henry collins editor brown (52 risultati)

Hardcover. Clean pages, solid binding, prior owner book plate to blank space, bumping to corners and spine top of cloth boards Clean pages, solid binding, prio.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good - Cash. No Jacket. First Edition. Founders edition. Light blue buckram hardboards, dark blue lined borders, lettering, symbol on face. Soiled covers, yellowing spine, heavy rubbing to spine ends and corners, fraying. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Cloth. Condizione: G. No Jacket. None Stated. 256 pp, color frontis and brown and white tone illustrations, the book and contents are clean and solid, there is very light soil, the covers are solid and have some wear on extremeties, the rear cover has some rubbing also, a very solid and usable book.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. ----------Blue cloth with darker blue lettering, book is 7 1/2" tall. 256 pages, with many historic photos.VERY GOOD CONDITION, with light edgewear cover-- no dust jacket.

Cloth. Condizione: G/No Dustjacket. Color, Black & White Illus. (illustratore). New York, NY: Valentine's Manual, Inc. G/No Dustjacket. 1927. . Cloth. 12mo., 394 pp., bumped, illustrations pasted to endpapers, page toning .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Tight binding with repaired hinge crack, clean interior. Blue boards with bright gold lettering; moderately heavy wear to corners, light scuffs, spine fabric darkened slightly. Interior is unmarked, page edges lightly age-toned. Hinge-crack on title page Color frontispiece with tissue present, b/w photos and drawings throughout. 422 pages.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 392 pages. Gilt top edge. Corners and edges of backstrip very lightly rubbed. Backstrip lightly soiled. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Color, Black & White Illus. (illustratore). New York, NY: Valentine's Manual, Inc. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1927. . Hardcover. 12mo., 394 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, hinges cracked, weak, writing on endpaper, page toning .

12 mo. blue and faded gilt cloth covered boards, hard cover; 366 pages; color and black & white photographic illustrations; faded and edgeworn covers, internally a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Assumed First Edition. A nice, clean, tight, bright copy. The book shows only minor rubs at corners and spine ends. The Dust jacket is complete except for a 1" trapazoid chip upper right front, chips at spine ends and a short tear center front bottom edge. Quite preserved in new mylar covering. The DJ has titles on front and spine that state; "New York in the Seventies and other sketches, Eight beautiful colored plates, Sixty rare views, prints, etc." 412 pp + and index through page 448. A large fold out of "Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge South, as it appeared in 1876" (at the top) and "Same View 1917" below. 15" tall and 29" wide unfolded. Another, colored, fold out of "Peter Stuyvesant's Army Entering New Amsterdam". An interesting collection of facts and information. Photos are all sepia. The color plates have tissue guards.

Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (US history, NYC, new york) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Original Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Ink ownership notation on front flyleaf.

Full-Leather. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Index, illustrated. Burgundy leather over boards with gilt decoration and titles. raised bands on spine, gilt top edge, marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to leather at edges, a few closed tears to pages in illustration list section, otherwise a clean, bright, tight copy with all color and black and white plates, and inserted fold-out illustrations present. 271 p. Book.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 404pp Index Many illus, some full-page color. High quality paper has resulted in unusually clear detailed illus. and delicacy to the color prints, some of which include facing pages. A look at the past with warmth and a good memory. A prev. owner has left his name on the fep with the date Feb. 1926. Gilt on cover and backstrip (which is slightly faded). (Loc G187/1).

Cloth. Condizione: G/No Dustjacket. Black & White/Color Plates (illustratore). New York, NY: Valentine's Manual, Inc. G/No Dustjacket. 1925. . Cloth. Gilt design Tpage . 12mo., 392 pp., cover rubbed, corners frayed, writing on ffe, ink stamp inside front cover .

Cloth. Condizione: G/No Dustjacket. Color, Black & White Illus. (illustratore). New York, NY: Valentine's Manual, Inc. G/No Dustjacket. 1922. . Cloth. 12mo., 325 pp., spine faded, ink stamp inside cover .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Bound in 3/4 morocco over blue boards. Shelf wear. Top edge gilt. Marbled end pages. 420 pages. Illustrations, fold out plates. In 1841 David Valentine began publishing an annual compilation of New York with historical information to show the citizenry the progress the city made each year. It was published under the title, Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, a compendium of historical materials with illustrations, but it became known as Valentine's Manual. It included maps, lithographs and woodcuts, and contained many statistical tables, lists of social institutions, banks, schools, churches etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. GIFT QUALITY as pictured First edition Very good condition hard cover nice dust jacket gently read clean, 366 pages, illustated throughtvith black photos, color prints of Manhattan history , owner name.

First edition, this being No.10, Volume 1, the special tenth year anniversary issue. With a beautiful and elaborate colour illuminated title-page with gilt, colour frontispiece, five double-page colourplates and countless illustrations both throughout the text and on sepia printed plates. 8vo, publisher's original cloth, gilt decorated and lettered on the upper cover and spine. xix, 404pp. Internally very fine, the original cloth has no real wear or fading but the gilt of the spine is flaked, the text-block, plates and illustrations are all in excellent condition. A Mead family copy with their bookplate. FIRST EDITION OF THE SPECIAL 10TH BIRTHDAY EDITION, SCARCE IN NICE CONDITION. This issue differed from the usual format of collecting varied articles on this city and instead presented a special issue THE LAST FIFTY YEARS OF NEW YORK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth with the seal of New York City in gold on front board. Top edge gilt. 404 pages. Signed presentation copy by Henry Collins Brown [editor] to George Carroll, dated Jan. 12, 26 on front end-paper. Illustrated with over 150 drawings, engravings and photographs, including a color frontispiece and 5 full color double page plates. First edition. Gilt blocking and lettering on spine completely faded. Cloth covers show minor age wear and soiling and are slightly shaken. Else hinges are strong and not cracked. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. A nice presentation copy in good or better condition. By Editor.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. New York: Valentine's Manual, 1920. Volume V, 1921. Well-illustrated volume of New York City history, including numerous color plates, including one (of two - one is missing) folding plates, plus black and white plates. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and decoration, 271 pages. Spine faded, some spotting to front cover, typical edgewear, good hinges, sound text block, the second foldout absent, first foldout with some minor closed tears along fold lines, clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Not Issued. 1st Edition. Limited edition, bound in dark green 1/2 leather, green cloth covered boards, 5 raised bands; spine panel lettered in gilt, top text block edge in gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbed corners with mild exposure and rubbed joints. Firm binding. 404 pp., illus. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. THREE QUARTER BLACK LEATHER OVER BLUE CLOTH. OCTAVO. BRGHT CLEAN CLEAR GOLD GILT LETTERING AND FIVE RAISED BANDS ON THE SPINE, MARBLED ENDPAGES, GOLD GILT TOP EDGE. SOME EDGE WEAR, AN ATTRACTIVE CLEAN STRONG TIGHT COPY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Not Issued. First Edition. Hardcover, rebound in full dark blue leather with raised spine lettered in gold and the great seal of NYC embossed in gold on front board. Presentation binding with original owner's name stamped on lower front board and his book-plate inside front cover. Containing numerous illustrations in color and black and white. Volume IX in the [new] annual series, signed by editior Brown on blank prelim. First edition. Some rubing to extremities, with front board detached. Still an attractive good or better copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hard cover. Condizione: Very Good. No jacket. New York:Valentine's Manual Inc. (1925). 404pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Blue covers decorated with gilt titles are lightly soiled/faded; otherwise a very good, clean and bright copy, inside and out. No previous owners marks or signatures; hinges still intact; bottom edge points very lightly bumped and top points still sharp; page edges lightly  soiled; top edges gilt.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. HENRY COLLINS BROWN (editor). Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1926, New York: Chauncey Holt, 1925. 12mo, No. 9 of the New Series, pp. xix, 386, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine, gilt seal on front, top edge gilt, gravures, lithographs. Brown's version of the D.T. Valentine manuals of the previous century, with the addition of photography where Valentine confined his illustration to lithography. Condition of this book: Very good with dust marks at bottom edge, gilt flaking from covers; a tight, solid copy.

Original Cloth. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. 1st Edition. Blue boards. Vol.1 (1916-7) (256 pages) gilt top edge, spine ends and corners bumped and worn, lightly soiled, spine faded. Frontispiece present. Front hinge cracked. Company stamp on front paste-down. Vol.2 (1917-1918) (448 pages) Frontispiece present. Spine ends and corners bumped and worn, lightly soiled, spine faded and canted. Fold-out picture between pages 363-364 present. Rear hinge cracked. Gift inscription on ffep. Vol. 3 (1927) (392 pages) Spine ends and corners bumped and worn, soiled, spine faded and canted. Both hinges cracked, water damage on top edges. Frontispiece missing. No Signatures.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 404 pages, with black and white photographs throughout. Blue cloth covers with dark blue titles, top and base of spine, corners are lightly bumped, light scuffing, edges of text and endpapers are lightly yellowed, Very Good. White dust jacket with black and red titles, edges are worn with small tears and chips missing all over, larger chips missing from top and base edges of rear cover, spine is faded, Fair. Book.

Half-Leather. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited edition in black 1/2 leather, blue cloth covered boards, 5 raised bands; spine panel lettered in gilt, top text block edge in gilt, marbled endpapers. Mere hints of shelf wear, virtually as issued, an essentially unimprovable copy. Firm binding, clean interior. xix,392 pp., illus. w/ sepia-tone plates. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Book.