illustrations gustavus widney (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First American edition. 322pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and a sea-green ink stamped floral design on the front board. The spine and boards are subtly edgeworn. Text block nice and square. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. In Day. A novel which includes the discovery of an ancient Egyptian "mind-food" that changes personality, and causes absolute understanding and truth.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Widney, Gustavus C. - 6 illustrations (illustratore). First Edition. vi + 322 pp + ii pp adverts, previous owner's book plate on fr pastedown, used bookstore stamp-sticker inside rear pastedown, 'published, August, 1913' on verso, XXX ii titled chapters, list of 6 unpaginated b&w illustrations, 5.5" x 7.8" dark blue cloth boards, in glassine wrapper. Binding tight with very slight forward lean, pages clean, unmarked and paper well-preserved, cover cloth with a couple of nicks along the bottom edge, gilt spine letters faded, Size: Small Octavo. Book.

18x12cm. First UK edition. Three short stories - Just Like a Cat, The Three Hundred, Fleas Will Be Fleas - featuring Mike Flannery, the bureaucratic Westcote stationmaster and agent of the Interurban Express Company (in the United States). pp(8)101(3) with four monochrome plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece. Original pale green cloth, front cover titled & illustrated in black mainly against black-bordered cream background. Backstrip and inner & lower edges of covers a little sunned. No dust jacket. Edges of text-block toned, pastedown sides of flyleaves at both front and rear patchily so. Owner's name on front flyleaf. GOOD copy.