Description:
VG Kate Greenaway illus Adam and Charles Black London 1905 1st hardcover 8vo, 301 pages + ads, many color and b+w illustrations, index, decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Decorated cloth covers with gilt titling. The life and work of Greenaway including a list of books etc. illustrated wholly or in part by her. Spine and extremities sunned; spine titling strong. Light random foxing. Faint short gift inscription on half title page. Solid and clean.
Baby Birds & Beasts by Clarke, Pauline - Sept. 1915
by Clarke, Pauline
Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
Baby Birds & Beasts
by Clarke, Pauline
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
New York: Frederick A. Stokes. NF/NONE. Sept. 1915. 1st Edition. Hardcover; 1st Printing. 1st edition/1st printing. 1st printing, from September, 1915. Beautifully illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates, one of which is the frontispiec e illustration with intact tissue guard, and 8 B&W drawings. Bound with a plain dark red cloth spine and paper covered boards, with a duplicate of one of the tipped-in color plates (the pheasant) used in the book also mounted on the front board, with both front and back boards decorated with text, borders and, on the back board, a negative image of the text illustration of a mother opposum carrying her young on her back. Text paper is light beige heavy card stock. The book is straight, clean, tight and has no previous owner handwriting in it. The corners of the binding are slightly rubbed, there's a narrow, short (maybe 1/2" long) ink mark to front board, a trace of rubbing to the very edges of the pasted on front board illustration, and a small, faint reddish stain to the lower front board near the spine. Otherwise, condition is excellent, and no damage or wear at all to the illustrations or text. Truly lovely plates and illustrations in an excellent condition book. ; Color Illustrations; 11" x 8-3/4"; 108 + bib. pages .
-
Bookseller
Independent bookstores
(US)
- Illustrator E. Yarrow Jones & R. B. Brook-Greaves
- Format/Binding Hardcover; 1st Printing
- Book Condition Used - NF/NONE
- Edition 1st Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published Sept. 1915
- Keywords Color Plates, Illustrated, Baby Animals, Baby Birds, Nature, Wild Animals, Wildlife, Natural History
We have 2 copies available starting at NZ$68.93.
More Photos
Kate Greenaway
by Spielmann, M.H. And G.S. Layard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Kingston, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$341.21
Show Details
Item Price
NZ$341.21
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
by BROWNING. ROBERT.; Butler-Stoney. T. Illustrates
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$266.99
Show Details
Description:
Nister & Co.Ltd.,Circa 1906. FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS. Oblong Large 12mo. (10.8 x 8.3 inches). 12 fine colour plates. A lovely copy in publishers glazed boards. The front board in full colour. Green cloth spine. In the rare original dustwrapper which is split along the spine and in two pieces, held together by a wrapper protector. Thumb sized piece missing from the middle of the spine and front panel but overall the wrapper is in very good condition. A rare survivor.:
Item Price
NZ$266.99
THE WATER BABIES
by KINGSLEY. CHARLES.; Willcox Smith. Jessie. Illustrates
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$384.46
Show Details
Description:
Hodder and Stoughton Limited for Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd, Nottingham. 1929. Reprint by Boots the Chemist. 4to. (10.1 x 8 inches). Near fine copy, beautifully illustrated with 12 full colour, tipped in plates, each with a printed tissue guard. Scores of wonderful line illustrations throughout text. Original dark green cloth, the front board with gilt illustration and lettering. The spine has gilt ruling and lettering. Previous owners neat inscription, dated "Xmas 1929" on front paste down endpaper. Overall a fine, bright and clean copy of this beautiful book.
Item Price
NZ$384.46
More Photos
Fuzoku Emakimono: (Picture Scroll of the Water Trade)
by Masanobu Okumura
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Item Price
-
NZ$428.65NZ$364.35Save NZ$37.50!
Show Details
Description:
Reprint from the 1880s of ukiyo-e artist Masanobu Okumura's depiction of nightlife in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters in the Edo era.Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, illustrator and painter.This orihon concertina-style book includes 38 double-page illustrations of geisha with their maids and samurai customers, playing board games and cards, smoking tobacco pipes, playing shamisen, reading books, etc. One plate shows the artist Okumura painting a large screen. 38 woodblock prints printed in three colors on 76 pages bound in orihon concertina-style with decorative washi paper over boards.Condition: binding repaired with washi paper, interior bright and fresh with no spotting.
Item Price
NZ$428.65NZ$364.35
Save NZ$37.50
!
More Photos
Les Rocassiers
by Mauron, Marie
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Athens, Greece
- Item Price
-
NZ$319.20
Show Details
Description:
Illustrations de Jacques Boullaire. 126 pp., in 4to. Robert Laffont, Paris, 1945. Edition numérotée, No 772/900, sur vélin de Rives. --- En feuillets, sous double emboîtage illustré de l'éditeur. Illustrations de Jacques Boullaire en bistre dans le texte et frontispice. Lettrines et culs-de lampe. Tirage limité à 900 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin de Rives. 1er emboîtage légèrement passé et coins émoussés. Légère éraflure sur la chemise. Très bel état du livre.
Item Price
NZ$319.20
More Photos
TOOTLEOO TWO
by DARWIN. BERNARD, and ELINOR
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$320.38
Show Details
Description:
The Nonesuch Press. London. No Date. 1927. FIRST EDITION. Large oblong 8vo. (10.2 x 7.7 inches). Finely illustrated with line drawing on the title page and 20 full page colour lithographs by Elinor Darwin accompanying the verses of Bernard Darwin. Original beige paper covered boards with wave, fish and border decorations and reproduction of one of the book's illustrations in blue on front cover. A very good, bright and clean copy with small amount of chipping to the top of the spine and minimal rubbing and bumping to the extremities.
Item Price
NZ$320.38
![France Son Histoire Racontée par G. Montorgueil; Imagée par JOB [bound with] La...](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/950/645/969645950.0.m.jpg)
More Photos
France Son Histoire Racontée par G. Montorgueil; Imagée par JOB [bound with] La Cantiniere [and] Les Trois Couleurs
by Montorgueil, Georges
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$397.79
Show Details
Description:
Paris: Charavay, Mantoux, Martin, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good +. Breville, Jacques Onfroy de. Approx. [240] p.: many color illustrations; 37 cm. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; gilt-stamped decoration on spine and back cover. Front cover has gilt-stamped decoration as well as decoration in red and blue. Top page edges gilt. Green endpapers. No date of publication; 1898 is the date given in library records for the first two titles. The third title, Les Trois Couleurs, has Charavay, Martin as the publisher indicating that this was published after Mantoux was no longer part of the firm (possibly 1899). The front cover gives H.E. Martin as the publisher, indicating that the three titles may have been issued in one volume slightly later. Only the first title, France Son Histoire, has Librairie d'Education de la Jeunesse on the title page. Half title of France Son Histoire: France Son Histoire: Jusqu'en 1789. Wonderfully illustrated histories of…
Read More Item Price
NZ$397.79
More Photos
Fairy Tales
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - VG+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$320.38
Show Details
Description:
Constable & Co. Ltd., 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. ROBINSON, W Heath. 1st Heath Robinson Illustrated Edition 18.8 x 25.5cm red cloth with a white panel to the centre of the front board and gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and spine. Top edge red, xii 288 (2) with 16 tipped in coloured plates with captioned tissue guards and 88 black and white illustrations. The boards are clean and bright with some fading to the spine and a little pushing to the spine tips. Internally, there is a gift inscription dated 1916 to the front free endpaper, a small 1 cm bruise to the bottom edge of p176 not affecting the image and with no loss and occasional very light marking. All in all a very nice copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Item Price
NZ$320.38
More Photos
Leeteg of Tahiti: Masterpieces on Black Velvet (Signed)
by Bernard Davis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Frederick, Maryland, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$394.34
Show Details
Description:
Privately Printed for Bernard Davis, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Collectible first edition, first - and only - printing of noted Edgar Leeteg art dealer and agent Bernard Davis' Leeteg of Tahiti. "First edition 1969" so stated on copyright page. Davis partnered for many years with Leeteg in marketing many of his velvet paintings, over 1700 at the time of Leeteg's death, and becoming, along with Leeteg, wealthy during the Tiki craze of the 1940's - 1960's. Called the "Remington of the Seas" by James Michener, the American Gaugin by Bernard Davis, and the Father of Modern Velvet Painting, Leeteg stands head and shoulders above almost every competing velvet painter, past and present, his Polynesian themes with beautiful, Tahitian women and, less so, warriors masterfully accomplished. Values of Leeteg's paintings, though selling for many thousands in his lifetime, dropped in value from the 1970's until recently, but now enjoy a resurgence that has put them out…
Read More Item Price
NZ$394.34
More Photos
Stenelaus and Amylda, A Christmas Legend for Children of a Larger Growth
by Cruikshank, George
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket As Issued
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
DeLand, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$257.19
Show Details
Description:
London: Griffith and Farran, 1858. First Edition, First Printing. Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Stitched wraps in light green card stock; 12mo; 4.5 by 6.875 inches, 32 pages. Illustrated with Three in-text woodcuts (one repeated on cover) by George Cruikshank with initials and end of chapter ornaments. The bindings are very tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Wraps have modest are/hand soiling.. A temperance parable with a Christmas Theme printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham. Subject: Illustrated Books; Christmas stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Woodcuts; Temperance Ref: YCBA
Item Price
NZ$257.19
Baby Birds and Beasts and How Their Fathers and Mothers Bring Them Up
by Pauline Clarke
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Hollis Center, Maine, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$68.93
Show Details
Description:
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1915 Book. Illus. by E. Yarrow Jones and R.B. Brook-Greaves. Good. Hardcover Bound Soft Cover. 12 color illustrations tipped in. Strong thick brown paper stock. Exterior has moderate to significant wear, including scuffs, rub marks, spine edge splitting, dampstaining on rear that has caused some page rippling around edges..
Item Price
NZ$68.93
Baby Birds and Beasts: How Their Fathers and Mothers Bring Them Up.
by CLARKE, Pauline. JONES, E. Yarrow and BROOK-GREAVES, K. B. (illustrators)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Faint reddish stain near the red cloth backstrip along short sections of the joint area; very slight wear to binding; clean, tig
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$428.65
Show Details
Description:
New York:: Frederick A. Stokes Company,, [1915].. First edition.. publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel, in dust jacket illustrated with the same color plate.. Faint reddish stain near the red cloth backstrip along short sections of the joint area; very slight wear to binding; clean, tight and sound in a slightly dampstained dust jacket which is missing the bottom four inches of the backstrip. . Folio,. With tipped-in color plates and text illustrations in black and white by E. Yarrow Jones and R. B. Brook-Greaves..
Item Price
NZ$428.65
More Photos
Escape On Venus Tarzana
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- Stated First Edition 1946
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$36.01
Show Details
Description:
Stated First edition Burroughs hardcover, copyright 1946, as shown in scans. Published by Tarzana. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. Dedicated to Brigadier General Kendall J. Fielder. Frontispiece and 4 other illustrations plus all pages without writing or marks. Good binding. Pebbled blue front board has rubbing and wear. Back inside cover has light foxing. Second interior page has a label remnant from original owner. Not ex- library. Please see scans.
Item Price
NZ$36.01
More Photos
The DOs and DON'Ts of Yesterday: Little Book of Early American Know-How
by Eric Sloane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Orange, Virginia, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$42.86
Show Details
Description:
Illustrated with pen/ink images Sloane is known for. (2) books,a yellow and an orange (18x12cm) with gilt title on covers and spines. Paper title on dark red slipcase with signature of author. Slipcase has very minor wear to bottom fore edge.
Item Price
NZ$42.86
More Photos
The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$76.97NZ$46.17Save NZ$17.96!
Show Details
Description:
The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
Item Price
NZ$76.97NZ$46.17
Save NZ$17.96
!
Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
by William R. Gillis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Included
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$77.16NZ$46.29Save NZ$18.00!
Show Details
Description:
William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
Item Price
NZ$77.16NZ$46.29
Save NZ$18.00
!
More Photos
The Professional Cosmetologist
by John W. Dalton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 2nd
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780829901863
- ISBN 10
- 0829901868
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Frederick, Maryland, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$51.42
Show Details
Description:
West Pub. Co, 1981. 2nd. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. John W. Dalton's near definitive textbook of cosmetology. Professional level instruction covering all significant topics for students of cosmetology. Valuable resource for replicating ca. 1970's hairstyles, makeup, etc. A standard in its field. Expanded and revised second edition. 463 pp. 10" x 7 3/8". Tight copy with light rubbing to cover and scattered yellow highlighting. Small corner loss to front blank endpaper. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
Item Price
NZ$51.42
The Magyars; The Birth of a European Nation
by Gyorgy Balazs
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$60.01
Show Details
Description:
Budapest: Corvina, 1989. Gray Buckram Binding w/black and red lettering on spine, Crest on cover. Pictorial Endpapers,w/91 pages of full color photo illustrations from Hungarian National Gallery, National Szechenyl Library and private collections. Includes 2 page Genealogy of the House of Arpad. Book is in As New Condition w/Fine wrap around DJ. Also contains (2)Brochures osThe Danube Bend, Hungary, found in book. **Oversized-extra shipping charges may apply Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Karoly Szelenyi (photos).
Item Price
NZ$60.01
More Photos
Punky Dunk and The Gold Fish
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$68.58
Show Details
Description:
Chicago: P. F. Volland & Co, 1912. Hardcover. Twentyfourmo [16 cm] Illustrated paper covered boards with a string binding. Very good. The covers are lightly rubbed and soiled. There are a couple of barely perceptible stains on the rear board. The spine ends are gently bumped, and there are a couple of small indentations in the top edges of the covers. The spine is very subtly rolled. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. The rear endsheet has several small light stains. "His cunning head bent and his little nose went Right down, while his tongue flashed red- When, O, what a sight! The fish in their fright Splashed water all over his head.
Item Price
NZ$68.58
More Photos
RIP VAN WINKLE
by Washington Irving
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Poor
- Edition
- Probable 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salida, Colorado, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$84.02
Show Details
Description:
Philadelphia: DAVID MCKAY, 1921. Probable 1st edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Poor. Philadelphia: DAVID MCKAY, 1921. Probable 1st edition. Poor. N.C. Wyeth. Front cover has a badly bumped corner, spine is faded and soiled as is the rear cover. Front hinge is torn but cover is still attached, binding is loose. FFEP has some child's writing but otherwise contents are clean and the Wyeth illustrations are clean and bright .
Item Price
NZ$84.02
More Photos
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- Illustrated Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$128.41NZ$77.04Save NZ$29.96!
Show Details
Description:
THE PICKWICK PAPERS. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens. Dodd, Mead 1935. 637 pages. Illustrated edition. Dark green boards, Gilt decorated spine. Titling still fairy. bright. . Illustrated by C.E. Brock. All colour plates including frontispiece are affixed to binding and are in nice condition. 16 colour plates in all. Used. Good Condition/ No Dj if issued. 637 pages 5 3/4 X 8 1/2. A nice copy. Will ship from Oregon. We consider offers.
Item Price
NZ$128.41NZ$77.04
Save NZ$29.96
!
Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
by Rogers, Fred
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None Issued
- Edition
- 2nd Edition Thus
- ISBN 13
- 9789995253899
- ISBN 10
- 9995253895
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$128.60NZ$77.16Save NZ$30.00!
Show Details
Description:
032 Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for Child Care Providers, Family Communications, Inc. Copyright 1983. 1985 2nd Edition Thus, Spiral bound. Pre-owned unused condition. ISBN 9789995253899 RARE IN THIS 2ND EDITION PRINTING. Large format 9 1/2 X 11 1/8. 333 pages, indexed.
Item Price
NZ$128.60NZ$77.16
Save NZ$30.00
!