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8vo., First UK Edition, with 16 plates on 8; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The US edition was published in the previous year
24 pages. 10.5 x 8.3 cm. Aborably illustrated in color on every page. Simple text helps youngsters learn how to tell time. Prior owner's name on first page. Small scribble inside back cover. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy of this charming item. Book
160, 8 [ads] pages. Black and white illustrations. Undated - circa 1894. No mention of any prior printings. Unmarked. Narrow opening in binding at half-title otherwise binding tender but intact. Charming illustration of two girls by quiet pool upon front board. Above-average wear to publisher's red cloth. A worthy copy of this adorable item. Book
Edinburg(h), at the Apollo Press, by the Martins, 1782, in-12, mezza pelle coeva ed angoli, piatti marmorizzati, pp. 274, (2). Con una tavola incisa in rame su disegno di Stodhart. Piatto anteriore semistaccato e macchie di muffa ai fogli di guardia e alle prime 40 pagine, interessando anche la tavola (che ha restauro al margine); asportata la sguardia anteriore. "Bell's Edition, the Poets of Great Britain commplete, from Chaucer to Churchill", N. 6.
Book show light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's note at front endpaper. 273 pages with b&w historical photos throughout. Chapters include: Doctor Boals, Garibaldi, Logs and lumber mill, Tales of Tillamook folks, Logging, Schools and kids, airies and cheese, Hunting, game and dogs, Prohibition. Book contains one page laid-in handwritten letter at back from author to Dr. Stevens describing the editorial process through which the book was written. Signed by author on front end paper under note from Stevens family.
pp. xiii, 304 + Plus sixteen full page drawings by Lima de Freitas. Twenty five text illustrations. Title page ruled in an arabesque design. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number VI:35. 4to. Original full morocco-grained fabric binding. Front board decorated with an arabesque gold ornament. Gilt lettered and decorated spine. Original slip case. Hardbound. Very nice copy. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W82
707p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Second edition, 12mo, [4], 198pp., engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates, 3 full-page wood-engraved, 1 illustration within the text, some offsetting from plates, a couple of gatherings standing proud, cont. calf, joints cracked, untitled spine with raised bands outlined in gilt, corners bumped, head and foot of spine chipped. "Philander, a rich gentleman, sick of dissipation and amusement, retires to the country to devote himself to benevolence, taking as his motto "Virtue alone is happiness below." Hen entertains each Monday six young gentlemen?Master Steady, Master Featherbrain, Master Speakwell, etc.?and each Thursday six young ladies?Miss Allgood, Miss Prattle, Miss Haughty, etc. After one of them has told a story or recited a poem, the remainder of the visit is devoted to the study of the sciences in which each pupil speaks his piece in nauseating sententiousness interlarded with piety."?NBL. Provenance: Early ownership signature of Ann & Elizabeth Harrison on front paste-down. Roscoe, J12; NBL 446; First published in 1769, both edition are rare, ESTC locating four copies of the first (L, O; CLU-S/C, CtY-BR) and five of this second edition (L, O, LEu; CaOHM, CLU-S/C).
pp. viii, 568. Engraved half title and frontis damp stained. Text age stained. Lacks first fly leaf. All edges gold. Early inked ownership of E. B. Forney, 6th & Mass Ave., Washington, DC. Some signatures loose. 32mo. Original full cloth binding decorated and embossed with a figure in gold on front cover. Spine repaired. Binding very worn. Hardbound. An unusual little imprint. ISLAM BOX 2
Folio unp., illus. Hardcover Very good condition! corners worn
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full red cloth boards. Tattered dust jacket.
Ex-library book with stamp but no other markings. Full green cloth boards. Edge wear to dust jacket. 6 3/4"w x 10 1/4"h. 76 pages. Illustrations by Anne Anderson. The stories are The Hearth Rug Goblin; The Strange Ship; The Rose Colored Spectacles; and Barney Loon.
pp. xxiv, 215. Illustrated with thirty-six little woodcuts washed in yellow and brown by Freitz Kredel. Top edge blue. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number V:32. Sm. 4to. Original cloth spine over patterned paper boards. Gilt lettered and decorated spine. Original matching slip case. Hardbound. Very nice copy. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W82
Front free endpaper almost loose. Titles all underlined in red on title page. Joints of spine both cracked.. Wear to extremities and surfaces of covers.
8vo. First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; faux-vellum blocked in gilt, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. First appearance in FS as a single volume. Wright's translation was first published by OUP in 1985, and subsequently by FS in three volumes (with parallel Middle English texts) in the following year. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
pp. vii, 602, (6) [Publisher's catalogue]. 180mm. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Very good. CLASSICS BX 3
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous illustrations, initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Gill in the text; full niger morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, silk marker, Commentary Volume bound in boards with buckram back, the two fine volumes housed in publisher's cloth solander case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1980 COPIES. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel masterpeice, widely regarded as the finest private press production of the period.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers; oatmeal holland, brown cloth backs lettered in gilt, green tops, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at heads and tails of backstrips.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. Previous owner's name inside. Signed and dated by the authors. Twenty four of the best-known fairy tales are presented with historical introductions and illustrations by artists such as Walter Crane, George Cruikshank, Gustave Dore, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, W.Heath Robinson and Rex Whistler.
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with title in red and black; original printed brown paper wrappers as issued, one short closed tear in upper wrapper, backstrip lightly chafed at head and tail else a very good, clean copy. Collects eleven short stories: Crawford's Consistency (1876), The Ghostly Rental (1876), Four Meeting (1877), Rose-Agathe (1878), Daisy Miller: A Study (1878), Longstaff's Marriage (1878), An International Episode (1878), The Pension Beaurepas (1879), The Diary of a Man of Fifty (1879), A Bundle of Letters (1879), The Point of View (1882.
112p., illus. by Helen Siegl. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 310pp. A trus and humorous account of the life of a bookseller based in Wigtown, Scotland. The diary consists of entries for every day and some of the unusual people he encountered.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards a bit faded at edges. Small tears on edge worn dust jacket. Signed by illustrator Stephen Walker.
New English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In English. [12], 136 p. A collection of Kurdish tales.
CONTENTS:- PREFACE • INTRODUCTION • THE ELEUSINIAN LEGEND • THE RITUAL OF THE MYSTERIES • PROGRAMME OF THE GREATER MYSTERIES • THE INITIATORY RITES • THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE • BIBLIOGRAPHY The Title 'The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites written/authored/edited by Dudley Wright', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 9789351287704 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 112 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Mythology & Folk Tales / Fairy Tales. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-