Watson Charles S Editor (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-library with typical markings/stickers; rear free endpaper with some roughness from card pocket removal; dust jacket in plastic sleeve, glued to pastedowns. "This collection of essays documents the indebtedness and thematic similarities uniting Shakespeare and eight southern authors - William Gilmore Simms, Henry Timrod, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Walker Percy.".

537 pages. Paperback: H 20.25cm x L 13.75cm. Paper covers rubbed with some scuffing; light vertical creasing and staining to spine; impression at front cover's upper right. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Pages 9-30 feature a lengthy Introduction with Selected Bibliography by editor Charles S. Watson who served as Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1966-1997. {LitShelf#1} ISBN 0808404237.

SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. 537 pages. Paperback: H 20.5cm x L 13.75cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed with slender scuffing at edges; light vertical creasing to spine. Editor's four-line ink inscription "For Bob Bell | with my best wishes, | Charlie Watson | Dec. 16, 1983" on half-title page; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy. Pages 9-30 feature a lengthy Introduction with Selected Bibliography by editor Charles S. Watson who served as Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1966-1997; inscribee Robert F. Bell was also a professor at the University of Alabama. WOODCRAFT was first published in 1854; this New College and University Press edition provides the correct title on the half-title page, i.e. "Woodcraft or Hawks About the Dovecote" and an incorrect title, i.e. "Woodcraft or Doves About the Dovecote" upon the title page; this egregious error seems to have been caught after a small print run as another copy (albeit unsigned) acquired from Professor Bell's estate had the correct title on both initial leaves. {LitShelf#2} ISBN 0808404237.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers [about 7" x 8.25"], 528 pages, illustrated [including ads and an Artists' Gallery]. Near Fine or better copy. 119, clph.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hard back binding in publisher's original royal blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, all page edges gilt. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains (viii), 163 pp + catalogue dated March 1875. Front end papers missing, having 19 (of 20 - with frontispiece missing) full-page single-sided plates on thick card stock, three of these are loose, old dripping wax candle marks to the front and rear boards. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

[14], 100, [8] pp. Illustrated with colored drawings. Royal 8vo. Offset to eps, otherwise a Fine copy in a VG+ - Nr Fine dust wrapper. Tan burlap-weave cloth spine with dark brown decorative paper boards & printed brown paper spine label. Plain brown paper dust wrapper with title hand-inked to spine 1st edition thus, i.e., by Grabhorn (Cowan II, p. 161; Heller/Magee 184; HERD 661; Howes D-159; Kurutz 171b; Mintz 118).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 50 pages. Illustrated. Iolo A Williams "On Collecting Book-Illustrations" /Hugh Ross Williamson "A Commentary On T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'" / Charles K Colhoun "Ramon Del Valle-Inclan" / Evelyn Pole "Marguerite, Queen Of Navarre" / Watson Lyle interviews Arthur Bliss / Eleanour Sinslair-Rohde "Early Seventeenth Century Gardening Books" / T Earle Welby reviews "Bolshevism: Theory and Practice", "Lenin" and £The Revolt of the Masses" / Collin Brooks reviews "The History of the Russian Revolution Vol.1: The Overthrow of Tsarism" /E A Osborne "Earlt Reanslations From The Russian 1- Before Pushkin" George Frederic Lees "Recollections Of An Anglo-Parisian Bibliophile" / Alfred Dunning "Writing For Children".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Parker, Arvilla (illustrator). Limited Edition. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp., with note to Subscribers and original mailing label. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly self-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on foot across America. His wanderings brought him through Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Mexico, then back to New Orleans; he returned to the West infected with Gold Fever, and then eventually settled in Texas. The original publication of his memoirs is incredibly scarce; this edition was published by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America during the twentieth century, run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. This copy with the original (plain) dust jacket, the note to Subscribers regarding "the important announcement about the next series to be printed and published by the Grabhorn Press", and the original mailing label with the purchaser's name and address typed onto the label printed with this books' title and the Rare Americana Series number. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter natural linen with brown paper boards, coloured vignette illustration on the front board, black lettering running vertically on the front and back boards, brown paper spine label with black lettering, title page and caption titles printed in red and black, nine coloured illustrations by Arvilla Parker; hand-set in Goudy Modern on Van Gelder rough-cut paper, binding quarto size (10" by 6 3/4"), pagination: [i-iv] 1-100 [101-107], one of 500 copies, unnumbered. One of the Fifty Books of the Year, 1933, First Series of Rare Americana, No. 7. In the original plain brown dust wrapper, loosely laid in is the note to Subscribers, a single sheet folded once to four pages with printing on the front (page 1) and page 3 only (8 3/4" by 6"), and the original mailing label of yellow paper printed with the title and a small vignette in black. ___CONDITION: Volume fine, the spine clean and unrubbed, the spine label clean and without wear, clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a few spots of foxing to the top of the text block, age-toning to the free endpapers, and offsetting to the front free endpaper (from the note and label having been laid in); even with its few very minor faults, still a fine copy overall. The dust jacket is very good, clean, with overall wear; the Subscribers note fine overall, clean and without wear, with light toning on the back (blank) page; the address label very good, with very light soil on the front and a few spots of the adhesive on the back. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Press bibliography, no. 184. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.