Mazet, Signed (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "First Printing, 1957" stated. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine price-clipped dust jacket. Book has a 2 inch by .75 inch sticker 'shadow' along bottom edge of front pastedown. Dust jacket has trivial signs of wear to head and heel of spine and top edge. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Appears to be signed by author on front free endpaper: "To a Big Fisherman! Horace S. Mazet Balboa Island, Cal. 1961". Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Très bon. de son diocèse. Broché, couverture orange imprimée. In-8 (23x16). 55 pages. Première floraison des oeuvres de charité, multiplicité des maisons hospitalières, les hopitaux et les règlements civils, la charité à notre époque. Parfait état avec envoi d'auteur. Signé par l'auteur.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R320054708: 1965. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 227 pages - ENVOI DE L'AUTEUR. . . . Classification Dewey : 97.2-Dédicace, envoi.

feuillets. Condition: Très bon. Édition illustrée. Michel MERESSE / Elbio MAZET. ECLATS. livre d'artiste. 1983, Chez les Artistes, Evry. Emboitage cartonné noir en percaline qui s'ouvre en charnière. (39, 5 x30, 5cm). Contenant 22 planches mobiles (38 x 28, 5 cm), "pressées" sur un papier épais (Arches, France). La première planche indique seulement le titre et le nom des deux artistes. La dernière constitue le justificatif: 45 exemplaires signés et numérotés de 1 à 45 + 5 épreuves hors-commerce avec la date et le lieu de la publication). L'ouvrage consiste en l'alternance de planches de texte (il s'agit d'un long poème en vers libres et de planches d'illustrations). La moitié de celles-ci sont incolores mais fortement estampées (des formes non figuratives en relief = gros gauffrage); les autres illustrations sont, elles, lithographiées en noir, avec les mêmes formes non figuratives. Chaque lithographie en noir a son double avec les mêmes motifs en relief gauffré. Le texte, quant à lui, est composé d'une typographie également en léger relief. (Lettrage très légèrement estampé). Ouvrage peu courant, il n'y a pas eu de gros tirage, seuls 45 exemplaires ont été imprimés. Signé par l'auteur.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York: Gotham House, 1934. Second printing, 1934. With personalized inscription signed by the author to Blanton Winship, Governor of Puerto Rico, in 1935. Golden tan cloth, map endpapers, no dustjacket. Illustrated in black and white, mainly from photographs. Godo condition with some uneven fading to the covers, spine lettering no longer visible, light edgewear, good hinges, sound text block, age-toned but clean pages, one additional note about past ownership above the author's inscription, no other markings. . Inscribed by The Author. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published 54years ago in 1971: Horace Mazet F.R.G.S. undertook several safaris in East Africa and befriended a white hunter named Fernie whose parents were pioneer settlers in Kenya. Fernie was a professional white hunter who due to incidents beyond his control became a full fledged poacher fighting against the Somali gangs and other cut throats for survival.This is Fernie's story of survival in the African bush, pitting his wits against men and wild animals. A presentation copy to author's friend, warmly inscribed and signed by him (Horace S. Mazet) on the front end page (see images). Very good book in very good dust jacket with tear mended in the back and the jacket is protected in removable mylar. A collectable rare title inscribed and signed by the late author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Full sharkskin binding with embossed shark on front cover. 8vo. 287pp. Bookplate. Illustrated. Original tan cardboard slipcase with shark tooth tie. Copy #19 of 425 copies signed by the two authors. A thrilling story of the author's expeditions hunting sharks in Hawaii, Australia, the Caribbean, the Red Sea and elsewhere. Young spent much time in Hawaii at the turn of the century working a cargo schooner which traveled between the islands. A very good copy with some light wear to the sharkskin binding. The text is very good with some light spotting to a few page margins. The title and limitation page have some browning in the gutter. The slipcase is good with some browning and wear to the edges and some flaking to the surface. This full sharkskin binding is quite scarce with most copies issued in half-sharkskin and embossed cloth. Burns Y-6. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Horace Sawyer Mazet (1903-2002) was an African big game hunter and author of two other adventure books and numerous articles on wildlife. He was on Safari in East Africa several times accompanied by his guide and professional hunter "Ernie"whose full credentials are not disclosed here, as Ernie became a fugitive from justice, wanted by the law, among other crimes, poaching elephants for the ivory to sell them in black market to survive, as his legal hunting rights were suspended due to a series of misadventures and red tape. Here Mazet examines Ernie to record his rise and fall from a noble profession that forced him to. Eco e a full time poacher, like many others did before him. Hunting elephants in the olden days cost next to nothing, and the rewards-were high. Hunters like W.D.M. Bell, F.C.Selous, Tony Sanchez Arino, Pondoro Taylor, James Sutherland, C.H. Stigand, Dinis Lyell and countless others killed hundreds of elephants for their ivory a d sold them amassing fortunes large enough to retire comfortably. This is the story of such a hunter forced to become an outlaw in the modern Africa, with a lengthy inscription by the author in pen on the front blank page.illustrated with photos ans a map, 284 pages with dustjacket protected in mylar. Inscribed by Author(s).

A beautiful and highly original livre d'artiste, with text by Méresse 10 large full-page hors-texte original prints by Mazet (5 woodcuts and 5 embossings). Edition limited to 50 numbered copies printed on extremely fine, thick Arches wove paper and signed by the author and the artist. This copy with a long, poetic presentation inscription from Méresse to André Lagrange, signed in pencil and dated 1983. Folio. Loose as issued in cloth folding case. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R300299649: Vers 1990. In-8. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 30 pages environ - 6 gravures sur bois en noir et blanc hors texte de Elbio Mazet. Reliure japonaise. Très rares rousseurs. Plats toilés bleus, avec contrecollée sur le 1er plat une huile orignale de l'artiste. . . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 97.2-Dédicace, envoi.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R300300002: 1990. In-4. Relié toilé. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 30 pages environ - 23 gravures sur bois en noir et blanc hors texte de Elbio Mazet. Reliure japonaise. Très rares rousseurs. Plats toilés verts, avec contrecollée sur le 1er plat une huile orignale de l'artiste. . . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 97.2-Dédicace, envoi.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Lasteyrie, C. de (illustrator). First Edition. Illustrated at rear with 5 extraordinary color lithographs by C. de Lasteyrie, showing a man in progressive stages of yellow fever. Extra folding lithograph plate "A la Memoire d'Andre Mazet" is bound-in as a frontispiece.vi + vi, 144 pages. Short thin folio, blue morocco-backed marbled boards (edges are a bit of edgeworn; some foxing to text but plates are clean); marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Paris: Audot, 1820. First edition. Very good(+). A small paper bearing the inscription "A mon bon ami M. Foure, E, Pariset" is glued to the flyleaf, causing some wrinkling on that page. Mazet died two years after the publication of this book, a victim of yellow fever contracted during a similar expedition to Barcelona.

Mainz, Edition Despalles 1986. 37 (1) S. Original-Pappband 33,6 x 22,1 cm. Eins von 180 nummerierten und von allen drei Künstlern im Druckvermerk signierten Exemplaren. Sehr gutes Exemplar.

Condition: Used: Good. Occasion - Bon Etat - Dédicacé par l'auteur - Dépasser le mal en soi (2012) - Grand Format.

S.l., (Centre international de recherche et diffusion de la gravure sur bois), (1983). Un vol. au format in-folio (382 x 282 mm) de non paginé, en feuilles, sous coffret de pleine percaline satinée olive, titre frappé à l'oser lie-de-vin au premier plat. Tirage unique à 50 exemplaires seulement (dont 5 hors-commerce) ; tous tirés sur vélin d'Arches. L'ouvrage s'agrémente - ici en premier tirage - d'intéressantes xylographies à pleine-page par Elbio Mazet ; lequel a apposé sa signature autographe à la mine de plomb au colophon. ''Dans l'?uvre du peintre, sculpteur et graveur, la place prépondérante est tenue par les bois gravés noir et blanc dont les formes figuratives imposantes paraissent repousser le format du papier. Elles transposent dans la gravure le langage plastique de la tradition latino-américaine et son rapport à l'expressivité.'' (Despalles Editions). Très belle condition.