Grefe Will Illus (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First. Condition: Very Good. Bright, orange boards with black and white cover art. White design on spine is somewhat worn. Light soiling to boards. Extremely minor shelf wear. Lovely B&W frontispiece and seven additional illustrations. Binding solid and true. Pages clean and clear. 291 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. New York, NY: W. J. Watt & Company. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1911. . Hardcover. Sm 8vo., 305pp., cover light shelf wear to edges and corners and spine tips, light soiling to rear cover and spine, otherwise good; Former owner's pencil signature on front free-endpaper, edges of text block lightly foxed, rear pastedown and free-endpaper lightly foxed, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Plates (illustrator).…

FIRST US EDITION, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, mysterious 'criminal' gilt motif to front board, frontispiece, 303pp, in removable protective plastic cover, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, moderately heavy tanning to page edges, light cracking to rear gutter, light foxing to eps & prelims/ terminals).…

FIRST US EDITION, PUBLISHED JANUARY, PROCEDES FIRST UK EDITION AND DIFFERS IN CONTENT. Small octavo, black cloth boards, green lettering to spine, gilt lettering/tooling & illus to front board, frontispiece with tissueguard, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 300pp counted, 4 illus plates counted, VG- ( moderate scuffing/soiling to spine & boards, slight chipping to illus on front board, slight scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning/soiling to page edges, some moderate water staining to front pastedown, minor water staining to ffep & prelims, moderate foxing to eps, lower front gutter cracking, minor 3cm tear to upper rear gutter, minor staining/creasing throughout, 1cm loss to corner of page 21, plate no. 3 coming loose in lower half).…

Condition: Very Good. New York: W.J. Watt & Company Publishers, 1910. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's black pictorial cloth with color pictorial paste-on to upper cover, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; [6],314pp.; color frontispiece, four leaves of half-tone plates (collated complete). Light shelf wear to cloth margins, one inch strip of biopredation affecting rear joint and, to a lesser degree, hinge, short tear along bottom gutter edge of final leaf of text, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound, the gilt uncommonly bright. McIlvaine A13a.…