Search Results: Titles starting with O from Kama’aina Collection

THE CENTURY CO., 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. TIMOTHY COLE. None. 4to. 28cm, VG. Green/brown cloth highly decorated in gilt to front, rear and spine. Covers slightly bumped at corners with small cloth tear at the base of spine. Binding strong. Front pastedown has small ownership initials. Endpapers browned. xxi, 282p., frontis, 66 black & white plates. Contents clean and bright. Timothy Cole (1852 17 May 1931) was an American wood engraver. He immediately attracted attention by his unusual facility and his sympathetic interpretation of illustrations and pictures, and his publishers sent him abroad in 1883 to engrave a set of blocks after the old masters in the European galleries. These achieved for him a brilliant success. His reproductions of Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Flemish and English pictures were published in book form with appreciative notes by the engraver himself. Title page is loose. Minor bug tunneling inside front and back cover. Some darkening of page edges commiserate with… Read More

Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, 1928. Premier First Edition. Hardcover. Exceptional, Fine. Gustave Dore. None. None Five hundred luxury copies on pure marsh vellum numbered from I to 500 were taken from this Edition. Half Vellum and Marbled Covers Premier Edition of the Fine Book. Hand Illustrated and Lettered on the Vellum Spine. Velum Edges show some wear and minor cracking. Otherwise clean and tight edition. Volume One & Two bound as a single Volume. Francois Rabelais (also known under the pseudonym of Alcofribas Nasier, anagram of Francois Rabelais, or even under that of Seraphin Calobarsy) is a French humanist writer of the Renaissance, born at La Deviniere in Seuilly, near Chinon (in the former province of Touraine), in 1483 or 1494 according to sources, and died in Paris on April 9, 1553. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 2LR

Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires Editeurs. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gustave Dore. None. None 10 x 12.5 x 2 inches Original Bindings. Some cracking of the spine top and bottom. Minor foxing on some pages, but mostly clean. 2 volumes. Francois Rabelais (also known under the pseudonym of Alcofribas Nasier, anagram of Francois Rabelais, or even under that of Seraphin Calobarsy) is a French humanist writer of the Renaissance, born at La Deviniere in Seuilly, near Chinon (in the former province of Touraine), in 1483 or 1494 according to sources, and died in Paris on April 9, 1553. 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

London : Chatto & Windus , 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Paul woodroffe and Clemenceau Houseman. None. None Signed by the Author and by the illustrator. Numbered 59 of a limited edition of 160. Book sleeve included, in fair condition with some cracking at the edges due to wear. Insect tunneling on first few pages. Pencil price in back for April 1942, $1.50. 8vo, quarter tan linen, paper sides on flexible boards, title label on spine (with a spare label tipped in at the rear), tissue guard to frontispiece, uncut. With four drawings by Paul Woodroffe, shown as full-page wood engravings by Clemence Housman. Printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper at the Shakespeare Head Press. Limited edition of 160 copies, this being no. 59 and SIGNED by Laurence Housman and Paul Woodroffe on the limitation page. Very good copy overall; contents and covers clean and bright, a couple of tiny nicks on the deckled edges. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for… Read More

New York and Boston : H. M. CALDWELL CO, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Eva from Hanna Christmas 1907. 19 full-page b/w illustrations. Unpaginated, pages clean and clear. White endpapers, with previous owner's inscription on ffep. White cloth cover with colour illustration. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

New York : The Viking Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good +. Various. None. None Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Very Good+ condition with little wear associated with age and some slight wear to the trim in a price-clipped Very Good- dust-jacket with edgewear, scuffing, some creasing and a large closed tear on the upper left corner of the front; A study of Oscar Wilde and the personalities of his time; 144 pages. 9 x 11.5 x 1 inches. 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 Small tears at creases, some edge wear

Paris: La Librairie de Publication, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gustave Dore. None. None Half Leather Binding with marbled covers front and back. Front cover has a small area of torn marbled paper. Inside cover has a reinforcement repair tape, some foxing, two pages with severe foxing. crisp illustrations. Tight binding. Francois Rabelais (also known under the pseudonym of Alcofribas Nasier, anagram of Francois Rabelais, or even under that of Seraphin Calobarsy) is a French humanist writer of the Renaissance, born at La Deviniere in Seuilly, near Chinon (in the former province of Touraine), in 1483 or 1494 according to sources, and died in Paris on April 9, 1553. 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