60 résultats
189932639NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. History French; B&W Illustrations; 9; xv212 pages; Gilles de Retz was the basis for 'Bluebeard'. One of the leading figures in the kingdom he was executed for horrific crimes against children. 5 illustrations and facsimiles. . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1865biblio268<p>"The Old Blacksmith Jacob's Stories" in 19th century German an excellent copy from a prolific story teller. A treasure.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> Robler hardcover
1874093826London: Cassell Petter & Galpin 1874. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. W.C. Walter Crane; E.G. Ernest Griset; F.B. F. Barnard and others. Third edition dated 1874 from the printer's mark at rear octavo hardback Pictorial gilt brown cloth all edges gilt viii 226 pp 7 coloured plates by Walter Crane deduced from his monogram on some plates so probably lacking a colour frontispiece. Many wood cut illustrations by Griset and Barnard Gilt rubbed and dull Good condition overall. No inscriptions. <br/> <br/> Cassell Petter & Galpin hardcover
18606496alJames Nichol. Fair. Hardcover. 1860. Text tanned in all volumes very readable for a copy this age. For more information see Description<br><p>Vol I: cover and spine scuffed on edges spine worn name on inside cover pa ge edge tanned and stained</p> ide cover page edge worn and tanned</p> . James Nichol hardcover
184450909London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1844. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Half-leather 21 cm 69 ff. tp chromolithographic page and illustration boarders etc. designed by Owen Jones. Scarce. Fair copy but for light foxing throughout; leather spine deteriorating at edges. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
184434472Boston MA: Bradbury Soden & Company. Very Good. 1844. Full-Leather. Very Good full calf leather no names or marks. Front and rear outer hinges are both cracked but holding tight. Leather boards have some rubbing. Spine ends are worn. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 320 pages . Bradbury, Soden & Company hardcover
1864FGN12-C-6Paris: Bachelin Deflorenne 1864. Leather. Very Good. 6" by 4". None. A first edition of this biography of Judith Frere the companion of the songwriter Jean de Beranger. Featuring an engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Staal. The original paper wraps have been bound in. In French. In a half calf binding with marbled boards and decorative endpapers. Externally some shelfwear. Internally generally firmly bound although the frontispiece is working loose. Occasional light foxing prominent to first and last few pages with the odd mark Very Good Bachelin Deflorenne hardcover
18303250Derby Printed and published by Thomas Richardson; and sold by Hurst Chance and Co. London c1830. 1830 16mo. 311;311;311p. Woodcuts throughout. Contemporary quarter morocco with marbled boards rubbed but sound. The Natural History is illustrated with Bewick cuts somewhat superior to the two other sets of blocks. Free endpapers removed otherwise a very good copy of a scarce provincial chapbook collection. Not traced in the BL online. Derby, Printed and published by Thomas Richardson; and sold by Hurst, Chance, and Co., London, hardcover
1880009319New York: Thomas Nelson 1880 Date based on institutional holdings. 64 pgs.Pictorial boards edges worn and rubbed through binding shaken small marginal loss from one page offsetting opposite illustrations else clean. Juvenile verse with lovely color artwork on every page by artists Sowerby and Emmerson. Beautifully printed by the Dalziel Brothers Brain and Co. and Clay Son and Taylor. First American Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John George Sowerby & Henry Hetherington Emmerson. 4to. Thomas Nelson unknown
186241698AB1862. First Edition of a comic-style publication. London Ward And Lock 158 Fleet Street / Printed by Levey Robson and Franklyn 1862. 11 x 17cm. IV 220 pages with numerous grotesque illustrations. Original Hardcover with patterned cloth. Binding slightly shaky only. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With illustrations in "Punch - Style". Includes for example the following chapters: The Opium Dream / Hippodrollery / Speculations Upon Masquerades / Shakesperian Fancies / Shakesperian Fancies / etc. hardcover
1898010303London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1898 Blue cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt gilt and cloth darkened stain to upper cover roughness to inner rear hinge A collection of 12 fairy tales illustrated with detailed and imaginative b&w line art by Charles Robinson. . First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles Robinson. 8vo. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
18200007051London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1820. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo; xii iii-lxxiv 240 pages tea spots p. lxiii; 20th century full brown morocco raised bands. <br/><br/>Ritson's collection first appeared in 2 volumes in 1795. This work was designed to appeal to youth so many of Ritson's notes were removed to better appeal to young persons. Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown hardcover
189401809New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1894. First edition. Twelvemo. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; v 437 1 pp.; illustrations. The scarce first edition of Twilight Land a collection of fairy tales written and illustrated by Howard Pyle and the result of Pyle's "untrammelled imagination an inexhaustible vocabulary and a long-practised pencil." Illustrated with black & white illustrations profusely throughout. A Very Good copy with some rubbing to cloth; gilt to spine rubbed and dulled; corners bumped; owner's penciled name to front endpaper bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown else clean throughout. We find no other copies of this first edition in commerce 2015. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1847011072<p>Leipzig: Chez Baumgaertner 1847 1847 per institutional copies Gumuchian dates it at 1835. 6.5 x 4 inches 16.5 x 10 cm. 16 pgs. Yellow paper over boards titled in black ink some cover soil occasional light foxing offsetting opposite artwork. One in a series of books meant to teach young Germans how to read French. An abbreviated version of Perrault's tale in French with explanations of French idioms in German. Illustrated with brightly colored engravings. Some of the scenes depicted are quite violent and gruesome. Rare. Gumuchian 4454. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong 16mo.</p> Chez Baumgaertner hardcover
18974471Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl 1897 . Seventeenth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 56 iv pages clothbacked chromolithographed boards <br/><br/>With 6 chromolithographs by the team of Offterdinger & Leutemann with fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. The excellent frontispiece shows Gretel pushing the witch into the oven. Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl hardcover
1895003263London: Lawrence and Bullen 1895 Mauve patterned cloth pictorially stamped in gilt gilt slightly dulled spine sunned boards slightly bowed. Fairy stories set in Ireland written by Irish poetess Moira O'Neill. Illustrated with lovely b&w plates by Britten. Scarce. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. E. F. Britten. 8vo. Lawrence and Bullen hardcover
1894BOOKS072948ILondon: Raphael Tuck & Sons 1894. HC. good pictorial boards maroon cloth spine hardcover. 9 Chromoliths B&W ill. UNCOMMON - not dated but a Christmas 1894 gift inscription on the half-title page. IMAGES AVAILABLE. 79pp. Raphael Tuck & Sons unknown
1882010134<p>New York: McLoughlin Bros 1882 Circa 1882. 10.75 x 8.5 in. 27 x 21 cm. Color printed card covers with light soil and surface wear 2 inch tear to rear cover. Mother Goose rhymes illustrated with four full-page chromolithographs a dual-page sepia centerfold and in-text artwork in sepia throughout. Illustrated by Walter Satterlee per American Antiquarian Society. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. Bruton Attrib cover & Walter Satterlee . 4to.</p> McLoughlin Bros
1880011085New York: McLoughlin Bros 1880 Circa 1880. AAS dates it to 1882 but this copy differs from their copy with no advertisements for Over the Hills by Ida Waugh. Upper cover printed in red blue and blac spine reinforced chipping to lower corner cover soil. A selection of popular Mother Goose rhymes illustrated with 6 vibrant color plates plus a dual-page centerfold. Rhymes include Pussy Cat Pussy Cat; Ride-a-Cock-Horse; Mary Mary quite contrary; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; Jack and Jill etc. Pictorial Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. Small 4to. McLoughlin Bros unknown
1899011068<p>New York: McLoughlin Bros 1899 12 pgs. 7.75 x 5.5 in 19.5 x 14 cm. Color printed paper covers mounted on linen interior pages printed directly on linen spine wear crease to rear cover light wear. An uncommon edition of Little Red Riding Hood. Illustrated with a color cover and four pages with color artwork the rest in line. . Linen. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. 12mo.</p> McLoughlin Bros paperback
18932021246Tokyo: T. Hasegawa 1893. Stated Second Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo sewn self-wrappers pencilled name on first page of text spine perishing; measures 6 x 3.75 inches some curling to bottom edge of top cover. <br/><br/>Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 3. This is the variant block printed on crepe paper. T. Hasegawa paperback
1888319819Tokyo: Kobunsha 1888. paperback. very good. Told in English for Children by B.H. Chamberain. Illustrated with color wood block prints on double folded crepe paper string-tied Tokyo: Kobunsha 1888.<br/> <br/> Perhaps uniquely the back cover reproduces a letter to the London publishing house Griffith Farrar & Co dated and stamped FairyLand/Jan. 1 1888 presumably asking them to order copies of the book. The front cover is somewhat faded with one of the corners curled but the interior prints are clean and bright.<br/> <br/> Kobunsha unknown
188512496AB1885. Tokyo Hasegawa 1885. 15 : 105 cm. 9 leaves With many coloured illustrations by Eitaku Kobayashi. Coloured illustrated original wrappers. First German edition. - Japanische Märchen. - Printed on crepe-paper. - Catallogue Crepe-Paper Books and Woodblock Prints no. 132. unknown
188915174AB1889. Tokyo Kobunsha 1889. 19 : 13 cm. 10 leaves with many coloured woodcuts partly full-page. Coloured illustrated original wrappers. Plain paper edition of 'Japanische Märchen' no. 10. unknown
188919429AB1889. Tokyo Kubunsha 1889. 18 : 13 cm. 9 leaves with many coloured woodblock-printed illustrations by Kobayashi Sensai Eitaku. Coloured illustrated original Japanese binding. The Kobunsha's Japanese Fairy Tales Series Vol. 4. - Text in German. unknown