Cloth Binding (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. x p., 1 l., 295, [1] p. front., plates. 20 cm. ; LC: PZ3.V288; PS3117; Dewey: 813.5 ; OCLC: 1220676 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : A lover of music.--The reward of virtue.--A brave heart.--The gentle life.--A friend of justice.--The white blot.--A year of nobility.--The keeper of the light. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; illustrations in color by Walter Appleton Clark ; " the ruling passion is shown in its season of empire over a few lives. In almost all lives romantic love has its season. But there are other passions no less real, such as music, nature, children, honor, strife, revenge, money, pride, friendship, loyalty, duty" ; ex-library, stamps, label ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong. ; FAIR. Book.

Condition: very good. Gainsville : University Press of Florida,1994. Orig. cloth binding. xxviii,561pp. Index. Bibliography. Ills. - This is a comprehensive monograph by herpetologist Walter Auffenberg on Varanus bengalensis (Bengal Monitor), a large, terrestrial lizard living in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of Myanmar, Thailand and southern Iran. Auffenberg combines extensive fieldwork (especially in Pakistan) with laboratory analyses, providing detailed insights into the biology, ecology, physiology, behavior, and evolution of the species. It typically grows over one meter in length and has a muscular body, long tail, and sharp claws. Its coloration varies from gray to brown, often with dark markings. Known for its intelligence and keen senses, it uses a forked tongue to detect scents. Highly adaptable, it inhabits forests, grasslands, agricultural areas, and even urban edges. As an opportunistic carnivore, it feeds on insects, small animals, and carrion, playing a vital ecological role in controlling pest populations across its wide geographic range. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780813012957. Keywords : BIOLOGY, Bangladesh.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Small folio, 56 pages, illustrated throughout. Illustrated wrappers. In original publishers addressed and stamped cardboard mailer. - First edition. With numerous reproductions of texts, posters and many photo collages and montage. Loosely laid in a copy of a letter to the bishops of Italy and a printed postcard addressed to Cavellini himself + a postcard addressed to himself with a list of movements and protagonists that contributed to the renewal of art history.

8vo, (180x110mm), [6],xii,372; [6],360p. frontispiece portrait, lacking the plates by George Cruikshank. Original buff moire patterned calico, gilt lettered on black paper back-labels which are very slightly degraded. A pair from the publisher's 'Novelist's library' and alas lacking Cruikshank's engravings, although there is no evidence of their every being present making one wonder if this is a remainder issue or just an example of lack of care by the binder. We therefore offer this set as an early example of a publisher's cloth binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 322 pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 07-33932 ; Gullans & Espey ; 283; LC: PS3117 ; OCLC: 26560136 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Days off -- A holiday in a vacation -- His other engagement -- Books that I loved as a boy -- Among the Quantock Hills -- Between the lupin and the laurel -- Little Red Tom -- Silverhorns -- Notions about novels -- Some remarks on gulls -- Leviathan -- The art of leaving off. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustrations by F.E. Schoonover.; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, pale green, pale blue and white lupin and laurel design; wear to covers ; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. April 1921 printing ; viii, 306 pg. [8] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 12-23517 ; LC: PZ3.V288; Dewey: 813.52 ; OCLC: 798767 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "This volume contains nineteen very pleasant short stories, all of which have some mystical touch in them."--The Spectator. ; Contents : The wedding-ring -- Messengers at the window -- The countersign of the cradle -- The key of the tower -- The ripening of the fruit -- The king's jewel -- The music-lover -- Humoreske -- An old game -- The unruly sprite -- A change of air -- The night call -- The effectual fervent prayer -- The return of the charm -- Beggars under the bush -- Stronghold -- In the odour of sanctity -- The sad shepherd -- The mansion. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustrations by Charles Shepard Chapman and Garth Jones.; "Born in Morristown, New York, Charles Chapman was a noted teacher, painter, and illustrator who, although he often claimed he was self-taught, was educated at Pratt Institute*, and in 1899 at William Merritt Chase's New York School of Art* in New York City. He was highly influenced by the famed western artist Frederic Remington. One of his techniques he described was painting with "Water-Oils", where he floated oil paint on water on paper, and then laid paper over the floating design, which left an abstract affect. Chapman specialized in landscapes, and although he spent most of his life in the East, he traveled extensively in the West, especially Wyoming and Arizona where a frequent subject was the Grand Canyon. In 1938, he spent a month at the Canyon and also painted ranch landscapes and in the Snowy Range of Wyoming. n the 1930s, he was commissioned by the Museum of Natural History in New York to paint a thirty-by-thirty-foot mural of the Grand Canyon as a background for the Puma group exhibit. He camped for several weeks at the rim of the Canyon while he worked on this project."--AskART ; "Alfred Garth Jones (1872-1955) was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour. In America, his illustrations for Henry van Dyke's short stories the Half-Told Tales appeared in the January to June, 1912 issue of Scribner's Magazine.[13] In October 1912, Charles Scribner's Sons published the first edition of Van Dyke's The Unknown Quantity, with artwork by various illustrators, of which Garth Jones was one ; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, pale orange design; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. xi, 357 pages, [8] leaves of plates : portraits ; 20 cm LCCN: 29-21279 ; LC: PR99; Dewey: 809 ; OCLC: 596932 ; ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Lights in poetry -- Problematic natures in English literature -- Four noteworthy modern novels. ; Binding is similar to those designed by Margaret Armstrong, but it is signed E.L.F ; Dark blue (C183) calico grain cloth; gold, purple, and aqua grape vines, clusters, and tulips, gold lettering, signed "ELF."; motif repeated on spine in gold; partially untrimmed. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ;"The thirteen essays contain penetrating and well-seasoned studies of the work and personalities of literary figures from Chaucer to Thornton Wilder" ; authors include Thomas Hardy Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Lee Masters, Poe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Carlyle, Byron, George Meredith and Walt Whitman ; foxing ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. ix, 319 pages, [6] leaves of photographic plates : illustrations ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 21-7796 ; Gullans & Espey 288 ; OCLC: 1406397 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Some of the chapters in this book were written as a series of monthly papers in Scribner's magazine in the years 1920-21"--Preface. ; Contents : Camp-fires and guide-posts -- A certain insularity of islanders -- A basket of chips -- Self, neighbor, and company -- Sympathetic antipathies -- Publicomania -- Moving day -- Firelight views -- Fishing in strange waters -- The pathless profession -- A mid-Pacific pageant -- Japonica -- Interludes on the koto -- Suicidal tendencies in democracy -- A bundle of letters -- Christmas greens -- On saying good-bye -- Fellow-travellers : An old-style American -- Interpreter's house -- The healing gift -- A traveller from Altruria. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; fine illustrations from photographs by Mathilde Weil ; "Mathilde Weil was born in Pennsylvania in January 1872. She was interested in art from an early age, and studied drawing and painting in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Decorative Art League, and the Museum of Industrial Art, and at a summer school in Annisquam, Massachusetts. In 1892, Weil obtained a bachelor of arts degree from Bryn Mawr College and almost immediately secured literary positions. Between 1893 and 1896, she read manuscripts for the publisher Macmillan and she served as an editor for Book Review and American Historical Review. Weil acquired her first camera in the winter of 1896-97 and established a portrait studio within a few months. Locating her studio in Philadelphia's main business district, Weil soon became one of the city's most well-known portraitists. She charged the highest fees and avoided the excess retouching that was routine in photographic portraits. Her specialties were children and home and outdoor portraiture. On the latter, she wrote two articles; one made up an entire issue of Photo-Miniature (January 1904) and the other appeared in the May 1906 issue of Country Life in America." -- Christian Peterson ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in turquoise blue cloth over boards; stamped in gold on front cover and spine; top edge gilt and trimmed. ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. February 1924 printing ; x p., 1 l., 295, [1] p. front., plates. 20 cm. ; LC: PZ3.V288; PS3117; Dewey: 813.5 ; OCLC: 1220676 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : A lover of music.--The reward of virtue.--A brave heart.--The gentle life.--A friend of justice.--The white blot.--A year of nobility.--The keeper of the light. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; illustrations in color by Walter Appleton Clark ; " the ruling passion is shown in its season of empire over a few lives. In almost all lives romantic love has its season. But there are other passions no less real, such as music, nature, children, honor, strife, revenge, money, pride, friendship, loyalty, duty" ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong. ; foxing ; partially untrimmed ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book.

hardback, 4to, x,430pp, numerous illustrations, folding map, owner's bookplate, some light foxing, otherwise clean and sound, gilt-decorated maroon cloth, rubbed in places, Good condition.

Condition: Near Fine. Revised edition hard back binding in publisher's original Farrows Cream cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt Galahad vignette to the front cover. Quarto 10½'' x 7½''. Contains 126 printed pages of text with archive engraved frontispiece, 38 facsimile reproductions of title-pages, 4 pages of devices, initial letters. Near Fine condition book in Near Fine condition dust wrapper. From the private library of Charles Benson (remote family connection to William Gilpin) with his bookplate to the front free end paper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Italy, from The Alps to Mount Etna is a richly illustrated travel and topography book. It offers a sweeping journey through Italy's landscapes, cities, and artistic heritage, beginning in Mont Cenis and concluding in Sicily. The book features 164 black and white illustrations, capturing Italy's architecture, rivers, and cultural landmarks. Attractive green cloth, with gilt hghlighted decorations to the upper board and gilt lettered spine, bevelled edges. All edges gilt. Green floral pattern endpapers. Very minor foxing, but the contents are clean generally, with no loose or damaged pages. A bright and appealing example of a nice travel book from before the era of mass tourism. 392 pages, with 164 woodcuts, a mixture of full page and in-text. Size: 18 x 23.5 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Beautifully gilt decorated pictorial cloth binding showing a chained bible. 287pp. a.e.g. b/w plates. Decorative head and tailpieces to each chapter. A very good copy indeed.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Signed first edition of The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander, in the scarce cloth binding. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, viii, [2], 52pp, [2]. Full blue cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Stated "First published 1990" on copyright page, no additional printings listed. Solid text block, appears unread, fine condition. Signed by Elizabeth Alexander on the title page. This rare cloth hardcover edition was published simultaneously with a glossy paperback edition. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. April 1921 printing ; viii, 306 pg. [8] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 19-4519 ; LC: PZ3.V288; Dewey: 813.52 ; OCLC: 3877039 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "This volume contains nineteen very pleasant short stories, all of which have some mystical touch in them."--The Spectator. ; Contents : A Remembered dream -- Antwerp road -- A City of refuge -- A Sanctuary of trees -- The King's high way -- The Traitor in the house -- Justice of the elements -- Ashes of vengeance -- The Broken soldier and the maid of France -- The Hearing ear -- Sketches of Quebec -- A Classic instance -- The New era and carry on -- The Primitive and his sandals -- Diana and the lions -- The Hero and tin soldiers -- Salvage point -- The Boy of Nazareth dreams. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustration by Edward Hopper. The story of the Scribner's work, which was important to Hopper, is recounted by Gail Levin: "Fame fostered Hopper's career in illustration. In September 1918, he began to sell to Scribner's, a cut above his usual clients. Walter TIttle claimed credit for the first assignment: 'I succeeded in getting him a bit of work from Scribner's magazine almost by brow-beating my old friend [Joseph Hawley] Chapin [the art editor], insisting that here was a man really too good for him.' Hopper's wife came on the scene to observe: 'Scribner's were wonderful to him, let him go his own gait, careful not to give him things not his kind to do.' His kind: te first story they gave him to read was 'The hearing ear', by Henry Van Dyke, which dealt with heroic rescue in the war. The two drawings, which appeared in the issue of December 1918, added one hundred dollars to Edward's books." ; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, with red and white lily designs; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; scarce Hopper source ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Special Edition. A most beautiful example of modern Fine Binding. This celebrated issue combines the two books Leonard Woolley is most remembered for, The Ur Of The Chaldees and The Sumerians. The pages used are the March 1929 reprint of the 1928 first. Leather spine and wraparound, with cloth boards, gilt titling, and raised bands. Solid and tight text block. Unread looking, and with no former owner marks. This is a very uncommon and possibly unique heirloom production that will enhance any bookshelf. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Early printings. 8vos. Green cloth boards printed in gilt and black. Significant wear including some broken henges and loose pages, good condition only.