Knickerbocker Pseudonym (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to, printed pictorial wrappers, 48pp. Illustrated. A mash-up of Mad Magazine, comic books & other weirdnesses. About a Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Hardcover. 1820. Printed for W. Wright, London. Frontispiece of Knickerbocker. Bookplate on front end paper and a definition written on front end paper, no other marks or writings, light foxing, but majority of pages bright and clean. Binding mildly loose, spine and front bottom corner quite worn, spine ends and corners worn. Small piece of title on spine missing. More images upon request. Z1.…

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 19 by 13.5 cm. 454 pp. This was a volume issued as part of a set but the only indication that there was a set is on the half-title; it functions perfectly well as a standalone volume. Small cloth loss along front joint. Age toning to pages.

Two volume complete set. Full title - A HISTORY OF NEW-YORK, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY. CONTAINING, AMONG MANY SURPRISING AND CURIOUS MATTERS, THE UNUTTERABLE PONDERINGS OF WALTER THE DOUBTER, THE DISASTROUS PROJECTS OF WILLIAM THE TESTY, AND THE CHIVALRIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF PETER THE HEADSTRONG, THE THREE DUTCH GOVERNORS OF NEW-AMSTERDAM . . . IN TWO VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION. . . VOL. I and VOL. II. Hardcovers: H 19cm x L 11.75cm. Relatively modern rebindings (circa 1950s-1960s) in matching quarter leather - red leather spine with yellow cloth boards. New endpapers with colorful splatter effect (rather than marbling). Interior foxing throughout with moisture tidelines at top margins. Bindings are firm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition xvi - 495 engraved frontis. some spotting to the frontis and title page engraved bookplate of John Hartshorn to the front paste down name in ink to inner blank. The contents clean and tight. Bound in a contemporary full tan calf gilt decorated spine some darkening in places, the binding tight with no splits or chips.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Maxfield Parish. Very good first edition book, no dust jacket. Gray paper covered boards with tan cloth covered spine. Paste-down by Maxfield Parish on front panel, gold lettering on spine. Upper page edges are gilt. Boards are soiled and a bit scuffed overall, some small stains around the edges. Spine is heavily spotted. Edges at head and tail of board spine are softened and creased. Several rubbed through or scraped places on upper and lower board edges and fore-edge edges including fore-edge corner tips. A few minimal smudges on internal pages else book is internally clean. Several inside pages are uncut. All Parish illustrations are in fine condition. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PARIS EDITION. Two volumes. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.7 inches). Vol. 1:xxxix, 344pp. - Vol. 2: viii, 312pp. Very good copies, untrimmed in the original publishers printed wraps. Neat engraved booksellers label (Langues etrangeres vivantes Bobee et Hingray, Libraries, Paris) stuck onto the front free endpaper of volume one. Edges untrimmed. Some creasing to the corners and minor loss to the paper on the bottom of the spines but overall a very good copy and uncommon in the original paper wraps. …

Condition: Good. New York: Inskeep and Bradford / Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1812., 1812. Good. THE RARE SECOND EDITION WITH THE ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF KNICKERBOCKER BY WILLIAM STRICKLAND - Octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4 inches wide. Hardcovers, 2 volumes bound in non-matching full calf titled on maroon labels on the spine. The covers of both volumes are rubbed & scuffed. The leather is splitting along the front joint of the first volume and the front cover of the second volume is detached though present. The pagination of the first volume is as follows: [4], xxii and 270 pages; that of the second volume is: [4] and 248 pages. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece engraving by William Strickland at the front of the first volume. The portrait is closely cropped with loss to the title, "Knickerbocker". There is some occasional foxing and soiling throughout both volumes. The front endpaper of the second volume is detached, there are paper and paste repairs along the top and front edges of that second volume's title page, without loss of text, and there is a tear and hole to the rear endpaper of that volume. Good. RARE Second Edition complete with the engraved frontispiece portrait of Diedrich Knickerbocker with his walking stick signed "Strickland". Although several institutions have catalogued the second edition as having a folding frontispiece, as was included with the 1809 first edition, Howes [I-83] clearly calls for a portrait plate in the second edition. William Strickland, 1788-1854, is best known as an architect and civil engineer. However as a young man he created illustrations for numerous periodicals and was known as a pioneer in the art of aquatint.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 18 by 11 cm. With fold-out frontis plate of New Amsterdam in first volume. Wear along joints. Spines with some goopiness. Scattered soiling to the leaves, but overall, an attactive copy of hard-to-find first edition of this New York classic, with very handsome custom slipcases that are circa 1900. Full Calf. Quarter morocco slipcases.…