Adelaide Hanscom (55 results)

Hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Popular edition. Dark red duodecimo, pocket book, 109 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates, color illustrations, 16 cm. Persian poetry. Very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle bumping to front corners, faint sunning to spine and front board, light spotting to front board, pa…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1914. Popular edition, illustrated with tipped on color plates and decorative borders to the pages of verse. Textured brown leather covers with gilt lettering on the front cover, about 100 pages (unpaginated). Spine leather a bit dried but stabilized, other cover we…

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No Jacket. Reprint. Hardback bound in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and gilt decorations. Book has light edge wear with a cracked hinge that is holding. There are 28 tipped-on color plates with tissue guards in place plus numerous black and white decorations. 1912 print of the 1905 Copyrig…

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 6 1/4 tall x 5". Full leather with gilt decorative title on front and unusual striped hues of pink and brown. 110 pgs. 8 tipped in illustrations from photographs by Adelaide Hanscom in sepia. Decorative designs on every page. Very good with some wear to top of spine and edges o…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Thus. No date but c1908. In full, limp leather with embossed design and titling on front cover. Top edge gilt with untrimmed foredge. Beautifully illustrated with tipped in plates with tissue guards. The text is two verses per page with decoratio…

Fabric & Board. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Thus. From the 4th version of Edward Fitzgerald's translation, copyright Dodge Publishing.Beige mottled fabric covers with coloured title & decoration to front & spine, light edge wear, corners bumped and a bit grubby. Unpaginated rough cut pages, previous…

Hardback. Condition: V.g. Unpaginated [212pp]. Original tan patterned cloth with coloured and embossed character decorations . Titles embossed in yellow. Original photographs by The Dodge Publishing Company 1905. Text pages decorated with fine borders printed in brown. Characters depicted in colour and explained on page after th…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition Later Printing. Brilliant tipped-in color photographs (a frontispiece + 27 internal plates) "from life studies" by Adelaide Hanscom & Blanche Cumming brought this classic book of Persian love poetry to life for a new generation of readers in the early 20th-century, one of…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Brick coloured cloth with decorative gilt and type to front and spine. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Side and bottom edges uncut. Tipped in colour plate to frontis with tissue guard. Illustrated throughout with 27 additional tipped in colour plates, with tissue guards and b&w devices. Unpaginated…

Condition: Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Illustrated with Hanscom's stunning photographs printed in sepia on near-transparent Japanese paper. A very good copy in light brown cloth stamped in black, blue, red, and yellow (some soiling and wear to cloth; small dampstain to rear endpaper gutter; ink gift inscription)…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy in tan buckram with painted titles on front board. No titles on spine. With glassine dust jacket which has a few small tears. Some spotting to cover. Deckled edges. Top edge gilt slightly rubbed. Binding is solid and square, interior c…

Condition: Good. Second thus edition in publisher's original limp brown suede covers, gilt title lettering to the front cover, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed, shiny bronze linen end papers. 8vo. 6'' x 5''. Contains tipped-in full-page colour frontispiece, 109 + i printed pages of text, 7 tipped in full-page c…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Later printing. Covers shelfworn. Bookplate inside front cover. Adelaide Hanscom created one of the first American books combining fine art photography to illustrated a literary work. She solicited the help of many well-known California literary figures as models for the images. It bec…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Language: eng Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and whit…

Small quarto, pressed suede (leather) covers, black embossed panel to front board around gilt title lettering, t.e.g, frontispiece, decorated title page, illus prelims, unpaginated, heavily illus, VG- (moderate staining & fading to covers, light bruising to spine extrems, 4cm closed tear to lower spine side, tear & crease to fro…

Full original brown suede covers. Title embossed in gilt design on upper. Brown pasted and free holographic endpapers. Top edges gilt. , Omar Khayyam (1048 ? 1131) was a prominent Persian polymath, astronomer, historian, and poet. , Size : 12mo.(150 x 120 mm)., A very good example. With 8 illustrations tipped-in. Covers sunned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Hardcover; small 4to; unpaged. Blue green cloth, with gilt lettering and design on spine and upper board. Head/tail rubbed. Boards a little bowed with faded/rubbed edges. With 28 tipped in colour plates by Adelaide Hanscom with tissue guards. Gilt on top. Bookplate on fep. VG-/--. Han…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 51 pp.+ Illus Plt at Frontis (from a study by Adelaide Hanscom), Orig Brn Leather with Blindstamped Title "The Rubaiyat" with bunch of Grapes & 2 Red Designs on Cover, TEG, 12mo (3 x 5.9 Inches), owner name ff e.p., dated 1916, else VG, Assumed 1st ed (Neat little Book). Adelaide Han…