Search Results: Titles starting with A from Asterisk Books & Labels

NY: Powgen Press, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Complete six volume set of classic American stories/essays, finely printed by a small press. In dust wrappers. Box with slits and chips. Books are clean with just a few small chips from paper wrappers. Interesting illusrations The texts are: a) COMPENSATION. By Emerson, with designs by C. Barney Moore; b) LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE. By Thoreau, with illustrations by Susanne Suba; c) LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE. By Hawthorne, with illustrations by Jean Lamont; d) SONG OF MYSELF. By Whitman, with decorations by Jos. A. Low; e) A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM. By Poe, with illustrations by Charles E. McCurdy; and f) THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. By Irving, with drawings by Mary Dana.

San Diego: Rush Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Square folded pocket folder with booklet inside. Booklet has the artist's poetry and hieroglyphic-like text

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 228 pages; black and white photos.Oversize. Clean book in clean dust jacket.

William R. Scott, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6 vols.in box (with some splits) each in a different colored cloth with dust jacket printed during different months of 1936 at the Powgen Press in NYC. Titles are Whitman's Part one of the first edition Leaves of Grass, Irving's The Legend fo Sleepy Hollow, Emerson's Compensation, Thoreau's Life Without Principle, Poe's A Descent into the Maelstrom and Hawthorne's Legends of the Province House designed by Ted Gensamer

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. 711 pages. Clean

self published, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Oversize red cloth hardcover Limited edition of 100 copies 203 pp, inside front cover signed by author With some photographs

London: The Jewish Museum, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A signed presentation copy of the first catalog of the Jewish Museum in London founded in 1932 with 503 detailed biographical entries, providing a wealth of information on Jewish history in England to the time of Queen Victorial Later inscribed in fluid hand by H.M Hake with date April 26, 1945. H.M. Hake was the director of the National Portrait Gallery and Single and Group Portraits 1592-1837 continuing after as one of the 6 appendices. Introduction explanation and abbreviations. Biblio. Addenda. Index. 191 pages 48 collotype plates. Quarto. Cream Cloth binding. Near fine condition. Some light foxing to endpapers and a few small pencil annotations in appendix.

Lille: L. Lefort, 1829. Hardcover. Fair. Disbound book block. Worn boards detached. Contents clean. Needs rebinding.

Wm. Helburn, 1890. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. A portfolio of loose plates (as issued), approx 16" X 13". There are 49 consecutively-numbered plates, with the last 3 plates missing. Images are cleanly printed with fine detail. There is no publisher or date listed -- but the 5 copies held in University/museum libraries list Helburn as publisher with varying dates. This copy has the sticker of NYC bookseller "Paul Wenzel" on title page. The plates are gathered in a modern cardboard folder. The title page and first/last few pages have significant edge chipping. Most plates have light dampstaining in margins (not affecting images). This volume will require additional shipping because of its size.

Montreal: Infocor Limited, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Lavishly illustrated coffee-table book in slipcase with booklet of 12 loose prints laid in titled "12 Reproductions Of Eskimo Prints. For the owners of THE ARCTIC by exclusive arrangement." White cloth covered book in near fine condition. Photographic slipcase with some minor chips and rubbing.

New York: Winchester Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Alan Pratt. Black & white illustrations. Clean tight copy in dust jacket with some minor chipping around edges.

New York: Carleton Publisher, 1869. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 213 pages,cloth binding, numerous wood engravings. Spine with an abrasion, binding with edgewear, contents clean. Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1867) was an American humorist and often wrote under his pen name, Artemus Ward.

Atlanta, GASIGNED by the author in a limited edition. Beveled edge cloth: Ruralist Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED by the author in a limited edition. Beveled edge cloth. Has a few minor cover abrasions but otherwise clean. Flaps from dustjacket laid in.

London: LONGmans Green and Company, 1901. Hardcover. Good. A few Black and white and color illustrations in back. Minor foxing to pages. cover a bit soiled and rubbed