The Lady of La Garaye by The Hon. Mrs. Norton - 1866

Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1867. Hardcover. Good. 1867. No Edition Remarks. 313 pages. Half bound red leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1867. Hardcover. Good. 1867. No Edition Remarks. 300 pages. Half bound red leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers. Previous owner's names dated 1921, otherwise unmarked copy. Green cloth, purple end papers. Corner bumping and rubbing, also to spine ends. No jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1868.

London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1846. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good-. Cracked Hinges, Top of Spine Missing, Bottom Spine Split to Right Hand Side, Foxed, Covers Marked

Bull and Churton. Collectible - Acceptable. London: Bull and Churton, 1835. 8vo. 385pp. Illus. Fair book. Textblock detached. Gifter's inscription on front free endpage. (gift books, periodical publications) Inquire if you need further information.

London: Fisher, Son & Co,, 1846. Frontis., title-page vignette and 34 full-page steel engravings. Original green cloth, gilt dec. central device and borders to the boards. Binding worn but nice clean contents with clean tissue-guards plates. original edition. hardcover. V.g.. 4to.

London: Saunders & Otley, 1852. First. Hardcover. Fair. All volumes in ½ calf on faded mottled green cloth boards and gilt titles on the spines. All are ex-library with small card pockets on front pastedowns, "South African Public Library" in gilt on the lower spines and small ink stamps "Westminster Libraries" on the title pages. The date "January 24, 1853" is written in ink on all the front pastedowns. Volume 1- 306 pp. Scuffed covers, with spine edges and corners fraying.  Cloth beginning to split along front edge.  Front hinge cracked.  Upper corners torn away on front endpaper and title page, with loss of part of the "P" in the title.  Text shows minor scattered soiling and foxing, but generally clean and unmarked. Volume 2 - 332 pp.  Scuffed covers, with spine edges and corners fraying.  Both hinges cracked, but holding.  Text block cracked, and some signatures are coming loose, but all pages are present.  The front endpaper is missing. There is a small hole on the title page near… Read More

Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1862. First edition. Repaired crack to the upper joints, minor rubbing, but an attractive and unusual binding. First edition. xix, (xx)-128p. Portrait frontispiece and two other plates by Norton. Rebound without the final ads in full brown morocco, painted and gilt, the spine vertically titled in gilt, the covers with a black frame outlined with decorative rules, the central panel in a diapered pattern alternating rows of black compartments with silver fleur-de-lys and brown compartments with gold fleur-de-lys, the endpapers of colorful flowers highlighted in gold, all edges gilt and gauffered with repeating rosettes. The story is of a French countess who founded a hospital for the poor. Colbeck p. 616. With the bookplate of Rauri McLean.

Norwood Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Limited Edition Hardcover Book. 2011 OR: Norwood Press Limited Numbered edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a black leather binding with gold stamping and dust cover, signed by the author. Limited to one of 200.

Norwood Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Limited Collector's Edition September 2011 OR: Norwood Press Limited Numbered Edition, signed by both authors. Numbered editions are numbered 1-98, have custom 3/4 marbled boards in a matching slip-case and are stamped in gold.

Norwood Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Limited Collector's Edition March 2011 OR: Norwood Press Limited Numbered Edition, signed by both authors. Numbered editions are numbered 1-98, have custom 3/4 marbled boards in a matching slip-case and are stamped in gold.

Norwood Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Limited Collector's Edition June 2011 OR: Norwood Press Limited Numbered Edition, signed by both authors. Numbered editions are numbered 1-98, have custom 3/4 marbled boards in a matching slip-case and are stamped in gold.

The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.

Norwood Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Limited Edition Hardcover Book. July 2011 OR: Norwood Press Limited Numbered Edition, hand signed by Alan Jacobson. Numbered editions are numbered 1-100, in custom slipcase.

5956Ruskin The King of the Golden River, A Legend of Stiria. Publisher: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900. RARE. Original copyright 1841. BOUND IN SUEDE LEATHER. Used . Good- condition./ None Issued. A couple of top edges show bite-size area of loss. Does not effect text. Frontispiece black and white portrait of John Ruskin. Decorated title page and decorated initial letters by Samuel Warner. Colophon reads, printed in red, as follows: SO HERE ENDETH THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER, AS / WRITTEN BY JOHN RUSKIN: THE TITLE PAGE AND INITIALS / BEING DESIGNED BY SAMUEL WARNER, AND THE WHOLE / DONE INTO A BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THEIR SHOP, / IN EAST AURORA, NEW YORK, U.S.A., IN THE YEAR MCM. Roycroft logo with Elbert Hubbard printed in. handwritten gift inscription and signature on front free endpaper dates this item to the year 1900. Leather is in clean condition.

Santa Fe: Rydal, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Limited Edition, No. 2 of 5 copies: this is a proof copy of the First Edition, bound in fine gilt-stamped black leather with marbled endpapers. 8vo, black leather; vg+ (scratch and two faint scrapes to front cover; faint smudge to side edge); 108pp.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Corners a bit rubbed, boards faintly soiled, ink date and owner bookplate of Robert N. Cherry on front flyleaf. 1927 Half-Leather. iv, 325 pp. 8vo. No binder's ticket, but appears to be a contemporary custom rebinding: blue leather spine and corners over blue cloth, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, new end sheets. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them.

Ikebana Arranging Images; Kamata, Soseke, 1950's. A nice publication given to Julia Jane Jeffers Dodge while here husband was helping Japan recover after the war. Her husband Joseph Morrell Dodge had a long and distinguished career and tried to help reform Europe but later wound up as financial advisor to Douglas MacArthur in the economic revitalization of Japan. This edition is in very good condition internally. Photos of Ikebana arrangements by the famous Japan Ikebana master. A gift given to Julia Jeffers Dodge and placed in her library. 38 single sided (double page but other side blank) on high quality Japan paper with photo examples of Ikebana, black and white. A rare publication.