Rafaello busoni illus (10 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Later prt. 8vo, 479 pp., A volume in the Illustrated Junior Library. Fine copy in the acetate wrapper. Illus. by Rafaello Busoni (illustrator).

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in slipcase. reprint. Tall 8vo, 450 pp., Sandglass newsletter laid-in. Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff. Introduction by Hamilton Basso. Illus. by Rafaello Busoni (illustrator).

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in slipcase. Later prt. Tall 8vo, 392 pp., Sandglass newsletter laid-in. Translated by Lady Mary Loyd. Revised by Robert Cantwell. Preface by Honoré De Balzac. Illus. by Rafaello Busoni (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Hardback; vg-; different cover to the usual edition; slight mark on rear cover; internally clean with colour illustrations; ; Bonnie Books; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni (illustrator).

Zustand: Fine. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Sept. 28 (weekend SALE item)* Gilt-stamped full brown leather (hardcover), moire endpapers and pastedowns, a.e.g., 1 tiny speck of wear to bottom edge of back cover else fine. Includes Notes from the Archives laid in. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1942. First Edition. Bookplate signed by author laid in. Octavo; 230 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout by Rafaello Busoni. Pictorial dust jacket with $2.50 price; book bound in orange cloth-covered boards with illustration and text stamped in green. Gift inscription on title page from previous owner: "Robert Kahle / from / Jean Ann Kaufmann / Christmas 1942." Dust jacket torn along front flap fold 5" up from bottom and 1" down from top, with an inch-square chip at head of spine and a few shallower chips and tears along edges. Corners of boards rubbed. Binding sound with slight lean to boards. Pages clean and unmarked.…

Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Some edge-rubbing to cover. 270mm x 200mm (11" x 8"). 472pp. B/w illustrations by Rafaello Busoni throughout. Gothic style text in German language. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Leatherette cream/gilt spine over pictorial orange boards.…

dj. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial cloth over boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 214pp; illus. Straight, tight and unmarked, Fine but for some darkening to the endpapers at gutters. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap); toned on spine with a big of raggedness to edges, Very Good. Nicely-illustrated historical fiction for younger readers, with stories extracted and reinterpreted from the Icelandic sagas.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good +. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. First Thus, Limited to 2000 sets of which this is no. 792. Three volumes; slim folios; publisher's pictorial cloth in glassine dust jackets, housed in original paper-covered slipcase; color illus. throughout. Glassine jackets a bit toned and lightly edge worn, small abrasion to slipcase spine label slightly affecting text, else a Near Fine set. King Midas signed by illustrator Fritz Eichenberg on colophon in rear; Pandora's Box is signed by illustrator Rafaello Busoni to the same; The Emperor's New Clothes is signed by both illustrator Ervine Metzl and translator Jean Hersholt. Publisher's prospectus laid in.…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. New York: David McKay Company, [1944]. First Trade Edition. Small, slim 12mo; publisher's blue pictorial paper-covered boards, lacking dust jacket; 30pp.; duotone illus. throughout. Light wear to corners and spine ends, faint contemporary note to front free endpaper ("How one life changed an entire community"); a Very Good, internally clean and sound example. Slip signed by the author laid in. The basis for the classic 1946 Christmas film "It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart and directed by Frank Capra. The premise of the story famously came to Van Doren Stern while he was shaving one day in 1938, though he struggled to complete a first draft for another five years. When he failed to find it a publisher, the author decided to print up 200 copies as a Christmas keepsake for his friends, one of which somehow ended up on the desk of the executive at RKO Radio Pictures. Van Doren Stern related in a 1946 interview that he came home one day to find the telephone ringing. "It was Western Union calling to read me a telegram from Hollywood, announcing that the story had been sold for $10,000." This book edition appeared shortly thereafter, preceding the film adaption by two years. Signed.…