The Art and Technique of Pate de Verre by Tokyo Glass Art Institute (Editor) Tsuneo Yoshimizu, Bunichi Okamoto - 1998

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcovers. with Complete Maps, No Dust Jacket As Issued. Pictorially embossed dark green cloth lettered in gilt depicting Pasha standing in a small boat leading the expedition across the Congo. Gravure frontispiece portrait of Mountney-Jephson; Etched portrait of H.M. Stanley; With folding map of Equatorial Province and a facsimile of the Mahdi's letter in Arabic to Emin Pasha demanding his surrender to in back pocket. Wood engravings in the text: 22 plates (incl. photogravure frontis. portrait), title vignette, & 24 text illustrations. First American Edition. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; xxiv, 490 pp. index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.. The dramatic story of the rebellion of the Mahdist in 1885 and of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, under H.M. Stanley, journeying to the rescue of General Gordon's lieutenant and friend, Emin Pasha… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1881. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine; No Dust Jacket Issued. Illustrations by Walter Crane. Finely bound in full tan levant morocco, with the original pictorial cloth cover with gilt designed by Walter Crane attached to a blank leaf in rear of volume; gilt rules and corner designs, spine decorated in gilt with dark morocco labels; the top edge-stained tan. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with 12 wood-engraved plates on tinted backgrounds by Walter Crane, one of his earliest efforts. 8vo; 23.8 by 18 cm (9.25 by 7 in). Faint rubbing to bottom corners of boards; occasional foxing throughout otherwise text is clean; Near fine.. Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, known as "the Jane Austen of the nursery." She typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Bronts, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they… Read More

New York: Scandinavian University Press, 1970. Limited Edition. A Fine Hardcover in a Fine Box. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Jack Levine. Large portfolio of woven beige moire that fastens with a black Madras goatskin belt and loop closing and is gilt stamped on the spine and encloses two inner portfolios, the first of beige moire belted with black Madras leather containing loose sheets of the text by Michener and nine original woodcuts by Levine printed on Arches paper and one hors texte original woodcut printed on Japon Kawanaka paper and four original color lithographs printed on Rives paper. Signed by both the Artist and Author at the Limitation and Inside the Top of the Box. No Flaws, Gift Quality.. Illustrated by James Levine in the margins and then with 4 original color lithographs and a woodcut on Japanese vellum as well as reproduction of Levine's sketchbook with 54 full color plates with tissue guards, loose and laid in as issued housed together in a satin clamshell box. The 54… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Decorated cloth, Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine has mild sun-fading. 8vo; xii, 397 pages 8.5 inches tall; Illustrated with 144 black and with illustrations some photographic; Frontispiece by Remington; double page map. First Edition, First Printing.. Laid-in is an interesting signed typed letter from an acquaintance of the author giving the book as a present. Caspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for Harper's Magazine. [wiki] Chapters on golf, riding the hounds, rowing, university football, club football, cycling, cricket and more. Golf chapters are found in the back from pages 331-397, including club histories, golf history in general, instructional, plus… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. Very Good Hardcovers. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Rebound in modern 1/4 leather over cloth, renewed endpapers. Bindings are very tight and square. Text clean, light even toning, some light to moderate foxing or minor soiling in places. Moderate shelf handling wear. 16mo; 6.25 inches tall. Engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece in the first volume. 2 volumes. Later printing.. Thatcher was a Boston antislavery leader, opposed the policies of Garrison and urged African repatriation. In addition to his Memoir of Phillis Wheatley (1834), he wrote other books on blacks, and was also known for his Indian Biography. Ref: Sabin 95216; Oxford Companion to American Literature

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcovers. with Complete Maps, No Dust Jacket As Issued. Pictorially embossed dark green cloth lettered in gilt depicting Pasha standing in a small boat leading the expedition across the Congo. Gravure frontispiece portrait of Mountney-Jephson; Etched portrait of H.M. Stanley; With folding map of Equatorial Province and a facsimile of the Mahdi's letter in Arabic to Emin Pasha demanding his surrender to in back pocket. Wood engravings in the text: 22 plates (incl. photogravure frontis. portrait), title vignette, & 24 text illustrations. First American Edition. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; xxiv, 490 pp. index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.. The dramatic story of the rebellion of the Mahdist in 1885 and of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, under H.M. Stanley, journeying to the rescue of General Gordon's lieutenant and friend, Emin Pasha… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1881. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine; No Dust Jacket Issued. Illustrations by Walter Crane. Finely bound in full tan levant morocco, with the original pictorial cloth cover with gilt designed by Walter Crane attached to a blank leaf in rear of volume; gilt rules and corner designs, spine decorated in gilt with dark morocco labels; the top edge-stained tan. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with 12 wood-engraved plates on tinted backgrounds by Walter Crane, one of his earliest efforts. 8vo; 23.8 by 18 cm (9.25 by 7 in). Faint rubbing to bottom corners of boards; occasional foxing throughout otherwise text is clean; Near fine.. Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, known as "the Jane Austen of the nursery." She typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Bronts, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they… Read More

New York: Scandinavian University Press, 1970. Limited Edition. A Fine Hardcover in a Fine Box. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Jack Levine. Large portfolio of woven beige moire that fastens with a black Madras goatskin belt and loop closing and is gilt stamped on the spine and encloses two inner portfolios, the first of beige moire belted with black Madras leather containing loose sheets of the text by Michener and nine original woodcuts by Levine printed on Arches paper and one hors texte original woodcut printed on Japon Kawanaka paper and four original color lithographs printed on Rives paper. Signed by both the Artist and Author at the Limitation and Inside the Top of the Box. No Flaws, Gift Quality.. Illustrated by James Levine in the margins and then with 4 original color lithographs and a woodcut on Japanese vellum as well as reproduction of Levine's sketchbook with 54 full color plates with tissue guards, loose and laid in as issued housed together in a satin clamshell box. The 54… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Decorated cloth, Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine has mild sun-fading. 8vo; xii, 397 pages 8.5 inches tall; Illustrated with 144 black and with illustrations some photographic; Frontispiece by Remington; double page map. First Edition, First Printing.. Laid-in is an interesting signed typed letter from an acquaintance of the author giving the book as a present. Caspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for Harper's Magazine. [wiki] Chapters on golf, riding the hounds, rowing, university football, club football, cycling, cricket and more. Golf chapters are found in the back from pages 331-397, including club histories, golf history in general, instructional, plus… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. Very Good Hardcovers. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Rebound in modern 1/4 leather over cloth, renewed endpapers. Bindings are very tight and square. Text clean, light even toning, some light to moderate foxing or minor soiling in places. Moderate shelf handling wear. 16mo; 6.25 inches tall. Engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece in the first volume. 2 volumes. Later printing.. Thatcher was a Boston antislavery leader, opposed the policies of Garrison and urged African repatriation. In addition to his Memoir of Phillis Wheatley (1834), he wrote other books on blacks, and was also known for his Indian Biography. Ref: Sabin 95216; Oxford Companion to American Literature