Hardcover. Wood illus. (illustrator). 1st edition. NEAR FINE book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). Bright & tight book, FINE inside. Book corners rubbed, but no wear. 4to, (62)pp. NEAR FINE book, GOOD DJ. FINE text. DJ p/c, 1" chips, 1/2" tears.
Published by Brunner, Genesee Valley Hunt, Geneseo, 1984
First Edition
Hardcover. Plates & fold out map. (illustrator). 1st ltd ed. NEAR FINE book, no DJ, likely as issued. Limited to 950 copies. Tight. "MINT" contents. Geneseo Valley Hunt" map laid in. Book's spine & edges lightly sunned. NEAR FINE book. Black cloth with gilt & white spine label.
Hardcover. Francoise illustrations. (illustrator). 1st edition. GOOD book, no DJ. Blue cloth spine, paper covered boards. ZERO aging, foxing, soiling, etc, in or out. Cover edges worn. Unpaginated, but about 75pp. GOOD book, no DJ. FINE inside, very bright & colorful. 28x20(cm).
Published by Ideal Book Builders (1914), Chicago, 1914
First Edition
Hardcover. Color illus of 38 birds. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book. Oblong 8vo. Stiff heavy paper boards. Cloth spine. 38 birds depicted, a 1" hole @ each head. Leaf 1 moderately foxed. The heads of each bird are stored in an envelope inside the front cover. 33 heads total, MISSING 5 heads. Extrems rubbed. VG book. 1st ed. Bright & tight. 5 leaves of heavy cardboard.
Published by Lyon, Albany, 1916
First Edition
Hardcover. 21 full page b/w photos. (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book. Bright & attractive. Very tight. Immaculate inside, including the pastedowns and all three text block edges. FEP with tiped in slip: "with the compliments of the NEW YORK MONUMENTS COMMISSION". Brown cloth cover with a moire effect. Titles on spine & upper board, New York State seal on lower right upper board, all in bright as new gilt. Book with only minor flaws, those confined to the covers: (1) spine ends & tipss scuffed, upper tips lightly bumped. (2) spine faintly sunned. Binding tight, book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. Seldom read, if at all. Most photos are of monuments and officers but there are a few of the fighting soldiers themselves. FINE book, Pristine inside. 1st ed. 10.5"x8". (1-6),7-103pp.
Published by Lapace Sanchez, Paris, 1879
Hardcover. Chromolithographs. (illustrator). GOOD book. 4to, xv,649pp,1 page TABLE. 20 full page pristine color lithographs with tissue guards. Gilt lettered spine. Boards identically edge ruled in blind. Spine w 5 raised ribs w blank panels gilt triple edge ruled with geometric corner designs. Hinges starting to crack. Front inner hinge held solely by two strings. Otherwise binding as tight as new. Janin has written a 15 page intro. GOOD TO VERY GOOD full red morocco covers over FINE contents.AEG.
Published by Whitman 838Magic Action Book (1935), Racine, 1935
Softcover. VG+ pop up, stapled softcover. Colors as bright as new. Pop ups at front, back and middle. Creased cover corners. 8vo, 27pp. No other internal flaws. Cover edges & extrems rubbed. Rear cover with few faint creases. VG+ pop up book. No aging, soiling, foxing, marginalia, etc.
Published by Seeley, London, 1895
Hardcover. Blake etching. (illustrator). GOOD book. Bright & tight. Cover extrems worn, some plate margins foxed, o/w VG inside. Frontis struck from an original Blake etching copyright Mar 8, 1825 by Will Blake N3 Fountain Court, Strand. Titled in the etching "When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for Joy", titled below the etching "The Sons of God. Design fromn the book of Job." Tho struck 70 years later image still bright & clear. There's no evidence the plate was reworked. The last section on Davis has 4 steel engravings by him. GOOD book. TEG. Gilt lettered marroon cloth. Bevelled boards.
Hardcover. Sangorski artwork (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book, GOOD-VG DJ(in Brodart). TEG. Gilt lettered cream color imitation vellum. Pastedowns moderately foxed & browned. VERY FINE text block BUT: binding badly cracked at junction of the single leaved text & the Sangorski French folded. Plain brown paper DJ. DJ lightly water stained, several chips, one @ 1". Very Good book & DJ. 1st ed. French folded Sangorski leaves.
Published by Augener Ltd. (1913), London, 1913
First Edition
Hardcover. Le Mair 12 in text color (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Same dancing girl paste panel on book & DJ. FINE text, music & color illustrations. 12"x9", 28pp. Flaws confined to covers & pastedowns. Front lower tip worn thru to underlying board, other tips & the spine ends scuffed a bit. Cover edges aged a bit. Pastedowns glue browned a bit. DJ edgeworn & the front only (NOT rear) cover age browned. Few 1" closed tears, a few 1/2" max chips.
Softcover. Capurro color plates. (illustrator). Limited ed. VG paperback. IN SPANISH. Tight. Limitation page states #3760 of 4150. Spotless contents though faintly aged text margins. Three full page Capurro color illustrations, one of which is duplicated on the front cover. Headpieces, tailpieces and many in text illustrations. No tp or cp date but limitation page dated Dec. 1946. Bright cover. Spine heel with a 1/2" closed tear, top with 1/8" tears. Other tips rubbed. VG wraps. Lightly worn covers. FINE contents. 12"x8",129pp.
Hardcover. Le Mair 16 color plates. (illustrator). 1st Am ed. AS NEW book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Pristine book, including the flawless white paste on front cover paper label. 10"x8", (32)pp. Wonderful book. Spine and cover gilt & paper label bright as new. All corner tips free of even minute scuffing. BUT BUT BUT: (1) Spine top with a crease line. (2) A faded area on back cover next to spine. (3) A tiny white spot on lower back cover. These three possible flaws likely from the manufacturing process. Interior flawless, pastedowns free of any hint of glue browning. Pristine, immaculate leaves. DJ edgeworn with a 2" closed tear through the edge of the first "L" of "Little People". Other shorter closed tears and many 1/4" chips. DJ uniformly sunned. AS NEW book, VG DJ. DJ paper label as flawless as that of book.
Published by Rosenbach Foundation (1966), Philadelphia, 1966
First Edition
Hardcover. Baskin frontis of Conrad. (illustrator). 1st edition. AS NEW book & two piece slipcase. Copy XXVIII of 1100. MISSING the extra Baskin signed frontis normally found in copies I to C. AS NEW book totally enclosed in AS NEW two piece slipcase. 1stEd.
Published by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE, 1994
Hardcover. 1st thus. 1st thus editions published by Oak Knoll Press in 1994. Last part of vol 3 a 44 unnumbered page artist index. This set AS NEW, VERY FINE or MINT. You pick which of the three you prefer. Spines with no hint of sunning. ALL 12 tips perfectly flat. Text block edges bright and white as new. PRISTINE inside; from pastedown to pastedown, pastedown to pastedown and pastedown to pastedown.
Published by Batsford, London, 1909
First Edition
Hardcover. over 1000 illustrations (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book, no DJ. SIGNED by Hooper. Flawless. Immaculate: save for scuffed cover extrems & some possible very light ep aging. PRISTINE in & out. No soiling or marginalia. Book's outside, covers & text block edges, clean as new. Interior also as new, including the fold outs, which have no incorrect fold lines. Thick and heavy, it still stays closed when stood on its spine. Half title page with a hand lettered SIGNED Hooper inscription. "To R.I. Clegg Esq editor of Woodcraft with compliments from John Hooper". FINE book, no DJ. 1st ed. 10"x7". xiv,384pp. Almost like new.
Published by Augener Ltd & David McKay. [1917], London, 1917
First Edition
Hardcover. Le Mair 16 fp color plates. (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). Extrems scuffed a bit. Front lower corner of board creased from being bent back. 11"x9", 31pp. 2nd pix clearly shows the fault line from the corner having been bent back. Paper inside crcked at this point. Pristine paste on front cover label. AS NEW text block. No trace of even a hint of aging, foxing or any other stain. Wonderful DJ. Bit of aging of margins. Six 1.5" closed tears, several shorter & a few 1/4 chips. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ. AS NEW text block. Bright white DJ.
Published by Augener Ltd & David McKay. (1911), London, 1911
First Edition
Hardcover. Le Mair 30 fp color plates. (illustrator). 1st edition. AS NEW book, VG+ DJ(in Brodart). Both in tattered glassine DJ. Pristine book, cover to cover & top to bottom. 12"x9", 63pp. Book cover a pale blue with a large white and pastel colored paste on front cover paper label. An absolutely flawless book. The white DJ shows ZERO cosmetic flaws but there is edgewear in the form of three 1.5" closed tears, a few @ 1" and several @ 1/4". DJ inner bottom edges with some light browning, which did not transfer to book's lower edges. AS NEW book, VG+ DJ, both in a glassine DJ. Bright, white DJ.
Published by Scribners, NY, 1910
First Edition
Hardcover. 9 page list of illustrations (illustrator). 1st edition. NEAR FINE book. 1st ed. PRISTINE from pastedown to pastedown & all three text block edges. Conkey seal on cp. 10"x6",583pp. Bright boards & spine, no spine sunning. Photos and Goodwin drawings in black & white. IMMACULATE inside. ZERO aging, foxing, marginalia, or any other kind of stain. Both pastedowns and 1st & last eps likely as white as new. Nor is there any glue browning at pastedown gutters. All three text block edges just as bright. Cover gilt likely bright as new. Book's two types of flaws are minor and confined to the covers. (1) All extrems scuffed but not worn. Wear being when the cloth is worn through to the underlying cardboard. (2) Spine has a few bubbled spots, one being a third of the way from the top. A professional conservator could eliminate these cover flaws. LASTLY this book stays closed when stood on its spine. It's a pretty safe bet it has never been read. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. 1st ed. Green cloth.
Published by Augener Ltd & David McKay. (1912), London & Philly, 1912
First Edition
Hardcover. Le Mair 32 fp color plates. (illustrator). 1st edition. AS NEW book, VG+ DJ(in Brodart). Pristine book, cover to cover & top to bottom. DJ with a 2" & several 1/2" closed tears. AS NEW book, VG+ DJ. DJ with several 1/4" chips. 11"x9",63pp.