geofroy george (9 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: VG. Andre Castaigne (illustratore). 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 3 drawings, including 1 full-page plate, and a photographic portrait of A. Santos - Dumont, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXVIII, No. 5, September, 1904. Illustrations include Santos - Dumont leaving his station at St. Cloud for a voyage in his airship, and a drawing of a reception of the Aero Club at the Automobile Club, Place De La Concorde, Paris. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good. Sept, 1904, pp. 713-720, Photos, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Condizione: Acceptable.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Cover lamination is beginning to peel on bottom of front cover and bottom corner of rear cover, otherwise covers in very good condition. Small price sticker on front cover at top corner. Some foxing and rubbing to inside covers. Binding tight and text clean.

Other Binding. Condizione: New. 1st edition. New digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc) of the 1529 first edition of this classic of esotericism and design, as well as the celebrated 1927 English translation designed by Bruce Rogers and published by the Grolier Club. Geofroy Tory's Champ fleury belongs to that select class of works that continue to enlighten nearly five centuries after publication. Ostensibly a formal treatise on letters and letterforms, Tory's beautifully illustrated book contains, like the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, tantalizing hints of a larger and more comprehensive meaning and purpose to its enigmatic text and illustrations. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images of magnificent copies of the two editions from the Library of Congress (may be magnified at up to 200% of original size) as well as a new introduction by typography expert Kay Amert and detailed bibliographical information. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover; folio (22.5 x 32 cm); 208 pages. Reprint of 1927 edition. Two tone grey cloth hardcovers with gilt on spine. Deckled edges. Rubbed edges of spine and corners. Crisp, bright, and clean pages. Some pages bumped at bottom corner. Many excellent figures. VG/--. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good. First Edition, Limited. First edition thus, limited hardcover backed in parchment with decorative paper sides, 1/390 copies but lacking the slipcase, the book has bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, sunning to the spine, rubbing to the covers with scraping at the tail, a plate to the front paste down, and a few small stray marks and spots to the end pages. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Near Very Good copy in a like dust jacket, which has losses and tears at the spine ends and corners, wear with short tears along the hinges with splitting starting to the hinge ends, wear with short creased tears to the edges, sunning to the spine, and rubbing with small smudges to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available by request.

Limited Edition. One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Quarto (32cm); quarter vellum over yellow pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; xxiii,208,[4]pp; illus. Lightly spine-tanned, with marginal soil to p.111; Near Fine. Dustwrapper has sticker residue and 1.5" triangular tear to spine panel, 2" front upper spine fold, and creases and tears to extremities; Good. In publisher's slipcase lacking upper board edge, with hinge crack to lower board; Good. Troy's Champfleury focuses on French language, including the alphabet and grammar, with illustrations throughout. [85102].