Edgar w bill nye (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. good in pictoral cloth with gilt titling (general soiling and wear to red cloth, staining to spine bottom from damp) Sm 8vo [14]+272+plts Includes 21 illustrations by Louis Bra unhold, plus facsimile of Nye's holograph introduction. BAL #15166. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. b/w plates by Braunhold (illustratore). Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Good Plus to better with edge and corner wear and bumps. Spine end frays and wear. Colors and gilt are bright. Both hinges cracked. Interior is unmarked with clean off white pages.

Condizione: Good condition/No Dustjacket. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good condition/No Dustjacket. (1896). 8vo., 272 pp . B&W Ill. by Louis Braunhold (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus to Very Good. First Edition. Bill Nye, one of the preminent American humorists of the 19th century, was a lawyer and journalist, who became nationally known after he founded the "Laramie Boomerang" in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1881. Today, Nye would rank with humorists such as Art Buchwald, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor to name a few. "Remarks" is 504 pages of short, one or two-page essays or newspaper columns on all manner of subjects seen from Nye's sardonic perspective, interspersed with over 150 illustrations by J.H. Smith. First Edition, Later Printing. 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 inchese. Blue cloth boards with black and gold lettering and black and gold pictorial design on front cover. Boards show some minor rubbing and shelf wear but hinges are intact, corners unbumped. Front interior hinge cracked and beginning to loosen, rear interior hinge cracked, still tight. Text block binding intact and tight. Text block edges somewhat soiled, pages age-tanned but clean and uncreased. Overall, a very decent copy and excellent example of Nye's brand of wit and humor.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G+/none, used hc, 504pp. Gilt decorated green cloth over boards with black and gilt text on upper and gilt text on spine; edge wear; frayed tips; shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Decorative end papers. Interior pages clean, unmarked; age-toned. Binding is tight. Illustrated by J. H. Smith (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small, thick quarto in pictorial dark green cloth binding with black & gilt lettering & decoration. B&W illustrations. Condition: small, minor old damp-stain to bottom of spine & bottom corner of front cover; mild rubbing to binding; else very good. 504 pages.…

The two items are in good condition, lightly aged, and both folded for postage. Both 1p, 12mo. ONE (evidently to Grant Reid, editor of the Northern Figaro, Aberdeen): Signed 'E. W. Nye'. Recipient not named. 'My dear Sir / Your favor of the 9- asking for a photograph to be used in your admirable publication is just received. / I have none that are at all suitable for your purpose but in Regent street at Mr Van der Weyde's studio I am quite sure you can get a very good one and I enclose an order for it, hoping you may get it without delay, fir I would be proud to figure among the artistic portraits done so well as the Figaro does them.' TWO (to Henry Van der Weyde): Signed 'Bill Nye'. Addressed to 'My Dear Mr Van Der Weyde' and reading: 'Will you kindly supply Mr Grant Reid with one of those masterly Dutch Reformed Photographs of mine and make me yet more your debtor and obdient servant / Bill Nye'.…