Pierce George Baker Editor (10 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Free first class shipping upgrade. G+ condition. The covers show some shelf wear and a few creases. The binding is tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. VG. Light wear to corners and edges, but clearly a rarely read copy. Binding is straight and generally tight, though there is some separation between copyright and preceeding page. Previous owner's stamp on ffep, else extremely clean and unmarked throughout interior. Very mild age tanning. Scarce in hardcover with such minor use and wear.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 219 pages, cloth very clean with gilt lettering on cover, back strip. Later printing; the first edition being 1913.

Rogers, Bruce (illustrator). large 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, slipcase with paper spine label. 140 pages. With Illustrations. First edition limited to 430 numbered copies and designed by Bruce Rogers (Warde 74). Spine faded, lightly soiled. Slipcase lightly chipped along edges. Else a near fine copy. Printed at The Riverside Press in Cambridge, MA. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees, in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in the graphic arts. Over decades of accomplishment in which he designed approximately 500 books. Rogers literally defined the profession of book designing in the United States" (ANB). Francis Meynell stated that Rogers was."the greatest artificer of the book who ever lived" cloth, paper spine label, slipcase with paper spine label.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited. Second edition, new intro, 250 copies printed. Inscribed on ffep by W. K. Bixby, who supplied the manuscript to the publisher, dated St. Louis May 19th 1914. "Private correspondence between Charles Dickens and Mrs. Henry Winter (nee Maria Beadnell), the original of Dora Spenlow in 'David Copperfield' and Flora Finching in 'Little Dorrit'". Hardcover in double slipcase. Near fine in two very good slipcases. Outer slipcase has light soil and title label on spine is darkened.

Buckram. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Numbered Edition. Limited edition, no. 404 of 430 copies. xiv, [1], 140 pp. Pink buckram with paper title-label. 25 black and white plates. Wear to extremities of slipcase. Spine slightly sunned but internally in very clean condition. Binding sturdy. Book near fine, slipcase good condition. George Pierce Baker is Professor of English at Harvard University. Large 8vo.

Number 98 of this privately printed second edition limited too 250 copies. Inscribed by the printer Bixby on FFEP. Original double slipcase is soiled at blue outer case with rubbing and shelfwear to edges and corners. Toning and soiling to spine label. White paper inner case is heavily rubbed and soiled, with one bottom seam nearly fully split, the other split but holding. Half parchment and grey cloth binding is lightly soiled and toned all over, though gilt spine titling is sharp and rather bright. Light casewear to edges. Interior has scattered foxing and soiling, heavier to some illustrations. Binding tight.

Hardcover. Illustrated by F. S. King (illustrator). Limited Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Foxing. ; Printed for members only. Limited to 493 copies. Signed by illustrator F. S. King.; B&W Illustrations; Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, 25 plates. Brick red cloth, printed paper spine label (spine faded). Good. Number 148 of 430 copies, printed at the Riverside Press by Bruce Rodgers. Signed and inscribed by Actress Phoebe Foster to director George Cukor: 'Dear Geroge, as Mr. Garrick had, and you have, more than your just share of that thing we now call 'flair'.I thought that his letters might amuse you.' Foster appeared in 2 Cukor films: 'Tarnished Lady' (Paramount, 1931) and 'Dinner at Eight' (MGM, 1933). From Cukor's library, with his Paul Landacre bookplate. Signed by Author(s).