Search Results: Authors starting with S from Nudelman Rare Books

Amsterdam: J. C. van Kesteren, 1821. First edition. First edition. Original light green printed paper covered card wrappers, printed spine, printed rear cover as well. 196pp. Half-title present. Exquisite full-page hand-colored wood engraved frontispiece and three engraved hand-colored plates in the text. Rare dutch edition of a classic children's book. A superb copy.

Three pages [17 July, 1874]. Superb letter written by Frederick Sandys, famed Pre-Raphaelite painter, illustrator and draughtsman, who was closely allied with the PRB to William Michael Rossetti. "1 Spenser Street, Victoria Street- Friday. My dear Rossetti, I had a note from Gabriel saying he was coming to town for a day or two and would call if possible. I write to you not knowing quite where a note would find him- to say he must come- I have a portrait of a fearful old woman I want him to see and tell me about- I want you to see it also- will you come any day before Wednesday... There is an awful lot of work in the picture in fact it consist entirely of caps- cap strings and white stomacher- Do come- and pray communicate my most earnest desire to Gabriel. Your faithfully, Fredrk. Sandys. My place is a new red brick House- by Large and Small coach-buildings.

London: Archibald Constable and Co, 1896. First edition. First edition. Large folio (15 1/4 x 11 1/4"). Original beige cloth with superb bold gilt-blocked designs on front cover. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF THE SPECIAL FEW BOUND SUCH, NUMBERED: XII. Superbly illustrated with plates of Sandys' work, including three photogravures. A fine copy of a most scarce volume featuring this acclaimed Pre-Raphaelite artist.

New York: Stone and Kimball, 1896. First edition thus. First edition thus. 12mo. Dark green cloth. Superb Nouveau-style title-page design reminiscent of Beardsley by Santayana (per Kraus). Very good copy of a scarce Stone and Kimball title. In gray slipcase. Kramer 79.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. First edition. Square folio size. Original full-size color cover insert, black cloth. Illustrated color endpapers, exquisite full page color plates throughout, by Maxfield Parrish. Universally considered one of the greatest children's colorplate books printed in America. An amazing feat of color illustration and book printing. A fine copy.

Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. First edition. 8vo.. Original drab paper covered boards, paper label on spine. Rather heavily foxed, else tight copy, very good.

Two superb albumen prints mounted to card of the mosque El Azhar in Cairo, by Jean Pascal Sebah, son of Pascal Sebah who was a photographer in Constantinople in the mid-1850's. His son Jean inherited the photography business in 1883, signing his photographs J. P. Sebah, as in these photographs. From the Bert M. Zuckerman Collection. These photographic albumen prints are clear and bright. Some damp-staining to one, lower right, otherwise near fine. A rare offering, probably dating to the late 1880's.

Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1914. First edition. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original superb color pictorial paper covered boards with picture of child riding a stylized horse on a sagging platform, with large voluminous white clouds and blue sky in background. This is the extremely rare children's book written and illustrated by Charlotte Schaller with gorgeous pochoir illustrations throughout. The first of two children's books on the war by Schaller (both written and illustrated by her, and both published during the war. The story depicts Boby, his two sisters, and the neighborhood children acting out the first few months of the WWI. On rocking horse, enlisting his toy soldiers, ally to Belgians. One illustration, anticipating Surrealism, enacts the battle of LiËge. The Belgian army, tiny black figures less than one inch high, wages a futile assault on a pair of Prussian boots that dominate the entire landscape and sky. Corners bumped, covers worn, finger-soiled, inner hinge week, on the whole a… Read More

Leipzig: Insel, 1901. First edition. First edition. Original cloth-backed (blue) color pictorial paper covered boards with striking Secessionist design on both covers. A scarce and representative Secessionist-style book with a superb woodcut illustration by Felix Vallotton, 1865-1925, noted artist of the period and member of the Les Nabis collective. Superb decorations, cover design and illustrated endpapers by Gustave-Henri Jossot. Excellent copy. Most scarce.

Leipzig: Insel, 1902. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Super fragile paper wrappers ands pine with delicate illustration in olive green by Heinrich Vogeler, noted German painter, designer, architect, and illustrator, and central member of the Worpswede collective, which advance Art Nouveau throughout Europe. With two superb text vignettes and a cover illustration by Heinrich Vogeler. An uncut copy. A wonderfully preserved example of Vogeler's genius.

Amsterdam: G. Theod. Bom, 1850. .Small 8vo. 21 pp. Original fragile decorated paper wrappers in red with leaf design. Stapled. 31 rhymes with nearly whole page wooduct illustrations every page. Wrappers frayed and tearing, internally very good. Scarce.

Berlin: Fritz Gurlitt, 1920. First edition. First edition. Folio. One of Only 30 Copies, signed in plates by Schoff. Original linen backed, gray paper covered boards with stylized lettering and vignette in blue on cover. With original three-part closing folder (attached on one side, as issued), containing 10 original lithographs on laid paper under mattes, by Otto Schoff, 8 of which are signed by Schoff in pencil lower right. The images depict two girls in various evocative scenes. Gurliitt Press editions are scarce and highly sought after and prized. Some fraying to extremities of spine, internally fine.

Leipzig: Insel, 1911. First Edition. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Superb pictorial paper covered boards. Drawings by Helene Countess Harrach through to verses by Rudolf Alexander Schrˆder. With eleven full-page color illustration in an unpretentious and graphic style. .First edition. - Printed on high quality Japan paper. Remarkably well-preserved. Near fine. An adorable children's book about a children's birthday party, a rarity.

Munchen: Ulbert Langen, 1925. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards. Superb color Jugendstil style illustrations throughout by Schulz. Spine paper chipped away, internally clean and bright. Scarce.

Paris: Le Livre Cotemporain, 1908. First Edition. First Edition. Thick quarto, 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. UNIQUE PROOF SET OF THE BOOK, LIKELY ONE OF ITS KIND. 280 MOUNTED TISSUE PROOFS ON CHINA PAPER LAID INTO THE BOOK'S ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, BY CARLOS SCHWABE. This is a set of 280 mounted tissue proofs (before text) of the illustrations, borders, and vignettes all by Schwab laid into the finished cover. This work was for the first illustrated edition of Samainís important Symbolist book. The published book was issued in an edition of 120 copies; THIS PROOF SET MAY BE UNIQUE OR MAY BE ONE OF A FEW SETS. Some of the proofs are dated 1904 and 1905. Housed in a cloth-backed marbled board chemise (some chips on spine of chemise). PROOF IN FINE CONDITION. EXCESSIVELY RARE AND IMPORTANT CARLOS SCHWABE ITEM.

Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. First edition. Original light brown fine wove cloth with superb stylized cover illustration on both covers stamped in darker brown by Ethel Reed. Gilt lettering cover and spine. 500 copies. Scarce. Slight wear to top and bottom of spine, very good.

1925. Offered here is an original autograph presentation on a single card, by the Lady Kathleen Scott, widow of Robert Falcon Scott, famed Antarctic explorer, along with a black and white photo (modern) composed by Robert Falcon Scott with his wife Kathleen, and the two mounted onto black construction paper. The card is signed by Kathleen Scott as "Kathleen Hilton Young, formerly Lady Scott" with the addition "Very glad to send you the autographs you want 5/4/25." Lady Edith Agnes Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennett, (1878-1947) was a renowned British sculptor who, throughout her life, remained a traditional sculptor and worked independently of contemporary artistic developments such as modernism and abstraction. Described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "the most significant and prolific British women sculptor before Barbara Hepworth,î while her traditional style of sculpture and her hostility to the abstract work of Henry Moore, and others, contributed toward a subsequent lack of… Read More

Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1825. First edition. First edition. Two volumes. Bound in contemporary full tan calf with intricate geometric and floret embossed design on both covers, git spine with two morocco labels. Moderate wear to bindings, overall a clean, tight and very bright copy of a scarce Scott title.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1820. First edition. First edition. Superb early 19th Century binding, in original full straight grained full leather. All edges gilt, and a superior example of a Georgian extra gilt binding. An exquisite fore edge painting by Martin Frost featuring a painting of Scottís portrait, flanked by views of Melrose Abbey, his home Abbotsbury and all set into a frame with Scottish thistle motifs. Monogrammed by Frost with his authenticity ticket tipped in. Minor scuffs and speckling, a very good tight copy.

London: Robert Cadell, 1850. Sixth Edition. Sixth Edition. 12mo. A Full brown polished calf with black embossed background leaving floral patterns in squares in positive relief, gilt ruling on covers, spine, dentelles and ends of boards. Engraved title-page and frontispiece. Binding possibly the work of the Scottish Arts & Crafts Guild. Near fine.