paul celiere (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and silver and red embellishments. Some rubbing at edges, some shelf wear. Foxing to textblock ONLY. Pages clean, NO foxing or markings, binding sturdy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. General shelf/age wear. Pages clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American Edition. Slight edgewear and bumped corners - see image. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Book is in Very Good condition - tight binding and clean, unmarked text. Tissue guard on frontispiece. The Author states that, "I have written my book with a simple-minded intention to avoid boring my readers." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American edition. Pictorial boards. Contemporary name stamp, slight wear at the spinal extremities. A tight, very good or better copy. Not in *Bleiler*.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece and 120 illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. A gorgeous copy of the first American edition, published by Harper and Brothers in 1877. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with a bright balloon illustration decorating the front board. The book features 120 illustrations and frontispiece. An uncommonly nice copy. From the French of Celiere, translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and Mr. John Lillie.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). An early edition of the entertaining The Startling Exploits of Dr. J. B. Quies, translated from the original French. An interesting copy of The Startling Exploits of Dr. J. B. Quies that has been translated from the original French, written by Paul Celiere, into English by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and Mr. John Lillie.The book is proclaimed as a flight of fancy and was written with a "simple-minded intention to avoid boring my readers." The volume is extensively illustrated with one hundred and twenty illustrations throughout the text. There is also thirty-two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.There is an inscription to the front free endpaper which reads:To Mr Alfred Darwin, junior, A Christmas present from Dr J. B. Quies.Christmas Day, 1886. In the publisher's original decorated cloth boards. Externally, generally smart. The spine is a little faded and bumped and there is some fading to the joints and extremities and a few marks to the boards. There is an inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with the odd scattered spot concentrated to the first few pages. Very Good. book.