Three Portraits (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, 3 colour plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 3 pages, 2 colour portraits. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24.5 cms. Category: English Illustrated Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books tracked. PayPal accepted. First Edition. Essays in a series of letters on Ophelia, Portia, Desdemona, Juliet, Imogen, Rosalind and Beatrice. Original vellum type boards. 4to size, 443 numbered pages, uncut edges, bookplate on paste down, spine a little scuffed in places and marked and a little split along edge. Covers marked. A very good copy of well produced book. Illustrated with three full page portraits (illustrator). …

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Three obituaries with lovely photo illustrations. The first two are published in "Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased", part of the volume of 1912 for the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London pp I-XXXV, for Sir William Huggins and George Johnstone Stoney, both reports accompanied by lovely and detailed photogravure portraits of the men. The third example is a biography for Huggins, appearing in NATURE for 4 July 1901, a two page report accompanied by an excellent rotogravure of Huggins. This is an extract of four pages from the weekly issue, and is not complete, though the Huggins article is. Both are 9.5x7.5" or so. VG condition. |\| We remember the great Huggins for his work in astronomy and particularly spectroscopy. Stoney we remember so: George Johnstone Stoney FRS was an Irish physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity". He had introduced the concept, though not the word, as early as 1874, initially naming it "electrine", and the word itself came in 1891."--Wikipedia. …

dj. Very Good (little edgewear & occasional discoloration covers; contents clean & tight with minor browning text; some moderate browning endpapers); wear & some soil (shallow & other chipping along edges & few tears) d/j. Small 8vo., green cloth, title stamped in gilt, in original dust jacket; 116 pages First Edition. A series of essays by Robert Wilkins Lide about the ?loyal? relationships, ones of affection and devotion, between white Southerners and former black slaves. An uncommon book, especially in any decent dust jacket. Signed presentation from J. W. Norwood to a kinsman, Mr. MacMillan C. King, on the front endpaper, dated 1945. Illustrated: with three full-page photographic portraits of former slaves. (illustrator). Signed.…

Hard back binding in contemporary dark green roan covers, gilt title 'Costumes' and four gilt cross lines to the spine. 32º. 2½'' x 2½''. Contains 96pp with 47 single-sided engraved copper plate monochrome illustrations of people of the world. Rubbing to the edges of the covers, slight spine slant. Member of the P.B.F.A. FASHION (Costume & Millinery). …

First edition. Illustrated with three black-and-white photographic reproductions of the authors' portraits. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Untrimmed. 232, (2) p., and 3 plates. Scarce, Lithuanian edition of Yiddish literature. With modernist cover design. A collection of short stories by Yiddish authors, such as Sholem Aleichem (18591916), Scholem Asch (18801957), and I. L. Peretz (18521915). Pranas Naujokaitis (19051984) was a Lithuanian writer, journalist and editor, author of Lietuviu Literaturos Istorija (History of Lithuanian Literature). Extremely scarce, WorldCat locates only two copies worldwide. . Cover artistically restored. With Pranas Naujokaitis' posessors inscription on the title page and collection stamp on cover. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Untrimmed. Illustrated with three black-and-white photographic reproductions of the authors' portraits. (illustrator).…

Condition: In very good condition. Original, vintage, black and white photographs. Mugshot's size: 140 × 90 mm (one of them slightly smaller); the typology portraits: 90 × 120 mm. Each mugshots with two images, a full face and profile of the offender and identification number, some dated (1922). On verso: name, birth date and place, the committed crime and the sentence in ink in French. 8 mugshots of female murderers, different types of killing indicated on verso: homicide, voluntary manslaughter or infanticide. 3 mugshots of male offenders with less information on the verso, one was a murderer. 3 typological portraits of women, the different types are indicated in ink on verso: "type musculaire", "type cérébral" and "type nerveux" and added "hérédo-syphilitique" (congenital syphilis). . Original, vintage, black and white photographs. Mugshot's size: 140 × 90 mm (one of them slightly smaller); the typology portraits: 90 × 120 mm.…