captain jesse (61 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : VG-. Limited Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, volume 1 only of a two-volume set, Edition de Luxe series from the Grolier Society and limited to 1000 copies for England and America, of which this is number 114. Gray cloth boards show scuffing and soiling/toning is present. The internal binding is good, no hinge issues. There are no signatures or bookplates, no library markings, no handwriting found. There is some light spotting and foxing present, although this is mainly limited to the end pages and pastedowns. Please note: this is volume 1 only.

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Two volume hardcover set in tooled leather bindings with gilt and color (powder blue. Hinges sound, leather cover torn at edges. Numbered edition 991 of 1000, name of person fro whom book was printed is inserted as a page in the book. Teal colored paper endpapers. INV#J-37.

Etat : New. In.

Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. Athenaeum Press. No date, circa 1900. Beaux and Belles of England series. Two volumes, complete. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers have light orange cloth-covered boards with red spine and cover lettering. Spines have Art Nouveau-style floral design in brown and red. Front covers each have a plain brown border. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore edges. Black and white frontispieces with tissue guards. Black and white plates. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends mildly rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Some page still uncut (unopened). Volume 2 has a two-inch light moisture stain at the bottom spine corner. Stain is visible inside on just the first few pages, and on the last twenty or so pages, in bottom corner at gutter. 369 + 358 pages. No dust jackets. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Leather and marbled boards, frontispiece illustration of The Broken Bow. 394 pages. Wear to boards and leather, wear at extremities, tight binding, foxing on frontispiece leaf, missing title leaf, marks on pages in the front, otherwise good. 800 grams.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Imperial Edition # 489 Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Etat : New.

Etat : Fair. 1854. New Edition. 300 pages. Half bound green leather with green marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Book has been rebound. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Pencil markings to reverse frontispiece. Hinges are heavily cracked. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits and loss to spine ends. Minor scuffing and peeling to spine, edges and corners. Visible wear marks to boards.

Magazine. Etat : Very Good. Very good, mildly discolored from age. There is a water stain on the pages edges, not affecting text or photos ; Battles & Leaders of the Civil War; 8 x 11; 24 pages; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full journal .

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Two volume set in decorative cloth, lack dust wrappers, probably as issued, no inscriptions, frontespiece and colour plates to each volume, are all present as specified. Boards in very good order with only slight rubbing aalthough the spines are slightly faded, titles are still quite readable. Hinges are tight, no loose pages or turned over page corners, no spotting, page edges rough cut. Overall a very nice condition set. Heavy books please inquire for postage outside the UK.

Etat : New. KlappentextbTitle:/b Notes of a Half-pay in search of health or, Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 1839, 40.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the Unite.

Half-Leather. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Contemporary plain, dark half calf marbled boards. Front joint split but holding, Boards somewhat dulled and rubbed, folding map creased. Title page moderately foxed and soiled. Collates thus : ix, errata leaf, 335pp, foldg. map. Text measures 19.5 x 11.25cms. Ix, errata leaf, 335pp There is no plan of Sebastopol in this volume and perhaps it appears in vol 1. {Yes, it does ].

Etat : New. 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.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 2 Volumes in bright blue cloth fresh with gilt lettering and initials to front, nice fresh and solid set, colour plates, may come from a smoker's household, with occasional faint pencil notes to the text, a Navarre Society production Language: English.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Weakness to inside front hinge.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blind stamped red cloth covers; Vol.I with pieces of spine missing and text splitting; both volumes with previous owner's book plate on front paste down and another previous owner's name and address neatly signed in ink with date "March 1846" on front first free end paper; also signed on front first free end paper"With the Author's/ Kind regards; 8vo; Vol.I with 391 pages and Vol.II with 394 pages plus 2 pages of adverts. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : No DJ. 1st Edition. Publishing Info: Undated c1900. 1st Edition Description: Blue cloth with title plate to spine. Deckled page edges. Colour frontis with tissue guard plus five other black and white plates with tissue guards. Language: English. Book Condition> Good+: Wear to corners and board fore edges. Wear and chipping to spine ends. Small losses to title plate edges. Small 1cm tear to lower front spine edge. Rubbing and light soiling to cloth. Tanned intact endpapers with strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. Tanned text block edges. DJ Condition> No DJ. Pages [xii], 358. Size: 8vo, 23cm by 15cm. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Red embossed boards and spines, the latter, lettered in gilt, browned and faded and frayed around tops and base. A 2 cm split on lower edge of vol 2's spine. Internally bookplates on both front paste downs; the front hinge of vol 2 a little cracked. Frontis of vol 1 heavily foxed and title page soiled. Contents generally clean and tight.

Hardcover. Etat : Poor. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Revised & annotated edition from the author's own interleaved copy. One of 500 copies (300 printed for England, 200 for America). This copy contains only 17 of its 40 color plates; 23 are missing. Condition: in addition to the missing plates, the spine ends of volume I are torn & frayed and the inner hinges are weak & starting. The cloth of the spine of volume II is split & the ends are torn & frayed; front inner hinge is split. The bindings of both are shaken. Although the pages and remaining color plates are clean and unmarked, the overall condition in poor.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Two folding hand coloured map frontispiece's. (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, 1841. Interesting presentation on the back of the front free endpaper as follows "For The great unknown with Captain Jesse's compliments." Slight offsetting on folded maps. Edges slightly dusty. Publishers cloth marked and darkened. Some very slight rubbing and chipping to spine edges, generally a good solid set. Nice presentation copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Dustjackets. 20 Colored Plates (illustrateur). First Edition Thus. 309, 300 Pp. New Illustrated Edition, Blue Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. Finely Printed, New Edition With Introduction And Twenty Colored Plates. No Marks Or Fading. Touch Of Wear At Corners, Free Endpapers Foxed As Usual, No Fading To Cloth, All Gilt Still Brilliant. The Beginning Of Fashionable Celebrity Life.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Two volumes. Xxi[3]309; x[2]300pp. With 20 coloured plates. A handsomely produced pair of volumes, limited to 2000 copies. The arbiter of taste and the glass of fashion, Beau Brummel revolutionized men's fashion in Regency England, discarding knee breeches and stockings in favor of trousers. He spent the latter part of his life in France, fleeing his creditors. Internally fine, bound in sky blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Both spines toned; wear to spine ends. Bookplates.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Limited Edition. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1 , edition limited 2000 copies, uncut, some browning and foxing on foredges, c.p. 20 col'd pls, some light browning and sporadic foxing to pages, good in original n=blue cloth gilt, extremities rubbed, some minor markings to boards, good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Large 8vo. pp xxiii, 309; xi, 300, [20] colour plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spines. New edition with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. Two thousand copies of this edition printed at The Riverside Press. No date, circa 1920. Slight rubbing at extremities, dulling to lettering at spine and slight browning to endpapers, otherwise sound, close very good with clean text and plates.

Brown Cloth Hardback. Etat : Very Good for Age. Etat de la jaquette : Slight Wear on Edges. 20 Colour Plates, Not Foxed (illustrateur). New Navarre Society Edition. xxi+309; x+300 pp clean & bright text, just the slightest hint of very light foxing, teg, bevelled edges, fine brown cloth binding with gold blocking; biography of Regency courrt life& upper class life ends in tragedy & poverty. Size: 8vo.

New edition, with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. London, privately printed for subscribers (by The Riverside Press, Edinburgh). No date (c. 1890). xiv, 312 + xii, 300 pages + plates. Original cloth. 2 volumes.[#13932].