Search Results: Authors starting with V from Kama’aina Collection

Paris : Editions Marcel Seheur, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gustave Dore. None. None This edition is red half leather with red marbled covers. Gilt lettering on the five band spine. The paperback edition in bound inside with it’s original paper cover art and back cover. Clean Pages and crisp artwork. No bleeding or staining from the illustrations. Some edges and corner’s bumped. Back cover has some old worming damage but it does not go beyond the marbled paper on the cover. This is the only hardcover edition of this book we have found. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

London: Cassell and Company, Limited,, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Various. None. None Tan embossed cloth with bevelled boards, gilt letters on spine & front cover; 48 pp. supplement; numerous black and white line engravings. The eighth volume of this highly-illustrated British monthly periodical of visual arts, published from 1878-1904. Article topics include: Visits to the homes of artists Mr. Pettie and Frank Holl, Mr. Ruskin on English art, Female head-gear in the 15th-18th centuries, Glass painting, Portraits by Hogarth, Venetian door-knockers, Profiles from the French Renaissance of Francis I, Maitre Roux, Le Primatice, Jean Bullant, Pierre Lescot, the Clouets, and Philibert Delorme ; and considerations of living artists Puvis de Chavannes, Elihu Vedder, Albert Moore, Gustave Moreau, Edward Burne Jones, and Arnold Bocklin, includes a 48-page appendix of all of the monthly Chronicle of Art pages from the year's issues, culled together at the end of the book for some reason. With… Read More

London : Cassell And Company, Limited, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Various. None. None Tan embossed cloth with bevelled boards, gilt letters on spine & front cover; 48 pp. supplement; numerous black and white line engravings. The eighth volume of this highly-illustrated British monthly periodical of visual arts, published from 1878-1904. Article topics include:Art in the Theater, Bookbinding Exhibition, Costume on the Stage, Current Art, Early Italian Art, Gothic Architecture, Illuminated Manuscripts of the Middle Ages; includes an appendix of all of the monthly Chronicle of Art pages from the year's issues, culled together at the end of the book for some reason. With interesting text and nice illustrations. Outer covers are slightly worn at edges, corners are bumped; some foxing on edges of book block; most pages are crisp and clear.Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send… Read More

Philadelphia : Genie & Berrie, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Various. None. None Full black leather covers and spine with ornate tooled covers with gilt decorative text on cover and on spine. Gilt design inside covers on the folded over leather. Original endpapers. Pages gilt on three edges. Very handsome volume. Clean pages, minor toning on few pages, some insect damage along edge folds of spine, as well as in the gutter inside.Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

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David Bogue, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Birket Foster. Wm. Shailer from his friend Geo. E. Stove Oct. 25th 1852. None Tight binding, guilted title and spine, guilted page edges, some foxing on some pages. Inscribed inside cover. Christmas with the Poets. A Collection of Songs, Carols, and Descriptive Verses Relating to the Festival of Christmas. Beautiful First Edition with original Victorian leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with guilt stamped florals and gilt text in the compartments and elaborate guilt stamped embossing on the boards. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with the edges of the text block gilt and with gilt dentelles on the leather turn-ins. Engraved full color title page. The contents are tightly bound-in and the entire text is extremely neat. Some pages have some foxing. 187 pages each decorated with a gold border around the print. This is a major anthology of Christmas songs and poems that begins with Anglo-Norman songs and ends with… Read More