Facsimile Edition (32 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.G.J. Askins Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: SNEAB
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 20.00
US$ 6.00 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Facsimile Reproduction. 300 page hardcover Facsimile reprint of Vol. 1 and 2 of the Literary periodical published in Albany NY by E. Perry in 1835-7. Limited Edition reprint of 1000 numbered copies - this copy is #58. Zodiac published 19 issues in the 1830s and all are reproduced here…in facsimile. Blue board exterior with title in gold on front cover and spine. Unmarked, tight and clean.
More imagesPublished by American Pine Barrens Publishing Company, Albany, NY, 1980
- Hardcover
- Magazine / Periodical
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.Dennis Holzman Antiques
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
US$ 24.00
US$ 7.00 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Facsimile Edition. Signed by person(s) connected with book. Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. This facsimile edition copy is signed by Don Rittner on the title page and is one of 1000 copies. Blue gilt-stamped fau…x leather over boards, includes several issues of the Zodiac (July 1835 - January 1837), 2 volumes bound together. Corners very lightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 9 oz. Category: Periodical; Signed by person(s) connected with book. ISBN: 0937438006. ISBN/EAN: 9780937438008. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012296.
Published by RSG Publishing, Bainbridge, NY, 1994
- Hardcover
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 27.50
US$ 8.00 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Facsimile Reprint.
Published by Navy Records Society, London, 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller3-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 40.00
US$ 3.50 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Large 8vo. Pp. xxxix, 341. Index. Blue cloth spine with white buckram-covered boards, gilt device to cover, gilt lettering to spine. With a facsimile page of "A Dialogical Discourse Concerning Marine Affaires." Vol. 65 in the series. Bookplate of a RN pre-WWII submariner; spine a tad…faded. Reprints "Six Dialogues about Sea Services between an High Admiral and a Captain at Sea" (1685) by Nathaniel Butler ("Boteler"), a governor of Bermuda under Charles I. Dialogues between an Admiral and a Captain on how to maintain a ship and engage it in fighting, duties of officers, the administration of victuals, information on payroll, pillaging and the appropriate use of weapons.Sections on "Boarding;" "Being Boarded;" "Chasing;" "Fighting;" etc. Contains an interesting section on seafaring terms. An interesting piece of ephemera is laid in: A "Night Rounds Report" from the HMS Chrysanthemum date 1930. Before being scuttled, the Chrysanthemum was used in a Steven Spielberg shooting for one of the Indiana Jones movies. A handsome copy. Blue cloth spine with white buckram-covered boards, gilt device to cover, gilt lettering to spine. Facsimile page from 1685 edition. (illustrator).
Published by Daniel O'Connor., London., 1922
- Hardcover
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United KingdomSapience Bookstore
Contact seller2-star sellerCondition: Used
US$ 36.25
US$ 23.69 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHard with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very good in like dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION of 950 copies sold. Very good in like dust jacket. Dust jacket a touch nicked to edges. Foxed to outermost leaves and page edges. Uncut pages. Illustrated with 28 plates in collotype and a facsimile title of the first edition. (illustrator).
Published by Express Newspapers PLC, London, 1992
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United KingdomKerr & Sons Booksellers ABA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 20.91
US$ 40.60 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1992 facsimile edition. Quarto. Illustrative printed boards. Spine faded. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.
Hannah More : her Bible dramas, poems & tragedies complete.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833. Works (1830 edition), selections from vols. 1-2 in facsimile reprint.
Published by London: 1931., Thynne and Company, 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.Alec R. Allenson, Inc.
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Variously paged; front. (port.), photograph at end: backs of the 1830 edition in 11 vols. of her works; 20 cm. Contents: title-page, notes and contents, [6] p. -- From vol. 1, 1830: Sacred dramas. Introduction, Moses in the bulrushed, David and Goliath, Belshazzar, Daniel, p. [1]-154 - Reflections of King Hezekiah in…his sickness (verse), p. [155]-62 - Bible rhymes, on the names of all the books of the Old and New Testament: with allusions to some of the principal incidents and characters (verse), p. [181]-248 - Here and there: or, this world and the next: being suitable thoughts for a new year (verse), p. [408]-09 - Pleasing recollections and joyful anticipations; on being importuned by a friend to write verses when I was very ill (verse), p. [413]-16 -- From vol. 2, 1830, miscellaneous pieces (verse): Time: a hint for the new year, p. 35 - Zaccheus, p. 38-9 - Solitary musings, p. 40-1 - The widow's mite: or, the last offering, p. 44 - A riddle, p. 48; hymns: The true heroes: or, the noble army of martyrs, p. [51]-3 - A CHristmas hymn, p. 54-6 - A midnight hymn, p. 60. VG orig. blue cloth, covers bowed.
Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
SHAKESPEARE, Mr. WILLIAM & KOKERITZ, HELGE (Facsimile Edition Prepared by) & PROUTY, CHARLES TYLER (Intro)
Published by Oxford University Press 1955, 1955
- Hardcover
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: IOBA
Condition: Used
US$ 45.68
US$ 24.19 shippingShips from New Zealand to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketLg heavy quarto, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, errata slip to preface page, xxix + 889pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate fading to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges & eps).
Published by Sherwin & Freutel, Los Angeles, 1970
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.sonalsorises
Contact seller2-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 45.00
US$ 7.00 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCondition: Fine. first Edition Thus. First Edition thus, facsimile of the edition of 1671. Small folio, original cloth, fine. This large volume require a little extra postage. Facsimile Edition (illustrator).
Little wars : (a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books) ; with an appendix on kriegspiel
H. G. Wells : Foreword to facsimile edition by Isaac Asimov, introduction by Christopher
Language: English
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1970
- Hardcover
Seller: Gwyn Tudur Davies, Aberystwyth, United KingdomGwyn Tudur Davies
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 118.49
US$ 21.86 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hbk, 111 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Corners slightly bumped and minor wear around edges o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. The dust wrapper is torn around edges with some loss, a few old tape-marks. [War games Juvenile literature] f1642 / m15568. Ma…rginal drawings by J. R. Sinclair (illustrator).
The Adventure of the Creeping Man
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; facsimile edition, with an introduction and annotated transcription by Neil McCaw
- Hardcover
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United KingdomJoseph Burridge Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: New
US$ 111.52
US$ 36.54 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: New. Includes facsimile manuscript with annotated transcription and The Strand Magazine version of the text. Description: 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm 'The Creeping Man is perhaps the most eccentric of all the Sherlock Holmes stories. A heady mix of familiar detective-investigation and seemingly outlan…dish science-fiction, it is the tale of the mysterious Professor Presbury, and the extraordinary consequences of his unremitting quest for eternal youth. And, as always, the only person who is able to decipher the clues and uncover the truth behind the peculiar, and even the outright bizarre, is the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes. It is he who diagnoses the Professor's apparent pathology, and he who in so doing re-establishes the status quo.'.
More imagesThe Equinox of the Gods [The Equinox III(3)] - Collector's Limited Edition
Aleister Crowley, Hymenaeus Beta (Note To The Facsimile Edition)
Language: English
Published by New Falcon Publications [Issued by the O.T.O. in association with], 1991
- Hardcover
Seller: Gates Past Books Inc., NY, NY, U.S.A.Gates Past Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 325.00
US$ 8.99 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Scottsdale, AZ: New Falcon Publications [Issued by the O.T.O. in association with], 1991. Limited to 100 Copies. Leather Spine and Corners, Marbled boards show extremity rubbing (see scan). Spine rounded, fore edge remains concave with Sewn binding tight. Light edge age. Marbled endpapers mirrori…ng boards. Conservatively a Very Good+ copy Indeed. Limited Leather-bound Edition. Hard Cover/Leather/Sewn. Very Good+. Illus. by Full Color Stele of Revealing [Verso & Recto] / Four Horoscopes / First Sketch of a Qabalistic Key to Liber Al / Facsimile Manuscript with The Comment. 8vo - 9" tall.
Language: English
Published by Secker & Warburg, 1984
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomTHE BOOKSNIFFER
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 348.51
US$ 27.07 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A great FIRST EDITION copy of this important and fascinating facsimile. A considerable weight means this large sized book will need extra postage depending on destination. A slight 'pull' at the top of the spine is the only fault.
More imagesThe Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. With decorations by Eric Gill.
Folio Society [Facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1931]
Language: English
Published by The Folio Society, London, 2007
- Hardcover
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United KingdomKerr & Sons Booksellers ABA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 418.21
US$ 40.60 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 2007, Folio Society facsimile. Limited Edition, no. 634/2750. Folio format. 14" x 10" approx. 268pp. Publisher's full gilt-blocked goatskin leather. With accompanying volume: "The Four Gospels: Essays by John Dreyfus & Robert Gibbings", bound in quarter cloth over papered boards. Both… housed in the cloth-covered clamshell box. A couple of small bumps to extremities of box. Both books clean and bright. Overall a 'Fine' copy.
More images- Softcover
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United KingdomSetanta Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - As new
US$ 473.97
US$ 25.04 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Soft cover. Condition: As New. Facsimile and limited edition paperback in as new condition. In a slip case. Includes a slip with the text translated in English. No markings. Dust jacket in removable protective sleeve. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
Language: English
Published by Studia Traditionis Theologiuae,Volume 63, 2025
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Luigi De Bei, PREGANZIOL, TV, ItalyLuigi De Bei
Contact seller2-star sellerCondition: New
US$ 536.82
US$ 42.85 shippingShips from Italy to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Rilegato. Condition: nuovo. Dust Jacket Condition: nuovo. prima edizione. Ecclesiae Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris Antiquissima The Latin Translations of Greek Canons and Councils from the Fourth Century A complete facsimile edition introduced, prepared and indexed by Dominic Moreau, Thomas O'Loughlin, and Philip R. Amidon S.J. 3…vols, c. 1500 pages, 216 x 280 mm, 2025, ISBN 978-2-503-61995-8 (HB) eISBN 978-2-503-61999-6 € 450 excl. VAT Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae, vol. 63 For the first time, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner's monumental Ecclesiae Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris Antiquissima (EOMIA), originally published between 1899 and 1939, is now available as a complete reprint with introductions by Dominic Moreau and Thomas O'Loughlin, and an index of names and selected words by Philip R. Amidon S.J.
- Hardcover
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomTHE BOOKSNIFFER
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 585.50
US$ 27.07 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. An extraordinary example of modern technology at the service of a great and ancient book; this is a two volume facsimile of the Luther Bible, known as the book of books, with a separate cultural and historical introduction by Stephan Fussel. All three books are contained in a sturdy s…lipcase. All three books are as new, but the slipcase has some superficial signs of usage. This is truly a highly collectable treasure. An exceptionally heavy set, so this may need extra postage depending on the destination.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by The Antonine Publishin Co. Ltd, Glasgow, 1974
- Hardcover
Seller: Bulman Books, Dereham, United KingdomBulman Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 1,394.04
US$ 18.47 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Facsimile edition, limited to 1000 individually numbered copies of which this is number 78. Buckram covered boards with gilt titles on leather labels to spine. Complete illustrated d/w. which shows light tanning to spine. Gilt decorated dark green sli…p case which shows light shelf wear to extremities. Publisher's label bearing number of this copy to rear paste-down. Compiled almost 400 years ago, this book is one of the earliest actual accounts of magical research. At the rear of the book is 'A Note on Dr John Dee and His Occult Researches'. A lovely collectable copy. Please note, this book weighs in excess of 2.4Kg and may therefore require additional postage.
More images- Hardcover
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomTHE BOOKSNIFFER
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: New
US$ 766.72
US$ 27.07 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. This volume is the first-ever facsimile reproduction of the manuscript of OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens. Of all of Dickens s novels, Oliver Twist remains among the best loved and indeed most read, so insists famed actor and Dickens enthusiast Simon Callow. The original manuscript of…the novel, which appeared in 33 monthly instalments between 1837 and 1839, has never before been reproduced in printed form. Here it is, with its corrections and marks, with every ink blot. With this manuscript, all 474 folios the only ones that survived after the author's death are finally presented to the public in a deluxe edition. In this work, the pages formerly worked on by Charles Dickens are reproduced in a graphically-restored version, accompanied by George Cruikshank s iconic illustrations and prefaced with a foreword by Simon Callow. More than mere relics, they are a living testimony to the development of the narrative and to Dickens s success. The serialised novel form imposes tight constraints on the writer, as it asks him to leave the reader in suspense at the end of every chapter while maintaining a coherent plot, all without the possibility of going back to make corrections. Is it possible that the creator of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Scrooge also pioneered the cliffhanger? This edition was produced in collaboration with the prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, where the original manuscripts are housed within the Forster collection. The Charles Dickens Museum, located at 48 Doughty Street, in the house where the writer lived during the two years he wrote Oliver Twist (1837-1839), also provided a handwritten page from Chapter 10 of the novel bearing the inscription original manuscript of Oliver Twist .Charles Dickens: I have thrown my whole heart and soul into Oliver Twist, and most confidently believe he will make a feature in the work, and be very popular . . . When Charles Dickens wrote these lines at the beginning of 1837, the first two chapters of Oliver Twist had just appeared in the pages of Bentley s Miscellany, a new literary magazine founded by Richard Bentley, of which Dickens had just been named editor. Aged only 25, the young writer had already tasted success with his first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Likewise, it seemed he was already beginning to sense that his young orphaned hero, Oliver Twist, would become a star. From the moment the first two chapters were published, the adventures of Oliver Twist, illustrated with etchings by George Cruikshank, were met with great success: the February issue of Bentley s Miscellany had to be reprinted with an additional 1,000 copies. The following chapters, always accompanied by Cruikshank s illustrations, followed in monthly installments until April 1839, as the young boy s popularity the first boy in English literature to be cast as the hero in a novel soared rapidly. Dickens was on the verge of becoming one of England s most famous writers. Twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank are reproduced in colour from a rare edition published in 1911. Born in London in 1792, twenty years before Dickens was born in Portsmouth, the illustrator George Cruikshank found great success through his political cartoons. Following 1820 he began illustrating for books and magazines. In 1836, when the publisher Richard Bentley hired a young Dickens to be the editor-in-chief of his new periodical, he also enlisted Cruikshank to liven up the magazine s pages. The artist consequently became the illustrator of Dickens s first works: Sketches by Boz, The Mudfog Papers and Oliver Twist. From May 1837, he had to provide two etchings per month for Bentley s Miscellany: one of which was always to accompany the serialised novel Oliver Twist.
More images- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. Facsimile of Edinburgh, 1705 first edition. Forbes, William. A Treatise of Church-Lands & Tithes: In Two Parts, Containing, An Historical Account of Ecclesiastical Revenues, Churches, Church-Yards, Church-Offices, Benefices, Glebes, Manses, Patronage, Monachism, Religious, And Some Military-Orders, With a Particul…ar History of Tithes: And a Clear and Full Discusion of Points of Right and Controversy, Relating to These Matters; And Shewing How Far the Scots and Canon Laws do Agree; And Differ. A Distinct Explanation of Actions before the Commission, Concerning Ministers Stipends; Tithes; Erecting or Transplanting Churches; And the Inlarging or Restricting Parishes. And of Actions About Ministers Stipends, Tithes, &c. Falling Under the Cognisance of the Lords of Session. [Holmes Beach, Fla.]: Gaunt, 2001 facsimile of the Edinburgh, 1705 first edition. [xvi], 450, 1, [23] pp. With a final supplementary index leaf. Publisher's textured black cloth with gilt stamped spine. Light shelfwear. Black tape affixed to foot of spine. Ex-library with property stamps of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School Law Library to page edges, pastedowns and endleaves. Internally clean and bright. A very good copy. $50. * Facsimile of the only edition, published two years before the Act of Union with England, Forbes's treatise offers an excellent overview of the fascinating legal Scots-canon structure that governed tithes, ecclesiastical obligations and church properties in Scotland. English Short-Title Catalogue T130854. Facsimile of Edinburgh, 1705 first edition. (illustrator).
Cercle et Carré. Collection complete, 1930
Seuphor, Michel - Hubert Juin (foreword to this facsimile edition)
Language: French
Published by Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 1994
- First Edition
Seller: studio montespecchio, montespecchio, MO, Italystudio montespecchio
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 59.65
US$ 15.06 shippingShips from Italy to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCondition: Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto, unpaginated (38 pages), illustrated in black and white. Green printed wrappers. - Facsimile edition of the three issues published in 1930 by Michel Seuphor. With articles and notes by Michel Seuphor, Juan Torres-Garcia, Hans Arp, Jacques Dalcroze, Le Corbusier, Piet Mondrian, Georges Vantong…erloo, J. A. Gorin, Le Corbusier, Adolp Behne, Hans Richter, Jan Brekowski. Illustrations after Otto Van Rees, H. N. Werkman, Antoine Pevsner, Russolo, C. Domela, Vordemberge-Gildewart, J Torres-Garcia, German Cueto, G. Vantongerloo.
Published by Collins New Naturalist number 4, 2008
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomTHE BOOKSNIFFER
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: New
US$ 62.73
US$ 27.07 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Splendid facsimile first edition of the fourth in the New Naturalist series. Perfect, new, unread, unopened edition. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories and Tragedies
Kokeritz, Helge (a facsimile edition prepared by); Prouty, Charles Tyler (introduction by)
Published by Yale University Press, 1955
- Hardcover
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.Robinson Street Books, IOBA
Contact seller4-star sellerAssociation member: IOBA
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 87.50
US$ 9.50 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to baskethardcover no dustjacket. Condition: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED4to; pages not numbered in order but is a just over two inches thick; good hardcover no dustjacket; spine starting to slant; tips bumped with slight fray; edge, spine head, spine heal all bumped; some faint tanning; clean pages; p…rompt shipping with tracking.
More imagesPublished by GROSSET & Dunlap ,NY UNITED ARTISTS, 1932
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.Bluff Park Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerAssociation member: IOBA
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 225.00
US$ 8.85 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1932 ,1ST EDITION THUS, BOOK NEAR FINE & DJ IS VG+ , AS-IS, BURGUNDY CLOTH WITH BLUE PROFILES OF MENS HEADS With photographicendpapers in the front from Movie. With photographice endpapers in the front. Otherwise book is in NEARmint condition,…exterior boards like new and book appears unread under a very lightly worn jacket, depicting Ronald Coleman starring in the United Artist's film of the same name. Endpapers illustrated with scenes from the movie. Jacket has minor wear at spine ends, rear panel has list of other photoplays with stills from the movies, 328 PGS + ADS ,Chance Meeting in a London Fog between John Chilcote, M,P, Rich & Aristocratic & John Loder His Double, Poor Obscure & without Friends Begins this Dramatic Story, It leads 2 a Series of Exchanges. That works out the Destiny of these 2 Men. Never has the Idea of 2 Human Beings Resembling each Other So closely as 2 Make their Identity Indistinguishable Been Used with such Tremendous Effect. Chilcote, the Aristocrat Finds an Unequalled Opportunity to Indulge in Vice. LODER GRASPS THECHANCE 2 SATISFY His Craving for fame & Success. The Likeness deceives Every1 even Chilcote's Lovely wife who finds a New Love & Faith in Loder.
More imagesTrimalchio [The Great Gatsby]; A Facsimile Edition of the Original Galley Proofs of The Great Gatsby
Published by University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina, 2000
- Hardcover
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 750.00
US$ 8.00 shippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketBoards. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Thin folio, [77 unnumbered leaves]: 7 introductory, 57 body of text, 11 afterword by Bruccoli, 2 notes. Laid paper sheets measure 24" x 6". Fine condition. Publisher's paperwork and original invoice laid-in. One of 500 limited edition copies, this one numbered 52 on limitation sheet. All… sheets housed in a blue case, with title printed in black on paper label affixed to top cover. Includes the publisher's original cardboard shipping container. Full piece measures 28" x 8" x 2". "Great Gatsby Special Edition / $75.00" handwritten on box, with original shipping label intact. Trimalchio was one of numerous titles Fitzgerald debated naming this classic American novel. The name references the early Roman character who lived an ostentatious life funded by his newly earned money. Fitzgerald's editor, Max Perkins, recommended a simpler title than Trimalchio, claiming it would be too obscure and too difficult to pronounce for general audiences. Other potential titles included: Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Trimalchio in West Egg, On the Road to West Egg, Under the Red White and Blue, The Gold Hatted Gatsby, and The High-Bouncing Lover. Ultimately, The Great Gatsby was published on April 10, 1925. Limited edition of Trimalchio, a facsimile of the original Galley Proofs of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This piece was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2000. (illustrator).
More imagesA DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, in Which the Words are deduced from their Originals.To Which are Prefixed a History of the Language and An English Grammar; (With), THE PLAN OF THE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
[Facsimile, First Edition Dictionary]; Johnson Samuel; Fleeman, J.D; O'Kill, Brian
Published by London Printed by W. Strahan, For J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, (but, Longman Group UK0 1755, (but, 1990), 1990
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.Buddenbrooks, Inc.
Contact seller5-star seller4 volumes, including two of the DICTIONARY as originally issued, another being the facsimile of the first edition of THE PLAN OF THE DICTIONARY. and a volume containing essays concerning The Genesis of the Johnson's Dictionary and The Lexicographic Achievement of Johnson. First Edition of the Facsimile of the Original First Edit…ion of each title. Title-pages printed in red and black, woodcut tailpieces. Royal folio (410 x 260 mm.), expertly bound to style in full red Cabra leather, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled creating compartments which are paneled in gilt, one compartment with green lettering label gilt, three other compartments with gilt lettering, the covers with gilt fillet rules at the borders, original end-leaves, the Essays and PLAN in original wrappers, the volumes all housed in the original slipcase. Original Collation: Vol. I [A]2, B-K2, a-c2, d1,2B-2K, 2L-13A2, one leaf signed 13B-14Z; Vol. II [-]1, 15A-16Z2, one leaf signed 17A-17Z, 18A-22E2, one leaf signed 22F-22Z, 23A-27D2, one leaf signed 27E-28Z, 29A-31C2 . A very handsome copy beautifully preserved. The bindings are in excellent condition. The text-blocks both clean and unpressed. This is a fine, handsome and clean set of the volumes. Both the PLAN and the Essays volumes also in fine condition as well THE FINE LONGMAN FACSIMILE OF THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF SAMUEL JOHNSON'S MASTERWORK AND THIS A HANDSOME AND CLEAN AND LARGE COPY. "The most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography (PMM). Begun in 1747 and printed over five years, Johnson's DICTIONARY set the standard for all subsequent lexicographical work. Its excellence was immediately recognized in all quarters and the first edition of two thousand copies sold quickly. What set Johnson's DICTIONARY apart from earlier efforts was his reliance on the examples of English literature rather than his own intuition or previous word lists or dictionaries, a method that has been the standard ever since, from Richardson and Webster to the Oxford English Dictionary. Johnson, in undertaking this vast work, set out to perform single-handed for the English language what the French Academy, a century before, had attempted for French. He hope to produce "a dictionary by which the pronunciation of our language may be fixed, and its attainment facilitated;" and though, of course, no language can be frozen in time, by aiming at fixing the language he succeeded in giving the standard of reputable use. As Noah Webster stated, his work "had, in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics." Johnson presumed to finish the work for the Dictionary in three years by his own labor, but he underestimated the work required and it eventually took nine years to complete (though not all of his time was spent upon the Dictionary, as he was also the editor of The Rambler at this time) and required the assistance of six amanuenses--five of whom, to Boswell's satisfaction, were Scotsmen. "Johnson's achievement marked an epoch in the history of the language. The result of nine years labor, it did more than any other work before or since towards fixing the language. The preface ranks among Johnson's finest writings. The most amazing, enduring, and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" (Printing and the Mind of Man). "The most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century" (Hitchings); "the only dictionary [of the English language] compiled by a writer of the first rank " (Robert Burchfield) and first genuinely descriptive dictionary in any language. "Johnson's writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics" (Webster). "It is the fate of those that toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be . punished for neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward. Among these unhappy mortals.
More imagesPublished by Folio London, 2014
- Hardcover
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomTHE BOOKSNIFFER
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: New
US$ 1,045.53
US$ 27.07 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION OF 980 COPIES, this being number 535. In two volumes. Volume one is a facsimile edition of the William Morris Manuscript of The Odes of Horace reproduced from the original in the Bodleian Library, in full colour and gilt. Small 8vo. Very handsomely bound in full brown I…ndian goatskin. Printed on a special paper that closely matches the vellum of the original. Beautiful facsimile, very exceptional and extremely hard to find. Sold out edition. Volume two is a large slim 4to book with green paper-covered boards with gilt text and border to front cover. The text within is W. E. Gladstone's translation of the Odes with a Commentary by Clive Wilmer. Both volumes are presented in a beautifully constructed box designed by David Eccles, which has the smaller leather volume sitting in a red inset box with ribbon to allow easy removal of book. The larger volume sits neatly above so that both are tightly protected by green clam-shell box which is decorated in gilt and silver. An insert is included that could be framed. An altogether successful facsimile with all the wonders of digital reproduction. TRULY OUTSTANDING AND VERY RARE INDEED IN THIS NEW CONDITION, which was only taken from the box to photograph the contents.
More imagesPublished by Bruccoli Clark Books/NCR Editions, 1973
- Hardcover
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomTHE BOOKSNIFFER
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - As new
US$ 766.72
US$ 27.07 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES IN A SLIPCASE. AS NEW CONDITION. CAREFULLY STORED, UNOPENED and safe inside an AS NEW slipcase. The red cloth is not faded, which is the usual condition of copies. Red is a notoriously easy to fade colour, but this is in its full rich tone.The… slipcase contains the two volume edition. Both volumes are bound in the same rich scarlet cloth. The paper labels are all as new, on the volumes themselves and on the case. No defects. The two slipcased volumes are quarto; their hardcovers are bound in full cloth with spine titles on paper labels; A full colour frontispiece of the author. Pages are reproduced in monochrome facsimile, and it is fascinating to see the crossings out and amendments. This limited edition is numbered in ink to the limitations page. This copy is number 476 of the limited edition of only 1,000 copies. RARE, especially in this particular condition. One strange fact: the volumes have two dates - 1972 on one and 1973 on the other. A superb set, of great interest to anyone who treasures the book, and particularly for collectors, libraries, historians and scholars. VERY SCARCE.
More imagesPublished by Editions des Saints Pères PARIS, 2018
- Hardcover
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomTHE BOOKSNIFFER
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: New
US$ 1,184.93
US$ 27.07 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. How would you feel as you look at the manuscript of one of the great works of literature? The Picture Of Dorian Gray enthralls the reader, and the actual manuscript of it is STUNNING. This gorgeous facsimile uses today's matchless ability to capture every mark the author made as it evo…lved. It is frankly deeply moving to hold this work in the hand. It is deservedly a substantial production, and it is so beautifully produced it made this bookseller gasp. Special paper, special care; and here is the nearest we shall ever get to handling an artistic priceless treasure. Only 1800 copies were issued. Today's digital fidelity captures every mark, every alteration; here is an overwhelming work for any collector of Wilde. It is a truly sumptuous oversize production, reproduced on Fedrigoni Avorio paper. This is almost overwhelmingly affecting. It is a large heavy book, gorgeously produced, and it is in a superb slipcase. It is fairly heavy and substantial in every sense and I commend it to anyone seriously interested in this extraordinary and prescient work. It may need extra postage depending on destination. Slipcased, issued without a jacket, NEW AND UNREAD.
Notes & additions to the census of copies of the Shakespeare first folio 1906 [LeatherBound]
Lee, Sidney, SirShakespeare, William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies. Supplement to the reproduction in facsimile of the first folio edition (1623)
- Hardcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, IndiaTrue World of Books
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1906 edition.… NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 40 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
