Knickerbocker press edition (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), v, 197 pp. Fine (As New). From Preface: At a Continental hotel, upon a laundry list prepared specially for English and American guests, there is found, after the usual catalogue of shirts, collars, cuffs, handkerchiefs, etc., a peculiar generic name, "Verioshapes." Having made certain modest efforts in history, biography, and fiction, I come now before the public with my "Variosshapes," which are as miscellaneous in outline and substance as the forms of old Proteus himself. Literature, Essay. …

8vo. Bella encuadernación en tela editorial negra; título dorado con gran diseño dorado en lomera y plano superior; cortes superiores dorados, los verticales sin desbarbar.Portadilla; Portada (a dos tintas); Contents, 1 h; Illustrations, 1 h; 438 pp; 24 ilustraciones y grabados en madera fuera texto.Viaje en la época del rey Amadeo; pp. 154 - 185 sobre toros y una corrida en Madrid. Obra muy popular en su día, la primera edición italiana apareció en 1873 y llegó a publicarse en más de 20 ediciones en cuatro idiomas. Edmundo de Amicis fue poeta, novelista y autor de libros de viajes y cuentos para niños. Incluye los siguientes grabados en madera: approx 100 x 150 mm. (1) PORT OF BARCELONA. (2) BRIDGE AT SARAGOSSA. (3) BRIDGE, GATEWAY, AND CATHEDRAL OF BURGOS. (4) ARANJUEZ. (5) TOLEDO. (6) PRISON OF THE INQUISITION, CORDOBA. (7) GOLDEN TOWER, SEVILLE. (8) THE GIRALDA, SEVILLE. (9) PORT, QUAY, AND CATHEDRAL, MALAGA. (10) VIEW OF GRANADA. Barcelona - Zaragoza - Burgos - Valladolid - Madrid - Toledo - Córdoba - Sevilla - Cádiz - Málaga - Granada - Valencia. Esta edición no en Palau, tampoco en Foulché-Delbosc.…

8vo. xxiii[i], 360pp, [6]pp publisher's list, coloured frontis with printed tissue guard, text illustrations (some full page), maps. Original coloured decorated pictorial buckram, teg o/w uncut, tp printed in red and black, printed on art paper. Cloth very slightly soiled.

pp. (iv), xvii, (iii), 349, (i) blank, (ii) Advertisement. Photogravure frontispiece, 29 full-page and numerous text illustrations. The de luxe issue on heavy 'art' paper, binding of brown buckram gilt, top edge gilt, uncut, front joint pulled at the bottom and rear joint at the top, some light surface rubbing of the cloth along the front spinal edge and odd small patches, in other ways, a nice copy of a luxurious production with printed 'Author's Compliments' slip added. *This edition has the addition of chapters on automatic and duelling pistols. Winans covers every possible aspect and use of the revolver - '. revolver shooting. is not only morally and physically a healthy sport, but it teaches self-reliance, coolness, and the control of one's temper, which last such amusements as croquet and golf, for instance, certainly do not.' Winans has included chapters on stage and trick shooting, blank ammunition for the stage, target shooting off horseback, clay-pigeon shooting, shooting from a bicycle and for ladies ['Every lady should, to my mind, know how to use a pistol. She may at any time be in China. when a lady sits on the ground to shoot. it is most important that she should be protected against dampness and chills, consequently she will do well to stand on a thick mat, and avoid linen underwear. The safest sort of garments are thick flannel knickerbockers.'] Also, shooting in self-defence, with an appendix on the law relating to revolvers in Great Britain and Ireland, and to the carrying of weapons in the United States.…

Hardback, 11 x 8 inches. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front and embossed design of Queen Victoria to front. In good condition. Some handling marks to boards, some fading to spine. Corners slightly bumped. Cloth chipped on spine ends. No inscriptions or marks, pages all very clean and tight throughout. Edges rough cut. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xvii + 254pp. 150 illustrations on B&W plates. Tipped-in facsimile letters to front and rear prelims. Decorative chapter headings and letterpieces.…