J. m. sarsfield (10 résultats)

Stapled. Etat : Fair-Good. No Jacket. None Stated. # 12 of a fantasy & horror digest from the early 1950s.Appears to primarily reprint stories of the 1920s & 1930s. Stories by Sax Rohmer (In the Valley of the Sorceress from Tales of the Sorceress), Manly Wade Wellman, Robert E Howard (The Blonde Goddess of Balsagoth), M R James, Bassett Morgan, Miles J Breuer, Walter Kubilius, Lord Dunsany (TheWondrful Window from the Book of Wonder), & Clark Ashton Smith. GGA cover. Edge wear with loss along the fore edges of the covers. Damp stains to the fore edges of the covers that have a gradually diminishing affect on the first 40 pages and last few pages. Toning to the pages. A fair to good copy.…

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Etat : New. pp. 422.

Etat : New. pp. 422.

Etat : New.

Half-Leather. Etat : Good-VG. First U.K. Edition. The 1839 London translation of Merimee's book, originally published in French in 1830. The standard technical recipe text of the mid-19th century, referred to by both Eastlake and Merrifield. First English language, first English edition. Half-leather, scuffed with exposure and surface loss at various points, some loss at spine extremities, with marbled paper over boards, four raised bands, lettered in gilt. Front board detached along joint but still firmly anchored by both binding cords; rear board detached and anchored only by one binding cord. Former owner book plate of Henry D. Gilpin (1801-1860, Quaker lawyer and statesman, U.S. Attorney General 1840-41 under President Martin Van Buren) on front pastedown. Text block is fully intact. xliv, 371 pp., w/ two hand-colored plates, the first the frontis. of English Chromatic Scale (Moses Harris's colour-wheel), the second after p. 244 of the French Chromatic Scale (Merimee's), both with intact tissue guards. This translation of Merimee's famous French treatise was made at the suggestion of Mulready, Etty and Wilkie. This volume contains substantial extracts from the original manuscript of Harris's "Natural History of Colours," which the author describes as a "work . . . so very scarce, that I have never seen a copy of it" (p.350). Recommended leather restoration would significantly enhance appearance, but this copy is still quite presentable "as is" and could be recased to provide a complement to its near-immaculate interior. Noted condition as Good-VG weighs semi-detached boards and chipped leather against the quite tidy state of the text block itself, which is solid Near Fine, and its former ownership. Published by Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, printed by Gilbert & Rivington in St. John's Square. Exceedingly scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First edition in English. 8vo. xliv, 371 pp. Original blue-green T-grain cloth; title in gilt on spine, and the boards blocked with a design in blind; yellow coated endpapers. With two hand-colored plates, the first, the frontispiece of English Chromatic Scale (Moses Harris's colour-wheel), the second after p. 244 of the French Chromatic Scale (Merimee's). The 1839 London translation of Merimee's book, originally published in French in 1830. Cloth spotted and unevenly sunned on the upper board; inner hinged neatly mended; else a very good copy. With the penciled signature of Nash Hood and with three pencil sketches, apparently by him, on the endpapers. Rare.…

Etat : New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 422.

Etat : New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.…