Search Results: Authors starting with L from Kama’aina Collection

Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gustave Dore. None. By Mary Lafon Beautiful Deep blue half leather binding with blue/orange, and yellow marbled covers. Marbled endpapers. Spine has guilt and 5 ribs. Some corner bumping. Several pages foxed. Gold Bookmark ribbon still intact.Michael Levy Freres, Editor. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

Philadelphia : E. H. Butler & C0. , 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. None listed. Bookplate for: Mundelein College Library, Chicago. Presented by the Rev. John Rothensteiner. None Important person connection: Rothensteiner, John E. (John Ernest), 1860-1936-prolific poet, historian, writer, scholar, and, bibliophile who’s extensive book collection of 20,000 volumes was given to a small college in need of a library. After the close of the college in 1991 the bulk of the collection ended up at the Newberry Library in Chicago, minus some books, such as this one, that were removed due to duplication, condition and or various other reasons. Very Good. +Plus portrait, vignette title page, and 3 leaves of plates. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's full green cloth binding decorated in blind and gilt with a floral and bird design surrounding the title. Spine ruled in blind and lettered and decorated similarly in gilt. All edges gold gilt. Boards clean but rubbed around the edges. Spine with some… Read More

Italy: Smithmark, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Good. None. None Some foxing throughout. Binding tight. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. One small tear on back fold over at bottom, tears, foxing on the reverse. Still crisp and shiny,

New York: The Marchbanks Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine. Gustave Dore. None. None Orange cloth, label. 1 vols. 4to. Very tight bonding, no fading on the covers, lustrations are crisp and clean. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

Pennsylvania: Story Classics, A division of Rodale Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Gustave Dore. None. By Tom Hood This edition is in a slipcase that is in very good condition. The book itself is near fine. Clean ticket binding with gilt vellum spine and spider on Cover. Limited to 3000 copies, unspecified copy number. ; 8vo 8 - 9 inches tall. There is one old worm hole on the upper part of the spine and the bottom of the inside cover spine shoes some damage. Book was treated upon purchase in the 1970’s. All other aspects are clean and tight. Subjects: Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 --France --History, Comic, satirical, etc. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

Paris: H. Mandeville , 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. None. None First edition of this Keepsake in large format, illustrated with 23 large plates on steel, printed on strong Velin, by English engravers after Reynolds, Turner, Rubens, Frith, and other English painters of the 19th century. Blue editor cardboard. Large golden illustration medallion on the front. . Large pressed border and central gilt medallion on the back. Pages are generally clean but a few are foxed. Insect damage evident on covers and inside covers. Large margins retained. Suite of typical keepsake texts, on various subjects, Brummel, Paris, Venice. and a poem by Hugo on the last page: Les lys du foyer. We will notice a famous engraving after Turner, representing a train at high speed crossing a bridge. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

New York: Carlton & Lanahan, C.1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. John Gilbert. None. None Publisher’s original green cloth boards, beveled, corners slightly bumped; impressive gilt rest, illustration and border designs. Back cover mirrors the front with gilt. Page edges gilt on three sites. Decorative gilt spine with text, ribbon, and geometric line design. Top and bottom of spine worn a bit. 5 small insect holes in the spine, 7 small and 1 Ned. insect hole along front cover spine; 6 small insect holes along endpaper gutter/spine crease, 2 small insect holes along endpaper spine/gutter of back cover. No insect damage within the pages. Toning spot near the top gutter on pages 50 & 51. No foxing, no image ghosting from the illustrations. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos

London: CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN. First Edition. Hardcover. Gustave Dore . Bookplate for: Thomas Tamplin Lewis, Cefn Glas, Bridgend. (Lewis Thomas Tamplin Esq., Cefn Glas House, Bridgend, UK, 1880 city directory lists him as a member of the NOBILITY, GENTRY). None H: 15 1/4"" D: 13 1/4"" W: 3 3/4"". 2 Volumes. Beautiful tooled and gilt covers and spine. Original endpapers with minor wear in the gutters. Minor foxing throughout. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good plus/Slipcase is in very good condition. Ruth Reeves. None. George Moore This edition of Daphnis and Chloe consists of fifteen hundred copies made for the members of Athena Limited Editions Club. Designed by Porter Garnett and printed under his direction on the hand-press at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is copy 642. Illustrated with etchings by Ruth Reeves And signed here by her. signed by Ruth Reeves. The book is in near fine condition, some slight rubbing at the bottom of the spine and, slight fading of the medallion. Internally clean. VG+ or better slipcase with normal staining and wear expected with age, but no cracks or loses. Translated and introduced by George Moore, illustrated with etchings by Ruth Reeves and designed and printed on a hand press by Porter Garnett. Hand-set in Luteria type, revised by Garnett. Bishopstoke hand-made paper, bound by George McKibbin & Son in full natural lambskin, gold stamped… Read More

New York: The Gilles Press, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. None. -OF THIS BOOK THERE HAVE BEEN PRINTED ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPAN PAPER BEARING THE STAMP OF THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND NO LONGER EXPORTED-28 illustrations (one in color), reproductions of the original engravings, with the title-page designed and engraved on copper by E. Davis French. 1 vols. 8vo. Andrews, XV Cream wrappers over boards, dust jacket. Minor wear and soiling to the outer jacket. The slip case has tanned darker due to age. The book Itself has a jacket in near fine condition, showing two small smears in the front jacket. The book and book, jacket then fit into an cream colored wrap hat has darkened on the spine and the finger pull areas where exposed, all this fits into the slip case. The book itself is in fine condition, the jacket - near fine, the wrap is in fair/good condition and the slipcase is in fair+ condition. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will… Read More

London: Methuen And Company Limited, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Various. None. None Hard Cover with original publisher’s blue cloth and paper spine label. Both volumes have worm damage on the inside covers near the spine. All pages are bound, binding is tight. Some aging on some page edges. Side and bottom of pages are untrimmed. Overall very clean book. The real star of this book is the artwork presented. “The greater number of illustrations are reproduced by Photogravure process, some by the collotype method, a few representing the artist’s earlier work in Harper’s Magazine are printed from the original engravings upon wood. The remainder of the pictures, including those in the the test from sketch-books or letters, are photographically produced blocks. As both the wood engravings and the photographic blocks are printed typographically, a comparison, interesting to the expert, is possible.” The illustrations are deeply printed with wide tactile borders and should be considered… Read More

Stuttgart: Druk und Verlag Von Eduard Hallberger , C1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Gustave Dore. None. None 13 x 16.5 x 2 inches. 2 volume. 230 plates by Doré, there are 11 plates omitted in the German edition from the French and 3 extra plates, the text is elaborately decorated in the margins, on exceptionally good paper, with very occasional spotting, 2 vols thick large folio, original decorative embossed leather, all edges gilt, The German edition of Doré's Bible was elaborately and expensively produced. The paper and bindings are of superior quality to anything that the French and English Publishers produced. The extra decoration in the text could be said to detract from this edition, but the printing of his electrotype plates is suberb. Rebound using original boards and spine. Impressive gilt and pressed leather cover with borders and central medallion. Light foxing on pages, gilt pages on three edges. Oversized. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will… Read More