Henry howard illus (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1905. No Edition Remarks. 86 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No DJ. dj. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome copy of this Christy illustrated classic. Minor shelf/edge wear, owner inscription on ffep (in pencil), hint of wear at head and heel, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue/grey cloth boards, gilt lettering, black ink lettering and decorative elements, in blind decorative elements, decorative endpages, frontispiece, tissueguard. 4to. 152pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates).…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London: Effingham Wilson, 1836. First Edition. Large octavo (25cm); half bound in red morocco over cloth, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, top edge gilt; xiii,395pp+ ad; twenty-three plates, including frontis, collated complete. Board corners and hinges rubbed and lightly worn. Endsheets lightly soiled and toned with previous owner ex libris to first pastedown. Most plates relatively clean, though many with foxing to edges, finger smudging to most pages. Occasional contemporary marginalia (see below). A Very Good example of a moderately, but not unexpectedly, uncomfortable tome on how to identify and analyze the female form and figure out "is she pretty, really?" "That, independent of any association, blackness is naturally disagreeable, if not painful, is happily determined by the case of the boy restored to sight be Cheselden, who tells us that the first time the boy saw a black object, it gave him a great uneasiness, and that seeing a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. This appears to be perfectly conclusive." In the margin of this paragraph a contemporary owner has written succinctly "Trash.".…