Eugene Klimsch (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Noel Pocock; Eugene George Klimsch; Danielle Deschenes; Richard Doyle (illustrator). 1st Edition. New, and pristine. See scans and description. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2015. Grimm's Fairy Tales, by the Brothers Grimm. Color illustration plates throughout (23 of them) by Noel Pocock; binding design by Danielle Deschenes; cover engraving by Eugene George Klimsch; endpaper art is 'Under the Dock Leaves' by Richard Doyle (British Museum. The 2015 Decorative Bonded Leather Bound B&N Edition. Rich red bonded leather with extraordinarily gleaming and ornate gilt and silver embellishment design by Deschenes and center front engraving by Klimsch; decorative endpaper painting by Doyle; gold silk page marker ribbon; All Edges Silver; 349 pp. (x + 339). Striking. Brand new, just out of publisher's shrink wrap for scanning; the shrink wrap will accompany the book. Pristine and flawless, cover to cover. See all scans. A decorator piece for the shelf, but of course an eminently readable one as well. 55 timeless Brothers Grimm fairy tales, in what is certainly one of the best-looking incarnations of such tales to date. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course; not a bag. L7n.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Chromolithographs & woodcuts; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 48 pages; 1899 Lothrop Publishing , Boston. Larger royal octavo HC in original quarter red cloth backed spine and chromolithograph illustrated paper covered boards. 1st edition, thus. The sanitized and reworked version of the escapades of the late Middle Ages jester, Till Eulenspiegel, here made into a children's book and illustrated with 4 full page chromolithograph color plates and numerous b&w in-text woodcuts. A well preserved example with bright clean pictorial boards and sound cloth backed spine. Mild fading to cloth spine; light shelf rubbing and some mild nicks and flaking to the paper over the boards at edges and tips. Publisher's linen lined hinges are sound and endpages bright and clean. Expected mild toning to page stock. A few trivial instances of fingering to the pages, but generally quite clean and neat. Uncommon thus. VG.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. A collection of humorous stories about the titular trickster, translated from the 1515 German chapbook about the folkloric figure Till Eulenspiegel. Very Good plus, lacking the dust jacket, with lightly edgeworn and soiled boards. Scarce.