Search Results: Authors starting with P from Nudelman Rare Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Blue cloth with cover design in green and silver by Margaret Armstrong. Illustrations by C.G. Reinhart. Cover slightly soiled, very good. Gullans & Espey, #185.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's ornately patterned cloth with repeating yellow panels leaving decorated borders in beige, gilt-stamped centerpiece and letting to spine, all designed by Margaret Armstrong. A scarce Armstrong cover. TEG, others untrimmed. Illustrated by Howard Pyle, and others. Some slight dusting and wear, overall very good copy of an attractive cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Blue cloth with cover design green and silver by Margaret Armstrong. Illustrations by W. Smedley. Covers worn. Gullans & Espey, #185.

Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1861. First edition. First edition. Original glazed publisher's full green calf binding with embossed and black borders, gilt lettering on spine. Presentation copy of the author Henry Duckworth to Alfred Stowe, another minor author of the period (dated 1861).AEG. Slight wear to extremities, else near fine.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1890. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Finely bound in attractive all-over Arts and Crafts design of repeating triple blossom surrounded by geometric gilt ruling on both covers and five compartments of spine, thick dentelles repeating the design. Large Paper Copy, signed by Palgrave. Foxing to prelims only, near fine.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1902. Finely bound by Ramage (unsigned) in full brown morocco with elaborate gilt blocked and onlaid blue morocco repeating desing motif on both covers and spine. AEG. Spine uniformly sunned, as found with this brown morocco, nice large elaborately gilt dentelles and central panel doublures of silk. 381pp.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1870. Original smooth blue cloth, gilt lettering on cover. 52pp. Rubricated title page. Presentation Copy from Palgrave's daughter, Margaret, to Urusla Waterhouse, perhaps a relative of the famed Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse: "For Urusla Waterhouse fro Margaret Palgrave, 19 Oct., 19, 1906." Slight smudging to cover, else near fine.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1889. Limited Large Paper Edition of 585 copies, of which this is copy number 552 and signed by Palgrave on the limitation page. Octavo. ix, 374 pages. Poems by Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Henry More, Robert Burns, Christina G. Rossetti, John Sharp, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and many more. Title page with red decorative border. Quarter vellum over black cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on both front cover and spine, extra gilt decorations and publisher's device on spine. Boards lightly scuffed and scratched; nineteenth century holograph pen gift inscription and modern pencil book seller's notes on front pastedown, free endpapers browned, deckled edges lightly toned; otherwise a very attractive copy in very good condition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1909. First edition. First edition. Attractive full crushed dark green morocco with bold gilt ruling and blossom design all four corners, front and back; spine with similar gilt blosoms on five compartments, signed with publisher's gilt pallet rear dentelle. An uncommon Riverside binding, produced under the oversight of L.A. Cole, noted binder of the period. George Palmer founded Wellesley College. Fine.

Ca. 1920. The very rare bookplate of Theodore Weicker, noted collector, appears in the famed "Knave of Hearts by Maxfield Parrish," 1925. Mounted on acid-free folding card frame. The Yale Library has the original material relating to the making of the bookplate, including the lettering. Fine condition. Scarce.

Rome: Privately Printed, 1927. First edition thus. First edition thus. Unpaginated. Nine original woodcut illustrations by Paulo Paschetto tipped in... (Folio) 39x33.5 cm (15ºx13º") original full pictorial vellum with image of the Christ carrying a lamb upon his shoulders. No. 5 of 100 copies. Signed by the author at the limitation statement; each plates with the artist's penciled monogram and date. Paolo Paschetto (1885-1963) was a devout Christian who apparently regarded his iconographic art as a calling or avocation as much as a profession. He served as a professor at the Royal Academy of Art in Rome. He was known in Italy as one of the foremost black-and-white artists and illustrators. Light wear; very good.

Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Original printed gray wrappers. A scarce C & D title. Wrappers frayed and front wrapper with large portions lost, internally very good and partially unopened.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1877. First edition. First edition. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED, TO JOHN RUSKIN ON A SHEET TIPPED-IN ("John Ruskin | with Coventry Patmore's | affectionate regards"). As well, there is a note on upper paste-down "From John Ruskin's Oxford Library 1880"), 10pp. separately paginated poems at the end with divisional title. With bookplate of Lewis Kennedy Morse, author. Paper label, slightly rubbed, spine faded, upper hinge slightly cracked, some offsetting, very good. Patmore's friendship with Ruskin is well-documented, sometimes heated, but always co-allies in the arts. Ruskin greatly admired Patmore's poetry, especially those presented in The Angel in the House.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1892. Olive cloth, paper label on spine. Cloth somewhat sunned, else very good.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1877. First edition. First edition. The rare 1877 first edition sumptuously bound by Tout in full crushed brown morocco, five raised bands with gilt lettering on spine and attractive gilt acorn border design dentelles, attractive brightly colored marbled and glossy endpapers, all edges gilt, side edges trimmed with a bow. Patmore's scarce anonymously printed first edition, first issue bound with both blank pages (before half-title and after printer's mark at end). The book contains Patmore's most acclaimed poetry, including Patmore's most anthologized poem, "The Toys." With the bookplate of Barbara de Selincourt, a figure in royalty whose portrait was painted by the famous Herbert James Draper. A stunning, fine copy.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1893. First edition. First edition. Original green cloth, paper label on spine. Author's Presentation Copy (not inscribed, but with inserted tab, "With the Author's Compliments) to John Dennis (with his bookplate), noted author and poet. Near fine.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1886. First edition. First edition. 2 volumes. Original blue cloth, paper labels on spine. "Second Collective Edition."ASSOCIATION COPY WITH TIPPED IN LEAF INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO AUSTIN DOBSON("Austin Dobson, Esq. | from | Coventry Patmore. | Nov. 9, 1886"). From Austin Dobson's Library.

London: John w. Parker and Son, 1860. First edition. First edition. Original brown ripple-grain cloth, blind-stamped borders, gilt spine, brick red endpapers. 238pp. + 4pp. ads at end. A very scarce collection of Patmore's poetry. Only one other copy (inferior) located. One repaired 'nick' on spine, covers a bit faded, but hinges intact and a very good, tight copy.

London: George Bell and Son, 1897. Eighth Library Edition. Eighth Library Edition. 12mo. Original green cloth, gilt spine. 153pp. Very good.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1895. First edition. First edition. Original green cloth, paper label on spine. ,Family copy, signed by the author's son Tennyson (dated 23 May 1895) on top of title-page, with a later inscription to Hilda Sculthorpe, Patmore's nurse ("In memory of kind, and most skillful nursing, of a tired man"), author's compliments slip affixed to front endpaper with note beneath "transmitted from | his Son to H.S.," Some wear to binding, minor spotting and offsetting, else near fine. A rare family copy with multiple associations.