Octavo (18.75cm.); publisher's plum blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; x,[3]-326,[2],28pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, six folding plates, including plans, text illus. throughout. Cloth a bit rubbed at extremities, corners bumped, boards rather soiled, spine sunned, some toning to endpapers due to inferior paper quality, a couple plates slightly mis-folded with subsequent creasing.....
Limited issue. One of a stated 1,000 copies signed and numbered by the artist on title page. Quarto (36cm); cord-bound printed card wrappers; 2 preliminary leaves; 16 unnumbered leaves of plates on coated paper (printed recto-only); printed colophon leaf and blank terminal leaf (20ll, complete). A very fresh, unworn copy.....
Octavo (23cm). Cloth boards; 288pp; illus. Front and rear hinges cracked, with text attached only with cords. External soil; text complete and unmarked - a good, restorable copy. Text entirely in Finnish.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth with paper title-label titled in black on the spine; dustjacket; 236pp. Rubbing to the spine ends and extremities; 1 cm. tear to the crown; mildly toned title label; adhesive shadow from a removed bookplate inside the front cover; Very Good+. The dustjacket has been.....
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Second Edition, greatly expanded. 12mo (17.7cm). Publisher's cloth boards, decoratively stamped in blind on front and rear covers; title in gilt to spine; 136pp. Spine gilt rubbed and faded (just legible); boards sunned at extremities; some mild foxing scattered throughout text; still a solid, tight, Very Good copy in the.....
Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A tight, fresh copy, lightly rubbed at joints and extremities and with a brief marginal tissue repair to pp.249/250 (not approaching text); Very Good or better, with the publisher's.....
Octavo; original cream wrappers printed in green; viii,[9]-113pp. A few soil spots to wrappers, spine a hint rubbed and dust-soiled, else an About Fine, unopened copy. Dedication reads: "Dédié a Monsieur Pierre Louÿs par 'une jeune fille de la Société future.'"
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Lithograph in colors; sheet size 14" x 19"; image ca. 9" x 14" within a decorative border, titled below image. Mild soil to lighter portions; small (ca 1/2") loss to upper right corner of sheet (well away from image); corner-creases, still a vivid, unfaded example, easily Very Good to Near.....
Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's grey-green decorative cloth embossed in darker green, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover; 343pp.; frontispiece, two plates. Boards a bit rubbed, front hinge just starting, else a Very Good and sound copy, much better than usually seen.
Original offset lithographed poster in colors, 56cm x 43cm (22" x 17"). Fine, fresh, apparently unused example.
First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan dust jacket illustrated by J.J. Fox; [12],280pp. A few minor short closed tears to jacket extremities, light wear from handling, spine shows a slight lean, faint soil to front endpapers, else Very Good or better. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.....
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First printing. 12mo (18.5cm). Publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 349pp; illus. This copy with a 3-pp holograph letter from Henry H. Knibbs laid onto front pastedown. Copy of American journalist David G. Baillie (recipient of the letter), inscribed by him to his son.....
Inscribed and signed by Goll inside front wrapper: "a E.J. Gumbel / qui lui aussi a cueilli de ces roses de France amicalemant." Edition of 700 copies. Octavo. Original sewn pictorial paper wrappers; [10pp]. Wrappers slightly browned, with small chips at margins; partial separation at bound edge; Good. In the.....
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Original poster (58.5x44cm) printed offset lithograph from a blockprint in black on white stock; faint wrinkling from having been clumsily rolled, very faint toning to far extremities, else Very Good or better.
Mixed issue, with "Mr. Pitt" on p.453 line 31, but lacking the suppressed woodcut of Marquis of Steyne, the rustic type heading on p.1, and with the engraved title page dated 1848. This copy bound without the four ad leaves. Includes engraved half-title and ad leaf for The Great Hoggarty.....
First Printing. Octavo (19cm); vertical-ribbed crimson cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 314pp. Spine gilt slightly dulled, bookplate to front pastedown, with some faint dampstaining to lower board edges and front joint; Very Good+ and clean throughout. Dustjacket is chipped and worn along the.....
First printing. Title leaf a cancel (as with all copies, per Blanck). Octavo (19cm). Original pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; ix, 319, (4)pp; illus. Previous owner's bookplate pasted inside front board; cloth slightly rubbed at crown and heel; spine design slightly dulled; a tight.....
First book edition, first issue. Octavo (19.5cm) in three volumes. In early twentieth-century black half morocco with marbled paper over boards, titled on spines in gilt, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; vol I: iv, 336pp; vol II: iv, 333pp; vol III: iv, 292pp. With the bookplates of Abner Baron over.....
Octavo (23.5 cm). Tan cloth boards; dustjacket; ix, 237pp. Presentation copy from the author to Shahn's widow Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with lengthy holograph note laid in, dated May, 1985. Fine copy. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front endpaper.
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12mo (18cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; v,[3],136pp.; engraved frontispiece. Some wear to extremities, corners softened, some spotting to cloth and textblock, contemporary juvenile ownership signature to front free endpaper, faint pencil notes to rear endpapers (dated 1867). Very Good and sound overall.
Limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is no. 457. Quarto (32cm). Japan vellum boards with blind-stamped spine and cover titles; slipcase; ten pages of text, twelve lithographic plates with facing letterpress descriptions; includes an original pencil-signed lithographic frontispiece by Day and a gravure portrait of the artist by.....
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Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies signed by the Graham Greene. Slim octavo; orange cloth stamped in black and gilt on spine and front panel; 44pp. A barely perceptible degree of sunning to spine, else Fine in a Fine acetate dustjacket, as issued.
Thick octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in red printed dust jacket; [14],815pp. Jacket a touch worn at spine crown, spine a shade faded; inoffensive bubbling to rear cover cloth, some dust-soiling to extremties, else A Very Good or better copy. Contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown. "Special Authorized China Edition" -.....
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12mo (18cm). Printed card wrappers; 127pp. Very mild external wear; faint spotting to a few pages of text; Near Fine in the original wrappers.
