Search Results: Titles starting with P from Nudelman Rare Books

Stunning original printed color lithographed poster by Will H. Bradley for The Chapbook, 1894. This famous poster was printed in 1894 by Stone and Kimball, famed Chicago publisher. Will H. Bradley 1868-11962), born in Boston, is widely considered one of the greatest American graphic artist and illustrator, known for his Art Nouveau stylized poster-like interpretations of figures. This 1894 design for Chap-Book, titled "The Twins," has been called the first American Art Nouveau poster; this and other posters for the magazine brought him widespread recognition and popularity. Bradley founded The Wayside Press in Springfield in 1895 and produced the now famous monthly periodical, "Bradley, His Book. This poster for The Chapbook, 1894, is striking in its Art Nouveau quality, and very much the pinnacle of Bradley's poster art, depicting identical twins in profile with matching orange dresses and green hair. Sight size 19 1/4" x 13 1/2",Frame 25" x 19 1/4" Signed "Will H. Bradley" lower left. Provenance… Read More

Large (5 x 11") proof illustration for one of Bradley's best images, woman with baby in front of stylized Art Nouveau style trees. This scarce insert appeared in one of Bradley's famous, "Bradley, His Book," series, but ours appears to be an oversized example with larger margins, and thus a possible proof printing, sent for review to Bradley, or simply an off-strike during printing process. Nevertheless, it is extremely rare, and none found on the internet at the time of writing. Near fine. Most scarce.

London: John Camden Hotten, 1866. Second edition. (T.J. Wise, Ashley Library Vol. VI, page 60). Octavo. Eight pages of advertisements bound in front, viii, 344 pages. Dedicated to Edward Burne-Jones. Green cloth beveled boards with blind-stamped rules on covers and titles in gilt on spine. Boards lightly rubbed, minor soiling, spine crease at head; rear hinge cracked, small holograph pencil annotations to endpapers, some foxing, occasional page creases, otherwise in very good condition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's ornately patterned cloth with repeating yellow panels leaving decorated borders in beige, gilt-stamped centerpiece and letting to spine, all designed by Margaret Armstrong. A scarce Armstrong cover. TEG, others untrimmed. Illustrated by Howard Pyle, and others. Some slight dusting and wear, overall very good copy of an attractive cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Blue cloth with cover design green and silver by Margaret Armstrong. Illustrations by W. Smedley. Covers worn. Gullans & Espey, #185.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1870. Original smooth blue cloth, gilt lettering on cover. 52pp. Rubricated title page. Presentation Copy from Palgrave's daughter, Margaret, to Urusla Waterhouse, perhaps a relative of the famed Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse: "For Urusla Waterhouse fro Margaret Palgrave, 19 Oct., 19, 1906." Slight smudging to cover, else near fine.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1889. Limited Large Paper Edition of 585 copies, of which this is copy number 552 and signed by Palgrave on the limitation page. Octavo. ix, 374 pages. Poems by Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Henry More, Robert Burns, Christina G. Rossetti, John Sharp, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and many more. Title page with red decorative border. Quarter vellum over black cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on both front cover and spine, extra gilt decorations and publisher's device on spine. Boards lightly scuffed and scratched; nineteenth century holograph pen gift inscription and modern pencil book seller's notes on front pastedown, free endpapers browned, deckled edges lightly toned; otherwise a very attractive copy in very good condition.

Ca. 1920. The very rare bookplate of Theodore Weicker, noted collector, appears in the famed "Knave of Hearts by Maxfield Parrish," 1925. Mounted on acid-free folding card frame. The Yale Library has the original material relating to the making of the bookplate, including the lettering. Fine condition. Scarce.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. First edition. Square folio size. Original full-size color cover insert, black cloth. Illustrated color endpapers, exquisite full page color plates throughout, by Maxfield Parrish. Universally considered one of the greatest children's colorplate books printed in America. An amazing feat of color illustration and book printing. A fine copy.

Rome: Privately Printed, 1927. First edition thus. First edition thus. Unpaginated. Nine original woodcut illustrations by Paulo Paschetto tipped in... (Folio) 39x33.5 cm (15ºx13º") original full pictorial vellum with image of the Christ carrying a lamb upon his shoulders. No. 5 of 100 copies. Signed by the author at the limitation statement; each plates with the artist's penciled monogram and date. Paolo Paschetto (1885-1963) was a devout Christian who apparently regarded his iconographic art as a calling or avocation as much as a profession. He served as a professor at the Royal Academy of Art in Rome. He was known in Italy as one of the foremost black-and-white artists and illustrators. Light wear; very good.

London: John w. Parker and Son, 1860. First edition. First edition. Original brown ripple-grain cloth, blind-stamped borders, gilt spine, brick red endpapers. 238pp. + 4pp. ads at end. A very scarce collection of Patmore's poetry. Only one other copy (inferior) located. One repaired 'nick' on spine, covers a bit faded, but hinges intact and a very good, tight copy.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1892. Olive cloth, paper label on spine. Cloth somewhat sunned, else very good.

London: Saunders and Otley, 1854. First edition. First edition. Original attractive blind-stamped brown cloth with elaborate designs and borders on both covers and spine. Spine with gilt lettering, original bright yellow endpapers. Roger Senhouse's copy with his signature on front endsheet. Quite a scarce and interesting treatise containing lenghty 'vignettes' on Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas Sheridan and others. A perfectly fine set. Stunning condition.

London: George Bell and Son, 1897. Eighth Library Edition. Eighth Library Edition. 12mo. Original green cloth, gilt spine. 153pp. Very good.

London: John W. Parker, 1858. Second edition. Second edition. Original brown ribbed cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 303pp. plus "Note." Chalky maroon endsheets. Contains I. The Betrothal, and II. The Espousals. Second edition is quite scarce.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1895. First edition. First edition. Original green cloth, paper label on spine. ,Family copy, signed by the author's son Tennyson (dated 23 May 1895) on top of title-page, with a later inscription to Hilda Sculthorpe, Patmore's nurse ("In memory of kind, and most skillful nursing, of a tired man"), author's compliments slip affixed to front endpaper with note beneath "transmitted from | his Son to H.S.," Some wear to binding, minor spotting and offsetting, else near fine. A rare family copy with multiple associations.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1886. First edition. First edition. 2 volumes. Original blue cloth, paper labels on spine. "Second Collective Edition."ASSOCIATION COPY WITH TIPPED IN LEAF INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO AUSTIN DOBSON("Austin Dobson, Esq. | from | Coventry Patmore. | Nov. 9, 1886"). From Austin Dobson's Library.

London: George Bell & Son, 1886. First edition thus. First edition thus. Two volumes. Original green fine woven cloth, paper labels on spine. 289pp; 267pp. Cloth covers slightly bubbled, else very good copy.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1893. First edition. First edition. Original green cloth, paper label on spine. Author's Presentation Copy (not inscribed, but with inserted tab, "With the Author's Compliments) to John Dennis (with his bookplate), noted author and poet. Near fine.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1877. First edition. First edition. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED, TO JOHN RUSKIN ON A SHEET TIPPED-IN ("John Ruskin | with Coventry Patmore's | affectionate regards"). As well, there is a note on upper paste-down "From John Ruskin's Oxford Library 1880"), 10pp. separately paginated poems at the end with divisional title. With bookplate of Lewis Kennedy Morse, author. Paper label, slightly rubbed, spine faded, upper hinge slightly cracked, some offsetting, very good. Patmore's friendship with Ruskin is well-documented, sometimes heated, but always co-allies in the arts. Ruskin greatly admired Patmore's poetry, especially those presented in The Angel in the House.