newly collected (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustratore). Yellow hardcover binding with bright yellow cloth spine has line drawing of girl and boy reading a book on front cover. Binding has light soiling, bumped corner and yellowing pages, but overall clean and tight. 96 pages. Author was a Lutheran professor and pastor at Concordia Seminary in St.Louis, MO - born in Watertown, WI in 1876 - died 1950. Stories include The Twelve Merchants, How Mike Found a Christmas, Through the Dark Woods, Clem's Independence Day, Sealed Bids, A Pair of Mittens and many more - each only a few pages long. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall Language: ENG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustratore). Yellow hardcover binding with bright yellow cloth spine has line drawing of girl and boy reading a book on front cover. Binding has light soiling, bumped corner and yellowing pages, but overall clean and tight. 96 pages. Author was a Lutheran professor and pastor at Concordia Seminary in St.Louis, MO - born in Watertown, WI in 1876 - died 1950. Stories include The Twelve Merchants, How Mike Found a Christmas, Through the Dark Woods, Clem's Independence Day, Sealed Bids, A Pair of Mittens and many more - each only a few pages long. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall Language: ENG.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG- (Very Good Minus). No Jacket. Pauline Baynes (illustratore). From the collection of Henry and Nina Cornell (nee Bayard), descendants of Ezra Cornell, Peter Stuyvesant, and the prominent Bayard family of Pittsburgh, PA. Quarter black cloth and colorful speckled paper over boards, with silver gilt lettering and decoration. Light toning and soil; spine lightly sunned and cocked; lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Red topstain to text block. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned. B/w illustrations. Brief gift inscription to "Lucy Bayard" to half-title page. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 240 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. The Hakluyt Society Second Series: No. CXXXIII. A nice three volume set with only light wear, including sunning of dust jacket spines. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Wrapper. Published 1898 very good hardback, browning and foxing to page edges and endpapers. 479 pages with index. Tissue-Guarded Frontispiece.

3 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt ship motif & blue rule to front boards, frontispiece to vol 1 only, mixed pagination, folding map to vol 2, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to extrems & board edges, light fading to spine of vol 2, light tanning & occasional folding to page edges/corners) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & staining to spines & edges, varying degrees of loss to spine- archival tape repairs to vol 2 spine).

Boards. Collected and newly translated by M. Aurousseau (illustratore). 1st edition thus. 3 volumes 8vo, blue cloth boards with gilt decoration, pp xvi, 423; vi, 425-819; vi, 821-1175. Maps plus a folding map to volume II. Vol I published 1967, vols II and III 1968. Vol III lacks dustwrapper. Dustwrappers slightly chipped, two closed tears have been repaired internally. Very good in good dustjackets. Ludwig Leichhardt is chiefly known as the most important of the scientific explorers of Australia. His lively but detailed letters provide a narrative of his life from student days in the mid-1830s until 1848 when he disappeared in the Australian interior.

Morocco. Condizione: Near Fine. New Edition. New Edition, containing prefaces to First and Second Editions, xliii, 255 pp, with six full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Master Tyll Owlglass is the Anglicized name for the German jokester Till Eulenspiegel. Finely bound in lovely Art Deco brown morocco with vertical sets of double gilt rules, five raised bands with gilt lettering, decorative end pages, all edges gilt, wide inner dentelles with double gilt rules. Likely an early 20th c. California binding. Bearing the small leather bookplate of Alfred Sutro, General Counsel of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company of which organization he had been a director since 1940, and noted bibliophile whose leadership as President of the Book Club of California was indtrumental in its growth. Near Fine, original cloth covers bound in front and rear, moderate toning to end pages and first few pages, two small rubs to morocco at rear joint, prior owner name half-title page.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Very good 3 volume hardback set. No dustjackets. Volume I: xv, 423pp; Volume II: v, 424 - 819pp; Volume III: v, 820 - 1175pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK RED LEATHER, MCM111 or January 1903, 1st Limited Edition of 30. VG-. AS-IS, Scuff & rub to Spine edges, WITH OVER 50 FULL PAGE Illustrations, SAME 3 FRONTISPIECES WITH TISSUE GUARD THE RAVEN FROM ORIGINAL DRAWING ALBERT EDWARD STERNER, Preface to POEMS, MARBLELIZED red white Endpapers, Inner Hinges Starting Slightly, INTRODUCTION TO POEMS LITE RUB & WEAR, RED LEATHER SPINE CVR & TIPS OF COVER WITH BEIGE MARBLELIZING & GOLD GILT TRIM ON FRONT TINY EDGE RUB, RAISED BANDS ON RED LEATHER SPINE CVR WITH GOLD GILT , VOL X OR 10 ONLY, POEMS , PART OF SET OF 10 VOLS. FRONTISPIECE BY ALBERT EDWARD STERNER, Here is a very interesting and hard to find copy of "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe" Volume X ONLY, ,End of Book Bibliography, GENERAL INDEX ETC, 314 PGS, & HERE ENDS THE FIRST Complete & TRUE EDITION OF WORKS OF Edgar Allan Poe. GOLD GILT TO OUTER PGS TOP EDGE, gold floral decorations to spine CVR. MANUSCRIPT EDITION Printed on Hand-Maded Japan Vellum, PRINTED AT R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 314 PGS, Raised bands on spine cvr WITH GOLD GILT.