Comedies by Moliere - 1985: The Oxford Library of the World's Great Books

The Franklin Library. Fine. 1985. Hardcover. The Franklin Library, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine A few minor scratches to gilt page ends, no other defects; very nearly As New. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. This is a beautiful faux leather (leatherette) edition. Tan boards, three raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, elaborate gilt decoration to covers and spine, patterned endpapers. A handsome copy. ; 8vo ; 503 pp. pages .

Like New. never used leather or faux leather gold trim around crimson and gold boards beautiful book 1985

Dent. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Minor wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Minor wear & markings on edges of text block. Dj shelf worn with chipping small tears & sun faded spine. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover.

The Franklin Library, 1985. Hardcover in fine condition.. Hardcover. Fine.

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co Inc, London . New York, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. introduction by Professor F. C. Green. Illustrated endpapers, being a floral design, in peach, reproduced multiple times. Green coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed illustration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Dark pink coloured tint to the top textblock edge. Illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The first volume (of two) of of the French playwright Moliere's comedic plays. Plays include: – The Blunderer, or the Counter-Plots, The Amorous Quarrel, The Miser, The Romantic Ladies, The School for Husbands, The School For Wives, The School for Wives Criticised, The Impromptu of Versailles, The Man-Hater, the Mock-Doctor. Everyman's Library Volume 830. PLEASE NOTE: – Volume 1 is the only volume we have. Softening and fading to the backstrip with… Read More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Johannot Tony. No Edition Or Printing Stated. Pattern Endpapers And All Edges Gilt. Bound In Red Faux Leather With Gilt Design. Unused Book Plate Laid In.

Franklin Center, Pa.: The Franklin Library, 1985 Hardcover, (Leatheen with gilt titles and decoration), All edges gilt. 503pp. No names or other markings. Fine.

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1985. Hardcover. Used - VeryGood. Hardcover

The Franklin Library, 1985. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Johannot, Tony. Red boards, decorative gilt. All edges gilt. Small wear mark on front board. Clean and tight.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania:: Franklin Library, 1985.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a series in semi-uniform bindings -- the volumes vary in size and color, but all are in leatherette binding, with raised spine bands, all edges gilt, and extensive gilt or silver decorations on front, back, and spine. Note that this series in leatherette did not come with a ribbon place marker. This copy is in Fine condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Decorated endpapers. Description: With the wood engraved illustrations of Tony Johannot. This includes The School for Husbands; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; Tartuffe, or The Impostor; The Miser; The Would-Be Gentleman; and The Imaginary Invalid. This is from the Franklin Library series, The Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers. (Also known as The Collector's Library of The World's Great Books.)

Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!

New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.

Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.

Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.

Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.

The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.

London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

Philadelphia: [privately printed] Beck Engraving Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small quarto, unpaginated. Hundreds of black and white halftone plates, depicting the various paintings. On the opposite leaves, printed in red ink, are the painting titles and artists. A front blank contains a tipped-in photograph of Schemm, surrounded by his bounty of paintings. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very minor dust-soiling to the cloth, and an owner's name on the front free endpaper, else a rather crisp, sharp example; near fine. A very nice production.

Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.