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1865réf. 23803London: Day & Son 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt rebacked with most of original spine laid down. Aeg. Very good. Jones Owen. Small folio 28 x 22 cm. 52 chromolithograph plates on twenty-six leaves by Owen Jones and Henry Warren on stone by Albert Warren. Each illustration and accompanying text in a distinct decorative border. GORDON N. RAY The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 notes that in his later years Owen turned to "original designs of his own." This mid-Victorian time period was the heyday of chromolithography printing with this a brilliant example. Embossed cloth decorated in gilt and green with gilt lettering. Lovely example of Victorian binding beveled edges endpapers toned slight toning to a few fore-edges not affecting plates which are brilliant and clean. Endpapers renewed front cover lettered and decorated in gilt with green rectangular border in gilt. Day & Son hardcover books
1909réf. 1386247New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. Hardcover. Octavo 77 leaves unnumbered leaves of "Advertising Section". In Good minus condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth with illustration on front panel. Wear to spine caps and corners light shelf wear. Text block has illustrated endpapers. Spine crack at page 35. Illustrated: color frontispiece and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1386247. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1817réf. 007975London: Henry Colburn 1817. First edition. Three Quarters Morocco. Marbled pastedown on boards. Near Fine. 4to. 30.5 by 27 cm. xviii 2 368 pp. 28 hand-colored aquatint plates of which one is a half-title page another is a double paged and folding panorama plate of The Battle of Waterloo; plus two folding maps. The plate count given in the book's plate description is 30 and this includes the maps. Tooley 336. Abbey Life 372. Cohn Cruikshank 580. Missing as typical View of Brussels but with "Flight of Bonaparte". Rouse was responsible for almost all of the plates with Cruikshank the artist for the large folding plate depicting the Battle of Waterloo and the frontis plate which contains portraits of the leading generals. Rouse though had a hand in the printing of these as well. Condition: Rubbing along the joints on the cover with a touch of rawness in the very upper reach of the front hinge but overall a highly attractive three quarter red morocco binding with raised bands gilt lettering and ruled and dotted decoration on the spine. Scattered light soiling within and the typical quotient of offsetting but mostly clean. The Cruikshank Waterloo plate has smudgy margins but a good amount of this can be removed with a simple eraser if one wishes to make the effort -- we did test this. The large folding map has fold tears with one irregularly bordered tear. The whole map we would note is present. Henry Colburn unknown books
réf. 005029Esslingen and München: Verlag von J. F. Schreiber. Hardcover. Front board: pictorial paper pastedown. Cloth spine. Near Fine. An exceptionally clean and bright copy of this juvenile audience plate book depicting geography and domestic and work life. N.d. circa 1870s. Small folio. 32 by 21.5 cm. 5 7 1 pp followed by 30 double-sided hand-colored plates. Each plate measures 32 by 40 cm. The plates depict the home rural and urban the city the farm a vineyard tools a church interior a city market a winter skating scene a mountain landscape a railroad station a forest etc. The point was to educate children about the features of all these places and spaces and incidentally impart the vocabulary -- the many nouns -- associated with them. Nowadays the plates are simply wonderfully decorative with their bright chromolithography and evocation of a lost world. And the great Meggendorfer was responsible for three of the plates! Light wear to the cover. One of the plates has a minor closed tear by its fold. But as we indicated an unusually appealing copy. Verlag von J. F. Schreiber hardcover books
1821réf. 003813London: R. Ackermann 1821. First edition. Contemporary Full Morocco. Very Good. 4to. 34 by 29 cm. vi 2 286 pp. Hand-colored title vignette and 48 hand-colored engraved plates. The plates capture the poetic beauty of the legendary lake region exquisitely. TEG. Moderate rubbing to contemporary red morocco along edges faint dampstain markings and a few other scuffs and other indicia of wear but still a very handsome binding. Dampstaining to the edges of the endpapers. Foxing of a few early leaves as well as the final ones. Faint dampstaining affecting the margins of perhaps a dozen plates and also visible in the fore-edge when the pages are fanned. However most leaves are clean and the plates themselves come off generally as quite fresh and vibrant. R. Ackermann unknown books
1915réf. 002601Berlin: Hermann Hillger Verlag 1915. First Edition. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated with 25 leaves a color plate on each of them not counting title leaf. The color plate is on the recto and the facing verso contains accompanying verse. The artwork bears the style of a darkish late impressionism as it moved towards an Expressionist sensibility. As not everything was by the same hand there is some diversity of style coloring literalism of course. Included is an original subscription or order form for the book. It would appear that the book was sold in part or perhaps entirely through direct sales spearheaded by the Crown Princess and conducted by aristocratic women at least in some measure. Light soiling to the cover pastedown. Scattered light soiling within. One gathering is partly loose. Hermann Hillger Verlag unknown books
1917réf. 333n.p. England 1917. Very good internally but vellum heavily soiled and toned boards bowed contents clean with some light finger-soiling. Attractive manuscript children's book filled with watercolor illustrations. A whimsical story in verse about a carefree itinerant fellow and his dog set in the early twentieth century wandering the towns of southern England before finding and then losing untold riches in Canterbury - and learning that time and leisure are more valuable than money. This book appears to be unpublished as we trace no printed version of any variation of this title by this author or illustrators. Oblong 4to. 7 leaves. Clearly a work of love as it is bound in full vellum with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers. books
1889réf. 61594NY: White and Allen 1889. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Scattered foxing throughout extremities lightly worn spine lettering dulled else very good in publisher's decorated brown cloth; AEG. White and Allen hardcover books
1976réf. 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 books
2004réf. 5762New York: Ballantine Books 2004. First edition. Paperback. As NEW. Quarto 174 pp. in pictoral wraps. Signed on the title page by the author. Ballantine Books paperback books
2023réf. 1374786Los Angeles: Boom! Studios 2023. Deluxe edition First printing. Hardcover. Octavo unpaged. In Very Good condition. Spine is red with white print. Boards in illustrated paper. Text block has red edges and red ribbon marker signed bookplate on front pastedown. Illustrated: color. Signed in ink by author Waid on the bookplate. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Section. 1374786. FP New Rockville Stock. Boom! Studios hardcover books
1935réf. 1380449New York: The Platt & Munk Co 1935. Hardcover. Quarto 125 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is blue with brown print. Boards in blue cloth with brown print. Wear to spine caps edges and corners light shelf wear. Text block is missing front flyleaf name in ink on front pastedown bookplate on front endpaper small tear at bottom of page 63. Illustrated: color frontispiece and plates brown and white text drawings. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #1. 1380449. FP New Rockville Stock. The Platt & Munk Co hardcover books
1978réf. 1380552Novato: Presidio Press 1978. Hardcover. Quarto 576 pages. In Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket in mylar. Taped to interior pastedowns.Price unclipped: "$45.00". Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has owner name stamp on front flyleaf. Illustrated: b&w photographs. Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #1. 1380552. FP New Rockville Stock. Presidio Press hardcover books
1866réf. 1379679New York: Harper and Brothers 1866. Hardcover. Octavo xviii 651 pages. In Good condition. Spine is green with gold print. Boards in green cloth mitred edges gilt stamped design on front. Mild wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has inscription in ink on front endpapers. Illustrated: b&w drawings including plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column I ND-I. 1379679. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1892réf. 1379680London: Longmans Green and Co 1892. New edition. Hardcover. Octavo xix 632 pages. In Fair plus condition with a . dust jacket. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth gilt stamped image on front. Wear to spine caps and corners bump to rear bottom edge light shelf wear. Text block has has gilt top edge. Cracked front hinge name in ink on front pastedown foxing to title page occasional foxing throughout puckering to center portion of volume. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and drawings including plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column G. 1379680. FP New Rockville Stock. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
1985réf. 64103NY:: Viking. Near Fine. 1985. Hardcover. 067042384X . All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Fourth printing. Short tears to two of the pop-ups else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Viking, hardcover books
réf. 5233New York 1920s. 6 illustrations in ink wash and gouache 39 x 37.5 cm to 41 x 62.5 cm plus margins; 3 signed "Von"; 1 signed "Harold von Schmidt"; 1 signed "C.P.C."; 1 signed "John W. Thomason Jr." Some ms. production notes captions etc. on versos and rectos some indicating the pages and sections of the serialized novel to which the illustrations relate. 1 small reproduction of a larger illus. pasted on its recto 7.5 x 10.5 cm. Six original illustrations for Liberty magazine's serialized publication of the novel The Red Napoleon 1929 an early fictional account of a full-scale Soviet invasion and attempted conquest of the world. The acclaimed war correspondent journalist and novelist Floyd Gibbons 1887-1939 first published The Red Napoleon in Liberty magazine which commissioned Harold von Schmidt 1893-1982 among others to illustrate the serialized publication. The first installment appeared in Liberty on 6 April 1929. In The Red Napoleon the Red Army attempts to usher in a world of racial equality and usurp the supremacy of the white race. Novelist John Gardner 1933-1982 has described The Red Napoleon as an "ironic satire of capitalist America's greed and foolhardy racism": What Gibbons is saying from behind the fortress-wall of his trash-writer gimmicks is serious and convincing: white superiority on this planet is finished and worse if we refuse to meet the Third World halfway-refuse to shuck off the racial prejudice that has been a standard feature of our character from the beginning-we face virtual extermination . Gibbons found himself in a curious position .Everything he believed most profoundly-and believed to be a matter of life and death-would be anathema to his readers. Not only would the vast majority of his readership find his visionary slogan ridiculous-"We recognize but one race-the HUMAN RACE"-they would find it grossly evil. Gibbons' novel centers on Karakhan of Kazan-the 'Red Napoleon'-who serves as chief military commander of the USSR under Stalin until the dictator is assassinated in 1932. In turn Karakhan becomes the new Soviet leader and uses his military influence to take control of the country-and then proceeds to attempt to conquer the world. Karakhan espouses a policy of "Conquer and Breed." Believing the antidote to Caucasian hegemony to be miscegenation Karakhan marries and has a child with an American radical leftist. Gibbons writes on p. 1: "Karakhan's defiant pride in his coloured skin struggling against an instinctive inferiority complex originating from impacts with white dominance fired him with the ambition to fuse all races-white yellow black brown and red-into one human race the only one he acknowledged." Before the novel's dramatic climax in which Karakhan's army is defeated by American forces the Red Army ravages Europe-slaying Mussolini preempting Hitler's rise bringing Winston Churchill and Britain to their knees etc.-and conquers Australia where he massacres six million whites. The most remarkable of the six illustrations offered here initialed at the lower left "C.P.C." depicts a domestic scene showing Karakhan smoking a cigarette and gazing at his white wife who holds their mixed-race offspring in her arms. A caption appears on the verso-"He's gone completely crazy on the idea of having children with white women." The most notable illustration by von Schmidt features a menacing Soviet perhaps Karakhan again wearing an ushanka hat and fur with binoculars hanging around his neck. This too has a caption on the verso: "Short cut black hair that fitted his head like a skull cap. His thin body high shoulders yellow face close cropped head." Two other illustrations show the Soviet Army marching past a pagoda in Peking and through a Mexican village. In the latter a slain Mexican lies in the streets amidst the Red Army and vanquished local Mexicans. Vultures perch and hover above and in the background a Soviet flag hangs from a building. This particular illustration is by John W. Thomason Jr. 1893-1944 an author and illustrator of several books and magazine stories who served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. At the novel's end the narrator-a journalist who resembles Gibbons himself- interviews the imprisoned Red Napoleon after the Red Army's defeat. Karakhan defends his policy of intermixing the world's races to the journalist claiming it must be the way of the future-which has become true in the novel: white people now face a thoroughly miscegenated world. Karakhan is punished by being sent to exile not in Siberia but Bermuda. Von Schmidt's illustrations also appeared in magazines such as Collier's Weekly Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post; he would also contribute sixty illustrations for a deluxe edition of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. A striking group of illustrations for the serial publication of Red Napoleon. REFERENCES: Gallicchio Marc. The African American Encounter with Japan and China Chapel Hill North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press 2000 Chapter 2; Gibbons Floyd. The Red Napoleon New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1929; Harold von Schmidt at illustrationhistory.org. CONDITION: Moderate damp-staining along edges of 2 of the less appealing illustrations; the 4 other illustrations very good with minor wear. [New York, 1920s.] unknown books
1785réf. ST18172Turin: Michael Briolus 1785. FIRST EDITION. 410 x 270 mm. 16 1/8 x 10 5/8". Volume II with pp. 3-4 bound before pp. 1-2 but complete. Three volumes. INVENTIVE AND ELEGANT BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ANNIE BOIGE stamp-signed "A. Boige" on front pastedown and dated 1996 on rear pastedown upper covers cleverly encrusted with botanical specimens leaves or branches smooth spines with silver titling leather hinges watermarked light gray endpapers. Housed together in the original suede-lined brown cloth drop-back box suede-covered separators preventing contact between volumes. WITH engraved frontispiece portrait of the king of Sardinia in volume I engraved allegorical vignette on title pages and 92 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES ILLUSTRATING 237 BOTANICAL SPECIES. A Large Paper Copy. Cleveland Collections 557; Dunthorne 6; Sitwell "Great Flower Books" p. 67 69; Nissen BBI 18. ◆One plate with minor repair to fore-edge margin another with tiny rust hole not touching image half a dozen plates with insignificant smudges made during the printing process other trivial imperfections but A VERY FINE COPY clean fresh and wide-margined in a flawless binding. This is a major work of 18th century botany describing more than 2800 species of plants found in Italy's Piedmont region illustrating 237 previously unknown specimens and--crucially--classifying them all according to the new Linnean system becoming one of the first regional botanicals to use that taxonomy; as a bonus our copy comes in a particularly appropriate and charming binding with prominent botanical design elements. "Flora Pedemontana" was the chief work of Italian physician Carlo Allioni 1728-1804 professor of botany at the University of Turin and director of its natural history cabinet and botanical garden. The illustrations were drawn and engraved by the botanical garden's resident artist Francesco Peyroleri and his son Pietro. Our flora is also an important source of information on Alpine flowers. The modern binding is by an artisan who was proclaimed the "Grande Dame of French bookbinding" by the journal "Art & Métiers du Livre." Annie Boige trained at the Estienne School and at the Vésinet Applied Art Workshop before establishing her atelier in 1985. An art bookbinder she is noted for her monochrome color schemes and her use of beautiful leathers and vegetal materials a felicitous choice here. Michael Briolus unknown books
1883réf. 1359696Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1883. Riverside Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 12 volumes; Riverside edition; G; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print raised bands; Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards toning to spine leather with slight scuffing on some volumes light wear to spine caps edges and corners else clean and strong; Text blocks have gilt top edge marbled endpapers name and date penciled on front endpapers some volumes with uncut pages else clean and tight unless otherwise noted below; Frontispiece and illustrated title page in each volume "illustrated with etchings by Blum Church Dielman Gifford Shirlaw and Turner"; CONTENTS: Vol. I. Twice-Told Tales 538 pages - Vol. II. Mosses from an Old Manse 559 pages - Vol. III. The House of the Seven Gables ; and The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales cracked front hinge; 641 pages - Vol. IV. A Wonder Book ; Tanglewood Tales ; and Grandfather's Chair 637 pages - Vol. V. The Scarlet Letter ; and The Blithedale Romance light spotting on spine; 600 pages - Vol. VI. The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni 527 pages - Vol. VII. Our Old Home ; and English Note-Books. Vol. I surface tear to front leather at spine edge; 588 pages - Vol. VIII. Our Old Home ; and English Note-Books. Vol. II 619 pages - Vol. IX. Passages from the American Note-Books 458 pages - Vol. X. Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books 574 pages - Vol. XI. The Dolliver Romance ; Fanshawe ; and Septimus Felton : with an Appendix Containing "The Ancestral Footstep" 521 pages - Vol. XII. Tales Sketches and Other Papers : with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop 578 pages. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1359696. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1953réf. 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
1857réf. 17417London H. Hering n.d. 1857 First edition. Undated but the December 12 1857 issue of Bent's Literary Advertiser lists the book as recently published. The identity of the poet is unclear though a children's phonic reading book published in 1876 reprints the poem and attributes it to a Frances S. Hodgson not to be confused of course with Secret Garden author Frances E. Hodgson Burnett. Publisher's color-printed white pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Pale yellow endpapers. . Oblong quarto. . Richly color printed on every leaf. Illumination inspired by the work of Owen Jones and Noel Humphreys. The designs incorporate medieval illumination-inspired initial letters and decorative bands. Text in Gothic script. Foxing to boards and some edgewear. Contemporary ink ownership signature Eliza Maude Widdas to front flyleaf and twentieth century bookplate Edward J. Law to front pastedown. Very clean and bright throughout. A very good copy of a scarce book. We could not locate much information on Elizabeth Howard-Vyse née Seymour 1815 – 1892 and Fanny Lucy Cecilia Greville 1831 – 1912 in the sources available to us. Howard-Vyse also published a travel account A Winter in Tangier and Home Through Spain 1882. This appears to be Greville's only published book. Howard-Vyse was married to Lt. Col. George Howard-Vyse at the time the present work was published; the couple lived in Windsor which was likely also the home of Greville who was the daughter of a Vice-Admiral in the British Navy. Henry Hering 1814 – 1893 was a publisher society photographer and the last in a family line of bookbinders. Though his primary business venture was not printing he did dabble in printing religious texts and gift books often with his partner Remington and was a promoter of Achille Colas' relief printing process. H. Hering, hardcover books
1979réf. 100017London:: Octopus Books Limited. Very Good. 1979. Hardcover. 0706410289 . All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Second impression thus. Very good in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Octopus Books Limited, hardcover books
1900réf. 56072New York: R. H. Russell. Very Good. 1900. Hardcover. Red boards white stamping gilt stamping to spine a very good copy. . R. H. Russell hardcover books
1965réf. 82424NY:: Bonanza Books. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. A reprint edition. Worn at the upper corners age toning else very good in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Bonanza Books, hardcover books
1979réf. 57456London:: Octopus Books Limited. Very Good. 1979. Hardcover. 0706410297 . All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Second impression thus. Light age toning else very good or better in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Octopus Books Limited, hardcover books
