Introduction by W D Howells (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. LOUIS RHEAD (illustrator). LIGHT GRAY TEXTURED COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT, RED REINFORCED SPINE. LIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE AND FADING SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK BY RHEAD. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. BEAUTIFUL COLOR ARTWORK FRONTISPIECE. SHAKESPEARE MOST FAMOUS WORKS. INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish[1] satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,[2] hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). Louis John Rhead (November 6, 1857 - July 29, 1926) was an English-born American artist, illustrator, author and angler who was born in Etruria, Staffordshire, England. He emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-four. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Early reprint. 12mo. volume in green cloth binding. Frontispiece portrait. Condition: some insect damage to binding; lacks 1st free endpaper; else fair. Pages: xx, 208.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. No Jacket. McVickar, Henry W. (illustrator). [xvi], [269p.] Endpapers toned, spine sunned with corners lightly worn. Collection of French prose poems translated by the 19th century American poet. Red cloth. B&w illustrations. (7"x4-5/8").

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Louis Rhead (illustrator). 1911 date on copyright page with no other printings indicated. Original black cloth with color pastedown plate on front cover. Color frontispiece and b&w text illustrations by Louis Rhead. Some chips to edges of cover plate, spine sunned. Firmly bound. No name, bookplate or other markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition (fresh & crisp). Dust Jacket Condition: VG jacket (light soil). Reprint of the 1913 original. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. Square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (3.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Frontispiece portrait of Paul Laurence Dunbar with his signature in facsimile. From the Dust Jacket: "Comprising in one volume the contents of Lyrics of Lowly Life, Lyrics of the Hearthside, Lyrics of Love and Laughter, and Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow, and a number of poems never before published. For the first time there is offered to the public collected in a single volume all the poems." Index of Titles. Index of First Lines. Original red cloth. Reprint of the 1913 original. Hardcover. Fine condition (fresh & crisp)/VG jacket (light soil). 8vo. xxxii, 289pp .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Spine tips and cover corners are worn. Several light scratches on back cover. A few light spots on front cover. A little browning on endpapers. Top corner of eight early pages is clipped. Mostly illustrations.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Louis Rhead (illustrator). First printing thus. 8vo, 375 pp. Spine slightly cocked, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, covers stained, light foxing to page edges and endpapers, front hinge cracked, upper page corners bumped. Jacket clipped at corners, chipped at head and heel of spine and folds, with a few small spots and stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. RARE Boni and Liveright DARK BLUE LEATHERETTE with gold BL on front cover and gold writing on spine; Binding #2; Brodzky endpapers in excellent condition; tinted blue on top edge. Pages are all clean. Nice 90 year old copy.