First edition of this unusual 58pp artist book. Edited by Tom Miller. The authors' short stories llustrated in black and white. A fine copy in stapled illustrated wrappers. View More...
8 First Printing Volumes For One Price. All In Vg+ Condition. All Have Isbn Number 08216314. December 1987 (Issue 9) - December 1994 (Issue 16 & Index). Some Occasional Light Soil On Beige Cards Tock Covers Illustrated In Black. Numbers 14 & 15 Show Some Light Flaking Of The Spine Paper But All Wording Remains Legible. No Names Or Tears Inside. Slimmest Volume Is 99 Pp, Thickest Is 266 Pp. Great Collection For Someone Wanting To Collect The Entire Set. Included With This Lot Is A Small 16 Page Booklet Entitled: The History Of England From The Reign Of Henry The 4Th To The Death Of Cha... View More...
Slipcased hardcover book straight and sharp, slipcase quite worn. Gorgeous brown cloth hardcover with blue spine title box and rich gilt text. Plain blue paper covered slipcase shows heavy wear at tips, 3.75" split along lower edge and some bits of color missing has kept this book solid and straight. 346 pp text is tight and unmarked. Apologia pamphlet laid in about other titles planned for this series but for numerous reasons, cannot be included at this time. Introduction by William McFee. Illustrated with engravings in color by Hans Alexander Mueller. View More...
1st edition hardcover. Very good glossy pictorial boards are bumped but not rubbed. 470 p text crisp and unmarked. Features ink "tabs" on edge of page block for ease of moving around in this volume. A handbook of Aftrican American authors and their works. Reference material, Bibliography, History & Criticism. View More...
1888 hardcover in fair shape. Bleak House 440 pgs. A Child's History of England 190 pgs. Two books in one. Uncommon publisher of this work. Burgundy cloth with rubbed extrems. Cloth marked and frayed at tips and spine ends, name on frt pastedown. Vint bookstore stamp on fep. Well illustrated throughout. Text tight and bright with one small chip to lower edge (no text missing). View More...
Tight burgundy boards parts pebbled cloth with gilt titles. Slim 144 pg volume suitable for a slacks pocket and a walk to the park. Small smudge on frt board. Classic literature. View More...
As new, crisp and unmarked save for two indentations on the back cover like someone threw something at it. Barely a break through the rear card, pages dented but not cut. A look back at Scottish writing of the last 100 years, inspired by the Mitchell Library's iconic North Street building celebrating its centenary in 2011. Twenty books, two books per decade, are highlighted here - you can read an extract, and find out what else was published during the period. View More...
Blue cloth boards with paste-on artwork, full page size w/gilt titles on cover. This plate shows much surface wear but title remains legible. Gilt title on backstrip dull and barely legible. Corners and spine ends rubbed, inner hinge papers cracked, page block tight save for one plate, loose and laid in. All plates present. A solid working copy of a very collectible Parrish illustrated title. View More...
Burgundy cloth with sharp tips and bumped spine ends have a diamond grid gilt frame around gilt title on frt board, spine title in black, 1/2" x 1/4" nick in cloth 1" from frt gutter. Top edge of page block dyed red, other 2 slightly spotted. No date of publication listed but former owners' name on fep along with 1927 date. 242 pp text tight and bright, book slightly cocked. Solid reading copy. View More...
Tight bright volume in pebbled medium blue cloth with black title on cover, gilt title on spine. Tips still sharp, spine ends bumped. Tidy name on fep and rear pastedown. 144 pp text is crisp and unmarked. View More...
Nice slipcased green cloth hardcover with gilt illust cover and spine titles (spine quite sunned). Marbled rust/cream paper covered slipcase shows heavy wear at tips but is solid and straight. Sandglass insert missing 427 pp tight and unmarked. View More...
First published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1896, this is the 5th hardcover printing of 1900 in taupe cloth covered boards with burgundy titles, decorated ruled frt board and Longman's clipper ship crest on center of frt cover. Spine cloth darkened, title barely legible. Spine ends bumped, tips still sharp with color loss only save for one micro rub near the head of the front gutter. Inner hinges fine, not exlib, no names or tears in the 112 pp text, only an occasional fingerprint in margin. Text tight and fresh, but lightly rippled throughout without any evidence of water damage. 'Cun... View More...
First Edition Paperback In Yellowish/Green Card Covers With Black And Blue Titles. Clear Tape Over Stapled Spine, 43 Pp Text Is Crisp, Tight And Unmarked. Tips Fairly Sharp, Looks Good. Booklet #7346. General Editor Bonamy Dobree. View More...
No date, intro dated 1831. The Waverley Novels. A beautiful book in brown cloth with ornate black decoration, a column with ferns, thistles and various fauna on frt board and backstrip. Tips and spine ends fairly sharp, Former owner's name on dark sage green endpps have made two small holes and few small marks on second blank fep. Edges of pg block darkened, Intro, first signature loose at head, delicate but attached. No loose leaves. 423 pp plus foxed publishers adverts in rear. Washington Irving says of Sir Walter Scott's writings: "His works have incorporated themselves with the thoughts an... View More...
Minor surface wear on corners of boards, t.e.g. "A novel without a hero." Two volumes. First published 1903, this is the Cornhill edition of 1911. Total of 1108 pages. Green cloth somewhat splotchy here and there on both books, more so on foot of vol. II. Few cracked hinges in texts, both page blocks and all pages holding fine. Illustrated by the author. View More...
First edition blindstamped illustrated hardcover in rich red cloth with black horse and white/black/brown rider in a dress riding him. Upper tip of frt board, and lower tip of rear board slightly darker than rest of cloth. Spine ends bumped with one micro break in the cloth at head just starting, and trace of color loss on remaining still sharp tips. A touch of paint loss on the HOR in the word Horse's on frt board. Antique Brentanos bookstore sticker at foot of rear pastedn. No names, tears or soil in the 153 pp text. Tissue-guarded frontis and four other illustrations. Comes in a custom-ma... View More...
Twayne's World Author's Series - A Survey Of The World's Literature. Red Cloth Boards With Pegasus Jumping Over The Globe On Frt Board, Gilt Titles, Sharp Tips And Spine Ends. No Names, Tears Or Soil, But Is A Bit Musty If You Stick Your Face Into It. Unclipped Cream Background Dust Jacket Is Clean And Complete. This Study Of The Modern Essayist Chou Tso-Jen Is The First Such Full-Length Treatment Of The Subject In Any Language. Drawing Upon A Range Of Primary And Secondary Sources In Chinese, Japanese, German, French And English, And Upon Many Years Of Personal Experience And Residence I... View More...
