Search Results: Authors starting with S from Bygone Books

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. 1st edition, quarto hardcover in blue cloth, 313 pp, b/w and color illustrations throughout. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has lt. edgewear, owner name on fep; jacket has lt. wear at edges, two 1" closed tears (one at spine head gutter, the other at front fore edge fold), chipping to spine head, faint spotting to underside, crease to rear flap.

Claremont, N.H.: Claremont Manufacturing Company, 1872. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; VG. 12mo, full brown leather, raised bands, gilt titles, brown paper eps, 511pp, errata page. Condition is VERY GOOD: some lt. rubbing to the extremities and a bit on the spine, typical yellowing to pages at edges. A nice copy of this compilation of Vermont poets.

Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1961. Soft cover. VG+. 1st printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 29 pages plus19 b&w plates. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : owner name insdie front cover, small dot on front cover, slight toning to spine.

Philadelphia, PA: Penn Publishing, 1917. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st edition [same date] in original glassine wrapper and box. 8vo, navy blue cloth with color illustration and gilt titles, 347 pages, color frontispiece (same illus on the slipcase), map, b/w photographs throughout. Condition: NEAR FINE book (a slight bump to spine tail); glassine wrapper is torn and tattered (but it did its job of protecting the book.); the box is edgeworn with 3 of the 4 corners to top of box starting to separate, some light soiling (see images). A lively account of six weeks travelling through Great Britain by motor car starting off in the "Cranford" of Elizabeth Gaskell's stories (well, close to Manchester) and then to Wales, the south of England and onward from there. illustrated throughout with the author's photographs. The Illustrations contents says the frontispiece is a color map of their route which is incorrect: the map is b/w and is found at the beginning of chapter I. The… Read More

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG-. 1st edition [stated], preface by A. Hyatt Mayor, Foreword by Donald H. Karshan, introduction by J. William Middendorf II, text by Wendy J. Shadwell. Published for The Museum of Graphic Art. 4to, sky blue cloth, 180 pages, b/w and color illustrations [115 plates: 111 reproductions in gravure and 4 full-color]], bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has remainder marks to top page edge, 7 pages have a gentle crease at bottom corner, internally clean and tight; jacket has chipping at spine extremities, a 1" chip and creasing to rear panel, a 2" ragged tear at front fold. The "historical prints" of the early days of the nation, from the years 1670 to 1820.

London: 20th Century-Fox Company, Ltd / Odhams Ltd., 1972. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. 1st edition. The musical film program of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which includes photographs of the film and the players, all the best of the British stage and screen (Michael Crawford, Robert Helpmann, Hywel Bennett,Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Peter Sellers, and others, with Fiona Fullerton as Alice.) Quarto wraps, unpaginated, color photographs. VERY GOOD with sl. edgewear, lt. staining to covers. Interior pages are clean and tight. A wonderful piece of screen and literary history.

Middletown, NY: The Author, 1956. Soft cover. VG. Topsy Samuelson. A story and coloring book (book is clean) 8vo, stapled wraps, [24] pages. VERY GOOD with light edgewear, light soiling to rear cover, clean throughout.

Oxford, Uk: Oxford, Printed For Members of the The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited/Numbered . Hardcover. Collectible, VG+`. Rene Ben Sussan. With an introduction by Carl Van Doren and hand-coloured etchings by Rene Ben Sussan. Limited edition of 1500 copies [this is number 601], designed by Francis Meynell and printed under his supervision at the Oxford University Press in Oxford, England. SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTISTon the colophon page. 4to, decorated paper-backed boards, paper label in fron board, with paper-covered chemise and slipcase, 143 pages, full-pagecolor illustrations. Book is VERY GOOD+ with faint offsetting to the endpapers, closed tear to spine head and tail to paper covers [this runs from front to back across the spine but is barely visible]; the chemise is VERY GOOD+ and has been professionally repaired at fold, slipcase is VERY GOOD+ with light rubbing at edges, toning to top edge. A lovely book to behold...

New York: Routledge, 1992. First paperback edition . Soft cover. VG+. 0415055253 8vo, wraps, 196 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliographical notes, index. VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1926., 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Frederick Richardson. 12mo, illustrated boards and endpapers, color illustrations throughout the text, 116 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: appears unused, with just the slightest rubbing to extremities, a penciled name on contents page [ "Eleanor" ], otherwise completely clean and tight. A lovely copy, rare in this condition.

Montpelier, VT / Shelburne, VT: Vemont Life / Chapters Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 2nd printing [number line], square quarto, blue boards, 127 pages, color illustrations throughout, artist chronology. Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: very slight edgewear to the book , internally clean and tight; jacket has light creasing to spine head, tail and corners. A very nice copy of the work of this Vermont artist.

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911. Hardcover. VG. No additional printings. Book Two in a series which tells the story of The Mysteries of Life in simple, plain words. 24mo, tan cloth, decorated front cover, 113 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, tiny spot to fore edge, internally clean and tight.

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911. Hardcover. VG. No additional printings. Book One in a series which tells the story of The Mysteries of Life in simple, plain words. 24mo, tan cloth, decorated front cover, 105 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, a slight darkening to a portion of the front board, internally clean and tight.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran / Junior Books, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; VG. George Shanks. 1st edition [stated, logo of JR on copyright page], 8vo, green cloth with yellow illustrations and lettering, yellow top edge, illustrated endpapers, 240 pages, color frontispiece, ten b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD / no jacket: slight cover wear, light rubbing to spine extremities, spine is slightly toned, faint foxing to first and last few pages, owner name on front endpaper, otherwise internally very clean and tight. A rare children's book, unfortunately without the even more rarely seen dust jacket...this is a nice copy.

Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1951. Soft cover. Very Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Joan Hassall. 24mo, sewn wraps, 8 pages, design on front in green and black / white illustrations by Joan Hassall on each page. The story is taken from Chamber's Popular Rhymes of Scotland, and is here written in Scots dialect. Condition is VERY GOOD with a slight toning around edges of covers and a few faint stains to front cover. Hassall is known for her illustrations for the Folio Society edition of Jane Austen's novels.

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1946. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo, stapled wraps, 78 pages. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with a crease to rear cover. The entire issues comprises a list of family names as found in NH town histories, beginning with Abbe and ending in Zuill.

Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1970. Hardcover. VG/VG. Label on title page: "The Reader's Union Group of Book Clubs in association with.. [David & Charles]", 8vo, gray boards, 112 pages, color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has gentle bumping to corners, owner name on front endpaper, first 3 pages have faint spotting, otherwise clean and tight; jacket has slight edgewear.

New York: Harcourt Brace And Jovanovich, 1977. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Introduction by Quentin Bell. 1st American ed., 8vo, black cloth, b/w illustrations throughout, notes, index. Condition: VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: minor wear, ½" closed tear to jacket top edge, slight discoloring along top edge and spine of jacket.

London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1747. Hardcover. Collectible; VG. 32mo (5x3), full leather with 6 raised bands (the spine head and tail bands are flattened a bit), 390 pages, [14]p index, frontis engraving. The book has been rehinged and the leather patched on the spine and front board. Condition: VERY GOOD: light chipping to the leather but this has been dressed, brown stain around edges of endpapers (from the leather), both free endpapers are chipped at the fore edge, internally the pages are clean with only minimal discoloration...book is now tight ...a nice copy.

London: Pandora, 1987. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0863580815 1987 reprint edition, 8vo, black hardcover, 357 pp, b&w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: jacket has slight edgewear and crease to top edge. The classic work on early women writers.