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1928ref. 24060402London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover without Dust Jacket. First Printing no additional printings noted. 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. Bound in red cloth covered boards with gold title information to spine and gold engraved illustration to front cover.209 pages with 16 full page color illustrations nicely reproduced. VERY GOOD. Binding solid and square. With rubbing to corners and spine ends. Without tears creases bumps or chips. With stain to back cover and some wear from handling. Not written in or marked. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
ref. 199443Ernest Nister & E.P. Dutton c. 1985. 1st edition. 4to 11¼ x 8¼ ins. Rebound by Bayntun-Riviere in gilt lettered half calf on matching red cloth sides top edge gilt marbled endpapers near Fine. Pp. xvi 269 illus with 30 coloured plates previous owner's neat 1918 gift inscription on front prelim. Ernest Nister [&] E.P. Dutton, c. 1985 unknown
ref. 97582George Virtue London. 1838. 4to 216pp with numerous black and white engraved plates and one fold-out map lightly creased and with one closed tear. A very good hardback copy in attractive original gold decorated green leather boards. Some very minor rubbing to leather. Gold fore edges bright and clean. All plates have original protective sheets with occasional offsetting from engravings. George Virtue, London. 1838 hardcover
1979176 pages. Index. "When Norman Rockwell was at the height of his career in the late 1940's, he wrote a delightful book called How I Make a Picture. It was the basis for an advanced illustration course at the Famous Artists School, but was never made available to the general public. We are now delighted to have this unique opportunity to make Rockwell's original book available for the first time in an expanded version, containing full-color reproductions of the artists best work along with previously unpublished color sketches." - from Publisher's Note. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which bears some staining and a taped repair to bottom edge of back panel. A sound copy of this special book. Please note: we believe the ISBN stated on the publisher's page of this copy, 083202380x, is incorrect and have changed it to what we believe is the correct number. Book
2008ref. FLAHIVE-1606Pantheon New York 2008 First printing with full number line. A very fine as-new copy in a very fine as-new wraparound. A clean copy. Wraparound comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light wear to corners as pictured of an otherwise beautiful copy. SIGNED by Chip Kidd and another illustrator on bookplate as pictured. Fiction-K. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Pantheon, New York hardcover
1821ref. 54180London: Printed for Jones & Co. Oxford Arms Passage Paternoster-Row 1821. First. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes octavo published in 1821 and 1822. 2: title verso blank iii-x 3-656; 2: title verso blank i-ix 1: blank 3-668 pp. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and pictorial hand-colored title in each volume plus 30 hand-colored aquatint plates in the text. Later full crimson morocco triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands lettered in gilt; gilt turn-ins; all edges gilt. Spine extremities and bands rubbed. Occasional mild toning and smudges. Complete with all 28 text plates called for in the Directions to the Binder along with an additional two plates "Tom and Bob Catching a Charley Napping" Abbey no. 34 and "St. George's Day Presentation at the Levee" Abbey no. 31. A very good or better set in a handsome signed binding by Riviere and Son. First edition later issue of this imitation of Pierce Egan's Life in London 1821. While sometimes attributed to Egan the work was possibly written by John Badcock. "Out of the sixty-five imitations of it which Egan stated that he had reckoned the most important was Real Life in London. which was published in sixpenny numbers in 1821 with excellent illustrations by Heath Alken Dighton Rowlandson and others. Real Life in London is a pleasanter book than its prototype. Some have held that Egan wrote it; but the author had a purer style a cleaner mind and a wider knowledge of London than Egan" The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. "From a bibliographical point of view one of the most complicated and bewildering books ever published rivaling Pickwick in the tangle of variant states that exist both in text and plates. The work had a tremendous success probably out-rivaling in popularity its prototype. A difficult feature of the book is that two printers. printed copies textually the same page by page with only minor variations in the settings and this coupled with the fact that during the eight or nine years it was being reprinted makes the whole vast output all 'first editions' but with innumerable states and variants that continually overlap one with the other" Abbey. "Originally published in 56 parts on completion the work was issued in boards. Later copies were bound in publisher's cloth. A book full of contrarities and difficulties for the bibliographer there being innumerable variations of the plates. The difficulties are further increased by many copies in modern bindings having been completed or made up of different issues giving combinations that are not true variations" Tooley. Printers: R. Bensley Bolt Court Fleet Street vol. 1; A. Applegath Stamford-street vol. 2. Second volume title and imprint: Real Life in London; or The Further Rambles and Adventures etc. - Printed for Jones & Co. 3 Warwick Square. 1822. References: Abbey Life 280 1821-22 first edition; J. H. Slater Illustrated Sporting Books 1899 p. 96; Tooley 198 1821-22 first edition. Printed for Jones & Co. Oxford Arms Passage, Paternoster-Row hardcover
2007ref. 51045Moscow: Coalco Vasily Anisimov 2007. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. 1/100. Folio. 209pp. 1. Housed in a custom dark blue leather clamshell box with blind-stamped decorative tooling to the covers a circular pictorial inlay on the front gilt lettering and raised bands on the spine. Interior of the box in blue suede with lifting ribbon. Elaborate dark blue and gold silk-cover binding with gilt lettering and pictorial circular inlays on the front cover. Spine in dark blue leather with raised bands and gilt designs. All edges in gilt. Gold ribbon marker. Lustrous silver endpapers. Text in English. This beautifully printed book is a compilation of Russian folk-tales and proverbs privately printed by Russian billionaire and businessman Vasily Anisimov b.1951 as a gift for friends in a limited run of 100 copies. This copy is un-numbered on the colophon. Compiled edited and translated into English by Fr. or Archpriest Christopher Hill and Olga Piskunova. Illustrated throughout with pasted-on color reproductions after original paintings by Nina Alyoshina and Marina Gracheva frontispiece is tipped in. Box binding and interior all clean vibrant and near fine condition. Scarce. Coalco [Vasily Anisimov] hardcover
1876ref. 40759London: William Tegg 1876. 4to. 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches. 96 pp. 47 lithograph plates on 45 sheets. Publisher's red cloth gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine. A delightful volume of lithographic plates by the Junior Etching Club a prestigious organization instrumental in the revival of etching in late-Victorian England with illustrations by James McNeil Whistler and others. 'Passages from Modern English Poets was issued by Day and Son in 1862 in a large octavo. In 1876 another edition in large quarto with etchings transferred to stone and printed as lithographs was published by William Tegg. In this notable volume Millais is represented by Summer Indolence a most graceful study of a girl lying on her back in a meadow with a small child who is wearing a daisy chain seated at her side. Mr. J. McNeill Whistler contributes two delightful landscapes The Angle and A River Scene. "Summer Indolence" by famed Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais derives from a figure in Millais's painting "Spring Apple Blossoms." The Etching Revival and Pre-Raphaelite Movement shared many comonalities as new artistic forms in the Victorian Era. These groups held artists in common as well as close ties with literature especially poetry. Communing the poetry of authors Lord Byron Wordsworth Tennyson etc with new expressive etchings Passages from Modern English Poets encompasses a whimsical artistic and literary facet of the Victorian Era. Gleeson White English illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-70; "A Selection of Etchings by the Etching Club" The Met. William Tegg unknown
ref. 16-2568Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN 1899. Folio. Original wraps with original graphics by Meyer- Basel Carl; Wenban Sion; VELDHEER JACOB GERARD. Söhn HDO: 53001-1 2 4. lacking the Kollwitz. Edited by Richard Graul and Caesar Flaischlen et al.PAN the important German 21 volume art nouveau periodical 1895-1900 is a deluxe fin de siècle periodical with plates illustrations color initials vignettes and tail-pieces representing a multitude of processes of modern picture reproduction including original lithographs etchings and woodcuts. Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN, 1899. paperback
1995ref. 11159COSMIC COMICS. LOS ANGELES April 1995. Fine. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Premier Issue. One of 500 numbered copies. INSCRIBED by Producer Roger Corman & director Paul Bartel & actress Mary Woronov on front inside cover. Fine in stapled pictorial printed wrappers. A graphic novel. . COSMIC COMICS. LOS ANGELES April, 1995 paperback
ref. 16-2569Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN 1899. Folio. Original wraps with original graphics by MORDANT DANIEL; ORLIK EMIL ; MÜLLER RICHARD . Söhn HDO: 53002-1 2 3. Edited by Richard Graul and Caesar Flaischlen et al.PAN the important German 21 volume art nouveau periodical 1895-1900 is a deluxe fin de siècle periodical with plates illustrations color initials vignettes and tail-pieces representing a multitude of processes of modern picture reproduction including original lithographs etchings and woodcuts. Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN, 1899. paperback
1943ref. 31774New York: Riemsdijck Book Service 1943. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. 43 1pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Scarce work compiling 22 patriotic Dutch songs sung by Leo Fuld and Onno Liebert for the Dutch broadcasting in America during 1942. This work is illustrated with 11 in-text and full page b/w illustrations. Minor creasing along edges of wrappers. Stapples rusted. Book block partly detached from wrappers. Text in Dutch. Wraps in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Riemsdijck Book Service unknown
ref. 38609At the head of title: Greetings from Australia. Melbourne : Pater's Printery c.1911. Square duodecimo original pictorial wrappers with yapp edges edges worn a couple of small chips original string tie printed title page 11 eleven chromolithographic plates of Australian birds in natural settings; a good copy. Muir 704. A rare publication - both a souvenir and a children's book - designed and illustrated by Violet Teague and Geraldine Rede the two Australian artists most famous for their 1905 publication Night fall in the ti-tree. unknown
1900ref. 232828Sampson Low Marston & Company London 1900. 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition hardback 8vo xvi294pp illustarted page edges gilt pages browning otherwise clean and sound no inscriptions internal binding shaken but holding red printed cloth slightly frayed at top of spine spine titles faded Good condition . Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, 1900, hardcover
1888ref. 43842Boston: L. Prang & Co 1888. 1st Edition. Tan linen cloth binding with color printed spine & boards. Marbled edges. Modest shelfwear. Small label removal abrasions to fixed endpapers; light gutter break. 5 signed mss recipes entered herein. A VG - VG copy. Unpaginated though ~ 250. Tinted frontispiece. 16 chromolithographed divisional title leaves followed by a lithographed leaf of text poetry. Oblong format: 6-7/8" x 9-1/2" A mostly blank recipe book adorned with Prang's exquisite chromolithographs. Each recipe signed by a different author; most in a contemporary hand and/or dated 1891 save the final recipe dated 1920. Recipes include: Sausages Tutti Frutti Oil Pickle Snow Pudding and Dandelion Wine. Somewhat scarce with OCLC listing but 5 institutional holdings. L. Prang & Co hardcover books
1976ref. 591977 CALDECOTT AWARD MEDAL - SIGNED BY DIANE & LEO DILLON A VERY SPECIAL ABC - A LETTER FOR EACH OF THE 26 AFRICAN TRIBES SELECTED - A Map - at the back shows where each tribe lives. This is a hard-to-find Caldecott Winner - the 2nd for the Dillons. Their illustrations are beautiful colorful and well-researched. showing us a glimpse into a tribe's traditions. Below each illustration - the author gives us insights into the 26 tribes selected. The Dillons show us "a man a woman a child their living quarters an artifact and a local animal in most of their illustrations." Illustration alphabet letter and text are enclosed within an illustrated border. Book is in VG condition. It is a Stated First Printing. Dust jacket is correct for the first printing - unclipped price still there. There is NO Award Medal affixed to the dj. Minor soiling to the dj- o/w VG. This is a special copy as it is Signed by both Dillons. Also there is a four - pg pamphlet - about Leo and Diane Dillon's work- including information on their previous awards. I believe this was given out at a special meet with the illustrators that the previous owner went to. On this pamphlet there is some pencil underllning & notes by her. A RICH AND INFORMATIVE BOOK! Dial Pess hardcover
1904ref. 16032London: J. M. Dent & Co 1904. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; bound in green cloth covered boards with gilt title and illustrated front cover and spine with a Very Good- dust jacket. Some foxing scuffing and edge wear to jacket. Front cover of jacket is detached but presents well in mylar. Previous owner's pen inscription on inside front cover. Small bookstore sticker at bottom of front end page. Interior is toned throughout. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout some in color. ; 4to. 9 1/4"h x 7"w. J. M. Dent & Co hardcover
1837ref. 473178Rudolph Ackermann Eclipse Sporting Gallery London 1837 Second Edition. 1837. Hardcover. hardback large 8vo xii206pp. title vignette and 18 hand coloured aquatints by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. owner's bookplate of Richard Meinertzhagen with a signed inscription on flyleaf 'Ben Lind from Dick Meinerzhagen Jan 1935' the recipients not known; from the Pollen / Benson family library of Norton Hall occasional slight foxing otherwise clean and binding sound page edges gilt marbled endpapers gilt-decorated full leather binding slightly rubbed Very Good condition . Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, London, 1837, Second Edition, hardcover
1896ref. 1109717Chicago: Powers Fowler and Lewis 1896. Novelty. Collectible - Good/No Jacket. Wood cloth covered case that opens up to an easel display. The clapse on the case is operating. The exterior of the case has fraying on edges and scuffing. There are 2 books on the lower part of the easel when it is opened. One is 'Pen Pictures' A short description of each of the books in the Bible. The second is Bible Study. The upper portion contains 2 interior scrolls with a window for each of bible pictures. These are in color. The metal key is in the pocket but the scrolls do not work. The entire scroll appears to be intact but will not turn. The case is about 16.5 x 16.5. 5 pounds. Powers, Fowler and Lewis
1853ref. 16150London: David Bogue etc. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. Hardcover. Chipping to spine heads and tails complete rear edge tear on second and fourth volumes some loose plates 1853 fold-out in two pieces gutter starting and some with hand-stitched repairs worn. With care still solid hardcovers. ; All nineteen annual issues from 1835 to 1853 bound in four volumes. Not the 1860 Hotten reprint as contains the calendars etc. The Almanack for each year has separate title page and paging. Contents: Comic Almanack 1835-37 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank published by David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1838-40 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for Charles Tilt Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1841-43 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for Tilt and Bogue Bibliopolists; Comic Almanack 1844-45 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1846 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1847 by Rigdum Funnidos Gent. and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1848 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack 1849 edited by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by H G Hine and others imprinted for David Bogue Bibliopolist; Comic Almanack and Diary 1850 edited by Henry Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 edited by Henry Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank and H G Hine David Bogue; Comic Almanack and Diary 1852 illustrated by George Cruikshank David Bogue; Comic Almanack 1853 edited by Robert B Brough illustrated by George Cruikshank and H G Hine London: David Bogue. Fold-outs for 1850 and 1851 are hand-colored. Bookplate of Chas. Smith Jr Tappan Rockland Co. N. Y. "By My Books I Live" on volume one paste-down. Albert M Cohn; George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raisonne of the work executed during the years 1806-1877; 184. There are no covers nor advertising bound in. Per Cohn there should be 195 Cruikshank plates however in 1841 two plates are replace by duplicates of 1841 plates in 1842 one plate is replaced by a duplicate of another 1842 plate and the November 1842 plate is missing. Foldouts from 1852 and 1853 are not hand-colored. Therefore of the expected 195 Cruikshank plates only 194 are present and 191 are as called for. Additionally Cohn calls for the 1835-37 to have been printed by Tilt these have Bogue on the title pages. Overall a worn and slightly imperfect set of the full run of the Comic Almanack suitable for savoring the George Cruikshank plates and text illustrations. . David Bogue etc hardcover
1910ref. 31601Edinburgh and London: Ballantyne Hanson & Co 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Twenty six numbered volumes plus 2 volume set of life and works plus 2 volume set of Our Mutual Friend all in matching publisher's bindings. Bound in full olive green cloth boards with paper title labels to spines. Minor wear to edges of boards and spine ends of all volumes. Wear / chipping / browning to title labels. Minor dampstaining to corners of boards of some volumes; although interior pages seem to be free from staining. Some volumes have minor soiling and/or discoloration to covers. Each volume contains illustrations - most in black and white with a few in color. Occasional smudge marks occasional tear to a page in the margin from opening the pages and sporadic spots of foxing - but overall very clean and bright interiors. Rippling to some of the illustrations which are printed on a different paper stock. Signature of previous owner in pen to front free endpapers of most volumes. All bindings remain strong. This set will require an extra shipping fee. LIT/010318. Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co hardcover
ref. 16-2564Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN 1898. Folio. Original wraps with original graphics by PeTITJEAN HIPPOLYTE & Theo Van Rysselberge.Söhn HDO: 52901- 34 lacking the other 4 prints Edited by Richard Graul and Caesar Flaischlen et al.PAN the important German 21 volume art nouveau periodical 1895-1900 is a deluxe fin de siècle periodical with plates illustrations color initials vignettes and tail-pieces representing a multitude of processes of modern picture reproduction including original lithographs etchings and woodcuts. Berlin: Genossenschaft PAN, 1898. paperback
ref. 70717Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. Mediaeval Literature LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto 29 x 21cm pp.6 xvi; 318 6; pp.4 xvi; 268 6. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt others untrimmed with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625 paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935 unknown
1828ref. 9027029London: Jones 1828. Hardcover. Very good. Cruikshank George. Illustrated with three etched frontispieces by George Cruikshank and 84 woodcut illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank et al. "With a copious and classified index" in each volume. Bound in half black morocco with gilded bands spine stamped in both gilt and blind black cloth boards ruled in gilt printed endpapers. A few signatures loose but stilll holding otherwise binding is intact. A nice clean set. Jones hardcover books
1822ref. 67110London: Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket 1822. Parts I and II only of VI 8vo 7 hand-colored aquatint plates after Alken and Barenger by G. & T. Hunt; both issues in original pictorial wrappers; some tears creases and minor losses but generally good or better. Contained in a quarter red morocco folding box with red calf label lettered in gilt on the upper cover. This periodical is rare in the printed wrappers. Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket unknown
