Search Results: Authors starting with S from Plain Tales Books

Norwalk, CN: The Easton Press. Three volumes: Scaramouche; The Sea Hawk; Captain Blood. Color illustrations. Full black leather with raised bands; gilt titles and gilt and color decorations; all edges gilt; ribbon page marker; silk moire endpapers. Each volume has a color frontispiece which is a reproduction of front panel from an early dust jacket. A great set. . Fine. Full-Leather. 2005.

Norwalk, CN : The Easton Press, 1991. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Library of Great Lives. Collector's Edition. Special foreword by Lynn Redgrave. Full medium blue leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; silk moire endpapers; ribbon page marker. Illustrated. Easton Press note card laid in. BB.

London: Prion Books, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 4 volumes. Various cover colors with matching DJs, All fully illustrated in color and black & white. Originally published in the 1940s as "Britain in Pictures". All clean, bright, and unmarked. .

Raleigh, North Carolina: School of Design, North Carolina State College. 29 separate plates with 8 page introductory pamphlet and acetate grid sheet, all housed in a cardboard folder and in a black board slipcase. Folder has darkened with age and slipcase is worn at extremities with one short edge split. Clean and unmarked. Scarce. The student publication of the School of Design, Raleigh, N.C. Volume 9, Number 1. . Near Fine. Loose Plates. First Edition. 1959.

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires. 2 volumes: text and plates. Books measure approx. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2". Text in Spanish and English. Volume 2 consists of 41 loose plates, some being two-page fold-outs with a clear laminate grid to use over the plates. Includes 4 plates not in the first edition. Edges of covers darkened with age. interiors and plates are clean and unmarked. Volume 1 half-title page is detached. Scarce. . Very Good. Soft cover. Second Edition. 1969.

New York: Praeger. Illustrated with maps. Clean and unmarked. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1990.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Book. Illus. by Jones, George. Fine. Full-Leather. First Edition, Limited. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The First Edition Society. A Limited Edition. Full black leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; raised bands; silk moire endpapers; ribbon page marker. Faint rubbing to rear cover. This is the higher quality full leather binding published by The Franklin Library. BB.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A Powell's Books Indiespensible Edition signed by author, in slipcase, with specially issued 20 page booklet containing author interview. Minor rubbing to two title letters on slipcase. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2016.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Book. Illus. by Fuchs, Bernard. Fine. Full-Leather. First Edition, Limited. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The First Edition Society. A Limited Edition. Full brown leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; raised bands; silk moire endpapers; ribbon page marker. This is the higher quality full leather binding published by The Franklin Library. BB.

Boston Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. Page edges lightly darkened. Clean and unmarked. A very nice first edition copy. . Very Goo to Near. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). 1961.

Rome: Canesi. Inscribed to previous owner and signed on first preliminary page: ... Buon Appetito! / Romeo Salta / New York Nov 19, 1975". Text in Italian. Beautiful color illustrations of vegetables as humans, as well as color photographs, and many tipped-in actual Italian wine labels. A touch of wear to spine. Clean, bright, and unmarked in a matching, near fine, color illustrated slipcase. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1962.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Voyageur Press. Illustrated. Signed on flyleaf: "To Dick, / May the Spirit of the / River flow through / You always-/ The Last River rat / Kenny Salwey". Signed and Inscribed By Author . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2005.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Price-clipped DJ. Foxing to page edges. Interior is clean and unmarked. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1969.

Clinton, NJ: The Amwell Press / The National Sporting Fraternity Limited , 1987. Book. Illus. by Al Barker. Fine. Full-Leather. Signed . Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. No. 315 of a signed, limited edition of 1,000 copies. Full red leather with gilt titles and decorations; ribbon page marker. Illustrated. Housed in a black board board slipcase. Signed by the author, artist, and by Jim Rikhoff, president, NSFL. .

Clinton, NJ: The Amwell Press / The National Sporting Fraternity Limited , 1986. Book. Illus. by Victoria Blanchard. Near Fine. Full-Leather. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No. 82 of a signed, limited edition of 1,000 copies. Full black, textured leather with gilt titles and decorations. Illustrated with photographs. Housed in a very good, heavy board slipcase. Signed by the author, illustrator, and by Jim Rikhoff, president, NSFL. A few light dots to covers. Some fading to slipcase edges. .

Long Beach, CA: Safari Press. Fully illustrated. Still in publisher's shrink-wrap. . New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2019.

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Trade Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed, "Carl Sandburg" on front free endpaper. Clean and unmarked. Page edges darkened. Large pieces out of top and bottom of DJ spine and lower front DJ panel. .

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1981. Book. Illus. by . Fine. Full-Leather. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. A Limited Edition. Full brown leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; raised bands; silk moire endpapers; ribbon page marker. Illustrated with photographs and engravings of the period. This is the higher quality full leather binding published by The Franklin Library. BB.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Book. Illus. by . Fine. Full-Leather. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature. A Limited Edition. Full brown leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; raised bands; silk moire endpapers; ribbon page marker. This is the higher quality full leather binding published by The Franklin Library. BB.

Suffolk, UK: Antique Collectors' Club. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, and floor plans. Color frontispiece. Clean, bright, and unmarked. Solid binding. . Fine. Hardcover. Third Printing. 1999.