Osborn Introduction (37 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - one small scratch on the back DJ - My shelf location bn1-e-24.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 54 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Jean de Bosschere (illustrator). Illustrated Edition. The Abbey Library / Murrays Book Sales (Kings Cross) Ltd. , London, England, U.K. , circa 1955. Near Fine+ in a Very Good- Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is clean, pages somewhat tanned but thick and firm, tight, straight and square, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full yellow cloth, color uniform throughout, with gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked, illustrated endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform throughout, intact after repair, with a 3" tear to the front panel discreetly closed from behind and a 1" tear to the rear panel also closed from behind, and wear at the edges and folds. The original price (25s.) is intact on the front flap. See photos. 282 pages plus 16 unnumbered pages of the artist's plates. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4'. Written in the 2nd Century, C.E., it is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. It was originally entitled Metamorphoses, referring both to the initial transformation of Lucius into an ass by means of a potion and later the entry of Lucius, again in human form, into the Mysteries of Isis, but the name The Golden Ass came from St. Augustine's reference to the work, in his treatise The City of God, as asinus aureus. In form it is an episodic picaresque novel. This edition was translated by William Adlington, and contains an Introduction by E. B. Osborn, and sixteen (16) full page erotic illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, along with many other partial page drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. De Bosschere, Jean (illustrator). Tight binding, clean interior. Magenta boards with bright silver lettering; mild wear, light fading to top and bottom edges. DJ is preserved in mylar, moderate wear and soiling, small pieces missing from spine and folds, spine lightly faded. Interior is unmarked. "It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass." Illustrated in colour and Black and White. 282 pages.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Osborn, Michael (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First publication of the complete and unexpurgated edition in the UK. This is the first printing with the price at 8/- and 40p on the back cover. There was a later printing with a different cover design and only a decimal price but with the same printing details given inside the book. Four page introduction by Professor David Daiches. Heavy reading creasing and edge rubbing to the spine with a little tearing at the top and bottom. Some surface and edge creasing to the covers with a small surface chip at the top of the back cover. Page edges browned with a small ink stain to the fore edges and small tears to the bottom edges of several pages. The pages are browned but otherwise generally unmarked. Cover design by Michael Osborn. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 1969 Revised Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 296 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Slim quarto, 48pp, black and white half-tone illustrations, publisher's printed wrappers (notations at verso of first page, moderate soiling, creases, rubbing, bumps to corners, else good to very good).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Osborn, Robert (illustrator). Signed by author on half title page. A nice copy of book with light wear; dust jacket has normal scuffs and soils. 201 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Soft cover. Slim quarto, 48pp, black and white half-tone illustration. In publisher s printed wrappers, small ink name on cover and a few light creass to corners, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xiii, 256 pp.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Jean De Bosschere (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited edition, number 2843/3000. Tight binding, solid illustrated front board and spine strip, bright gilt lettering to spine strip, top edge gilt, bumped lower corners, 16 tissue protected plates-8 in color, 8 in black and white-clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 375 Pp., Green Cloth, Gilt. Folding Map At Rear Of Text. Teg. Stated Second Printing, October 1926, Oe Month After First Printing. A Bright Clean Copy, Spine A Little Faded With Gilt Weak But Clear, A Few Pages Wrinkled Or With Short Tears At Top Edge.

Hardcover. Limited edition, 845/3000. Octavo, xlv, 231 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is red with faded gold print. Boards in red cloth, gilt illustration on front panel; fraying to spine caps and corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Text block has tanning and foxing to endpapers, intermittent spine breaks, slight amount penciled marginal notation. Illustrated: color frontispiece, b&w and color plates with tissue guards. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1407486. FP New Rockville Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 54 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 168 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White/Color Illus. (illustrator). Berlin, Germany: Phonix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1928. . Hardcover. 4to., 174 pp., rubbed, bumped, cover toning, writing inside cover, lightly toned pages .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Trade Edition. Book plate of prior private owner on front pastedown. Some light toning to paper. 305 pages plus fold-out map with small tear and some edge creases. Very good in dark olive green cloth with gilt titles. Hinges are sound. Slight edge wear and slight corner bumps to cloth. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. J.B. Shackelford - illustrations and photographs (illustrator). 375 pp, index, illustrations. Boards are grubby, edgewear, frayiing at extremities. Hinges broken - no loose pages. Previous owner's name and small date stamp front and endpapers, leaves yellowed and foxed - o/w unmarked.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. American Nature Series Group IV. Working with Nature. TEG. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks. .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Limited Edition of 3000 numbered copies, this No. 2,165, gilt-stamped and decorated red cloth with blind ruling to front panel, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, all plates present and tissue guards intact, slight rubbing to boards and rounding to corners, small closed tear to cloth at spine top, offsetting to endpapers, neat name and date (Jan 1925) to front pastedown, else clean tight copy; lg thick 8vo; (xlvi) 231pp illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First edition of this translation. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1938. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Pages are fresh and crisp. Bound in the original maroon cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine is still bright and shiny. Subtitle: "Translated from the Second Edition, Authorized August 10, 1908, with an Introduction and Notes." The Translator's Introduction fills 29 pages. Appendixes. Index. . First edition of this translation. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./No Dust Jacket. 8vo. xlii, 192pp. .

Condition: Fair. 1931. Hardback. C?ip caite, roinnt mhaith marcanna & n?ta? ar an t?acs.495pp. Not a first edition copy. . . .

Hardcover. Condition: g. First edition. Quarto. XXIV, 501pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Scarce and fascinating work on the science of handwriting study and abounding in the fascination of solved mysteries and celebrated cases. This study is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions of forged documents. Five b/w images printed on three leaves resting in pocket at rear of book. Minor age-wear on binding with some discoloration on upper spine, and slight rubbing along edges. Previous owner's signature and bookplate of Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law Otto McCutcheon, and dated May 1912. Slight age-toning along paper margin. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition.

First edition (not stated but per matching dates upon title and copyright pages). [frontis], i-xviii, 1-305, [1], [2], [foldout map]. Hardcover: H 20.25cm x L 13.75cm. Brown cloth mottled with black ink stains; mottling affects some of spine's gilt stamping but front board gilt lettering remains bright. Four-line ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper; slight foxing/toning to interior leaves. Binding lightly stressed at a few quires but otherwise firm. Total of 82 b/w illustrations (including frontispiece portrait and foldout map at rear) with several plates on unpaged leaves; Introduction by Union Army General T.M. Harris; publisher ads on unpaged single leaf at rear as well. Bibliographical reference: Jay Monaghan "Lincoln Bibliography, 1839-1939" #1356.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. "It is thought by the author that at a time when public interest is awake to the importance of producing a superior saddle horse in America, and, in particular, increasing the number of desirable mounts available for the cavalry, a resume of the qualities peculiar to the Arabian horse may be pertinent and of scientific value." - Preface. "I desire, as a horse lover from my earlest days and as a close student and observer of the horse, to express my delight with the scholarly as well as popular preparation of this splendid volume." - Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. xxvii, [5], 218 pages. Index. Bibliography. Lovely color and black and white plates. Reprint of the 1929 first edition. Unmarked with moderate wear to original tan cloth decorated in gilt. Binding intact. No dust jacket. A sound copy of this classic work which is sure to please lovers of the breed.; Folio.

Condition: Good. 8vo., pp. xii,203, hardcover, quarter bound in black cloth with contrasting marbled paper boards, 20 b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light staining to front free endpaper where red colouring of the top edge has leached, also affecting margins of several pages, light damp staining to title page, plates and endpapers, two lines of very light scoring where pencil underlining has been rubbed out to a few pages, boards rubbed, sunned to spine, lettering faded, light wear to corners, overall a good+ copy.

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto. (18)pp., 34 plates, 38pp. Original faux vellum boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Publisher's device on title page. Max Osborn describes Michael Rachlis' work as kind, light and comfortable, Rachlis as somebody with innate taste who understood to offer a joyful and festive attitude in gruff German times as well as somebody with a delicate sense for the organic that guides the architectural work. Known for his Berlin set designs for the theater, this volume is illustrated with 34 offset reproductions of Rachlis interiors showing his work from 1929. Includes extraordinary designs with sixteen plates showing rooms and halls of a villa in Berlin-Grunewald, three plates of a car dealer sales room, six plates with the interior of the Hotel Eden, six plates of the Berlin nightclub Cascade, and three plates of Bol's Tavern. At rear 38 pages with illustrated advertisements of relevant Berlin interior design businesses. Text in German. Binding lightly stained and rubbed with light wear along edges, small chips along spine. Light foxing of endpapers. Starting at half-title. Few pages with crease at upper right corner and two small closed tears in margins of plate 27. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition. Michael Rachlis was born into a Jewish family, studied at the Technische Hochschule München, and worked in Berlin as a set designer starting in 1913. Later he designed country houses as well as interiors, at times in collaboration with the Hungarian architect Ferenc Domány. In 1922/23 the architect Hans Nitzschke worked at Rachlis's studio. Starting in 1928 Rachlis worked for the Deutsche Werkstätte, a leading furniture manufacturer who's archives were deemed to be a valuable cultural asset. Rachlis emigrated to London in 1935 and worked as an architect until his death in 1952.