Search Results: Titles starting with X from poor mans books

Paris: Libr. De Firmin Didot. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1875. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 520 pages; French language text. XVIIIth Century. Institutions, Uses and Costumes, France from 1700 to 1789. Illustrated book of 21 chromolithographs and 350 wood engravings after Watteau, Van Loo, Rigaud, Boucher, Lancret, J. Vernet, Chardin, Jeaurat, Bouchardon, Saint-Aubin, Eisen, Plover, Moreau, Cochin, Wille, Debucourt etc. 8.5 x 11,5" book is illustrated with a rich iconography with beautiful color lithographs. Heavy . 4/4 blue morocco over mottle blue boards. Upper third of covers with spine and tipps faded to green. Contents VG+. 28,5 cm. Top edge gilt. .

Paris: A & F Ferroud. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1920. Leather. Color Illustrations; 44 pages; Three quarter faded green leather with marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Spine decorated with gilt and roses. Provenance stamp, Teller. Rather ornate color illustrations some full page, some textual. Xanthi is an old twon in Greece renowned for beautiful women. .

NY: Tor Books. As New in Fine dust jacket. 1991. 1st; 1st. Hardcover. AN book in Fine jacket with small white fleck which apopears to be a printing artifact. Signed by author and dedicated-, "Stanley, Did you wash your hands: ." .

Paris,: Decaux. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition. Leather. Color, tinted and b/w; (4), III, 404, (4), pages; HAND COLORED: B & W and hand colored engraved plates, gilt decorative binding. Blue cloth. Mm. 295 x 200 , 7 pounds. Blue marbled boards with morocco spine with 5 ribs. Quite nicely illustrated with colored, tinted and b/w full page comic plates as well as numerous textural cuts. .