Davidson Gustav Editor (9 results)

Gustav Dore (illustrator). London: Arcturus, 2024. NEW. Featuring over 180 illustrations by Gustave Doré, "Scenes from the Bible" vividly depicts mankind's struggles?battle, disease, hardship, death, and self-redemption through love. Carefully curated, the images highlight key biblical events, each accompanied by a short quote from the King James Bible and a vivid narrative providing context. The unread, oversized book is tight with solid hinges and stenciled edges. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. 382 pages. 9½ x 11¾".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is soiled and edge worn with short tears to foot of flap folds and light discoloration around edges. Jacket spine is discolored with a bit of loss to head, abrasion through the letter y and a quarter inch oval stain near the foot. The titling remains quite legible. Sticker ghost to rear jacket panel. Boards are very lightly discolored mirroring the jacket discoloration around edges. Boards with light edge wear at head and foot, lower corners bumped. Light foxing to verso of front free end-paper, half-title, title-page along the gutter, verso of title-page and contents page. Likewise at the rear, foxing along the gutter between pages 62 and 63. Inscribed by the editor on front free end-paper. Binding firm.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near fine book, clean and tidy with minor sunning near spine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/W Photos (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclippd price, lite sunning.inscribed to Louis Armstrong from the editor. SIGNED & Insc By Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Foreword by Robert Hillyer, chronicle by A.M. Sullivan. Offsetting from newspaper clipping, two light crayon marks inside, otherwise fine, lacking dustwrapper. Signed by Laura Benet (twice), John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer (three times), Gertrude Clayton, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Harold Vinal and editor Gustav Davidson (twice).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Robert Hillyer. Chronicle by A.M. Sullivan. Edges showing traces of wear, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with the spine sunned and a short edge tear. Signed by Alfred Kreymborg, Laura Benet, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Henry Goddard Leach (twice), and editor Gustav Davidson (thrice).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Robert Hillyer, chronicle by A.M. Sullivan. Near fine with the corners bumped, in very good dustwrapper with the spine sunned and a tear to the front panel. Signed by John Hall Wheelock, Melville Cane, Alfred Kreymborg (twice), Gustav Davidson (twice), A.M. Sullivan (thrice), Louise Townsend Nicholl (twice), and Margaret Widdemer.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Only 2000 copies printed as noted in pencil by an unknown hand on the copyright page, celebrating 40 years of service and achievement in the art of poetry. This is a review copy, fine in blue boards with paper labels on the front board and the spine; the near fine dw is lightly dulled on the spine with a small hole on the front spine fold. Uniquely SIGNED by thirty poets from the Society, some of the writers signing multiple times! There is a pencil notation on the verso of the front board indicating the book was a gift from Gustav Davidson, the Secretary of the Society and the editor of the book; he has signed the book on the title page. Some of the other signees include Leonora Speyer, A.M. Sullivan, Alfred Kreymborg, John Hall Wheelock, Joseph Auslander, and Louis Ginsberg, among a score of others. The recipient of the book lists, in pencil, on the rear end paper and rear board, the names, dates and page numbers of each individual signature, spanning ten years! A absolutely distinctive item! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Advance Proof Copy. Foreword by Robert Hillyer, chronicle by A.M. Sullivan. Fine, unsewn signatures laid into near fine dustwrapper with the spine lightly worn. Signed by Leonora Speyer, Gustav Davidson (twice), Alfred Kreymborg (twice), Margaret Widdemer, Katherine Garrison Chapin, Percy MacKaye, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Henry Goddard Leach, John Hall Wheelock, Melville Cane, Laura Benet and Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff. With a laid in clipping by Edna St. Vincent Millay.