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Editore: Faber & Faber, 1987
Da: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, Regno Unito
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First edition, Edition de Luxe. Large 4to. Number 6 of 10 special copies, from a greater limitation of 100, with an original watercolour on the limitation page and signed by both author and illustrator. In publisher's full tan morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Titling blocked in gilt, all page edges gilt and silk endpapers. This copy with a presentation inscription from the author to Peter Kay, who at the time worked for booksellers and distributors E. Joseph. "Dear Peter - In thanks for many years of good friendship and good books during the golden years of Uncle Sam and DB - "the E. Joseph era" as we would like to remember it - and the hope of more in the future. Affectionately - Leslie. *see page 38". Page 38 is heavily annotated by Bricusse, highlighting one stanza: "*The suppressed - and rather more truthful - original stanza at the foot of the page. LB" and at the foot of the page, "In Wales, I nearly drowned at sea. / A terrorist threw a bomb at me. / An Arab tried to steal my coat. / A Libyan almost slit my throat. / An Indian stole my drinking cup. / The Irish tried to blow me up." The published version removed the nationality references. A fine copy in the original publisher's quarter morocco, fleece lined box. Twelve tipped in colour plates under captioned tissue guards, plus numerous black and white drawings throughout. The frontispiece of Father Christmas on his sleigh does not appear in the trade editions. "This sparkling poem tells how wars, bureaucracy and politics make life more and more difficult for Santa Claus. Leslie Bricusse's witty verses are perfectly matched with Errol Le Cain's delectable illustrations to make a sumptuous picture book" (Blurb) In the story Father Christmas has a very "bad night" on 24th December 1993; the elves have trouble with the new gadgetry, the sleigh gets hijacked and to cap it all he gets a parking ticket in London! Leslie Bricusse is perhaps better known as a songwriter, having composed many songs for films, including "Goldfinger", sung by Shirley Bassey, and "The Candy Man" for "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." The watercolour in this copy is a particularly large and detailed one of Santa perusing a large globe.
Editore: The Viking Press, New York, 1947
Da: Provan Books, Glasgow, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 312 pages, finely rebound in full green morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey & co in 1987, all edges gilt, marbled paper end-papers and inner gilt dentelles, text and binding in fine, clean condition.
Editore: Harper and Brothers, New York, 1884
Da: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
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Full leather. Condizione: Near fine. Signed first edition of The Entailed Hat by George Alfred Townsend, with an inscription to former Ohio Secretary of State William Henry Smith. (illustratore). First Edition. Octavo, x, 565pp. Full red morocco, covers double ruled and embellished with gilt. Five raised bands, title in gilt with decorative compartments. All edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, vibrant marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf of London with binder's imprint to front endpaper. Previous ownership stamp to front flyleaf. Solid text block, occasional touch of foxing throughout. Inscribed by the author on a front flyleaf: "Mr. William Henry Smith / from / Geo. Alfred Townsend / 1884.".
Editore: Richard Bentley, London, 1834
Da: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
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Full leather. Condizione: Near fine. Finely bound and complete in one volume, The Heiress of Bruges by Thomas Colley Grattan. (illustratore). First Edition Thus. Octavo, [8], 530pp. Full brown morocco, title in gilt on spine with five raised bands and gilt compartments. Top edge gilt, ornate gilt turn-ins, and marbled endpapers. Bound by Zaehnsdorf of London with binder's imprint to front endpaper. Solid text block, touch of toning along fore edge, otherwise fine example. Previous ownership stamp to front flyleaf. A beautifully bound piece. First published in 1830 by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley of London, printed in four volumes.
Editore: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1890
Da: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Prima edizione
Hardback. Condizione: Good+, sound copy. Hardback. Half leather fine binding by Zaehnsdorf. Stamped bound by Zaehnsdorf to recto of front endpaper. First edition. Fantasy novel that is an extension of the Odyssey. Half dark maroon leather with maroon toned marbled papers to boards. Gilt ruled to edges of papers. Raised bands to spine. To the spine, gilt titles and 1890 also in gilt. Very pretty gilt decorations in the compartments. Marbled endpapers. Gilt to top edge. Some scuffing the marbled paper boards. Some foxing to closed page edges and to prelims. Leather is in very good condition tot he spine and joints retaining the colour and with bright gilt. Leather is a little worn to the very tips of the corners. Good+, sound copy.
Editore: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., London, 1868
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 336 & 338 pages; 2 volume set bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. Covers with light rubbing and wear.
Editore: The Walpole Press, London, 1899
Da: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First Edition. Grand Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1000 numbered copies printed on Japon for subscribers only (this being #145). In two volumes. lxxxiii, 249pp; 317pp. Blue half calf over cloth, spines with five raised bands lettered and decorated in gold, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The nice bindings are by Zaehnsdorf of London signed on the verso of the front free endpapers. Printed on Japanese vellum and illustrated with nineteen etchings by Francois-Xavier Le Sueur, each in two states. Light fading to spines, mild wear to extremities. A near fine set. ; Octavo.
Editore: Erhard Ratdolt, Venice, 1482
Da: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Two volumes in one. 4to. (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Sixth edition. A-F8. 48 ff. 96 pp. 30 lines per page. Cosmographia: 1-29 ff. De situ orbis: 30-48 ff. Full-page woodcut map of the world on a Ptolemaic cone-shaped projection with architectural border and letterpress text. Woodcut and floriated initials. Rubricated throughout. Gothic letter Latin text. Border of the woodcut map insignificantly shaved. Finely bound in green full morocco by Zaehnsdorf London with binder's ticket, gilt paneled, five raised bands forming six gilt-paneled compartments, gilt-lettered titles in second and third compartments with date in sixth, marbled endpapers, all edges sprinkled red Rare 1482 Ratdolt edition of Mela's incunable "Cosmographia," the first edition of the first Latin work dedicated to geography to include a map of the world. It is only the second woodcut world map printed in Italy. "Mela's concept of the world as published here, ten years before the discovery of the New World, was the most widely accepted cosmography in Europe." [Streeter] The present title is so foundational to our understanding of the modern world that two of the most important book collectors, E. D. Church and Thomas W. Streeter, both listed it first in their collection catalogs. For the map in this edition of Cosmographia by Mela, the earliest known Roman geographer, was the first map to incorporate knowledge from the Portuguese explorations of the West Coast of Africa. This map modified the Ptolemaic rendering of Western Africa, revealing a true Western Africa based on reports of Portugal's success further south, making it current with then-known geographical knowledge. No earlier printed map recognized this important step toward the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope, achieved by Bartolomeu Dias just six years post publication. Campbell suggests that the edition's printer, Ratdolt, may have been the mapmaker, since this and the T-O map from his 1480 edition of Rolewinck are the two earliest woodcut maps printed in Italy. The title of the map "Novellae etati ad geographie vmiculatos calles huma no viro necessarios flores aspirati votu bnmereti ponit" translates as: "If, in a new lease of life, a man seeks to attain the wormlike paths of geography, he is bound to find the flowers that belong there, for he deserves them." The map is rarely present, as Nordenskiöld relates: "The map is generally wanting, but that it really belongs to the work is shown by the watermark corresponding to the watermarks of the text." Published in the same year as Lienhart Holl's Cosmographia, Mela's world map includes additions to the Ptolemaic model. One of the more obvious changes is the addition of Scandinavia, and for the first time, the Orkney Islands off the Northeast coast of Scotland. Mela's map was cited with other early texts, including those by Macrobius, Ptolemy, Pliny, and Aristotle, as part of the reading background of Christopher Columbus, who would sail to the New World just a decade later: "In its consideration of the oceans, this work would not have been particularly useful to Columbus, but in his view of the earth, Mela raised the probablity that the Southern Hemisphere was inhabited, a novel idea for Christian believers in the biblical version of the Creation." [James Ford Bell Library] Mela, born in Spain, lived during the reign of Emperor Claudius around 40 AD. His Cosmographia was circulated in manuscript, and from the present edition, with a map. It was first printed in 1471, and it, as well as the four subsequent editions, were all without maps. Mela's was the "only formal geographical treatise in Classical Latin." [Campbell] The Cosmographia expressed concepts that were similar to those of the leading Greek geographers, yet the map which accompanies this 1482 edition exhibits the then-current school of thought, rather than Mela's own. According to Wilson, the Mela map was the model for Schedel's world map in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) and a Salamanca edition (1498). Within its novel architectural framework, the map is drawn on a conical projection, a modification of the Ptolemaic type. The text, a motto, the legends, and the Latin names of the winds represented by "wind heads" which surround the map are provided in letterpress. The map shows Europe, Asia (including Sri Lanka, which is drawn with a bay shaped like a keyhole), and a large part of Africa. Notable is the depiction of the Nile, with its sources in the so-called "Mountains of the Moon," by Lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza. BMC V 286. Bod-inc M-179. BSB-Ink P-687. Brown 41. Campbell, p.119. Church 1. Essling 274. Goff M-452. GW M34876. Hain 11019. HC 11019*. ISTC im00452000. James Ford Bell Library, "The Manifest." Klebs 675.6. Nordenskiöld, p.36. Oates 1751. Polain 2661. Proctor 4385. Rhodes (Oxford Colleges) 1191. Shirley 8. Stillwell 389. Streeter Sale 1. Suarez, Shedding the Veil 7. Walsh 1809. Wilson 115.
Editore: Rainbow Press, London, 1978
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Frontispiece illustration by Leonard Baskin. Full calf. Fine in fine black cloth publisher's slipcase. Printed letterpress on Italian paper, at the John Roberts Press, bound by Zaehnsdorf. Limited to 200 numbered copies Signed by Ted Hughes.
Editore: The Toulous-Lautrec Circle, 1969
Da: Phil Randles, Dorking, SURRE, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth board cover book with card slip cover. Limited edition : 850 of only 1250 copies with the additional the original certificate. First publication of the Toulouse-Lautrec Circle of London and was issued in November 1969 in an edition limited to 1250 copies for the world. The large book contains 6 of the original lithographs, numbered and stamped. The watermarked paper for the plates was specifically made by Papeteries de Lana of Docelles, France, for the Toulouse-Lautrec Circle as close to the original as possible. Plates and text printed in Great Britain by the Westerham Press . Binding by Zaehnsdorf Limited, London. Slipcase has a couple of marks on the front and what appears to be a child's doodles on the reverse. 41 pp, Size: H 57 x W 44 x D 2.2 cm, 3 Kg.
Editore: Ravelston: Private Libraries Association / Zaehnsdorf Limited, 1986, 1986
Da: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 10" x 6-5/16", limited to 100 numbered and signed copies by the author this being #34, illustrated in B&W and 2 color plates, bound in full light brown morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt center decorations, gilt dentelles, matching gilt doublures of tan morocco, leather endpapers, all edges gilt, housed in the original open ended slipcase, specially bound by Zaehnsdorf, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
Editore: Seton & Mackenzie, Edinburgh, 1871
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Published as a 'souvenir' to commemorate the National Celebration at Edinburgh of the Centenary of the Birth of Sir Walter Scott. Pictorial Illustrations of the Novels of Sir Walter Scott, in order of their publication. By George Cruickshank, and Other Artists of Eminence. With Descriptions, Memoir, Etc. Edited by Charles Rogers. Published by Seton & Mackenzie, Edinburgh. Presumed first edition from 1871 (date from the editor's Prefatory note at the beginning of the book. A good red cloth hardback with gilt heraldic crest to cover and printed embossed decals. Cover bumped and lightly soiled. Slight give in the spine, but all soundly bound. Plain yellow endpapers with some light spotting. Text is bright and clean throughout. With tissue guarded portrait frontispiece. No owner's marks. The steel engraved plates are of high quality. Full gilt edges to text block. Illustrated with photographic plates. Contains frontispiece plate + 27 further sheets of plates (each of those double sided), so 55 full page plates in total, plus some additional illustrations. Text in English. 71pp + Plates. Approximate dimensions: 216mm high x 173mm wide x 20mm deep. Weighs approximately 536g (unpacked). More photos on request.
Leather in slipcase. Condizione: Fine. First Edition; Limited edtion. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages; [SIGNED] 1973 Printed by the Daedalus Press and bound by Zaehnsdorf in full purple morroco leather lettered in gilt at spine. Published in an edition of 160 copies, this copy numbered 27 and signed by Hughes on the colophon and by Baskin in the bottom margin of the frontispiece woodcut. The purple leather is uniformly bright with none of the fading usually encountered at the spine. The binding is tight; the gray cloth covered slipcase is fresh. Superb copy - Fine ; Signed by Author & Illustrator.
Leather in slipcase. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition; Limited edtion. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 63 pages; [SIGNED] 1978 Printed at the John Roberts Press and bound by Zaehnsdorf in full blue/black polished calf leather lettered in gilt at spine. Published in an edition limited to 200 copies, this copy numbered 107 and signed by Hughes on the colophon. Illustrated from an etching by Baskin at front. Leather a trifle touched at spine. Felt lined slipcase solid and fresh. About Fine ; Signed by Author.
Editore: Rainbow Press, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 090337806XISBN 13: 9780903378062
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Leather in slipcase. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition; Limited edtion. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 31 pages; 1971 Printed at the Rampant Lions Press for The Rainbow Press, London. Bound in full brown polished calf lettered and bordered in gilt and housed in the original tan clay cloth covered slipcased. Published in an edition limited to 400 copies, this copy is one of 90 issued in full calf and is numbered 45 on the colophon. Printed by Will and Sebastian Carter on Hodgkinson hand made paper at their Rampant Lions Press and bound by Zaehnsdorf. Facsimile reproduction of Plath's manuscript for Lyonnesse illustrated the lining papers. The original thin mylar dust cover had ballooned at the spine and folded on the flaps, so we have added a heavier clear mylar cover in its place. Very handsome copy. About Fine . Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
Editore: Cassell & Co. Ltd, London, 1948
Da: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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First edition, second issue of the first volume of Churchill's masterpiece, The Second World War with the errata slip tipped into page 610. Octavo, bound in full 20th century crushed levant morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner denelles stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf, marbeld endpapers, all edges gilt, errata slip tipped into page 610. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Winston S. Churchill 1955." Gilt inscription to the spine, "Obsequio de Cesar Guillen Al Sindicato de Periodistas July 1955." In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. "The Gathering Storm," the inaugural volume of Winston Churchill's seminal work, "The Second World War," presents a meticulously researched and analytically rigorous examination of the geopolitical landscape preceding the global conflict. Published in 1948, Churchill, drawing extensively from his tenure as Britain's Prime Minister during the war, navigates the intricate web of political maneuverings, diplomatic failures, and ideological tensions that precipitated the outbreak of hostilities. Through a dispassionate lens, Churchill scrutinizes the shortcomings of leadership and policy that allowed totalitarian ambitions to thrive unchecked, offering incisive commentary on the complexities of international relations. Grounded in historical documentation and personal observations, "The Gathering Storm" serves as a cornerstone in the study of the prelude to World War II, providing invaluable insights into the mechanisms of power, diplomacy, and the human condition amidst a turbulent era of upheaval and uncertainty.
Hardcover in slipcase. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition; Limited edtion. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 29 pages; 1971 Rainbow Press, London. Large quarto HC snugly bound in blue quarter cloth backed spine and patterned japanese paper covered boards. Published in an edition limited to 400 copies; this copy is numbered 252. Very handsomely printed in Centaur type on handmade paper, the book includes also a drawing by Plath reproduced on Japanese paper. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. Housed in the original heavy blue paper covered slipcase. Slipcase has some very mild shelf tapping at extremities. Lovely copy. NF . Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
Editore: London printed for Lockyer Davis in Holborn M.DCC.LXXXI, 1781
Da: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Prima edizione
TITLE CONTINUED: The whole displayed, with every new Improvement, by which this capital and curious Branch of Gardening may be effected with Facility and Success. By John Abercromble; Of Tottenham-Court, Gardener: Author of Mawe s Gardener s Kalendar. FIRST EDITION 1781. 12mo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6¾ x 4 inches, pages: [8], 1-192, bound in full mottled calf by Zaehnsdorf, their name at foot of first blank page, contrasting red and green gilt lettered labels, gilt floral decoration between raised bands to spine, gilt red label, date at foot, double gilt rules to edges of covers, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Rubbing to spine, slight pale age-browning and occasional tiny fox spot. Very good copy in a nice binding. See: Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, before 1800, Volume 3, page 1, No. 381; ESTC T31035. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Editore: J. Nichols, London, 1779
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st English Edition. Hardback, full textured mottled calf, with gilt decorative border to boards, by Zaehnsdorf. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled edges and end-papers. 18cm x 12cm. viii, 140pp. Complete with 2 folding plates. 1st English edition 1779. Slightest wear to binding. A charming gilt decorative leather bookplate of W. A. Foyle to front pastedown. Title page darkened. Very minor spotting and the occasinal marginal annotation/underlining of text, but otherwise generally clean. A handsome copy. (al13).
Editore: Royal Collection Enterprises, London, 2010
Da: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 8 X 8 Inches. 131 PP. Beautiful photographic and written history of the Queen's Doll House. Interestingly includes a list of the maker of each item in the Doll House. The list includes Zaehnsdorf, Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Robert Riviere & Son as bookbinders!.
Editore: Ledger Smith & Co.,London, 1887
Da: Springwell Books, Gloucestershire, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. large 8vo,xi + 368pp.a few very minor signs of age/use,otherwise a very good,clean and bright copy in recent green morocco,unsigned,but in the style of Zaehnsdorf,gilt edges,thick marbled endpapers,inner dentells,large folding map in a rear pocket,postage at cost for overseas orders.
Editore: New York: Scribner and Welford,, 1885
Da: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. First US edition, crown 8vo (7.75 x 8.25 inches), pp. (6), 1-296, 8 engraved portraits after Reynolds and Lawrence. Full polished calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf with pallet signature on verso of the front free endpaper, gilt paneled back in 6 compartments, gilt black calf lettering pieces in the second and fourth, gilt center and corner ornaments in the rest, gilt date at foot, gilt double fillet paneled sides, all edges gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Fine clean copy in fine binding with professional repair to the front joint. Title lettering piece on spine is chipped. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked, complete. No owner names or inscriptions. H10729 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
Editore: Richard Bentley. 1847, 1847
Da: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
FIRST EDITION. 4pp ads. Contemp. full scarlet crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine directly lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles. Orig. faded cloth bound in. t.e.g. v.g. Dickens declined an invitation to edit Mahony's work (see Pilgrim Letters, vol. V), but agreed to endorse it with a brief Notice. The author was an Irish priest who enjoyed a second career as a humorist, writing under the pen name Father Prout.
Editore: Boni & Liveright. New York, 1925
Da: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound in full leather (dark blue) with raised cords, elaborate gold decoration on the turn-ins. The binding is a show-stopper, signed (stamped) on inside front cover 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey & Co.' Handmade marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. A exquisite example of leatherwork of the highest quality. Pencil notation on the first blank page says 'limited to 1335 copies. First American Edition.' Title page dated 1925, as is the copyright page. 214 pages + L'Envoi + 4 black pages at the end. This is the first edition of Hemingway's second book in such good condition that we assumed initially that it must be a facsimile edition, but we cannot find that such a thing exists (nor would Asprey/Zaehnsdorf bother to rebind it if there were). Text block measures 7 1/8 x 5 inches. Boards measure 7 1/2 x 5 1/4. Please email with questions or to request more photos.
Editore: Cassell and Co. 1956-1958, London, 1956
Da: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. This First English edition set is a signed binding by the legendary London-based Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (author of THE ART OF BOOKBINDING) in full cognac-colored oasis leather. The endpapers are marbled and elaborately gilt tooled, all edges are gilded, the spines are gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. The contents are fine and unfoxed, the spines are modestly sunned. The books were very slightly trimmed for binding. A historic piece of work. First English Edition Set (Cohen A267.1[I-IV].a) (Woods A138a). 8vo (440 pages, 350 pages, 352 pages & 346 pages. Illustrated with maps and tables.).
Editore: The Folio Society, London. In association with Modern Library, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group., 2007
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. The Body-Snatcher and Other Stories, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Introduced by Claire Harman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. A very attractive Folio Society edition with beautiful colour illustrations, printed on a high quality, textured paper. Published by The Folio Society, London, 2007. In association with Modern Library, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group. First edition thus. A fine condition black cloth hardback, with block printed cover design with gilt. In near fine condition slipcase - with slight wear and a few minor indentations. The book is beautifully presented, and looks unread. Text is clean, bright and soundly bound. Text in English. xvii + 430pp + 14 Coloured Plates, as called for. Weight approximately 1350g (unpacked). Dimensions: approximately 244mm high x 195mm wide x 50mm deep (in slipcase). Extra postage may be payable for overseas orders. More photos on request.
Editore: Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, Cambridge, first edition, 1977, 1977
Da: Wykeham Books, LONDON, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Quarter-morocco and boards with gilt filet divider, folio, 35 cm xv, 31 pp, 48 plates. 8 in colour. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. A facsimile of an Early Medieval Gospel book of great iconographical interest, with an introductory study by Frances Wormald and an essay by Jonathan Alexander on a group of related manuscripts.The volume is a decorated copy of the four Gospels with canon tables, written in the Breton area in, in Caroline minuscule, in the late 9th or early 10th century. In a contemporary review, Carl Nordenfalk wrote: " The [paper] by Alexander is the first comprehensive treatment of the Breton schools and contains a great many fine remarks concerning their dependence on Carolingian prototypes. And Wormald shows that three different sources must be assumed for the illuminations of the Bradfer-Lawrence manuscript: Tours for the ornaments, and excellent Early Christian model for some of the figurative scenes, and some acquaintance with Insular Gospel books, less in style than in the lay-out. . I would not like to end this review without a special word of praise for the high standard of printing upheld in this, as in previous volumes of the Roxburghe Club. the superb quality of the paper makes it a pleasure to turn the leaves. As to the binding, it is of the same fine workmanship as its content. In these days, when so much has changed for the worse, the Roxburghe Club publications have remained what they always were: perfect exponents of British feeling for quality.". Two spots to front board and one small mark to rear board, front endpapers cracked at hinge, otherwise Very Good.
Editore: James Nichol, London, 1855
Da: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. contemporary full red leather hardcover by Zaehnsdorf with their stamp, spine with five raised bands and very heavily decorated in gilt, original black leather spine label lettered in gilt, cover borders ruled in gilt, board edges decorated in gilt, 254 pages, contemporary names with nice inscription relating to Eton to flyleaf, minor rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.
Editore: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1854
Da: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
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Full leather. Condizione: Fine. First edition, first issue of Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau, bound by Zaehnsdorf of London. (illustratore). First Edition, First Issue. Octavo, 357pp, [3], [8pp], [1]. Full black morocco. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine. Touch of sunning to spine. Top edge gilt with gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Bound by Zaehnsdorf of London for A.C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, with imprint on second endpaper. Solid text block, free of foxing or notations. Includes map of Walden Pond inserted after Page 306, with S.W. Chander & Bro. imprint along bottom edge. Eight pages of publisher's advertisements at rear of volume, dated "April, 1854" with no priority stated in BAL. Original cloth covers and spine bound in at rear. (BAL 20106) (Borst A2.1.a) (Grolier American 63). This American classic is scarce seen in its first edition form. The publisher, Ticknor and Fields, only published 2,000 copies for the initial run.
Editore: The Arcadia Press, London, 1969
Da: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
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Leather bound. Condizione: Near fine. Signed limited edition of Wines of the World, edited by André L. Simon, bound by Zaehnsdorf of London for The Arcadia Press. (illustratore). Limited Edition. Quarto, 719pp, [5]. Full red morocco, gilt grape motif on front cover with blue and green leaf onlays. Title stamped in gilt on spine with raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, decorative gilt turn-ins with vine pattern. Archival reinforcement to rear hinge, solid text block. Complete with 60 full-page color plates and 21 maps. From a limited edition of 265 copies signed by the author and bound by Zaehnsdorf for The Arcadia Press, this is number 195. A beautiful work. André Simon (1877-1970) was a French wine merchant and an author of numerous books about wine. Shortly after the publication of this book, Simon died, leaving only two magnums of wine in his personal cellar. It was his belief that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar." On what would have been Simon's 100th birthday in 1977, 400 guests assembled at the Savoy Hotel in London to drink the Château Latour 1945 that he left for the occasion.