Search Results: Color Plates

Tel Aviv: Tiberias Art Gallery. Soft cover. Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. No date, circa 1960s. Unbound cardboard folder, 8 color plates, text in English and Hebrew. Covers soiled and foxed, plates are mildly darkened in some margins, otherwise unmarked. Flowers and landscapes of Israeli scenes. Int/13roduction by Rivka Kaznelson

Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Ex-library bound in heavy black cloth with gilt lettering spine. Library bookplate on front pastedown, library perforated blindstamp on title page and on a couple other pages, no library marks on any of the illustration plates, no underlining or writing on any pages, no foxing, plates are clean and bright, solid binding. Generally nice condition. The book is very large weighing almost 7 pounds and measuring 370mm tall x 295mm. It has 101 pages of text followed by 60 plates (each full page in size with blank versos) of which 40 are in full color. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Paris: Les Éditions Militaires Illustrées, 1945. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Maurice Toussaint. 68pp. Stiff wrapper, original glassine dust jacket. Limited edition # 495 of 975 copies printed. Text in French. Illustrated throughout, including 4 hand-colored plates. Spine ends chipped, page edges and margins of text mildly age-toned, glassine jacket age-darkened, contents otherwise clean. Illustrations en noir, 4 planches en couleur.

New York: Heritage Press, [1950]. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Very Good slipcase. Edmund Dulac. Small folio in decorated boards. Illustrated with color plates by Edmund Dulac

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. The book is in fine condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, clean, no foxing, solid binding. The dust jacket is in nice condition with minor rubbing tips corners, tiny loss tips two corners, clean. The book measures 283mm tall x 285mm, and has 200 pages, 283 b/w & 12 color photos (tipped in) & several illustrations. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

N.p., (Pompei), 1950. Small 8vo. 165 x 120 mm., [6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches]. Illustrated with 32 color postcards, linked together in accordian fashion and bound in boards, decorated with a view of ancient Pompei and Blessed Virgin Mary. High gloss tourists cards printed in color, each with an legend describing the image in Italian, French, English and German.  Nice survival in quite good condition.

Cernobbio, Lake Como: Villa d'Este, 1960. 8vo.  210 x 155 mm., [8 1/4 x 6 inches].  84, 1 pp.  12 tupped-in color plate reproductions.  Original cloth binding, dust jacket; boards with residue of paper wrapper, dust jacket showing some discoloration at edges.  With faults a good copy. Well-illustrated promotional guide to the history and gardens of the Villa d'Este on Lake Como.  A famous sanctuary of the rich which includes an illustrious past and examples of exquisite architectural buildings, Villa d'Este is still today a destination for both the connoisseur and the rich and famous. .

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a lightly soiled slipcase. Shannon Stirnweiss. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in blue linen with decorated paper sides; 186 pages. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies designed by Adrian Wilson and illustrated with four double-page and four full-page oil paintings by Shannon Stirnweiss. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1990). Reprint. Hardcover. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Quarto. Reprint of the 1953 edition with additions and with 52 fine color illustrations (including some by Audubon and Gould).

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and lightly soiled slipcase. Shannon Stirnweiss. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in blue linen with decorated paper sides; 186 pages. Copy #533 of 1500 numbered copies designed by Adrian Wilson and illustrated with four double-page and four full-page oil paintings by Shannon Stirnweiss. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Calgary: the author, 1987. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. Carmen Barbosa. 1987 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition.Inscribed and SIGNED by author in pen on the short-title page. Original glossy pictorial small paperback. The book has some light rubbing to covers, no tears, solid binding (but cracking in a couple of places without any loose pages -- yet), no previous owner marks or writing on any pages (other than author's signed inscription), no foxing. The book measures 152mm tall x 100mm and has 91 pages, many b/w photos with routes marked, several b/w sketches and cartoons, route index. The Barrier Bluffs are above Barrier Lake about 11 kilometers south on the Kananaskis Highway south of Highway 1. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

New York: Harry Abrams, [1973]. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Grandma Moses. Coffee-table size book with 253 plates, 135 in color.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 156pp. Red cloth, gilt and black lettering to cover and spine, all edges gilt, 8 colored plates and numerous black and white engravings. Edges lightly rubbed, light soil to rear board and spine, text is clean, inscriptions on verso of frontispiece , former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive little book with handsome color plates.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1939). Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. Detmold. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates with tissue guards by Detmold.

Harrisburg, PA & Washington DC: The Stackpole Company & Wildlife Management Institute, (1959). First Edition. Cloth. Small owner stamp on front endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, about Very Good dustwrapper. Olaus J. Murie and Edwin R. Kalmbach. A comprehensive account including a history and a 54-page bibliography. Illustrated with color plates by Olaus J. Murie and Edwin R. Kalmbach.

London: John C. Nimmo. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. color; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Contemp 3/4 scarlet morocco leatehr & marbled bds, spine gilt, T. E. G; joints rubbed, extremities scuffed. With 12 color plates. Internally clean and bright with. Plates collated and in VG condition. Owner's bookplate and ownership signatures on fep.. .

London: Bickers & Son, n.d. First Edition. 1/2 morocco. Spine rubbed & dry; rear board detached. Contents VG. 19 chromolithographs. 4th thousand.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Close to Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Serge Ivanoff. Octavo (7-5/8" x 10") bound in quarter red morocco leather, gold-stamped, with mould-made Italian paper sides printed in gold with a design by Adrian Wilson. This great medieval love story is translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld with an introduction by Padraic Colum. Copy #887 of 1500 illustrated with color plates by Serge Ivanoff and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Hardcover. Sporadic foxing, occasionally heavy, not affecting the plates though the margins of three plates have varying degrees of foxing. The spine has very slight wear at the tips, much less than usually encountered with this title. Very Good in an intact, Good slipcase with abrasion and dryness to the gold paper. Arthur Szyk. Small folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half white sheepskin leather with sheepskin corners, gilt-stamped, and gilt-decorated smooth vellum paper sides. Copy #323 of 1950 copies illustrated with 8 busy and striking color plates by Arthur Szyk, each placed by hand in the book, and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1832. 8vo.  190 x 110 mm., [7 ½ x 4 ½ inches].  xxxi, 275 pp. plus 2pp. ads.  Illustrated with six color plates.  Contemporary cloth; expertly rebacked preserving spine, new endpapers.  One plate loose in text. Fifth edition with additions. With faults an attractive copy of a standard book, well-illustrated with hand tinted color lithographic plates by Alfred Ducôte. Tyman writes that Ducôte was one of the leading practitioners of tinted lithographic process in London during between 1830 and 1840.  The National Portrait Gallery has over 400 examples of his work.  Twyman, Lithography, 1800-1850, p. 209.  .