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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
1955955Escondido CA : Christward Publications 1955. 1955. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 3rd printing ; 94 pp. ; LC: BP605.C5; Dewey: 212.5 ; OCLC: 1861172 ; blue and white cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; plates of illustrations of angelic beings ; photograph of illustration by Arthur Learned laid in ; postcard of Questhaven Retreat laid in ; printed on handmade paper ; "Newhouse claimed that she first realized she was clairvoyant when she was six riding the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor with a friend her age. Seeing a group of water sprites she pointed them out to her companion. The latter thinking this was a game of make believe responded with her own creative inventions. Flower realizing she saw a world that didn't exist for others was shocked into silence for many years.In 1924 Newhouse along with her mother and sister moved to Los Angeles where she soon became a guest speaker at a number of churches and lecture halls. Word soon spread of her unique gifts and her convincing sincerity as a speaker. Before long she was traveling regularly to Santa Barbara and San Francisco and much of Southern California. It was on one of these lecture engagements that she met her future husband Lawrence Newhouse. In 1940 Flower and Lawrence founded Questhaven Retreat and the Christward Ministry which she bequeathed to the Lord Christ forever. Here she wrote and lectured extensively on the Kingdom of Angels and the Wisdom Teachings that underlie "living the Life" and following the "Way'."--Wikipedia ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Escondido, CA : Christward Publications, 1955. hardcover
1935B7298London: Associated Newspapers n.d. circa 1935. Frontispiece loose. Spine sunned. . Binding: Full orange pictorial cloth boards. Notes: John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir 1875 – 1940 was a Scottish novelist historian British Army officer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada the 15th since Canadian Confederation. As a youth Buchan began writing poetry and prose fiction and non-fiction publishing his first novel in 1895 and ultimately writing over a hundred books of which the best known is The Thirty-Nine Steps.<br><br> Size: 8vo. 200 x 145 mm Illustration: Very good example. Illustrated with colour plates. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Pages: 314 pp. Category: Book Literature; Associated Newspapers, hardcover
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
196417492New York: Harcourt Brace and World 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly edgeworn with a handful of short closed tears. Touches of shelf-soil. Price-clipped. Interior bright and lcean. Very good. 128pp. <br/><br/>Collection of twenty-six tales gathered by folklorist Harold Courlander. Harcourt Brace and World hardcover books
192859105London: Cresset Press 1928. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. viii 175; viii 163pp. Folio 37 cm Full black parchment vellum with gold spine lettering and raised bands. Top edges gilt. Light wear to covers; corners lightly worn; spines spotted; spines a bit chipped at the foot. No slipcase. Printed in an edition limited to 195 numbered copies printed by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. This copy is numbered 66. The text for volume I from the 11th edition published 1688 which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition published 1687. Beautiful wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. The text for Vol. I from the 11th edition published 1688 which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition published 1687. Cresset Press hardcover
1912ST17640-391New York: Dodge Publishing Company 1912. 265 x 195 mm. 10 1/4 x 8". Title page and 52 unnumbered leaves printed on recto only. Translated by Edward FitzGerald. <br/> EXCELLENT TEAL CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper covers framed by multiple plain and dotted rules enclosing a twining grapevine central panel with palmette and floral cornerpieces raised bands spine compartments densely gilt LOVELY CITRON MOROCCO DOUBLURES EACH with large oval medallion at center CONTAINING ONE OF THE COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANSCOM & CUMMINGS enclosed by a graceful gilt frame corners with intricate gilt vines bearing clusters of onlaid burgundy morocco grapes fawn-colored moiré silk endleaves top edge gilt other edges untrimmed joints expertly repaired. In an early original blue cloth dust jacket. With 26 of 28 two having been used for the doublures memorably intriguing tipped-on color plates by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cummings all with tissue guards and the text with Orientalist decorations those on the title and opening pages hand-colored and highlighted with gilt. Paas 1513. Spine evenly darkened title page with small tears at inner margin lower corner of one plate torn at tip image unaffected other trivial imperfections but still quite an attractive copy--clean fresh and bright the leaves with vast margins and the heavily-gilt binding lustrous.<br/> <br/> This is an especially appealing copy of a ground-breaking illustrated edition of the Rubaiyat in an elaborate binding with splendid doublures created by a prominent American workshop using images from two of the color plates in the work. One of the early women pioneers in the field San Francisco photographer Adelaide Hanscom 1875-1931 began working on photographs to illustrate the Rubaiyat in 1903 and called on members of the Bay Area's bohemian literary and artistic community to serve as models among them "Poet of the Sierras" Joaquin Miller the white-bearded sage in our illustrations Charles Sterling George Wharton James and Charles Keeler. Hanscom was already making a name for herself as a portrait photographer and as a member of the Pictorialism movement defined by Britannica as "an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter tonality and composition rather than the documentation of reality." Those characteristics are on prominent display in her Rubaiyat images first published as sepia-toned photogravures in 1905. This work caused a sensation and won Hanscom international attention including a silver medal at the Liverpool Exposition in England. Perhaps more meaningful to Hanscom was the notice of the great Alfred Stieglitz who made her an Associate Member of his Photo-Secession and included two of her prints in an exhibition at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession later known as "219" in New York. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 destroyed the studio of Hanscom and her partner Cumming including all the negatives of the Rubaiyat plates. The photographs copyrighted by Dodge Publishing were all that remained. The Getty Center which owns a copy of this work suggests that Hanscom and Cumming created the plates here by hand-coloring the photographs and the title of our edition implies those "Life Studies" were then photographed for this work. The memorable binding is by Boston's Harcourt Bindery founded in 1900 to provide hand bookbinding services for the publications of the burgeoning number of private presses created by the Arts & Crafts Movement in New England. The binders took two of the color plates from the work--the frontispiece and the final image from the 1905 edition--to create centerpieces for the doublures adding a gilt and onlaid grape arbor that evokes imagery from the poem. The Harcourt Bindery remains the largest bindery in the United States exclusively devoted to fine bookbinding by hand. Dodge Publishing Company unknown
1994311007NY: VERTIGO/DC COMICS. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 1/2"-inch tear at head of rear panel of jacket. Hint of light shelf wear at spine ends & along edges on jacket. . VERTIGO/DC COMICS. hardcover
1994311006NY: VERTIGO/DC COMICS. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First hardcover edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Crease & 2 neatly repaired nicks at upper corner of title page. A graphic novel. . VERTIGO/DC COMICS. hardcover
1952SEACHANT015558Shell Petroleum Company London. 1952. First edition. Quarto. 63 pages. Cloth-backed colour pictorial boards. Words and music. The twenty-five chanties each have a colour illustration these being by a variety of artists including G.E. Evans who designed the book J.M. Meade Stanley F. Pinker Hanna P.A. Blowfield R.O. Rose et al. The illustrators have somehow conspired to produce images in a uniform style. Printed at the Curwen Press.Pastedowns lightly spotted. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges. Very good. Shell Petroleum Company, London. hardcover
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
1904457260London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner and Co. 1904 one of 500 copies. Good. 1904. Hardcover. hardback large 8vo xii478pp 22 colour plates slight browning otherwise clean and tight no inscriptions green cloth gilt pictorial decorations and titles bumped and rubbed on spine and board edges Good condition . London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1904, one of 500 copies, hardcover
19015545London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1901. 1901. Hardcover. Fine. xii 418 pp ; illustrated plates frontispiece with tissue guard fold-out plans. ; 18 cm. ; 1/2 red leather with four raised bands decorated in tooled gold ; pages untrimmed ; red endpapers ; top edge gilt ; LCCN: 01-27172 ; OCLC: 2104430 ; LC: DH 811.B8; Dewey: 949.3 ; Contents : The first Flemings - Earliest Bruges -- Arnulph the Great -- Progress of the city -- The Murder of Charles the Good -- Vengeance -- Bruges in the Days of Charles the Good -- William Cliton -- Dierick of Alsace and t he Precious Blood -- Philip of Alsace and the Charter of the Franc -- Baldwin of Constantinople -- The Love Story of Bourchard d' Avesnes -- The French Annexation -- Peter de Coninck -- The Battle of the Golden Spurs -- The Great Charter -- Louis o f Nevers -- Louis of Maele -- Bruges under the princes of the House of Burgundy -- The Great Humiliation -- The terrible Duke and his Gentle Daughter -- The final catastrophe -- The architects and architecture of Bruges in the fifteenth century -- T he painters and the pictures of Bruges in the 15th century -- Modern Bruges -- Index ; "We can well understand Mr. Smith's boast that there is hardly any spot within the magic circle of the ramparts of Bruges which is devoid of interest. Its guilds men were masterful and jealous of their rights and the story of their wrestling with the counts of Alsace and dukes of Burgundy is told with so much spirit that we feel ourselves almost in the midst of the long struggle. The burghers were not often worsted though they sometimes found their master. Their girl sovereign Marie is the sweetest figure in the portrait gallery of the city." ; charming illustrations in a fine binding ; slight soiling on cloth paste-downs otherwise a beautiful FINE copy <br/> <br/> London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1901. hardcover
19202558Paris Mishan Publishing Co. Editions d'art "La Cible. 1920. Dvenadtsat. Khudojestvienoe izdatelstvo "Michen". Art Editions "The Target". 13 rue Bonaparte. Paris. 1920. 8vo 24 x195 cm 27 ff. : flexible printed card covers. This book contains the two most famous poems of Alexander Block One of Russia's most famous poets. Two plates by Gontcharova six plates and a small illustration by Larionov refined typography. Natalia Gontcharova 1881-1962 was one of the most famous artists of the Russian Avant-garde. Trained in Moscow where she met Larionov 1881-1964 he was to become her life companion. She contributed to a great number of important exhibitions and both Gontcharova and Larionov played a crucial role in the development of Russian art. They settled in Paris shortly before the present edition became French citizens in 1938 and were married in 1955. Larionov exhibited his Rayonnist works at The Target exhibition in 1913 in Moscow. . The illustrations by Larionov showed his freedom in changing from one style to another within the same book as he liked to do in 1912-1913. Name chosen by the bookseller Jacques Povolozky for his publishing house. The most striking work of the symbolist poet Alexandre Block 1880-1921 the twelve red guards representing the new world. Printed by "Union" The most outstanding work of the poet ALEXANDRE BLOCK 1880-1921 were The TWELVE Red Guards and THE SCYTHIANS Both are poems announcing the revolution. REF:Goncharova Larionov. Centre Pompidou. Paris. 1995. Mishan Publishing Co. Editions d'art "La Cible. paperback books
19931-089134540XNorth Light Books 1993. Hardcover. New. 11.25x8.75x1.00 inches. North Light Books hardcover
1993Q-089134540XNorth Light Books 1993-09-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! North Light Books hardcover
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
1929GIT01417Paris Georges Briffaut "Le Livre du Bibliophile" 1929-1931. 2vol in-8 broché couverture rempliée 332 284pp. Orné de 50 belles illustrations en 2 tons de Fernand Hertenberger gravées sur bois par Georges Aubert dont les 2 portraits en frontispice. Tiré à 915exp numérotés, celui-ci 1 des 900 sur vélin de Rives. Bel exp non coupé.
192922222New-York E.P. Dutton & Co 1929 New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, in-folio, demi-toile grenat à la Bradel, dos titré en long argenté, plats de papier rose avec quadrillage grenat, XI-104 pages.
1905151266New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1905. 1st ed. thus. Very Good. large octavo. pictorial boards 295pp. frontis. b/w plates text ills. 12pp. PublishersÕ catalogue bound at rear. Tan binding with a tipped on picture of animals under a tree on front board. Impression unknown. Neat ownership stamp o/w a nice copy Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
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
1911GITg639Paris Delagrave sans date (1911). Grand in-8 238pp. Cartonnage éditeur de percaline beige, 1er plat et dos ornés de sujets maritimes, tranches dorées. Illustrations dans le texte et à pleine page par Haffner. Bel exemplaire. Polack 1780.
194357905Paris, Editions de la Nouvelle France, Collection de La Main d'Or, 1943, in-8, broché couverture rempliée, 201 pages. Un des 2750 ex. sur vélin chiffon blanc, sur un tirage de 3000 ex. Couverture légèrement défraichie. Nom sur la garde. Intérieur frais.
1946GIT013e3Paris Rombaldi 1946. In-8 carré broché couverture ilustrée en couleurs rempliée 332pp. Orné de 34 belles illustrations en couleurs dont la vignette sur le titre par André Fraye. Tiré à 1480exp numérotés, celui-ci 1 des 1400 sur vélin teinté pur fil de Rives. Petite brunissure au bas du dos, intérieur frais et complet.
