Prospect hill press (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Ellen Oliver Parsons (illustrator).

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. The jacket is touch rubbed.internally clean.well bound.as new.[S.Nor]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition.

Zustand: New.

Illustrated with examples in black-and-white One of an edition limited to 400 copies 4to Fine copy, but missing the floppy disc containing digital fleurons which originally accompanied the volume Quarter buckram, text reproduced by photocopy.

Zustand: Fine. First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter chestnut buckram covers, paper title label to the spine, white paper covered boards with black lettering to the front cover. 4to 12'' x 9''. Contains 29 single-sided monochrome Fleuron plates, end plate, 26 further plates A-Z. One of an edition limited to 400 copies. Missing the floppy disc which most computers nowadays would not be able to accept! Very light soiling to the pale white covers, contents in Fine condition. SIGNED 'To Haydn with thanks - Nikky Baker.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1898953155 BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper).…

First Edition. Illustrated with examples in black-and-white 4to Fine copy Compiled by 'An Elderly Printer and His Devil' this account brings alive the time when the only reasonable and effective national means of communicatin was the newspaper. It is a rollicking ride through various pictograms and other graphic elements. Quarter buckram, text reproduced by photocopy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. The Third Edition. Book measures 31x22.cm. 61,[1],[11]pp, illustrated. Bound in original publishers cloth backed, printed boards. Binding ightly rubbed, minor dirt marking on back board. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean. A good clean solid copy. Size: Quarto.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 23 of 150 copies handset in 18-pt. Souvenir Condensed, printed in red and black on G.B. Flannel paper and signed by the author. 6 tipped-in plates printed in up to 9 colours and heightened in gold or silver. Quarter black buckram, printed paper-covered sides with ties. Front board a bit spotted, title-page rather dusty. A very good copy. With an extra copy of one of the plates loosely inserted, signed 'proof' in the author's hand. The first book from this press. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 17pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Light wear and soiling to extremities of covers, few short tears on spine; a very good or better copy. Text includes poems by students, including "Song for the Reunion in '95" by Laura A. Jones, "School Alphabet" (an acrostic poem) by M. N., "A Household Angel" by R. M., etc., a brief narrative "History of '95," various reminiscences by students (including "By the Experimental Method" about the science laboratory), riddles, jokes, etc. Last four pages print "Prospect Hill Directory, from the re-opening of the school in 1880," listing a year-by-year (1880-1894), alphabetical listing of students (and their home towns). Introductory text notes: "To Dr. Moors the school mainly owes its existence. Established at his suggestion [and] maintained in large measure by his labors and contributions. Year after year as each new group of girls gathered at the school." Unrecorded by *OCLC*, which does note three other publications from the school, including a reunion book (1887), an issue of the school newspaper (1897), and promotional booklet (circa 1890's?). [With]: Manuscript Christmas poem: *Prospect Hill Christmas 1887* (small nick at one corner, with tanning to the paper, else very good. The eight-line manuscript poem, prepared as a Christmas greeting entitled: "Prospect Hill Christmas 1887" in gold ink holograph, in an unknown hand. Single sheet of stiff white cardstock (with scalloped edges), square 48mo (measuring circa 5 1/4 inches by 5 3/16 inches), in black ink holograph, with title and initials in gold ink, illustrated with an original albumen print photograph (slightly trimmed and affixed to upper left corner, measuring circa 3 1/4 by 2 1/8 inches), depicting a Prospect Hill School building (a larger version of the same image is reproduced on the rear cover of the 'MEMORY BOOK'). The poem begins: "Would you were here tonight / Friend and companion dear! / By the home hearthstone bright, / So much to say and hear" Prospect Hill School was founded in 1869, by Reverend John Farwell Moors, a Unitarian Bishop. It was one of five girls' schools that merged over time, to become the Stoneleigh-Burnham School for Girls, along with The Classical School for Girls (started on the campus of Smith College, later named the Mary A. Burnham School), the Elmhurst School, Stoneleigh School for Girls, and the Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School. For the two (2) items related to the Prospect Hill School. …