John a Williams Intro (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Seventh Edition. Ffep inscribed "With regards of William A. Leonard 1926." bookplate to ffep of John D. Zimmerman, the USN chaplain who conducted the funerals of Admirals Byrd and Halsey. Spine darkened, light fraying to top of spine, else VG. A couple of tiny ink stains to textblock. Faint dampstaining to a couple of apges; 7th ed. 328pp.; 328 pages; Signed by Author.

Folio, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 230pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & fading to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, light occasional cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG (moderate chafing & soiling, light tanning to spine & edges, light creasing & chipping to edges).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. William Hogarth, et al (illustrator). Chiswick Press Edition. Hard cover, 4to, in white cloth blocked in gold with Glasgow School-style art deco roses within a trellis-like grid pattern, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, letterpress printed upon Van Gelder watermarked paper, xxiv, 90 pp., First Edition Thus, with modern Introduction and Notes, as indicated. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the British poet John Gay (1635-1782), plus 25 additional reproduced engraved plates of London scenes (2 scenes attrib. to Hogarth). Includes facsimile title page and Chiswick Press printer's colophon at rear. CONDITION: Near FINE, in a Fair only original d/j. (which has done its job in protecting the volume but is probably best for the bin now.) Some bubbling to cloth at rear hinge, a production fault. Otherwise, volume is extremely clean, firm, and bright. Now in a protective mylar cover. ** Gay, a contemporary of Alexander Pope, J. Swift and J. Arbuthnot, and a part of the Scirblerus Club literary circle, has a memorial in "Poet's Corner" at Westminster Abbey. This poem, in mock heroic style, was his most famous, full of satiric jests on the manners, customs and pretensions of London's fashionable and unfashionable of the early eighteenth century, as well as providing a documentary view of the city. He was also known for two plays, "The Wife of Bath" and "The Beggar's Opera." (British Library, Britannia). Book.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1973]. First Edition. Large quarto (34cm); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 230pp.; illus. throughout, many full color. Dust jacket a bit yellowed and dust-soiled, faint surfaced scratches; overall a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket.