shepp james and daniel (15 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. severe spinal sepeartion on front cover noticeable wear and creasing pages yellowed.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. decorative cloth cover shows minor wear, tear, and rubbing. pages tanned with a few minor spots. profusely illustrated.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Hardback, fading, edge wear to exterior; decorative front board; more than 500 black and white full page photos from throughout the world as it was in 1890.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Attractive book of photographs of New York City. Bound with red leather and dark green cloth with one cover done in half leather and the other done with full heavily embossed leather. Title gilt on both covers. Edges on both covers worn. Spine also worn. Some discoloration on the back cover not impacting the pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Globe Bible Publishing Co., 1893, 1st Edition. Oblong format. NOT exLib. VG cond. hardcover, no dj. Blue cloth over bds w/ muted blue & gilt dec & lettering on cover & spine. Lt-mdt exterior soiling & wear. Flowered eps. Hinges w/ blue reinforcement tape remain sound, textblock binding sound. Minor brown spot on title page, o/w book is complete, intact & unmarked. Full page b&w photo illustrations on every alternate page. 529pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG used cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Chicago and Philadelphia: Globe Bible Publishing Co., 1892. 1892 edition. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Oblong format, pictorial burgundy cloth printed in black and gold, 523 pages. Covers rubbed with some shelf soil, additional wear to corners and spine ends, good hinges, text block sound but not tight (no loosened pages), blanks at beginning and end lightly foxed, pages clean, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Good. Oblong 4to.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good. +Book has wear and tear to all edges, soiling to the boards, stiffening of the endpages perhaps due to soiling or age. Minor tears/holes at or near the spine. tears to the corners. Scuffs and scratches to the boards. At one point the page edges were marbled but that has mostly faded. Pages show soili Lovely collection of photgraphs from around the world at that time. GOOD.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 582 pages, 23 X 28 cm. A wonderful copy of this interesting book. This copy has been elegantly rebound with the original cover laid down over a new spine. The original front cover gilt mostly worn away.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oblong blue embossed clot, rubbing to cover and spine. Internally about fine. Illustrated with about three hundred half-tone plates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. James W. Shepp and Daniel B. Shepp (illustratore). Pp. [4], 5-528. Laden with full-page black & white photographs of the 1893 Columbian Exposition by James W. and Daniel B. Shepp. Decorated endpapers. Bound in blue cloth with lettering and flourishes stamped in blind and gilt on spine and front cover. Stains to front cover; wear to extremities of cloth; hinges reinforced with library tape (please see photo). In sum, a sturdy, presentable copy of one of the more luxe view books of the noted fair.The Columbian Exposition was a significant advancement in a multitude of ways, its detractors were there at the get-go. Despite its influence on the development of the City Beautiful movement, Frank Lloyd Wright was immediately critical: "By this overwhelming rise of grandomania I was confirmed in my fear that a native architecture would be set back at least fifty years."Enthusiasm for the fair has not abated, as the popularity of The Devil in the White City attests. Now protected with a removable, clear archival jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS DECORATIVE GREEN CLOTH. ORIGINAL GREEN FLORAL ENDPAPERS ARE PRESENT.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oblong full leather with gilt titles; wear to the head and heal of the spine; internally about fine. Front cover separated from, but with, volume. Illustrated with about three hundred half-tone plates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oblong full leather with gilt titles ware to the spine and to the extremities internally about fine. Illustrated with about three hundred half-tone plates.

Condizione: Very Good. GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING PHILADELPHIA: 1894 Binding: Hardcover ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS DECORATIVE GREEN CLOTH WHICH IS FADED AND RUBBED. MAJOR TEAR ON TITLE PAGE , WHICH IS LOOSE FROM BINDING AND BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF THE PREVIOUS OWNER IN IT'S UPPER MARGIN.ORIGINAL GREEN FLORAL ENDPAPERS ARE PRESENT THOUGH FRAYED. SEVERAL PAGES ARE LOOSE IN THE BINDING , THOUGH THE TEXT BLOCK IS OTHERWISE INTACT AND DOES NOT SHOW GREAT EVIDENCE OF WEAR OTHER THAN THE OCCASIONAL MARGAIN SMUDGE .SOLID GOOD COPY , WHICH DESERVES A TRIP TO THE BOOKBINDERS FOR A TIGHTEN UP. FASCINATING CONTENT INCLUSIVE OF ARCHITECTURAL AND SOCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY , AS WELL AS ACCOUNTS OF ALL STRATA OF LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY LATE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.529 PAGES OF TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS.