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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
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Zustand: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Phoenix Pick 2020
Serie: Galaxy's Edge, Buch 46 von 61. Buch 46 von 61 - Galaxy's Edge
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Anbieter: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Vereinigtes KönigreichRia Christie Collections
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Zustand: New. In.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1948
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Octavo. xi, 349pp. Minor foxing on endpapers, owner address label on front pastedown, spine cloth sunned, about very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with extremities chipped and torn, internal tape repair.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1948
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Octavo. xi, 349pp. Foxing and offsetting on pages, cloth soiled and musty, spine cocked, good only in a good only foxed and soiled dust jacket with internal tape repair to the chipped and torn edges.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton 1948
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Octavo. xi, 349pp. Owner name and small bookplate on front fly, cloth lightly dampstained and soiled, a good only copy lacking the dust jacket.
Verlag: GPO: Washington DC 1926
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9 x 6, wrappers, 68 pp, linear crease through center moderately age darkened. FIRST ED.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1948
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Anbieter: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, USAThe Chatham Bookseller
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 349pgs. Tan cloth, brown label on spine, gilt lettering.Author inscription on the front flyleaf. Dampstain along the front edges of the covers, otherwise a near fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has moderate soiling, light chips o…n the upper spine a lesser chip on the lower left corner of the front panel. in mylar sleeve. Autobiography of the former Governor of New Jersey who held office from 1917 to 1919 and 1944 to 1947. He was instrumental in converting Atlantic City into a major resort area while doing advertising and promotionat the turn of the 20th century, and also was the U.S. Ambassador to France from 1929 to 1933. Size: Octavo. Signed and Inscribed By the Artist. Book.
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1954
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. With an essay on the architecture by George B. Tatum. xi, 206pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Owner label and name on front endpapers, modest wear at the spine ends, near fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips and tea…rs, creases on the front flap, and a toned spine.
Verlag: United States State Department, Washington D C. 1933
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Anbieter: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, , FrankreichSan Francisco Book Company
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 184 pp Inscribed on the forward page by Robert Pell covers are worn and soiled spine has a small tear on the bottom Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Verlag: The Canadian Geographical Society, Canada 1947
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 249-293 plus seventeen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: An Introduction to Canadian Architecture - major article with dozens of photos; Britain's Trees and Forests; Lawren Harris; PICAO into ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization; and more. Some of the ads include: 194…7 Mercury 114 car; The Monarch 8 car; Canadian Pacific - great one-page color ad for their train travel and Empress Hotel. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Harris, Lawren S. (Cover) (illustrator).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1894., London: 1894
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At head of title: Complete edition. 8vo. viii, 970, [2] pp. Original full very dark navy-blue blind- and gilt-stamped calf, raised bands on spine with blind-stamping, gilt spine titles, upper cover with the gilt motto of the GIRLS PUBLIC DAY SCHOOL COMPANY â" LIMITED â" EAST LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL, all edges gilt, dentelles in bl…ind, marbled endsheets; some wear to joints and spine head. Very good. With a side-by-side fore-edge painting of two sportsmen with their golfing equipment and outfits painted in vertical scenes. / Clearly commissioned and sold by Harrington Bros., Chealsea Antique Market, London, but with no markings.
Verlag: Edinburgh. James Ballantyne and Co 1813
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Anbieter: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, USARiverby Books
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Bound in full leather, very dark blue (nearly black) with elaborate gold lettering and decoration on the spines. Covers with gold rules and decorative borders. Very attractive. Some signs of wear at hinges, but all still tight. Gilt page edges and decorative endpapers. Firmly bound and c…lean throughout. Title page dated 1813. Stated Fourth Edition. Engraved armorial bookplate on inside front cover with the name Charles Scrase Dickens. 413 pages. This copy has a beautiful, original fore-edge painting, showing a round castle on the banks of a river, with boatmen in the foreground (perhaps Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome). This volume is bound to match (and has the same bookplate) as the 3 volume Scott & the single volume Rokeby listed beside this on ABE. Please email with questions or to request more photos. Extra shipping will be necessary to wrap this carefully and ship in a box.
Verlag: Edinburgh. James Ballantyne and Co 1812
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Bound in full leather, very dark blue (nearly black) with elaborate gold lettering and decoration on the spines. Covers with gold rules and decorative borders. Very attractive. Some signs of wear at hinges, but all still tight. Gilt page edges and decorative endpapers. Firmly bound and c…lean throughout. Title page dated 1812. Stated Fourth Edition. Engraved armorial bookplate on inside front cover with the name Charles Scrase Dickens. 164 pages + catalogue of other Ballantyne titles. This copy has a beautiful, original fore-edge painting, showing a stately home on the far side of a lake, with cows grazing in the shallow water in the foreground. This volume is bound to match (and has the same bookplate) as the 3 volume Scott & the single volume Rokeby listed beside this on ABE. Please email with questions or to request more photos. Extra shipping will be necessary to wrap this carefully and ship in a box.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Edinburgh. James Ballantyne and Co. 1806
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 3 volumes. All three in full leather, very dark blue (nearly black) with elaborate gold lettering and decoration on the spines. Covers with gold rules and decorative borders. Extremely nice bindings. All three with gilt page edges and decorative endpapers. All three firmly bound and clean throughou…t. All three with title page dated 1806. All three with engraved armorial bookplates on inside front cover with the name Charles Scrase Dickens. Volume 1 has a manuscript letter written by Walter Scott tucked inside. He has written 'Dear Sir James' followed be 4 short lines, signed 'yours ever, Walter Scott.' The letter is crudely mounted on a piece of cardstock, trimmed much too tightly to the writing. Measures 5 x 5.5 inches. All three volumes have gorgeous, unique, fore-edge paintings. Volume 1 shows several people in an Italian-esque plaza with a fountain. Volume 2 is pastoral; shepherds, countryside, ruins. Volume 3 is a ruined abbey. Colors are brighter than they appear in the photos. An exquisite set. Please contact us for additional photos. Extra shipping will be necessary for this 3 volume set. Signed by Author(s).
Weitere BilderVerlag: James Maclehose. Glasgow 1879
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James Maclehose. 1879. Third edition. Measures 17.5 x 11.5cm. A VERY FINE AND DETAILED FORE-EDGE depicting the village of Eyam in Derbyshire, featuring the church, graveyard and tree-lined road scene with people and houses. Bound in full red textured calf, gilt, slightly marked to boards and worn and rubbed to spine. Marbled end…papers. All edges gilt. Fore-edge invisible when book is closed. A clean and sound copy of a very collectable volume housed in a hessian clam-shell box with contrating handwritten labels.
Weitere BilderVerlag: John Ballantyne, 1813., Edinburgh: 1813
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4to. [x], 330, cxvi pp. Original olive green straight-grain morocco, gilt-extra, with alternating pattern of ovals and feathers, raised bands, all edges gilt, BOUND BY TAYLOR & HESSEY, London, with their gilt-stamp on the outer fore-edges of the upper and lower cover (as is common with their stamps). Near fine. ". . . BOUND UNDE…R THE DIRECTION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT HIMSELF": Manuscript note found within this copy: "Sir Walter Scott's Rokeby, Edinburgh, 1813. Original edition, green morocco. * This precious volume was bound under the direction of Sir Walter Scott himself, transmitted to the binder by John Ballantyne, the publisher; the edge when bent discloses a wonderful view of Rokeby [(corrected in pencil): Barnard] Castle painted by the celebrated Patrick Nasmyth [1787-1831] when in the full rigor of his great artistic talent." â" THIS MUST BE THE TAYLOR & HESSEY PAINTER, his work is profoundly similar to this artist, especially when considering his expert use of creating depth in a painting, plus his preponderance of thick dense trees that are painted with remarkable detail (unlike other fore-edge painters). This is an extremely rare example of the actual artist's name being mentioned. This is a choice example of a Taylor & Hessey binding with their exquisitely painted fore-edge painting, the binding being signed in the usual way from this bindery. Of all the Taylor & Hessey specimens I have examined, this is the first to mention the artist's name. The added association with this being a quarto volume, not the more typical and cheaper octavo, and that Sir Walter Scott's name is associated with the design of the binding, suggesting also the fore-edge painting, this is something quite unique.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London 1835
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Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Featuring a pretty double fore-edge painting by Samuel E. Stevens (fl. 1945-1962) with two charming views: when viewed one way, an isolated estate in a field foregrounded by a river and a bridge; the other way, the steeple of a church rising over a riverwalk and a grove of trees. Contemporary r…ed leather tooled and titled in gilt. Twelvemo. iv, [4], 256 pp. Complete with twenty-one plates (including frontispiece and illustrated title) by George Cattermole, reproduced from Cattermole's illustrations for works by Sir Walter Scott. A bit of smudging and a couple small scratches to binding. Evidence of removed label to spine. All edges gilt. Binder's ticket to corner of upper pastedown ("F. Westley, Binder, Friar Street"). Splitting at gutter between frontis and title-page. Some foxing to first few leaves and to leaves facing plates. A Very Good copy of a gift book with an attractive double fore-edge painting. Scott and Scotland recounts the history and mythology of Scotland, appropriately illustrated with scenes (of castles, landscapes, and historical events) inspired by the works of Sir Walter Scott. This gift book, which was issued as the Heath's Picturesque Annual for 1835, celebrates "Scotland-the country of Scott-the country where the spirits of history, summoned by his enchantments, haunt visibly its mouldering temples and ruined castles" (p. iv). Very Good.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A. Constable and Co., Edinburgh, by James Ballantyne & co., Edinburgh, 1806 1806
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes KönigreichPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Early edition, prettily bound by Queen Charlotte's bookbinder, and with a modern double fore-edge painting by Martin Frost MBE, who was listed in the 2019 New Years Honours for maintaining the "critically endangered" art. The fore-edge paintings depict two scenes of the work's setting of St Mary's Abbey, Melrose, and further sce…nes showing Scott's home of Abbortsford and Portinscale Bridge in the Lake District. The binder, Charles Meyer (d. 1809), was the appointed bookbinder of Queen Charlotte and the princesses. He moved from Germany to England in 1797 and established himself at St Martin's Lane, London. Meyer bound this copy for the royal apothecary Everard Augustus Brande (1776-1868). Like his father, Brande was the appointed "Apothecary to the Person" in George III's royal household, tasked with dispensing medicines for George III and Queen Charlotte and tending to their health. Brande left the position on the king's death but was later reappointed by William IV. Brande's bookplate is on the front pastedown. This fourth edition follows the phenomenally successful first by one year. Ramsden, p. 106. Octavo (213 x 128 mm). Contemporary green straight-grain morocco by Charles Meyer, spine lettered in gilt and with central device in compartments, covers bordered in gilt with fillets and wide roll, board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, binder's ticket on rear free endpaper verso. Gilt edges with gauffered border and double-sided colour fore-edge painting depicting four views by Martin Frost, signed and dated 1977 on his authentication ticket on rear free endpaper recto. Housed in a green morocco folding box by Frost. Spine darkened, gilt remaining bright, tiny chip to headcap, inner hinges split but firm, 4 cm closed tear to head of rear free endpaper, occasional browning but clean overall. A very good copy.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Arch. Constable, Edinburgh 1821
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USAJames Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
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Vignette title -page drawn by A. Nasmyth, Engraved by W. H. Lizars. 10 vols. 16mo. Each volume with a fine early fore-edge painting of a Scottish scene identified in an old hand in block letters on the ffep. Volume I : Berwick-on-Tweed Volume II : Falkland Palace Volume III : Edinburgh Castle Volume IV : Barnborough Castle Volum…e V : Hollyrood Palace, Edinburgh Volume VI : Norham, The Castle and The Cross Volume VII: Stirling Castle Volume VIII: Barnard Castle Volume IX : Stirling Bridge and Castle Volume X : Abbotsford. Contemporary full green straight grained morocco, gilt spine, a.e.g. Fine, some internal foxin. Signed M.T.K. Jr. Xmas 1927 Vignette title -page drawn by A. Nasmyth, Engraved by W. H. Lizars. 10 vols. 16mo.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh 1810
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USAPhillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
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241 x 146 mm. (9 1/2 x 5 3/4"). Three volumes. Pleasing contemporary black straight-grain morocco, covers with gilt floral frame enclosing central panel with blind-stamped thistle cornerpieces, raised bands, spines heavily gilt in compartments with much swirling foliage, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Volume I… WITH AN ATTRACTIVE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE MERCAT CROSS IN MELROSE, ROXBURGHSHIRE. Front pastedown of volumes II and III with engraved bookplate of W. J. Denison (see below); volume I with evidence of bookplate removal; copy of an engraving of Boston Church, Lancashire, laid in at rear of volume II. Todd & Bowden 8Ag. âJoints and extremities a bit worn, boards with a number of abrasions (well masked with dye), minor foxing here and there in the text, nine gatherings with faint overall browning due to poor quality of paper, but still an excellent set, the leaves clean, the once quite dazzling bindings still sound and very pleasing on the shelf, and the fore-edge painting well preserved. Apart from the fore-edge painting here, this is an important work in the Scott canon, offered in pretty contemporary bindings that once belonged to a person of great wealth and influence. Scott collected traditional ballads on his trips to the Borders region, and in 1796 began compiling this work, in an effort to preserve folklore of his native land that might otherwise be lost. Our fourth edition contains 27 historical ballads, 52 romantic ballads, and 20 imitations written by Scott and his friends. According to Day, "The whole bent of Scott's later imaginative writings, both in verse and prose, was governed by this ballad spirit. Probably this work was Scott's greatest contribution to poetry." The handsome fore-edge painting depicts in a realistic style the mercat cross marking the central marketplace in Melrose, a town in the Scottish Borders near Scott's home at Abbotsford. A 12th century law required that all goods for sale be presented at a town's mercat (market) cross, a tall column usually topped with a small statue. Such is the cross at the center of our painting, which is rendered in subdued grays and browns. Two streets lined with thatched houses and shops wend away from the central marketplace, and a large gray-green mountain looms in the background. A small Scottish terrier trots across the center of the scene; a couple of merchants chat beside the cross; a woman and small boy head up one of the streets, while an old man with a cane walks up the other. It is a tranquil scene, but enlivened by the townsfolk and the cheerful little Scottie. It is unusual for only one volume in a set to be so decorated; something must have interrupted the artist before he could complete the commission. Perhaps the print laid in volume II was intended to be an inspiration for its fore-edge decoration. Former owner W. J. Denison (1770-1849) was a banker and politician who was one of the richest men in Britain; he left an estate valued at £2.3 million. A staunch Whig member of parliament for 38 years, he was a strong advocate for parliamentary reform and was one of the founders of the Reform Club. He acquired vast estates in Yorkshire and Surrey, but declined a peerage when it was offered in 1820. Fourth Edition, Second (Large Paper) Impression.
