mcvickar henry w (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover, no, Josh jacket. Blue cloth cover with silver ring. Gold will scam as wear to the spine and edges, and the top portion of the spine is peeling away, but still present. The pages show signs of discoloration due to age and one of the front place is a loose, but still in the book. The spine is pulling away from the body, but the book is still in complete condition. This book is in very good condition. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 269 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt And Silver Gilt. First Printing, With 1890 Date On Title Page. Light Rubbing At Corners. Bookplate Of James Fraser Gluck (1852-1897), Prominent Buffalo Area Attorney. He Was Influential In Establishing The School Of Philosophy At Cornell, Where He Was A Trustee. Through Mr. Gluck's Influence The System Of Scholarships Was Also Established Whereby Poor And Meritorious Students Received University Aid For Four Years To The Amount Of $250 A Year. At The Time Of His Death He Was President Of The Grosvenor Library And A Director Of The Buffalo Library. While Curator Of The Buffalo Library. Mr. Gluck Made A Collection Of Manuscripts, Autograph Letters Of Famous Men, Historical Documents Of Value And Rare Books; And Just Before The Close Of His Term Of Office He Surprised The Trustees Of The Library By Presenting To Them For The Institution What Many Deemed The Most Valuable Collection Of The Kind In The Country. His Private Library Was Probably The Largest Private Library In The City, And Distinctively Rich In History, Philosophy, Science And The Classics. Gluck Corresponded With Many Authors, Including Mark Twain, From Whom He Obtained The Original Manuscript Of "Huckleberry Finn", The Second Half Of Which Was Presumed Lost But Discovered 100 Years Later By One Of His Granddaughters In Their Attic.

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. No Jacket. McVickar, Henry W. (illustrator). [xvi], [269p.] Endpapers toned, spine sunned with corners lightly worn. Collection of French prose poems translated by the 19th century American poet. Red cloth. B&w illustrations. (7"x4-5/8").

Hardcover. Henry W. McVickar (illustrator). 8vo. pp xv, 268. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Facsimile of the Harper 1890 edition. Prose poems, examples from Louis Bertrand, Paul Leclercq, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Judith Gautier. ISBN: 0879683104 Fine.

Zustand: New. . paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. McVickar, Henry W (illustrator). KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 294 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Green diagonal stripes to front/rear with blue and gilt decorations to the front. Moderate plus age toning to the spine and edges with faint soiling to front/rear. Cocked spine slightly shaking binding. Text block has moderate age toning to deckled fore and tail edges. Top edge gilt. Light foxing to the end papers. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owner's information to the front free end paper. Former bookshop's small sticker to rear pastedown. Illustrated. First Edition. 1371259. FP New Rockville Stock.

Pictorial Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Palmer Cox, Harry Whitney McVickar, William Henry Hyde, E W Kemble, John Ames Mitchell, Etc. (illustrator). First Edition. AEG. Unpaginated. Green cloth boards with beveled edges, decoratively stamped in gilt, titled in black, rubbing to joints and edges, corners worn, gift inscription, but clean over ll. A compilation of comic art published in "Life" Magazine from the preceding year. Includes work by Palmer Cox, Harry Whitney McVickar, William Henry Hyde, Edward Winsor Kemble, John Ames Mitchell, etc. A few of the comics contain stereotypical depictions of non-white and indigenous peoples and there is some use of black dialect. Size: Oblong 4to.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Henry W. McVickar (illustrator). First edition. A beautiful first edition of this translated collection of poetry, from the library of British marine biologist, George Parker Bidder. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding.With a coloured frontispiece and numerous vignettes by Henry W. McVickar, an American artist who was a prominent member of New York society during the Gilded Age.'Pastels in Prose', translated from French, is a charming collection of short, poetic prose pieces that aim to embody the essence of French symbolism.With contributions from various notable authors and poets, including Louis Bertrand, Theodore de Banville, Alphonse Daudet and Stephane Mallarme, among others.From the library of George Parker Bidder (1863-1953), a British marine biologist and President of the Marine Biological Association from 1939 to 1945. He primarily studied sponges, especially their hydraulics, as well as the movements of bottom feeders and coastal erosion.With Bidder's name inscribed to the front free endpaper, dated Christmas 1890. Another previous owner has also inscribed the famous way in which Bidder acquired the Parker's Hotel in Naples. According to the inscription, Bidder handed the hotel manager a cheque after he had been confronted about deep debt and therefore refused his breakfast.Also with the bookplate of Pamela and Raymond Lister to the front pastedown. Raymond was an English blacksmith, author and artist who was a leading authority on Samuel Palmer. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing to the extremities. With the bookplate of Pamela and Raymond Lister to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Contents of the work are bright and clean. With the inscription of George Parker Bidder to the front free endpaper, as well as previous owner's inscriptions to the verso and a newspaper clipping laid in to the facing page. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Decorative red cloth stamped in red and white attributed to Cox. Cloth moderately soiled, corners lightly bumped, still very good. Nice copy of an uncommon title.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Harry W. McVickar (illustrator). Later printing. 163p, octavo. A very good copy, wear along edges, boards offset. Bookplate pasted to front end paper, "from the lending library of Ethel Frothingham Putnam". On first free end paper an inscription reads, "Ethel F Putnam from Dorothy. 1903." Possibly Dorothy Sturgis Harding, the engraver, whom Putnam has a documented correspondence with.