illustrations trugo (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages; 1931 Harper & Brothers. HC 1st edition. Brick red cloth lettered in black to spine and cover with a small pictorial portrait to lower corner of cover board. Light rub and superficial fray to cloth at tips and spine ends. A somewhat heavy bump to the front edge of the cover board has nicked the cloth 1/3" and left a tiny tear to the margin of the first 15 or so pages. Still solidly readable and reasonably attractive. Pictorial endpage, color frontis and in text head piece illustrations by Trugo. G+.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First American Edition. Xvi, 376; Viii, 349 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt, Top Edges Red. First Printing, #12 Of A Limited Edition Of 600 Volumes For Publication In England, Of 12000 Numbered Volumes Altogether. A Very Near Fine Set, Two Volumes Lacking The Slipcase, But Knowledgeable Pencil Marginalia And Underlining, And With Pencil Notes At Ends, Often Referencing Actual Records; Gilt Brilliant, Hinge Of Vol. I Broken Between Tow Front Blank Endpapers. Spurious But Not Inconsistent With The Reality Of Seventeenth Century Life, A Book About Governors Which Is Essentially A Series Of Sexual Escapades, With Not The Slightest Concern With Their Responsibilities.