Robber by James: First Edition (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First Xerox printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Allen, Laura Jean (illustrator).

Hardcover. Size Folio (44.5: 31.0 cm). Original full-length band with gold-embossed cover title and Union signet. The linen Stronger scraped and dusty, pierced corners. Book block solved. 4 pages title, 8 copper engravings and 8 pages excerpts from the engravings opposite. Slightly brown and finger-stained in the margins. -- Gr.-Folio ( 44,5 : 31,0 cm). Originalganzleinenband mit goldgeprägtem Deckeltitel und Vereinigungssignet. Das Leinen Stärker beschabt und angestaubt, Ecken durchstoßen. Buchblock gelöst. 4 Seiten Titelei, 8 Kupferstiche und 8 Seiten Textauszüge zu den Kupferstichen jeweils gegenüber. In den Randbereichen etwas braun- und fingerfleckig. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Leuchtender Herbstbeginn! Wie wäre es mit einem guten Buch? Bei uns werden Sie fündig, stöbern Sie in unserem Ladengeschäft oder online. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K02300W.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. NO DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. VG+, Wear, Edge & Sp Fade/NO DUST JACKET. Illustrated front board. Expanded condition report/photo on request. Holland, James (illustrator).

First Edition. Numbered volume from the Megan and Michael Dawson collection of pop-up books. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains remarkably well-preserved overall. Summary; A lone honeybee saves the day when a bear attacks the hive. Includes notes about bees. Physical Description; 12 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; "Paper engineering by James Roger Diaz, Tor Lokvig, and John Strejan." Subjects; Bees. Bees Fiction. Bees Juvenile fiction. Fiction. Fiction -- Bears. Juvenile literature. Juvenile works. Pop-up books. Pop-up books Specimens. Robbers. Specimens. Toy and movable books. Toy and movable books Specimens. Movable books. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Numbered volume from the Megan and Michael Dawson collection of pop-up books. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains remarkably well-preserved overall. Summary; A lone honeybee saves the day when a bear attacks the hive. Includes notes about bees. Physical Description; 12 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; "Paper engineering by James Roger Diaz, Tor Lokvig, and John Strejan." Subjects; Bees. Bees Fiction. Bees Juvenile fiction. Fiction. Fiction -- Bears. Juvenile literature. Juvenile works. Pop-up books. Pop-up books Specimens. Robbers. Specimens. Toy and movable books. Toy and movable books Specimens. Movable books. 1 Kg.…

[2], 370pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled endpapers, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to upper board. Upper hinge exposed, early armorial bookplate and recent book-label of Iain J. A. S. Woolley to FEP, slight loss to head of dedication leaf. The first Continental edition (printed in the same year as the first English edition) of George Payne Rainsford James's (1799-1860) fourteenth published novel; an historical drama concerned with romance within the circles of English aristocracy. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A rare edition of this book "The Robber Bridegroom " published by the Bodley Head, but unfortunately this book does not have it's dust jacket. The book is clean and neat, filled with beatiful drawings by James Holland. The end papers have white line drawings of heads on a brown/red ground.The book is in good condition, with no major faults.The spine has faded slightly and there is a slight turn to the top and bottom of spine.There is a slight fading to the back cover where sunlight has faded the green cover around a book that has stood alongside it.Fading to the bottom front corner. The book is firm and the pages bright with only the very slightest hint of browning (can hardly be seen ) Altogether this is an excellent copy of this hard to find book. James Holland (illustrator). Book.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Good +. First Edition. 96 pages, illustrations, chipping to front cover edges, spine taped, rear cover not included, last page has tape repairs, slight foxing, paper not brittle, actually a nice copy of a rare item. Six-Guns1148, One-Fifty 82, "The usual Jesse James material, though this one is better done than the majority. It is another collector's item.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 19-96 pp., illus, stiff pi. wps., vg-vg+. 6-Guns # 1148 rare.

dj. First Edition. [Modern Literature] UK FIRST EDITION, with original dust-jacket. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.196. With a frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations throughout by Holland. Publisher's green cloth lettered in white to upper board and spine with pictorial designs blocked in white to upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket, printed price of 10s 6d to front flap. Pictorial endpapers, top edge red. Sunning to spine and top of lower board, some chipping and wearing to edges of jacket. Very good. 'Robber Bridgegroom' is a work of fantastical imagination in which creatures roam in the black forest of Mississippi. Alongside the prose, are both in text and full page illustrations by James Holland. To find the first UK edition in the original dust-jacket is rare.…

First Edition. Salesman's sample-book, also known as a canvassing book or salesman's "dummy," reproducing only a portion of the text and illustrations. 12mo (20cm). Publisher's red gilt-pictorial cloth, irregularly paginated; text illus. Red spine sample stamped in gilt and black on rear board; alternate blue cloth binding sample laid down inside rear board. A tight, clean example with some mild external rubbing; a few pencil notations to contents pages, correcting chapter titles; advert leaf inserted after text, with followed by 12 ruled blanks at rear for recording orders (unused). Ownership stamp of a "W.A. Wagner" to front endpapers. …

First Edition. THE ROBBER, Baudry's European Library, 1838, first edition, some light scattered foxing to the text block, some light soiling to the covers and tanning to the spine, else a tight vg copy in what appears to be the publishers original binding.