Search Results: Titles starting with S from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1971. 8vo. xix., 355 pp. including bibliography and index. Early criticism taken from 179 different sources. An important insight into how Spenser was viewed by his contemporaries 0710069537 . Near Fine. Hard Cover. First Edition. 1971.

London: Chatto & Windus 1974. 8vo. Advance proof copy. 328 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Spine slightly darkened. Internally clean. No ownership marks. 0701120150 . Very Good. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof. 1974.

London: The Blue Peter Publishing Company Ltd. 1927. 4to.Illustrated. xii, 154 pp. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front cover. Top edge burninshed green and endpapers illustrated. Illustrations by J. Spurling and an introduction by C. Fox Smith. With a map of the principle trade routes of the Clipper Ships to the rear of binding. Edgewear to binding, with cloth frayed and coming loose at the spine. Scratching to boards and front board split at hinge. Rough edges to leaves. Internally clean. . Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1927.

London: Hodder and Stoughton 1931. 8vo. First Edition. 328 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight wear to joints and spine ends, minor marks to boards. Light spotting throughout. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. A history of barges especially in England. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1931.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Limited 1907. Tall 8vo. vii, 142 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. Illustrations. . Very Good. Cloth. 1907.

Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1701. 12mo. (xiv), 304, (28) pp. Contemporary full leather with raised bands to spine and gilt panels & lettering. Slight wear to spine. Title page in red & black with vignette. Frontis portrait engraving. Internally very clean. Binding firm. Text in French. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1701.

London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1973. 8vo. 304 pp. Bound in dark blue half morocco over light blue cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Spine slightly faded. Ink owner's name to first blank. Internally clean but foxing to a few pages. 0434859125 . Very Good. Half Morocco. First Edition. 1973.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1914. 8vo. 529 pp. Publisher's green cloth with blind-stamped salamander design to front board and gilt lettering to front board & spine. Minor rubbing to extremities. Two faint spots to front board. Cloth clean. Internally clean. Faint toning to leaves. No ownership names. Frontis and fifteen full-page illustrations by Everett Shinn. This influential novel was the first to feature a 'flapper' and was the inspiration for Zelda Fitzgerald's life. A nice copy. . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 1914.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1903. 8vo. 316, (4) pp. Publisher's dark blue pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Cloth bright and fresh. Prize bookplate to front pastedown (dated 1902). Foxing to prelims. Extra-illustrated title-page. Frontis and in-text illustrations. . Very Good. Pictorial Cloth. First Edition. 1903.

London: The White Owl Press 1932. 8vo. Signed Limited Edition. [vi], 42 pp. Buff and grey buckram boards in original glassine. Glassine is torn at spine but nonetheless represents an amazing survival. Spots to endpapers, but otherwise all clean and bright inside and out. Number 32 of 150 copies, signed by the author, published at 1 guinea. Eads A15 . Near Fine. Cloth. Signed Limited Edition. 1932.

London: Castell Brothers N.d. [1889]. Oblong 12mo. Unpaginated [10 pp]. Measures 15.5cm x 10cm. Original pictorial card wrappers with cloth tie to spine. Minimal wear. Printed poem with six colour chromolithographs. Printed in Bavaria. In Very Good condition. . Very Good. Wraps. 1889.

Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1987. Large 8vo. xiv, 371 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Very clean copy. No ownership marks. Black & white illustrations throughout. Focuses primarily on the work of Aubrey Beardsley. 0810107396 . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1987.

London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1906. 8vo. vii, 312 pp. Publisher's pale green cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Slight lean to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Scattered foxing. Short stores, including some fantasy. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1906.

London: Methuen & Co. 1908. 8vo. pp, vii, 309, 40, [publisher's catalogue],. Several b/w ilustrations, one loose. Pretty, green, gilt decorated publisher's cloth. Binding slightly worn, one corner bumped, Gilt slightly rubbed., small split to lower extremity of rear board. Includes letter from W. W. Jacobs. . Good. Illustrated Boards. First Edition. 1908.

Paris: Draeger 2005. 4to. 220 pp. Publisher's full red cloth with gilt decoration in gold pictorial dust jacket. Spotting to endpapers. B&w and colour photography throughout. Minimal wear. Near Fine to Fine condition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 2005.

London: Victoria & Albert Museum 1987. Square 8voExhibition Catalogue. 263 pp. Paperback with crease to spine. Slight edgewear. Spotting to top edge. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Published to accompany an exhibition at the V & A Museum in 1987-88. 8870381366 . Very Good. Paperback. 1987.

London: Hodder and Stoughton 1938. Large 8vo. First edition. xi, 331 pp. Maroon hardback with gilt lettering to spine. Blind owner's stamp to front free end paper. Fold out map of Salween and Tsangpo basins to rear and illustrations throughout (inc. frontis). Marking to boards and some pages, wear to head and foot of spine. Otherwise G/VG condition. . Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1938.

Leipzig: Im Verlage der Dykischen Buchhandlung 1779. 8vo. 470 pp. Full vellum with maroon leather title label to spine. Boards bowed. Patterned endpapers. Internally clean. Binding firm. Text in German language. . Very Good. Full Vellum. 1779.

London: Thames and Hudson 2007. Oblong 8vo. 221 pp. Cloth spine over illustrated boards. In fine condition. Illustrated with 163 colour plates that reproduce Palmer's sketchbook exactly, from the year he met William Blake when he was 19 years old. 0500093334 . Fine. Pictorial Boards. 2007.

London: Richard Bentley 1860. 8vo. [iv], 252 pp., Contemporary full vellum binding somewhat darkened with age and use. Previous owner's (Conservative MP of the late nineteenth C Percy Scawen Wyndham) bookplate on pastedown. Marbled endpapers, edges burnished red. 1 cm tear to the edge of p. 7/8, and one section slightly sprung. . Very Good. Full Vellum. First Edition, First Issue. 1860.