Fore-edge painting in fine 18th Century Italian Binding. Devotional work on Angels. An unusual and well-executed fore-edge painting divided into three ovals, with scenes of guardian angels warding off the devil in various ways. ; 12mo; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. View More...
Half red morocco over marbled boards with 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, and deckled edges. Hors textes plates throughout. Frontispieces hand-colored. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Occasional wear to morocco (see image). 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches. View More...
Attractive half red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt title to spine; two raised bands; top edge gilt. Comic endpapers. Previous owner's pastedown to front. A clean copy without other markings. 10 x 12 in First Edition. View More...
Fine example of Riviere and Son binding in exceptional condition (see image). Full deep red morocco with gilt rule to boards; 5 raised bands and intricate gilt detailing to spine. Gilt ruled edges; intricate inner dentelles; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 15 aquatint hors-texte plates throughout. Includes an advertisement page after title page stating this book would have been released earlier, but "impediments" and the plates delayed its release. There is also included a section for Notes and Errata. Without previous owners' names or other markings. 25... View More...
Unique 3-dimensional pictorial metal boards with hinged metallic spine. Housed in blue and white cloth case with plastic window on blue case lid. Scarce. Unnumbered copy of 1200 as it has a label stating this was a display copy. Includes Editor's letter in glassine envelope. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Wear to case with abrasions to plastic window, plastic window's adhesive no longer holding on 3 of the 4 corners (see image). Light wear to metal boards. 10 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition. View More...
Stikeman & Co. binding. Half dark brown morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule; 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; silk ribbon present. Marbled endpapers. Limited to 212 copies, this being #86. Previous owner's bookplate with "N.J.D. 1900" written on slab in engraving by W. F. (William Fowler) Hopson adhered to front pastedown. Otherwise, no previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. View More...
Monsieur Nongtongpaw is an 1808 poem thought to have been written by Shelley as an 11 year old. The poem is an expansion of Charles Dibdin's song of the same name and was published as part of William Godwin's Juvenile Library . Handsomely bound in polished red calf over marbled boards; gilt particulars to spine; top edge gilt. Original yellow paper wraps nicely bound in. Six Cruikshank illustrations throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. View More...
Thirty-one volumes as issued from 1904 to 1906. Half maroon morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule and 5 raised bands; gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; white silk ribbons. Each volume contains a frontispiece with tissue guard. Samuel Mather ex-libris plate present to front paste-down in each volume. Complete listing of titles: Autobiography; Doctor Thorne (2 vol.); The Warden; Framely Parsonage (2 vol.); Small House at Allington (3 vol.); The Last Chronicle of Barset (3 vol.); The Duke's Children (3 vol.); The Prime Minister (3 vol.); Barchester Towers (2 vol.);... View More...
Very attractively bound with textured detailing to boards and gilt rule; gilt particulars to spine. Marbled endpapers. 2 Volumes, complete. Sur blanc plates throughout. Gothic German text throughout. Slight foxing throughout both volumes. General wear to boards (see image). Unpaginated. No previous owners' names or other markings. 8 x 10 1/4 inches. View More...
Contains 82 stanzas (per the Persian translation) and a closing paragraph by the author. Shoghi Effendi first translated this work into English in 1927 with the help of two others, and the first Russian translation is said to be written in 1933, therefore as this contains a preface by Shogi Effendi, this book was published near or after 1933 (Shoghi Effendi, Range and Power of His Pen, by Nakhjavani, p. 54-56 and Bahá?í News. No. 320. October 1957, p. 4). Half polished black calf with gilt rule over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Unpaginated. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. View More...
Half dark brown morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule. 5 raised bands, 3 green morocco labels, and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Deckled edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, Robert Wetherill, Jr., otherwise no previous owners' names or other markings. Black and white hors text plates throughout. [viii], 266 pp. 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. First Edition. View More...
Publisher:
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1920
Seller ID: 5324
Deep blue half morocco over blue cloth boards with gilt rule. Marbled endpapers. 5 raised bands with gilt particulars. Silk ribbon. xxiii, 461 pp. 6 1/2 x 9 inches. View More...
An attractive copy of green cloth with significant gilt detailing. Top edge gilt. Toning to endpapers with imprint of a previous owner's inscription from front pastedown, otherwise a nice tight clean copy. 6 x 8.5 in View More...
Attractive half red morocco bound by J. Wright. All edges gilt. Five raised bands. Gilt particulars to spine. Description and previous owner's bookplate to front endpapers. 15.25 x 22.25 View More...
Half grained navy morocco. Edited with Notes and Appendices by H. Buxton Forman. With an Introduction by John Masefield. Signed by both Forman & Masefield. Number 836 of only 1050 copies. ; 8vo ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. View More...
Full green calf with gilt rule to boards; gilt dentelles to board edges; 5 raised bands and gilt decoration to spine; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; gilt dentelles to inner board edges. Spotting to pages throughout, and light wear to boards (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. View More...
Extra-illustrated with signed Walpole pension document dated August 1791; Dark blue crushed morocco; 5 raised bands; gilt inner dentilles; red moire pastedown and fly by Pfister. ; 8vo ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . View More...
Bayntun, binding. Beautiful forest green full morocco with intricate gilt detailing to boards and spine; 5 raised bands. Marbled endpapers; gilt dentelles; all edges gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Moderate foxing throughout; covers a little darker near fore edge (see image). 210 pp. 7 x 8 1/2 inches View More...
Beautiful midnight blue full morocco with elaborate gilt detailing to boards and spine. Red inlay to boards with gilt "JHS" on red inlay in flaming cartouche; gilt Greek key to outer band & twirls to inner to band; 10 raised bands; gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. 3 hors textes plates by C. B. Riley and engraver J. Saunders, and a fold-out genealogical table. Previous owners' names present to title page and preceding page. xi, 483 pp., vi; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. View More...
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