The three titles bound together in a single volume. Octavo; three-quarter gilt-decorated white-dyed calf over marbled boards, with leather spine titles; 103,186,154pp; printed in double columns, original wrappers discarded by the binder. Bookplate to front pastedown of Charles Olmsted Hall (1832-1893), an American-born resident of Nice, father of the California.....
Original cartoon illustration in black ink with blue pencil highlights on artist board; sheet size 36.5cm x 43.5cm (ca 14-1/2" x 17-1/4"). Together with printer's proof of finished cartoon, ca. 24cm x 20cm on glossy paper. Signed in ink lower right. Drawing spotted and lightly soiled; artist's directions to the.....
Large octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Laune; xxi,[3],405pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of plates, map endpapers by James Darley. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few very short closed tears, spine faded. Fine in Very Good jacket. Generously illustrated account of the second.....
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); dark brown cloth, with printed title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dark brown topstain; dustjacket; xiv,15-308,[2]pp. Faint staining to base of spine and lower front cover, mild, shallow soil to gutters at preliminary and terminal leaves; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced.....
No. 148 of one thousand sets, signed by Kipling in the first volume. Twenty-eight octavo volumes; red gilt-blocked beveled cloth, top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; in uniform dustjackets. Front endpapers with printed bookplates of Harry Bishop Clapp (to each pastedown) and James Glen Mead (to each free.....
Earliest state with "Here" for "Her" on page 29. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publsiher's green cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, some very minor edgewear and marginal sunning, in a clean, bright and strong example of the dustjacket with a little marginal wear and shallow chipping to the spine.....
Twelfth Edition. Two octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's vertically-ribbed green cloth, stamped in gilt on fronts and spines; plain endpapers; I: [i]-iv,[2],[v]-[x],[9]-424pp; II: [x],[7]-474pp; vol. I with frontispiece, map, 21 lithographic plates, and in-text wood engravings; vol. II with bifold frontispiece and 45 plates and wood engravings. An attractive set, lightly.....
"First Edition of 1,000 Printed in September, 1915," octavo (19.25cm.); original brown cloth double ruled and printed in dark brown; [10],240,[4](ads)pp. Fine. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author and his wife Jessie to noted Americana collector Dr. William C. Braislin, with author's own photographically illustrated bookplate on front.....
First printing. Octavo (22cm). Contemporary calf rebacked with red leather, titled in gilt on black leather spine labels, all edges sprinkled brown; plain endpapers, f.f.e.p. renewed in vol. I, both front endpapers renewed in vol. II; I: [iii]-xx, 512pp; II: [iii]-viii,536pp; 6 maps (3 folding). Lacking both half-titles but otherwise.....
First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-410,[6]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, with a touch of sunning to spine ends, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 25/- net), gently spine-sunned, showing modest shelfwear, a few tiny nicks.....
Elephant Folio (53cm). Two volumes. Original pictorial portfolios, backed in green cloth, green linen ties; Vol. I: [22]pp; vol. II [4]pl; 160 loose plates. Complete and sound, cases rubbed with minor stains, internally some toning, especially to endleaves, a few plates rubbed, chipped or browned at edges, but largely clean.....
Second edition, revised. Small octavo (18cm). Gilt-lettered flexible cloth covers; iv,243,viii + [20]pp ads. Front free endpaper neatly detached (but laid in). Else moderate rubbing and wear, with contents complete and clean; all maps present, thin tissue repair to verso, at gutter, of the folding frontispiece map and to the.....
Series of eighteen (18) light brown chipboard cards (measuring ca.6" x 8"), with decorative elements printed in various colored inks, and text printed in black using wood and metal type. A Fine set of cards, which together can be viewed as a colorful celebration of Southern food and music. Due.....
Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 319pp.; pictorial endpapers in yellow and black. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, chip at spine crown reinforced with tape to verso, spine a hint cocked, else Near Fine in a Very Good, still-vibrant dust jacket. Novel set in the Midwest just.....
First printing. Octavo (21cm). Two volumes in brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; blue and white printed endpapers with publisher's advertisements; xii,244pp; [vi],248pp; 10 tinted lithographs, some with hand coloring, and 3 black and white lithographs. Errata slip in vol. I, following contents. Binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds.....
First printing. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 156pp; illus. A fine, unmarked copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $9.95 on front flap), minimally edgeworn, Near Fine. Billed as the first biography of Carter Woodson for young readers. The author was a Catholic nun and Director of the Library of St.....
First printing. Octavo (24cm). White cloth, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; silver floral endpapers; 116pp; 11 plates, with numerous additional illustrations and decorations in grey and sepia, decorative title page printed in three colors. Straight and sound, cloth much foxed and gently rubbed, but internally clean: Very Good. The.....
Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 59. Octavo (20.5cm.); original black gilt-lettered cloth in black paper-covered slipcase; [6],341pp. Fine in About Good slipcase which is quite rubbed and fragile, lacking top panel. Signed by the author on colophon. HANNA 1650: "The distorted love life of a New.....
First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the cover and spine; 319pp.; illustrated w 10 black & white plates. Small strip of sunning to the spine ends; faint offsetting inside; Very Good+ or better. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00); chipping and short tears, mostly.....
First printing, second issue, with "September 1914" on copyright page, but with a cancel replacing leaf 167, correcting text on p.239. Octavo (21cm). Maroon cloth stamped in gilt, pictorial paper onlay on front; [xiv],266pp; 16 inserted plates. Clean and straight, spine ends pushed: Near Fine. An appealing copy of the.....
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; [vi],310pp. Modest wear and soil to cloth, a few vertical ridges to spine, some board exposure to upper and lower board edges, with hinges cracked and re-glued at some early date, and.....
One of 900 numbered copies on Mellow Book, bound in Holliston Cloth (of a total edition of 1100). Inscribed on front free endpaper to American poet and editor Richard Johns. Octavo (25.5cm.); original purple gilt-lettered cloth; 199pp.; frontispiece and 5 plates; title page printed within purple decorative border. Unprinted acetate.....