the circus of dr lao, g finney

Descrizione libro: Janus Press, (Newark, VT), 1984. One of 150 copies signed by the author and by the printer/illustrator, Claire Van Vliet (Ruth Fine, p.39; A Century for a Century 93). From book - "Forty relief prints, mainly etchings, many combined with stencil; geometric typographic ornaments throughout." Printed on Barcham Green De Wint. The interesting binding for this book was "bound in Johanna Western natural buckram covers, Johanna Western rust Kennet cloth sides, and lined in pale gre-violet Japanese twill." Prospectus loosely inserted. Well preserved copy. 4to., cloth, clamshell box stencil printed. 130 pages. Codice libro della libreria 107192

Descrizione libro: 10 x 13. 122 pages. Some pages fold out for a panoramic scene of the circus train. Forty relief prints by Claire Van Vliet, mainly etchings, many combined with pochoir; geometric ornaments throughout. Bound in buckram stenciled at the Janus Press, vellum spine with exposed sewing. Fine in stenciled traycase. One of 45 "press inscribed" copies from an edition of 150 signed by Claire Van Vliet and Charles Finney. Text set in Monotype Plantin at The Stinehour Press, and printed at the Janus Press on a heavy, dark cream Barcham Green paper, in black, brick red, orange, brown, and silver. Graffiti supplied by Stephen Harvard. Illustrations are masterfully integrated within the text. A very tactile book. A Century for the Century 93. Codice libro della libreria 15974

Descrizione libro: Viking, New York, 1935. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Boris Artzybasheff (illustratore). 1st Edition. Charles Finney's most popular book in fine condition with darkened spine and paper label, Paper label shows slight wear. Paper label on front cover very fine Book is unmarked, except for long inscription by author. Jacket if VG with a large pink smudge on spine and part of front and back of jacket. Not a large distraction.Top edge is slightly chipped as are corners. Jacket is unclipped($2.00). A great collectable.Protected in special box made forthis book. Inscribed by Author(s). Codice libro della libreria 000254

Descrizione libro: NY Viking Press 1935, 1935. First edition of the author's first book. Illustrated with seven full page drawings by Boris Artzybasheff. Finney drew upon his experiences stationed with his army unit in China for this strange novel about a Chinese circus stopping in Arizona, which has become a classic piece of fantasy literature. It was the basis for the 1963 film, The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao. Very fine in cloth with inset cover illustration and paper spine label, in d/w with lightly toned spine. Codice libro della libreria 18530

Descrizione libro: Viking / Abramsom, 1945. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Near Fine. First edition , first printing , 1945. A near fine bright book in the original binding. In a very good+ dust jacket that has yellowed a bit at the spine but is in very nice condition with only slight edge rubbing. Very scarce in such a nice jacket. Not price clipped. Codice libro della libreria 1135F

Descrizione libro: New York: The Viking Press, 154 [1] pp. With drawings by Boris Artzybasheff. 8vo, publisher's red cloth with printed paper labels, in dust jacket. First edition. Bookplate (on the verso of the front free endpaper, not marring the illustrated endsheets); otherwise a bright, very near fine copy in a price-clipped jacket with a few tiny spots, and tiny chips and wear along the edges. 1935. Codice libro della libreria 54818

Descrizione libro: Viking, 1935. Red Cloth/paper Labels. Condizione libro: NF. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fragile Chipped D.j. & Ill. By Boris Artzybasheff (illustratore). First. 8vo. Hardback. Codice libro della libreria 024989

Descrizione libro: Gray WallsPress, London, 1948. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Gordon Noel Fish (illustratore). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book in very fine condition, with slight fade to top edge, bottom front corner barely bumped. Top of text block is stained green as issued. jacket is near fine with small chips to corners and bottom of spine. There is about an eighth inch loss to spine top and a large chip on spine above the publishers name. Great cover art by Gordon Fish. A very nice book and jacket. Small booksellers label on bottom corner of front cover and pencil notation that this book is a first British. NOT a price clipped jacket (12s. 6d. net.) Mylar protected. Codice libro della libreria 000255

Descrizione libro: The Viking Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1935. Hard Cover. Condizione libro: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Boris Artzybasheff (illustratore). First Edition. Red cloth on boards. Price Clipped. Jacket is worn all edges, has chips and small pieces missing all along the top edges, also at heel of spine. A few small closed tears from these chips, and one tear about an inch long front panel top near foldover. In mylar cover which greatly minimizes these defects. The Illustration credit on the cover says: To which Boris Artzybasheff has added seven interpretations of his own. The end papers are also drawings by Mr. Artzybasheff. "The Circus of Dr. Lao is a strange book; no one will say what it means, or if it means anything at all; the author himself professes ignorance and washes his hands of the whole business. We publish the book because it made us laugh, and because a little hilarity is needed in the world. The Circus was born in China, the author must have aquired at that time the fund of esoteric, information which bubbles from the pages of this book. Part of the story he dreamed, part of it he picked up from a Chinese magician, and the flash of inspiration that kindled the book came on a sightseeing tour. In the course of this trip they viewed the famous dragon screen 'a huge wall-like affair made of colored tile with nine dragons worked into it, you round a little hill, and there the screen is: so marvelously beautiful it knocks you over. ' But the members of the party were not all knocked over; one of the ladies remarked, 'Good Lord, ain't these Chinese got the awfulest imaginations!' At that instant The Circus of Dr. Lao was born.". Price Clipped. Codice libro della libreria 11315

Descrizione libro: Viking, 1935. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, Second printing of August 1935, Near Fine book with touch of dusting and light soiling top page edges, hint of slant at top of spine, very nice and possibly unread copy; in a Very Good to Near Fine jacket that has sun fade and some yellowing on spine, slight edge and corner wear, price of $2.00 present front flap, jacket also states second printing at top of front flap. Extremely nice jacket for this title. Jacket, end papers and seven interior illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff. Codice libro della libreria ABE-7353817968

Descrizione libro: The Viking Press, New York, 1935. Hardcover. First edition. 154pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a paper title label on the spine, and an illustrated paper label mounted to the front board. Elaborate illustrated endsheets by Boris Artzybasheff. Fine condition. Artzbasheff was responsible for creating the art for the front covers of numerous Time Magazine issues. Codice libro della libreria 18184

Descrizione libro: Viking, New York, 1935. Hard Cover. Condizione libro: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Boris Artzybasheff (illustratore). First Edition. Fantasy classic that was the basis for the Tony Randall film, "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao". Red cloth exterior boards have some faint damp staining, and the paper label on spine has peeled away, so there is no title to be read, but the book is clean and unmarked on the inside, and all flaws are hidden under a bright flawless facsimile dust jacket brilliantly illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. Codice libro della libreria 007603

Descrizione libro: Viking NYC 1935, 1935. red boardws with pastedown by boris artzybasheeff. illustratins in text and endpapers by arzybasheff, name of po on fep. a stain on fep where label was removed 2nd Book Condition - VG+, Hardcover. Codice libro della libreria 61607

Descrizione libro: Grey Walls Press, London, 1948. Hardcover. Fish, Gordon Noel (illustratore). First UK edition, first printing. "Still probably the finest American absurdist 'novel.'" "A remarkable work, with many substrata of meaning." Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 634. "A marvelous fabulation." Barron: Fantasy Literature 3-137. Wonderful illustrations by Gordon Noel Fish. Light offsetting to the endpapers from dust jacket flaps. A near fine copy in a near fine, bright wrap-around illustrated, price-clipped dust jacket with just a hint of edge wear. Codice libro della libreria 26365

Descrizione libro: Viking Press, New York, 1935. Hardcover. Boris Artzybasheff (illustratore). First edition, first printing. Includes all the nice Artzybasheff illustrations. "One of the classics of art deco literature of the 1930's. A remarkable work, with many substrata of meaning." Bleiler: Guide to Supernatural Literature 634. "A marvelous fabulation." Barron: Fantasy Literature 3-139. Illustrated endpapers. Bound in original red cloth with title and illustration labels pressed on. Very good in good sunned dust jacket with shallow chipping. Codice libro della libreria 31972

Descrizione libro: The Viking Press, 1935. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No Dustjacket, bound in red cloth with tipped on illustration on the front cover and tipped on spine label. . Second Printing as stated on the copyright page. Book is a Tight sound copy in Good condition with a half inch long glue repair to the top edge of ther book near the spine where it had once split, small chip out of the spine label but does not affect any of the lettering, On the half title page, previous owner has his small ownership stamp to the top of that page with a very nice Autographed authors inscription below that reading WITH REGARD OF THE AUTHOR, CHARLES G. FINNEY, FRIDAY 13TH OCT. 50. A very nice signed copy of this classic work. Signed by Authors. Codice libro della libreria 60900

Descrizione libro: Condizione libro: gut - gebraucht. Bison Books 2002 insgesamt guter Zustand, berieben, Gebrauchsspuren am Einband, Zustand 3, , The Circus of Dr. Lao (Bison Frontiers of Imagination), Finney, Charles G.; John Marco (Introduction). Codice libro della libreria BU396246

Descrizione libro: First edition Grey Walls Press ., 1948. Original pictorial yellow cloth gilt, dustwrapper (extremities a trifle frayed, small repairs to the reverse, price-clipped). Pp. 151, with full-page tinted and line "grotesque" illustrations by Gordon Noel Fish. [Bleiler: 634 - ". probably the finest American absurdist novel."; Barron, Fantasy Literature: 3-137]. Codice libro della libreria 70437

Descrizione libro: Limited Editions Club, New York, 1982. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Very good condition. 123p. illus. by Claire Van Vliet. Limited edition of 2000 copies printed by the Stinehour Press and signed by the illustrator. Codice libro della libreria 211

Descrizione libro: 1982. "Thebes" patterned cloth. Numerous illustrations from relief etchings by Claire Van Vliet One of 2,000 numbered copies, signed by the artist. printed at the Stinehour Press in black, orange and brown 4to Fine copy in slipcase. Codice libro della libreria 59

Descrizione libro: 1982. Numerous illustrations from relief etchings by Clare Van Vliet One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the artist 4to Fine copy in slipcase Black, orange and brown. ‘Thebes’ patterned cloth. Codice libro della libreria 2268

Descrizione libro: Ben Abramson, New York, New York, 1946. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Boris Artzybasheff (illustratore). First Thus. Maroon cloth binding, pasted paper labels at spine & front board. Illustrated endpapers, full-page illustrations to text block. Sewn binding. Book very with shadow/browning to one page caused by laid-in article, (coffee?) spots to pp14-15 and front signature spread slightly at gutter. Yellow DJ also very good, with 1/8" chipping at head, heel of spine, foldwear and horizontal mark at center caused by old-style Brodart. Inked date on front flap, unclipped with $2.50 pencilled-in price. 154 pp. Book. Codice libro della libreria 7710

Descrizione libro: Grey Walls Press, London, 1948. Hard Cover. Condizione libro: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Frayed. Fish, Gordon Noel (illustratore). First English Edition. 151pp Illus The circus comes to Abalone, AZ. Codice libro della libreria 29148

Descrizione libro: The Viking Press, ., 1935. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo, red cloth, paper labels. 154pp., 7 plates. First edition of the authors first book. A fine copy in a chipped and soiled dust jacket. Codice libro della libreria 06027

Descrizione libro: ben abramson nyc 1945, 1945. artzybasheff endpapers and illustrations in text. brodart protected dj with somelight soiling and small chips head and foot of spine with $5 on flap red boards with artzybasheff label on front board 154 first thus Book Condition - NF, Jacket Condition - VG+. First Edition. Hardcover. Codice libro della libreria 116543

Descrizione libro: Viking Press, New York, 1935. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good + DJ. First Edition. Bound in bright, beautiful red, with endpapers decorated in drawings of eerie and fascinating statues, this book is a true delight. From the front flap, "the Circus of Dr. Lao is a strange book; no one will say what it means, or if it means anything." The dust jacket is chipped, and there is a chunk missing from the top of the spine; the book spine is bumped. The dust jacket is covered with a Brodart wrapper. A wonderful copy!. Codice libro della libreria 5920

Descrizione libro: London: Grey Walls Press, 1948. 1st Edition. Description: 150 p. Ill. Subjects: Circus performers --Fiction. Depressions --Fiction. Mythology --Fiction. Circus --Fiction. Arizona --Fiction. Form/Genre: Fantasy fiction. Illustrated by G. N. Fish. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge nicked (minorloss to the back panel) and dust dulled dw. Remains, overall, surprisingly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp cornered. Dw mylar sleeve protected. 1 Kg. 150 pp. Codice libro della libreria 8276

Descrizione libro: Grey Walls, 1948. Hardback. very good hardcover copy in a very good dustwrapper 1st edition thus. Wraparound dw by G N Fish. "Still probably the finest American absurdist 'novel.'" "A remarkable work, with many substrata of meaning.". Codice libro della libreria FN10.357P

Descrizione libro: The Limited Editions Club., NY., 1982. Claire Van Vliet (illustratore). FIRST- Limited/Numbered. FINE/FINE. Auburn cloth boards - decorated - in plain clith slipcase, titling on front edge. Printed at the Stinehour Press for the members of The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Quarto. Full cotton cloth with the Thebes pattern designed by Susan Thatcher. Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club laid in. Copy #109 of 2,000, signed by the artist on the limited edition page/rear. po neat gift inscription opposite half title page, date 1989. Large. Media Mail USA delivery only. Please note. [B167]. Signed by Illustrator. Codice libro della libreria 011280