Captain Jesse (58 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Limited Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, volume 1 only of a two-volume set, Edition de Luxe series from the Grolier Society and limited to 1000 copies for England and America, of which this is number 114. Gray cloth boards show scuffing and soiling/toning is present. The internal b…

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. Athenaeum Press. No date, circa 1900. Beaux and Belles of England series. Two volumes, complete. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers have light orange cloth-covered boards with red spine and cover lettering. Spines have Art Nouveau-style floral design in brown and red. Front covers…

Condition: Fair. 1854. New Edition. 300 pages. Half bound green leather with green marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Book has been rebound. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Pencil markings to reverse frontispiece. Hinges are heavily cracked. Binding…

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Very good, mildly discolored from age. There is a water stain on the pages edges, not affecting text or photos ; Battles & Leaders of the Civil War; 8 x 11; 24 pages; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full j…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volume set in decorative cloth, lack dust wrappers, probably as issued, no inscriptions, frontespiece and colour plates to each volume, are all present as specified. Boards in very good order with only slight rubbing aalthough the spines are slightly faded, titles are still quite readable. Hi…

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Contemporary plain, dark half calf marbled boards. Front joint split but holding, Boards somewhat dulled and rubbed, folding map creased. Title page moderately foxed and soiled. Collates thus : ix, errata leaf, 335pp, foldg. map. Text measures 19.5 x 11.25cms.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blind stamped red cloth covers; Vol.I with pieces of spine missing and text splitting; both volumes with previous owner's book plate on front paste down and another previous owner's name and address neatly signed in ink with date "March 1846" on front first free end paper; also…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No DJ. 1st Edition. Publishing Info: Undated c1900. 1st Edition Description: Blue cloth with title plate to spine. Deckled page edges. Colour frontis with tissue guard plus five other black and white plates with tissue guards. Language: English. Book Condition> Good+: Wear to corners and board fore e…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Red embossed boards and spines, the latter, lettered in gilt, browned and faded and frayed around tops and base. A 2 cm split on lower edge of vol 2's spine. Internally bookplates on both front paste downs; the front hinge of vol 2 a little cracked. Frontis of vol 1 heavily foxed and title page s…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Revised & annotated edition from the author's own interleaved copy. One of 500 copies (300 printed for England, 200 for America). This copy contains only 17 of its 40 color plates; 23 are missing. Condition: in addition to the missing plates, the spine ends of volume I are torn…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, 1841. Interesting presentation on the back of the front free endpaper as follows "For The great unknown with Captain Jesse's compliments." Slight offsetting on folded maps. Edges slightly dusty. Publishers cloth marked and darkened. Some very slight rubbing…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dustjackets. First Edition Thus. 309, 300 Pp. New Illustrated Edition, Blue Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. Finely Printed, New Edition With Introduction And Twenty Colored Plates. No Marks Or Fading. Touch Of Wear At Corners, Free Endpapers Foxed As Usual, No Fading To Cloth, All G…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes. Xxi[3]309; x[2]300pp. With 20 coloured plates. A handsomely produced pair of volumes, limited to 2000 copies. The arbiter of taste and the glass of fashion, Beau Brummel revolutionized men's fashion in Regency England, discarding knee breeches and stockings in favor of trousers. He spent…

Hardcover. Large 8vo. pp xxiii, 309; xi, 300, [20] colour plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spines. New edition with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. Two thousand copies of this edition printed at The Riverside Press. No date, circa 1920. Slight rubbing at extremities, dulling to lettering at s…

Brown Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good for Age. Slight Wear on Edges. New Navarre Society Edition. xxi+309; x+300 pp clean & bright text, just the slightest hint of very light foxing, teg, bevelled edges, fine brown cloth binding with gold blocking; biography of Regency courrt life& upper class life ends in tragedy & poverty…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Captain Jesse, The Life of George Brummell Esq. Commonly Called Beau Brummell. Rebound First Edition. Two volumes. Green cloth binding with red panels to spine with gilt title. Each volume has black and white illustration frontispiece which have some foxi…