Leather Things, First Edition (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Covers have moderate wear plus some abrasions to front. Internally very clean. Binding good. 80pp Size: 210mm x 270mm. Book.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Undated but believed tobe 1951. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Front and rear pastedowns and end papers heavily browned but text and photographs clean and bright. Minor bumping to spine but otherwise boards and binding are sound.

Hardcover. Condition: NEW CONDITION. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET (AS ISSUED). First Edition, First Printing. // NO REMAINDER MARK/ NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) //red leather binding with gold lettering and decoration, all in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition, published in 1909 (the earliest traced on Copac and OCLC). Attractively bound in flexible green suede yapp covers with the ornate gilt illustrations and titles to front and spine found on the standard blue cloth edition. I have also had a copy of this edition in red suede, and according to the publisher's flyer that contained, this was published in cloth, leather, and velvet leather in box - this appears to be the same velvet leather edition, both of which I acquired without box. 12 x 16cm. Top edge gilt. 252 + (1) + (2) + 16pp publisher's ads. Collated complete with 50 illustrations including tissue-guarded frontispiece - most of which full-page b/w photos on glossy paper with a couple of line drawings. The covers retain their deep green colour and bright gilt. Short tears to spine ends. A small patch of staining and rubbing to front bottom edge. Wear and partial delamination to the leather where it overlaps the edge of the text block. Interiors very good with occasional spotting, foxing and short tears. School prize bookplate to ffep dated 1914-15.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Easton Press Leather-bound. Full leather. William Morrow & Company, New York, NY (2006) New. Signed by author. Brand new in publisher's shrink-wrap, leather-bound, perfect Easton Press. Signed, First Edition. Leather-bound. Brand new! 416 pages Multi-award winning, scarce in signed condition, "Fragile Things" is an exclusive Collector's Edition SIGNED by Neil Gaiman. This brand new, never read, never opened, leather-bound book is still sealed in the Publisher's shrink-wrap. The pages are sewn in rather than glued as in ordinary books. There's a satin ribbon marker also sewn in so you don't lose your place. The spine is inlaid with genuine 22 KT gold. It is a work of art. Something to be treasured and passed down to future fans of Mr. Gaiman. Pristine! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Alan M. Clark, Allen Koszowski (illustrator). 1st Edition. AS NEW BURGUNDY LEATHER-BOUND, HARDBACK. SIGNED by GARY BRAUNBECK, J. N. WiILLIAMSON, WILLIAM F. NOLAN, ED GORMAN, ALAN M. CLARK & ALLEN KOSZOWSKI [NO Inscription]. LIMITED Ed. #S/26. "About the Book: A firm believer that speculative fiction in all of its forms is the supreme mythic literature of our times, Gary A. Braunbeck accomplishes what all serious genre writers set out to do: to entertain, to instill honest emotion and incorporate the writer's own sensibilities into his or her fiction, and ¿ when the job has been done well ¿ perhaps leave the reader with a little food for thought afterward. That Braunbeck has done so is exceptional; that he has done so repeatedly is evidenced by many of his stories regularly appearing on several "Year's Best" lists. Things Left Behind not only displays the versatility of Braunbeck's work (with stories from the horror, fantasy, mystery, literary, suspense, historical, science fiction, and popular mainstream fields) but showcases it in a structure that only a handful of writers have attempted. Some will call it "a collection," others might deem it an "episodic novel," what cannot be argued is that it is unlike anything else you will encounter in genre fiction this year. Read the book as you would a novel ¿ straight through to the end, for Things Left Behind is much more than an assortment of meticulously-crafted short stories and novellas; it is an exploration of the myriad realms of mystery, violence, grief, rage, loneliness, joy, and horror that lie just beneath the surface of the everyday world, and what can happen when one goes looking for answers to questions that cannot ¿ and perhaps should not ¿ be found. Focused and unified in ways that recall Peter Straub's Houses Without Doors, Hemingway's In Our Time, and Russell Bank's Success Stories, Braunbeck's Things Left Behind is a disturbing portrayal of archetypes (the outsider, the warrior, the ghost, the werewolf, the magician, the killer, the singer, the vampire, the storyteller, and so on) of a small, archetypical society ¿ in this case, the fictional town of Cedar Hill, Ohio. The book begins with "Dreams and Permanence," essentially a brief study of the outsider, and, coming full-circle, ends with "Searching For Survivors," a horrifying, powerful, and ultimately moving meditation on the effects of unspeakable violence, wherein the outsider becomes the storyteller. Along the way, readers will be treated to some of Braunbeck's most popular pieces ¿ "After The Elephant Ballet," "By Civilized Means," "Cyrano," and the controversial novella "Some Touch Of Pity," presented here for the first time in its original, uncut form ¿ as well as several brand-new works (nearly two-thirds of the stories presented here have never been published before), including a 30,000 word novella, "The Sisterhood Of Plain-Faced Women," perhaps the most accomplished piece of short fiction Braunbeck has thus far written. This Cemetery Dance edition, illustrated by Allen Koszowski, also boasts a stunning cover by World Fantasy Award-winning artist Alan M. Clark, a Preface by J.N. Williamson, an Introduction by the legendary William F. Nolan, an Afterword by Ed Gorman, and is signed by all contributors! Things Left Behind promises to be the most talked-about debut of the year, so open the book, turn the first page, and let your journey into the unique, terrifying, and heartbreaking world of Gary A. Braunbeck begin. And hang on to something." | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY! [Extra Postage for International Delivery]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Smith Elder and Co., 1848 to 1860, First Editions (Vols II, III, IV, V and Seven Lamps) and Third Edition (Vol I). Approximately 10 ¼ inches tall. Six full leather bound volumes by J Ramage & Co. in an elegant morocco binding, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine compartments, all page edges gilt, some marks and scratches to the leather and bumps to the raised bands of Vol I and II (see photos). Gilt decoration to the boards, inner gilt dentelles and marbled end papers. A lovely set. Internally sporadically foxed - see photos. Five volumes. Volume I a Third Edition [1846]; Vol II to V first Editions [1846-60].The Seven Lamps of Architecture also a First Edition, in a slightly lighter brown morocco leather. Volumes III-V each with frontispiece plus a total of 85 engravings on steel and 8 on wood, and several wood-engraved illustrations in the text by the author, J. M. W. Turner, and others. The Seven Lamps of Architecture with 14 engraved illustrations. Vol I - 1846, THIRD EDITION, lxiii, [i], 422pp; Vol II - 1846, FIRST EDITION, xvi, 220pp; Vol III - 1856, FIRST EDITION, xix, [i], 348pp, Frontispiece plus plates 1-17 engravigs on steel (one in colour), tissue guard missing on plate 4; Vol IV - 1856, FIRST EDITION, xii, 411pp, Frontispiece plus plates 18-50 engravings on steel, tissue guard missing on plate 29, 30 and 45; Vol V - 1860, FIRST EDITION, xvi, 384pp, Frontispiece plus plates 51-84 plus unnumbered 85 engravings on steel, and 8 engravings on wood. The Seven Lamps of Architecture - 1860, FIRST EDITION, viii, [iv], 205pp, 14 plates. John Ruskin (8 February 1819 - 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. Approximately 10 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine - very good condition - gilt titles and decoration, five raised gilt bands, bumped and bruised to the second raised band (from the top) of Vols I and II, otherwise gently rubbed, with minor marks and scratches, a little faded, Seven Lamps a slightly different shade. Joints - very good condition - gently rubbed and worn. Corners - very good condition - gently bumped and worn. Boards - very good condition - gilt decorated, gilt lined edges, marks and scratches - see photos. Page edges - very good condition - all edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges - very good condition - secure. Paste downs - very good condition - inner gilt dentelles, binder's stamp in gilt to the marbled paper, marbled paper paste downs. End papers - very good condition - marbled. Title - very good condition - lightly tanned, some foxing. Pages - very good condition - lightly tanned, some foxing, illustrated to Vols III-V and Seven Lamps, minor foxing to the illustrations. Binding - very good condition - attractive full leather bindings. See photos.

First Edition, 12mo, (xii), 154 pp. including the initial license leaf, with the contemporary bookplate of John Trotter, Edinburgh Lawyer, clean tear in A4 (no loss), generally a little browned, contemporary sheep, a little worn, lower joint slightly tender. The first of at least nine editions of this popular little book of secrets. The last dozen pages comprise "A miscellany of rare and curious secrets not yet toucht upon," and "Another miscellany of rare and curious experiments, useful and profitable, and altogether pleasant." These include such tricks and illusions as "To cause water to ascend," "To carry a jug. sticking without anything, unto the palm of the hand," "To break a stick upon the rim of two glasses, and not break the glasses," "How to make water boil and sparkle," "To make Letters that will soon vanish," how to achieve a strike-out at nine-pins, and the way to find out "any number under 10, being thought upon." This seventeenth-century first edition is rare, all later editions were published in the eighteenth-century. Wing locates copies at BL, Durham, NYPL, Free Library, Folger and Yale, to which the ESTC adds Illinois. Toole-Stott adds the copies owned by Dr. Grossman and Harold Adrian Smith (the latter now at Brown University). A very good copy, with Trotter's contemporary purchase note on the endpaper: "Cost twelve pence from Rot. Allane Bookseller & binder in Edro. [i.e. Edinburgh] 10. Octo. 96." Trotter has added page numbers to the title-page to form a sort of table of contents. John White went on to publish "Hocus Pocus: or, a Rich Cabinet of Legerdemain.", c. 1710. Wing W1788; Toole-Stott 694; Hall 296.