Sprague rev (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Good. Small 8vo. Cloth, no dj. Black cloth with gilt lettering on front board, spine. 157 numbered pp. Rubbing and speckling to boards; title on front board significantly worn. Spine faded, with fraying at ends. Light pencil marginalia throughout. Else fine. Despite its flaws, a sound reader's copy.…

Zustand: New. 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. 8vo. Published by Battlefield Publishing Co, Ballston Spa, New York, 1930. 94 pgs. Map endpapers. Illustrated with reproductions of earlier works of art, maps and images from black and white photographs. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing ; 154, [1] pages frontispiece, portrait 26 cm OCLC 11521570 ; LC PS1722 F4 A7 ; LCCN 20016180 ; brown cloth with gold lettering, no dustjacket ; Contents: Comedy: A Critical Essay on Humorous Drama, an essay written in eighty-nine, then published in the Saint Louis Globe-Democrat, and now revised; Ari-zon having been written in part in eighteen ninety-six, and in part in wighteen ninety-eight, as an illustration of the essay and an example of pure comedy -- Commentary, In lectures, reviews and letters, being critical appreciations of Ari-Zon -- A?ri?-zon; Ari-zon is a rare, self-published book from 1912 issued coincidentally the same year Arizona became a state, although this is not the subject of the comedy ; Jonathan Burwell Frost (1861-1929), a Brooklynite, a Founder of Woodmen of the World, having organized its first camp at Dallas, Texas. Frost was prominent in fraternal circles and took a leading part in organizing the Columbian Woodmen and the Aryans. At one time he was literary editor of The Kansas City Star. He also was the author of several books, Napaleon [sic], The Art of Reading, Love Fugue, and this title ;, Graduate in 1886 of Meadville Pennsylvania Theological School, eminent Consul, Columbian Woodman, Atlanta, residence in Nashville, Tennessee ; at the end is an advertisement for books and songs by Jonathan Frost and Lila Frost Sprague ; very rare, some foxing, marks and splotches on covers else VG. Book.…

10 full page color plates by Isaac Sprague, 12.75 x 10", gilt-lettered pict cloth, unpaginated, covers quite worn/stained, soiled and darkened, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, pp toned but complete and intact with the ten lovely, bright botanical prints (Arethusa, Shortia, Arrow-Head, Hay-Scented Fern, Blue-Stemmed Golden-Rod, Fringed Gentian, Mountain Fringe, Arrow-Leaved Violet, Calopogon, and Spinulose).…

1p., 4to. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, laid down on the remains of a leaf of grey paper from an album. Sprague has only just received his recipient's letter, 'with its invaluable accompaniment', presuming that it was detained at New York for more than two months. He will send a proper letter in a fortnight; in the meantime he writes 'to introduce to you my worthy and much respected friend Mr Solomon Stoddard of Northampton, a direct descendant of the venerable divine whose name he bears [i.e. Solomon Stoddard (1643-1729)].' Sprague will be 'disappointed if the acquaintance is not a source of mutual pleasure to both of you'.…