Illust Julius (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2ND PRINTING STATED Little Golden Hardcover Book NEA RFINE clean copy no writing in or on book, cover has very lite rubbing, binding is solid, no jacket issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. illust. by Julius Griffith (illustrator). First Printing October, 1953`. Tan cloth binding with darker brown author, title and publisher on spine. 135pp. Content clean and sound.

Condition: New. Csotonyi, Julius (illustrator). 2022. Cards. . . . . .

Condition: New. Csotonyi, Julius (illustrator). 2022. Cards. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1ST (A) PRINTING STATED hardcover VERY GOOD clean copy no writing in or on book, binding is solid, cover is worn, no jacket issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition presumed. Color Art; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 0 pages; 1928 Thomas Nelson & Sons. Oversize HC in publisher's pale blue cloth with vibrant color pictorial title panel mounted to the cover board. Presumed 1st edition. Tightly bound and neat with no marks. Small sticker removal abrasion top corner and and trace shelf soiling of the paper title panel mounted to the cover board. Mild flecking to the cloth of the rear board. Contents fres; illustrated with striking bird portraits from color paintings by Estelle Duval and with endpaper, cover art and background page decorations by Kurt Wiese. Believed issued without dust wrapper. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition presumed. Color Art; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 16 pages; 1927 Thomas Nelson & Sons. Oversize HC in publisher's tan cloth with vibrant color pictorial title panel mounted to the cover board. Presumed 1st edition. Tightly bound and fresh with no marks. Just a hint of shelf soiling to cover. Contents immaculate; illustrated with striking bird portraits from color paintings by Estelle Duval and with endpaper and cover art by Carl Hurlbut. Believed issued without dust wrapper. NF.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. THE REESE COPY. New York: Alfred E. Mathews, 1866. First edition. Oblong folio. 20th-century quarter calf to style over green pebbled cloth boards. Title and author gilt to the front board. With 36 scenes on 23 tinted lithographed plates. Spine faded. Head and tail worn. Margins of 5 plates repaired with tape, beginning with the frontispiece. Heavy foxing and offsetting throughout the plates. Final leaf chipped. Pencil ownership inscription of "May C. Mathew-Bishop"(?) on the title-page. Alfred Edward Mathews (1831-1874) emigrated to the U.S. from England and became an itinerant bookseller and artist. He came to Colorado in 1865, having honed his illustrative skills as a Union soldier during the Civil War. He sought to present the awesome natural beauty of Colorado, as well as mining interests there. His documentary illustrations of the American West are accurate and attractive, among the earliest and most important of his time. Julius Bien, an American lithographer originally from Germany, was a specialist in chromolithography. Based in New York City, he printed a broad array of topics and maps, including a lithographed edition of John J. Audubon's The Birds of America. From the collection of William S. Reese (1955-2018), who was one of the great Americana booksellers. His firm continues to trade in New Haven. After his death, Christie's New York sold his private collection (24-25 May 2022; the present item was lot 260).