Artman Hall (107 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-poor. 1st Edition. 1st Ed. - Includes: Blind authors, science & law, industrial, poetry & music achievements - Plus collected poems by L.V. Hall & other blind authors - 387 pp - Major scuffs on edges, cover spots, spine chips, foxing - Still tight & sound - G-.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Page following title page has inscription from Isaiah in relief (not Braille)for reading by touch. A significant and oft reprinted book. Little chipping top of back strip. Size: Small 8vo 7?" - 8". 387 pages. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Embossed Cloth. No Jacket. Reprint. 387 pp, frontis, the contents are clean and tight, light foxing to contents, 2.5"x 1" hole in rear free e.p., owner name in front, the covers are soild and have a 1" tear in outside front hinge, other extremity wear, a nixce solid copy.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Scuffing/moderate damage to top and bottom of spine and corners. Discoloration to cloth covers, elsewise a tight, clean text copy. From the authors' Preface: "We will not weary the reader's patience with an elaborate preliminary nor with apologies for offering the present work to the public. We have been induced to enter the arena of bookmakers, by a desire to disseminate a more correct and extended knowledge of blindness, and its effects upon mental and physical development, than the reading public has hitherto possessed. In this way we hope to remove some of the msot formidable obstacles that hedge up the way to usefulness and independence, for all who are placed in this condition; a condition to which, by the vicissitudes of life, every person is exposed, and in whose dark and inauspicous night more than five hundred thousand of our race are at present enshrouded." 387 pages. GI1.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light brown/pink cloth boards are bumped/rubbed at the corners, spine edges are tearing, dark lines no, spine text is worn, still legible, tearing at head/tail. Foxed first few pages. Reprint All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Early edition. Auburn, Massachusetts: Artmanan & Hall. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1859. Early edition. Hard Cover. Wear to cvoers and spine. Fraying to the cloth of the spine ends and corners. Dust soiling to page edges. Previous onwer name to front free endpaper. Light soiling to endpapers at inside hinge, (offset from glue) . ; Contents include Memoirs of Eminent Blind Authors: Homer, Ossian, Milton, Rev. Richard Lucas, D. D. , T. Carolan, Thomas Blacklock D. D. , Huber, Holman, Wilson. Beauties from a Blind Man's Offering, Achievements of the Blind in Learned Professions, Achievements of the Blind in the Industrial Pursuits, Achievements of the Blind in Poetry and Music, Blind Musicians, Autobiographical Sketch of Lemuel Rocwell, Collected Poems by L. V. Hall and Other Blind Authors; Frontis and One Other Illustration in Text; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Lr bkcs 2 .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [2], double frontis with tissue guard intact, one of which is a quote from Isaiah in raised font, 387pp, bound in blind stamped brown cloth with gilt design [gilt still bright], binding and hinges tight. Spine sunned with dimmed gilt and upper/lower spine edge wear/loss, previous owner's penned name on the front free endpaper. Age darkening to preliminary pages.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 387 pp. Some wear to upper and lower edges of spine, bumping and rubbing to corners, scuffing to covers. Contents clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Lacks the title page; cover has significant edgewear and light rubmarks, faint dampstains around the edges. Undated, circa late 1800's book of stories of achievements of blind people, including several poems. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Brown boards with blind stamped pattern on front and back. Gilt lettering and ornate design on spine. Binding is good but front board starting to crack. Tissue protected frontispiece. Previous owners name on front end paper. Some minor water stain on upper part of last 30 pages. Contains quite a bit of poetry.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. GOOD book, (bound upside down). Worn original brown cloth. Tight. Blind stamped boards, gilt lettered & decor spine. A worn but clean book. Scattered light foxing. Text block edges the same light tan. Tight (up side down) binding. Hinges fine, book stays closed when stood on its spine. Mostly the lives of literary figures but some scientists, mathematicians as well as mechanics and wood workers. GOOD book. (Bound upside down). 1st ed. 8"x5", 387pp. Frontis (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First edition. Blind and gilt-stamped brown cloth. Fair only with spine detached and laid in, extremities worn with hinges cracked, preliminary pages foxed. Containing memoirs of eminent blind authors, works by Homer, Ossian, Milton and more.

Condition: Very Good. Privately Printed (Benton & Andrews, Printers) 11/18/64 Binding: Unknown black c wsome wear at spinetips; gilt lettering; 387 pages; in mylar protective wraps; chronicles the accomplishments of a host of blind people, ranging from Homer to Alice Holmes, and lists achievements in various professions and endeavours; includes selections from blind poets among them co-author Hall, and explanations of how those born blind learn the magnitude and appearance of distant objects; gold-stamped on brown cloth, blind-stamped decorations to both covers, 387 pgs..…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dimmed gilt titles on embossed black cloth. 387pp. Worn extremities, with minor loss on bottom outside corner of front cover. Ffep removed. Owner's note on half-title page. Size: Octavo.

Ex-Gallaudet College library copy. 387 pages. Hardcover: H 19.75cm x L 13cm. Green cloth, gilt stamped spine decoration and lettering dulled, head of spine has shallow loss with some fraying, spine heel nicked, boards rubbed with corners bumped and top corners additionally worn, library shelf sticker affixed near spine heel. Library bookplate on front pastedown; antiquarian ownership signature at top right of front flyleaf, library discard stamps on title and dedication pages; slender remnant stub of removed date due sheet on rear free endpaper; library pocket on rear pastedown; library stamps on all three edges. Text features an anthology of writers affected by blindness including Homer, Ossian, Milton, Carolan, DeKroyft, Blacklock, etc. with poems by L.V. Hall and others. Also included are an "Autobiographical Sketch of Lemuel Rockwell" and three essays: "Achievements of the Blind in the Learned Professions;" "Achievements of the Blind in the Industrial Pursuits;" and "Achievements of the Blind in Poetry and Music." Still an attractive, tightly bound copy despite its ex-library status.…

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Auburn, NY: ***** Self Published *****. G/No Dustjacket. 1863. . Cloth. Biographical sketches of Homer, Ossian, Milton and others. . Sm 8vo., 387 pp., cover rubbed, fadedminor page toning . Frontispiece (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Not marked; Ex-Library; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Good+ hardcover edition, no names or marks. Cover has wear to the spine ends and corner tips . Front board has a small spot. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages.

Condition: New.

8vo. 387 pages. Brown decorative clothbound. Some tears at edge of spine, otherwise a tight copy. Good.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 387 p. Previous owner name to front endpaper. Hinges cracked. Covers worn; corners tail edges to board. Spine cover in especially poor condition; 1/2" piece missing from head, 3-1/4" piece missing from tail; nearly detached at rear joint. Accounts of the lives of famous blind people. BIO/AUTO.…

Good condition. Covers are worn at spine tips and corners and are slightly dull. Damp stain on frontispiece. Some spotting on back endpapers. 387 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.