Search Results: Illustrated from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1942. Hardcover, black cloth with color pictorial pastedown. 338pp., Illustrated with 9 full color plates by Mxfield Parrish. Previous owner's book-plate on front free end-paper. No writing, marking or highlighting. Coth and cover pastedowm clean. Very slight fraying to heal of spine and some fading to gold lettering on spine, especially illustrator credits. Overall a very nice, well preserved vintage copy of this classic tale with Parrish's inimitable illustrations. A near very good copy.. Reprint. Cloth with Pastedowns. Near Very Good. Illus. by Maxfield Parrish. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Londion: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1905. Original Cloth. Decorative two-tone green cloth stamped in gold on front cover. With 12 photogravures after drawings by Gilbert James, each with tissu e guard extant. First illustrated edition, thus. Book plate removed from inside front cover and very light wear to covers. A very good or better copy of an uncommon edition of this oft reprinted title .. First Edition Thus. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Comapny, 1890. Oblong quarto [23cm]. Two tone decorative cloth. A.e.g. Illustrated with 8 full page chromlithographic plates. A collection of verse depicting scenes and locals in the Holy Land and Italy. Front board detached and backstrip worn. Internally a fine copy with wonderful Victorian color plates. Overall good, a definite candidate for a trip to the binder.. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Londion: W. & R. Chambers Limited Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Circa 1910. Large volume bound in dark blue cloth with color pictorial cover pastedown surrounded by decorative gold rule. Backstr ip heavily stamped in gold. Illustrated with 20 full color plates and over twenty line drawings by Gordon Browne. Brown coated endpapers, t.e.g., Boards rubbed at extremities and cover pastedown scrat ched. Former owner's book plate on front free endpaper. Good.. Hardcover. Good/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1903. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. No Jacket. First Thus. First edition thus with color and monchrome plates by H.C. Christy. Dark blue cloth with color pictorial pastedown. Cloth moderately rubbed at extremities and dime size spot on several leaves at beginning of book-- {endpapers and half-title.} Front board lightly shaken. Printed on heavy stock. Very good clean copy of this classic of American literature with lovely and evocative color illustrations by Christy.. First Edition Thus. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937. First American edition published from English sheets. Dark navy blue cloth in pictorial non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with 81 wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Dustjacket age toned and worn at extremities and folds. Backstrip of dustjacket and darkened and rubbed. Does for the streams and waterways of rural England what the author and artist had previou sly done for the forests and woodlands in "Through the Trees." A clean, hardbound copy of the first edition with wonderfully evocative woodcuts by A.M. Parker. Very good+ in near good dustjacket.. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harper Brothers, 1907. Hardcover, slate gray cloth heavily stamped in white, silver, and gold. Top edge gilt. 334pp. Illustrated with 4 boldly colored tipped-in plates, all with tissue guards intact, by Howard Pyle. Pictorial green endpapers. No name, no book-plate, etc. Mild age soiling and toning to binding, still a very attractive period binding, in the first state. Very good.. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Beaufort Books, 1983. Boards. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in original non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with 18 monochrome plates by Maxfield Parrish. A fine copy in fine dustjacket.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Hodder and Stoughton Original slate blue cloth stamped in black and lettered in gold. Colored end-papers. Illustrated with 23 magnificent tipped-in color plates by Noel Pocock. The first American edition of this printing with these illustrations. Front hinge cracked and rear hinge broken. Half-title foxed and nearly detached, and cloth faded at backstrip and worn through at lower fore-edge corner of front board. Internally a nice clean copy, all illustrations present and in very good condition. Overall a good copy of a book usually prone to problems.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Noel Pocock. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: George Braziller Inc., 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, bound in off-white faux vellum and housed in original publisher's slipcase with color paste-down labels affixed. 359 pages. Appendices, including a selective bibliography. With an introduction and commentaries by John Plummer. Profusely illustrated with color facsimiles reproduced from the Illuminated Manuscript belonging to the Guennol Collection and the The Pierpont Morgan Library. First edition thus (1966). "This book of hours contains the usual offices, prayers and litanies in Latin, along with supplemental texts..." No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy in slipcase. Near fine in a near fine box. .

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1962. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. 64 pages. Foreword by Rene D'Harnoncourt. Illustrated with 13 six color plates. First edition. The story behind the famous Jerusalem windows. Mild fading to edges of purple end-papers, as per usual. No previous ownership marks. Light rubbing to jacket at outer joints and extremities. Very Good+ in very good dust-jacket..

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. Hardcover, cloth sans dustjacket. Arranged and illustrated with line drawings and full color plates by Marguerite De Angeli. With a preface by Samuel Terrien. Map endpapers. Cloth shows mild wear, interior text and illustrations very clean. Good+.. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Marguerite De Angeli. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Londion: A. & C. Black, LTD., 1920. Hardcover, blue cloth, lettered in gold on spine and front board, with decorative blindstamped border and field-piece on upper cover. 203pp., Index. Illustrated with 50 color plates, painted by Martin Hardie, all with tissue guards. Fold-out map at rear. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. One tissue guard creased, else very good+. . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906 Good/No Jacket. First Edition. The first American edition of this Kipling tale, illustrated with 4 color plates by Arthur Rackham. The English edition of the same year was p ublished sans Rackham illustrations. Original green pictorial cloth shows several small spots on front cover, below Kiplings name, and wrinkling to cloth on bottom third of front board. Interior text and plates are clean and book is solidly bound with strong hinges and no other faults. Gilt lettering on cover and spine is bright. But for the puckering to cloth and some rubbing to extremities a better than average copy of this title. Livingston 300.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1930. Black cloth stamped in gilt on front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Translated by Winifred Stephens. Illustrations and decorations by Donia Nachshen. Top of backstrip chipped and frayed affecting the "H" in "THE" of title. Else a clean, solid hardcover. Good+ or beter.. Reprint. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Hardcover, blacl cloth with large pictorial pastedown on front board, spine lettered in gold. 503 pages. Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. Introduction by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Illustrated with 9 full color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Reprint edition. Mild scratches to cover label and sporadic light foxing, limited largely to first dozen or so leaves. Neat previous owner's name stamp on each of four pictorial endpapers. Else a clean, square, solidly bound and unmarked copy. Very good. . Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1939, 1933. Hardcover, black cloth with printed pictorial paper pastedown to upper board, spine lettered in gold, black endpapers and top edge. Illustrated with 24 black and white drawings and eight full color tipped-in plates by Harry Clarke. First American edition thus, with "MCMCCCIII" on title page. No previous ownership marks. Light toning to text block as per normal for this edition. Lettering on backstrip faded, just readable, spine cloth dulled from sun.. Cloth shows minor rubbing at head and foot of spine, else clean and unmarked. Pictorial pastedown on front board clean and complete. Hinges sound, text clean, and all plates present and unmarked. A near very good copy.. First Edition Thus. Cloth with Pastedowns. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harry Clarke. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. First edition, second printing [same month as first.] Original tan cloth with top edge stained blue. Illustrated with full page color plates by N.C. Wyeth. A nice clean copy. Very good+.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, Inc., 1929. First American edition. Blue cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with 12 full color plates and 22 line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers. Fore-edge of one page cropped due to binders error. Small several mm blemish to cloth on front board. Else a very clean, very good copy of the first American edition of this title illustrated with Rackham plates. Latomore and Haskell p.65.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Edwd. E. Barrett, 1875 Decorative Cloth. No Jacket. Publisher's green cloth decorated in geometric pattern stamped in gold and black. Elaborately gilt stamped spine and cover lettering. Brown coat ed endpapers. Illustrated with 12 fine steel engraved plates by Sangster, all with tissue guards. Several tissue guards wrinkled, one or two damaged. All plates in fine condition with no foxing or soi ling. Front inner hinge begging to split, A.E.G. A nice clean copy in a handsome publisher's cloth binding. Uncommon. Very good.. Hardcover. Very Good/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.