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1912rif. 7834New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1912. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1912 1st edition in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG in its lavishly gilt-decorated front panel and spine. Light foxing to the endapers tender but still perfectly sturdy inner hinges. In a bright VG dustjacket with light chipping to the spine ends and the tips and light wear along the flap folds. Still though a very presentable copy. Thick 12mo 646 pgs. nicely illustrated in color and black-and-white by M.V. Wheelhouse. Dodd, Mead & Co unknown books
2000rif. 78810NY:: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0198564783 . Illustrated. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press, hardcover books
rif. 623060Kendal Westmorland: Printed by Titus Wilson & Son no date. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by William Force Stead. 12mo. 12pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Foxing on front cover very good. Laid in is an Autographed Noted Signed from Gaskell sending the book along to a friend. Uncommon. Printed by Titus Wilson & Son) unknown books
1995rif. 16926Washington DC: National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press 1995. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. Blue cloth blue DJ. 372 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. These are the papers presented at the American and Dutch symposia a lovely volume that offers a wealth of information. Symposia was held in Washington DC: National Gallery of Art Dec. 1 1995 one other date and location. Contents as follows: Valuing Vermeer / Ivan Gaskell -- Vermeer : malice and misconception / Ben Broos -- Vermeer and Thoré-Bürger : recoveries of reputation / Frances Suzman Jowell -- "To finde the mindes construction in the face" / J.M. Nash -- Not to be confused with the Sphinx of Delft : the Utrecht painter Johannes van der Meer Schipluiden 1630-1695/1697 Vreeswijk / Martin Jan Bok -- Utrecht and Delft : Vermeer and Caravaggism / Leonard J. Slatkes -- Recent archival research on Vermeer / John Michael Montias -- Camera obscura and painting in the sixtenth and seventeenth centuries / Jean-Luc Delsaute -- Perspective anamorphosis and illusion : seventeenth-century Dutch peep shows / David Bomford -- Where did Vermeer buy his painting materials Theory and practice / Koos Levy-Van Halm -- Study of the materials and techniques of Johannes Vermeer / Nicola Costaras -- Scientific examination of Vermeer's Girl with a pearl earring / Karin M. Groen and others -- Painting light : recent observations on Vermeer's technique / E. Melanie Gifford -- Contours of Vermeer / Jørgen Wadum -- Vermeer and the limits of interpretation / Ivan Gaskell -- Antiek and modern in Vermeer's Lady writing a letter with her maid / Lisa Vergara -- Phenomenon of time in the art of Vermeer / Irene Netta -- Vermeer fame and female beauty : the Art of painting / Eric Jan Sluijter -- Jan Vermeer's Art of painting / Hessel Miedema -- Vermeer's use of the picture-within-a-picture : a new approach / Gregor J.M. Weber -- From sexuality to civility : Vermeer's women / Nanette Salomon -- Interpretation of dress in Vermeer's paintings / Marieke de Winkel -- Vermeer's private allegories / Daniel Arasse -- On balance / Eddy de Jongh. National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press hardcover books
1989rif. 9025894Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books 1989. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Princess Grace Irish Library 4. Barnes & Noble Books hardcover books
1963rif. 03951THE SERPENT Hodder & Stoughton 1963 first edition vg in like full color full wrap-around pictorial dust-wrapper. ATLANTIS #1. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1857rif. 56178New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. A Fine copy but with spine faded as usual. Signed by Alfred Schermerhorn on endpapers. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1857rif. 21489New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American Edition. Two octavo volumes 18.75cm.; original blind-patterned brown cloth gilt-lettered spines yellow glazed endpapers; viii28516;viii26917-14pp.; engraved frontispieces tissue-guarded. Boards a bit rubbed especially at spine ends spine gilt almost entirely perished though cloth itself remains unfaded textblocks rather foxed especially at preliminaries else a Very Good sound set complete with original publisher's advertisements including one leaf bound before the front free endpaper of Vol. I. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1857rif. 217460New York: Appleton 1857. Hardcover. Good. Good Volume One Only book has fraying of spine edges and corners of cover bend in cover corners staining of front and back cover writing on front endpaper. Appleton hardcover books
1857rif. 19321New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First American edition 2 vols. sm. 8vo viii 285; viii 269; engraved frontis portrait plus one engraved plate; bound without ads or half-titles in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards green and black morocco labels on spines; very good set. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1905rif. 185241Edinburgh: John Grant 1905. Hardcover. VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt bw frontispiece with protective tissue guard; xvi 526 pp; 13 unnumbered leaves of plates; bw illustrations. Introduction and notes by Temple Scott and B.W. Willett. John Grant hardcover books
1874rif. 9028213London: Smith Elder 1874. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine and cover decorated in black rear cover stamped in blind. Front and rear inner hinges weak but holding well. Light wear at head and heal of spine and at extremities. An earlly edition originally published by Smith Elder in 1857. Smith, Elder hardcover books
1901rif. 441068New York: Harper & Brothers 1901. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated "The Haworth Edition". Introduction and notes by Clement K. Shorter. Thick octavo. Volume seven only of seven from Life and Works of the Sisters Bronte. 670pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Rare in jacket. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
rif. 229546New York: White And Allen. Hardcover. Good. 1 of 1000 copies. Good hardcover has bumped spine ends corners bumped paper lightly browned. White And Allen hardcover books
1993rif. UKEMLAN00fpCambridge University Press 1993. Very Good. Kemal Salim. The Language of Art History. Gaskell Ivan. New York: Cambridge University Press 1993. x 245pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Cambridge University Press paperback books
1967rif. S2375London & New York:: Academic Press 1967. 1967. 235 x 162 mm. 8vo. xiv 509 pp. Numerous tables and figs. indexes. Orange cloth gilt spine. Ex library spine label labels removed from front paste-down rubber stamp. Very good. Academic Press, 1967. hardcover books
1933rif. 371693London: Smith Elder and Co.; John Murray 1933. Hardcover. Good. Magazine. 105 bound volumes and 98 individual issues in wrappers. Octavos. A long run from 1860–1933 of this famous Victorian literary magazine known for debuting the works of many important English writers. The set includes volumes 1-29 January 1860-June 1874 34-114 July 1876-December 1916 and volumes 125-129 January 1922-June 1924 bound in contemporary publisher's cloth or full linen boards. Also included are 98 monthly issues numbers 337-450 in the original printed wrappers July 1924-December 1933 lacking July 1930 and May November and December 1931. Among the many complete works included in this long run are the first appearances of Framley Parsonage The Claverings and two other novels by Trollope as well as Thackeray's The Adventures of Philip and his complete column: "Roundabout Papers." Other works from the 1860s include Romola by George Eliot Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell Armadale by Wilkie Collins Unto This Last by John Ruskin Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold and Tennyson's "Tithonus." Works from the 1870s and 1880s include The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James The Pavilion on the Links and The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson and the first 29 chapters of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement was first published anonymously by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1884 and The White Company first appeared under his name in 1891-92. The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad appeared in 1897. Cornhill maintained its high reputation up through the 1930s. Works from the early 20th Century include poems and prose pieces by Robert Bridges Thomas Hardy W.B. Yeats Ford Madox Ford and Katherine Tynan. The magazine also featured illustrations by George du Maurier Frederic Leighton Edwin Landseer John Everett Millais and other leading artists. Most were engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel and include numerous full-page and folding plates. Most volumes from 1860 to 1901 are bound in contemporary publisher's cloth with some rebound in full cloth volumes from 1902 to 1924 are rebound in full cloth most with the original wrappers included and single monthly issues from the 1920s and early 1930s are in the original printed wrappers. Ex-library set with bookplates most 19th Century volumes with a small embossed stamp on the title pages and a perforated stamp on the plates. The earliest volumes are chipped at the spines and edges a few with split spines and detached boards else overall a good set of bound volumes; the single issues in wraps are unmarked and very good or better. A very nice assemblage of notable 19th Century literature and illustrations. Smith, Elder and Co.; John Murray hardcover books
1970rif. 625829New York: Paperback Library Inc 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. Second printing. Mass market paperback. Rubberstamp on title page binding slightly cocked near fine. Paperback Library, Inc unknown books
1968rif. 260536New York: Paperback Library Inc 1968. Softcover. Good. First paperback. Good in wrappers; Shows tape on top spine end black spot on top pg ends staining of back panel. Paperback Library, Inc unknown books
2016rif. 1376966Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Octavo 481 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Green and black spine with light green and white text. Covers have light bending to corners. Textblock has light marks on fore edge. Shelved ND-E. 1376966. FP New Rockville Stock. Cambridge University Press unknown books
1893rif. 57569Chicago: U. S. Publishing House 1893. Second U. S. Publishing House printing. Hardcover. Fair. 250pp. Quarto 25 cm Brown cloth over boards with a decorative front board. The covers are worn and the text block has almost entirely come away from the spine. With a color illustration entitled "Diagram of the Principal High Buildings of the Old World" at the front. U. S. Publishing House hardcover books
2008rif. 1825Bisbee Arizona : Pequeno Press 2008. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 179 pp. 2 x 2 1/2". Limited to 50 copies this 1/50 bound in deep purple leather over boards with lavender paper label on spine dimensional silver plate on front cover. Printed on Neenah recycled paper in Baskerville Old Face and Harrington types hand sewn and signed by the publisher on the colophon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810 - 1865 an English writer whose works explored the detailed life of the Victorian society wrote a biography of Charlotte Bronte shortly after Bronte's death in 1855. Here a distillation of the text. Pequeno Press hardcover books
1958rif. 03950STRANGE EVIL Dutton 1958 first American edition fine in vg dust-wrapper. This Ms. Gaskells first book was written when she was just 14 years old! Dutton unknown books
1968rif. 14752SPLINTERS Hutchinson 1968 first edition fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper. An original anthology with contributions by: John Brunner John Burke Jane Gaskell Anthony Burgess William Trevor et.al. Hutchinson unknown books
1979rif. 237027New York: St. Martins Press 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Hardcover has dust jacket with tape over 2 inch closed tear bottom front. St. Martins Press hardcover books
