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

Cambridge, MA: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Charles E Brock. Book plate for Frances Dobbins. This is Volume 1 of a two book series. This book has toning in the gutter area top and bottom. Looks like moisture from the original glue used in manufacture. Otherwise pages are clean and bright. Covers are green with bright gold gilt in covers and spine. Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Brock, Charles E (illustrator). 3rd Edition. 3rd edition in a format not dissimilar to the Dent English Idylls series, reprint, 8vo, 174pp, line illustrations by Charles E Brock, bottle-green cloth sumptuously lettered and decorated gilt with thistle and rose motif border, all edges gilt; previous owner's book plate on front pastedown; a clean bright example with gilt intact and undiminished in luster; certainly good Copy. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh… Read More

London: ELLIOT STOCK, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. None. xxvi., 117 pages, frontispiece, engraved title page, & 58 illustrations. Some wear, bumping to covers, some age toning to pages. [661/695] Size: 265mm. x 215mm. Inside front cover gutter has cracked endpaper but cover is not separations. Cover is like new in color and gilt. Tight binding. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

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Italy : NOW PRINTED FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB AT THE OFFICINA BODONI VERONA, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair+. None. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY JOHN DRYDEN OF THIS EDITION OF VIRGIL'S GEORGICS, FIFTEEN HUNDRED COPIES HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB BY GIOVANNI MARDERSTEIG AT THE OFFICINA BODONI IN VERONA, THE ILLUSTRATIONS HAVING BEEN ENGRAVED IN WOOD BY BRUNO BRAMANTI. This is number 1123. Untrimmed pages. Signed by the engraver and the publisher. Inside cover boards foxed bit the remaining book is tight and clean. Some insect holes in cover and spine. Also has a slipcase Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Faded paper wrapper with water stain at top edge of spine. Foxing too. Insect holes.

London : T FISHER UNWIN, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. DANIEL VIERGE. None. None Contemporary Binding, brown leather spine over red marbles covers with black leather and gilt spine label. Professional slipcover included. Binding is tight and intact, tissue at front piece still in place. Pages are clean, illustrations are crisp and clean with no ghosting to the facing page. 110 bw drawings w/ tissue-guard frontispiece. Text in English. Translation of Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas's original story; Illustrated by the Spanish-born French illustrator Daniel Vierge; Includes comments on the illustrations by Joseph Pennell, as well as an essay about the life and work of Quevedo-Villegas by Henry Edward Watts. Book I -- Giving an account of who he is and whence he sprung -- How I went to school, and what happened to me there -- How I went to a boarding school in quality of servant to Don Diego Coronel -- Of my convalescence, and departure for the University of Alcala de Henares -- Of our… Read More

London, Paris, New York, Melbourne: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gustave Dore. None. None 2 volumes. With Critical and Explanatory Notes, Life of Dante, and Chronology. With extraordinary Full Page Gustave Dore engravings on plates including an impressive portrait of Dante. Folio, finely bound in Full handsome red/Maroon morocco covered boards, the spines with band; Cover and Spine Gilt lettering, gilt page edges on three sides. A fine and very attractive set of this great work. The pages are still mostly clean and fresh but there is some poking on some pages. Tight bindings with minor cracking on the spine folds. Gilt patterns on the leather wrapped to the inside, beautiful green endpapers. A reinforcement strip has been underplayed the end papers to strengthen spines. Professionally done. Also include 1972 sales slip from Book dealer. Dore’s huge and spectacular illustrations bring Dante s visions to life in a style and manner to satisfy artistic… Read More

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

Cambridge, MA: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Charles E Brock. Book plate for Frances Dobbins. This is book two of a two book series. Clean crisp pages, covers are green cloth in excellent condition with gilt on covers and spine. Pages are clean and bright. Covers are green with bright gold gilt in covers and spine. Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Brock, Charles E (illustrator). 3rd Edition. 3rd edition in a format not dissimilar to the Dent English Idylls series, reprint, 8vo, 174pp, line illustrations by Charles E Brock, bottle-green cloth sumptuously lettered and decorated gilt with thistle and rose motif border, all edges gilt; previous owner's book plate on front pastedown; a clean bright example with gilt intact and undiminished in luster; certainly good Copy. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free… Read More

New York : Covici Friede Publishers , 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. None. None. None Gilt cover with intricate design. Rubbing and bumping to head and foot of spine. Two punctures along spine. Pages are clean. Gilt top edge of pages. Slight toning to page edges. Wonderful copy of this volume. 6.5 x 9.75 x 1 inches. Number 212 of 275 copies. Signed by Starrett. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 2HR

London: George Bell && Sons, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Alfred A. Longden. In black ink: My congratulations and best wishes this 2nd of November 1911. R.L. Terwilliger. Untrimmed pages. TWO HUNDRED COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED FOR SALE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND TWENTY COPIES FOR PRESENTATION. THIS IS NO. 184. This volume was owned and then given as a wedding gift by R. L. Terwilliger (Roy Lawrence Terwilliger), Author and noted resident of Chicago. Front and back boards have evidence of insect damage. Inside both boxers do as well. Some spotting on covers. Noticeably darkened endpapers, likely due to acidic glue used in the manufacture of the book. Little page edge darkening throughout. Wonderful ornamental initial caps in the text. Paper label on spine and front panel , extra labels tipped into the rear. 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 : D. Appleton & Co. Publishers, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Harry Fenn and J.D. Woodward. None. None Assisted By the Most Eminent Palestine Explorers. With Numerous Engravings on Steel and Wood from Original Drawings By Harry Fenn and J.D. Woodward. Volumes I and II complete. Very large two volumes: 13.5” x 10”x 2.25” each. Black leather with gilt blind stamped design to covers and spines, gilt titles. All edges gilt, marbled end papers. Gilt on interior edge of binding leather as well. The history, geography and archeology of eastern Mediterranean, with observations on Christian, Jewish and Muslim culture, sumptuously illustrated with many stunning steel and wood engravings, remarkably bright and clean. Volume I: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Judaea, Nazareth and Gaililee. Volume II: Cairo, Sinai, Thebes, Memphis and Edfu. 
Charles William Wilson (1836-1905) was a geographer and archaeologist in the British Army. During the 1860s, he conducted major surveys of Jerusalem and… Read More

New York: The Century Co., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. George Wooliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. None. With an introduction by The Rev. H. R. Haweis Colored Illustrations. Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS From this World to That Which is to Come. With an Introduction by the Rev. H.R. Haweis. Embellished with Over One Hundred and Twenty Designs done by Three Brothers: George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. 184 pages. Each text page is framed in a highly decorative border. Many powerful full page illustrations, and numerous smaller text illustrations. Original pictorial full pictorial cloth binding; soiled and dust spotted, but still nice. Folio. 335 mm. Hardbound. Very good. A high point from the Golden Age of English Book Illustration this is a collaboration of three distinguished brother artists: George Wooliscroft Rhead, Jr (1855-1920) who was a talented pottery painter, etcher, illustrator and art teacher; Louis John Rhead (1857-1926) who was also a… Read More

New York: The Century Co., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. George Wooliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. None. With an introduction by The Rev. H. R. Haweis Black & Wright Illustrations. Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS From this World to That Which is to Come. With an Introduction by the Rev. H.R. Haweis. Embellished with Over One Hundred and Twenty Designs done by Three Brothers: George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. 184 pages. Each text page is framed in a highly decorative border. Many powerful full page illustrations, and numerous smaller text illustrations. Original pictorial full pictorial cloth binding; soiled and dust spotted, but still nice. Folio. 335 mm. Hardbound. Very good. A high point from the Golden Age of English Book Illustration this is a collaboration of three distinguished brother artists: George Wooliscroft Rhead, Jr (1855-1920) who was a talented pottery painter, etcher, illustrator and art teacher; Louis John Rhead (1857-1926) who was… Read More

New York: Bretano’s, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. William Stranc. For William Nichols Platt, With love & good wishes for his second Christmas. From A.B.. None Beautifully bound in green cloth with gilt text and illustration. Spine has a beautiful cross with flowers and thorns. This edition features 13 etchings by William Strang printed by F. Goulding, London. Page edges are gilt on three sides. Text is printed with biblical references printed on the outer margins. Tight binding with little wear on bottom edges on boards. 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: A. Fullarton & Co. First Edition, Household Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. David & William B. Scott. None. With a Critical Essay on Bunyan and the Pilgrim’s Progress by Lord Macaulay David and William B. Scott (illustrator). A leather binding by Fullarton of this quarto containing the allegorical writings of John Bunyan, illustrated with plates by David and William B. Scott. Containing 'The Pilgrim's Progress' in two parts, 'The Holy War', 'The Life and Death of Master Badman' and 'Visions of Heaven and Hell'.'The Pilgrim's Progress' is one of the most published books in the English language, with 1,300 editions having been published by 1938, some two hundred and fifty years after the author's death. John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a Puritan preacher and writer, with the majority of his works being expanded sermons.Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.Bound by A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh.Illustrated with seventy-four spectacular plates by David and William B. Scott. Collated,… Read More

London : LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, & DYER, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. G. J. PINWELL, J. W. NORTH, J. WOLF, E. J. POYNTER, E. DALZIEL, T. DALZIEL, A. B. HOUGHTON and W. SMALL, ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL.. None. None xiv, [i], 318, [1] pp. Printed at the Camden Press, London. 1 vols. 8vo. Ray, England, 155; White 129-30; de Beaumont 137; Goldman 263 Bound in full contemporary pebbled brown morocco, a.e.g., gilt spine, covers, and leather and gilt inside boards with one taffeta patterned white end sheet by Riviere. Insect damage (small) inside back endpaper in bottom gutter area. Very light toning of page edges and sporadic very light spotting. 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 : E. Moxon, Son, and Co. , 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gustave Dore . None. None Oversize, 12 x 16 x .5 inches volume. elephant folio design. Red pebbled cloth beveled boards, ornate gilt embossed cover design, spine titles, some corner, spine wear. Fine heavy stock leaves, very good, clean. Gilded page edges. Red/orange/gold marbled endpapers. Stylish vintage name at endpaper. Professionally rebound with original cover reapplied; Nine beautiful, high quality engravings of illustrations by Gustave Dore w/tissue guards. Frontispiece Dore plate for the ""Bridge of Sighs."" Additional drawings for decorative headpieces, initials, and endings by J. Moyr Smith. Some cover wear. 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

Boston: James R. Osgood And Company, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. A. F. Bellows, Samuel Colman, Henry Farrer, R. Swain Gifford, and J. D. Smillie. None. None 32 x 24.5 cm. Bound in decorative green cloth with gilt design and lettering. Complete with 20 etchings by A. F. Bellows, Samuel Colman, Henry Farrer, R. Swain Gifford, and J. D. Smillie. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards. green cloth over bevelled boards. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. WINLR

Boston: James R. Osgood And Company, 1884. No. Hardcover. Very good +. A.V.S. Anthony Supervisor of illustrations and engraving. None. None Beautifully tooled cover, sine, and back. Gilt on spine as well as three page edges. Leathers is tooled and gilt where it folds to the inside of the covers and is matched with an exceptional marbled endpapers. This is an impressive binding. Originally published in 1847. ""The poem tells the story of an heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter."" Pages are clean and bright, same with the illustrations. Binding is tight 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