Gordon N Ray Introduction (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Covers have some light fading around the edges. Spine has fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No. 300 of 1,413 numbered copies reserved for members of Beta Phi Mu. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 6 1/2" x 9." Partially unpaginated, c. 120 pages (Introduction is nineteen pages; the facsimile of The Desert Daisy is about 101 pages), complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are very clean and intact except for light rubbing and very slight wear to extremities. Corners are sharp and not bumped. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. A charming facsimile reproduction of The Desert Daisy, the earliest known surviving narrative authored by H. G. Wells (1866-1946). The Desert Daisy was composed by Wells sometime between 1878 and 1889 when he was either 12 or 13 years old. The Desert Daisy is a precursor to present-day comic books and features a humorous story originally handwritten in cursive by Wells that is accompanied by equally comedic illustrations drawn by Wells. In his Introduction, Gordon N. Ray briefly describes the early years of Wells's childhood and gives some background information on The Desert Daisy. The Introduction is followed by the facsimile reproduction of The Desert Daisy which comprises black-and-white scans of Wells's original manuscript housed in the University of Illinois Library. This book is the third in a series of chapbooks by Beta Phi Mu. Back colophon ("No. 300" is handwritten in black ink; the rest of the text is printed in black ink): "No. 300; This book, including the facsimile reproductions, was manufactured by the photofact offset process by The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago, Illinois and Crawfordsville, Indiana. Text type face is monotype Baskerville and the text paper is 25 x 38--70# Bethany Book. 1,413 numbered copies fo this book are reserved for the members of Beta Phi Mu. An additional 3,000 copies have been made for general distribution. This manuscript is reproduced with the permission of the Executors of H. G. Wells.".…

Hardbound. Condition: VG, ex-lib with bookplate. First (Limited). Mustard cloth boards with black lettering to spine, [xii] 146pp, 6 BW figures. Contributing authors include: Mary C. Hyde, G. Thomas Tanselle, Robert Darnton, Robert Giroux, James Thorpe, Benjamin M. Compaine, Andrew Robison, Walter Bareiss, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Frank Stella, and Daniel Bell.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. "The most painstaking, the most ambitious, & the most personal" of all of Thackeray's books, though never as popular as his "Vanity Fair." Orig. published in 1852, this is a later printing of the First Modern Library edition (#131) from 1950, with an Introduction by English professor Gordon N. Ray & the Second DJ cover art by E. McKnight Kauffer, in 615 pages. This 12mo has light gray cloth-covered boards, stamped with the ML symbol in gilt inside a deep green title box to both front & spine. Condition is Fine: exceptionally clean & crisp, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & completely unmarked. Just a tad of bumping to outer corners. The unclipped DJ is colored bright green/black/yellow/white & is in Near Fine condition, with very mild rubbing to extremities; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Kauffer, E. McKnight (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition of 1000 copies. 10.25 x 7.25 inches. vii, 145 pp. Yellow cloth lettered in black at spine. Fine. In lightly chipped and creased glassine dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hbk, xix pages, facsim.: vi, 79 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm. A clean unmarkec opy in very good condition. "Reproduced in facsimile from the original manuscript in the University of Illinois Library." p1838 / m15510.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Edition of 1000 copies. Oblong Octavo. xviii, unpaginated. Facsimile color illustrations. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Light warp to text block. In toned red cloth slipcase. Near Fine.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.272, cream cloth, black lettering, b/w frontispiece; light foxing to top edges, very slight bruising to upper corner of front board, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is slightly foxed.