Keese John Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. 12mo, (pp. 247). This is a book of 38 writings and poems. HB. No DJ. Boards are black with gold gilt design on front & back, and printing on spine. Wear at corners, ends of spine & along edges. Front & back hinges cracked. 14 b/w plates. Foxing. Page edges gold. Front endpaper torn out, otherwise strong, tight and clean. WRITINGS. POETRY. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good -. No Jacket. Later Edition. Small Quarto volume in embossed beveled blue cloth profusely accented with gilt. Some hand coloring of the gilt flower motif on the front board. This cover is soiled with heavy rubbing at top and bottom of spine. Top corner of front and back have turned white. AEG. . There are no splits or tears in the cloth. It simply is not worthy of gift quality. The case is tight. All thirty plates are intact (28 of which are single flowers). There is moderate foxing and spotting throughout. Top edges have light soil. Numbered pages are 112. None of the plates are included in the numbering convention. This volume will not fit USPS Priority envelopes. Overseas shipping will be requoted if necessary. US priority will depend on destination Zipcode. Not Stated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to hardcover volume in green gold embossed binding. Binding quite good with a little wear to spine ends and tips. Lovely gilt designs are quite bright. Boards tight end papers unmarked and not split. 304 pages with 9 engravings. Usual scattered foxing. A much better than normal copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In the original gilt-embossed full leather covers and spine. The book's spine is cracked but all pages are firmly bound in and the book is complete. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown (inside front cover). Previous owner's signature and date (1847) on the second end page. Pages are not very soiled and are not water-stained, but there is heavy foxing to almost every page. A few pages have a heavy stain where a bookmark or something was laid in. The leather covers are not very soiled and the gilt decorations and lettering are clean and bright. There is, however, a great deal of rub wear to edges of covers and spine. There is also soiling, foxing and scratches to the gilt outer page edges. In the lower left corner of the front cover there is splitting along the seam between spine and front cover with about a 1" tear. In spite of its age, the book still makes an attractive addition to a shelf of antiquarian books. (Note: Photos may show a flash reflection.) PayPal always welcome. We pack all our books with care and ship in cardboard boxes. Shipment outside of the United States may require extra funds. Additional photos emailed upon request. J. G. Chapman (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large octavo. 304pp. Contemporary light tan with three gilt fillet borders, outermost thicker than the other two. Decorative corner pieces at the angles, with another border of fleur-de-lys. Decorative gilt tooling around the portrait of Christ within a small oval, with rays radiating in all four directions. Pattern repeated on lower cover. Flat spine decorated in gilt with floral sprays, a large fleur-de-lys and banderoles. Title, printer, and place of publication gilt on spine. All edges gilt. With nine engravings, three hand-colored by J. G. Chapman. Foxon 625; Thompson, American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, pp. 100-101; Not in Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855. 0.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo volume in full red leather embossed boards. Fancy front and back. Spine and boards tight with no splits.Some rubbing but would polish up. End papers not split. 30 color plates are present. Most plates have some scattered light foxing from the tissue guards. One plate is loose. Still the prettiest copy you will find.…

Hardcover. Quarto, 112 pages, plus 30 engraved plates. In Good condition. Bound in full red cloth with gilt ornamentation and lettering to spine and boards. Rebacked with original spine preserved. Boards have moderate rubbing wear throughout, fraying to edges, and bumping to spine and fore corners. Textblock has rubbing wear to the pastedowns, tears to the edges of some end papers, foxing and stains to some pages throughout, offsetting to the opposite pages of the plates, and gilt edges. The third front free end page has a pencil inscription dated 1857. Contains a previous owner's cross stitch decorations adhered to the rear free end page; a tipped in decorated paper doily; and a hand-written poem pasted onto the rear free end page. SR Consignment. Shelved in Room A. 1403366. Special Collections. …

Hard Cover. Mid-19th century elaborate publication with red cloth and numerous hand painted, in some cases, gilt decorations on front board and spine. Very good in original cloth, with gilt page edges and decorations, some of have worn partially. Front hinge is a little loose, as are a couple of the signatures. There are 28 illustrations, and two preliminary pages, all of which are brilliantly hand colored and all have the original tissue guards. Each illustration has a two page text accompaniment, and there are a couple of indexes at rear called "Language of Flowers." A beautiful book, scarce in the original binding.…