Search Results: Authors starting with U from First Folio

Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1946. Second eition, revised and redesigned. Book fine, dust jacket lighhtly soiled with faded spine and large price clipped area. Inscription on flyleaf. Second eition, revised and redesigned. 8vo. (xvi), 161p., colophon. Illustrated from photos. In publisher's blue ribbed cloth with titles and decorations in orange on spine and upper cover. map endpapers.

West Yorkshire: Fleece Press, 1986. First edition. Limited to 200 copies, this no. 24, on hand-made Barcham Green Sandwich paper. Fine in cloth box with paper spine label. First edition. Limited to 200 copies, this no. 24, on hand-made Barcham Green Sandwich paper. Folio. Unpaged. Illustrated from the original wood-engraved blocks: frontispiece, head- and tail-piece and 15 full-page engravings. Bound in Smith Settle in quarter green gilt-titled morocco with pattern paste paper sides.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. Mixed edition. Vol I: Second edition; Vol. II: Second printing of the third edition. Slightly differing grades of cloth and paper, VG. Mixed edition. Vol I: Second edition; Vol. II: Second printing of the third edition. Two volumes. xl,292p; xix, 326p. Illustrated. Gilt-titled maroon cloth.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. Limited to 100 Signed copies (of 300). Fine in slipcase. Some fading to paper covers. Limited to 100 Signed copies (of 300). [viii], 41p. Ochre cloth spine over pattern paper boards.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. First edition. Contents with toning and foxing on plate edges, cover with moderate soil, all quite sound, VG-, ink inscription on flyleaf. First edition. xvi (ii), 199p, Illustrated by Anna M. Upjohn with four color plates. Bound in tan cloth with titles in brown on spine and upper cover, the cover with designs by "McN" in green and brown and with a mounted color plate repeating one in the text.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First edition. Very good in dust jacket worn around the edges. First edition. xi, 148p. Illustrated by the author with 17 plates, 4 in color. Bound in blue cloth with titles in dark blue on spine and cover.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. First edition. Trifling rubs to spine extremes, else fine in VG+ dust jacket with minor chipping. Ink gift inscription on front pastedown. First edition. 8vo. xvii, 243p. Illustrated from photos. Bound in full green cloth with paper spine label.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1902. First edition. Fine. First edition. [xii], 213p. "With Illustrations from Rare Prints and Facsimilies". Bound in white cloth, t.e.g., with gilt titls and repeating overall design in gilt of music lyres and flowers.

London: Collins, 1935. First edition. Some very light soiling with wear to the edges of the upper board. Still quit sound and attractive. First edition. Quarto. 39p. Illustrated by Lennie Young with 8 full-page brilliant color plates. Bound in paper-covered boards with a yellow cloth spine, with color illustration on a black background on the upper board, and advertisements on the rear board. Quite scarce with very few institutional holdings - and none in commerce.

Paris: Societe Francaise d'Editions d'Art, 1898. 1 of 1000 copies, this an unnumbered copy. Slight joint rubs, else fine and bright. 1 of 1000 copies, this an unnumbered copy. Quarto. vi, 275p. Profusely illustrated throughout. Decorative elements on preliminaries by Leon Rudnick. Bound by Durvand in half scarlet morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with citron morocco label gilt and with inlaid flowers and foliage in three colors. Original wrappers in vivid colors designed by Louis Rhead bound in. From the library of Cortland Bishop with his paper bookplate. Anderson Galleries Bishop sale lot no. 2285.

Paris: A. Quantin, 1883. First edition. Front hinge expertly repaired, rear hinge with some rubbing, all else quite fine. First edition. Tall 8vo. [iv], iv, 138p, [i, printer's imprint]. Illustrated throughout after watercolors by Paul Avril in the text and the borders and as vignettes. Pages without watercolors have decorative frames around the text. In an inlaid binding by Kauffmann, the front dentelle signed Kauffmann-Petit. The spine with gilt titles , the panels with designs of umbrellas and flowers in gilt with red inlays, the covers with ornamental ruled borders and with elaborate frames formed of branches with inlaid red flowers with their trailing leaves and vines entwined around the frame, also with three small umbrellas with red inlays. The larger central device is of Cupid with an umbrella riding atop a dragonfly, this with inlays in three colors, ornamental dentelles with floral brocade doublures and flyleaves. Original color wrappers bound in. Housed in morocco lined slipcase of… Read More

Paris: A. Quantin, 1882. First edition. Stains in gutter of last few leaves, minor rubbing to backstrip, about fine. First edition. Royal octavo. 143p. Illustrated by Paul Avril with two chromolithograph plates, many text illustrations in color and black and white, with decorative borders and headpieces. Bound by F.J. Pfister in full pictorial morocco in the pyrography or "Poker Work" style, the upper cover depicting an open illustrated fan surrounded by angles, with an angelic fantasy on lower cover and columns on the turn-ins. Pyrographic designs are created with a heated platinum stylus. See Eloquent Witnesses by Mirjam M. Foot, p. 291. Frank J. Pfister is said to have introduced pyrography in book decoration. A very rare American binding. Hiler 869; Lipperheide 1725; Ray. French #287.