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rif. 4320173Independently published. Paperback. Used; Very Good. Simply Brit welcome to our online used book store where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books from classics to hidden gems ensuring theres something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. 11/20/2023 Independently published paperback
2005rif. KOS02202718Prints 21 2005. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS02202718 Prints 21 paperback
1992rif. 343971Roslyn NY: The John Carter Brown Library : The Stone House Press 1992. 82p. 6.5x10 inch gray cloth boards with titling pressed in gilt; wood engraving illustrations invery good condition. Signed by the printer publisher and translator. The John Carter Brown Library : The Stone House Press unknown
1989rif. 7372Lebanon PA: Red Howler Press 1989. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Octavo. 20 pp. plates. Limited edition numbered 22 of 50 copies signed by Zundenfel and Moyer on the colophon. As issued in Japanese stab-sewn stiff papers wrapper with blind-stamped title on the front cover; 6 striking prints were engraved on end grain maple blocks and printed on Kitakata Japanese paper. Each engraving is additionally signed by Moyer and numbered 22/75. A bright copy without wear. Uncommon and delightful. Red Howler Press unknown
rif. 7545All five prints 'Publish'd by Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street London as the Act directs 1st. Septr. 1772.'. Each of the five on a piece of good laid paper roughly 15 cm square. Wide margins with indentation of plate 9.5 x 8 cm. All five good with occasional light creasing to margins. The second and third items more aged that the others but all good and suitable for framing. Delicately engraved and skillfully coloured. Item One: 'Mr. Bellecour. 3 Comed. Franc. Le Joueur. dans la Comédie du même nom.' Item Two: '19 Comed. Franc. Michau et Henri. dans la Partie de Chasse d'Henri IV. Qu'êtes-vous allons qu'êtes-vous' Item Three: 'Made. Favart. 22 Coméd. Ital. La Vieille. dans la Fée Urgele Acte III.' Item Four: 'Mrs. Trial & Clerval. 29 Coméd. Ital. Bertrand et Monteauciel dans le Déferteur. Voulez-vous bien chanter quand on vous en prie' Item Five: 'Mr. Laurette 30 Coméd. Ital. Jean Louis. dans le Déserteur.' Presumably from Whirsker's "The Metamorphoses of Melpomene and Thalia or Dramatic Characters of the French and Italian Comedies." London: Robert Sayer n.d. but circa 1770. 30 plates. Cohen 1066. Lewine 356 copy on with 19 of the 30 plates at $3000: Micahel Hollander. See Image. All five prints 'Publish'd by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street London, as the Act directs, 1st. Septr. 1772.' unknown
1965rif. 228244The University Press 1965. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Signed by Joan Hassall; #999 of a limited 1500 produced; Yellowing to outer slipcase little wear to covers with small chip to top of spine small inscription inked on verso of final endpaper book block otherwise clean square and tight. The University Press hardcover
1994rif. 343702Roslyn NY: The Stone House Press 1994. 113p. 6x9 inch quarter cloth boards with pattern design on boards spine lettering in gilt; in very good condition. This edition is limited to 175 numbered copies signed by the author the artist and the printer/publisher with 150 for sale. Errata slipped in-laid and signed. This copy number 106. The Stone House Press unknown
rif. VR-O6H0-ZXBVHardcover. Good. No jacket average external wear a worn-through corner a little chipping to spine tips trace of bookplate removal inside front cover pages yellowed with an occasional minor blemish binding firm. hardcover
1841rif. V74754Wien Vienna: Mayer & Compagnie 3rd revised edition. 1841. Hardcover. Good. Frontisplate 59 other steel-engraved plates lacking pl.50 Sisyphus originally engraved on copper in 1815 by Franz St ber 1795-1858. Large octavo 24cm x 15.5cm newer linen-spined boards with old paper relaid on covers and spine has title but lacks original paper at spine head and foot. Unpaginated but each numbered plate has tissue guard and facing leaf of text in German to explain each myth. Lacks plate 50 maybe cut out by censor. Some foxing and light marginal damp marks at gutter not touching engraved part of plates. The steel-engraved images of gods nymphs and heroes are quite small 9.5cm x 6.5cm printed on strong paper at centre of each plate but of very fine quality and detail. They are closely based on similarly numbered copperplate engravings by Franz Xaver St ber first published Vienna 1815 in similar large octavo format but with completely different anonymous German text. The detail of these later steel engravings only differs from St ber's original 1815 copperplates by covering up some female breasts better to comply with 1840s more prudish moral code. They still retain the strongly erotic impression given by many of the originals thus helping to maintain their popularity over more than 25 years. Mayer & Compagnie 3rd revised edition. hardcover
1937rif. V71297London: Trustees of the British Museum 1937. Hardcover. Very Good-. Plates from the museum collection 104 examples on 43 leaves. The frontispiece is tinted in green and rose. Folio green cloth gilt titled to spine with library numbers to foot of spine/slight wear to head & f-oot of spine 34pp plates. Ex Library with neat 18mm circular stamp to all blank versos of the plates and also surrounding the plate number plus 6 more to the preliminaries & text.Neat shelving number to back of titlepage and with Cheltenham Reference Library label to pastedown. Facing this is a presentation plate "from the Trustees The British Museum dated 20th May1937". A clean neat copy with fine large illustrations. Trustees of the British Museum hardcover
1790rif. ST19326Amsterdam: H. Keyzer H. Gartman en W. Vermandel 1790. 555 x 345 mm. 21 7/8 x 13 3/4". 2 p.l. 62 folding plates. Attractive late 19th or early 20th century retrospective polished brown calf by L. Guétant stamp-signed in gilt on tail of spine double gilt-ruled border floral cornerpieces raised bands spine panels with scrolling floral borders and central flower ornament gilt titling. With title vignette and 62 ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES ALL WITH BEAUTIFUL HAND COLORING AND HIGHLIGHTED WITH GOLD depicting Bible scenes from the Old and New Testament 61 of which are by Jan Luyken. A Large Paper Copy. For earlier editions: Graesse IV p. 308; Brunet III 1245-46; Klaversma & Hannema 159-164. Light rubbing to joints and edges boards just a little marked trivial foxing and faint spots here and there but A REMARKABLY FINE COPY the binding lustrous and showing little wear the paper extremely bright and fresh the margins immense and the paint and gold unusually vibrant. The marvelous illustrations of Dutch engraver and poet Jan Luyken comprise this collection of "remarkable stories" from the Bible each depicted with panoramic grandeur and enhanced with a wide range of finely applied colors and gold. Luyken 1649-1712 had written and illustrated erotic poetry as a young man but later became a devout Pietist after reading the works of German mystic Jakob Böhme. He became a member of the Baptist Church in 1673 and thereafter devoted his talents to producing religious works. The vast scenes here are notable in their scale detail and animation. There are a number of battle scenes from the Old Testament as well as dramatic depictions of the plagues and a fascinating episode from the histories of Josephus depicting Herod's soldiers being lowered down the side of a cliff in large boxes suspended from chains in order to attack the thieves hiding in caverns on the cliffside. There is a majestic portrayal of the Queen of Sheba arriving at the court of Solomon a peaceful scene of Adam naming the beasts in the Garden of Eden and a festive celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles. New Testament scenes include a terrifying final judgment a blinding conversion of St. Paul and scenes from that Apostle's travels. The engravings have one common trait: they are heavily populated whether by men or beasts and one of Luyken's special gifts is to render every person in the crowd as an individual with his own concerns and reactions to the events at hand. The engravings while already greatly pleasing in black and white are even more stirring and memorable when seen in the full color and gold used here. Expansive tableaus are given greater definition and clarity and events such as Noah’s flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah are rendered even more successful in expressing the awesome powers of the Almighty. The illustrations are quite definitely Protestant in point of view: there are no depictions of the Virgin Mary not even a Nativity scene. Except for engravings of the Annunciation to the Shepherds and the Massacre of the Holy Innocents the illustrations focus on Jesus as an adult and on the work of his Apostles spreading the gospel. There were earlier editions containing Luyken's 62 large plates which originally appeared without text as here in 1708 and they appeared again with a text in Dutch in 1729 and in French in 1732. Copies of these editions appear with some regularity in the marketplace but are usually not colored and are often found incomplete or with other major condition issues. We can trace no record in RBH or OCLC of a copy of our 1790 edition and we can find nothing that compares with the quality of coloring and grand height attained by the monumental margins seen here. H. Keyzer, H. Gartman en W. Vermandel unknown
1952rif. 066330London Great Britain: The Queen Anne Press 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 38 pages 8vo. Limited Edition of 950 numbered copies. This is copy 917. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers tanned covers and spine some light foxing and smudge marks. DJ in mylar. Fading along cloth board edges. Tight binding no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. The Queen Anne Press Hardcover
1977rif. 066307Whiltshire England: Compton Press 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to. Includes slipcase. Limited Edition of 100 numbered copies. This is copy 69. Includes 10 signed and numbered tipped-in artists proofs. Marbled boards with green leather spine gilt lettering along spine. Minor shelfwear moderate spine fade. Tight binding no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Heavy fading and tanning on slipcase with some scuffing. Slipcase is in Very Good-minus condition. Compton Press Hardcover
rif. 139758Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas New York NY 1934. First Thus. 259 pages. White cloth binding black and blue pastedown of a man standing with raised hands spine has label with black lettering. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Spine sunned brown. Has bookplate. Does not have slipcase. Size: 8vo. Fiction Antique Fiction Modern::Horror 5923 hardcover
rif. 139760Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith New York NY 1930. First Edition. 1st Printing. Unpaginated pages. Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner names. Size: 8vo. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 5923 hardcover
1963rif. 003294CThe Stone Wal Press Iowa City 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A very fine hardcover copy in a near fine slipcase. Limited Edition of 300 no. copies. This is copy no. 112. Owner's signature appears on front endpaper with additional info "sent me from the publishers at the request of Beatrice Roethke." Slipcase is very sound with just a touch of rubbing. A nice copy. The Stone Wal Press, Iowa City hardcover
rif. 1986505294.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1979rif. 007446Edinburgh : A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar 1771 c1979 1979. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 3 volumes :160 plates including facsimiles maps music; some folded ; 27 cm ; by a society of gentlemen in Scotland.; LC: AE5.E3631771 ; OCLC: 277954529 ; 5 raised bands spine labels in red and black leather with decorations and lettering in gold rubric textblock ; an exact facsimile of a 3-volume set of the 1st edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica reproducing the plates with foxing ; "For three years sections of the encyclopaedia were issued periodically. The first two numbers came in December 1768 . The first volume 'Aa' to 'Bzo' was completed and bound in 1769 the second 'Caaba' to 'Lythrum' a year later and the third 'Macao' to 'Zyglophyllum' in 1771"--Herman Kogan The great EB./ Edited by William Smellie who was employed by Colin Macfarquhar publisher and Andrew Bell engraver./ "In order to give some idea of the materials of which this dictionary is composed we shall conclude the preface with a list of the principal authors made use of in the compilation."--Preface.; thick heavy volumes ; FINE Edinburgh : A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1771, c1979 hardcover
rif. 1330621425.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 1331589126.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 048475887X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1912rif. 292504Richmond: Clarence E. Weaver; W. C. Hill Print. Co 1912. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Issued in the Spring of 1912 this tourist guidebook has photographic illustrations throughout accompanied with explanatory text. 48 pp. plus 2 ads. Rebound in burgundy cloth with the printed wrappers bound in. Illustrations throughout. Because of the protection of the later binding the wrappers are quite bright.~With the bookplate of Claude Monteiro of Richmond descendant of Confederate surgeon Aristides Monteiro.~~This guidebook is local item for us. Having said that this is but the second copy we have had. Uncommon with but a single copy found on OCLC. Good binding. Clarence E. Weaver; W. C. Hill Print. Co unknown
1925rif. 34365Bale: Heufeld & Henius 1925. Limited. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with 48 handsomely printed color plates mounted on heavy art paper protected with numbered tissue guards. No text other than title and list of plates. Slim folio original 1/2 blue calf over patterned boards with ornate gilt-decorated spine. Bale: Heufeld & Henius no date circa 1925. A very good copy of this unusual book. One of 260 numbered copies. Heufeld & Henius unknown
1948rif. 008728New York: Printed at The Spiral Press 1948. First edition. Paperback. This original Robert Frost 1948 Christmas Card features a trifecta of virtues. This is the first published appearance of this poem which had an unusual text history detailed further below. Of 2275 copies printed for 9 different names this is one of 375 printed for the poet himself. Last but certainly not least this is not only one of Frost's copies but is inscribed and signed by him. Following the first and second printed lines on the presentation page "This new poem brings Holiday Greetings from Robert Frost December 1948" Frost wrote "the Hendersons" and signed "Robert Frost". Condition is near fine. The gray-green card wraps are clean bright and sharp cornered the binding staple firmly intact and uncorroded. We note only a tiny blemish above the title on the front cover and a trivial hint of wear to the spine heel. The contents are crisp and clean lightly age-toned but with no spotting or soiling. With the permission of Frost and his publishers in 1929 the Spiral Press began printing an annual Robert Frost Christmas Card featuring one of his poems. The tradition continued until 1962 Frost's final Christmas. Each annual Christmas poem publication was printed with varying names on the title page to accommodate their being sent by various Frost publishers artists and important friends. This copy is one of those printed for Frost himself. The 1948 Christmas poem "Closed for Good" has an unusual textual history. After it was first printed here it appeared in a number of other Frost collections including in the 1949 edition of Complete Poems and the 1954 1955 and 1963 editions of selected poems. In 1962 a revised version of Closed for Good was published as part of In the Clearing. There the poem is altered; the first stanza lines 1-6 is deleted And becomes They in line 7 and the word brush becomes spread in line 24. This is clearly how Frost wanted the poem to evolve. In the Clearing was his final new collection and in 1958 Frost told Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant that he was trying out a new version of four stanzas. Nonetheless When Edward Connery Lathems edition of The Poetry of Robert Frost was published in 1969 the poem was presented in five stanzas and the two word changes restored to original. Given both Frosts manifestly deliberative use of words and the fact that the poem is a commentary on Frosts inheritance from the past and his legacy to the future the changes do not seem incidental. By 1948 when this poem first appeared in his annual Christmas card and he inscribed this copy Robert Frost 1874-1963 had already entered the final decades of his life as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Half a decade had passed since he had won his still-to-this-day-unrivalled fourth Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This is all the more remarkable given that he did not publish his first volume of poetry until he was nearly 40 years old. References: Crane B19; Tuten and Zubizarreta; ANB Printed at The Spiral Press paperback
1959rif. 008606New York: Henry Holt and Company 1959. First edition first printing. Hardcover. This strikingly clean jacketed copy of the first edition first printing of Robert Frosts 1959 collection of Favorite Poems for Young Readers is signed by him "Robert Frost" on the title page just above his printed name. This collection takes its title from the words repeated at the end of each stanza of this book's first poem "The Pasture" first published as the prefatory to North of Boston in 1914. Of this collection the publisher said Frost "has gathered a group of his poems to be read to and by young people. To Robert Frost a great-grandfather with a remarkable number of small friends this was a labor of love. Frost dedicated the volume to his mother Belle Moodie Frost who knew as a teacher that no poetry was good for children that wasnt equally good for their elders. Evoking Frosts famous poem Mending Wall Frosts friend Edward Hyde Cox 1914-1988 who contributes a Foreword to this volume said of Frost that he had never added a single stone to the wall that so often separates age from youth. Prevalent among the 51 poems herein is Frost's gently subversive inclination to write verse that is superficially accessible "lovely dark and deep" upon sounding. This is a handsome book bound in orange-yellow linen cloth with a vignette of a bird on a fence post stamped in black on the lower right front cover corner and spine print stamped in black with a red acorn and leaf device between at the spine's center. The contents feature wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason and are bound with endpapers of heavy light gray wove paper and red and yellow head and tail bands. The dust jacket printed on beige laid paper features a wood engraving of birches spanning the lower front face spine and extending onto the rear face. The rear face prominently features Yousuf Karsh's famous portrait photograph of Frost. Condition is truly fine in a truly fine dust jacket. The illustrated cloth binding is immaculately clean and bright with sharp corners and only the most trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The contents are likewise pristine with no spotting soiling toning or previous ownership marks. "FIRST EDITION" is so stated on the title page verso. The contents retain a pleasingly stiff feel The dust jacket is crisp bright clean and entirely complete with no loss or tears and retaining the original "$3.00" upper front flap price. We note only a hint of wrinkling to the spine heel and a touch of soiling to the lower rear face. The jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. Publisher's statements are often hyperbolic. In this case the dust jacket's front flap description of Robert Frost as "America's beloved poet ageless and for the ages" was and remains more accurate than advertising. Before this volume was published on 26 March 1959 Robert Frost 1874-1963 reached the age of eighty-five. His stature had risen to an apex arguably unequalled by any American poet since. Frost had long-since won all of his still-unrivaled four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry 1924 1931 1937 and 1943. He spent his final years as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration Kennedy January 1961. Reference: Crane A39; Tuten and Zubizarreta; ANB Henry Holt and Company hardcover
