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Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1916 An octavo bound in original red cloth, top edges gilt, gilt pictorial cover illustration. Twelve tipped-in illustrations in color by Charles Robinson, with captioned tissue guards. (Lacking tissue guard at page 66 and marginal closed tears on the tissue guard at page 80) Many textual illustrations and pictorial endpapers, all by Robinson. Aside from the fault with two of the tissue guards and a bit of wear at the corners, this is a near fine copy of the First American Edition.
Madman's Drum. A Novel in Woodcuts by Ward, Lynd (1905-1985) - 1930
by Ward, Lynd (1905-1985)
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Madman's Drum. A Novel in Woodcuts
by Ward, Lynd (1905-1985)
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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. Good Plus/No Dust Jacket.
Pictorial paper over boards; spine black cloth with paste-on title label. Top edge stained black. The bindings are tight and square with a slight shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed board edges and corners. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. First Trade Edition; 8.5 inches tall.
A wordless graphic 'livre d'artiste' narrative in [116] stark deep black woodcuts.
Laid-in Newspaper Article. The second of Lynd Ward's series of six wordless novels follows the unsettling tale of a slave trader who illicitly acquires a demon-faced drum from an African man. The consequences unfold as hardship and death befall his family.
A high spot in Twentieth Century American literature.
Pictorial paper over boards; spine black cloth with paste-on title label. Top edge stained black. The bindings are tight and square with a slight shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed board edges and corners. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. First Trade Edition; 8.5 inches tall.
A wordless graphic 'livre d'artiste' narrative in [116] stark deep black woodcuts.
Laid-in Newspaper Article. The second of Lynd Ward's series of six wordless novels follows the unsettling tale of a slave trader who illicitly acquires a demon-faced drum from an African man. The consequences unfold as hardship and death befall his family.
A high spot in Twentieth Century American literature.
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MARGARET'S BOOK
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Bracebridge Hall
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2nd edition thus. Signed binding. Dark green calico-texture cloth over boards, front cover and spine gilt-stamped with pictorial scene with seated woman under tree and floral designs; all edges gilt; dark brown end papers; tissue-guarded frontispiece; tan and black pictorial title page; binder's diamond shape ticket on rear pastedown at inner corner 'Bound by | Burn | & Co'. Bright, clean covers and spine (no edge wear); tightly bound; frontis tissue somewhat age darkened; frontispiece and title page slightly age darkened at edges; clean interior with slight age darkening at page edges. Over 100 illustrations by Caldecott. 12mo, 284 pp.
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OLD BOOTY! A Serio Comic Sailor's tale
by CRUIKSHANK. ROBERT. Illustrates. Moncrieff. W. T
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William Kidd. London. 1830. FIRST EDITION. 6mo. (6 x 4 inches). 36pp. Illustrated with 6 engravings. A fine clean copy in an early binding of half red morocco. Spine lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Previous owners armorial bookplate on front paste down endpaper. Some chipping to the spine ends otherwise a very good copy.
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Adventures of two youths in a journey through Africa
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East - Part fifth. Illustrated. 473 pp.+1 colour plate h.t. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1884. --- Pictorial cloth gilt. Some wear at corners and spine ends (see photos). Pages bright and clean. A dedication written on a blank page. Richly illustrated with engravings. Tight binding.
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Le Roi des Montagnes
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Dessins de Charles Delort, gravés par Mongin. 300 pp.+7 planches et un portrait de l'auteur d'après une photo de Nadar h.t. 20,7x13,3 cm. Collection Bibliothèque Artistique Moderne / Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris, 1883. Tirage limité. --- Some edgewear. Fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Very light occasional foxing. Beautiful engravings.
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Beautiful Britain; Bonnie Scotland (Publisher series: Beautiful Britain.)
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Montreal: Cambridge Corporation [circa 1906], Royal Canadian edition. (Leather binding) 255pp. Very good plus. Dark green pebble grained leather with illustration and titles in gilt. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 1000 sets. Cloth reinforced inner hinges with green faux-moire endpapers, top edge gilt, 75 color plates with captioned tissue guards. The spine has very minor scuffing at the top and bottom. Illustrations by Sutton Palmer. Publisher series: Beautiful Britain. Locale:. (Travel, Description and Travel--Scotland, Limited Editions).
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Beautiful Britain; Happy England (Publisher series: Beautiful Britain.)
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Montreal: Cambridge Corporation [no date], Royal Canadian edition. (Leather binding) 204pp. Near fine. Dark green pebble grained leather with illustration and titles in gilt. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 1000 sets. Cloth reinforced inner hinges with green faux-moire endpapers, top edge gilt, 80 color plates with captioned tissue guards. The spine is slightly discolored. Publisher series: Beautiful Britain. Color illustrations by Helen Allingham. Locale:. (Travel, Limited Editions).
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Artists' Party Games: Horseshoes der Blaue Reiter.
by [MKimberly Press] Mare Blocker.
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Jerome, Arizona:: MKimberly Press,, 1995.. Edition of 50. 7.75 x 7.375"; 6 illustrated pages. Accordion structure. Hand colored linoleum blocks. Printed on Magnani Incisioni. Hand-colored linocuts with 4 printed on the accordion folded paper strip of 4 panels. Pasteborad covers mounted on back of of first and last panels. Two remaining linocuts mounted on outside covers. Colophon printedd on verso. Signed and numbered by the artist. Block-printed humorous party games satirizing artists. Included are "Pin the Ear on Van Gogh", "Spin the Squeeze Bottle with Jackson", "Frida's Archery Set", "Dot to dot Seurat", and "Horseshoes a la der Blaue Reiter".
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Master Francis Rabelais: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel; translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux; with an introduction by Anatole de Montaiglon; illustrations by Louis Chalon [2 volumes]
by Rabelais, François
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London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good -. Chalon, Louis. 2 volumes: xlvi, [2], 341, [3] p.; xi, [3], 455, [1] p.: frontispiece portrait of the author (vol. 1) and 14 additional plates, all with tissue guards; 29 cm. Publisher's dark green moire binding with gilt-stamped spine titles and gilt-embossed publisher's emblem on front covers. White ribbon bookmarks. Title pages printed in red and black. Engraved title vignettes, headpieces, and initials. Printed at Chiswick Press. This is no. 622 of a limited editon of 1,000 copies printed for England and America. Many pages in vol. 2 unopened. Translation of Gargantua et Pantagruel. Bookseller's label on both back fixed endpapers for Chas. E. Lauriat Co., Boston. Gift inscription on vol. 1 front free endpaper: "J. Earl Quigley from S.B. Sadler 1913." Carlisle, Pa., resident Sylvester B. Sadler (1876-1931) served on the state supreme court from 1920 to 1931. J. Earl Quigley was a court stenographer in Carlisle who became deputy…
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Le Roi des Montagnes
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Dessins de Charles Delort, gravés par Mongin. 300 pp.+7 planches et un portrait de l'auteur d'après une photo de Nadar h.t. 20,7x13,3 cm. Collection Bibliothèque Artistique Moderne / Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris, 1883. Tirage limité. --- Some edgewear. Fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Very light occasional foxing. Beautiful engravings.
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Madman's Drum A Novel in Woodcuts
by Lynd Ward
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New York: Jonathan Cape/Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Hard Cover. vg. octavo. Pictorail covers. Paper title label to spine. A bit of rubbing at top of spine and bottom edges of book. Interior very nice. Lovely woodcuts by Lynd Ward.
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Escape On Venus Tarzana
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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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.
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The DOs and DON'Ts of Yesterday: Little Book of Early American Know-How
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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.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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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.
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
by William R. Gillis
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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.
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The Professional Cosmetologist
by John W. Dalton
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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.
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The Magyars; The Birth of a European Nation
by Gyorgy Balazs
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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).
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RIP VAN WINKLE
by Washington Irving
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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 .
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles
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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.
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Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
by Rogers, Fred
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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.
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The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36
by Montgomery, R.A
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Montgomery, R.A: 1986 Bantam-Skylark: The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36. Softcover. Illustrated by Leslie Morrill. Number line CW 098765432. Used. VG condition. 50 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Series. Keywords: Choose Your Own Adventure, Bantam-Skylark, Adventure, Series, Collectible. ISBN9780553154498
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