Howells w william d dean (27 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. 8vo. Ex-library. Extravagant bright blue cloth binding with decoration in gilt, titles in gilt, and raised decorative band to front board. Two-color title page. 369 pp. William Dean Howells (/'ha??lz/; March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American re…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo., ix(1)288pp. plus two pages of ads. Sharp second printing of the First Trade Edition, bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in gilt on front board with a gilt-edged red first initial. Top edge gilt. Dozens of illustrations throughout including tissue-guarded frontis. Square, ti…

Embossed Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Original Century Binding Of Green Cloth, Elaborately Embossed And Printed In Gilt. Attractive Decorated Endpapers. Hinges And Endpapers Entirely Intact, Gilt Bright, But Some Edge Wear With Fraying To Lower Tips And Some Tiny Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine. No Names Or Marks O…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., (7)241pp. Sharp First Trade Edition, bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in gilt on front board with a gilt-edged red first initials. Top edge gilt. A couple of dozen illustrations including tissue-guarded frontis. Square, tight and clean throughout with some fa…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., (7)303pp. Sharp First Trade Edition, bound in green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in gilt on front board with a gilt-edged red first initial. Top edge gilt. Dozens of illustrations including tissue-guarded frontis. Square, tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild…

Hardcover. First Thus Edition. Octavo, xii, 232 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine dark green with gilt lettering. Boards show mild wear with light, sparse scuffs and slight rubbing wear to the head/tail edges. Text block has moderate age toning to the head/tail edges. Head edge gilt. Faint staining toward head edges to severa…

Hardcover. Octavo, 281 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's red cloth bearing black and gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including slight rubbing to the edges. Text block has moderate wear including slight age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge gilt. Deckled fore edge. Partial cra…

Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8" bound in buckram printed with a four-color panorama of Boston's Beacon Street painted by Mimi Korach; 384 pages. Designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #39 of 1500 illustrated with 15 full-color full-page plates and 24 smaller color illustrations by Mimi Korach and SIGNED by the artist on the colopho…

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Good. First Edition. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. First edition. 8vo. Turquoise cloth boards with decorative gold and red lettering, top edge gilt. 241 pp. Turn-of-the-century London travelogue, illustrated with frontispiece and various photogravures/illustrations of famous sights in L…

Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8" bound in buckram printed with a four-color panorama of Boston's Beacon Street painted by Mimi Korach; 384 pages. Designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #751 of 1500 illustrated with 15 full-color full-page plates and 24 smaller color illustrations by Mimi Korach and SIGNED by the artist on the coloph…

Hardcover. First Illustrated Edition. Copy #246 of 250 numbered copies on large paper bound in gilt-lettered and decorated vellum over boards with the uncommon original rust-colored cloth dustwrapper with gilt lettering on the spine. With close to 100 illustrations by Clifford Carleton, ranging from small vignettes to full-page,…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good/Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 234pp. Sharp First Edition in the First State with the title page integral to the gathering and not a Cancel, and the copyright statement being 31/8" wide. Bound in green cloth with beveled edges. Spine titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Square, tight and clean throughout w…

Hardcover. First Edition. Original red cloth. Illustrated with ten plates by A. I. Keller. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "W. D. Howells/Chicago, Oct. 25, 1899." Two early bookplates on front pastedown with one mostly scraped away revealing the other beneath; newspaper clipping laid down on rear endpaper with result…

Vellum. Zustand: Fine. Later edition of Howells's guide to Florence and Pisa enriched with literary portraits of their most illustrious citizens. Crown 8vo (150 x 109mm): 264pp, with 27 tipped-in full page albumen prints, many by the Florence firm Fratelli Alinari. Full decorated vellum over beveled boards, spine and covers rich…

Hardcover. First Edition. Original red cloth. BAL 9642. Illustrated with eight plates. A fine presentation copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to "Joanna/from her brother,/W.D. Howells." We are not sure who the recipient is as Howells, one of eight children, did not have a sister named Joanna. He did have a brother named Joh…