Hans Alexander Mueller Illus (8 results)

hardcover. Condition: Nearly fine copy in slipcase. 1st. 8vo, 93 pp., Slipcase slightly worn and stained. Illus Hans Alexander Mueller (illustrator).

Full Calf. Condition: VG Very Good. Collector's Edition. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed aquamarine blue calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xx, 346. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors, in the forecastle, in the bow of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes. He later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party. Dana gives vivid descriptions of the different groups he encountered on the journey. He described Californios as lazy and remarked that the local Indians were effectively enslaved by them, yet he also described the Indians as lazy. He wrote disdainfully of the uncleanliness and sloppiness of whaling ships and even more so of the Russian vessel he encountered, claiming that the Russian crew actually "lived upon grease; eat it, drank it, slept in the midst of it, and their clothes were covered with it." The one group he seemed to view quite favorably were the native Hawaiians in the area, or Kanakas as they were called, saying they were honest, generous, hard-working folk.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Compilation Edition. 713 pages; B&W illustrations. Light foxing on the exterior edges of textblock and on spine. Some discoloration and speckles on front and rear endpapers. Light shelf wear on the covers. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Guidance in the techniques of creating wood engraving/woodcuts, including for book illustration. First Edn., 1945; full grey cloth; titling/illus. blocked in grey to front board; titling blocked in grey (slightly faded) to spine; [viii]+96+[1]pp.; illus. repros. printed in bw./two cols. SIGNED by the British artist, PAUL HOGARTH (1917-2001) in pencil on front flyleaf at top corner. Slightly sunned spine very lightly worn at top and rubbed/slightly crushed at tail, but robust/intact; rear board lightly soiled, but boards robust and quite crisp/bright; page edges faintly tanned; top edge lightly soiled; front free-endpaper neatly excised; rear free-endpaper lightly browned, but text fresh, pages very clean/crisp/bright. Binding firm, all intact; signature very fresh/crisp. Good. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER (illustrator). SIGNED by PAUL HOGARTH. Hardback. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st of this Ed xx+346pp, frontis, color engravings, pict. cloth, slipcase nice rpt Howes D-49 Herd #642 in Cowan 6-Score #28 Merrill Aristocrat Zamarano 80-26 The hide and tallow trade in California. A classic and nicely printed.

First Edition Thus. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. 8vo, decorated boards with overall patterned design in purple and green, lettered on the spine, and housed in the slipcase with paste down title label. 93 pp. A fine and well-preserved copy, with extremely minor overall age mellowing to the exterior. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED WITH THE WONDERFUL ARTWORK OF HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER. Inspired by his experiences while in prison and written while in exile in France, THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL was Wilde's last artistic gasp. Because of his sobering position at the time, the poem is free from a great deal of the affectation that colored his earlier work. "Had [it] been written a hundred years ago, it would have been printed as a broadside and sold in the streets by the balladmongers; it is so common as that, and so great as that" (Jackson, The Eighteen-Nineties, p. 99). ".He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun, And drank the morning sun. He did not wring his hands nor weep, Nor did he peek or pine, But he drank the air as though it held Some healthful anodyne; With open mouth he drank the sun As though it had been wine.".…

of 3000 copies. New York, NY: Pynson Printers. Very good condition-DJ very yellowed, chipped/Dust Jacket. 1939. of 3000 copies. 4to., 188 pp. . Very good condition-DJ very yellowed, chipped/Dust Jacket. Color, Black & White Illus. (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good+. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, n.d. [ca. 1946]. Octavo (27cm); full crimson gilt-ruled crushed goat by Maurin, gilt spine in four compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; 314pp.; duotone woodcuts throughout. Very light wear and a few faint surface scratches to leather, brief fingersoil to textblock, else a Very Good copy in a lovely binding.…