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196239231Paris: Editions d'Auteuil 1962. André Dunoyer de Segonzac. A superlative pristine and complete copy on Imperial Japanese paper with fifteen original etchings and AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF BILL TILDEN BY ANDRE DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC. From a total edition of 225 numbered copies this is ONE OF ONLY 27 COPIES tête on Imperial Japanese paper with 15 etchings by Dunoyer de Segonzac and 50 wood-engravings by Jacques Beltrand after Dunoyer de Segonzac; a second suite of the 15 etchings printed on antique Japanese paper; a suite of the 10 planches refusées on another kind of antique Japanese paper; a suite of the 50 wood-engravings on fine Rives wove paper; and another suite of the 50 wood-engravings before champlevage. This copy exceptionally includes AN ORIGINAL INDIA INK DRAWING OF BILL TILDEN generally rgarded as the greatest tennis player of the first half of the 20th century TITLED AND SIGNED BY ANDRÉ DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC. Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps two chemises and slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. It is safe to say that depictions of American sports heroes by great artists of the School of Paris are of the greatest rarity. <br/><br/> Editions d'Auteuil paperback
2003azcqJacana Media 2003. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. signed. Inscribed by Authors114 pages plus pages for notes complete. Floridly inscribed by de Liefde on the frontispage dated: 18-05-2006. Softcover with flaps. A mild copy; the cover is scuffed from storage. Inside the contents are calm serene neat clean clear and tidy. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Jacana Media paperback
194738526Sabadell: Les Edicions de Vallparadís 1947. Poems by Pons illustrated with TEN FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY GERTRUDIS GALI and numerous wood-engraved ornaments by Magí Elias. Edition limited to 123 numbered copies printed on fine Guarro laid paper. 4to. Loose as issued in wraps and board slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT. <br/><br/> Les Edicions de Vallparadís paperback
178039396Berne Bern: Chez la Nouvelle Société Typographique 1780-1781. Freudeberg. Three volumes complete. A PRISTINE LARGE-PAPER SET OF FREUDEBERG'S MASTERPIECE THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT 18TH-CENTURY FRENCH LANGUAGE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FAR AND AWAY THE GREATEST WORK OF ITS KIND PRODUCED IN SWITZERLAND AND ILLUSTRATED BY SWISS ARTISTS. Volume I includes the cancellans engraved title the frontispiece by Eichler after Dunker and 21 finely-engraved hors-texte plates after Freudeberg. Volume II includes the frontispiece and 25 plates after Freudeberg. Volume III includes the frontispiece and 27 plates after Freudeberg. THIS SET IS ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE with the identical frontispiece in each volume as issued and 73 hors-texte plates after Freudeberg. Additionally there are 72 etched vignettes and 72 elaborate tailpieces by or after Dunker. SO 220 ETCHINGS IN ALL. This is furthermore a LARGE-PAPER SET ON FINE DUTCH LAID PAPER "HOLLANDE" AN ISSUE UNKNOWN TO COHEN-DE RICCI. Cohen-De Ricci cols. 681-2 describes numerous outstanding sets of this work owned by leading 18th and 19th-century bibliophiles and concludes that "Le papier du troisième volume est toujours inférieur a celui des deux premiers"--which is certainly not the case with this set: the paper is excellent and consistent throughout. Cohen-De Ricci also mentions that the plates in volume III are numbered so close to the bottom of the sheets that the numbers are present only when the sheets are entirely uncut as is the case here. 8vos. ENTIRELY UNCUT 21 x 15.5 cm with large margins. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPS WITH PAPER SPINE LABELS. Tiny traces of wear to extremities else FINE AND BRIGHT. THIS SET IS AS IT WAS WHEN IT LEFT THE PRINTER'S OFFICE ALMOST 250 YEARS AGO DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. <br/><br/> Chez la Nouvelle Société Typographique paperback
182246London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1822. Second Edition. Near fine. Isaac Robert Cruikshank & George Cruikshank. Tall 8vo 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches 234 x 148 mm; half-title hand-colored frontispiece title with vignette of St. Paul's xvi 376 pp 8 pp. advertisements. 3 foldout pages of music with Corinthian Tom's Song. 36 aquatint plates with hand-coloring each with protective blank sheet with offset from facing illustration; copious small in-text woodcuts. Later full red pebbled morocco with original spine panel single gilt fillet framing on boards gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers double raised bands with gilt and decorative motifs in compartments all edges gilt; spine very lightly rubbed. <br /> Second edition as stated at the foot of page 9.<br /> Tooley 198; Prideaux 335. A beautifully illustrated and hand-colored volume. Pierce Egan 1772-1849 was a British journalist sportswriter and writer on popular culture best-knows work is Life in London first published in 1821. The book was adapted into the stage play Tom and Jerry or Life in London later that year and it became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End. Egan turned to the Cruikshank brothers Robert and George for the illustrations. They produced 21 woodcuts and 36 lively and colorful plates to represent the range of characters and situations described in the book. The success of Life in London was so great that the artists could not color the engravings quickly enough for the demand. The book was adapted for the stage later that year and the play Tom and Jerry or Life in London became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End. The book was reprinted in 1822 1823 1830 1841 1870 and 1904. Numerous imitations soon appeared namely Carey's Life in Paris Real Life in London Real Life in Ireland et al. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones unknown
18301367819London: G. Virtue 1830. A new edition embellished with thirty-six scenes from real life. Hardcover. Octavo; New edition embellished. ; Fair; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print on red banner; Boards in brown leather wear to spine caps edges and corners toning to spine and front board light scuffing else clean and strong; Text block has tinted top edge tanning to endpapers and title page missing pages 1-2 light amount of foxing within tears to edges of some plates else clean and tight; xvi 376 pages frontispiece illustrated color plates 3 folded leaves of printed music.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #3. 1367819. FP New Rockville Stock. G. Virtue 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
1871h43722Philadelphia: Lippincott 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small quarto 11.25 x 8.25 inches publisher's decorated beveled green cloth stamped in gilt good with some moderate wear to corners and spine ends light tide marks from old waterstaining to contents foxing. 47 pp printed on rectos front sides only featuring verse by John Monsell Henry Downton Ada Cambridge and others well illustrated with woodcut illustrations and vignettes by Dalziel -- which of the brothers we're not sure. Quite rare in the trade OCLC locates only 2 holdings and despite the British illustrator and authors we could not locate on Worldcat the equivalent UK edition which we find somewhat mystifying. Not the best copy of this book but where will you find another Lippincott hardcover
197450895New York et al: Limited Editions Club 1974. First editions thus. 34 volumes of the Limited Editions Club each housed in the publisher's original slipcase. They are all in very good to fine condition unless otherwise described. Many are from the private collection of Abraham and Edita Spiegel All 34 of which marked below with have "donated by" rubber stamps that includes their names within.<br /> <br /> 1. The Alhambra /<br /> Author: Irving Washington 1783-1859.; Freitas Lima de<br /> Publication: Mount Vernon N.Y. : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Press of A. Colish 1969 <br /> <br /> 2. Barchester Towers /<br /> Author: Trollope Anthony 1815-1882.; Kredel Fritz<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1958 <br /> <br /> 3. Bel-Ami /<br /> Author: Maupassant Guy de 1850-1893.; Lamotte Bernard<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1968 <br /> <br /> 4. The Birds /<br /> Author: Aristophanes author.; Fitts Dudley; Parry Marian and others<br /> Publication: New York : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club 1959. slipcase joint with partial split <br /> <br /> 5. The Book of Ballads /<br /> Author: Leach MacEdward; 1896-1967 ; editor.<br /> Kredel Fritz; 1900-1973 ; illustrator. Salter George; 1897-1967 ; book designer.<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club Mt. Vernon New York : A. Colish 1967. <br /> <br /> 6. The Chronicle of the Cid /<br /> Author: Southey Robert 1774-1843.; Ben Sussan René; Pritchett V. S.<br /> Publication: New York : Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen for the members of the Limited Editions Club 1958. <br /> <br /> <br /> 7. The Eclogues /<br /> Author: Virgil author.; Calverley Charles Stuart; Hadas Moses and others<br /> Publication: New York : Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the Press of A. Colish 1960. <br /> <br /> 8. The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan : containing the librettos of the fourteen operas exactly as presented at their première performances / Author: Sullivan Arthur 1842-1900.; Gilbert W. S.; Allen Reginald.<br /> Publication: New York : for the members of the Limited Editions Club 1958. slipcase lightly rubbed.<br /> <br /> 9. The History of Pendennis : his fortunes and misfortunes his friends and his greatest enemy / 2 vols.<br /> Author: Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863.; Stewart Charles W.<br /> Publication: Ipswich England : Printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. for the members of the Limited Editions Club 1961<br /> <br /> 10. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella /<br /> Author: Prescott William Hickling 1796-1859 author.; Freitas Lima de; Gardiner C. Harvey<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club Baltimore : Garamond Press. 1967. <br /> <br /> 11. Man and Superman : a comedy and a philosophy /<br /> Author: Shaw Bernard 1856-1950.; Casson Lewis.<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1962. <br /> <br /> 12. The Man of Property /<br /> Author: John Galsworthy; Evelyn Waugh; Charles Mozley; John Dreyfus<br /> Publication: New York : Printed by A. Colish for the members of the Limited Editions Club 1964. <br /> <br /> 13. Memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon covering the years 1691-1723 / 2 vols.<br /> Author: Saint-Simon Louis de Rouvroy duc de 1675-1755.; Flower Desmond; Brissaud Pierre<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1959 <br /> <br /> 14. The Mill on the Floss /<br /> Author: Eliot George 1819-1880.; Daiches David; Manning Wray and others<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1963. <br /> <br /> 15. Nostromo : a Tale of the Seaboard /<br /> Author: Conrad Joseph 1857-1924.; Freitas Lima de; Croft-Cooke Rupert<br /> Publication: Sam Francisco : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by Taylor & Taylor 1961. 2 splits at slipcase joints<br /> <br /> 16. Omoo /<br /> Author: Herman Melville; Reynolds Stone; John Dreyfus; Vivian Ridler<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1961. slipcase lightly soiled<br /> <br /> 17. Peter Ibbetson /<br /> Author: Du Maurier George 1834-1896.; Du Maurier Daphne; Salter George<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1963. slipcase with minor split<br /> <br /> 18. The Pilot /<br /> Author: Cooper James Fenimore 1789-1851.; Winterich John T.; Quackenbush Robert<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1968.<br /> <br /> 19. Quo Vadis /<br /> Author: Sienkiewicz Henryk 1846-1916.; Curtin Jeremiah; Fiume Salvatore and others<br /> Publication: Verona : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Officina Bodoni 1959 <br /> <br /> 20. The Rise of Silas Lapham /<br /> William Dean Howells; Henry Steele Commager; Mimi Korach; Richard W Ellis<br /> Publication: New York : The Limited Editions Club 1961. <br /> <br /> 21. The Romance of Tristan & Iseult /<br /> Author: Bédier Joseph 1864-1938.; Belloc Hilaire; Rosenfeld Paul and others Publication: New York : Printed at the Thistle Press for the members of the Limited Editions Club 1960. 1/4" chip at foot of spine<br /> <br /> 22. Saint Thomas Aquinas /<br /> Author: Thomas Aquinas Saint 1225-1274.; Shuster George N.; Stone Reynolds and others<br /> Publication: Chatham England : Printed by W. & J. Mackay for the members of the Limited Editions Club 1969. <br /> <br /> 23. The Spectator : Essays /<br /> Author: Addison Joseph; Steele Richard and others<br /> Publication: London : Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the Curwen Press 1970. <br /> <br /> 24. The Spy : a Tale of the Neutral Ground /<br /> Author: Cooper James Fenimore 1789-1851.; Pitz Henry C.; Winterich John T.<br /> Publication: New York : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Press of A. Colish 1963. <br /> <br /> 25. Tartuffe ; & the Would-Be Gentleman /<br /> Author: Molière 1622-1673.; Baker Henry; Miller James and others<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1963. <br /> <br /> 26. The Three-Cornered Hat /<br /> Author: Alarcón Pedro Antonio de 1833-1891.<br /> Publication: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Plantin Pr. 1959. <br /> <br /> 27. Tono-Bungay /<br /> Author: Wells H. G. 1866-1946 author.; Lamb Lynton; Clarke Bert and others<br /> Publication: New York : Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club 1960. <br /> <br /> 28. Two Plays for Puritans /<br /> Author: Bernard Shaw; George Him<br /> New York : Limited Editions Club 1966. <br /> <br /> 29. Twenty Years After /<br /> Author: Dumas Alexandre 1802-1870.; Legrand Edy; Redman Ben Ray and others<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1958. slipcase lightly rubbed<br /> <br /> 30. The Wall /<br /> Author: John Hersey; William Sharp; George N Shuster Publication: New York : Printed at the Marchbanks Press for the members of the Limited Editions Club 1957. slipcase soiled & rubbed<br /> <br /> 31. The Wanderer : Le Grand Meaulnes /<br /> Author: Alain-Fournier 1886-1914.; Dignimont André<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1958. <br /> <br /> 32. The Way of the World : omedy in five acts /<br /> Author: William Congreve; T M Cleland<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1959. <br /> <br /> 33. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship /<br /> Author: Goethe Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832.; Schoenberner Franz; Carlyle Thomas and others<br /> Publication: New York : Limited Editions Club 1959. <br /> <br /> 34. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford love story /<br /> Author: Max Beerbohm Sir; Douglas Cleverdon; George Him<br /> Publication: Baltimore : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Garamond Press 1960. . Limited Editions Club unknown
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
18830076593London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1883. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1883. Handsomely bound in full calf by Sotheran. Hardcover large 4to. 5 raised bands gilt titles and dentelles marbled endpapers aeg. Illustrated by Armstrong Small and Boot. 527 pp. A Very Good copy. Sunning and offsetting to the boards; light scuffing to raised bands and spine ends; small scratched area on the front board. The contents are bright clean and unmarked. Strong square binding. Armorial bookplate of British Army officer Frederick William Stopford on the front pastedown. Digital images available upon request. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington hardcover
1974avigT V Bulpin Cape Town 1974. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. signed. Signed by Authors474 pages complete. Signed by Bulpin on the title page. A book used with much contentment. The illustrated board cover is mild and evocative. There is wear to the edges and corners. The spine has a user crease along its length however it and the binding are secure and sure. Inside there is evidence of use throughout. There are annotations to early pages and later pages. The papertrims have marks from handling and storage. The pages are occasionally lightly marked by handling however they are relaxed confident clear neat amiable and generous. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. T V Bulpin, Cape Town hardcover
0851478948.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
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
98401Paris Javal & Bourdeaux 1930. . Unique extra-illustrated example limited edition printed hors-commerce on japon imperial for Monsieur Dumouchel from a total edition of 525; 3 vols; 4to; illustrated with 25 monochrome etchings of which 22 are hors-texte by Charles Huard and with two original copper plates by Huard colour drawings throughout the text by Theodore van Elsen signed and dated 1933 also loose are 9 wash drawings and 4 watercolours signed by Huard and a set of prospectus; vol II contains a suite of 30 colour drawings to illustrate the work loose in an illustrated wrapper by van Elsen with each drawing with tissue guards and mounted on blue paper a suite of 20 original watercolours also to illustrate the work signed and captioned in pencil by Louis Ibels loose in an illustrated wrapper dated 1933; vol.3 contains over 100 original drawings signed by Carlo Farneti to illustrate the work 4 original watercolours by Louise Ibels and 2 signed watercolours by Leon Courbouleix; all house in modern maroon morocco boxes with gilt detail and lettering; a fine copy.<br /> A unique example extra-illustrated by Charles Huard with two copper plates and numerous original drawings by multiple artists. <br /><br />A large collection from the publisher's Javal and Bordeaux of illustrations for Flaubert's novel. <br /><br />Flaubert's first published novel. 'Madame Bovary the story of the adulteries and suicide of a doctor's wife in provincial Normandy is notable for its rigorous psychological development and manifests the qualities that mark all his mature work: authenticity of detail an impersonal narrative method a precise and harmonious style. Certain passages having been judged to be offensive to public morals Flaubert his publisher and his printer were tried but acquitted' Drabble.<br /> Paris, Javal & Bourdeaux, 1930. unknown
31858Winnipeg : Newspaper Cartoonists' Association of Manitoba . First Edition . VG . 8VO . Caricature of prominent Manitobans printed on glossy bright stock. Light wear gilt faded on spine hinges cracked but holding. Mounted photo of yacht laid in with caption"When the Duke of Kent was on his way to our island on the Minnie wa-wa" .Peel 3220. Newspaper Cartoonists' Association of Manitoba unknown
6823Sydney : A. H. & A. W. Reed 1964 Soft cover with damaged to spine. 182p. illustrated. Pages aged. Sydney : A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1964 paperback
70442London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. English Literature FIRST EDITION in book-form. 3 volumes bound as two quartos 25 x 17 x 9cm pp.2 iv; 306 pp.vi; 306 pp.vi; 426 4. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Bound in early twentieth-century half native red morocco gilt over green buckram sides. Internally clean no inscriptions. Bindings a little rubbed and shelf worn wear to joints of volume two with associated chip. A very good pair which shows well. First Edition in Book Form; originally a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens from April 4 1840 - December 4 1841; Narrator Master Humphrey was a lonely man who lived in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique grandfather clock by the chimney-corner and decides to start a little club called Master Humphrey's Clock where the members including Mr. Pickwick himself have a penchant for telling stories. In the book several short tales are recounted followed by the novels 'The Old Curiosity Shop' which follows the life of the beautiful and virtuous Little Nell and her Grandfather and 'Barnaby Rudge' Dickens first effort at historical fiction set during London's non-Popery 'Gordon' Riots Protestant rallying against the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1778. Podeschi; Gimbel Catalogue. Eckel p67 Grolier Exhibition Slater; Suzannet Catalogue. Collins; Dickens and Crime 1962. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41 unknown
1837473178Rudolph Ackermann Eclipse Sporting Gallery London 1837 Second Edition. 1837. Hardcover. hardback large 8vo xii206pp. title vignette and 18 hand coloured aquatints by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. owner's bookplate of Richard Meinertzhagen with a signed inscription on flyleaf 'Ben Lind from Dick Meinerzhagen Jan 1935' the recipients not known; from the Pollen / Benson family library of Norton Hall occasional slight foxing otherwise clean and binding sound page edges gilt marbled endpapers gilt-decorated full leather binding slightly rubbed Very Good condition . Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, London, 1837, Second Edition, hardcover
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
3106Madrid: Summa Editorial 2004. A bibliophile edition of selections from Berceo's masterpiece ILLUSTRATED WITH 9 FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE MIXED ETCHINGS BY ASCENSION BIOSCA AFTER SANDRA ESCOHOTADO AND FERNANDO CANO. Each etching is SIGNED AND JUSTIFIED BY BIOSCA IN PENCIL. From a total edition of 89 numbered copies all printed on fine thick wove paper this is ONE OF ONLY 40 COPIES WITH THE ETCHINGS PRINTED IN BLACK. Large folio. Loose as issued in wraps. Housed in publisher's attractive silk folding case. Prospectuses laid in. FINE AND BRIGHT. New. <br/><br/> Madrid: Summa Editorial, 2004 paperback
19782090202118200449Subaru shobo 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Subaru shobo paperback
193565773Holiday House 1935-1939. hardback. very good condition in slipcase- 4 small books 5 X 3 1/2 inches - slipcase has some wear and darkening. Holiday House hardcover
190027009New York; London: Harper & Brothers 1900. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 14 115 1pp. Uncut. Original pictorial forest-green cloth stamped in gold light-green and white. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Printer's device on title-page. Title-page in red and black lettering. First book edition of this exquisite work which was originally published in Harper's Magazine the Saturday Evening Post and the London Sketch. It is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w illustrations by Peter Newell and Gustave Verbeek. Some age-wear on binding with slight rubbing along covers and head and tail of spine. Sporadic foxing on very first and very last pages. Binding and interior in overall good to good condition. Harper & Brothers hardcover