rigby douglas (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. solid hardcover edition with jacket light wear to cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good - Cash. No Jacket. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. Corners have been bumped a bit. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. Previous owner's name(s) inside blacked out. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Armed Services edition. Oblong 12mo, 511 pages, stapled wrappers ASE no. 692. An odd choice of content for most soldiers -but it would have been of interest to The Monument Men. Abridged, but "zestful reading".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Second edition. Very good, 2nd Printing of the Trade Edition with dustwrapper. The book has light rub of spine ends. The dustwrapper has wear and tear of all panel edges and light fading of panels. The text is clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in slipcase. Beige cloth over boards with gold lettering on black leather spine. Title page and copyright page dated 1944. Stated first edition, and limited edition no. 232/550. 570 pages. Book is in good condition. Minimal wear to cover, most evident at head, foot, and hinges of spine. Gold stamping is bright. Binding remains strong and square. Top edge of pages gilt. Small personal library plate in upper left corner of front attached endpaper. Pages are free of marks, tears, or creases. Cardboard slipcase, covered in navy paper, is torn along one hinge, but otherwise intact. Overall a good, clean copy. Frontispiece features color reproduction of a self-portrait by American collector Charles Wilson Peale. Several black and white photographs of art and artifacts featured throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Graham, Rigby (illustrator). Unpaginated (approx. 16p.) American ballad from the late 18th century. Handmade paper composed of old bed sheets. Clear protective jacket. "Of only two hundred copies, this is Number 170." B&w illustrations by Rigby Graham. (12-1/8"x8-1/4").

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Rigby Graham (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited to 200 copies, signed by John Mason. Book measures 31.5x21.cm. Prachment spine, decorative boards. Binding in near fine condition. Internally, pages fine. A very nice copy. Size: Quarto.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. 4to pp 30. 1961 but actually 1963 From the edition of 200 copies, this being copy number 40 signed by John Mason. Original publisher's quarter velum lettered gilt at the spine over gilt lined marbled boards. Title page device and four full-page illustrations by Rigby Graham, the whole printed on thick handmade paper made - the publisher writes "Old bed sheets of several colours gave raw material for the paper, but the source of the supply cannot be disclosed." They were cut into small pieces, well wetted and left for a considerable time to rot. A very handsome edition despite the (rare) 'An APOLOGY' on a label pasted to the front pastedown and attractively printed - it states "This is not a successful piece of book production. One time it came near to being repulped. However we will persuaded, I still think against our better judgement, to let it stay. We do not expect to sell many copies but who can tell? Collectors will buy the bad as well as the good. In spite of the colophon it was NOT completed until 1963 and, also we used an adhesive binding for the spine and nNOT side stitching. Meliora videmus' ( We will see better things.) Fine. Signedes.