Search Results: Titles starting with R from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

The original watercolor for one of Stecher-Traung's beloved seed-packets. — The 'Spencer' sweet pea is associated with Althorp in Northants: It was the fifth earl's gardener, Silas Cole, who noticed the new variety there in 1898, named it Countess Spencer, and sent 2200 seeds to America in 1903 — ancestors, I suppose, of the individuals pictured here.

Paris, 1951     ¶ The earliest postage-stamp -- and still the only French stamp -- devoted to Arthur Rimbaud; displaying a powerful portrait of the poet after Fantin-Latour (1872) with a storm-tossed boat and two great waterspouts in the background; designed by Paul Pierre Lemagny (1905-1977), engraved by G. A. Barlangue, and first issued at Charleville, 27 October 1951. Petitfils remarks that this stamp was "un grand succès", and that eighteen thousand were sold immediately.   ||| CORNER BLOCK OF FOUR engraved postage-stamps (each 26 x 40 mm) denominated 15 F, printed in green ink on wove paper unmarked, full margins top and right, dimensions 78 x 123 mm overall.  Condition: MINT, the gum somewhat browned as usual.  References: BN/Briet (1954) 1148; Petitfils (1984) 111 (pages 77-78); qqv. Yvert 910; Scott 668.  < "Scott 668" = _Scott standard postage stamp catalogue_ 2004, v2 (sv… Read More

Paris, 1951     ¶ The earliest postage-stamp -- and still the only French stamp -- devoted to Arthur Rimbaud; displaying a powerful portrait of the poet after Fantin-Latour (1872) with a storm-tossed boat and two great waterspouts in the background; designed by Paul Pierre Lemagny (1905-1977), engraved by G. A. Barlangue, and first issued at Charleville, 27 October 1951. Petitfils remarks that this stamp was "un grand succès", and that eighteen thousand were sold immediately.   ||| FULL SHEET OF FIFTY engraved postage-stamps (each 26 x 40 mm) denominated 15 F, printed in green ink on wove paper unmarked, plate no. 31681, cipher (pressmark) "IJ 3", full margins, dimensions 309 x 278 mm overall.  Condition: Near mint; partial fold-separations 5 cm center left and right.  References: BN/Briet (1954) 1148; Petitfils (1984) 111 (pages 77-78); qqv. Yvert 910; Scott 668. … Read More

London &c: Cassell and company , limited, 1939 ¶ FIRST EDITION (with statement "First published 1939" and code "F.939" on the title verso). ||| Collation: In 8s (186 x 124 mm): Pp. x, 286. Binding: Red cloth, dust-jacket. Condition: Near fine. Reference: LCCN 40003767. Provenance: Freda J. Chalkley, signature on the upper free endpaper. .

St Petersburg: Sovetskii pisatel', leningradskoe otdelenie, 1977 -- SECOND AND BEST EDITION. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the fable flourished in Russia as nowhere before, with many thousands of fables being published by hundreds of fabulists (including Anna Bunina, the first professional woman writer in Russian literature). This is the standard anthology and bio-bibliography of the subject; comprising an introductory essay by Nikolai Stepanov (pages 5-[62]), 569 verse fables by seventy-five writers, edited by V. P. Stepanov and Nikolai Stepanov, and copious textual and bio-bibliogaphical notes by V. P. Stepanov (pages [527]-[632]). (Series: Biblioteka poeta. Bolshaia seriia.). Blue cloth gilt. Near fine.. In 16s (197 x 127 mm). Pp. 655..