Dainty john (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1902. No Edition Remark. 86 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece is loose. Moderate tanning, with foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Previous owner's inscriptions to frontispiece. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. XII, 286 S. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. C-02130 3540074988 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1150.

Zustand: Fair. 1902. No Edition Remarks. 86 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Signed by the author with dedication to F.E.Spring on front free endpaper. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Frontispiece is detached but still present. Hinges and gutters are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 12mo. 162pp., with numerous advertisements throughout. Issued without the maps and the steel engraved views. Publisher's cloth boards stamped in blind and gold, amber endpapers with printed advertisements, including one folded at the front. The spine is sunned with moderate fraying at the head and tail of spine, upper corners are bumped, very good. An attractive copy. *OCLC* locates only two copies.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A very scarce copy of "Leicester Lyrics" The Poetical Works of John Dainty Written During 29 Years' Residence in Leicester. A presentation copy signed by the author, Christmas 1902. First edition. With a preface and autobiography to front and oipening with a poem In Memoriam Victoria - Queen Empress following the death of the Queen in 1901. In a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities and the odd slight mark to boards. Internally, generally firmly bound. Bright and generally clean throughout but with occasional handling marks to pages and previous owner's small initial ink stamp to front free endpaper. Good. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. First edition. THESE BOOKS HAVE BEEN STOLEN, PLEASE CONTACT ANTIPODEAN BOOKS. A guide to NYC and the Hudson River and upstate NY. The contents include Blackwell's Island, Bellevue Hospital, Central Park, Columbia Univ. College of Physicians, Cooper Institute, Ferry Boats, Steamboats, Five Points House of Industry and Mission House, Greenwood Cemetery, High Bridge, Howard Mission, various asylums and hospitals (Colored Home & Orphans Asylum, Leaks & Watts', Magdalen, Widow's, Juvenile, Insane, Roman Catholic) Bellevue, Jews' & St. Luke's Hospital, NY Historical Society, NYU, Libraries, Randall's Island, Railroads, Ward's Island. The Hudson River section has its own title page (page 107). Most of the engraved plates feature views on the Hudson. Pagination includes advertisements, all with wonderful typefaces, some engraved on thicker paper and some with engraved illustration. OCLC: 898571687 records 1 copy at NYHS but records their copy as imperfect: lacks p. 7-13, 137-138. Our copy paginates with the Historical Society with a gap at pages 7 - 13, likely a printers error as there is no indication that anything is missing. This copy does include page 137 which features a wonderful advertisement and engraving of Barnum's New American Museum. 12mo, advertisements for NY businesses on orange endpapers numbered 2-6, one folding; 165p, 12 unnumbered leaves of steel engraved plates and 1 large folding map of Manhattan with the Hudson River map printed in the outer edge. Bound in publishers brown cloth covers with title in gold on the cover. Binding lower outside corners rubbed, slt. marking front board, no text on spine, which is slightly sunned. Overall, in very good condition, including the map, folded and printed on onionskin paper. A super copy of an item rare in the trade. …