captain jesse (22 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Boards have light wear. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Leather and marbled boards, frontispiece illustration of The Broken Bow. 394 pages. Wear to boards and leather, wear at extremities, tight binding, foxing on frontispiece leaf, missing title leaf, marks on pages in the front, otherwise good. 800 grams.

Zustand: Fair. 1854. New Edition. 300 pages. Half bound green leather with green marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Book has been rebound. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Pencil markings to reverse frontispiece. Hinges are heavily cracked. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits and loss to spine ends. Minor scuffing and peeling to spine, edges and corners. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2 Volumes in bright blue cloth fresh with gilt lettering and initials to front, nice fresh and solid set, colour plates, may come from a smoker's household, with occasional faint pencil notes to the text, a Navarre Society production Language: English.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Contemporary plain, dark half calf marbled boards. Front joint split but holding, Boards somewhat dulled and rubbed, folding map creased. Title page moderately foxed and soiled. Collates thus : ix, errata leaf, 335pp, foldg. map. Text measures 19.5 x 11.25cms. Ix, errata leaf, 335pp There is no plan of Sebastopol in this volume and perhaps it appears in vol 1. {Yes, it does ].

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Some Browning especially on inside front and back pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Weakness to inside front hinge.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine Books. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dustjackets. 20 Colored Plates (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 309, 300 Pp. New Illustrated Edition, Blue Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. Finely Printed, New Edition With Introduction And Twenty Colored Plates. No Marks Or Fading. Touch Of Wear At Corners, Free Endpapers Foxed As Usual, No Fading To Cloth, All Gilt Still Brilliant. The Beginning Of Fashionable Celebrity Life.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Limited Edition. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1 , edition limited 2000 copies, uncut, some browning and foxing on foredges, c.p. 20 col'd pls, some light browning and sporadic foxing to pages, good in original n=blue cloth gilt, extremities rubbed, some minor markings to boards, good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Large 8vo. pp xxiii, 309; xi, 300, [20] colour plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spines. New edition with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. Two thousand copies of this edition printed at The Riverside Press. No date, circa 1920. Slight rubbing at extremities, dulling to lettering at spine and slight browning to endpapers, otherwise sound, close very good with clean text and plates.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. XIX-538 S. Oktav. Oln. Rücken minimal berieben, Einband recht gut erhalten , Titelprägung noch kräftig. Innen leichte Papierbräunung. Sauber. Ein sehr gutes Exemplar. Buch.

New edition, with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. London, privately printed for subscribers (by The Riverside Press, Edinburgh). No date (c. 1890). xiv, 312 + xii, 300 pages + plates. Original cloth. 2 volumes.[#13932].

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60072593: 1893. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 538 pages. Titre et ornement dorés sur le dos. Tranche de tête dorée. Couverture et 1 cahier se détachant légèrement. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. New edition. Two volumes in hardcover. New introduction and with twenty colored plates. Both books are clean and tight and very near fine copy with some darkening to the endpapers in very good plus dust jackets that both have some chips and tears. Scarce in any dust jacket. A very attractive set.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not stated (illustrator). An uncommon biography of the Regency era socialite George 'Beau' Brummell. An interesting biography of the Regency era socialite George 'Beau' Brummell. Brummel was an important figure on late eighteenth century London society and was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV before the two quarrelled and got into debt. However, Brummel has since been the subject of numerous literary portrayals has become a pre-eminent example of the dandy, who is best remembered for his rejection of overly ornate clothes for well-fitted bespoke garments. After a chronological narrative of Brummell's early life before Captain Jesse elaborates on Brummell's accomplishments, influence on society, and political views, before zooming in on important events in Brummell's life. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Very lightly rubbed to the boards, a little more so to the spine. Rather bumped to the head of the spine, less to to the tail. The front hinge is starting, but firm. Internally, firmly bound, with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. Two volumes. 8vo. Three-quarter red crushed morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. Top edge gilt. Endpapers marbled. Spine in six compartments, with raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt. xvii, 369 pp.; xii, 358 pp. Connoisseur Edition, one of 150 copies. No publication date listed. Excepting a little wear to edges and faint staining at corners, a very sound, attractive binding.

Ful Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Translated from the original French by Captain Jesse. Full calf with raised bands on the spine, brief title in gilt on red label. "Dollar Institution" on the front in gilt. Marbled page edges, Frontispiece engraving of animals of the Morvan region, xii, 326 one page advert. 5 X 7.6 inches. The leather binding is rubbed an dscuffed and has damage to the head of teh spine, and discolouration to that same spine compartment, Otherwise a sound and solid binding. The front board is gilt stamped "Dollar Institution", and has a prize label from the same on the front pastedown. Inner hinges in good condition, contents all complete and in good order and pages all clean throughout.

Quarter leather. 1st edition. 1st Edition, 8vo, original embossed cloth boards, gilt dec, colour frontis (Costume of Persians) with tissue guard, all edges gilt, pp.491, school prize plate (1864) fep, re-backed in red morocco with gilt title and decoration to spine, lacking both maps, otherwise in very good condition and a very fine binding A beautifully rebacked copy of the first edition in English. A translation of Joseph Philippe Ferrier's original manuscript, a French soldier and later Adjutant General with the army in Persia (present day Iran) from 1839 to 1842 and again in 1846 to 1850.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Volume One only, 298pp, Good tight copy, fading to portions of boards, spine edges rubbed, corners bumped, internally clean & tight, straining at centre, owners ink stamp, light age spotting, folding map present & neat, see photos.

Two volumes, 8vo. 20 colour plates, some light foxing. Cloth, d.w.'s browned with loss to the spine ends.

'Edition Magnifique', limited to 26 copies lettered 'S'; 13 volumes (of 14, without Nell Gwyn), royal 8vo, (240 x 160 mm); each volume has 8 illustrations (in three separate states) including a frontispiece divided by tissue guards titled in red lettering, printed on vellum paper, usual age-toning and spotting to prelims, heavy spotting to Beau Brummel Vol. I and Lady Blessington; uniformly bound in original crushed light-blue morocco inlaid with gilt, red, and dark green florid decoration, decorative boards single-ruled in gilt, gilt top edges, five raised bands with spines gilt-lettered and red and gilt inlay, gilt floral-inlay doublures to pastedowns, green silk moirà endpapers, embossed heraldic emblem to front boards with motto 'Sic Fidem Teneo', each volume housed in a slipcase, exceedingly rare and precious set in overall near fine condition. This is a stupendously bound set in a limited edition of 26 copies only. It is a biographical panoply of figures straddling the theatre world and also includes members of the English aristocracy. Each illustration is represented in three states. The enamel inlaid decoration is particularly fine.