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1968biblio420Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques 1968. Very Good. <p> in-4 rel toile LXVI p 267 planches de gravures jaquette illustrée avec dechirures au bord sup</p> Arts et Métiers Graphiques unknown
197517362Avon CT: The Limited Editions Club 1975. Limted Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Near Fine bound in patterned cloth covered boards ; housed in a Very Good brown slipcase. Some rubbing and scuffing to slipcase. Slight edge wear to boards. Text is clean and unmarked illustrated throughout. ; 8vo. 10 1/2"h x 7 1/4"w. Limited to 2000 copies signed by the artist Lynd Ward of which this is copy 313. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
192548670Waltham Saint Lawrence : The Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Limited Edition. Hardcover - as published. VG #52 of 450 copies 113pp deckled edges bookplate on the paste down. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
192496543New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in batik-decorated boards with blue cloth strip at spine. No dust jacket. One of 2040 numbered copies printed by the Pynson Printers after a design by Elmer Adler. This copy numbered 922. Heavy wear at corner tips and some darkening of right-hand side of front board. Interior pages are clean and supple; binding is solid. Title on spine is within a bright gilt medallion. Twelve intact wood engravings by Wilfred Jones. A nice copy. 8vo. 135 pp. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1870006781New York: J. C. Buttre 1870. Near Fine. 1 leaf 26 x 18 cm. with engraving of George Washington from the portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Full bust head to left. Vignette. Mezzotinto. "Engraved expressly for this work." -- at lower edge. Baker 188. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: very light discoloration behind the "G" in "G. Washington"; otherwise clean and crisp. J. C. Buttre unknown
19281403491Paris: Edward W. Titus 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 6 49 7 pages plus 5 illustrated plates. In Very Good minus condition. In brown cloth binding with red lettering on paper labels to front board and spine. Boards are moderately soiled most heavily on spine with faint stains on boards near the joints. Rubbing along board edges fore corners lightly bumped. Label on spine is heavily sunned and scuffed. Text block shows light wear and foxing to deckled edges. Also foxed sparsely throughout most prominently on endpapers. Stain in gutter of first free endpaper. Small pencil annotation on page 7 indicates a typo in the text. SH consignment. Shelved in Room A. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound Ernest Hemingway James Joyce William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933 when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> This title was among Bird's private collection having been carted by him from Paris where he stayed until 1940 to Spain Tangiers and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403491. Special Collections. Edward W. Titus hardcover
185023334D. Appleton & Company New York 1850. HarDBACK nODuStJacket 1850 1st EditioN Small Brown embossed LEATHER COVER with TITled PapeR Label oN Spine Lettered IN Black Light Rub Wear Scuff Cover VG/VG- NOJacket 184 PGS ADS Interior Nice Tight with Some FOX & SMALL Stains & light Rub Wear slight wrinkiling some pgs Aging some tiny dogeared pages SpIne labEl slight FoX 6 1/4 X 4 in. Approx Light wear to tHE corners and spine ends and some light rubbing to the covers. The binding is solid and tight with no cracking and no loose or missing Pages There is mild foxing throughout the book but otherwise the pages are clean with no marks names creases TeARs or fingerprint smudges. Contains three separately paginated books with two facing tissue-guarded full page enGraved illustrations As frontispieces for each one last pair is missing the tissue-guard: My Autobiography 176 pagES Who Shall Be gReAteST 178 pageS and Which is the Wiser or People Abroad 184 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. D. Appleton & Company, New York hardcover
1979007446Edinburgh : A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar 1771 c1979 1979. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 3 volumes :160 plates including facsimiles maps music; some folded ; 27 cm ; by a society of gentlemen in Scotland.; LC: AE5.E3631771 ; OCLC: 277954529 ; 5 raised bands spine labels in red and black leather with decorations and lettering in gold rubric textblock ; an exact facsimile of a 3-volume set of the 1st edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica reproducing the plates with foxing ; "For three years sections of the encyclopaedia were issued periodically. The first two numbers came in December 1768 . The first volume 'Aa' to 'Bzo' was completed and bound in 1769 the second 'Caaba' to 'Lythrum' a year later and the third 'Macao' to 'Zyglophyllum' in 1771"--Herman Kogan The great EB./ Edited by William Smellie who was employed by Colin Macfarquhar publisher and Andrew Bell engraver./ "In order to give some idea of the materials of which this dictionary is composed we shall conclude the preface with a list of the principal authors made use of in the compilation."--Preface.; thick heavy volumes ; FINE <br/> <br/> Edinburgh : A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1771, c1979 hardcover
18469660Boston Otis Broaders publ 1846. HB NODJ ISSUED 1846 1st edition Embossed Burgundy Cloth boards with Rub Wear & Scuff & small chips Extremities Small spine Tear chipInterior relatively nice tight with few stains Fox & small dogeared pgs Edges pg Gold Gilt VG/VG AS-IS NODJ 296 pgs . First Edition. Hard Cover. Boston Otis Broaders publ hardcover
19085643Essex House Press Norman Chapel Gloucestershire 1908. HBNODJ October 1908 1st limited edition 250 copies #143/250 Thin Minor CoveR rub & wear primarily around edgesCover is 1/4 Linen Uncut VG- interior Book Blank Endpapers have BRown Stain Minor Fox interior VG NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Essex House Press, Norman Chapel, Gloucestershire hardcover
192684817New York: The John Day Company 1926. First Edition. One of 3000 copies. Publisher's typed note regarding 25 copies with signed engravings laid in. Quarto 28cm; black cloth-covered boards with paper title label on spine; lower edge untrimmed; 54pp; eight wood engravings at frontispiece and throughout text. Previous owner's name inked to front endpaper. Shelf-soil to covers and interior with small nick to title label rubbing and peeling to spine ends and board edges with 3" crack to rear lower spine hinge; Good. In supplied slipcase with light shelf-wear and soil; Very Good. Cabell's collection is organized into four parts including Madoc in modern time on the moon and in the old time with Underwood's illustrations throughout. 84817. The John Day Company unknown
196731713Cabinet Des Estampes Des Collections D'Etat A Dresde. As New. 1967. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text in French; 24 lovely black and white plates by artists including Rembrandt Bruegel Cranach Reni and others. -- with a bonus offer-- . Cabinet Des Estampes Des Collections D'Etat A Dresde paperback
1809Flo541<p>Very good copy of the first edition of this classic of equestrian humour</p><p>With 26 of 29 handcoloured copperplate engravings by Thomas Rowlandson after illustrations by George Moutard Woodward and Henry Bunbury unsigned</p><p>The illustrations show Regency gents falling off horses ladies falling off horses gamblers pursued by officers of the debtors' prisons raggedy dogs yokel fashions and furniture famous beauties etc.</p><p>The 26 plates include: portrait of <em>Caleb Quizem Esq. title page vignette with courtier falling from Pegasus The Maid of Mim; Costume of Hogs Norton: Morning dress</em>; <em>Game Wigs</em> 2 plates;<em> Hounds</em> 2 plates; <em>Mathematical Horsemanship</em> 6 plates; <em>The True Method of Sitting on a Horse Mathematically Delineated; How to Vault from the Saddle; Fashionable Furniture at Hogs Norton</em> 2 plates; and <em>The Bailiffs Hunt</em> 8 plates.</p><p>Lacks the folding plate <em>The Bucephalus Riding Academy for Grown Gentlemen</em> and two other plates <em>Costume of Hogs Norton: A Back Front View of Miss Dickinson's new Dress</em> and <em>How a Man may Shoot his own Wig.</em></p><p>George Murgatroyd Woodward 1765–1809 more commonly known as George "Moutard" or "Mustard" Woodward was an English caricaturist and humourist. He was a friend collaborator and drinking companion of Thomas Rowlandson who engraved many of his prints.</p><p>Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827 was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian and Regency eras noted for his ribald satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker his most famous works include <em>The Miseries of Human Life </em>1808 <em>The Tours of Dr. Syntax</em> 1812-21 <em>Microcosm of London</em> 1810 <em>The English Dance of Death</em> 1815 <em>Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome</em> 1815 <em>History of Johnny Quae Genus</em> 1822 <em>The English Spy</em> 1826 etc.</p><p>The pseudonym Caleb Quizem is often attributed to the artist George Moutard Woodward. The portrait however links the author to Geoffrey Gambado i.e. Francis Grose. In the picture a corpulent man sits in an armchair looking at the viewer through a monocle. Two books Gambado's <em>Annals of Horsemanship </em>a popular book attributed to Grose reissued with Rowlandson's engravings in 1809 and Laurence Sterne's <em>Tristam Shandy</em> are on the table next to him and a portrait of Gambado with gouty foot and crutch hangs on the wall.</p><p>Quite scarce copies held by the British Library and Oxford University.</p><p>Bound in full red morocco leather spine with five raised bands gilt title and decoration to compartments front board with 2cm scratch to leather TEG marbled endpapers book block solid. Interior clean and bright all copperplates under tissue guards with vivid handcolour.</p><p>Engraved armorial bookplate of Herman Le Roy Edgar a New York real-estate broker amateur photographer and book collector 1865-1938.</p><p>Very good copy of this rare classic of horsey fun.</p> Thomas Tegg hardcover
63-2530San Francisco CA: California International Antiquarian Book Fair 1981. Color Poster. 24 x 18 inches Good with creasing marginal tear. Poster courtesy of Sergio Old Prints 50 Maiden Lane San Francisco. San Francisco, CA: California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 1981. unknown
1972T1903690Collegium Graphicum Portland 1972. 1st Edition Thus. SOFTCOVER. 3 matching volumes all 8vo in patterned stiff card covers variously paginated housed in a matching card slipcase. There is some offsetting from the woodblock prints to the facing pages - presumably reproduced from the original copy used to make the facsimile __CONDITION : Spines moderately sunned else all FINE very clean and tight unmarked and unread copies all still close to new in a slightly faded but otherwise FINE slipcase. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Collegium Graphicum, Portland paperback
338518Septimus Prowett 1824. THIS VOL ONLY ex-library folio half green leather bound green buckram boards gilt lettering & decoration to spine aeg marbled eps frontispiece xx xl unnumbered plates VG moderate rubbing & scuffing/surface loss to leatherwork on spine & board corners sl loosening/wrinkling of buckram/material to boards minimal library markings light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals prev. owner's name in pencil to prelims moderate foxing to plates Septimus Prowett 1824 hardcover
19700512086Associated American Artists NY 1970. Text printed in France by Pierre Jean Mathan. Etchings printed by Atelier George's Leblanc. Sandburgs poems have been illustrated with seven original copper plate etchings by Gregory Masurovsky. The book is number 127 of a Signed and numbered edition of 150. In addition each of the etchings has been numbered and signed by the artist in pencil. The book/portfolio is fine and housed as issued in a fine slipcase. Associated American Artists hardcover
19830005380Silver Spring MD: The Lewis Carroll Society of America / Univ. of California Press 1983. First Limited edition. Paperback. Fine/fine. Woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. Folio white stiff wrappers light blue dust jacket <br/><br/>Copy no. 318 of only 350 copies numbered and signed by the illustrator. This is Carroll Studies Number 7 with an Introduction by Jame R. Kincaid. Woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. The Lewis Carroll Society of America / Univ. of California Press paperback
197016615SANTA CRUZ: KAYAK. 1970. Fine with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Fine in printed wrappers. Trace of rubbing on printed price at rear cover. One of a 1000 copies. . SANTA CRUZ: KAYAK. 1970 paperback
0365850519.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1334320160.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
160918688<p>Text in Latin. 2nd enhanced edition. Black straight-grain morocco leather over bevel-edge wood boards; gilt ruled frames on covers; brass clasps at fore edge; gilt title and rolls on spine; French Stormont pattern marbled end papers; two color print throughout; large font throughout; woodcut decorative drop-cap initials throughout. Clean covers and spine; front cover detached; light edge wear somewhat heavier at cover fore corners; brass clasps are intact and VG condition; rear cover spine and text block are tightly bound; lacking Title Page and 3 other prelim leaves ll. 7 8 1 and 4 interior leaves including 4 plates pp 56 250 264 314; ll. D4b Q5b R4b V5b; 53 intact full page copperplate engravings and 35 of 38 1/3 page engraved tailpiece vignettes range from Good but light to Fine though 1 plate has light ink attempt to cover angels privates p. 662; l. Tt1b; few light smudges interior otherwise very clean. Note that leaf 7 is lacking which has dedication or honors the pope; catchword at tail of l. 6b is 'PAV' indicating Pope Paul V 1605-1621 on missing leaf rather than Clement VIII 1592-1605 as in some copies. 23 x 17 cm; 696 pp.</p> Antverpiae (Antwerp): Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moreti (Plantin-Moretus Press) hardcover
1841008974London: Longman Orme Brown Green and Longman 1841. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in contemporary fine binding two volumes in polished calf the backs with black and red morocco labels and intricate gilt tooling marbled end papers and edges the bookplates of Walmer Castle and a later 20th c. owner front end papers prior owner inscriptions in pencil and ink concerning Walmer Castle and Cattermole's engravings "considered to be some of his finest". Very Good the calf rubbed and soiled. Both volumes with frontis engravings and engraved title pages Vol. I with 7 engravings in text Vol. II with 13 in text. The title pages call for 15 in Vol. I and 13 in Vol. II leaving the possibility of 4 missing engravings however no evidence of removal. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Hardcover
1819006595London: H. R. Young; and T. H. Whitely 1819. Hardcover. Fair . Volume 1 only. xii 171 1 p. 39 leaves of engraved plates; 30 cm. Calf boards. Marbled endpapers. Bound in following the title page is a slip "To the Public" stating that two of the prints Will Ellis and William Carstairs would "be delivered in the second volume." A pencilled note below states that they were never published and that the biographical sketches of the two found here were omitted from the small paper edition. Former owner's inscription on blank page following front endpapers: "James A. Taylor Nov 1884 No. 2035." This volume contains descriptions and portraits of interesting people from the reigns of William III and Queen Anne ranging from John Gale "a singular Deaf and Dumb Man" and Harry "an Old Raree-show-man" to Yorkshire Nan "Prince George's Cap Woman" and Daniel Defoe "a Political Writer and Novelist". In Fair Condition: lacking spine; front board detached but present; first few leaves of text partially detached; shadows from plates on facing pages of text; occasional foxing; otherwise clean and bright. H. R. Young; and T. H. Whitely hardcover
1926biblio226London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd 1926. Fine. <p>8vo blue cloth 208p 34 ill color front ex library</p> T. Fisher Unwin Ltd hardcover