions by the following May. The Chimes followed in December 1844 and three more books appeared in 1845 1846 and 1848 two of the title page dates follow the then-common practice of dating a book published in November or December with the coming year.<br /> <p>The enduring appeal of Dickens’ Christmas stories lies in his unmatched ability to combine sentimentality with melancholy or righteous fury a balancing act of light and dark. A Christmas Carol composed as Dickens walked weeping through the dark London streets was intended to draw attention to the plight of the working poor in London. The Chimes attacks the cruelty and hypocrisy of the rich and the protagonist of The Cricket on the Hearth contemplates murder. The Haunted Man the last novella emphasizes the need to remember past sorrows and hardships.<br /> <br /> <p>Dickens wanted his Christmas books to be pretty – his specifications for the first cut severely into his profits – and it is appropriate that these copies have been given jewel-like bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe one of the most famous fine binderies in the English-speaking world. A beautiful set of beautiful stories illustrated by the leading artists of the day. Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans unknown
191031601Edinburgh and London: Ballantyne Hanson & Co 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Twenty six numbered volumes plus 2 volume set of life and works plus 2 volume set of Our Mutual Friend all in matching publisher's bindings. Bound in full olive green cloth boards with paper title labels to spines. Minor wear to edges of boards and spine ends of all volumes. Wear / chipping / browning to title labels. Minor dampstaining to corners of boards of some volumes; although interior pages seem to be free from staining. Some volumes have minor soiling and/or discoloration to covers. Each volume contains illustrations - most in black and white with a few in color. Occasional smudge marks occasional tear to a page in the margin from opening the pages and sporadic spots of foxing - but overall very clean and bright interiors. Rippling to some of the illustrations which are printed on a different paper stock. Signature of previous owner in pen to front free endpapers of most volumes. All bindings remain strong. This set will require an extra shipping fee. LIT/010318. Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co hardcover
65861London: Chapman and Hall n.d. circa 1910. Classic Literature FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo 21 x 15cm pp.xvi; 370; 1 blank; pp.ii; 363; 1 blank. With introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. With the original illustrations throughout. Title pages printed in two colours. Beautifully bound by Root & Son in half deep red crushed morocco with gilt titles to spines raised bands pink buckram sides top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Contents clean faint spotting/toning to edges bindings solid. A fine pair in attractive Edwardian-era leather bindings. One of Dickens' earlier works chronicling the life and times of the beautiful and virtuous Little Nell and her Grandfather. London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [circa 1910] unknown
20041410762London: The Folio Society 2004. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo xxxvi 798 pages. In Very Good condition in a Very Good slipcase. Slipcase in brown paper. Spine is brown with gold print on black pastedown label. Boards quarter bound with brown leather to spine and brown cloth to boards. Text block has gilt top edge and brown ribbon marker. Illustrated: “With the original illustrations by R. Seymour R.W. Buss and ‘Phiz’â€â€” title page; b&w frontispiece and plates drawings. “The text and illustrations of this edition reproduce those of the Nonesuch Dickens published in 1937 by Nonesuch Pressâ€â€” title page verso. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Multi-volume Section. 1410762. FP New Rockville Stock. The Folio Society hardcover
183725411London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition second issue. Hardcover. g. Octavo. XIV 2 609 1pp. 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece and title-page. First edition second issue of this fascinating work profusely illustrated with forty-three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. The plates are in early states with page locations and without titles or imprints but the earliest Buss and Seymour plates have been replaced by those of Phiz. The engraved title is showing the later correction "Weller". Other issue points: p.43 2nd paragraph below chapter V line 1 reads "ruined wall" in the singular; with the signature misprint on p.261 reading X2; with signature "E" present on p.25; the d of "holding" is raised above line on p.260; p.342 line 5 "S. Veller" instead of Weller; p.400 line 21 "his friends". Some rubbing along edges of binding. Contemporary previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Plates foxed. Lower corner of very first pages damp-stained. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Chapman and Hall hardcover
06188London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It"<br /> The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book<br /> <br /> KIPLING Rudyard. DETMOLD Maurice & Edward J. illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903.<br /> <br /> First edition. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title page contents leaf and sixteen fine colored prints tipped onto white board with gray window mounts each with a cover sheet providing the title and a short extract from the text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at fold second plate description with short marginal tear some light foxing to text and mounts only - the plates clean and fresh.<br /> <br /> Housed in the publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt one of two original green silk ties. An excellent example of the Detmold's finest work.<br /> <br /> Rendered in the rich colors characteristic of the Detmolds' artwork the plates in this portfolio far surpass the later small book edition published five years later whose reproductions appear comparatively muted. Considered among the finest book illustrations of all time R. Dalby notes: "These paintings were praised for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement" while Diana Johnson intriguingly observes: "The end result of this incongruous joining together of the quasi-scientific and the ornamental is an image which is both fanciful and often rather disturbing." <br /> <br /> Published when the Detmold twins were only twenty years old this portfolio was their final collaboration before Maurice's tragic suicide in 1908. Because the illustrations closely resemble original artwork when framed many individual plates were separated from their sets making a complete portfolio a rare find today.<br /> <br /> The sixteen plates in Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's Jungle Book represent the Detmold brothers at the absolute height of their early powers combining natural history accuracy with a highly personal imaginative symbolism. Executed when Maurice Detmold and Edward J. Detmold were only twenty the images reveal an astonishing maturity of design color harmony and psychological insight.<br /> <br /> Across the series animals are rendered with an almost zoological precision - musculature fur scale and movement observed with scientific care - yet the compositions are unmistakably poetic and stylized. Wolves stand with hieratic gravity; panthers and tigers possess an elegance that borders on the mythic; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability. <br /> <br /> These are not merely illustrations of stories by Rudyard Kipling but visual interpretations that deepen and at times darken the emotional tenor of the text.<br /> <br /> Several plates focus on Mowgli himself depicted as a lithe vulnerable yet resolute figure often isolated against vast spare landscapes. His nudity is treated without sentimentality: the Detmolds emphasize his animal belonging rather than childhood innocence reinforcing the central tension of The Jungle Book - the precarious boundary between human and beast. In scenes with Bagheera Baloo and Akela the animals are endowed with a quiet authority their gazes expressive and morally charged suggesting intellect and memory rather than simple instinct.<br /> <br /> The Monkey People shown amid cold stone lairs and architectural fragments are among the most unsettling inventions in the set: simian forms twisted into almost grotesque attitudes animated by restless purposeless energy. By contrast the great predators - Shere Khan especially - are portrayed with a terrible beauty: powerful controlled and ominously calm embodying what the Manchester Guardian aptly described as "that beauty which hath terror in it."<br /> <br /> Color plays a central role throughout. The Detmolds employ a restrained but sumptuous palette - burnished browns smoky grays deep greens and muted ochres - heightened by subtle tonal transitions rather than overt brilliance. This lends the plates a painterly richness and a unity of mood that far surpasses the later reduced-format book edition whose reproductions inevitably dull these effects.<br /> <br /> Decorative framing carefully balanced negative space and rhythmic patterning of foliage fur and stone give each composition an architectural coherence. The result is a body of work that stands apart from conventional Edwardian illustration: neither merely narrative nor purely ornamental but a rare fusion of naturalism symbolism and psychological depth.<br /> <br /> Taken as a whole the portfolio reads as a visual cycle - grave hypnotic and occasionally disturbing -confirming the contemporary judgment that the Detmolds "prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration." <br /> <br /> Complete portfolios are now scarce as many plates were long ago removed for framing making intact examples such as this especially prized.<br /> <br /> A report on the publication in the New York Times for 5 December 1903 stated that "the edition is strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America". This portfolio is a magnificent presentation of the Detmold brothers' celebrated book illustrations. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original artwork the Manchester Guardian commented that the Detmolds "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer enthused that "the drawing of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs who 'were not thinking of Mowgli's friends at all' is full of character subtle observation and invention. The figure of Bagheera in 'Mowgli and the Red Flower' has something of that beauty which hath terror in it. Baloo and Nag Kaa and Akela the lone wolf are brought before our eyes in a singularly convincing and engaging form". Manchester Guardian 5 November 1903. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown
16-2562Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN 1897. Folio. Original wraps with original graphics by DENIS MAURICE; ORLIK EMIL 4; Ubbelohde Otto; lacking the Nicholson and rodinSöhn HDO: 52803- 1 2 3 5 6 7.Edited by Richard Graul and Caesar Flaischlen et al.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, 1897 paperback
111330Paris Gihaut Frères & Ernest Bourdin 1838-1848 & 1842 . Folio 52.8 x 34.5 c 2 vols; vol. I La Russie Meridionale 100 lithographed plates after Raffet a few plates with cropped margins; vol. II Voyage Pittoresque tinted lithographed title-page and 100 lithographed plates faint water stain to lower margin; both volumes bound in contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards spines in parts with gilt tooling large gilt Rothschild coat of arms on green morocco label in centre of upper boards some minor repairs and wear very good examples.<br /> A fine set of Demidoff's most sought-after illustrated books bound for Baron James de Rothschild. <br /><br />The rich industrialist Count Anatoliy Nikolaevich Demidov Prince of San Donato 1813-70 became a famous Russian art collector who assembled at his Villa di San Donato a large collection of Dutch Flemish and Romantic masterpieces as well as an impressive library.<br /><br />Before his short and stormy marriage to Princess Mathilde-Létizia Bonaparte he financed two scientific and artistic expeditions in Russia: the first in 1837-38 in Southern Russia and the second in 1839 in Northern Europe and European Russia. Although the account of the first one is significantly more common the views published in the present second album are the most famous since they included beautiful lithographs of the largest Russian towns and their celebrated places such as the Winter Palace and the Alexandrine column in St. Petersburg the banks of the Volga in Nizhniy-Novgorod the Kremlins of Kasan and Moscow.<br /> Brunet II col. 583-584 ; Carteret III p. 197 ; Vicaire III col. 167-168. Paris, Gihaut Frères & Ernest Bourdin, [1838-1848] & [1842], hardcover
149584None Stated: None stated nd. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Plates mostly clean but a few have minor-to-mild foxing. Two plates have perforation stamps on lower margins not affecting plate images. Front end pages ffep detached and laid in contain 2 library plates 2 personal book plates and one additional plate. Some wear to spine mostly at head/tail and to leather corners but nothing terribly offensive. Ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Dark green 3/4 leather with complementary medium green cloth. Gilt edging lettering and 3 bands not raised. AEG. No text. 20 pp each with an individual bw etching / engraving. With bookplates by prominent people. The title page is hand-lettered and there is no printed publication information. This is a unique and important item of Cruikshankiana. Ex-library copy with minimally offensive marks given the importance of each one. This volume contains ONLY the 20 engravings used as illustrations for Eccentric Tales. The original sketches were by Alfred Henry Forrester under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill. The actual book illustrations then were done by George Cruikshank. This particular book contains Forrester's personal book plate. Another book plate is of Albert M. Cohn who wrote a catalogue raisonne of Cruikshank's works in 1924 a small label on the fep makes reference to this catalogue #471. And a third book plate is of William Hartman Woodin Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The final bookplate present is that of the Brooklyn Public Library. Plates No. 8 and 15 have remarques. The Cruikshank illustrations in Eccentric Tales were apparently hand-tinted but these images are in b/w with no tinting and appear to be etching proofs for the final illustrations. Both Crowquill's and Cruikshank's names appear under each etching. Delightful and humorous illustrations done in great detail. Unique and rare. None stated hardcover
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/> Jones hardcover
197128575AB1971. New York Hastings House Publishers Inc. 1971. Folio. c. 400 unnumbered pages with 504 graphical contributions from various artists in colour as well as in black-and-white. Including an Index. Original Hardcover with original unclipped illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Cover Art dustjacket and pastedwon art by Bernie Fuchs. Absolutely excellent FINE condition. hardcover
68946London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Elegantly hand-bound in traditional half tan calf with twin labels gilt raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spines matching cloth over boards t.e.g. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. 'The Pathfinder' is a publisher's presentation copy with their blind-stamp to prelims. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
75100London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Recently bound in brown half calf with raised bands gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels further gilt decoration to spines and matching cloth over boards. Tope edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
1888469689Boston Mass: L. Prang & Co 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Harriet D. Andrews and Mary K. Talcott. Quarto. 9 leaves printed on rectos only: title page and 8 color lithographic plates designed by Andrews and Talcott six of which are printed in multiple colors including gold and silver. Publisher’s brown padded silk over boards with color pictorial design on front cover floral gold-illuminated endpapers. The silk boards have a few patches of modest staining on the outer margins of the front cover and fore-edge of back cover rubbing and some fraying at the edges of the boards spine ends and corners else a very good copy with the interior plates fine and bright. A beautiful edition of Cooke’s poem with six plates of floral and botanical themes printed in vibrant color by L. Prang. L. Prang & Co hardcover
1934051736Blue Ribbon Press. 1934. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Hardcover. Very nice black color illustrated boards show edge wer and rubbing. 3 color illustrated pop ups in good condition. Occasional light finger soil to text. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Blue Ribbon Press 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
19349441New York: Blue Ribbon Press 1934. Illustrated pop-up edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Illustrated pop-up edition. Original Wraps. Classic story of Puss in Boots illustrated by Harold Lentz in pop-up form and black and white text with illustrations. Harold Lentz was an advertising and children's pop-up book illustrator also the paper engineer for other books as "Pinocchio" "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Little Red Riding Hood." Bound in original illustrated boards with pop-up end pages 1 volume unpaged 8 vo some edge wear little soiling else tight bright and unmarred. All paper engineering in excellent condition. Inscription on title page. No dust jacket as issued. Blue Ribbon Press unknown
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
18831395304London: Seeley Jackson and Halliday 1883. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto 86 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth with gold print mitred edges. Tattering to spine caps and corners spotty stains to front panel scratches to spine shelf wear. Text block has gilt edges. Cracked front hinge. Illustrated: b&w plates etchings and vignettes. <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 the Back Area Oversized Folios. 1395304. FP New Rockville Stock. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday hardcover
46877Softcover . <br><b>🔴</b> Condition - Very Good<b>🔴</b><br>Australian buyers can combine up to 5Kg of Books for the same postage charge.<br><b>🟢</b> This Book weighs 1640 Grams.<b>🟢</b><br> INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM WILL REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE weight is over 500 grams paperback
2008FLAHIVE-1606Pantheon New York 2008 First printing with full number line. A very fine as-new copy in a very fine as-new wraparound. A clean copy. Wraparound comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light wear to corners as pictured of an otherwise beautiful copy. SIGNED by Chip Kidd and another illustrator on bookplate as pictured. Fiction-K. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Pantheon, New York hardcover
120600Moscow Zemlia i Fabrika ZIF 1927. . Sole edition 4to 28.5 x 21.8 cm; illustrations throughout some repairs to gutter and spine; original illustrated wrappers small loss of paper to lower corner a very good copy.<br /> A scarce Constructivist children's book illustrated by the Chichagova sisters. The sisters Galina and Olga studied at the Stroganov Academy until 1917 and in 1920 joined Vkhutemas under the tutelage of Rodchenko. They worked together on all of their book illustrations and remained keen advocates of the Constructivist movement. OCLC lists just two copies at Princeton and the University of Pensylvania.<br /> Moscow, Zemlia i Fabrika [ZIF], [1927]. unknown
1968090831111American Greetings 1968. Hardcover. Like New. American Greetings hardcover
1856640978J. B. Lippincott and Co 1856. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. First Edition. 7.25 x 10.5 in. 298pp. with 50 lithographic plates printed and colored by J.T. Bowen some finished by hand after drawings by George G. White and drawings on stone by William E Hitchcock complete and all accounted for Rebound in 3/4 brown calf over brown cloth spine with dark brown leather label gilt ruling and date at foot. A Very Good copy text has some foxing and dampstain to lower margin of text which has the very faintest visibility to lower margins of some plates not affecting images. // One of the cornerstones of American ornithological literature first issued in 10 parts with the preface contents and index appearing in this first full edition of 1856. As set forth in the preface the work was 'to be regarded in some measure as an addition to the works of former authors in American Ornithology but at the same time complete in itself.' Cassin especially sought to describe birds not known to Audubon. Sabin 11369; Sitwell p 85; Wood p 281; Zimmer p 124. J. B. Lippincott and Co unknown
1981312289NY: MARVEL COMICS GROUP. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. About fine in stapled pictorial printed wrappers. Slight hint of shelf wear Official graphic adaptation of the film. . MARVEL COMICS GROUP. paperback
