Translated Lestrange (22 results)

Condition: Acceptable. Missing dust jacket. Meets the acceptable condition guidelines. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 257 pages. Ex-university library marks, some wear to the spine and covers; pages tanned; a reading copy of an old book. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Classics; Inventory No: 220017.

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Not Stated. Sometime Captain in the Florida Army of His Excellency the Marquis Hernando De Soto., an autobiography, translated from the Spanish by Dominick Daly, with preface by Henry M. Stanley, London, 1896, 301 p., map frontis, light soil, light wear, uncut, between good and very good, early exploration in and accounts of the inhabitants of the New World. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A RARE EDITION IN The "Chandos Classics" Series. pp.xxviii, 364 pages, a Very Good hardback, publisher's original dark blue cloth binding with paper label to the spine (dust dulled but lettering still readable). NOT FROM A LIBRARY and indeed completely clean of any former owner markings. Undated, so circa 1890.

Calder, Alexander (illustrator). paperback, 4to, 128pp, b/w illustrations, clean and sound, no inscriptions, corners slightly rubbed, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0486217809.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback, blue cloth with printed spine label, marks on covers, head, tail and corners rubbed and bumped, former owner's name and blind embossed stamp on front end-paper and name on title-page, tear to fore-edge of page 303 repaired, some light marks throughout. Please contact me for photographs or further information if required.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Moderate wear. Spine is ripped up at top. Previous owner's name written in red pen on back inner cover. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First of this edition. First published in 1938 in France. This is a collectible copy of the first English edition, very good in very good unclipped dust jacket. The 'story' of two archetypal figures, a highwayman and 'a beautiful young woman he believed to be an incarnate demon', their travels across the wildest regions of Tibet, and their encounters with the dark magic of Tibetan magicians. In her preface, David-Neel notes: "a true story which has been lived", a believable claim given her extraordinary life. With explanatory 'Notes' at rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. N.D. [c1900] 8vo, pp,xxxii,364, with 110 original illustrations, gilt titled navy cloth, uncut, foxing to fore-edge, hinges are cracked but tight, light age-toning. Chandos Classics.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition for age of the book. Hard cover in very good condition, evidence of rubbing, bumping, tanning and spotting across external board. Minor rips on the top and bottom of spine. Internally, front and backboard spine crease is exposed. Slight rubbing bumping on internal front and back boards. Brown and gold spine. Internal pages in very good condition for age of book. Tanning and spotting on pages internally and externally. Handwritten inscription on front page. Black and white illustrations. Includes frontispiece. 364pp. Overall very good condition.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. [4] 284pp, contemporary calf, boards appear to have been subjected to heat and restored, recent skilfull reback and corner repairs, some foxing throughout (heavier on the first few pages including the title), armorial bookplate on front pasredown, 8vo (16.5x10cm), ESTC T88975.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edward J. Detmold (Edward Julius Detmold 1883-1957) (illustrator). Limited Edition of 750 copies signed and numbered by the artist, This copy No.534. 4to, unpaginated, with limitation page, half title, title page and a further pp204 printed on one side only, complete with the 25 beautiful tipped-in colour plates by Edward J. Detmold. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers red cloth binding with gilt tiles to spine and blind stamped borders, titles and centerpiece to front board in good condition with shelf wear and rubbing to top & tail of spine, edges of boards and tips with some marking and scratches to boards. Inside except for toning to end papers and the odd mark to edges of pages, all pages and tipped-in plates in very good clean and bright condition. A very nice copy of this first edition illustrated by the prolific Victorian and early twentieth-century book illustrator Edward J. Detmold. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Limited edition, being number 57 of 525 copies, signed by the illustrator Stephen Gooden. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange and featuring an engraved title page, 11 engraved plates and pictorial initials. Bound in the original full velum, decorated in gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936. Publisher's original vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, device in fourth compartment gilt, fox device on front cover gilt, covers bordered with gilt rules and cornerpiece, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; pp. 313, [1]. A very good or better copy. Minor shelfwear to boards with a light bump to top front corner, traces of soiling to boards. Spine a touch toned, rubbing near spine crown, near imperceptible slip along one spine compartment. Foxing to prelims, else internally clean. A very nice copy of this beautiful volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Contemporary panelled calf. Worn covers, front cover nearly detached. No engraved frontis. Old ink trials to front pastedown. PO names. Scattered spots/foxing/damping. Pp. [8], 190, [8] ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rubbed and worn. Engraved frontis. [6], 190pp and [8]. Early and large unidentified armorial bookplate.

Full Leather Hard Back. Condition: Good. blank + Licensed page + Title page + blank + Title page (yes a duplicate title page) + blank + iii + blank + 344 pages, antique full leather binding fair/good, worn, some minor leather loss, spine title label mostly missing, covers attached to spine very good. Contents mostly good, clean & tight. A couple of inscriptions to a only a few pages inc title, some ageing/handling of pages, contains blank endpages front/rear. Size: 11 x 18cm. Approx.

Gilt-decorated Cloth. Condition: Good. Detmold, Edward J. (illustrator). xvi, 152 pp. 23 tipped-in colour plates by Edward J. Detmold. Publisher's brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A little edge-wear, marking and rubbing to binding. A little splitting at hinges and staining to half title, otherwise with just a handful of spots throughout.ÂEarly ink name to prelim. VG, save for the minor shaking to the binding. 28cms tall. 4to. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The seventh edition corrected. [12], 29, [xi], 549, [1] pp. with frontispiece portrait of the translator. Hardcover, bound in full calf, rebacked; with calf backed slipcase. The binding scuffed. Light foxing; marginal damp staining. [Of-C1-S4].

hardback, 4to, 313,(1)pp, title page and 11 copper-engraved plates plus woodcut decorative initials, all by Stephen Gooden, signed by the artist on limitation page, light foxing on page edges and some offsetting from the plates, otherwise clean and tight, no ownership marks, top edges glt, marbled endpapers, gilt-decorated full vellum binding, Very Good condition.

Blind-stamped Cloth. Condition: Good. Detmold, Edward J. (illustrator). Signed Limited Edition. This is copy no. 537 of an edition limited to 750 copies signed by the illustrator Edward J. Detmold. Publisher's original maroon blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Series of spots to cloth of front board. Slight fraying to spine ends. Early ink name to front endpaper. Internally clean. With twenty-five tipped-in colour plates by Edward J. Detmold. The binding is unusual. One often sees the white buckram version, but the plainness of this, and the lack of gilt edges or decoration to the covers suggest it was a volume intended to forwarded to your binder to place some fancy dan affair around it. 4to. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gooden, Stephen (illustrator). Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION of 533 copies of which this is number 354. Signed in the colophon by the artist, Stephen Gooden. Hand-numbered copy printed on handmade paper. 312, (2) pages. 7.25 x 10.25 x 1.75 inches. 12 copper engravings by Stephen Gooden, including title and tail-piece, and 198 large historiated engraved initials. Original full vellum. Stamped in gold with double fillets, a fox in the center of the upper cover and grapes and vine-leaves in the angles of both covers. Cambridge University Press for George G. Harrap. With engraved title, 11 original full page copper engravings on plates, and many decorative woodcut initials by Stephen Gooden. Gilt-lettered spine and ornate covers with double gilt fillets, grapes on corners and jumping fox in the center of front cover. The slipcase is not the original one from 1936 but was created by a later master bookbinder. Re-impression of the seventh corrected 1724 edition of L'Estrange's (1617-1705) translation. Stephen Gooden's (1892-1955) masterpiece. The animals are rendered with such plasticity in every detail that they seem to jump out of the leaf. - Bodemann 434.1. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, No inscriptions, no spotting. Gilt titles to spine, gilt rule to boards, with small pictorial decorations to corners and center. Signed by Illustrator(s).