First Impression. Octavo (20cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in gilt and red on spine; dustjacket; 239pp. Signed by author with 2009 date on title page. Light sunning to board edges, with indentation to upper front board, and ripple effect to upper margin of first pages; Very.....
Octavo. 24cm. Contemporary deep red English straight grain morocco gilt with gilt borders and foliate decoration to compartments. [xvi]; 556pp. Strong and solid, hinges tight and strong, some rubbing and scuffing to corners and spine ends, a little darkening to the spine; internally clean and fresh, plain brown endpapers, old.....
Octavos (25cm); uniform gray cloth hardcovers in original dustwrappers. 431pp.; 385pp.; 399pp. 462pp.; 174pp. Strong and handsome; internally clean and fresh, inscribed by both Redford, and Mary Hyde Eccles (from whose collections the volumes were produced), some spotting to dustjackets and a little soiling in places, otherwise a very good.....
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First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); burgundy cloth boards, with titling and decorations stamped in white and black on spine and front cover; black topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-389,[3]pp. Some offsetting to endpapers, else internally fresh, and very Near Fine. Dustjacket is evenly machine-clipped, with $2.50 price at lower rear flap, and.....
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First printing. With a lengthy inscription to the noted Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson on front fly-leaf, reading in full: "On the occasion of my 25th anniversary as active member of the Explorers Club, I wish to present this book to its honored President Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, whose sympathies and unfailing.....
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Tall octavo (26.5cm); publisher's original dark brown vertically-ribbed cloth titled in gilt on spine, with ornate border blind-embossed onto covers; pale yellow endpapers; [2],xii,[1]-347,[1]pp, with frontispiece and 19 chromolithographed plates (all with tissue guards) by Mrs. C.W. Webber and Alfred J. Miller. Beginning oxidation to titles (though they still remain.....
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Volumes one through fifteen. Reprints of volumes 1 through 8, First Editions of volumes 9 through 15. Quartos, variously paginated (250 to 380 pages per volume), profusely illustrated. Publisher's decorated paper over boards using different designs & colors, in pictorial dust jackets & cardboard sleeves with applied title labels. Text.....
Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xv]; 658pp. Very light wear to the cloth, mostly confined to some shallow, cosmetic bumping to spine ends; internally clean; in a clean, strong price-clipped dustjacket with some marginal fraying and isolated shallow loss to edges, some.....
First impression; wrappered issue (simultaneously issued in cloth). Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 106pp. Mild external rubbing and wear, with a few spots of foxing visible on the lighter portions of the wrappers; internally tight and clean, with minimal toning to text margins; Very Good. Future war novel set in South.....
Quarter vellum, gilt titling and rule, with paper-covered boards patterned in blue, t.e.g.; 4to. 145 pp. Number 106 of 160 copies signed by MacDiarmid, Frans Masereel, and Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with eight full-page woodcuts by Frans Masereel, printed on Amalfi paper specially made for this edition. The Scottish poet's most.....
Softcover. Octavo (23.5cm); white paper wrappers; fore-edge untrimmed; acetate dustwrapper; [viii],364pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout, and concluding colorful map illustration, with one fold-out map. Some pages of text unopened. Text in French. Tanned, with modest shelf-wear and -soil, 1.5" tear to front upper joint (with corresponding tape to front.....
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11 volumes. Small Octavo. 18cm. Publisher's uniform decorated card wraps in a variety of colors. Pagination varies, but between 34pp.- 60pp. per title. Some light soiling and scuffing in places; internally clean; all numbers very good or better. Nos. 2 & 3 are second printings, all others are first printings.....
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First printings. Four quarto volumes; uniformly bound in green cloth over saffron cloth-covered boards in pictorial dustwrappers. A fine, practically new-appearing set, complete and free of markings or wear. From the library of noted poet, translator, and Maya scholar Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate to each volume. A beautiful.....
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); yellow cloth spine over yellow marbled paper-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in orange on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 182pp; illus. Inscribed by author on half-title page: "For Eric with warmest good wishes, Harry Mathews". Designed by Patricia de Groot. Faint stain.....
MDCCCC printed on title page, with 1900 on copyright. Quarto (30cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with title label on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; black and white halftones and illustrations throughout. Includes numbered pages of text, with 125 numbered and complete photographic plates. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "John Madison Taylor with.....
First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Nora and Ralph de Toledano / with sincere admiration and good wishes," signed, dated July 1959. Tight, clean and unmarked copy, Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Military memoir of the noted American naval officer who, following his long military career, became a proninent.....
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One of 60 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.27. Broadside, with text and illustrations hand press printed in black on white laid paper (all edges deckled), measuring 26cm x 39.5cm (10.25" x 15.5"). Mild wear and handling, particularly along the upper margin, else Near Fine. An.....
Two volumes (of eleven). Quarto (28cm x 24cm). Contemporary dyed calf over marbled boards, titled and ruled in gilt on spines; v.I: xlvi,367pp; errata leaf; color frontispiece map + 19 leaves of color plates; v.II: xlv,449pp; map in colors + 70 separately-numbered leaves of b/w plates (inscriptions). Mild external wear.....
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Five Volumes. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's uniform green cloth spines over beige paper covered boards, titled and decorated in gilt. Dustjackets. 384pp.; 327pp. 377pp.; 298pp.; 410pp. Some minor wear to spine ends and corners, very light indeed; internally clean and fresh throughout; a little scuffing to the dustjackets of vols I......
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in black on thick beige stock, measuring 43cm x 71.5cm (17" x 28"). Light wear and handling to extremities, tiny chip to lower left corner, stray ink mark to left edge, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and a longer one (1 9/16") at.....
Octavo. 19.5cm. Original deep red cloth titled in black to spine, with embossed publisher's imprint to front board. Dustjacket. 383pp. Bumped to spine ends, with some minor wear to corners, some minor darkening to the cloth in places; internally clean, fore-edge untrimmed, top edge a trifle dusty; in the John.....
First printing. Quarto (30cm). Original deep green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 334pp; two folding genealogical tables not reckoned in pagination. A few faint external flecks to cloth, else a lovely, Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. One of a small, private edition.....
One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Quarto (32cm); quarter vellum over yellow pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; xxiii,208,[4]pp; illus. Lightly spine-tanned, with marginal soil to p.111; Near Fine. Dustwrapper has sticker residue and 1.5" triangular tear.....
Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's cream colored illustrated cloth boards, titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. 364pp. Bumping to spine ends and some small instances of marginal rubbing or scuffing, some cosmetic soiling of the light colored boards in places; internally clean with some toning to page edges.....
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