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1910réf. 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 books
réf. 37782London: Raphael Tuck & Sons n.d. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. A surprisingly scarce title. No date but the ownership signature on the free front endpaper is dated Christmas 1908. This charming collection of illustrated fairy tales including Beauty and the Beast Tom Thumb. Snow-White and Rose-Red and Rapunzel among others has fortunately or unfortunately been well used and read. The quite worn covers are present but detached and the spine is missing. Tears to first couple of front endpapers and soiling and spots to many of the text pages. Nonetheless a sweet survivor of this well loved book. Measures 7.5 x 10.25 inches. 72 pages. CHILD/012925. Raphael Tuck & Sons hardcover books
1983réf. 35739London: Academic Press 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. This is the second printing with corrections of a volume initially published in 1982. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. It is Volume I of a 4-volume set. Contains 32 full-page color plates. Quarto. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt title to front and spine. Brownish-orange dust jacket with blue and brown title to front and spine panels. Pages are clean and bright. Slight foxing to top of text block and minor smudge on bottom of text block. Spine is slightly cocked. Dust jacket shows some wear a minor crease on front panel and a small closed tear at top right edge of front panel. 521 pages including index. NAT/070122. Academic Press hardcover books
1937réf. 25316New York: Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Very good. Colorfully illustrated boards with red cloth spine. Color illustrations. Book was originally provided with separate color illustrations to be cut out and pasted onto the pages; this has been done by a previous juvenile owner. Writing in pencil to end pages. 236 pages. Children's Literature. CHIL/022812. Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company hardcover books
réf. 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
réf. 06188London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It" The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book The Magnificent Original 1903 Folio Portfolio with Sixteen Superb Color Plates KIPLING Rudyard. DETMOLD Maurice & Edward J. illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. First edition. Reportedly limited to 500 copies for England and America. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title-page contents leaf and sixteen magnificent color plates tipped onto white boards within gray window mounts each accompanied by a protective cover sheet bearing the title and a short extract from Kipling's text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at folds; second plate description with short marginal tear; some light foxing to text leaves and mounts only. The plates themselves are remarkably clean fresh and beautifully preserved. Original publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt retaining one of the two original green silk ties. An excellent example of one of the most magnificent and celebrated achievements of Edwardian book illustration exceptionally scarce complete with all sixteen plates. Published in 1903 when the extraordinary twin brothers Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold were just twenty years old this monumental portfolio represents the culmination of their artistic collaboration and one of the finest visual interpretations of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ever produced. The sixteen superb compositions reveal an astonishing maturity of conception and execution. Combining meticulous natural history observation with an intensely personal decorative imagination the Detmolds created a world at once beautiful mysterious and faintly menacing in which the distinction between the natural and the supernatural seems perpetually uncertain. Animals are rendered with extraordinary anatomical precision their musculature fur scales and movement observed with almost scientific exactitude. Yet these are far more than zoological studies. Wolves possess an almost monumental dignity; panthers move with a sinister effortless grace; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability; and the great tiger Shere Khan emerges as an embodiment of majestic and terrifying power. The brothers' remarkable understanding of animal character is matched by their sensitivity to atmosphere and composition. Their creatures appear not merely as participants in Kipling's narratives but as independent beings endowed with intelligence memory and an almost human consciousness. Particularly striking are the representations of Mowgli whose slender youthful figure is repeatedly contrasted with the formidable creatures surrounding him. His vulnerability is balanced by a quiet assurance suggesting his extraordinary position between the human and animal worlds. The Detmolds avoid the sentimentality often associated with illustrations of childhood instead emphasizing Mowgli's intimate identification with the jungle and its inhabitants. In the celebrated scenes depicting Bagheera Baloo Akela and the Monkey People the artists achieve an extraordinary balance between narrative drama and decorative design. The Monkey People particularly in their ruined architectural surroundings are among the most unsettling creations in the series their restless gestures and grotesque attitudes suggesting a strange parody of human society. Equally remarkable is the brothers' use of color. Their sumptuous yet carefully controlled palette of burnished browns smoky grays subdued greens and golden ochres lends the compositions an almost dreamlike quality. Subtle gradations of tone together with intricate patterns of foliage fur and stone produce a richness and unity of design seldom equaled in contemporary illustration. The original large-format plates possess a depth delicacy and painterly quality that cannot be fully appreciated in the considerably reduced reproductions of the later book edition of 1908. Presented individually within their original window mounts they have the presence and visual authority of original watercolors. Indeed so successful were these images as independent works of art that many portfolios were subsequently broken up their individual plates removed for framing. The survival of a complete portfolio particularly one retaining its original publisher's cloth case and with the plates in such fresh condition is consequently especially desirable. The contemporary critical reception was enthusiastic. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original paintings the Manchester Guardian of November 5 1903 declared that the brothers: "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer particularly admired the depiction of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs describing it as: "full of character subtle observation and invention". Of the representation of Bagheera in Mowgli and the Red Flower the reviewer memorably observed that it possessed: "something of that beauty which hath terror in it". The same review praised the convincing and engaging portrayals of Baloo Nag Kaa and Akela recognizing in the Detmolds' work an extraordinary fusion of imaginative invention and naturalistic observation. A report published in the New York Times on December 5 1903 stated that the edition was strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America emphasizing the exclusivity of this magnificent production from the outset. The portfolio is particularly significant in the history of the Detmold brothers' careers. Born in 1883 Maurice and Edward developed their exceptional artistic talents together displaying an early and remarkable aptitude for the representation of birds animals and the natural world. Their close collaboration produced some of the most distinctive illustrated publications of the opening years of the twentieth century. Tragically Maurice took his own life in 1908 bringing their artistic partnership to a premature end. Edward continued to enjoy a distinguished career as an illustrator but the works produced jointly by the brothers retain a unique place in the history of British illustration. As Richard Dalby observed the paintings were admired for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement while Diana Johnson identified the extraordinary tension between their scientific naturalism and ornamental imagination a combination capable of producing images both fanciful and profoundly disturbing. A masterpiece of the Golden Age of Illustration this spectacular portfolio stands among the finest achievements of the Detmold brothers and one of the most beautiful and psychologically compelling interpretations of Kipling's immortal jungle stories. Complete examples of the original 1903 folio portfolio are increasingly difficult to obtain and the present copy with all sixteen plates clean and fresh and preserved in its original gilt-decorated publisher's portfolio is an especially attractive survival. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown books
1951réf. 445955New York: The Limited Editions Club 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Three volume set in red paper-covered slipcase with printed paper spine label. Limited edition. Copy no. 873 of 2000. Small folios. Each volume with color illustrations. All three are fine in glassine jackets. The jacket on Pandora's Box is torn on the front lower right corner else very good overall. The box is near fine with a few small nicks and tears. All three volumes are Signed by Jean Hersholt. The set consists of the following three separate works: The Tale of King Midas and The Golden Touch. As told by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrated with color lithographs by Fritz Eichenberg; Pandora's Box By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni; The Emperor's New Clothes By Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Illustrated by Ervine Metzl. A handsome set. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
réf. 1418773Paris: Lecrivain et Toubon Libraires 185-. Hardcover. Quarto Two volumes. In Fair plus condition. Spines are blue or red with gold print. Boards with black or red leather to spines and cloth or paper to boards; wear to spine caps hinges and corners rubbing to paper shelf wear. Text blocks have marbled endpapers; various grades of paper used with some pages toning slight occasional foxing first volume has cracked hinges and damp stain to fore edge of final pages. Illustrated: b&w drawings. CONTENTS: Les Trois Mousquetaires Two parts separately published and bound together without date 166 157 pages - Les Mousquetaires : Vingt ans Après Three parts separately published and bound together: Première Partie Marescq et Cie Éditeurs Librairie Centrale des Publications Illustrées : Paris 1859 169 pages ; Deuxième Partie Marescq et Cie Éditeurs : Paris 1856 157 pages ; Troisième Partie Lecrivain et Toubon Libraires : Paris without date 137 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. NOTE: Shelved in Net Desk work area . 1418773. FP New Rockville Stock. Lecrivain et Toubon, Libraires hardcover books
réf. 11581Title in Vol. 1 & frontis. in Vol. 2 printed in color. 55 double-page woodcut illus. 29.5; 29.5 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo orig. semi-stiff wrappers title-slips new stitching. Osaka Edo & Kyoto: Yamatoya ShirÅsaburÅ 大和屋四郎三郎 et al. 1823. First edition of this beautifully illustrated guide to making ehon 画本 or picture books. It is rare especially outside Japan and no copy is found in WorldCat. The work opens onto early modern printing culture book distribution and the popular pleasures of reading and consumption. As its title suggests it is a handbook tebiki 手引ã for producing ehon 画本 or "picture books." Ehon covers any book in which illustration plays an important role from fine-art portfolios to illustrated fiction poetry collections travel guides and popular books such as kusazÅshi. Together with the rise of commerce and urban life and a popular fervor for pleasure reading ehon became one of the most influential forms of printed content. The illustrations are alive with humor. The subjects include cheeky scenes of everyday life "behind the scenes" bribery between merchants and politicians armies sojourning across the countryside and festivals. There are also fictional scenes from the classics such as the sage conversing with fish for wisdom along with depictions of nature the changing seasons and personified animals such as traveling frogs. Housewives blacksmiths and Edo contractors are shown at their crafts. Each page carries a short prose text some in the lyrical structure of tanka. The result is an invitation into the imaginative world of early modern Japan carefully portrayed to highlight its essence. The illustrators are of particular interest. The first volume was illustrated by Niwa TÅkei 1760-1822 a prolific Osaka-based painter whose artistic range extended from landscape and refined painting to comic and satirical drawings. He died in the winter of 1822 and his pupil Suga ShÅhÅ 1790-1851 completed the second volume. On the colophon leaf in the second volume we learn the name of the carver: JuryÅken 壽良軒. Very good copy. Unimportant mostly marginal worming carefully repaired. unknown books
1894réf. 1418501Paris: Calmann Lévy 1894. Édition de Grand Luxe. Hardcover. Quarto Two volumes: xx 479 pages; 469 pages. In Good condition. Spines are blue with gold print raised bands. Boards half bound with blue leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards; wear to spine caps hinges and corners slight rubbing to paper. Text blocks have has gilt top edge marbled endpapers brown ribbon marker. Illustrated: additional 2-color engraved title page in each volume b&w 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 Net Desk work area . 1418501. FP New Rockville Stock. Calmann Lévy hardcover books
1982réf. 11627Salisbury; Wiltshire UK: Michael Russell 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscription on tp "To Oliver Happy Birthday!" Association copy. First edition in book-form of the author s autobiographical essay "As Old as the Century" previously published in a Sunday newspaper. This copy numbered 106. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minimal shelfwear tear to wrappers else tight bright and unmarred. Original green cloth spine lettered in gilt sepia-toned pictorial plate mounted to upper cover. 12mo. 48pp. Illus. b/w engravings. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author and Theroux. Michael Russell hardcover books
1934réf. 9441New York: Blue Ribbon Press 1934. Illustrated pop-up edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Illustrated pop-up edition. Original Wraps. Classic story of Puss in Boots illustrated by Harold Lentz in pop-up form and black and white text with illustrations. Harold Lentz was an advertising and children's pop-up book illustrator also the paper engineer for other books as "Pinocchio" "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Little Red Riding Hood." All paper engineering in excellent condition. Little shelf/edge wear soiling else tight bright and unmarred. Bound in original illustrated boards with pop-up end pages 8vo. np. Illus. color. Inscription on title page. No dust jacket as issued. Blue Ribbon Press unknown books
1970réf. 298276New York: Rough Trade 1970. 64p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches erotic stories illustrated with explicit drawings by Esposito Rex and Michael personal ads very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Centerfold spread by Rex of 12 small explicit drawings as if from a film strip. Michael's work appears to be emulating if not ripping of Tom of Finland and Kake. Rough Trade unknown books
1985réf. 2334212Washington D.C: Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 1985. Spiral-Bound Softcover. Near Fine. 10x8x0. Wrappers faded. 1985 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 86 pp. The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators is a non-profit organization of artists who earn their living wholly or in part through the production of scientific illustrations for publication. This publication demonstrates the high level of skill that scientific illustrators attain. Guild of Natural Science Illustrators paperback books
1869réf. 39448Boston: Bradlee Whidden 1869. Folio. 23 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches. 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington A. B. Frost Fred. S. Cozzens R. F. Zogbaum Henry Sandham and others. 32 ff. letterpress. Expertly bound to style in full dark purple straight grained morocco. A rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America including Frederic Remington's first two published prints in color a rare A. B. Frost image of deer-hunting and images from Fred. S. Cozzens and other top illustrators of the day in a very fine full morocco binding. The present work includes six angling plates three of fly-fishing four plates of game-bird hunting and five of hunting larger game. Each of the fifteen subjects is first described in general terms on a single leaf of text followed by a second leaf giving a first-hand account of catching or shooting the subject followed by a chromolithograph illustrating the first-hand account. According to Gould's preface the plates are all from water-colours especially commissioned for the work which were subjected to the critical scrutiny of a group of anglers/sportsmen who judged them for technical accuracy. The plates are as follows: 1. Killing the Salmon. Henry Sandham. 2. A Moose hunt. Henry Sandham. 3. Trout fishing. Henry Sandham. 4. Fly-fishing for Black Bass. S. F. Denton. 5. Hunting Antelope i.e. Prong-horn. Frederic Remington. 6. Catching a Tarpon. Fred. S. Cozzens. 7. Mallard shooting. S. F. Denton. 8. Catching a Mascalonge. Frank H. Taylor. 9. A Wild Turkey hunt. R. J. Zogbaum. 10. Sailing for Bluefish. Fred S. Cozzens. 11. Hunting the Virginia Deer. A. B. Frost. 12. A day with the Prairie Chickens. R. F. Zogbaum. 13. A hunt above the timber-line Big-horn. Edward Knobel. 14. Canada Goose shooting. Frederic Remington. 15. Stalking the Wapiti. Henry Sandham. The two plates by Frederic Remington Hunting Antelope Hassrick & Webster 434 and Goose Shooting Hassrick & Webster 435 are also listed by Peggy and Harold Samuels Remington: The Complete Prints New York 1990 pp.152-3 with the comment that they are the first and second Remington prints to appear in color. They were preceded only by a series of four monochrome photogravures for John Muir's Picturesque California 1888 and two other individual prints both black and white. Arthur Burdett Frost is now perhaps best known for his sporting pictures and prints but an aversion to deer-hunting meant that he rarely pictured shooting scenes that featured anything other than small game. His image Hunting the Deer is recorded and illustrated in Henry M. Reed's The A. B. Frost Book Charleston 1993 pp.101 104-5 but the author was apparently unaware that it was issued as part of the present work which is not included in the extensive appendix of books illustrated by Frost. Phillips p. 141; Wetzel p. 146; Sherwin sale 1946 lot 238; Bruns G120; Heller 1:502; Bennett p.48; Tyler Prints of the West pp.127 & 174. Bradlee Whidden unknown books
2007réf. 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
1943réf. 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 books
1843réf. 27567London: Henry Colburn 1843. New Edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. x324pp. Bound in red morocco with gold border and spine tooled in gold. Expertly rebacked retaining original spine. Raised bands. Floral Dentelles. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of author. Ornamental title-page border. Superb mid-nineteenth century publication on Windsor Castle. The former medieval castle now royal palace in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire is notable for its long royal history and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror and since the time of Henry I it has been used by a succession of monarchs; it is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. Contents: Anne Boleyn. Herne the Hunter. The History of the Castle. Cardinal Wolsey. Mabel Lyndwood. Jane Seymor. Illustrated with etchings by George Cruikshank & Tony Johannot and wood-engravings by W. Alfred Delamotte. Two-inch split on joint at rear board along head of spine three-inch split along lower joints of front board firmly holding. Offsetting from inside of binding at edges of front- and rear endpaper. Slight age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Tight copy in very good condition. Tipped-in at blank page in front is an original handwritten 2 page signed letter dated May 10th 1880 by the author W. H. Ainsworth complaining to his binder about his work on "Now Monthly" . Letter in very good condition. Henry Colburn hardcover books
1900réf. 27009New York; London: Harper & Brothers 1900. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 14 115 1pp. Uncut. Original pictorial forest-green cloth stamped in gold light-green and white. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Printer's device on title-page. Title-page in red and black lettering. First book edition of this exquisite work which was originally published in Harper's Magazine the Saturday Evening Post and the London Sketch. It is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w illustrations by Peter Newell and Gustave Verbeek. Some age-wear on binding with slight rubbing along covers and head and tail of spine. Sporadic foxing on very first and very last pages. Binding and interior in overall good to good condition. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1837réf. 25411London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition second issue. Hardcover. g. Octavo. XIV 2 609 1pp. 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece and title-page. First edition second issue of this fascinating work profusely illustrated with forty-three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. The plates are in early states with page locations and without titles or imprints but the earliest Buss and Seymour plates have been replaced by those of Phiz. The engraved title is showing the later correction "Weller". Other issue points: p.43 2nd paragraph below chapter V line 1 reads "ruined wall" in the singular; with the signature misprint on p.261 reading X2; with signature "E" present on p.25; the d of "holding" is raised above line on p.260; p.342 line 5 "S. Veller" instead of Weller; p.400 line 21 "his friends". Some rubbing along edges of binding. Contemporary previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Plates foxed. Lower corner of very first pages damp-stained. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1972réf. 1413667Galesburg: Mother Bickerdyke Historical Collection 1972. Hardcover. Quarto Two volumes continuously paged: xviii 760 pages. In Good plus condition. Spines are black with gold print. Boards in black cloth gold print; light wear to spine caps and corners light scratching on rear panels. Illustrated: b&w photographs drawings facsimiles. 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 Locked Annex Area Netdesk Column QB ND-QB. 1413667. FP New Rockville Stock. Mother Bickerdyke Historical Collection hardcover books
1931réf. 1412312New York: The Macmillan Company 1931. Limited edition 312/400. Hardcover. Quarto x 326 pages. In Fair plus condition in a Fair slipcase. Slipcase in black paper title label on spine illustrated pastedowns on front and rear panels; tears to corners and edges stain and crease to pastedown on rear panel shelf wear. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and light blue cloth to boards; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has deckle edges; spotting to edges and endpapers spine cracks at pages 178 and 194. Illustrated: color frontispiece and plates printed music. Signed in ink by the contributors on the limited edition page. 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 Locked Annex Area Netdesk Column QB ND-QB. 1412312. FP New Rockville Stock. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
réf. 1379675London: George Routledge and Sons 18--. Hardcover. 12mo 186 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is green with gold print. Boards in green cloth mitred edges gilt stamped illustration. Wear to spine caps and corners light shelf wear. Text block has gilt edges. Name in ink on title page intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: b&w drawings color frontispiece and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #3. 1379675. FP New Rockville Stock. George Routledge and Sons hardcover books
réf. 140949009West Kingston RI & Hampton Falls NH: Donald M. Grant 2012. Signed Limited Edition; Publisher's Copies. Fine/Fine. Publisher's Copies. A signed limited deluxe edition set of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series all matching and uniformly marked Publisher's Copy PC. All signed by the author and each volume's illustrators respectively: Michael Whelan Phil Hale Ned Dameron Bernie Wrightson Darrel Anderson and Jae Lee. The Gunslinger is additionally signed by its publisher Donald Grant. Two copies of The Little Sisters of Eluria are included; one from the limited edition signed by both King and Whelan and the second from the Artist's Edition signed by Whelan only. All Fine in Fine dust jackets. Slipcases with light wear traycases close very slightly misaligned. Brooks A18.1b A34.1b A43.2b A61.2 A88.3 A89.2 A90.2. An extreme rarity as the maximum of only 12 possible sets of matching publisher's copies could ever exist. The Dark Tower series is not tethered to any specific genre instead fusing together a complex meta-textual universe of dark fantasy western sci-fi and horror. Equally inspired by Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns King modeled his anti-hero Roland Deschain on Clint Eastwood's character in Man with No Name and incorporated slow-burn sparse dialogue from The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Donald M. Grant unknown books
1843réf. 140947309London: Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans 1843. First Edition. Near Fine. 1843 1845 1846 1846 1848. First editions of all five of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books Smith II.4-6 II.8-9. A Christmas Carol is the first issue with title page printed in red and blue dated 1843 in Roman numerals; half title and verso of title page printed in blue; "Stave I" on page 1. The Chimes first edition second issue with the publisher's name below the plate on the vignette title page. The Cricket on the Hearth first edition second issue with 2pp. ads. The Battle of Life first edition Todd's fifth state of the engraved title page with "A Love Story" in a scroll held by a cupid; terminal ads announce the publication in parts of Dombey and Son and the bound volume of Oliver Twist. The Haunted Man first edition first and only issue. All five volumes bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt seasonal stamping unique to each book. Morocco title labels to ribbed spines gilt dentelles all edges gilt. Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp in gilt to front turn-in of each volume. Original cloth covers and spines bound in rear of all volumes but the last. Housed in an open-ended slipcase moderately rubbed and toned covered in the same floral gilt-embellished paper used for endpapers. Near Fine with slightly rubbed spines. Light edge toning to interiors occasional thumbing and staining and spots of foxing. No writer is more closely associated with Christmas than Charles Dickens who began with the immortal A Christmas Carol in November 1843. It was published on December 19 and sold so well there were seven editions by the following May. The Chimes followed in December 1844 and three more books appeared in 1845 1846 and 1848 two of the title page dates follow the then-common practice of dating a book published in November or December with the coming year. The enduring appeal of Dickens' Christmas stories lies in his unmatched ability to combine sentimentality with melancholy or righteous fury a balancing act of light and dark. A Christmas Carol composed as Dickens walked weeping through the dark London streets was intended to draw attention to the plight of the working poor in London. The Chimes attacks the cruelty and hypocrisy of the rich and the protagonist of The Cricket on the Hearth contemplates murder. The Haunted Man the last novella emphasizes the need to remember past sorrows and hardships. Dickens wanted his Christmas books to be pretty - his specifications for the first cut severely into his profits - and it is appropriate that these copies have been given jewel-like bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe one of the most famous fine binderies in the English-speaking world. A beautiful set of beautiful stories illustrated by the leading artists of the day. Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans unknown books
