Search Results: Alibris4 from Great Expectations Rare Books

London: Isbister and Company Limited, 1903. Green decorative cloth stamped in red and gold. Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings. Black coated endpapers. Signed on prelim as presentation copy by Julio Guardia, to whom Crockett has dedicated the book, writing "in recognition of the unwearied friendship which made this book possible" [from dedication page]. A nice association copy. Inner front hinge just starting and boards lightly shaken, though still a very good copy of an attractive book.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gordon Browne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Hardcover, gray cloth, no dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs and map. Another in the popular series of travel books by this author. Good or better.. Second Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1972. Brown cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Extensively illustrated with photographs. Haas provides descriptions, and even directions to, 93 of America's fin est and most picturesque inns and taverns. Dustjacket has small chip on lower edge of rear panel and is moderately age soiled. Very good+ in good dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. Cloth hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Illustrated with numerous monochrome photographs from the author's travels. The story of the people's of modern Russia told as through a travel narrative of some 20,000 miles, extending from the Ukraine and Crimea to Siberia, Central Asia and Georgia. Some of the palces the author visited include Leningrag, Moscow, Kharov, Kiev, Yalta, Tiflis, Barnaul, Siberia, Tashkent and Samarkand. A nice solid copy, internally clean and well bound. Dustjacket edge-worn and showing moderate soiling from age.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1924. Green cloth sans dustjacket. Embossed owners stamp on front fly and small booksellers label affixed to lower inside corner of front endpaper. Very good .. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Blue cloth in original non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustated with 72 pages of plates appended to rear of book, exhibiting the work of 35 artists, inc luding: Frederic Remington, H.B. Mollhausen, Harry Ogden, Charles Schreyvogel, Otto Becker, Walter Yeager, et alia. Map endpapers. Book in in near very good condition, dustjacket quite edgeworn, but comple te. A useful reference on the art of the old west and a difficult book to find.. First Edition. Near Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. Hardcover in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with drawings by F.L. Jaques. Dustjacket chipped, edgeworn and soiled. Story o f the author's trip up the west coast by rail and on up to Alaska by paddle steamer. Includes travel in Texas also. Good+ copy in worn, fair dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Good+/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. First Edition. Original white cloth, illustrated with frontispiece and 8 plates. Cloth quite age soiled, with several stains on rear board. Cloth splitting along outer rear hinge. One plate badly torn. Else a solid, internally clean and sound copy of the first trade edition of the title.. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1931. Red cloth stamped in black. Illustrated with numerous photographs and maps, several maps reproduced in color. Edited by Isaiah Bowman. Taylor was a prolific writer on Australian culture and customs, albiet this book is quite uncommon, and rarely found in such good conditon.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 64mo - up to 3" tall.

New York: Horizon Press, 1989 Cloth Spine Over Boards. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Three volume collected autiobiography of the editor of the "Little Review." First edition thus. Includes "My Thirty Years War", "The Fiery Fountains", and "The Strange Necessity". Illustrated with photgraphs by Bernice Abbott, Man Ray, etc. A very fine set, in fine dustjackets, and very good+ box.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973. Black cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with drawings by author. A humorous introduction to the inland waterways of northern Europe and the art of cnal navigation. Dustjacket age soiled at fore=edge, else Fine in very good dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Lyle Stuart, 1967. Two-tone cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Dustjacket shows small tears, age soiling and foxing on fore-edges and rear cover. Very good in near good dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York and London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1951. Yellow cloth in original non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with drawings by Thonton Oakley. A travel book of the Caribbean, with material on Cuba. Fine in near fine dustjacket.. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven: Simon and Schuster, 1931. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Red cloth in price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated. Dustjacket worn and lightly chipped. A good+ copy in fair dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: BookFellows, 1930. Marbled cloth in pink and rose, sans dust-jacket. Limited edition of six hundred copies. Introduction by George Steele Seymour. Done by the Bookfellows at teh Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Containing works in verse by nearly one hundred contributors. Front free endpaper excised. No name, no book-plate, etc. Very good+ copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1912. Vellum Spine Over Boards. No Jacket. Limited edition of 477 copies, published posthumously by the Bibliophile Society. White vellum spine over tan boards. Endpapers heavily foxed and light sporadic foxoing throughtout as per usual. Illustrated with holographic facsimiles of original manuscript pages. Text untrimmed. Inner slipcase very good, outer sleeve lacking top section and crudely tape repaired. Covers very clean. A good+ copy in poor slipcase.. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937 Very Good/No Jacket. Abridged Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Small hardcover volume bound in red cloth. Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G. Osgood. One or two slight blemishs to cloth, else fine.. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Promontory Press, 1987. Large octavo, blue cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Edited by Oliver Jensen. Illustrated with photographs. Selections from Catton's various Civil War classics. No name, no book-plate, etc. An unread, as new copy in very fine dust-jacket.. Reprint. Cloth. As New/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. First Edition. Signed by Author. Cloth in original dustjacket. Illustrated with original photographs. Bookplate signed by Fry on front endpaper. family history of the playwr ight Christopher Fry. A very fine copy in like dustjacket.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York [and] London: Oxford University Press, 1978. Cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs. A family history by playwright Christohper Fry, providing a facinating and personal window into the lives of one family from the heady years right after Victoria's ascension through the long Edwardian summer and the Great War. Small retail price sticker on rear dustjacke t panel. Book plate signed by Christopher Fry affixed to front free endpaper. Fine in fine dustjacket.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.