Search Results: Authors starting with A from Nudelman Rare Books

New York and London: John Lane, Sign of the Bodley Head, 1897. Original illustrated paper covered boards, buckram spine with original printed paper label. Attractive sepia-tinted illustration to title page and colophon. Printed at Will Bradley's Wayside Press. Fine with slight bumping to lower corners. Thomas Boss.

One page on folded sheet, from Edwin A. Abbey, 1852-1911, illustrator who made his reputation in New York at Harper's. "My dear Herscehel, Very many thanks for sending me the telegram with its lengthy message. It was very thoughtful of you to send it..." etc.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1925. Large and wide folio, 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. [PRINTER'S COPY]. Publishers marbled paper boards, holland cloth spine. Nash's copy, with "Printer's Copy" written in red holograph script on limitation page, just below the "This copy is Number:" A limited edition of 400 copies were printed from etched plates by Howard J. Griffith. Foreword by Gottardo Piazzoni, and introduction and descriptive text by H. Bennett Abdy. Ten color plates of paintings by Rowena Meeks Abdy, etched by Howard J. Griffith. Near fine. Scarce thus.

London: Reeve and Benham, 1851. First Edition. First Edition. Three Volumes. 8 x 5 3/4 inches. Original publisher's bright blue fine-ribbed cloth with fabulous ornately gilt illustrated covers, front and back depicting insects of all kinds with central anthropomorphic grasshopper sitting on a stump reading a book, double fillet ruling; spines also gilt with decorative design work. Hand colored frontispieces and numerous hand colored vignette illustrations throughout. An amazing survival, in fine condition, given each volume was produced yearly over a three-year period (1849-1851). AEG. pMcLean, Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings, p.42.

London: R. Ackermann, 1916. First separate edition. First separate edition. Folio. Bound in 19th century three-quarters vellum, cloth sides. 14 x 11 inches (35 x 28 cm); [1] ff., 34 pp., Five superb hand-colored aquatint engravings. As noted in Abbey Scenery 438, Ackermann's The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster..., which included Rugby, was available for sale by the school. The headmaster of Rugby at this time was the Reverend John Wooll, notorious for his floggings; after his resignation in 1828, he was succeeded by the redoubtable Thomas Arnold, whose reforms long influenced English education. Slight loss of cloth to front board (about 2 x .5 inches), some offsetting from plates, occasional minor foxing. Overall very good copy of a nice Ackermann printing.

London: Archeological Journal, 1900. First Edition. First Edition. Understated binding by Katherine Adams, bearing her monogrammed embossed stamp on rear paste down, lower left. Bound in quarter dark green morocco, five raised bands, gilt lettering, paper covered boards. A few of the journals all bound together, about 90 pages. Near fine.

Racine: Gothic Press, 1902. First edition thus. Racine/The. First edition thus. Original buckram spine with grey paper-covered boards, gilt title to front cover. Limited to 30 copies, of which this #12. Printed on Van Gelder paper in Frederic Goudyís Village type. Printed by Edward Larrabee Baker, with the colophon woodcut designed by Frances Baker. Only four copies held institutionally (WorldCat). Edward Larrabee Baker produced only three titles at the Gothic Press from 1902 to 1914, each with a limitation under 50 copies. Slight rubbing to spine tips and some light browning to edges of boards.

London: J. M'Gowan and Son, 1829. Two volumes in One 140x108mm half black cloth marbled sides (worn to foot of spine) vii-xxi + 263pp and Vol. II iii-vii + 311pp.Aquatint plates (100), unusually, the plates are bound (51 + 49) at the end of each volume. Title pages to both volumes in facsimile. Volume I starts with Preface thus seems to lack the contents list. Volume II lacks only the title as contents pages are complete. Name stamp to margin of Preface, edge browned and some fingering & soiling, a few leaves with edge wear with 3 leaves with 3mm tears to blank margins only. A well loved and well used Aesop with charming AQUATINT PLATES. Very scarce with Oxford the only copy of this printing noted in British libraries - McGowan was printer as well as publisher and his Windmill Street address is given at the foot of the last page of each volume.

London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, Farringdon Street, 1860. First edition. First edition. Exquisitely bound in full wavy grain morocco by Bickers & Son, gilt ruled edges and devices at corners both covers, spine elaborately gilt with two morocco labels, gilt decorated dentelles. Full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne. With bookplate of Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 3rd Baronet. Fine. Original covers and spine bound-in at end. Scarce title.

London: Henry Colburn, 1848. First edition. First edition. Three volumes. Exquisitely bound in full wavy grain morocco by Bickers & Son, gilt ruled edges and devices at corners both covers, spine elaborately gilt with two morocco labels, gilt decorated dentelles. Engraved frontispiece illustration to each volume. With bookplate of Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 3rd Baronet. Fine. All three original labels bound in at end in each volume. Very scarce title.

London: G. Routledge & Co, 1857. First edition. First edition. Exquisitely bound in full wavy grain morocco by Bickers & Son, gilt ruled edges and devices at corners both covers, spine elaborately gilt with two morocco labels, gilt decorated dentelles. Full-page plates by Phiz. WIth bookplate of Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 3rd Baronet. Original covers and spine bound-in at end. Fine.

London: Parry, Blenkarn & Co, 1847. New Edition. New Edition. Exquisitely bound in full wavy grain morocco by Bickers & Son, gilt ruled edges and devices at corners both covers, spine elaborately gilt with two morocco labels, gilt decorated dentelles. Full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne and John Franklin. With bookplate of Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 3rd Baronet. Fine. Original covers and spine bound-in at end. Scarce title.

London: George Routledge & Co, 1857. First edition. First edition. Exquisitely bound in full wavy grain morocco by Bickers & Son, (unsigned, but matching volumes that have imprint); gilt ruled edges and devices at corners both covers, spine elaborately gilt with two morocco labels, gilt decorated dentelles. Eight full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne. TEG. Original cloth cover remnants at rear. Fine.

London: John Mortimer, 1844. First edition. First edition. Three volumes. Exquisitely bound in full wavy grain morocco by Bickers & Son, gilt ruled edges and devices at corners both covers, spine elaborately gilt with two morocco labels, gilt decorated dentelles. A total of nine superb illustrations by George Cruikshank, three in each volume. TEG. Each volume with the bookplate of Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 3rd Baronet. Fine copy.

Cambridge & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co, The Riverside Press. Tall 12mo. Full pictorial brown leather with exquisite cover design embossed in darker brown by W. S. Hadley. In the original printed dust wrapper bearing the image reproduced on the cover; silk ties that run through holes in the dust wrapper (as per design). A fabulous copy, fine copy, with very good wrapper with few minor edge chips and creases. Lovely example of early Arts and Crafts.

Offered here are two lovely, clear and striking albumen prints, ca. 1870's, by the renowned firm of Alinari, the oldest company in the world still active in the field of photography. 1) "No. 12377, VENEZIA, Basilica di S. Marco. L'Interno. A wonderful view of the interior of the famed St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, 13 1/2 x 11 inches, mounted on card and double matted, image size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 2) No. 3029, FIRENZE, Palazzo Vecchio II Cortile, the town hall building of Florence (pictured out in front with a view of the columns and inner courtyard, 13 1/2 x 11 inches mounted to card, image size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. A very clear and well-resolved image. Both albumen prints are near fine.

London: Thomas McLean, 1822. Oblong folio. Attractively bound by Bickers and Sons, with gilt design motifs on all four corners both covers, gilt ruling, spine gilt; old spine preserved and laid down. Pictorial title and 41 plates only (of 42, lacking "The Sportsmen all rode..."), all hand-colored soft-ground etchings with multiple images, borders with water-color wash, interleaved, some soiling and light staining, pictorial title water-stained at upper edge mostly affecting border, a few plates with marginal defects repaired, title page with small tear, penultimate plate torn and slightly defective at fore-edge (laid down). With faults, still a nice tight copy of a rather scarce and desirable Rowlandson production.

London: S. & J. Fuller, 1816. First edition. First edition. Original drab boards, rebacked. Engraved title page and 18 hand-colored plates by Henry Alken, with accompanying text. Boards quite worn, with design substantially obscured on cover. Some soiling internally, but an uncut copy in original boards of a classic Alken title, cited as the greatest 19th Century sporting artist.

London: SongsThomas MíLean, 1826. [4] leaves + 41 hand-colored plates (including frontispiece), the margins with a pink wash. Leaf of address is present. (oblong folio) 23.5x33 cm (9ºx13"), three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, all edges gilt, gilt decorated spine. Bound by Root & Son. This is a reissue of the original 1822 edition. It has 41 rather than 43 plates by Henry Alken; it seems that given the popularity of the work the later issues were often done without a few plates. Henry T. Alken is one of the most renowned and popular of British sporting, humor and genre artists. This copy with modern bookplate of Norman and Janey Buchan. Rubbing of spine and edges, some wear to marbled boards; bookplate of John McEntee Bowman on front paste-down, foxing and repairs, small tears; very good. Tooley 37.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. 4to. Superbly bound by Cedric Chivers (signed in gilt pallet rear dentelle, "Cedric Chivers Bath) in full crushed brown morocco, with tan morocco heart onlays, and with a magnificent vellucent landscape capturing a running brook, in watercolor, with part of the brook inlaid in mother of pearl to give it a reflective quality, on the upper section of the cover; and below that an attractive vellucent design with inlaid red dots and tilt stippling containing a ribbon and wreath patterning in watercolor, with title and author. Spine with heart onlays and superb Nouveau style gilt patterning; gilt dentelles with tulips at both corners. Spine slightly sunned, very slight foxing, a near fine example of one a very attractive Chivers binding. LIMITED EDITION DELUXE, signed by Allingham, with 81 color plates by Allingham and other artists of the day. Text descriptions and memoir by Marcus B. Huish. Helen Allingham (1848-1926) was an acclaimed British watercolorist who… Read More