Dore Gustav Illustrator (11 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. N.d. Circa 1870s. 8vo. 152 pp. Rare Dore title, with many humorous line-drawing vignettes. Library stamp of Mercantile Library of New York on title and a few other leaves. Pages are heavily age toned. Repair of upper spine with newer piece of cloth.

Cloth. Condition: Good. no date, presumed late 1800s. Second edition. Brown cloth. 324 pp., plus 4 pages of ads in the rear. All text in German. With black and white illustrations by Gustav Dore. A travel account (presumably fictional) of a 'reluctant tourist' in Europe. GOOD condition. General fading and scuffing to the covers and extremities. Two 2 inch spots of staining to the front cover. Some bumping to the corners. Interior solid with the paper toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gustav Dore, Illustrator (illustrator). First Thus. Didier, 1945. First Thus. Very Good/Good . Gustav Dore, Illustrator. Clean book in original dust jacket, French language, beautifully illustrated by Gustave Dore. Very clean illustrated paper covered boards. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Previous owner name, date, and ink-stamp on front free endpaper. Clean dust jacket has one large chip at base of rear panel (v-shaped, approx. 1-1/2" at widest by 1-1/2" depth), separated at spine fold. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Puss in Boots in French with lovely illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Volume I only. François Rabelais (1490 - 1553) was a French author considered by many to be the first great French prose author. He was a humanist of the French Renaissance and a Greek scholar. Elephant folio. Bound in the original dark red cloth boards with gilt title and illustration to front board. Amateur repairs to hinges and joints. Lacks original spine and has a new dark brown cloth spine. Glue repairs to cloth on boards. Clean and bright interior overall with many plates and in text illustrations by Doré. Only occasional smudge marks. 474 pages. FRE/062525.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Franklin Library Special Edition. Green quarter leather cloth boards with gilt embellishment to panels, gilt lettering and decor to spine. Gilt sharp and bright. Boards very good with light edge wear. Top right outer corner lightly frayed. Small scuff to back panel. Else fine. Spine square. Nice binding. Gilt text block edges. Marbled endpapers. Interior clean and unmarked. Pages crisp and bright. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gustav Dore (illustrator). Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes. Circa 1870 (undated) Elephant Folio. Text in German. Hundreds of woodcut plates by Gustave Dore. Original black full calf. Spine and boards decorated in gilt and blind stamped. Edge gilt. Wear to the tips, edges, and spine. Some cloth tears to head and foot of spine. Tightly bound and internally clean. Large volumes. Additional postage may be required.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Berlag von Eduard Hallberger, c.1875. Quarto with gilt top stain. Hardcover. Text is in German. Book is very good with some toning to the page ends, and some edgewear. A very good copy of this look at the adventures of Von Munchausen with illustrations by Dore.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

1st printing thus (cf. Smith II, 12n1). Unpaginated, though 19 leaves [last 3 blank]. The Life of our Lord, in 14 installments, extracted from an unidentified newspaper, and affixed to album leaves, with Dore's illustrations opposite. Stubs of excised leaves at rear. Illustrated with 12 scenes from Dore's BIBLE (cf. Malan, p. 247). From Smith, "Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord over a period of four years from 1846 until sometime in 1849. It was written exclusively for his children and not for publication. However, with the detah of Sir Henry Fielding, Dickens' last surviving child, the family sold the world publication rights to Associated Newspapers Limited for £40,000 ($210,000), and the work began publication in the Daily Mail on March 5, 1934. It was published simultaneously in nearly two hundred different newspapers in America." Album cocked, and shows wear. First two album leaves filled with newspaper extracts on other topics, e.g., "The Duke of Sonora. Grant Gwin and McDowll. A Hitherto Unpublished Letter from General Grant Relative to Gwin's Designs on California." Housed in a commercial Scrap Book, yellow cloth with black, red & silver stamping. "J. Frank Pierce / Books Stationery / Augusta ME" label to front paste-down.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Two folio volumes in slipcases. Leather covered with gilt lettering and designs. Backs replaced (as per photos). Some foxing , plates are for trhe greatest part in excellent condition. The extreme heaviness of these volumes ( 16.5 KG) will require additional postage. More digital photos upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Old Testament, Apocrypha and New Testament. have separate title pages, are paged separately, and plates are listed separately. Title pages printed in black and red. 3 volumes bound in 2 (968 pages ; pages 969-1116, 188, 346 pages, [238] leaves of plates). Vol. 1. Old Testament. Genesis to Lamentations -- Vol. 2. Old Testament. Ezekiel to Malachi. Apocrypha. New Testament. No date, circa 1885. Two volumes bound in contemporary embossed pebbled calf, backs with five raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled end papers with wide intricate gilt roll-tooled doublures, all edges gilt. Very Good, Vol.I with hinge open at t.p., front joint opening 2" at top edge, 1" tear p.965 at left margin, both volumes with wear at at joints, edges and corner with loss of leather at corners, small tears to calf at spine ends. Still, a solidly bound set with none of the heavy foxing this book is prone to,a quite clean and lovely set, the illustrations especially bright and clean. Gustav Dore was considered the master illustrator of his time, and this Bible is one of his crowning achievements. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

4. Auflage,. Mit 230 Bildern (Holzstichtafeln) von Gustav Doré,1236, 344 Spalten, Schönes Exemplar mit handschriftlichem Besitzvermerk, minimal stockfleckig an den Vorsätzen. Mit zahlreichen Holzstichtafeln nach Gustave Doré sowie Zierleisten Sprache: Deutsch 43x33, geprägtes schwarzes Oldr mit Vollgoldschnitt.