Search Results: Authors starting with M from Nudelman Rare Books

New York: The Outlook Company, 1903. Third Printing, Published in the same year as the First Edition. Third Printing, Published in the same year as the First Edition. 8vo. Original publishers maroon cloth with elaborate gilt-stamped cover and spine design consisting of all-over ivy on trellis, gilt lettering, by Frederic C. Gordon, who was the artist commissioned to design the front cover of Stephen Crane's "The Black Riders," published in 1895. Signed by Gordon, F.C.G., appearing on lower spine in gilt. Fully illustrated, with prospectus for the autograph edition laid-in. A pristine copy with absolutely no signs of wear, in the original purple paper covered two-part card box with printed paper label on cover denoting title, author publisher, etc. (box a bit worn at edges, otherwise very good). Illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout. A rare survival of a gorgeous Turn of the Century Art Nouveau gilt-stamped cover.

London: Strahan & Co, 1872. First edition. First edition. Original blue cloth with bold gilt design on cover and spine, stamped in gilt and black with pictorial design on cover. First edition, first issue with publisher's name at foot of spine and with crescent moon and flaming torch in gilt outside of the front cover circle. 30 illustrations by Arthur Hughes, all edges gilt. In collector's blue morocco case with decorative gilt spine, previous ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper, minor spotting and browning, minimal soiling to lower board, spine sunned, bumped. Scarce first edition of MacDonald's second full-length fairy tale. In a letter to his wife in February 1871, Macdonald refers to the book which would be published a few months later: "...I know it is as good a work of the kind as I can do, and I think it will be the most complete thing I have done..." Seldom seen on the market today, the book was widely handled by children and rarely seen in presentable condition.

London: Strahan & Co, 1871. First edition. First edition. Original superbly illustrated green cloth with bold gilt blocking, as well as black borders, background and lettering on cover and spine. First issue with half-title, and superb woodcut illustrations by Arthur Hughes throughout. 13 pp. of advertisements at end. AEG. In nice collector's folding box. Rear cover neatly detached, otherwise a very nice copy, text block starting, minor browning and spotting, minor soiling to covers, a book rarely found in exemplary condition. . No priority is known regarding tan versus green cloth.

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1919. First edition. First edition. First issue book and wrapper, satisfying all of the points in Nudelman A53. In original white printed glossy dust wrapper with central color illustration offset in light brown background, lettering in black on cover and spine, no other writing on the wrapper (as called for). Beige cloth with bold gilt panel border on front cover surrounding color insert, blue embossed borders. Spine with vignette and lettering all blocked in gilt. Top edges gilt. Eight full-page color plates, color title-page, color insert on cover, blue pictorial illustrated endpapers all by Jessie Willcox Smith. Book is pristine, very fine with no signs of wear. The gilt on the cover and spine are as new. The wrapper is very good or better, completely in tact with only a few random small chips, esp. to corners and base of spine. A very scarce wrapper for an early Smith book.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1858. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 323pp. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth. The first edition of George MacDonald's first story to be published in book form. A fine copy in its original state, finely blind-stamped olive cloth with diamond shaped central blossoms and petal motif, elaborate borders on both covers, spine with gilt stamped leaf emblem and lettering, original yellow endpapers. MacDonald's faerie romance was aimed at an adult audience. The similarities between MacDonald and Lewis Carroll, who published Alice in Wonderland eight years later abound, culminating with Carroll asking MacDonald and his wife to read the draft of Alice. About as fine a copy as ever seen by this enduring and important classic. The copy of Sir Charles Oman (inscribed) ,noted military historian, and later, John Sparrow, English academic and book collector, both bookplates appear at front. In superb custom made chemise and green morocco-backed slipcase.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. Second Edition. Second Edition. 8vo, 351 pp + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear. Publisher's black cloth, spine panel titled in gold, white and blue floral endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. This Second Edition is identical in format to the First Edition, published less than a year earlier, and quite scarce, more so in nice condition, as our. Lilith, a rather extravagant fantasy novel, explores the journey into another world with a librarian who takes the form of a raven. Cloth slightly worn at head & heel of spine and corner tips; a few small marks, spine panel with a slight lean. A very good, tight copy with both inner hinges in tact.

Three large original pen and black ink elaborate border designs for Macdougall's celebrated, "The Book of Ruth," executed in 1896, heightened with white, traces of graphite, two signed lower right, one dated '96, on thick wove paper and artist's board, each sheet approx. 475 x 360 mm. (18 3/4 x 14 1/4 in), with image size 10 x 11 1/2". Some pencil annotations as instructions to printer. Occasional spotting and light browning, surface dirt, unframed, circa 1896, (3). The book was issued later in 1896 by J. M. Dent, fully illustrated by Macdougall. "This book is filled with exquisite decorations. Patterns of great beauty flow around the pages, and testify to the power of invention possessed by the illustrator." [The Spectator, review of the Dent & Co. first edition of "The Book of Ruth", 19th December 1896, p. 24] A most rare and important example of what can only be termed the height of English Art Nouveau book design.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1904. First edition. First edition. 5 x 7 1/2 inches, 316pp. Two separate editions. Publishers red-brown cloth with extremely scarce cover Margaret Armstrong with design stamped in white and dark brown of stylized leaf, vine and blossom pattern, also appearing on spine. Two copies, the second being a later impression (1910). First with wear to spine, soiled and foxed internally. The later impression, very good. Illustrated by Fanny Cory. No copies located in marketplace of this scarce Margaret Armstrong cover design.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903. First edition. First edition. Olive cloth with cover medallion design in salmon, white and gold, and lettering in bold gilt by Armstrong. Covers show wear, but good and tight copy. With full-page illustrations by Thomas Mitchell Pierce.

London: Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1903. First edition. First edition. Original vellum backed, brown paper covered boards. Probably Cobden-Sanderson's Own Copy, signed by the famed bookbinder innovator and artisan, at the end under the publisher's colophon: "T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, 11 Oct, 1905." Printed at the Chiswick Press, Mackail's address was given in the William Morris Labour Church a year earlier and now printed for the first time.

London: Publishing Office, 1864. First edition. First edition. Thick 4to. 974 pages. Contemporary quarter blue cloth, marroon label on spine. Full-page woodcut illustrations by J.E. Millais, Arthur Hughes, John Tenniel, Frederick Walker and many others. Seminal early periodical featuring pre-raphaeilite and victorian illustrators, authors, poets. Spine sl. split at top, corners rubbed, white tape applied to inner hinge. Marbled edges. Clean and bright copy.

London: Alexander Strahan and Co, 1862. First edition. First edition. 4to. Original publishers cloth, heavily blind-stamped with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Seminal periodical with prose and poetry by all the major authors of the period, as well as hundreds of plates by such luminary artists as: J.E. Millais, William Holman Hunt, John Tenniel, Charles Keene, Frederick Walker, J.D. Watson, and many others, many whole page. The binding has longitudinal tears along inner and outer margins of spine, corners chipped, internally very well preserved, given the very thin nature of the paper used. AEG. Very important collection of Pre-Raphaelite art and literature.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition. First edition. Two volumes. Three-quarter 19th Century calf, marbled boards. Edited by William M. Rossetti and F. Hueffer. With a Memoir and Two Portraits. From Wolff, "The "death at nineteen of this brilliantly versatile and precocious artist and novelist, son of Ford Madox Brown, and brother-in- law of William Michael Rossetti and Francis Hueffer, deeply distressed the boy's father and all the brethren of the pre-Raphaelite movement. Both his books are rare." WOLFF 880 Corners bumped,, very good.

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1903. First Edition. First Edition. Folio (20 x 12 inches) Loose and unbound, as issued. 32 exquisite design plates of chromolithographs and lithographs showcasing the exquisite work of Albert Maennchen (1873-1935), noted German painter and designer whose art was typified and highly influenced by the Jugendstil movement in Europe. Title page and introduction page. Marginal chipping with slight loss to margins of a few pages (esp. prelims), marginal creasing. Quite scarce, and beautiful.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1906. First edition. First edition. An elegant and sumptuous full green crushed levant binding by McDonald, signed in gilt pallet at rear dentelle, "Bound by MacDonald," consisting of triple fillet gold framing, and the spine very ornately detailed in four compartments with title and author in the author two. Ornate gilt dentelles, attractive marbled endsheet. TEG. Very fine example of James McDonald's work, the fine Scottish bookbinder who came to the US and set up shop in NYC in 1880, very quickly becoming one of the preeminent bookbinders in America. WITH A FULL-PAGE INSCRIPTION BY MAETERLINCK in French on the verso of the frontispiece, and signed by Maeterlinck, in fountain pen.

New York: Robert P. Bixby & Co, 1844. First Edition. First Edition. 4to. (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). Two Volumes. 605pp; 600pp. Stunning early cloth binding by the acclaimed B. Bradley Binders of Boston, one of the first bookbinders in the U.S. to successfully produce fine gilt-stamped cloth bindings with aesthetically compelling designs. The history is rich and multifaceted for this bindery, founded by Benjamin Bradley. Full rich royal blue cloth with striking central monument design in the center, all-over embossed design in relief, wide triple filet gilt stamped borders, on front and back covers. Signed by binder in embossed seal, front free fly: "B. Bradley/Binders/Boston. Spine with attractive gilt-stamped stylized floral designs comprising most of the space, gilt lettering. AEG. Engraved title-page illustration and full-page engraved frontispiece, in each volume. Foxing only to preliminaries and a few pages at the very end, as nearly always seen. The condition of these bindings is truly amazing.… Read More

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1927. First Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's stiff vellum heavily gilt with Beardsley's stunning design consisting of stylized irises with broad interlocking stem and leaf motif on front cover; spine with publisher's tan calf bearing gilt lettering. Limited to 300 numbered copies, of which this is #203. Fourteen superb black and white wood-engraved illustrations, including one mounted, ornamental initials, borders, etc, by Beardsley. Frontispiece portrait of Beardsley. A wonderful copy of a beautiful book.

London: J. M. Dent, 1893. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Twelve original parts. In original printed pictorial green wrappers. Woodcut illustrations as plates, illustrations and decorations throughout by Aubrey Beardsley, one his most celebrated group of illustrations to appear in book form. 1500 copies were printed, seldom seen as a complete set of individual numbers in the original wrappers. Numbers 2 and 4 with spines darkened and chipped including some loss, overall age toning and edge wear to wrappers; contents generally quite clean; housed in three separate quarter calf folders within matching slipcases. Malory's reworking of existing tales about King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. A truly remarkable set, Beardsley's output amounted to 360 full and double-page drawings, borders, chapter headings, and ornaments of detailed illustration, and a net total of over 1,000 decorations.

London: J. M. Dent; Aldine House, 1894. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Two Volumes, thick quartos. Exquisite publisher's full cream cloth over beveled boards, lettered and decorated with bold gilt-blocked and elaborate art-nouveau design by Beardsley on front covers and spines, rear covers with publisher's imprint in gold. TEG, others uncut. 990 pp [paginated continuously], Glossary & Index to rear of Vol. Two. Magnificently illustrated throughout on India paper, featuring 18 full-page wood engravings with tissue guards (5 double-page) by Beardsely, as well as numerous text illustrations and approximately 350 designs for chapter headings and borders, all by Beardsley. A very good copy, with foxing occurring to front and rear fly of Vol. 1, but not Vol. 2. Wear to edge of spine head of Vol. 1, with about 1 cm nick. Covers with usual discoloration and some smudging, and slight rubbing to gilt. The inner hinges are completely in tact, rare for this size of book (two inches thick!). Commissioned… Read More

Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1934. First edition thus. First edition thus. Original publisher's full brick red pigskin with bold grain, gilt lettering on pine, superb marbled endpapers. #266 of 370 Copies on handmade paper, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Printed in red and black throughout with 22 woodcut illustrations from de Worde's 1498 folio edition, considered the first text illustrations made from engravings. Only a limited number of these were issued in the full red pigskin bindings. With the original four page prospectus printed in red and black as well as an order form, laid-in. A fine set, rarely seen thus.