low joseph illustrator (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good/very good. ISBN: 0136068898 Hardcover, dust jacket protected in new mylar wrap. Cream cloth over boards. Clean, square copy. Text unmarked throughout. Gift inscription on front free endpaper.

Zustand: very good + to near fine. First edition thus. Large 8vo. xv, (1), 301, (3)pp. Horizontal bands of gray, blue and orange cloth, lettered in silver and gilt (spine lightly sunned). Housed in publisher's lightly dusted blue cardboard slipcase with paper spine label (label a bit rippled). Illustrated with 95 text drawings (38 in color) by Joseph Low. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363) printed at the Stinehour Press and signed on the limitation leaf by Joseph Low. Contents: The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Dick Baker's cat -- Baker's blue-jay yarn -- The curious Republic of Gondour -- The five boons of life -- Two little tales -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- An encounter with an interviewer -- The belated Russian passport -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup -- A true story -- The death disk -- The story of the bad little boy -- The story of the good little boy -- A mediaeval romance -- The stolen white elephant -- The $30,000 bequest -- A dog's tale -- Was it heaven? or hell? -- Extracts from Adam's diary -- Eve's diary. (OCLC).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Orange cloth covered boards with slight creasing at base of spine. Pictoral dust jacket very slightly discoloured on spine, covered with plastic jacket, unclipped, pevious price stickers on back. Contents have slight dust discolouration on top of pages but otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated in sepia throughout by Joseph Law. One of Swift's many satires that contain a grain of truth.