Search Results: Titles starting with U from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Rome: Stamperia Pagliarini, 1755. First edition thus. New. Octavo (23 cm); 5 parts in one volume, each part with separate title page and pagination. Complicated pagination resolving into 192, 32 (of 33) leaves, lacking final leaf D8*, directions to the binder. Roman and italic types. Title page and first two section titles printed in red and black with repeated engraved vignette of the adoration; third section title printed in black with engraved vignette of death. In all, 4 engraved vignettes and 15 full-page engraved illustrations after the rock stars of the Bolognese school, including Guido Reni, Ludovico Caracci, Guercino, Pietro Facini, Francesco Albani, Baldassare Palaninus, and others. 28 woodcut headpieces, 18 woodcut tailpieces, and 25 woodcut initials (all with some repeats), woodcut initial frames throughout, a few typographic tailpieces and ornaments. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, stamped in gilt on both boards and spine; edges gilt; later large silver (?) hinge clasps and… Read More

's-Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff, 1898. Facsimile of Dutch edition of 1512. Very Good. 22cm; 82 pages. Fraktur type. Title page in red and black, with large woodcut in between floral borders. 25 woodcut illustrations in text. Bound in boards with title label on upper board. Binding a bit scuffed, contents fine. Owner's autograph in margin of title page. Facsimile edition of the first Dutch edition of Till Eulenspiegel (Antwerp, c. 1512) , taken from the unique copy in the Royal Library in Copenhagen. The two missing leaves in that edition have been replaced by text from the Antwerp edition of Jan van Geel (1575). The main character is the impudent trickster figure who originated in Middle Low German folklore and became the subject of many popular printed editions narrating his picaresque career.

Paris: A. G. Nizet, 1976. Wraps. Good. 189 p. Stiff wraps, tail bumped.

London and New York: The Bodley Head; Dodd, Mead & Co., 1925. Not numbered or limited. Cloth. Very Good. 30cm;  [4], xxvi, [4] pages, 162 plates, some in color, all with printed and numbered overleaf. Bound in decorated cloth and (rare) dustjacket, protected in mylar. Somewhat toned but unblemished.

New York: New Directions, 1954. Not stated. Cloth. Good.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1939. Cloth. Good . Cloth discolored at edges; dust jacket sun-darkened.

New York: T.W. Crowel, n.d. (1890?). Original edition. Very Good. 16 cm, 124 pages, and several full-page illustrations with tissue guards. In green cloth stamped in black with deco/Empire design, surmounted by a mounted color vignette of children playing a game of blind man's buff, and the legend "Archie Vernon's Library" in gilt reverse. Titled in gilt on spine. Vertical scratch on upper board; ownership inscription in pencil on front pastedown, and ink stamp on flyleaf, else very, very good, especially for an artifact of juvenile literature (which are usually found in abused condition). Short tales for the edification of young American readers of the 1890s.

ca. 1880. Good. Large albumen-silver photograph on paper, 367 x 267 mm. Signed in plate. Lightly toned to sepia. Unmounted, a bit crinkled at the edges. Depicts a fellah in traditional dress and three camels before the columns at Luxor.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878. First edition. Good. 23cm; xv, [1], 408 pages. Frontispiece and three full-page plates. Wood-engraved illustrations in text. Errata slip bound in at end. Bound in original green cloth. Frayed at crown and heel, joints beginning to split. Yet sound and entire. Early gift inscription. Some foxing at endleaves.