devils abc (5 risultati)

Condizione: Fine in near fine jacket. Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. Uncommon first edition of Asch's devilish illustrated alphabet book. 8 x 5.5''. Original pictorial periwinkle cloth. In original unclipped ($6.95) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout. Unpaginated. Cloth lightly sunned at spine, offsetting to endpapers. Minor edgewear to jacket with a few tiny closed tears.

Hb. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. Blue cloth on boards with black title & illustration; light sprinkling of foxing. Eps: light foxing to edges. Clean contents. Colour illustrations. Binding is As New. No page numbers. Dj: clean jacket. Spine : head with thin wear & chips; foot with 3 cm split. Rear flap spine foot with 5cm split. Couple of teeny chips to top-edge.

"B" Format Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 408pp incl index. First published 2009. Pages lightly age-tanned. V/light edge-wear. Spine is uncreased. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. New York: The Profile Press, 1946. Unpaginated. Plain card covers with paper jacket printed in black, red, blue, and yellow. This is the third of a series of keepsake booklets produced by Profile Press, and the first to be made available for sale due to the positive reception of the first two booklets. Some soiling to spine and rear panel of jacket, with a small 5 x 20 mm chip to tail of rear panel and a short 11 mm closed tear to head of panel. Some rubbing to extremities of jacket. Some light age toning throughout. Binding sound. A exceptionally scarce publication from the Profile Press. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. The front cover of this booklet states " This is the third of a series of keepsake booklets prepared by the Profile Press for its friends and customers. The reception the first two volumes met with induced us to set aside a limited number of copies of this edition for general sale, priced at $1.50.". This third booklet is noted as "being a selection of twenty-six epigrams from ambrose bierce's famous book: the devil's dictionary". A very interesting and rare volume.