Search Results: Titles starting with S from Nudelman Rare Books

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.

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.

Mainz: Joseph Scholz, 1925. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards. Superb full and half page color illustrations throughout by Hans Schroeder. 16pp. Very good.

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.

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

London: Elliot Stock, 1882. First edition. First edition. Scarce first issue in deluxe full vellum binding with red-stamped illustration on cover after WBS. 155pp. Vignette chapter headings and woodcut tailpiece at end, all by Scott. TEG, others untrimmed. Near fine copy.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. First edition. First edition. Bound in contemporary fulll red mottled calf with armorial inlaid design and gilt stylized dragons on both covers and spine. Sixteen carbon photographs after paintings, each one mounted on thicker paper. All edges gilt. Binding rubbed at corners, extremities of spine, else very good and tight.

London: Jeremiah How, 1844. First edition. First edition. Two Volumes. Quartos. In original publisher's binding. Full fine-pebbled red calf with attractive geometric and floral strap-work design in gilt on covers, blind-stamped border cross-hatch patter. Spine with raised bands and elaborate gilt floral strap-work and lettering, marbled endpapers. Dozens of full and half-page woodcut engravings by artists who later to blossom in the 1860's in book illustration, such as Paton, Tenniel, Pickersgill, Gilbert, W.B. Scott, Crowquill and others. Also of note, early engravers showcased here such as G. Dalziel, Edmund Evans, Vizetelly, and W.S. Linton. "The most ambitious English book with wood engravings during the period under survey" (Gordon Ray). Calf binding shows slight wear along margins of spine and corners, but overall near fine, very fresh and bright. Contents clean and bright with occasional soiling and brown-toning predominantly in volume 1.

London: William Tait, 1846. First edition. First edition. Scarce original publisher's red pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and florets on spine, original yellow endsheets. Hafl-title present. Presentation, inscribed by the author on half-title: "Mary Armstrong, from the Author." This copy does not contain the illustrations. Near the end of the press run, the publisher actually ran out of illustrations, but continued publication, adding copies that did not contain the illustrations. No priority as relates to issue or state has been determined whether the book contains the illustrations or not. Curiously, contains the holograph corrections on p.11, but the correction on p.63 is truncated, only crossing out the word "formed" and and adding the word "and" just after "Things arcane:" Laid in are two woodcuts of the same image by Scott, from his estate, from his 1854 book, "Poems of a Painter," passed down to William Fredeman. Near fine. Scarce thus.

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. Second edition. 12m0. [2], xii, 194 pages. Publisher's light brown cloth, back-strip lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other untrimmed. Boards rubbed with light soiling, back-strip faded, very gentle spine lean, corners bumped, endpapers discolored, faint musty smell. Very good.

New York: Privately Printed for Scribner's at the University Press, 1896. Original holland backed gray laid paper covered boards with title on cover in black. The scarce "Scribner Christmas Dinner" Celebration for the 50th Year Anniversary. Only 100 Copies printed, (this is copy #11, with menus, special poems for the occasion, etc. With frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black. Slight dusting to covers, foxing to frontis, near fine. Printed at Will Bradley's University Press.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1902. First printing. First printing. Light green fine wove cloth with superb cover design stamped in green, reddish brown and black, design on spine in black. Scarce Armstrong cover. Fine.

Berlin: Herbert Stuffer, 1929. First edition. First edition. Original color pictorial paper covered boards. Famed for its innovative illustration and composition, "The Magic Boat" has become a classic and sought after early 20th Century Illustrated Children's Book. Fully illustrated in color throughout with four pull-tabs on two separate double-moveable color illustrated devices (each comprising two-page assemblies), a moveable hub revealing rabbits and hedgehogs, and the scarce and seldom found original perforated stencil (Nicths als Fruchte) at rear in half-page pouch. Benjamin describes this book as "the most beautiful of all new children's books" (Works III, 211). Cover with tread mark stains, hub intact, all moveables working, a very scarce and important Jugendstil moveable.

Berlin: Herbert Suffer, 1935. First edition. First edition. Original color pictorial paper covered boards, blue cloth spine. With the scarce 'lay-over" sheet at end in folder, used to isolate various pictures. Also with the original red glassine transparent sheet used to isolate certain components in a picture and make others disappear. Six full-page color illustrated pages, featuring: "The Wonderful House," a pull-tab moving windows of a house revealing different occupants, five different sets: Evening, Afternoon, Lunch, Morning, Early Morning; a rotating wheel revealing various figures crossing a bridge as well as occupants in a boat; "Grand Theatre" which has three pull-tabs, one which opens the window, and the other two (Gentleman and Punch) reveal different figures. Covers soiled and foxed, occasional wear internally, spine and corners sl. worn.

London, 1880. First edition thus. First edition thus. 4to. Decorated brown cloth. Illuminations and etchings throughout by WALTER SEVERN. An attractive and scarce book. Front cover detached, outside margins of spine frayed, corners bumped. Nice interior.

London: Day & Son, 1859. Quarto. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Publisher's color pictorial glossy paper covered boards. AEG. Six excellent unnumbered plates by Severn, tinted and with colors, calligraphic color designs throughout. A beautiful book. Covers slightly soiled, corners chipped, very good.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1904. Four page Specimen Prospectus, folded once on octavo sheet with decorative calligraphic initial on front, and opening into a double-page spread with illustration and decorative initial (in red), all by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Near fine.

4to. 1934. 4pp. printed on handmade paper with superb full-page illustration on front, two specimen pages internally including one printed in black and blue, and a full description of the book on the final page. Scarce.