George gibbs frontis (3 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd printing; stapled wraps; 32 clean, unmarked pages. Frontis (illustratore).

SECOND IMPRESSION, octavo, dusty pink buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & colour plate to front board, deckled page fore-edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, vi + 365pp + publisher's ads to rear, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine extrems & front board, moderate soiling to spine & boards, minor bruising & scuffing to board corners, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, presentation plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing sporadically throughout, spine cocked with binding a little exposed at front pastedown, gutters are otherwise reasonably sound except a little foxing, 1cm tear to base of rear gutter). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. early printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 323 pages; 1939 Grosset & Dunlap. Early reprint edition, apparently the first Grosset & Dunlap issue, published the same year as the Stokes 1st American edition and printed from the original Stokes plates. In the uncommon original Grosset & Dunlap pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in green to spine and cover. Superficial faint mottling to cloth boards; light soiling to deckled fore edge. Usual mild offsetting at the endpaper hinges characteristic of books printed in the late 1930s. Original pictorial DJ with two dime-sized chips at the crown of the spine panel, along with moderate edge wear, nicks and short closed tears. Jacket verso shows extensive irregular staining and soiling from an old exposure event, with some staining visible through to the rear panel; front panel and spine remain comparatively bright and attractive. A very uncommon dust-jacketed example of the original 1939 Grosset & Dunlap reprint. VG-/G+.…