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pp. xxvii, 228. Small wood engravings by Bruno Bramanti. Inked inscription on front fly leaf. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number IX:19. Sm. 4to. Original cloth spine over marbled boards. Original 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. W83
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
019502o.J. Papp-Mappe Sehr gut
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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
180580197O. O. [ca. 1805]. Auf kleinem Bütten. Plattenmaß 6,7 x 7,7 cm; Blatt 10,8 x 13 cm. Unter Passepartout.
185728877Paris, Perrotin, 1857. Nouvelle édition revue par l'auteur. Zwei Halbleinenbände mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, 3 Bl., XL, 407 Seiten, 2 Bl., 2 Bl., 401 Seiten. Mit einem Porträt, einem gestochenen Titel, 51 Stahlstichen und ein Handschriftenfaksimile. 8°. Einbände berieben und bestoßen, Seiten durchweg leicht und gelegentlich stärker stockfleckig. Gutes Exemplar. [3 Warenabbildungen]
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
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
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
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
pp. xiv, 256 + Plus handsome engraved frontis and full page plates with tissue guards. Engraved half title. All edges gold. Bookseller's label. Some age stain. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Front cover embossed in blind and decorated with gold designs and flowers. Spine gold lettered and decorated. Extremities bumped and very slightly worn. Very nice copy of Christmas stories and poems written by Victorian women authors, including: Mary Howitt; Mrs. Hall; Mrs. Barbauld; Mrs. Ardy; Agnes Strickland, and others. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CHRISTMAS/W70.
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
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
No.45 of limited edition of 45. Signed by David Burnett and Kenneth Lindley. Small nameplate of previous owner on front pastedown.
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
1868021398Glasgow / Edinburgh / London: William Collins Sons and Company 1868. Nineteenth Century Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 11 1/8" x 9 1/4" x 2 3/4. 775 Pp. Black Morocco Spine And Tips 5 Bands Gilt Lettering All Edges Gilt. .11 18" X 9 " X 2 1/4". Shipping Weight About 8 Pounds. Frontispiece With Tissue Guards; 19 Lithograph Plates Printed In Black Peach Coloring In Various Shades A Little White Infill. Binding With Some Edge Wear But Strong Hinges Solid. Contents Clean Faint Pencil Name/Place/1890 Date On Front Endpaper No Other Names Or Marks; A Few Small Scattered Light Foxing Spots. <br/> <br/> William Collins, Sons, and Company hardcover
19,[1]pp., 278 lots. 2 Works bound as one, presentation inscription from Bullock to William Upcott, cont. half morocco, marbled boards, rubbed, head of spine torn.
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Adaptation from Fifteenth-century Swedish textile (cover illustration); English Eighteenth-century Porcelain (frontispiece editorial); Some Engraved American Siliver - Part I - Prior to About 1740; The Furniture Collection of Mrs. John H. Harwood; Sources of American Romanticism; Living With Antiques - The Chicago Apartment of Mrs. Berenice Davis Fligman; The Nathan Hale Houses; American Engravings on Papier-Mache Snuffboxes; Tests on Cup Plates; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 245-308. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative issue. Book
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of formal handing-over ceremony to the Australian Brigadier; Six photos of the snow and ice Greek soldiers overcame in Albania; Six photos from the Greek Front - awaiting Tepelini's fall; Photo of Greek troops in tiny captured Italian tanks near the Albanian front; Photo of forlorn captured Italian Colonel, commander of a crack Alpini regiment, in German sidecar driven by Greek soldier; Two-page illustration/map of Singapore and vicinity - stubborn obstacle to Japan's ambitious projects in southern Asia; One-page map of the U.S.' strategic Pacific sites, which envelope Japan at all points; Article entitled "The War with Nazi Germany - The Far East" includes photos of Japanese troops on Hainan; Photos of personalities of the week include Trygve Lie, Sir H. Harty, Dr. Tevfid Rustu Aras, M. Charalambos Simopoulos, M. Yosuke Matsuoka, Australian Prime Minister Menzies inspecting troops in London, Lord Gort in a Bren gun carrier, Sir Frederick Banting (killed in Newfoundland plane crash), Sir Shenton Thomas, Sir R. Brooke-Popham, L.A. Strange, Dan Pienaar, A.G. Cunningham, and Joe Coyne; Photos of the wood carvings at St. Stephen's, Walbrook; Aerial photo of R.A.F. bomb damage in Eritrean port of Massawa; Aerial photo of R.A.F. bomb damage at Valona; Fascinating illustrations explain German incendiary bombs - clockwork and electric types; Dramatic centrefold photo of F.D.R. addressing the House to demand fullest help to the democracies; Twelve photos of the Capture of Derna (a small town between Tobruk and Banghazi); Two pages of photos of the Capture of Derna - minefields cleared, booty seized, examples of Italian road engineering; Two pages of photos of the occupation of Benghazi by Australian troops - and welcoming crowds; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this extraordinary wartime issue. Book
4to, 39,[1],ivpp., one of 125 numbered large paper copies, frontis., 9 plates, orig. stiff printed wrappers, uncut, 234 lots. One of the special post sale catalogue which includes the printed list of prices and buyers' names.
196092248[ca. 1960]. Bildmaß: 18,5 x 26 cm. Blattmaß: ca. 22 x 42 cm.
195592247[ca. 1955]. Bildmaß: 17,5 x 26,5 cm. Blattmaß: ca. 32 x 42 cm.
Two Volumes. Illustrated with copper engravings by Carl Schultheiss; pulled by Anderson-Lamb, New York; designed by Saul Marks and printed at The Plantin Press, set in monotype Garamond on Collins special paper. Title pages printed in red and black. Wide margins. 4to. 7 1/4 x 10 inches. Volumes bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half red sheepskin stamped in gold in a panel with printed Fabriano paper sides in a special design by Mr. Marks. Original slip case, spine faded. Number 769 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed in blue ink by Carl Schultheiss. Very good set. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W36