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Life and Its Manifestations: Past, Present, and Future. (Vol. IV, only, of IV)
Publisher: Manchester, England, Privately Printed: 1910
Volume IV only. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt emblem on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, ruled edges on pages. With errata page. "A Series of Revelations from Interior Sources, containing a New System of Spiritual Science and Philosophy, illustrated by Examples." . Head and heel of spine, edges of covers and tips are rubbed, two small white specs on lower spine, publisher's printed bookplate on fep (not filled-in with any name), else fine. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiv, 370 pp
Malerische Studien: Eine Reise um die Welt in 200 farbigen Photographien nach Naturaufnahmen
Publisher: Leipzig, K. P. Koehler: N.D.
Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
Bound in publisher's full olive cloth, intricate illustration and lettering on cover in silver, red, green, black, orange, and blue; printed endpapers. nd (c. 1900). Illustrated with 200 full-page color photographs of scenes all over the world. Text and captions in German.. Crease on ffep, slightly cocked, otherwise unmarked, tight, and clean; all photographs bright and clear. VERY GOOD. . Color Photographs. Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. (vi), 232 pp
Official Book of the Fair: Giving Pre-Exposition Information 1932-1933 of A Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago 1933
By: A Century of Progress, Inc.
Publisher: Chicago, A Century of Progress, Inc.: 1933
Publisher's color glossy wraps. . Text block separated from covers, but clean and tight, else fine. VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 96 pp
The Comic History of Rome
By: A' Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co.: N.D.
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
Expertly rebacked in half-leather over marbled boards, original spine laid down in six compartments, gilt lettering in two compartments, intricate gilt tooling in remainder. Illustrated with ten hand-colored steel engravings and 98 in-text woodcuts by John Leech. nd (c. 1870). "One of the wittiest writers of the day" (Allibone, 152), writer Becket worked with illustrator Leech on the staff of the poplar and influential humor magazine "Punch." Leechs "humor is as keen, his sense of fun as marked [as George Cruikshanks] [Leechs pictures] are of the most graphic and mirth-...
The Comic History of England: with Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Two Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech (Two Volumes bound in One)
By: A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.: N.D.
Binding: Leather
Beautifully bound in burgundy half leather over marbled boards by Henry Young and Sons, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment, elaborate gilt tooling in the remainder, gilt borders on covers, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. nd (c. 1864). Profusely illustrated with 20 hand-colored etchings and 200 woodcuts by John Leech. Gilbert Abbott Beckett (1811 1856) was an English humorist, lawyer and writer. He was born in London, the son of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas Becket. He was educated at Westminster S...
Beautifully bound in burgundy half leather over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, elaborate gilt tooling in the remainder, blind-stamped borders on covers, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. nd (c. 1864). Profusely illustrated with 20 colored etchings and 200 woodcuts by John Leech. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811-1856) was an English humorist, lawyer and writer. He was born in London and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas Becket. He was educated at Westminster School and was called to the bar at Gray's...
The American Wilderness
By: Adams, Ansel
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1990
Condition: New in New dust jacket
Publisher's full gray cloth. Illustrated with magnificent full-page photographs by Ansel Adams. In this magnificent volume, Ansel Adams champions the incomparable American landscape and insists that we keep these treasured lands undefiled. A testament of love for the wilderness from our nation's most famous photographer, in 108 duotone illustrations. This is the noted photographer's last book project, begun two years before his death in 1984 at the suggestion of his friend, Wilderness Society president William Turnage. The straightforward design takes pertinent quotations from Adams's writin...
The Education of Henry Adams
By: Adams, Henry
Publisher: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library: 1982
Condition: As New with No dust jacket as issued
Publisher's full brown leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in three compartments, gilt tooling in remainder; gilt borders and tooling on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with monochrome sketches by Jerry Pinkney. Notes from the Editors laid-in. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. . The 100 Greatest Books of All Time Series. B&W Sketches. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xiv), 530 pp
The History of England, from the Accession of King George the Third, to the Conclusion of Peace in the Year 1783 (Three Volumes, Complete)
By: Adolphus, John
Publisher: London, T. Cadell and Jun. and W. Davies: 1802
First Edition, First Printing. Three volumes in contemporary half calf over marcled boards, spines in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments on burgundy labels, intricate gilt tooling in the remainder, blind-stamped borders on covers, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Frontispiece portrait of George III in volume one. John Adolphus (17681845) was an English barrister and historian. This, his major work, was first published in 1802. It includes summaries of parliamentary debates, and Adolphus was praised for it in issue No. 2 of the Edinburgh Review. ...
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation-Bearers; The Furies
By: Aeschylus
Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1979
Publisher's full green leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt tooling and borders on covers, a.e.g., moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound. Translated from the Greek by E. D. A. Morshead. Illustrated with B&W plates by Michael Ayrton. Introduction by Rex Warner.. Former owner's embossed seal on title page, otherwise the volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE.. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series. B&W Illustrations. 4to 11" ...
Oresteia
Publisher's full burgundy leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in three compartments, gilt tooling in remainder; gilt borders and tooling on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with etchings by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Notes from the Editors laid-in. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. . The 100 Greatest Books of All Time Series. Etchings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 186 pp
Publisher's full burgundy leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in three compartments, gilt tooling in remainder; gilt borders and tooling on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with etchings by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Translated by Richmond Lattimore.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. . The 100 Greatest Books of All Time Series. Etchings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 186 pp
Phaedri, Augusti Liberti, Fabularum Aesopicarum Libri Quinque: Nova editio, cui accesserunt Publii Syri et aliorum Veterum Sententiae
By: Aesop
Publisher: Paris, Petrus Didot the Elder: 1798
Publisher's green paper-covered boards, spine in seven compartments separated by gilt borders, gilt lettering in one compartment, gray endpapers, edges deckle. This stereotype edition of Phaedrus' version of Aesop's Fables includes all five books, and was published in Paris in Year VI of the Republic (1798). Gaius Julius Phaedrus was a 1st-century CE Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Few facts are known about him for certain and there was little mention of his work during late antiquity. It was not until the discovery of a few imperfect manu...
By: Aldiss, Brian W.
Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
Publisher's full red leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt decoration on cover, a.e.g., printed endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Marshall Tymn. Collector's Notes laid in. Illustrated with full-page color and B&W plates by Patricia Davis. . Former owner's printed bookplate on fep, otherwise the volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE.. The Masterpieces of Science Fiction Series. Color and B&W Drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" t...
By: Amis, Martin
Publisher: NY, Harmony Books: 1995
Signed by the author on the half-title. Stated first edition, first printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine, black endpapers. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEW/NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 374 pp. Signed by Author
Andersen's Fairy Tales; Shorter Tales; Longer Stories (Three Volumes, Complete, in Slipcase)
By: Andersen, Hans Christian
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press:
Translated from the Danish by Jean Hersholt. Three volumes in red slipcase. Full blue, yellow, and green cloth, red lettering on spines, red decoration on front covers, a.e.g. (yellow), decorated endpapers. Illustrated with color drawings throughout all three volumes. The three volumes are of Andersen's (1) Fairy Tales, (2) Shorter Stories, and (3) Longer Stories. . Spines of all three volumes sunned, mild wear to slipcase, else fine. NEAR FINE. . Two-Color Drawings. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xx, (ii), 297; (xiv), 445; (x), 430, lii pp
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Company: 1932
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine. Illustrated with color plates with tissue-guards and B&W drawings. . Covers stained, spine sunned, former owner's bookplate on fep, and name written on ffep, spine cracked; else fine, all illustrations clean and bright. GOOD. . Color Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 287, (1) pp
Publisher's full burgundy leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder; gilt borders and intricate gilt tooling on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with B&W plates, head and tail-pieces in Art Nouveau style by Henry Clarke. Translated from the Danish by H. L. Breakstad.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. . The 100 Greatest Books of All Time Series. B&W Plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. (xv...
Getting Up and Going Home
By: Anderson, Robert
Condition: As New with no dust jacket
Limited First Edition. Full brown leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration in each compartment, gilt decoration and borders on covers, moire silk endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. This limited first edition was published by special arrangement with Simon & Schuster (the publisher of the first trade edition) exclusively for the members of The First Edition Society. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. AS NEW.. The First Edition Society Series. Color Illustrations. 8vo 8"...
History of Great Britain, from the Death of Henry VIII to the Accession of James VI of Scotland to the Crown of England: Being a Continuation of Dr. Henry's History of Great Britain, and Written on the Same Plan (Volume One)
By: Andrews, James Pettit
Publisher: London, T. Cadell and W. Davies: 1806
Rebound in half brown morocco over green boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. . The volume is in excellent condition, tight, square, and clean; hinges strong. Former owner's armorial bookplate on fep, otherwise unmarked; mild foxing throughout; pages supple. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 384 pp
On a Variety of Subjects
By: Angle, Paul M.
Publisher: Chicago, The Chicago Historical Society / The Caxton Club: 1974
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
Publishers' full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gray endpapers. Paul M. Angle (1900-1975) was a Lincoln scholar, historian, Director of the Illinois State Historical Society, and the Chicago Historical Society. This collection of his essays, published jointly by the Chicago Historical Society and The Caxton Club, demonstrates the variety, depth, scholarship, urbanity, and humor, with which Angle wrote, and stands as a tribute from two of the many organizations to which he contributed so much. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, and his favorite pieces are gathered together here. The c...
The Standard-Operaglass: Containing the Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifteen Celebrated Operas with Critical and Biographical Remarks, Dates, &c., &c.
By: Annesley, Charles
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington: 1895
Publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering and black decoration on cover, blind-stamped borders and medallion on rear cover. Illustrated with tissue-protected photographic portrait of Threse Malton on frontispiece. N.B. Therese Malten was the stage name of Therese Müller (1855 – 1930), a well-known German dramatic soprano.. Spine and corners worn, small bookseller's label on fep (Brentano's, Paris), gilt faded, text block unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Photographic Frontispiece. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xvi, 350 pp
A Memoir of the Life of Peter the Great
By: Anonymous (Sir John Barrow)
Publisher: London, John Murray and Thomas Tegg: N.D.
Full calf, spine in six compartments, gilt lettering on burgundy label in one compartment, intricate gilt tooling in the remainder, gilt borders on covers, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Peter the Great. nd (c. 1850).. Hinges professionally reinforced, a portion of upper board lightly sunned, else unmarked, tight, square, supple and clean. An extremely handsome binding. VERY GOOD. . Portrait Frontispiece. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xvi, 366 pp
Westward Journeys: Memoirs of Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter Who Traveled the Overland Trail
By: Applegate, Jesse A.; Lavinia Honeyman Porter; Martin Ridge (ed)
Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company: 1989
Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with a color map showing both routes, an engraved frontispiece, and several additional photographs and drawings.. This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. . Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 87. B&W Photographs. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. lxiii, 416 pp
Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures, or The Greatest Invention on Record
By: Appleton, Victor
Publisher: Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing Co.: 1928
Publisher's full orange cloth, black lettering on spine and cover. . Spine and covers moderately worn, front hinge starting at endpapers only, pages browning (as usual), otherwise fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . Tom Swift Series. Vol. 31. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 216 pp
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