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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 180 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Fading to spine of dust jacket from orange to peach in color. NOTE: Previous owner's gift inscription front end paper. With 52 full page color illustrations. Beautiful color plates. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Copyright Date: 1909 OCTAVO, 2003, PP.129, A BOOK ABOUT WILD AND TENDED PLACES, B & W ILLUSTRATIONS. B & W ILLUSTRATIONS (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club edition. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. 656 pages. Includes: Introduction; Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference; ENCHANTMENTS: Green is the Color; Wooden Tony; Lest Levitation Come Upon Us; Prince Bull; The Triumph of Vice; Turandina; The Princess and the Frog; WONDERS: Darkness Box; Jack and the Beanstalk; Peter Pan; The Thrush's Nest; Lock-out Time; The Mouse Festival; A Proper Santa Claus; Inside Out; The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime; The Woman Who Thought She Could Read; The Third Level; CREATURES: The Griffin and the Minor Canon; The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles; The Dragons; On the Downhill Side; The Parrot; The Gray Wolf; The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath; The Last of the Dragons; Lila the Werewolf; The Drowned Giant; WORLDS: The Enchanted Buffalo; Narrow Valley; Beyond the Dead Reef; The King's Bride; Under the Garden; ADVENTURES: The Things That Are Gods; The King of Nodland and His Dwarf; The Seventeen Virgins; The Bagful of Dreams; The Hollow Land. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket rubbed, jacket reverse taped. Top page ridge and pages foxed. 1950 Hard Cover. 224 pp. Picasso artwork on jacket. 24 photogravure plates and 40 line drawings. Various author write on a particular lively art that they have made their own.…

Stated First Printing; 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; xi, 180 pages; color illustrated plates; very good in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. cover shows minor wear, rubbing, soiling, staining, bumped corners. pages tanned and foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book is unread and new. Dustjacket has moderate spine scrunch.

Hardcover. Condition: New condition. New dust jacket. First Printing of the New Edition. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. Still sealed in the publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap. A gorgeous, pristine copy in PERFECT condition. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($65.00). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. "First printing" is so stated on the copyright page. However this is really a revision of the 1953 first edition which sells for up to $1000 or more. This new 1990 edition adds an appendix detailing the various printmaking processes. The reference bibliography has also been enlarged and updated. This book features 52 exquisite full color plates, each minutely catalogued. The illuminating text is filled with charm and erudition. Included is a detailed bibliography of colorplate bird books that occupies more than half of the volume. This beautiful and essential tool for collectors and dealers is available in this updated edition at a tiny fraction of the cost of the original. Introduction by Handasyde Buchanan. Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in shiny gold. From the pristine dust jacket: "This lavishly illustrated, impeccably researched volume is a tribute to the world's greatest natural history monographs. And it is the most comprehensive illustrated guide to collectible color plate books ever published. Here are the works of John James Audubon, John Gould, and Edward Lear. Also represented and distinguished for the superb craftsmanship and refinement of their printmaking are works by the German master Joseph Wolf; French artists Jacques Barraband, Edouard Traviès, and Jean Audebert; and the great Dutch ornithologist Coenraad Temminck. No less impressive are the works of Mark Catesby, Alexander Wilson, and Daniel Elliot More than a stunning visual record, FINE BIRD BOOKS is a collector's guide to fine prints and colorplate books. The ultimate tool for the collector, its comprehensive, scholarly bibliography rates the value of hundreds of the most sought-after prints" Oversize Hardcover. 9.25" wide by 12" tall. This large, heavy book may require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for international shipments at our cost [up to $100 or more], but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. First Printing of the New Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. xii, 180pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good/Good. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good/Good. 1990. . Hardcover w/DJ. 4to., 180pp., dust jacket sunned and faded, light shel wear to edges and corners, otherwise good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, top edge lightly faded, otherwise very good; pages clean and unmarked. . Color Illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. New Edition. Quarto, 189 pages, cloth With color plates. With a New Introduction, Emendations, and a New Appendix.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1800grams, ISBN:060001682X.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. VG++/G. White cloth hardcover copy with dust jacket. 1947. Light edgewear and browning to pages. Dust jacket has chipping and edgewear and tears and soiling. Nice solid copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 2nd G/G+ [tape marks on boards & ffep]. Book.

Condition: Fine. Reading copy. General wear to boards with corners bumped, fading, stains and a lean. Hinges are split. Content has light toning, marks, foxing, water stains on the bottom page ends and a prize sticker on the front pastedown. No DJ.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. (iv), 12pp. Minor wear and light soiling to exterior, as well as a couple of mild creases to covers. Mild tanning to paper. Overall, a very nice, clean, sound copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VERY GOOD CONDITION, A small check mark near a very few poems ; Gold spine titles on dark blue cloth hard covers. Large EL in script bottom spine.INDEX OF AUTHORS.ALL ON NICE WHITE MATTE PAPER. ; 351pg pages. Illustrated by Decorated Endpapers "EL"(orange) (illustrator). …

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED by Arthur Parsons Bean. Near Very Good, internally clean, solid 12 page stapled paper covered pamphlet. A few dents and bumps. #. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Printing of the New Edition. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. A gorgeous, pristine copy in PERFECT condition. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap. NOT price clipped ($65.00). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. "First printing" is so stated on the copyright page. However this is really an enlargement of the rare 1956 first edition which sells for up to $1000 or more. It is a lavishly illustrated guide to collectible 18th- and 19th-century flower books with 51 beautiful full-page, full-color reproductions. Introduction by Handasyde Buchanan. A total of 750 important flower books are fully described in the useful bibliography (pp. 69-161). This new 1990 edition adds an appendix detailing the various printmaking processes. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in shiny gold. From the dust jacket: "GREAT FLOWER BOOKS is the most comprehensive illustrated guide to collectible colorplate flower books ever published This volume contains an incomparable selection of reproductions of botanical prints -- each a masterpiece of its genre -- that reveals the artistic and scientific scope of the Golden Age of Botanical Illustration. Its fifty-one full-page color plates include some of the most striking prints of the leading artists of the age. Here are the works of Pierre Joseph Redouté and Robert Thornton, Georg Dionysius Ehret and Jean Louis Prévost, Samuel Curtis, George Brookshaw, and the brothers Francis and Ferdinand Bauer. Just as important as the book's stunning visual record is its listing of more than 750 of the most desirable illustrated flower books In the three decades since this classic volume was first published, in an oversized limited edition, it has become avidly sought, and today copies are rare indeed. Now this historic work is again available, in a lavishly illustrated and expanded edition." Oversize Hardcover. 9.25" wide by 12" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. International customers please note: the cost to ship this oversize, overweight book is substantial. First Printing of the New Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by still sealed in publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap. xii, 189pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. still sealed in publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap (illustrator).…

First printing of this Atlantic Monthly Press edition (with publisher's requisite statement on copyright page; originally published 1956). xii, 189 pages. Hardcover: H 30.75cm x L 23.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed slightly bumped at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue cloth; slight bumping to boards' top fore-edge corners; some flaking loss to spine's otherwise bright gilt stamping. Impression of removed paper clip at top margins of pages 97-102; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. Features "Note to the New Edition;" "Foreword" by S. Dillon Ripley; "Introduction" by Handasyde Buchanan; "The Romance of the Flower Book" by Sacheverell Sitwell; "The Illustrators of the Great Flower Books" by Wilfrid Blunt; "The Notes;" "An Introduction to the Bibliography" by Patrick M. Synge; "The Bibliography" by W.T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson, and Handasyde Buchanan; "List of the Plates" by Elizabeth Braun; "Appendix to the New Edition" by Handasyde Buchanan; Index. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0871132842.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. No date. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. No date; Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN.

Condition: Poor. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust Jacket in fair condition. No year of publication. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN.…