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The Fiery Trail: A Union Officer's Account of Sherman's Last Campaigns
Osborn, Thomas Ward; Harwell, Richard Barksdale [Editor]; Racine, Philip N [Editor]; Racine, Philip N [Introduction]; Harwell, Richard Barksdale [Introduction]; McFeely PH D, Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities William S [Foreword];
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - one small scratch on the back DJ - My shelf location bn1-e-24.
Snobs: The Classic Guidebook to Your Friends, Your Enemies, Your Colleagues, and Yourself
Lynes, Russell/ Epstein, Joseph (Introduction by)/ Osborn, Robert (Illustrator)
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More imagesThe Golden Asse (aka Metamorphoses)
Lucius Apuleius; William Adlington, Translator; E. B. Osborn, Introduction
Language: English
Published by The Abbey Library / Murrays Book Sales (Kings Cross) Ltd., London, England, U.K.
- Hardcover
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.Mattabesset Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated Edition. The Abbey Library / Murrays Book Sales (Kings Cross) Ltd. , London, England, U.K. , circa 1955. Near Fine+ in a Very Good- Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is clean, pages somewhat tanned but thick and firm, tight, straight and…square, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full yellow cloth, color uniform throughout, with gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked, illustrated endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform throughout, intact after repair, with a 3" tear to the front panel discreetly closed from behind and a 1" tear to the rear panel also closed from behind, and wear at the edges and folds. The original price (25s.) is intact on the front flap. See photos. 282 pages plus 16 unnumbered pages of the artist's plates. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4'. Written in the 2nd Century, C.E., it is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. It was originally entitled Metamorphoses, referring both to the initial transformation of Lucius into an ass by means of a potion and later the entry of Lucius, again in human form, into the Mysteries of Isis, but the name The Golden Ass came from St. Augustine's reference to the work, in his treatise The City of God, as asinus aureus. In form it is an episodic picaresque novel. This edition was translated by William Adlington, and contains an Introduction by E. B. Osborn, and sixteen (16) full page erotic illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, along with many other partial page drawings. Jean de Bosschere (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by New English Library NEL Books Times Mirror, London, 1970
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- First Edition
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United KingdomRaymond Tait
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Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First publication of the complete and unexpurgated edition in the UK. This is the first printing with the price at 8/- and 40p on the back cover. There was a later printing with a different cover design and only a decimal price but with the same printing details given ins…ide the book. Four page introduction by Professor David Daiches. Heavy reading creasing and edge rubbing to the spine with a little tearing at the top and bottom. Some surface and edge creasing to the covers with a small surface chip at the top of the back cover. Page edges browned with a small ink stain to the fore edges and small tears to the bottom edges of several pages. The pages are browned but otherwise generally unmarked. Cover design by Michael Osborn. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Osborn, Michael (illustrator).
The Golden Asse (Ass) of Lucius Apuleius
Apuleius, Lucius; Adlington, William (translator); Osborn, E.B. (introduction)
Published by Rarity Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1931
- Hardcover
Seller: Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, U.S.A.Second Edition Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. Tight binding, clean interior. Magenta boards with bright silver lettering; mild wear, light fading to top and bottom edges. DJ is preserved in mylar, moderate wear and soiling, small pieces missing from spine and folds, spine lightly faded. Interior is unmarked. "It tel…ls the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass." Illustrated in colour and Black and White. 282 pages. De Bosschere, Jean (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Wayne State University Press 2017-12-30, 2017
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Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United KingdomChiron Media
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 296 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
The New Towns, The Answer to Megalopolis
Frederic J. Osborn and Arnold Whittick, Lewis Mumford (introduction)
Published by The M.I.T. Press, 1969
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.My Book Heaven
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. 1969 Revised Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket.
Published by Liveright, New York, 1970
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- Signed
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.UHR Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good -. Signed by author on half title page. A nice copy of book with light wear; dust jacket has normal scuffs and soils. 201 pages. Osborn, Robert (illustrator). SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.
Masterpieces in the Collection of George Blumenthal: A Special Exhibition
Metropolitan Museum of Art Introduction by William Church Osborn
Published by Metroolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1943
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Seller: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Soft cover. Slim quarto, 48pp, black and white half-tone illustration. In publisher s printed wrappers, small ink name on cover and a few light creass to corners, very good.
Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden:
Edited by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide; Introduction by Alain Touwaide and Peter Dendle; Contributing authors: Maria Amalia D'Aranco, Peter Dendle, Expiracion Garcia Sanchez, Peter Murray Jones, George Keiser, Deirdre Larkin, Marijane Osborn, Philip Rusche, Terence Scully, Alain Touwaide, and Linda Ehrsam Voigts.
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Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.Andover Books and Antiquities
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xiii, 256 pp.
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Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.BennettBooksLtd
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paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
Language: English
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923
- Hardcover
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.Shaker Mill Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition, number 2843/3000. Tight binding, solid illustrated front board and spine strip, bright gilt lettering to spine strip, top edge gilt, bumped lower corners, 16 tissue protected plates-8 in color, 8 in black and white-clean, unmarked pages throughout. Jean De…Bosschere (illustrator).
Snobs: The Classic Guidebook to Your Friends, Your Enemies, Your Colleagues, and Yourself
Lynes, Russell/ Epstein, Joseph (Introduction by)/ Osborn, Robert (Illustrator)
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 54 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.
THE FIRST TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 [author] ; Francis, René [translator] ; Osborn, E.B. [introduction] ; Boschère, Jean de, 1878-1953 [illustrator]
Published by John Lane, the Bodley head, London, 1924
- Hardcover
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Limited edition, 845/3000. Octavo, xlv, 231 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is red with faded gold print. Boards in red cloth, gilt illustration on front panel; fraying to spine caps and corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Text block has tanning and foxing to endpapers, intermittent spine breaks, slight amoun…t penciled marginal notation. Illustrated: color frontispiece, b&w and color plates with tissue guards. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1407486. FP New Rockville Stock.
On The Trail Of Ancient Man: A Narrative Of The Field Work Of The Central Asiatic Expeditions
Andrews, Roy Chapman (Introduction And One Chapter By Henry Fairfield Osborn); 58 Photographs By J. B. Shackelford
Language: English
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1926
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- First Edition
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
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Add to basketGreen Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 375 Pp., Green Cloth, Gilt. Folding Map At Rear Of Text. Teg. Stated Second Printing, October 1926, Oe Month After First Printing. A Bright Clean Copy, Spine A Little Faded With Gilt Weak But Clear, A Few Pages Wrinkled Or With Short Tears At Top Edge.
Garden Cities of To-Morrow
Howard, Ebenezer (Author)/ F.J. Osborn (Edited by)/ Mumford, Lewis (Introduction by)
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 168 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by Phonix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1928
- Hardcover
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Berlin, Germany: Phonix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1928. . Hardcover. 4to., 174 pp., rubbed, bumped, cover toning, writing inside cover, lightly toned pages . Black & White/Color Illus. (illustrator).
On the Trail of Ancient Man : A Narrative of the Field Work of the Central Asiatic Expeditions
Andrews, Roy Chapman / Henry Fairfield Osborn - introduction and one chapter by
Published by Garden City Publishing, NY, 1926
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Seller: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, CanadaAlhambra Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. 375 pp, index, illustrations. Boards are grubby, edgewear, frayiing at extremities. Hinges broken - no loose pages. Previous owner's name and small date stamp front and endpapers, leaves yellowed and foxed - o/w unmarked. J.B. Shackelford - illustrations and photographs (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1909
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Earl The Pearls, Edmond, OK, U.S.A.Earl The Pearls
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Add to basketFull Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. American Nature Series Group IV. Working with Nature. TEG. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks. .
More imagesThe First Temptation of Saint Anthony
Flaubert, Gustave; Translated by René Francis; Introduction by E. B. Osborn; Illustrated in Color & Black and White by Jean de Bosschère
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1924
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Nighttown Books, Powell, WY, U.S.A.Nighttown Books
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Limited Edition of 3000 numbered copies, this No. 2,165, gilt-stamped and decorated red cloth with blind ruling to front panel, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, all plates present and tissue guards intact, slight rubbing to boards and rounding to corners,… small closed tear to cloth at spine top, offsetting to endpapers, neat name and date (Jan 1925) to front pastedown, else clean tight copy; lg thick 8vo; (xlvi) 231pp illus.
More imagesLanguage: English
- Hardcover
Seller: Librairie Montréal, Saint-Césaire, QC, CanadaLibrairie Montréal
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Albany/Toronto/London, Boyd Printing Company/The Carswell Company/Sweet & Maxwell, 1929, original hardcover, about 9 ½ X 6 ½ inches, (xxiii) 1028 pages, abundantly illustrated in B&W. We included three fly leafs , first is a four pages sheet titled A Guided Hand Signature (supplementary ma…tter for insertion at page 312), the second is an other supplementary matter to be insert at page 317 titled Cross-Mark will set aside, and the third is a tw-pages sheet folded in three parts titled The problem of proof is the trial lawyer's problem (an ads for a second book by the author). We add also a small blue sheet that is a Memorendum from the author (see images). Book is Very Fine showing only a few unnoticeable wear to cover. Interior is very fine too except only for a small insription to half-title page that is a gift inscription ''To … with compliments of the author through John ???'' (see image). We must also note a 1 inch tear to top margin of page 505/506 associated with a light crease, Unfortunately this crease is repeated at the two following pages. WARNING : additional postage will apply for shipping out of Canada. Please ask before command.
The Prussian Instructions : Rules for the Alphabetical Catalogs of the Prussian Libraries
Osborn, Andrew D. (Translated, with Introduction and Notes by); Foreword by William Warner Bishop
Published by The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.About Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. No Dust Jacket. First edition of this translation. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1938. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Pages are fresh and crisp. Bound in the original maroon cloth…. Gilt lettering on the spine is still bright and shiny. Subtitle: "Translated from the Second Edition, Authorized August 10, 1908, with an Introduction and Notes." The Translator's Introduction fills 29 pages. Appendixes. Index. . First edition of this translation. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./No Dust Jacket. 8vo. xlii, 192pp. .
More imagesPublished by The Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Co, Rochester, NY, 1910
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. First edition. Quarto. XXIV, 501pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Scarce and fascinating work on the science of handwriting study and abounding in the fascination of solved mysteries and celebrated cases. This study is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproduction…s of forged documents. Five b/w images printed on three leaves resting in pocket at rear of book. Minor age-wear on binding with some discoloration on upper spine, and slight rubbing along edges. Previous owner's signature and bookplate of Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law Otto McCutcheon, and dated May 1912. Slight age-toning along paper margin. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition.
The Horse of the Desert [The Arabian Horse]
Brown, William Robinson; Harbord, Major General James G. (Introduction); Osborn, Henry Fairfield (Introduction)
Published by The MacMillan Company, New York, 1947
- Hardcover
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. "It is thought by the author that at a time when public interest is awake to the importance of producing a superior saddle horse in America, and, in particular, increasing the number of desirable mounts available for the cavalry, a resume of the qualities peculiar to the Arabi…an horse may be pertinent and of scientific value." - Preface. "I desire, as a horse lover from my earlest days and as a close student and observer of the horse, to express my delight with the scholarly as well as popular preparation of this splendid volume." - Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. xxvii, [5], 218 pages. Index. Bibliography. Lovely color and black and white plates. Reprint of the 1929 first edition. Unmarked with moderate wear to original tan cloth decorated in gilt. Binding intact. No dust jacket. A sound copy of this classic work which is sure to please lovers of the breed.; Folio.
Published by New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1928., 1928
- Hardcover
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United KingdomMinster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970)
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 8vo., pp. xii,203, hardcover, quarter bound in black cloth with contrasting marbled paper boards, 20 b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light staining to front free endpaper where red colouring of the top edge has leached, also affecting margins of several pages, light damp staining t…o title page, plates and endpapers, two lines of very light scoring where pencil underlining has been rubbed out to a few pages, boards rubbed, sunned to spine, lettering faded, light wear to corners, overall a good+ copy.
More imagesPublished by Friedrich Ernst Hübsch Verlag, Berlin Leipzig Wien, 1929
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
Contact seller3-star sellerHardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto. (18)pp., 34 plates, 38pp. Original faux vellum boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Publisher's device on title page. Max Osborn describes Michael Rachlis' work as kind, light and comfortable, Rachlis as somebody with innate taste who understood to offer a joyful an…d festive attitude in gruff German times as well as somebody with a delicate sense for the organic that guides the architectural work. Known for his Berlin set designs for the theater, this volume is illustrated with 34 offset reproductions of Rachlis interiors showing his work from 1929. Includes extraordinary designs with sixteen plates showing rooms and halls of a villa in Berlin-Grunewald, three plates of a car dealer sales room, six plates with the interior of the Hotel Eden, six plates of the Berlin nightclub Cascade, and three plates of Bol's Tavern. At rear 38 pages with illustrated advertisements of relevant Berlin interior design businesses. Text in German. Binding lightly stained and rubbed with light wear along edges, small chips along spine. Light foxing of endpapers. Starting at half-title. Few pages with crease at upper right corner and two small closed tears in margins of plate 27. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition. Michael Rachlis was born into a Jewish family, studied at the Technische Hochschule München, and worked in Berlin as a set designer starting in 1913. Later he designed country houses as well as interiors, at times in collaboration with the Hungarian architect Ferenc Domány. In 1922/23 the architect Hans Nitzschke worked at Rachlis's studio. Starting in 1928 Rachlis worked for the Deutsche Werkstätte, a leading furniture manufacturer who's archives were deemed to be a valuable cultural asset. Rachlis emigrated to London in 1935 and worked as an architect until his death in 1952.
Published by Berlin: Phonix Illustrationsdruck Und Verlag, 1928., 1928
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Add to basketHardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 168, [6]. Introduction in German & English. illus. throughout (numerous colour). cloth (spine frayed). First Trade Edition.
Questioned documents, with citations of discussions of the facts and the law of questioned documents from many sources.
Albert S. Osborn; Introduction by Professor John Henry Wigmore.
Published by Boyd Printing Company/ Toronto et al, 1929
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- Signed
Seller: Saul54, Lynn, MA, U.S.A.Saul54
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Albany: Boyd Printing Company/ Toronto: The Carswell Company, Limited/ London: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited; 2d Edition (1929). XXXIV+1028 pages. Inscribed by Author to John L. MacDonnell. Fine Hardcover, no dj. DarkMaroon cloth, Gilt lettering, Gilt top edge. No Wear. Clean throug…hout. Excellent binding and hinges. 9.5"x6.5"x1.7". be 40133. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Singing Tree Press - Payson & Clarke, Detroit - New York, 1968
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Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.The BiblioFile
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile First Edition. 1968 at title page and Library of Congress number beginning with 68. A reissue of the rare original first edition of 1928 in complete facsimile form. Black full cloth boards, red impressed spine titles with red dragon vignettes, light shelf wear, bow, discoloration. Fron…tispiece plate of classic design: "The Persian hero Gushtap killing the dragon. From a Persian edition of Firdausi's poem, Shah Namah, seventeenth century". Pages near fine, clean; no writing. Deep red endpapers. Original bookbinding adhesive can be seen through adhered endpaper. Illustrated throughout with iconic and ancient symbols, symbology, medieval sculptures, illustrations, photography, etc. Bind fine; hinges intact. Superbly written rarity from Ernest Ingersoll, author of Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore, &c. with an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History, dated December 20, 1927. The dragon is the earliest known mythological creature in recorded history. In the Western World it has figured romantically in legend, literature, sculpture and painting in all times and all countries. It is sometimes a benevolent beast, sometimes a god, sometimes a demon. Descended from the snake, the lion, the eagle, falcon and hawk, its form and appearance vary as greatly as its character, from country to country. Mr. Ingersoll has searched its origin and traced its development with a grace that does not hide his erudition, and has achieved a book whose strict and comprehensive marshalling of facts will recommend itself to the scholar, while his clear style and unusual subject matter appears no less to the more caually interested reader. Features Contents include: "Introduction; Contents; Illustration Contents w/Detailed Descriptors; I Birth of the Dragon; II Wanderings of the Young Dragon; III Indian Nagas and Draconic Prototypes; IV The Divine Spirit of the Waters; V Draconic Grandparents; VI The Dragon as a Rain-God; VII Korean Water and Mountain Spirits; VIII "The Men of the Dragon Bones:; IX The Dragon in Japanese Art; X The Dragon's Precious Pearl; XI The Dragon Invades the West; XII The 'Old Serpent' and His Progeny; XIII Welsh Romances and English Legends; XIV The Dragon and the Holy Cross; XV To the Glory of St. George; a Bibligraphy; and, a detailed Index." From title page: "There's no such thing in nature, and you'll draw a faultless monster which the world ne'er saw." Set in Twelve point Garamond on the Linotype. 202 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
