Search Results: Authors starting with M from Michal Sawka Rare & Collectable

London: Longmans, Green and CO., 1885. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (180 x 130 mm). Four volumes. New edition. Half calf spine leather, gilt title to the spine, gilt lining, marbled endpapers, hinge reinforced, all edges marbled. Lacking title and contents pages in vol. III. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed, minor wear along edges. Very good, tight and fresh..

Gresham Books Limited, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio. Original blue cloth, gilt title to the spine, brown dustjacket. Bookplate. The jacket has two small tears at top, the pages are very slightly creased. Else fine copy, clean and firm. .

London: Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd, 1923. Book. Fine. Hardcover. (240 x 180mm). Original blue cloth with gilt ornaments and gilt titles on the spine and front cover, accompanied by creamy dust jackets. Features 36 full-color plate illustrations by Russell Flint. The wrappers show slight soiling, with browned spines and slightly chipped edges. In volume II, the bottom edges of the wrapper detached but still in place. The spine of the books are slightly sunned, minor foxing throughout, else the book are in fine condition. This set is very handsome, presented in rare dust jackets..

Parisiis: Apud Joannem Baptistam Coignar, 1677. Book. Good. Hardcover. 16mo (100 x 170mm). [26] 540pp., vignette on title page, text printed in red and black, divided into two columns, initials, errata. Full calf leather bound, five raised bands, titling to the spine. Pen notes on endpapers. Wear on edges, corners bumped, the upper ones are rubbed, block-edges tanned. .

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Vol. I and II. Octavo. Full dark blue levant morocco bindings with fancy gilt turn ins, full bright gilt edges, decorative spine with gilt lozenge design, red leather labels in compartments between raised bands and bound by Holloway. Bookplate on endpaper. Minor brown blemishes to the colour plates and on the pages opposite. Wear to the joints on v.2, front joint is cracked down to the first compartment, otherwise are tender, covers are lightly rubbed with scattered dark blemishes and minor wear to the gilt edges, top corners on both volumes are slightly chipped and bumped. Otherwise both volumes are both firmly bound and in very good condition. 504 & 643 pp. .

Warszawa: Niezalezna Oficyna Wydawnicza NOWa, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. (160 x 120mm). pp. 364. The Independent Publishing House NOWa (Polish: Niezalezna Oficyna Wydawnicza NOWa) was the first underground publishing house in the People's Republic of Poland. Was one of the form of 'Samizdat' ("self-publishing") a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. - Wikipedia. 'Zaczynajac od moich ulic' is a collection of various works of Czeslaw Milosz published in Poland, France, USA. First edition, signed by author on the title page. Original creamy cloth, titles to spine and front cover in black. Dampstain on the cover, spine slightly faded, small wear along edges. Including a card from the publisher with errors found in the text. In the last photo the previous owner in the presence of Czeslaw Milosz… Read More

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912. Book. Illus. by Oswald Moser. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 205 x 260 mm. xii + 464. First impression. Limited edition to 250 copies, of which This is no. 1 signed by publisher. Bookplate to paste down endpaper (John Baldock). Original pictorial boards, gilt titling to the spine and upper board, gilt top edges. Colored frontispiece and 19 plates (plates size: 110 x 150 mm) on brown paper, protected by tissue-guard with a printed quote from the text of the book. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Spine slightly sunned, soiling mostly on rear board, Spine ends wear. Internally clean and bright, only foxing on preliminary and final pages, occasionally inside. .