Feast Lanterns, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small (sextodecimo) hardcover, no dust jacket - full blue cloth over boards with orange lettering stamped on spine and front. Sewn binding. 95 pages. 1st Edition (1916), 5th Printing (1949). Wisdom of the East Series. CONDITION: NEAR FINE , binding square and tight; appears unread; pages bright and unmarked, save for former owner's name on front paste-down; sunning to spine and edges of boards, else FINE. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with creases on the spine and some corner creases on the back cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Fifth Printing (Feb 1949). Not price-clipped. Published by John Murray, 1916. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear and bottom right corner of front flap clipped.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Say, Allen (illustrator). 1st ed. Stated first ed., 8vo, publisher's HarperCrest library bindibg, no edvidence of library usage. 58pp. An early book by the noted author/illustrator, this one illustrated in line. two Japanese boys find a way to leave their small fishing island for an adventure. Rippling to spine cloth, and a hint of wear to tips, else fine. Signed with a self-portrait by Say on the front free endpaper, no dj. Signed by the author/artist.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers Very Good tall octavo 128pp., A Hodder & Stoughton Ninepenny yellow jacket. Occasional light spotting to prelims. o/w a particularly nice copy. PHOTO available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Feast of Lanterns (Inscribed by L Cranmer-Byng) Rare first edition, first printing signed, inscribed and dated by L Cranmer-Byng Book Condition: Very Good (see images) some tanning to FEP (other books in The Wisdom of the East series available). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1940 on title & Copyright Pg, 1st Edition ,VG+/GOOD-, AS-IS, , SCUFFY RUBBED WORN DUSTJAKCET with Exfrremities chips & MENDED TAPE REPAIRS, BackDJ tape Residue & edge Chips ,Nite is Like Piece Black Paper all cut Out & Filled With Brite Colored Pieces of Cellaphane. There R Chinese Lanterns All Lighted Up. Green, Orange , Yellow Blue , Running & Swinging Up & Down the Road. At end of each Lantern there is a Stick HELD BY BOYS, Gaston & Vincent Brissard & Terry, THE SMALLEST OF THE 3 an Orphan in care of Brissards. Today is the Festival of te Kings. Epiphany means manifestation.

Copertina rigida. Condition: Discreto. Prima edizione. Prima edizione. Testo inglese. Cm.38x27,4. Pg.VI, 99, (1). Modesta legatura in mz.pelle, assai allentata, con vistose spellature al dorso. Marcate fioriture e aloni da umidità, che interessano svariate carte, senza inficiare la fruibilità del testo. Con 16 incisioni fuori testo e cinque vignette nel testo, opera di A.Cardon su disegni di A. Tendi. Non è presente la tavola in doppia suite, collazionata in fine al volume. Al foglio di guardia apèplicato biglietto da visita "Madame Bodichon". Al verso del frontespizio dedica autografa dell'autore, James Christie. Edizione originale di un importante studio sugli antichi vasi etruschi e greci, condotto sugli esemplari della collezione Hope, opera dell'antiquario e collezionista James Christie, che la pubblicò a proprie spese in tiratura limitata di 100 copie, distribuite personalmente agli amici. Nel testo si segnalano possibili analogie con analoghe ceramiche greche e cinesi. > Blackmer, 347. 1550 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (380 x 270mm). vi, [1] 99pp. Engraved vignette on title, 17 plates, including one double-page, engraved vignettes ( slight margin edge browning). Contemporary blind-stamped calf, raised bands gilt turn-ins, {light wear} marbled fore edges, Baronial Book-Plate. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, with good wide margins, inscribed on verso of title: "To T. Lister Parker Esq. from the author". (English Antiquary, 1779 - 1858, Parker succeeded to the Browsholme Estate in 1797. Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1801 and afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society, liberal patron of Artists) The work was Published Privately by James Christie, antiquary and auctioneer, " in only 100 copies which he distributed to his friends . Christie's interest in Greek vases was sparked by his friendship with Charles Towneley; he also produced a catalogue of Thomas Hope's vases. The examples discussed in this work are in fact from Hope's collection and from that of the British Museum" (Blackmer). Blackmer 347. Excellent Copy, Rare Title.

6 S. Titelblatt mit kleinem Papiereinriss. Gebrauchsspuren. Erstausgabe. - Bantock brachte mehrere Serien mit chinesischen Liedern heraus (vgl. MGG 1, Sp. 1217).