Language: English
Published by Grant & Cutler Ltd, London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0729301087 ISBN 13: 9780729301084
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Slender softback in very good condition. Dedication and signature by author penned to half-title page. Light shelf and handling wear only, pages tightly bound, content unmarked. Signed by Author. Used.
Published by Routledge, London, 1905
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
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Cloth. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/w. JAMES, GILBERT (illustrator). First Edition Thus Illustrated. xxxii + 91pp; With 12 photogravures; Frontispiece loose but intact with tissue-guard; Slight foxing throughout; Ex Libris label to f.e.p.; Inscribed by the author "For darling Flo from the Author 23 xii 26 Iterum dico gandete (?)"; Quarter marbled boards; Bumping to corners; Size: 8vo. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Preissig, Vojtech (illustrator). First Edition Thus, Limited, Signed. First edition thus, hardcover, and signed by the illustrator and designer, Vojtech Preissig, and marked as no. 364/1500 on the colophon. The book has mild wear to the spine ends, and slight sunning to the spine. Overall, this is a solid, sharp, Very Good+ copy in a Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with short creased tears to the spine ends and corners, sunning to the spine with faint soiling at the tail, a few small smudges to the covers, slight wear to the edges with a short tear to the tail of the back, and a crease to the upper corner of the rear flap. Housed in a Near Very Good slipcase, which has light bumps to the corners, rubbing with smudging across the panels, a few areas of soiling, and sunning to the edges.
Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Limited edition, 1095/1500. Octavo, 77 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket in a Good minus slipcase. Slipcase in brown paper; tear to bottom edge, wear to corners. Spine is tan with black print. Dust jacket in mylar; toning to spine, slight edge wear. Boards in cream cloth, multicolor decoration. Text block has deckle edges; penciled numbers on front flyleaf. Illustrated: color. Signed in ink by the illustrator on the limited edition page. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QB (ND-QB). 1410207. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed.
Published by Limited Editions Club, 1935
Seller: Nighttown Books, Powell, WY, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Beautiful gilt-stamped decorated lavender, aqua & black cream-colored boards in dust jacket and slipcase, #299 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the designer & illustrator, boards immaculate, binding tight pages bright, an exemplary copy in dust jacket which is a little toned at edges with slight wear to ends & corners & very shallow chipping to spine ends, slipcase edge-chipped with slight paper loss to one spine end & beginnings of seam splits at openings but solid & whole; 4to; 77pp illus + colophon. Signed by Illustrator.
Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Preissig, Vojtech (illustrator). Illustrations and decorations in color by Vojtech Preissig. 77 pages. Slim 4to, decorative cloth, decorative d.w. (spine lightly sunned); deckled edges. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper and box. One of 1500 numbered copies, printed in Czechoslovakia on J. W. Zanders hand-made paper, and signed by the illustrator.
Published by Limited Editions Club ( 1931 ), New York, 1931
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 77 pages, Copy no. 49 of 1500 copies on handmade paper, signed by Czechoslovakian designer and illustrator, Vojtech Preissig. This text survived the 12th or 13th centuries in only one manuscript of this Song-Story. "Written in the Picard dialect by a sophisticated craftsman . this chante-fable is a masterpiece marked by a naive beauty produced by a nice calculation of efforts. It is written in mixed prose and verse, for recitation to a musical accompaniment." - THESAURUS OF BOOK DIGESTS. Printed in Preissig type in Czechoslovakia on hand-made Zanders paper. "As for the style I have attempted, if not Old English, at least English which is elderly, with a memory of Malory." - A. Lang.
Published by George G Harrap & Co
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Numbered 58 of 125 and signed by illustrator; red leather over marbled paper; light edge wear; front hinge is split; color illustrations throughout; Interior is clean and unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; all edges gilt; unpaginated. Signed by Illustrator.
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Designed and illustrated by Vojtech Preisseg (illustrator). Designed and illustrated by Vojtech Preisseg. Hardcover. Limited edition # 961 of 1500 copies. SIGNED by Preisseg. Quarto. 11.75 x 8.25". 77pp. Printed in Czechoslovakia for the members of the Limited Editions Club. 1931. Very nice art-deco design and decoration. Patterned cloth has a bit of darkening rusty spots to edge. Small abrasion and ink date on fly-leaf. In dust jacket that has edge wear and toning/ offsetting, with good plus slipcase that has some edge wear and cracks at ends.
Published by Adolf Holzahusen, (Wien (Vienna), Austria, 1919
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
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Junk, Rudolf (illustrator). folio. original quarter suede, gilt-stamped paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut, decorated endpapers. unpaginated. Text in German. Limited to 385 numbered copies, signed by illustrator Rudolf Junk on verso of colophon. Woodcut illustrations by Junk. Translated from the French by Erwin Rieger. Produced according to the plan of Arthur Rößler. Binding, with gold embossing, by Carl Scheibe of Vienna. Note from the translator laid in. Covers chipped at edges and corners. Front inside hinge partly cracked. original quarter suede, gilt-stamped paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut, decorated endpapers.
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931
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The 7th book in the 2nd series, this being #206 of 1500 copies. Signed by the illustrator Vojteck Preissig. Translated with an introduction by Andrew Lang. Printed and bound by The State Printing Office of Czechoslovakia. Hand-set in Preissig Antiqua (First use) on Zanders special hand-made paper. Bound in full tan silk, 80 pages. VG+ book showing some wear to spine. Original DJ, missing spine section in a very good slipcase Print info from 1985 Bibliography and Snyman - Grossman LEC Checklist #19. Signed.
Number 12 of 63 copies on Japanese paper, signed by D. Nutt.66pp. 22.5 x 13.5cm, Original stiff illustrated wrappers.with glaslin wrappers.(sl. chipped)protect cover. very good.
Stiff card wraps. Condition: Near fine. Limited edition. 8vo. xx, 70 pp. Printed in black and red. Two engravings of the title persons. Stiff plain boards covered with a dustwrapper. Trace of soil to the wrapper but essentially a fine copy. With the engraved bookplate of Charles B, Foote, and a Blackwells bookseller ticket. One of 53 numbered copies from an edition of 63 on Japanese paper, and signed by David Nutt. This is copy No. 9. Housed in a green leather solander case, gilt spine titles. The leather is soiled, spine faded to brown, but still presents good appearance. Tne preliminary page states that the poem was translated in June, 1887, and printed in November, 1887. .
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Limited edition. Limited edition, No. 115 of 125 numbered copies, signed by Evelyn Paul. Small quarto. 120, [4] pp. With thirteen mounted color plates (included in pagination), and twenty-three pages of printed music. Copiously decorated with intertextual illustrations, initials, and borders throughout. These elements and the text printed in red and black. Original vellum, front board decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, orange, and gray, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Fore-edge of front free endpaper slightly wrinkled. Vellum slightly soiled, and boards with the slightest yawn, but overall a near fine copy.
Published by David Nutt, London, 1898
First Edition Signed
First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. 12mo. Beautifully bound by Riviere (with their gilt pallet on front dentelle) in rich red-brown crushed morocco with elaborated and delicately aesthetic gilt tooling to spine on four of the six panels consisting of stylized blossoms on long stem with surrounding stippling, the same motif design occurs on the corners of the two dentelles, marbled endsheets. Outer edges with gilt fillet ruled lines. AEG. Limited Edition of 100 Copies Only on fine Whatman paper, this No. 12, so inscribed, and signed by the publisher, D. Nutt on the Limitation Page. Originally published in 1887, Nutt reprised the title due to its popularity, adding in the Publisher's Note regarding the re-issue: "is not intended in any way to compete with the original edition, is issued in response to many and repeated demands." In fine condition.