Search Results: Titles starting with U from Thorn Books

Antigua Guatemala: Libros San Cristóbal, 1992. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. xviii, (2), 101 plates, (3)pp. Half leather, the spine in four compartments with raised bands. The boards are covered with cloth handwoven in Guatemala and incorporating the title. Marbled endpapers. Printed letterpress, including the plates showing the weaving technique. Many of them are in color. Frontispiece is of a weaving design letterpress printed in five colors. The colophon lists the great number of people who were involved in the design and execution of this, including Pamela Smith, who once operated the Press of the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. Boards yawning a bit else a fine copy. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. This is copy No. 48. .

Paris: Ernst Henri, Editeur, 1925. Loose plates. Good. Folio, 11 by 15 inches. Portfolio of 40 loose plates. Paper over boards, cloth spine, printed paper label, cloth tie. The plates are printed in full color and mounted to a gray card with a printed black border. Portfolio well worn, and the spine repaired. The text pages are soiled and chipped. The mountings for the plates are sunned along the edges, but the plates are fine. Overall a good copy. These embroideries and woven printed fabrics were exhibited at the U.S.S.R. pavilion at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts at Paris in 1925. The samples were supplied by ethnographic museums and almost all of them were produced in the 19th century. A few are from the 17th and 18th century and plates 26 and 27 are from modern Ukraine. .

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good. First state, with the author's name misspelled on the front board. Gray cloth blocked in black, silver and gold. Light wear to the hinges and rubbing to the gilt else a very good copy. The cover design is credited to "GWE". There is a handwritten notice on the front free endpaper that this copy was awarded to Miss Gertrude Nelson by the Academy of Mary Immaculate in 1914. BAL 4293.

Boston: The National Publishing Company, 1902. Map. Fine. Single sheet apprixomately 37 by 56 inches bound into a portfolio of black cloth with 'The Scarborough Company' in gilt on the upper board. We note some (thumbtack?) holes along the upper margin, and a couple of small separations just at the folds, else the map is in fine condition, but the protector portfolio is lightly worn and faded in places. The elaborate typographical title heads a map of the continental United States. Each of the States and Territories are divided into counties, with cities, towns, and villages labeled. Shipping lanes are shown with their destination and the name of the company operating the route. Several inset maps show Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii, Wake, Guam, Samoa, Tutuila, Howland and Baker, Alaska, and the Philippines. .

Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1997. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Maroon cloth, silver titles on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. First published in 1986, this edition brings the narrative to 1996. Signed on the front endpapers by 22 chess masters, players and interested people, of which we have deciphered 18: Larry Cristiansen, Robert B Farmer (?), Jennie Franklakh, Esther Epstein, Vladimir (?) Samarov, Sharon Ellen Furtman, Alex Shabalov, Alrick Man, Irina Krush, (Boris) Gulka, Walter Browne, Joel Benjamin, John Fedorowicz, Gabriel Schwartzman, Dimitry Gurevich, Yasser Seirawan, Gregory Kaidonov and Carol Jarecki, .

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited edition. Limp Vellum. Fine. 8vo. 300pp. Printed in black and red using Chaucer and Troy types on flower paper. Limp vellum binding with silk ties. One of 300 copies from a total edition of 308. A fine copy with only a trace of wear. The original silk ties are present and intact. Kelmscott Bibliography, No. 16. .