Possibly later printing because pages are not tan; 606 p.; Jacobean thistle design on end pages; TEG; red ribbon bookmark; binding firm; beige boards with bright gilt lettering on red patch on spine as well as lovely gilt Jacobean thistle-motif ornamentation. Gift quality. View More...
249 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; extraodinarily lovely ill., with tipped in color portrait of dog "He was red-gold-and-snow of coat; a big slender youngster with the true 'look of eagles' in his deepset dark eyes." 7 other tipped-in color plates suitable for framing. In addition there are b&w vignettes and illustrated end pages. Another plate is on the blue front board, and in absence of a d.j., it has been scraped; binding firm; corners are bumped, there is rubbing at crown and foot of sunned spine. View More...
Unmarked hardcover in clipped jacket. Lightly penciled price and initials on upper front flyleaf. Jacket has significant tearing and wear. Cloth binding in very good condition. Pages are clean with average yellowing. View More...
455 p., clean and unmarked except for back end page and paste-down that has been used for paint experiments. Former owner's signature with 1935 date on front paste-down; binding firm; unfaded green boards with gilt colophon and lettering, rather faded. In absence of d.j. there is slight edge wear. View More...
Russian language; 192 p., clean and unmarked; embossed stamp of former owner on front end page; ill.; binding firm; beige boards with red, white and brown lettering and ornamentation has small stain on lower front corner and some edge wear and bumped corners. View More...
416 p.., plus catalogue, clean and unmarked anywhere; bindign firm; despite absence of d.j., emerald green boards are unfaded, though gilt lettering on spine is no longer bright, and there is little edge wear. View More...
345 p., plus catalog for Burt's Home Library, clean and unmarked but with faint smudges on fore-edge, and light brown stain penetrating lower corners of front paste down and end page through to page 111, increasingly smaller; stamp of former book seller "Pippen's Bookstore" of Baltimore, Maryland is on front paste down. Binding firm; pictorial boards in green and dark gray on pale gray are slightly bumped on corners, the pictorial spine is slightly sunned. Illustrations very fine, some suitable for framing. View More...
No pub. date, just copyright date of 1898, but appearance is that of this edition; 279 p., clean and unmarked anywhere but somewhat foxed; binding firm; in absence of d.j. there are small faint splotches on dark gray boards and slight rubbing of edges. View More...
Copyright date of 1938 is given but for the Limited Editions Club--this elegant edition may be as late as the 1960s; 237 p., clean and unmarked on fine quality paper only faintly age-toned; map end pagers; ill.; binding firm; illustrated boards in gray tonalities clean without discernible wear, and gilt lettering on unsunned red patch on spine are still bright; glassine wrapper very yellow with some chipping; celadon slip case has little edge wear but is sunned at edges. View More...
211 p., clean and unmarked except for former owner's name penciled on upper corner of first flyleaf. Seventh printing April 1940. Creased pictorial wrapper, with faint smudging and a hole rubbed in the B of Bambi where a label was probably removed. Binding firm. View More...
Two works by Mark Twain back-to-back in one volume; pages clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only faintly age-teond; binding firm; pictorial boards clean and unfaded but in absence of a d.j., the corners are bumped and there is some rubbing on edges. View More...
Tr. from French to English by Helen Waddell "from the original text of 1731" by the author, the Abbe Prevost d'Exiles; 155 p., clean and unmarked on fine paper; small book plate of former owner on front paste down; full-page color ill.;by Pierre Brissaud; binding firm; marbled boards with gilded spine and still bright gilt lettering on brown patch on spine have minimal wear, being well protected by an unfaded sepia slip case with some rubbing on edges. View More...
On spine in gilt lettering: "Chandos Classics."452 p., plus "A Selected List of New and Recent Publications from Messrs. Frederick Warne & Col.s Catalogue;" clean and unmarked--some pages unopened. Former owner's signature on half t.p. is dated 1902 and signature of same person is on front end page is dated 1951 or 1901--difficult to be sure. Sewn signatures are secure but there is some cracking of paper at gutter between half t.p. and frontis. showing engraving of bust of Homer. Many maps and ill. by John Flaxman. Occasional neat underlining and marginalia in pencil. Blue boards have light b... View More...
