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1983WRCLIT64655New York: The Limited Editions Club 1983. Large quarto. Full black aniline calf lettered in blind. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens printed in eleven colors. Bookplate on front pastedown otherwise about fine in modestly rubbed black silk over boards slipcase. First edition in this format the text accompanied by eight original full-page color silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence resulting in a haunting conjunction of text and image. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress with the silkscreens printed at Studio Heinrici Ltd. Each copy is signed by Hersey Warren and Lawrence. One of the most heralded of the Club's publications of the 1980s and justly so. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1994128534Reno.: University of Nevada Press. 1994 . 1st edition. Green cloth dark green spine title. . Fine in a fine dust jacket. 24x16 cm. . weight: 2.3 lb. University of Nevada Press. hardcover books
191071969NY:: Macmillan. Very Good. 1910. Hardcover. First edition. Minimally marked ex-library copy with a few typical markings else very good in green decorated cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket.; 328 pages . Macmillan, hardcover books
1983S13009Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1983. 1983. 8vo. viii 222 pp. Index. Brown gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN 10: 0521248760 Cambridge University Press, 1983. hardcover books
1983RP479-35Cambridge etc: Cambridge University Press 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. viii 222 pp. Bibliographical note index; text clean un-marked. Brown cloth gilt spine dust-jacket; binding square and tight jacket with shelf wear edges toned. Excellent working copy from the personal collection of Richard Popkin Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at UCLA. Your order receives my personal attention. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
194138631New York: Bowker. Fine. 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. -; Fine in Good dust jacket. DJ soiled and chipped. . Bowker hardcover books
2012UTOMHEA00HMRAnchor Books 2012. Very Good. Tomsky Jacob. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels Hustles and So-Called Hospitality. New York: Anchor Books 2012. 306pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges. Anchor Books paperback books
2012UTOMHEA00EFAnchor Books 2012. Very Good. Tomsky Jacob. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels Hustles and So-Called Hospitality. New York: Anchor Books 2012. 306pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Anchor Books paperback books
2012UTOMHEA00LAWAnchor Books 2012. Very Good. Tomsky Jacob. Heads in Beds: A reckless Memoir of Hotels Hustles and So-Called Hospitality. New York: Anchor Books 2012. 306pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with subtly rubbed edges. Anchor Books paperback books
198338641Markesan: Pentagram 1983. First edition. 24 pp. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 180 copies on Arches Text paper SIGNED by Jacob. Markesan: Pentagram, unknown books
194132127New York: R. R. Bowker 1941. First edition limited to 750 copies 8vo pp. xvii 1 142; frontispiece portrait and 16 plates; near fine in original green cloth with the remains of the printed dust jacket laid in. This copy inscribed "For Colton Storm - who knows why and how this book was done. Without thanks but with appreciation none-the-less -- Jake Blanck 12/27/41." A popular writer of boys' fiction in the late 19th century Castlemon pseudonym for Charles Austin Fosdick 1842-1915 should be ranked along side Horatio Alger and G. A. Henty though his popularity was short-lived. He produced about 58 titles many of them featuring "Frank Nelson" a character Castlemon modeled after himself. <br/><br/> R. R. Bowker hardcover books
196911739Waltham Massachusetts: Mark Press. Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. VG/no DJ . Mark Press hardcover books
196910153.2Waltham Mass: Mark Press 1969. 2nd Printing limited to 300 copies. Brown cloth binding lettered in gilt to spine. A VG copy. Some light rubbing to extremities. Internally clean and bright. 142 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Mark Press hardcover books
199329394New York: Simon & Schuster. 1993. New Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A new edition of Lawrence's colorful 1968 children's book about Harriet Tubman. Bookplate on front free endpaper compact five-line gift inscription on pastedown otherwise fine in very good dust jacket with short tear at head of spine and longer tear at the foot of the rear flap fold. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Simon & Schuster hardcover books
199354450NY: Simon & Schuster 1993. Second printing. Lawrence Jacob. 4to pp. not numbered. Illustrated in color by the author. Pictorial paper over boards. A nice copy in little scuffed dj. The life of Harriet Tubman in short verses and colorful paintings. For children. Simon & Schuster unknown books
199357419NY:: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0671866737 . Illustrated by the author. Book club edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Simon & Schuster, hardcover books
199367309New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good. 1993. Hardcover. Large pictorial boards. This is a clean nice copy. Very Good in a nice dust jacket. . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1857280840New York: Harper and Brothers 1857. Half Leather. Very Good binding. In quarter morocco marbled boards with raised bands and titling to the spine; the Volume number "2" is stamped on the spine. Consisting of four books bound together as one each book containing 160 pages. Separately paginated with separate title pages. 1 Aunt Margaret; or How John True Kept His Resolutions; 2 Vernon; or Conversations About Old Times in England; 3 Carl and Jocko; or The Adventures of the Little Italian Boy and his Monkey; and 4 Lapstone; or The Sailor Turned Shoemaker. Very Good binding. Harper and Brothers unknown books
1857813821857. FE. ABBOTT Jacob. HARPER'S STORY BOOKS. A Series of Narratives Dia-logues Biographies and Tales for the Instruction and Entertainment of the Young. Embellished with Numerous and Beautiful Engravings. Volume 10. New York: Harper and Brothers 1857. First edition. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown and a name stamped on the flyleaf as well as an ink number. This is a near fine copy in decorated boards. unknown books
1857WRCLIT77314New York: Harper and Bros. 1857. 1213-1601013-1601213-160pp. Square octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated cloth. Frontis individual pictorial titles illustrations. 1898 bookplate and private name stamp otherwise very good and bright. A collective issue of these three tales with the volume title bearing the copyright notice for the series which began in 1854 and the individual titles bearing the 1857 date of their initial publication. 36 titles in all were published on a monthly basis from Dec. 1854 to November 1857 and were collectively bound thus three titles per volume from 1855 through 1857. WEBER p.128. Harper and Bros. hardcover books
200143090New Castle:: Oak Knoll Press. Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 1584560584 . New introduction by Joel Myerson and Chris L. Nesmith. First edition thus with added material. Fine in green cloth. No dust jacket. . Oak Knoll Press, hardcover books
1990230Houston: Tafford Publishing 1990. Octavo cloth. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #230 Tafford Publishing unknown books
194479530NY:: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Music by Engelbert Humperdinck. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear two inch closed edge tear on rear panel dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
1262058New York: George H Doran Company nd. 4to. 310pp.; VG; bound in publishers red cloth with faded gilt lettering on the spine pictorial pasted on front board; corners bumped head and tail of spine bumped; 22 illustrations of which 12 are in color and tipped in including the frontispiece; bookplate on ffep; interior clean; copyright page states 'B'; DC consignment; shelved case 14. 1262058. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. George H Doran Company unknown books
01735New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. Limited to 600 Copies<br/>Signed and Numbered by the Artist<br/><br/>NIELSEN Kay illustrator. GRIMM Jacob and Wilhelm. Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm. New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. <br/><br/>American signed limited edition comprised of 600 copies numbered and signed by the artist this being copy no. 49. Large quarto 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 301 x 246 mm. 12 275 1 4 blank pp. Twelve mounted color plates with descriptive tissue guards. Ten black and white plates included in pagination. Title and initials letters printed in red and black.<br/><br/>Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery stamp-signed on front turn-in in full black crushed levant morocco covers ruled in gilt front cover with original gilt stamp spine with five raised bands bordered and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges decorative gilt turn-ins plum end-papers original decorative end-papers preserved top edge gilt others uncut. A very fine copy. <br/><br/>There was no signed limited English edition of this book.<br/><br/>"In an attempt to reinvigorate the market for gift books after the war Hodder & Stoughton resumed the publishing of Kay Nielsen's books though on a more modest scale. In 1924 they published a work that Nielsen had begun in 1912 Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales including sixteen stories illustrated with twelve watercolors. Nielsen returned to London and in 1925 his final book for Hodder & Stoughton Hansel and Gretel appeared with twelve color plates" Susan E. Meyer A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators p. 206.<br/><br/>Larkin p. 13. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925 unknown books
