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ref. 06228London: Printed by W. Lewis. for Thomas McLean 1822. First and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine" Schwerdt ALKEN Henry and BARENGER James illustrators. The Sporting Repository containing Horse-Racing Hunting Coursing Shooting Archery Trotting and Tandem Matches Cocking Pedestrianism and Pugilism. anecdotes on sporting subjects interspersed with essays tales and a great variety of miscellaneous articles. London: Printed by W. Lewis. for Thomas McLean 15 January-15 June 1822. First and only edition. Octavo 9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 233 x 146 mm. viii 1-80; 81-176; 177-268; 269-356; 357-448; 449-540 pp. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates after H. Alken and J. Barenger engraved by G. and T. Hunt. All plates with tissue guards. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1920. Full red morocco covers decoratively ruled in gilt spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt gilt board edges & turn-ins dark green silk liners and endleaves all edges gilt. A spectacular example the hand-colored plates bright and fresh. Loosely inserted at end are the original front and rear wrappers for part II "15th of February 1822". This publication stands out for its vivid illustrations some of the finest sporting aquatints of the period and for its documentation of early 19th-century British sporting culture. Though it was planned as a continuing series only six monthly parts were published making complete sets rare. Published in six monthly parts from January to June this is the "First and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine." Schwerdt. The Sporting Repository contains anecdotes and illustrations on many sporting subjects including 'Horse Racing Hunting Coursing Shooting Archery Trotting and Tandem Matches Cocking Pedestrianism and Pugilism'. This 'rare and valuable magazine' is an unashamed celebration of popular sports and a mine of interesting information. Mellon/Podeschi A13. Schwerdt II p. 212. Tooley 467. London: Printed by W. Lewis... for Thomas McLean, 1822 unknown
ref. 06228London: Printed by W. Lewis. for Thomas McLean 1822. First and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine" Schwerdt ALKEN Henry and BARENGER James illustrators. The Sporting Repository containing Horse-Racing Hunting Coursing Shooting Archery Trotting and Tandem Matches Cocking Pedestrianism and Pugilism. anecdotes on sporting subjects interspersed with essays tales and a great variety of miscellaneous articles. London: Printed by W. Lewis. for Thomas McLean 15 January-15 June 1822. First and only edition. Octavo 9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 233 x 146 mm. viii 1-80; 81-176; 177-268; 269-356; 357-448; 449-540 pp. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates after H. Alken and J. Barenger engraved by G. and T. Hunt. All plates with tissue guards. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1920. Full red morocco covers decoratively ruled in gilt spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt gilt board edges & turn-ins dark green silk liners and endleaves all edges gilt. A spectacular example the hand-colored plates bright and fresh. Loosely inserted at end are the original front and rear wrappers for part II "15th of February 1822". This publication stands out for its vivid illustrations some of the finest sporting aquatints of the period and for its documentation of early 19th-century British sporting culture. Though it was planned as a continuing series only six monthly parts were published making complete sets rare. Published in six monthly parts from January to June this is the "First and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine." Schwerdt. The Sporting Repository contains anecdotes and illustrations on many sporting subjects including 'Horse Racing Hunting Coursing Shooting Archery Trotting and Tandem Matches Cocking Pedestrianism and Pugilism'. This 'rare and valuable magazine' is an unashamed celebration of popular sports and a mine of interesting information. Mellon/Podeschi A13. Schwerdt II p. 212. Tooley 467. London: Printed by W. Lewis... for Thomas McLean, 1822 unknown books
1953ref. 27100302Kingsport TN: Kingsport City Schools 1953. This is a brochure prepared for parents of children in public schools in Kingsport Tennessee. It is directed towards the parents who are sending their kids to school for the first time. The brochure is divided up into categories: Rules & Regulations Visits & Conferences Health & Safety Readiness in Subject-matter Areas Home-School Cooperation Suggested List of Children's Books and References of Interest to Parents of School-Beginners. Along with the information presented there are cartoon line drawings throughout. 26 pp. Illustrated wraps. Measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2 Kingsport City Schools unknown
1953ref. 27100302Kingsport TN: Kingsport City Schools 1953. This is a brochure prepared for parents of children in public schools in Kingsport Tennessee. It is directed towards the parents who are sending their kids to school for the first time. The brochure is divided up into categories: Rules & Regulations Visits & Conferences Health & Safety Readiness in Subject-matter Areas Home-School Cooperation Suggested List of Children's Books and References of Interest to Parents of School-Beginners. Along with the information presented there are cartoon line drawings throughout. 26 pp. Illustrated wraps. Measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2 Kingsport City Schools unknown books
1938ref. 55505New York: The John C. Winston Company 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Very good plus. The Junior Literary Guild selection. Lg. Octavo. 9.5 x 7.5". Unpaginated. Charmingly illustrated by the Petershams. Silver cloth stamped in blue in pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket has light edge wear and tear to edge of rear panel. Maud Fuller Petersham and Miska Petersham were American writers and illustrators who helped set the direction for illustrated children's books that followed.Of the 50 books they both wrote and illustrated many were recognized with important awards including a Caldecott. They are known for technical excellence exuberant color and the introduction of international folk and modernist themes.-wikipedia. The John C. Winston Company hardcover
1968ref. 30682New Britain CT: REM/Robert E Massmann 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 35 pages; 4 cm. Printed at Art Press and issued in slipcase in an edition of 300 copies with hand coloring by Eloise and Robert Massmann. Typography and binding by R.E.M. offset printed. With original prospectus. Yellow endpapers red printed emblem of poodle on cover slipcase and prospectus. 2681 REM/Robert E Massmann hardcover
1968ref. 30682New Britain CT: REM/Robert E Massmann 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 35 pages; 4 cm. Printed at Art Press and issued in slipcase in an edition of 300 copies with hand coloring by Eloise and Robert Massmann. Typography and binding by R.E.M. offset printed. With original prospectus. Yellow endpapers red printed emblem of poodle on cover slipcase and prospectus. 2681 REM/Robert E Massmann hardcover books
1909ref. BOOKS022515INew York: Grosset & Dunlap. Fair/Deco Cover. 1909. Hardcover. 8vo Clean text with nostalgic pictorial cover boards spine-end chips and name in pencil on front endpaper. Presumed reprint. . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
2000ref. james97Knopf New York 2000 Knopf New York 2000. First edition. First printing with full number line. Hardbound. A new copy in a new jacket. A pristine unread copy. Price $14.95 intact on front flap. SIGNED BY BRADBURY on title page as pictured. Smoke-free no defects. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Ferry-Art. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Knopf, New York hardcover
1999ref. C15NF-OA071526G5Oakland California: Chaosium 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 5.5 x 8.5. Near Fine. First printing. 1999. Chaosium California. Unmarked. Paperback tight solid & square. Clean & bright; cover lies flat no rips tears or stains no spine creasing. Cover art by H.E. Fassl; b&w interior illustrations by Dave Carson. 284 pp. 5.5x8.5". A Cthulhu Mythos anthology edited by Robert M. Price collecting ten new stories & three earlier tales set in Lovecraft's decaying seaport of Innsmouth. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Tales Out of Innsmouth is a Cthulhu Mythos anthology edited by Robert M. Price and published by Chaosium in 1999 in its Call of Cthulhu Fiction line. Set in and around H.P. Lovecraft's decaying Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth it collects ten new stories and three earlier tales exploring the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the town's Deep One heritage. Cover art is by H.E. Fassl with interior illustrations by Dave Carson. Robert M. Price edited numerous Cthulhu Mythos anthologies and long edited the journal Crypt of Cthulhu. Chaosium paperback
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
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 books
2019ref. C16NF-OA071526G3Woodbury Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. N/A. Near Fine. Complete 78 card set. 2019. Llewellyn Publications Minnesota. Unmarked. Rigid cardboard box w/ pull-off lid; all 78 cards & 128 pp small format guidebook present clean & bright w/ no bends. Illustrated by Alejandro Colucci. The Tarot Z deck a Rider-Waite-Smith-based tarot set built around a zombie-apocalypse theme w/ guidebook by Jaymi Elford. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Tarot Z is a 78-card tarot deck with a 128-page companion guidebook published by Llewellyn Publications in 2019. Illustrated by Alejandro Colucci with text by Jaymi Elford the set reworks the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith structure around a zombie-apocalypse survival theme. The guidebook pairs each card with post-apocalyptic interpretations while keeping the familiar RWS framework housed in a rigid pull-off box. Colucci is known for genre cover art and Elford for accessible divination guides. Llewellyn Publications paperback
2016ref. 65190Michael O'Mara Books Ltd 2016 128 pages 29x21x1cm. 2016. Broché. 128 pages. Chaque maison cache un secret les murs ont des oreilles mais la bouche cousue. Il faut poser longtemps la joue contre leur sein comme un docteur fiévreux pour les entendre respirer. A Dun-le-Palestel dans la Creuse la maison de famille du narrateur en a si gros sur le c?ur et tant à dire qu'on va la confesser pièce après pièce l'écouter se raconter souvenirs dérangés vérités arrangées les choses et les gens tels qu'ils furent les échos et les ombres qu'il en reste. Elle finira bien par lâcher cequ'elle sait. Elle sait l'histoire d'un père qui lui avait choisi de se taire
2016ref. 70363Michael O'Mara Books Ltd 2016 128 pages 29x21x1cm. 2016. Broché. 128 pages.
2015ref. 100065523Michael O'Mara Books Ltd 2015 80 pages 22x22x1cm. 2015. Broché. 80 pages.
2007ref. 472193NY: Vertigo 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in glossy boards housed in a pictorial cardboard slipcase. 616 pages illustrated in color. the second volume of the comics classic THE SANDMAN in Absolute format! The second of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 2 collects issues 21-39 of THE SANDMAN and features remastered coloring on all 19 issues as well as brand-new inks on THE SANDMAN #34 by the issue's original penciler Colleen Doran and a host of bonus material including two never-before-reprinted stories by Gaiman one prose and one illustrated a complete reproduction of the never-before-reprinted one-shot THE SANDMAN: A GALLERY OF DREAMS and the complete script and pencils by Gaiman and Kelley Jones for Chapter Two of "Season of Mists" from THE SANDMAN #23. Clean bright copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing. Record # 472193 Vertigo hardcover
2006ref. 472192NY: Vertigo 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in glossy boards housed in a pictorial cardboard slipcase. 612 pages illustrated in color. The Sandman written by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman was the most acclaimed comic book title of the 1990s. A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven The Sandman is also widely considered one of the most original and artistically ambitious series of the modern age. By the time it concluded in 1996 it had made significant contributions to the artistic maturity of comic books and become a pop culture phenomenon in its own right. Now DC Comics is proud to present this comics classic in an all-new Absolute Edition format. The first of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes The Absolute Sandman Vol. 1 collects issues #1-20 of The Sandman and features completely new coloring approved by the author on the first 18 issues as well as a host of never-before-seen extra material including the complete original Sandman proposal a gallery of character designs from Gaiman and the artists who originated the look of the Sandman and the original script for the World Fantasy Award-winning THE SANDMAN #19 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" together with reproductions of the issue's original pencils by Charles Vess. Also included are a new introduction by DC President and Publisher Paul Levitz and an afterword by Gaiman. Clean bright copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing. Record # 472192 Vertigo hardcover
1925372p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
2007Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Complete with separate "Directory" booklet of the artists featured in the book, silk bookmark. About 50 current fashion artists represented with several full color, full pages each.
1968ref. 91593New York:: Dial Press 1968. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in very good dust jacket short tear on front cover of dj chip and a bit of creasing on back cover . First printing. An attractive copy of this rather uncommon play by Baldwin the story of the members of a storefront Harlem church. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon with a frontispiece and one other plate in the book as well as the illustration on the dustjacket. Includes an interesting introduction by Baldwin in which he refers to writing this as a "desperate and rather irresponsible act." Bookplate on front pastedown indicating that this is part of the Hanley Family Collection that is the collection of philanthropist and art collector as well as book collector of T. Edward Hanley 1893-1969 and his wife Tullah Hanley. xvii 91 pp. Dial Press, hardcover
1980ref. 73444New York, Harry N. Abrams, (1980). 278 S.Mit 165 s/w u. 94 farbigen Illustr. Quer-4to (27,5 x 30 cm). Farbig illustr. OLn m. transparentem, bedruckten Kunststoff-Umschlag.
1978Folio, First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous illustrations and reproductions throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's laminated pictorial board slip-case. Scarce.
1857ref. 57314Alexander Ireland & Co 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son 186 Strand 1857. 1st edition. Hardback. Cloth G. viii3004pp 2 chromolithographic frontis b/w plan 32 fulll page b/w engraved illustrations & 120 b/w illustrations in the text index all edges gilt pastedown gutter cracked cloth grubby & worn at the edges some slight marking & staining to the contents occasional offsetting but generally a nice copy of an unaccountably scarce item. A bound copy of a weekly souvenier publication which was produced to mark the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition which was held in Manchester. It remains the largest art exhibition ever to be held in the UK if not the World with over 16000 exhibits. It attracted over 1.3 million visitors in the 142 days it was open. The two chromolithographs show the building - a temporary iron-and-glass structure similar to the Crystal Palace in London 656 feet long and 200 feet wide with one central barrel vault 56 feet wide. Its selection and display of artworks had a formative influence on the public art collections that were then being established in the UK such as the National Gallery National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alexander Ireland & Co, 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son, 186 Strand hardcover
1857ref. 57315Alexander Ireland & Co 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son 186 Strand 1857. 1st edition. Hardback. Half calf over silk G. viii300pp 2 chromolithographic frontis b/w plan 32 fulll page b/w engraved illustrations & 120 b/w illustrations in the text leather grubby & worn at the edges glue splash to the rar cover some slight marking & staining to the contents occasional offsetting but generally a nice copy of an unaccountably scarce item. A bound copy of a weekly souvenier publication which was produced to mark the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition which was held in Manchester. It remains the largest art exhibition ever to be held in the UK if not the World with over 16000 exhibits. It attracted over 1.3 million visitors in the 142 days it was open. The two chromolithographs show the building - a temporary iron-and-glass structure similar to the Crystal Palace in London 656 feet long and 200 feet wide with one central barrel vault 56 feet wide. Its selection and display of artworks had a formative influence on the public art collections that were then being established in the UK such as the National Gallery National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alexander Ireland & Co, 22 Market Street Manchester & W H Smith & Son, 186 Strand hardcover
