Fine printing (16 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Wimmer Brothers Fine Printing, 1980. Octavo. Spiral binding. Paperback. Book is very good with light toning to the page ends. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Blue paper wrappers, titled in black on the spine and upper cover. A fine copy with a loose insert explaining the FAIC program.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [8], 447pp, [1]. Yellow boards, black cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page, with "R49" in the gutter of page 447. Solid text block, appears unread. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $8.95 on front flap, an outstanding fine example. Cover art by Dave Christensen. (Currey 227) (Brooks A4) Housed in a custom black morocco clamshell, title in gilt on the spine. An outstanding example. This is the third novel by acclaimed writer Stephen King. The Shining was adapted into a notable 1980 film starring Jack Nicolson and Shelley Duvall, directed by Stanley Kubrik. First edition, first printing of The Shining by Stephen King, in the first state dust jacket. A fine example in all regards. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 40 pages : 45 cm. Mostly B&W illustrations (some colour), introduction in Chinese.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 50 pages : 45 cm. Mostly B&W illustrations, introduction in Chinese.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, [2], 226pp. Black cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Appears unread. Blue endpapers. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $4.95 retail price on front flap, bright illustrations. A collection of seventeen scientific essays originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the sixth Doubleday collection of Asimov's F&SF science essays. The first edition, first printing of Science, Numbers, and I by Isaac Asimov, a fine example. (illustrator).…

8vo: 2 pp. 32 lines of text. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He is willing to help Tomkinson with his book 'Modern Presses', but would not 'have time to be responsible for the writing of any chapters'. Offers to answer 'a questionnaire' regarding 'Flying Fame', and directs Jackson to his 'articles on the work of Lovat Fraser in the "Bookman", the "Fleuron", and "To-day".' Paragraph discusses the 'New Age Press', which 'was not a Press at all, but a publishing business'. In the last paragraph changes his mind, and offers to write a brief chapter. 'I would undertake the job, but I shall wait until you carry out your threat of sending me one or two specimens of the sort of chapters you are including.' The projected work discussed in the letter is unclear, but Tomkinson himself published 'A select bibliography of the principal modern presses, public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland' in 1928.…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [8], 150pp, [2]. Maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Red topstain. This copy appears unread. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $4.95 retail price on front flap, bright illustrations. An exceptional copy of Peck's first novel. Peck's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in rural Vermont, centered on a Shaker farm boy, his father, and the difficult lessons of work, loss, and responsibility. The first edition, first printing of A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck, a fine example. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [2], 597pp, [5]. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Stated "First Edition" with "I-M" code below, noting the publication date in September, 1962. Cartographic endpapers. Two stamps with "1031" code on the front pastedown, dust jacket previously affixed to endpapers, with light glue remnant. Text block clean throughout. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $5.95 on the front flap, "0163" code on lower flap, a bright, attractive example. The Sand Pebbles was Richard McKenna's first and only completed novel, published in 1962 by Harper & Row. McKenna, a former Navy machinist himself, drew heavily from his own experiences serving on a Yangtze River gunboat in the 1930s, lending the novel a strong sense of authenticity. The book was both a critical and commercial success, winning the 1963 Harper Prize and becoming a finalist for the National Book Award. Its popularity led to a major motion picture adaptation in 1966, starring Steve McQueen. The first edition, first printing of The Sand Pebbles, a novel by Richard McKenna, in the publisher's fine dust jacket. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, [4], 511pp. Black cloth, title in silver on spine and front panel. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Internally clean, solid text block. Owner's name on half title, dated "1964." A fine example. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $6.95 retail price on front flap, touch of wear from handling at the head of the spine, exceptionally bright spine, a near fine example. A scarce first printing of this Pulitzer Prize recipient. The Guns of August, written by Barbara Tuchman, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1963, establishing Tuchman's reputation as a skilled historian and narrative writer. The first edition, first printing of The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman, a fine example. (illustrator).…

Full leather. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [two volumes], 388pp; 406pp. Three-quarter navy blue morocco, light blue cloth boards, gilt ruling to covers. Title in gilt on spine, five raised bands with gilt-ruled compartments. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Red ribbon bookmarks sewn in. Bound by Root & Son. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, faint foxing to title page, not affecting text, a touch of rubbing to joints. Volume I with frontispiece and tissue. Both volumes have original cloth spines preserved on rear flyleaves and bookplates of Thomas W. Lawson on verso of front free endpapers. Senior Chaplain of the U.S. Navy Fitch W. Taylor (1803-1865) was first a minister for the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Maryland. During his twenty-four years of service in the U.S. Navy, Taylor circumnavigated the globe aboard the USS Columbia, one of the first U.S. naval ships to make such a voyage. The Flagship details his experiences aboard this vessel. The bookplates in these volumes belonged to Thomas W. Lawson (1857-1925), a controversial Boston businessman who promoted and manipulated stocks, primarily in the copper market. Scarce first edition, first printing of The Flagship by Fitch W. Taylor in a fine binding. (illustrator).…

Printed in black and sepia on both sides of a leaf of watermarked wove paper, 45 x 30 cm. On lightly-aged paper with one vertical and two horizontal fold lines. The seven sample pages feature a total of six illustrations, in a variety of styles, two by Herb Roth. The arrangement is as follows. Recto: Title ('Specimen Pages from Books made at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, N.Y. 1929-1932') with vignette of Walpole. Specimen One, titled 'Piratical Barbarity, &c.', with illustration of pirate ship by Roth. Specimen Two, title-page of T. S. Eliot's 'John Dryden. The Poet. The Dramatist. The Critic.' (New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932). Specimen Three, sepia frontispiece portrait of the subject of Eliot's 'John Dryden'. Verso: Specimen Four, title-page of 'Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (Peter Pauper Press, Larchmont, 1930) with vignette caricature of Twain by Roth. Specimen Five, the opening section of Marvell's 'To his Coy Mistress', with vignette. Specimen Six, title-page to 'The Selfish Giant. A Fairy Tale. By Oscar Wilde', with vignette of giant. Specimen Seven, containing three stanzas of Lewis Carroll's 'Hunting of the Snark'. No reference to this title found on viaLibri. …

On one side each of two leaves of thin laid paper (quality of tissue). Both leaves are good: lightly creased and spotted on aged paper. The first leaf (roughly 19 x 18 cm) carries six illustrations, arranged 2 x 3, and with the captions reading: 'Price 2s/6d | a way of purifying sea water'; 'Price 1s/6d | preparation Acid Sulphuric'; 'Price of block | 1s/- | Physician Galenical School'; 'Price 1/- | cold still'; 'Price 1/- | Pelican'; '2s/6d | distillation'. Printers blue pencil around third woodcut. The second leaf (roughly 24 x 18.5 cm) carries four illustrations, arranged 2 x 2, the largest two being roughly 8 x 6 cm. The captions read: 'Bufonites' (from the 'Hortus Sanitatis' of 1497, showing a man extracting a bezoar stone from the head of a frog); 'preparation medicinal earths'; 'obtaining draconites' and 'Hippocrates sleeve'. Along one margin: 'Please return specimens'. The 'Bufonites' engraving is certainly a skillful copy, and it may be that the cuts were originally produced for a Roxburghe-Club-type publication, before joining the printer's stock.…

Zustand: fine. First Edition. 16mo, 16cm, first edition, viii,122, [2]p., frontis folding map, with 84 engraved illustrations (good clear strikes) on 28 plates, title page vignette, in the original quarter crimson roan backed printed paper over boards with vignette illustration on both boards, the frontis view is over folded on one fold else a fine clean copy of the first edition. Osborne II-p813. Sabin 94469. Among the earliest of the juveniles about the Americas, it contains brief highlights of early travel and discovery aimed at the juvenile audience, including material concerning Columbus, Cortes, Balboa, American Indians, Lewis and Clark, Hudson Bay, the West Indies, etc., with numerous charming woodcut illustrations. Both America continents are covered equally. Reproduced in 1968 with a new preface by Christina Duff Stewart in the series Early Children's Books sponsored by the Toronto Public Library. With Beekman Pool's bookplate loosely laid in.…

A Shanghai expat's otherwise unrecorded tribute to his goddaughter, inscribed by the author on the first blank, "To Irene from Stewart with all good wishes. 22nd October 1919, Shanghai". G. Stewart Jones, "G.S.J." in the imprint, ran the Shanghai office of the chemicals giant Brunner, Mond & Co. Jones composed his poems in Shanghai, Tianjin, on the Yangtze River, and in England. His collection is a rare surviving example of the bespoke luxury printing and bookbinding service provided by Kelly & Walsh, Asia's largest publisher-printer. Octavo, pp. 16. Contents printed in blue. Original decorative black and blue brocade, front cover lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed and bowed, foxing to endpapers and edges: a very good copy. …

Very good. Some wear on old fold lines. Toning corresponding to original fold metric. Size 39.5 x 38.5 Inches. This is a scarce Showa 7, or 1932 map illustrating the vicinity of Shanghai shortly after the Shanghai Incident of 1932. The map was produced to illustrate the shanghai suburban region, and as such covers from the confluence of the Huangpu with the Yangtze to the sharp bend in the Huangpu near modern day Sheshang and Xixie. The Hunagpu River runs through the center of the map, with the International Settlement and French Concession areas highlighted in pink - essentially forming a demilitarized zone in the wake of the January 28th Japanese attack on Shanghai. The map seems to have been adapted with overprinting to add additional detail, including hachuring that identifies high-density population zones in the Chinese quarter south of the French Concession. Further coding identifies towns and villages of varying sizes. As well, the map beautiful illustrates the elaborate canal system surrounding Shanghai - which functioned as a de facto highway system for regional trade and commerce. There is a Chinese language stamp in the lower right for a Shanghai textile trade association. Shanghai Incident of 1932 The conflict of January 28th, 1932, also known as the Shanghai Incident or Shanghai War, was a precursor to the Second Sino-Japanese War, which would begin a few years later. Following several alleged attacks on Japanese nationals, the Japanese launched a Blitzkrieg style attack on Chinese Nationalist forces with the supposed intent of protecting Japanese civilians residing in the Hongkou District, an informal Japanese Concession within the International Settlement. The Chinese Nationalist troops concentrated in Zhabei in order protect the strategically important Shanghai Railway Station, through which supplies and reinforcements could be readily delivered. The Chinese resistance proved stubborn and both sides established perimeters along the Hunagpu River. A similar perimeter was stabled to the south, along the Wusong River, to protect the British and French Concessions. The Japanese nonetheless pursued their attack, using gunboats on the Wusong River and Hunagpu River to harry the Chinese. Ultimately, the two sides fought to a near standstill. In late February the League of Nations forced both the Japanese to sign a ceasefire, the Shanghai Ceasefire Agreement, with china, turning Shanghai into a demilitarized zone. Shanghai 1910 - 1932 The 1910s-20s were a golden age for Shanghai, at least in the Concessions. While China was ruled by Chiang Kai-shek (1887 - 1975), Shanghai was dominated by several consolidated foreign trade Concessions. Under the strict administrative control of the Concessions, the city became a cosmopolitan haven in the midst of political unrest and a center for global trade and finance. The Concessions occupied what is today central Shanghai's most desirable land, hugging the Huangpu River and Wusong River (Suzhou Creek). These extraterritorial European, Japanese, and American enclaves had modern housing, fine roads, streetcars, elegant shops, clubs, and more. It was a place of excess, art, and extravagance, where fortunes could be made by the enterprising - and lost by the foolish. Moreover, lacking the moral constrains that limited social life in Europe and America, Shanghai became nexus for the opium trade, sexual excess, gambling, and other vices. This ephemeral world come crashing down on January 28, 1932, when the 'Shanghai Incident' or 'January 28 Incident' pitted the Republic of China against the Empire of Japan. Responding to Chinese student protests against the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Japanese Navy bombarded Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek sent the Chinese army in to defend the Shanghai students, threatening to escalate the conflict. The League of Nations, fearing all-out war, united to demand a ceasefire, which was signed. Nonetheless, most consider The January 28 incident to be th. Signed by Author(s).…