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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
1963réf. 140940527Highlands North Carolina: The Nantahala Foundation 1963. First Edition. Very Good. First edition copy #32 of 100 signed by Jonathan Williams and illustrator R.B. Kitaj. Stringbound wraps. Very Good with wear to back wrap from removed sticker. Jargon 61. The Nantahala Foundation unknown books
1901réf. 21324Cambridge: University Press 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. Very Good. 8vo. 26 by 20 cm. No pagination 16 leaves with content. 14 portraits of professors administrators and/or members of Harvard community lampooned. Light verse with a illustrated vignette on the left a full page plate illustration of the figure on the facing page. Wonderful piece of Harvardiana and quite impressive humorous work by then undergraduates. Light foxing of early and last pages. Cover is has light soiling that blends in with normal age toning and minor chipping and rubbing along edges spine extremities. University Press hardcover books
1830réf. 1367819London: G. Virtue 1830. A new edition embellished with thirty-six scenes from real life. Hardcover. Octavo; New edition embellished. ; Fair; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print on red banner; Boards in brown leather wear to spine caps edges and corners toning to spine and front board light scuffing else clean and strong; Text block has tinted top edge tanning to endpapers and title page missing pages 1-2 light amount of foxing within tears to edges of some plates else clean and tight; xvi 376 pages frontispiece illustrated color plates 3 folded leaves of printed music. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #3. 1367819. FP New Rockville Stock. G. Virtue hardcover books
1992réf. 1396962Boston: Little Brown and Company 1992. First edition. Softcover. 12mo 66 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is purple with black print. Price unclipped: "$3.95". Cover is illustrated black and orange print. Illustrated: b&w. Inscribed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #4. 1396962. FP New Rockville Stock. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1912réf. ST17640-391New York: Dodge Publishing Company 1912. 265 x 195 mm. 10 1/4 x 8". Title page and 52 unnumbered leaves printed on recto only. Translated by Edward FitzGerald. EXCELLENT TEAL CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper covers framed by multiple plain and dotted rules enclosing a twining grapevine central panel with palmette and floral cornerpieces raised bands spine compartments densely gilt LOVELY CITRON MOROCCO DOUBLURES EACH with large oval medallion at center CONTAINING ONE OF THE COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANSCOM & CUMMINGS enclosed by a graceful gilt frame corners with intricate gilt vines bearing clusters of onlaid burgundy morocco grapes fawn-colored moiré silk endleaves top edge gilt other edges untrimmed joints expertly repaired. In an early original blue cloth dust jacket. With 26 of 28 two having been used for the doublures memorably intriguing tipped-on color plates by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cummings all with tissue guards and the text with Orientalist decorations those on the title and opening pages hand-colored and highlighted with gilt. Paas 1513. Spine evenly darkened title page with small tears at inner margin lower corner of one plate torn at tip image unaffected other trivial imperfections but still quite an attractive copy--clean fresh and bright the leaves with vast margins and the heavily-gilt binding lustrous. This is an especially appealing copy of a ground-breaking illustrated edition of the Rubaiyat in an elaborate binding with splendid doublures created by a prominent American workshop using images from two of the color plates in the work. One of the early women pioneers in the field San Francisco photographer Adelaide Hanscom 1875-1931 began working on photographs to illustrate the Rubaiyat in 1903 and called on members of the Bay Area's bohemian literary and artistic community to serve as models among them "Poet of the Sierras" Joaquin Miller the white-bearded sage in our illustrations Charles Sterling George Wharton James and Charles Keeler. Hanscom was already making a name for herself as a portrait photographer and as a member of the Pictorialism movement defined by Britannica as "an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter tonality and composition rather than the documentation of reality." Those characteristics are on prominent display in her Rubaiyat images first published as sepia-toned photogravures in 1905. This work caused a sensation and won Hanscom international attention including a silver medal at the Liverpool Exposition in England. Perhaps more meaningful to Hanscom was the notice of the great Alfred Stieglitz who made her an Associate Member of his Photo-Secession and included two of her prints in an exhibition at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession later known as "219" in New York. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 destroyed the studio of Hanscom and her partner Cumming including all the negatives of the Rubaiyat plates. The photographs copyrighted by Dodge Publishing were all that remained. The Getty Center which owns a copy of this work suggests that Hanscom and Cumming created the plates here by hand-coloring the photographs and the title of our edition implies those "Life Studies" were then photographed for this work. The memorable binding is by Boston's Harcourt Bindery founded in 1900 to provide hand bookbinding services for the publications of the burgeoning number of private presses created by the Arts & Crafts Movement in New England. The binders took two of the color plates from the work--the frontispiece and the final image from the 1905 edition--to create centerpieces for the doublures adding a gilt and onlaid grape arbor that evokes imagery from the poem. The Harcourt Bindery remains the largest bindery in the United States exclusively devoted to fine bookbinding by hand. Dodge Publishing Company unknown books
1978réf. 25094Danbury: Addison House. 1978. Paperback. Near Fine. Text by Tomie de Paola. First edition paperback. Near fine in oversized illustrated wraps. . 0891690239 . Addison House paperback books
2013réf. 48117Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications 2013. Near Fine/Near Fine. Baltimore MD: Cemetery Dance Publications 2013. Publisher's Deluxe Gift Slipcased Edition. Small quarto; illustrated dust jacket; red silver and black boards; illustrated endpapers; 527pp. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket; mild shelfwear to slipcase; a Near Fine copy and lavish production for King's sequel to "The Shining. Cemetery Dance Publications unknown books
1868réf. 1407213Paris: Bibliothèque d'Éducation J. Hetzel 1868. Hardcover. Quarto 768 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is green with gold print on red banner. Boards quarter bound with green cloth to spine and marbled paper to boards; worn spine caps and corners toning to spine peripheral toning mild shelf wear. Text block has cracked hinges tanning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and plates maps 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 Locked Annex Area Netdesk Column QB ND-QB. 1407213. FP New Rockville Stock. Bibliothèque d'Éducation, J. Hetzel hardcover books
1939réf. 179237New York: Society of Illustrators 1939. Softcover. VG- general wear around wrap and spine edges. Red and B&W illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated in B&W. Unpaginated. Includes list of pictures for sale. Published to accompany an exhibition which took place April 13-May 6 1939 Grand Central Fifth Avenue Galleries Fifth Avenue at 51st Street New York. Society of Illustrators paperback books
réf. 149584None Stated: None stated nd. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Plates mostly clean but a few have minor-to-mild foxing. Two plates have perforation stamps on lower margins not affecting plate images. Front end pages ffep detached and laid in contain 2 library plates 2 personal book plates and one additional plate. Some wear to spine mostly at head/tail and to leather corners but nothing terribly offensive. Ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Dark green 3/4 leather with complementary medium green cloth. Gilt edging lettering and 3 bands not raised. AEG. No text. 20 pp each with an individual bw etching / engraving. With bookplates by prominent people. The title page is hand-lettered and there is no printed publication information. This is a unique and important item of Cruikshankiana. Ex-library copy with minimally offensive marks given the importance of each one. This volume contains ONLY the 20 engravings used as illustrations for Eccentric Tales. The original sketches were by Alfred Henry Forrester under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill. The actual book illustrations then were done by George Cruikshank. This particular book contains Forrester's personal book plate. Another book plate is of Albert M. Cohn who wrote a catalogue raisonne of Cruikshank's works in 1924 a small label on the fep makes reference to this catalogue #471. And a third book plate is of William Hartman Woodin Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The final bookplate present is that of the Brooklyn Public Library. Plates No. 8 and 15 have remarques. The Cruikshank illustrations in Eccentric Tales were apparently hand-tinted but these images are in b/w with no tinting and appear to be etching proofs for the final illustrations. Both Crowquill's and Cruikshank's names appear under each etching. Delightful and humorous illustrations done in great detail. Unique and rare. None stated hardcover books
2004réf. 1410762London: The Folio Society 2004. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo xxxvi 798 pages. In Very Good condition in a Very Good slipcase. Slipcase in brown paper. Spine is brown with gold print on black pastedown label. Boards quarter bound with brown leather to spine and brown cloth to boards. Text block has gilt top edge and brown ribbon marker. Illustrated: “With the original illustrations by R. Seymour R.W. Buss and ‘Phiz’”— title page; b&w frontispiece and plates drawings. “The text and illustrations of this edition reproduce those of the Nonesuch Dickens published in 1937 by Nonesuch Press”— title page verso. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Multi-volume Section. 1410762. FP New Rockville Stock. The Folio Society hardcover books
1795réf. ST20880London: W. Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare Printing Office 1795. 305 x 238 mm. 12 x 9 5/8". xx 76 pp. HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY SCARLET STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO ELABORATELY GILT covers framed by gilt fillets and decorative rolls smooth spine panels diapered into compartments containing annular dots gilt lettering turn-ins with gilt bead roll marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Housed in a velveteen-lined brown cloth chemise in an excellent matching morocco-backed slipcase. Engraved title page vignette five plates and seven vignettes in the text by Thomas and John Bewick. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with bookseller's ticket of E. Lloyd. Hugo 87; Ray "England" 50. See also Glaister p. 75. Four small black ink spots to boards a hint of wear to corners title and dedication leaf a bit foxed occasional mild foxing elsewhere but an excellent copy--the text clean and fresh with capacious margins and the beautiful contemporary binding lustrous and virtually unworn. This extremely attractive poetic production is called by Hugo "a magnificent result of the efforts of the wood-engraver type-founder papermaker and printer" and it is offered here in a richly decorative contemporary binding. The text is composed of two poems by Oliver Goldsmith "The Traveller" and "The Deserted Village" and one poem by Thomas Parnell "The Hermit" accompanied by biographical sketches of each writer that of Parnell written by Goldsmith. The charming illustrations are the work of the Bewick brothers. More than any contemporaneous artist or printer Thomas Bewick 1753-1828 was responsible for a renewed interest in wood engraving his virtuosity and prolific output in the medium raising its reputation in book production. And here his artworks are accompanied by those of his brother John 1760-95. The large scenes which gracefully depict the figures from the poems are accompanied by the small head- and tailpiece vignettes for which Thomas Bewick is best remembered the gently sentimental scenes of rural vistas and picturesque ruins perfectly offsetting the text. Our volume was beautifully printed on heavy Whatman paper by Bewick's friend the celebrated William Bulmer who in Glaister's words was "one of the best printers of the time striving to raise the standard of English typography. To this end he perfected his own ink used good paper and specially cut types." Ray praises the printing as well as the illustrations writing that "thanks to Bulmer this is by far the handsomest of contemporary volumes containing Bewick's work." Our copy in pleasing contemporary morocco is a particularly appealing example. W. Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare Printing Office unknown books
1968réf. 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
1910réf. 1408641Boston: Little Brown and Company 1910. Hardcover. Octavo vi 327 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is red with black print. Boards in red cloth illustrated pastedown on front panel; wear to spine caps and corners light shelf wear. Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf spine break at page 160. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and text illustrations drawings. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1408641. FP New Rockville Stock. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1935réf. 277439Budapest: George Vajna 1935. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Translated by Frances Shires. Ten original colored etchings by Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. Thin 8vo unpaged bound in linen with an embroidered decoration. Budapest: Dr. George Vajna & Co. n.d. ca.1935. Limited Edition. Number 103 of 250 copies signed by both artists. The etchings are printed by hand-press and are hand-colored. Small damp-stain on the upper corner of the binding otherwise a fine copy of this exquisite and quite rare book printed in Hungary. George Vajna unknown books
1900réf. 274959Edinburgh: Blackwood 1900. hardcover. very good. Historical descriptions by John Hill Burton. Illustrated with 240 fine steel engravings with tissue guards and many text illustrations in woodcut. 4 volumes tall 4to blue cloth. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd n.d. ca. 1900 Very good. Blackwood unknown books
1998réf. 263645New York: Society of Illustrators 1998. hardcover. fine/near fine. Hundreds of color illustrations. 4to white cloth d.w. New York: Society of Illustrarors 1998. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Society of Illustrators unknown books
1984réf. 245330New York: Madison Square Press 1984. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with over 500 full-color reproductions. Thick folio black cloth inlaid color plate on front cover. New York: Madison Square Press 1984. Spine slightly faded else a fine copy. Madison Square Press unknown books
1987réf. 237013New York: Madison Square Press 1987. hardcover. fine/fine. Thick 4to black boards d.w. New York: Madison Square Press 1987. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. From the Exhibition Humor '87 Held at the Society of Illustrators New York City September 1987. Madison Square Press unknown books
1985réf. 207517New York: Madison Square Press 1985. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated with 668 full-color reproductions. 440 pages. Thick folio blue cloth d.w. d.w. has small sticker ghost on top corner of front cover else clean. New York: Madison Square Press 1985. A fine copy. Published for the exhibition held in the Galleries of the Society of American Illustrators in New York from January 30 through April 10 1985. Madison Square Press unknown books
1843réf. 540812London: Wm. S. Orr & Co 1843. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Printed on various color leaves with a publisher’s advertisement on recto of final leaf. Humorous articles verses etc. by Dickens Thackeray and others. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings designed by Alfred Forrester known under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill John Leech and others. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket and later owner’s small bookplate on front pastedown autograph note in pencil on front free endpaper. Contemporary half polished levant and pebbled cloth over boards gilt decorated spine with red titling label cream endpapers all edges gilt. Head and tail of spine and one corner tip neatly refurbished in matching leather joints are rubbed with light wear at corners a few small stains on endpapers very good. Wm. S. Orr & Co hardcover books
1908réf. 286449Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Hermann Becker & August Horn. 270pp. Prospectuses for Saunders’s Books for Nurses and Saunders’s Hand Atlases laid in. Also laid in is Dr. Cullen’s visiting card.Previous owner name; no markings in text; green cloth binding with light edgewear to extremities; slightly heavier wear at top and bottom spine; the front hinge has had a bit of later discreet gluing and is holding well. There is a previous owner name on the front endpaper. Mylar cut to protect boards. Very Good binding. W. B. Saunders Company unknown books
1849réf. 1407349London: Richard Bentley 1849. Hardcover. Octavo Two volumes. In Fair condition. Spines are brown with gold print on red banner. Boards in brown leather; wear to spine caps edges and corners tears to hinges front board of first volume detached toning to spines peripheral toning leather on boards is cracking. Text blocks have marbled edges and endpapers; cracked hinges. Illustrated: b&w drawings. CONTENTS: Vol. 1. The Early Poets 504 pages — Vol. 2. The Modern Poets 473 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 Netdesk Column W. 1407349. FP New Rockville Stock. Richard Bentley hardcover books
1869réf. 35984Boston: Bradlee Whidden 1869. Folio. 15 chromolithographic plates after Frederic Remington A.B. Frost Fred 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. 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; not in Reese Stamped with a National Character. Bradlee Whidden unknown books
