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ref. 55437Sarajevo: Izdanje glavnog odbora AFŽ-a za Bosne i Hertsegovine Državna štamparija 1945. Quarto 25 × 20 cm. Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Mica Todorović; 35 1 pp. One double page reproducing drawings by Ismet Mujezinović. Light soil and foxing to wrappers else very good. An illustrated election brochure from Sarajevo promoting Tito the communist revolutionary and WWII partisan leader to head Yugoslavia. The volume was published by the Women's Antifascist Front AFŽ in anticipation of the first election with the participation of women voters in 1945. In the opening text of the volume Tito addresses Yugoslav women "On November 11th you the women of Yugoslavia who have earned the right to solve all internal political and economic problems on an equal footing with men will have your say. And I do not doubt your word. I have no doubt that it will correspond to the heroic struggle and heroic actions of women during this war." The brochure includes political agitational speeches by female communist and antifascist political leaders such as Mitra Mitrović 1912-2001 who was the founding member of the Women's Antifascist Front in 1942 and later the Minister of Education of communist Yugoslavia as well as by Lepa Perović 1911-2000 a communist activist partisan leader during WWII and later a member of the Yugoslav parliament. Perović's essay is accompanied with photo-illustrations of women taking part in the partisan war effort. Nadžida Hadžić 1906-2001 the president of Women's Antifascist Front contributed a longer article on the post-war activities of the AFŽ members in sheltering the homeless elderly and orphaned children in the aftermath of WWII. A double page spread reproducing drawings of war atrocities by Ismet Mujezinović poems about the victory of the partisans and a satirical article about Tito's opposition close the volume. The wrapper designer Bosnian Expressionist painter Mica Todorović 1900-1981 is often called the "first lady of Yugoslav art" because she was the first woman to graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb 1926 and the first female member of the Bosnian Academy of Science and Arts. Part of the communist-leaning Zagreb Zemlja 1929-1935 artist collective and a member of the communist party since 1932 she was imprisoned at the Stara Gradiška concentration camp during WWII for her political beliefs. After liberation she used a cycle of her drawings of the conditions at the camp to testify for the State Commission of War Crimes in Belgrade becoming the first and only artist whose work was used as evidence by the Commission. The volume seems to have been sent to the AFŽ members by mail in anticipation of this historic election with the front wrapper indicating that postage has been paid. As of November 2025 KVK OCLC show no copies in North America. unknown
ref. ANAIS-0060847875Harper Paperbacks. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Harper Paperbacks paperback
ref. 50752Warsaw: Rekontra 1985. Small quarto 27 × 21 cm. Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers with a large drawing printed in green and black; 44 pp. of offset-reproduced drawn comics to rectos and versos. Very good save for minor toning especially to rear wrapper. First edition of this samizdat comic book edition in Polish of George Orwell's Animal Farm published by a small underground publishing house in Warsaw. Maciek Bialy and Karol Blue were the pseudonyms of Robert Śnieciński and Fernando Molina. Orwell's political satire of the Soviet establishment was naturally banned in all Soviet bloc nations but was tremendously popular with the Polish independent semi-clandestine publishing houses which flourished in Poland starting in the mid-1970s. Polish underground publications are scarce outside of Poland. As of February 2026 KVK and OCLC show six copies in North America. unknown
1915ref. 78995Wien:: Munk 1915. publisher's blue cloth with applied color illustration on front panel. Some staining and soiling to the applied color illustration; cloth a little frayed at joints and extremities; but tight and sound; the contents fine. . Folio. Complete with twelve spectacular full-page color illustrations by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban and elaborate border decorations on every page. . Contents: Die wilden Schwaene. Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse. Das Meerfrauelein. Die Galoschen des Gluecks. Die Reisekamerad. Die roten Schuhe. Des Kaisers neue Kleider. Die Schneekoenigin. Der Fliegende Koffer Das Maerchen vom Paradiesgarten. Der Schweinhirt. Die Nachtigall. Munk, hardcover
1759ref. 18779The Hague 1759. Large folio ca. 50 x 36 cm. Pierre Gosse junior 19th-century half green morocco a red morocco label on the spine with the title in French lettered in gold marbled endpapers. With 20 engravings each mounted on a double-leaf of heavy paper the text is printed in Dutch and French with a separate title page for each language the engraved coat of arms of Princess Anna on each and 4 decorated woodcut initials. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4 4; 4 27 pp. First edition of two works with illustrations and descriptions of the funeral ceremonies for Princess Anna of Hannover 1709-1759 who was then regent for her son William V Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. The first work shows the ceremonial mourning chamber with Princess Anna on her death bed. The plates were drawn by Pieter de Swart 1709-1772 one of the most important Dutch architects of the 18th century and engraved by Simon Fokke 1712-1784. The second work shows the funeral procession which took place in Delft on the 23rd of February in 1759 with detailed illustrations of all the heralds riflemen guards etc. that took part in the ceremony. The plates for this work were drawn by artist Paulus Constantijn la Fargue 1729-1782 and also engraved by Fokke. The creators apparently suspected that counterfeit editions of the work might appear as the text at the end of the first work states that only copies signed by the bookseller would be considered real. The present copy is signed.Princess Anna of Hannover duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg was the eldest daughter of George II August later King of England as George II and Wilhelmina Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach. In 1734 she married the Dutch Willem Karel Hendrik Friso 1711-1751 Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Friesland. When in 1747 her husband became Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic as Willem IV the couple moved from Leeuwarden to The Hague and Anna became highly involved in politics. After the death of Willem IV in 1751 she became regent for her three-year old son the later Stadtholder Willem V. In this position she played a prominent part in the political life of the Republic defending the position of the House of Orange against the republicans.The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed the boards are slightly rubbed the spine is somewhat discoloured. Otherwise a beautiful copy on heavy large paper with the plates in their original fresh impressions.l Ad 1: Landwehr Splendid ceremonies 233; Lipperheide 2675; Muller 4095; STCN 23024453X 7 copies; Vinet 756; Ad 2: Landwehr Splendid ceremonies 234; Lipperheide 2676; Muller 4097; STCN 230244394 7 copies; Vinet 756bis. ABE CAT Costumes & Uniforms hardcover
ref. 44690With all his introductions notes various readings and notes by J. G. Lockhart Esq. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood after J. M. W. Turner Birket Foster & John Gilbert. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black North Bridge 1857. Thick royal octavo 250 x 175 mm original red morocco richly gilt fine; all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece additional engraved title title leaf 1 Editor's Notice 1 blank; pp. iv 2 823; binding firm foxing to first and last few leaves and at the margins of most plates otherwise internally clean and sound. 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
1973ref. GB003TOPX5QI3N00Progress Publishers 1973. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Progress Publishers hardcover
1915ref. 67866New York:: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1915. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel in dust jacket illustrated with the same color plate. Faint reddish stain near the red cloth backstrip along short sections of the joint area; very slight wear to binding; clean tight and sound in a slightly dampstained dust jacket which is missing the bottom four inches of the backstrip. . Folio. With tipped-in color plates and text illustrations in black and white by E. Yarrow Jones and R. B. Brook-Greaves. Frederick A. Stokes Company, hardcover
1937ref. 46496New York:: Snellgrove Publications 1937. First edition. publisher's cloth illustrated in color. Cloth rubbed at extremities with tiny chips at the extremities of the spine. Folio. Illustrated by Willy Pogany and Natalie Harlan Davis including a color flower diagram with printed overlay. Snellgrove Publications, hardcover
1875ref. 4786London: Punch Office. Good. Hardcover. Boards rubbed especially spine. Most of the pages loose but present. Hinges cracked. Light foxing to endpapers; Extremely scarce. Bound in dark blue leather boards with a closing flap. All edges gilt; 24mo; 192 pages . 1875. Punch Office hardcover
1893ref. 1499London: Cassell & Co. Ltd 1893. First Edition. Very good. Gordon Browne and William Hatherell. 8vo 8 x 5 1/2 inches 223 x 140 mm; pp. xi 277 16 publisher's' listing. 28 illustrations including frontispiece and one color map preceding the first story. Bound in blue-green leatherette cloth with gilt title and illustration on front cover gilt title; floral endpapers top edge stained green; edges moderately worn spine and cover edges darkened chips at head and tail of spine; pages toned especially on edges; binding solid. A collection of the last completed works by the author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 1894 was a Scottish novelist essayist poet and travel writer who travel broadly and settled in Samoa in 1889 where he was prodigiously productive and where he became involved with local politics and culture gathering native stories and infusing some of his writing with these newfound themes. This first edition of the three short stories is accompanied by a set of engaging illustrations by Gordon Browne 1858 - 1932 and William Hatherell 1855-1928 both prolific illustrators who worked with publishers and magazines. Cassell & Co. Ltd unknown
1957ref. 69215Beijing: People's Fine Arts Publishing House 1957. First edition Chinese issue; folio approx. 14½" x 12 ¾" pp. 4 plus 73 stunning color illustrations on 60 sheets; introductory text in Chinese without the added title page and commentary in English; original publisher's box stamped in orange and yellow with bone closures and the outside shipping carton with the original price sticker from the Nanjing Bookstore still affixed. People's Fine Arts Publishing House unknown
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
1903ref. 8306New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1903 Boards are worn - see image. 2" closed tear at bottom edge of title page. ; Interior of the book is in excellent condition - exception noted. A truly oversize "lap" book that was meant to entertain a child as depicted on front cover. This copy was admired and enjoyed carefully while being read which remains clean and unmarked. Tight binding. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Frederick A. Stokes hardcover
1955ref. 47191New York: Harcourt Brace and World 1955. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Thumb sized chip to mid spine some edge wear.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harcourt Brace and World 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. 197131Cassell Petter and Galpin c. 1865. 4to 10 x 7¼ ins. Original elaborately gilt tooled bevelled-edged morocco all edges gilt marbled endpapers recently re-backed with spine neatly re-laid - bright VG. Pp. xvi 399 with b&w illus throughout previous owner's neat inscription on front prelim. Cassell Petter and Galpin, c. 1865 unknown
ref. 195108Vanity Fair 1883. 1st edn. 21 issues bound as 1. Folio 15½ x 11 ins. Original gilt lettered green cloth poor - heavily worn at spine with partial loss at tail and corners of boards. Pp. 298 lacks pp. 17-18 illus with 19 full page chromolithograph plates by Spy 14 and T 5 hinges cracked with some pages and plates loose and worn at edges; armorial bookplate of Robert Fowler on front paste-down; no inscriptions. Vanity Fair, 1883 unknown
1967ref. 1755339733Dean and Son Ltd 1967. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Owner's name in presentation area. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Dean and Son, Ltd hardcover
1846ref. 3650Paris: J. Hetzel 1846. First edition. Two large octavo volumes 10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 263 x 175 mm. Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco ruled in gilt over black morocco-grain paper over boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities head of spine of Volume II expertly and almost invisibly repaired front hinge of Volume I cracked but sound. Minimal foxing and soiling. Small area of surface abrasion to upper blank margin of plate Artistes -6 facing page 160 in Volume II where it was once adhered to the facing page. Bookplate Bibliothèque de A. Vautrain on front pastedown of each volume. Collating 4 xxxii 380; 4 lxxx 364. Wood- engraved title vignette in each volume 212 wood-engraved plates 208 after Gavarni and four after Bertall with tissue guards and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces vignettes and initials. This copy with a duplicate of the plate facing in Volume I. Music. Overall an excellent copy. "The book appeared in part-issues at the rate of one or two a week between April of 1843 and December of 1845. The major attraction of Le diable à Paris resides in Gavarni's plates which are of even greater interest than the 320 wood engravings of his Oeuvres choisies 207. The engraving is superior for the most part and they are new conceptions not versions of his lithographs. He limits himself almost entirely to single figures or pairs evoked with his usual concentration and psychological subtlety. He had a free hand with his subjects since his designs are quite unrelated to Hetzel's text. As usual he arranged them as series some of which those devoted to writers and politicians for example are largely unprecedented in his previous repertory. He invaded Daumier's world with success in the fifteen plates of 'Bourgeois' exampled in the self-satisfied worthy reproduced II 328" Ray. Hiler 237. J. Hetzel unknown
1865ref. 3790London: Bradbury & Evans 1865. First edition. Third issue with Part I's title Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in solid lettering in the original twelve monthly parts May 1864-April 1865. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm.Collating vi 2 391 1 with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates two to each volume heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt save Part VI which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin and Part VII lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. "Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised however to being in January 1862 and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book in August 1864 to The Field where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings but never lived to complete the work which was carried on byPhiz" Field. Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II 237. Podeschi 207. Bradbury & Evans unknown
1914ref. 3708London: Hodder and Stoughton 1914. First edition. Finely bound ca. 1914 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp-signed on rear turn-in in full dark blue morocco covers decoratively paneled in gilt with inlaid red morocco floral corner-pieces and in the center in gilt the Royal stamp of Princess Mary. Spine with five raised bands paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments all edges gilt cream watered silk liners and endleaves.Quarto 9 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches; 251 x 186 mm. vi 140 pp. Fourteen color plates tipped-in to captioned tan stock with brown line frame many black and white text drawings. Four figure ink number upside down on verso of rear blank leaf. An exceptional copy. A relatively common book but scarce in fine condition. This may well be a special presentation binding that was done at the time of publication. "This was the first of a group of wartime books sponsored by prominent people and sold to raise money for worthy causes. The most popular it sold 604884 copies during the two years 1914-1916 that is was in print. The Times in an article November 21 1914 sought to promote the cause "The Queen's Fund" by directing the public to the display of the original drawings at the Leicester Galleries" Hughey. The fourteen tipped-in color plates include: "So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end" Arthur Rackham "True Spartan Hearts" Edmund Dulac "The Ant Lion" E.J. Detmold "A Holiday in Bed" W. Russell Flint There are also many black & white drawings by C.E. Brock; E.J. Detmold; Arthur Rackham; Byam Shaw; H. M. Brock; Lewis Baumer and Edmund J. Sullivan. Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper 1892. Over the next few years he took on more and more commissions for children's books hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell 93. Riall 120. Hughey 34. Hodder and Stoughton unknown
1904ref. 3810London: John F. Shaw 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards corners a little worn.Small quarto 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm. A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with fifteen drawings by Louis Wain and an unrecorded text drawing by Arthur Rackham so initialed on page 40. Unrecorded and scarce with no copies noted in the Wain or Rackham bibliographies. Anytime an unrecorded book illustration by Arthur Rackham comes to light it's an item for collectors to note. Buried within this book unheralded on page forty is a black and white text illustration of four chickens in various states of distress as they observe in high dudgeon and with no little annoyance a cat within their food bucket chowing down the chicken feed. And at the lower left of the bucket as small as can be are Rackham's initials as typically drawn. Latimore and Haskell and Riall make no mention of this illustration in their Rackham bibliographies and the Arthur Rackham Society expressed no knowledge of it when we inquired. A true scarcity -- a previously unknown Rackham during his transitional period when his fairies and goblins were emerging but had not yet fully vanquished the simple pay-the-bills work of his early years. Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper 1892. Over the next few years he took on more and more commissions for children's books hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Cf. Dale 34 and 35. John F. Shaw unknown
1910ref. 3818London: S.W. Partridge & Co. Lrd 1910. First edition. Original red cloth over color pictorial front board and advertisement on rear board advertisements on endpapers. Corners and board edges a little worn. Large quarto 10 3/16 x 7 11/16 inches; 259 x 195 mm. Pictorial title-page printed in blue 92 unnumbered pages and six full page color plates. Numerous other mono-color and black & white illustrations throughout the text including six by Louis Wain. Ink inscription on verso of color frontispiece dated Xmas 1910. A good copy of a very scarce book in fact the first time that we have ever seen this title. The Louis Wain illustrations in this delicate book include the following: How Pride Betrays. three 0ne-third page printed in brown When the Cook's Away. full-page printed in blue Tubbing the Kitties. one-third page printed in green "You Naughty Kitties!" full-page printed in green. S.W. Partridge & Co., Lrd unknown
