Search Results: Titles starting with S from Arabesque Books

North Providence, Rhode Island: Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, 1941. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - 12 1/2" tall. P. Subercaseaux Errazuriz, Benedictine Monk of Solesmes. pp. xviii, 198. Illustrated in color with 50 full page scenes in the life of Saint Francis from birth to death. From the water colors of P. Subercaseaux Errazuriz. Text is in both English and French. Book is protected in mylar. Some binding wear along edges, but solid, no cracked hinges. Interior of book is clean, no former owner's names or marks. Half title page has very light brown area where a newspaper clipping may have been in the past. Reading the book and studying the illustrations does make one think of Pope Francis. An attractive, large folio copy of a scarce book.

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. 60 pages. No date listed. Soft covers have light soiling and browning along edges. Book protected in new mylar. Interior of book is very clean. No previous owner's names or marks. An attractive little book.

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2003. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 4to. 139 pages. Maps. Illustrated in black & white. Book protected in new mylar. Limited to 750 copies. The first Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts. A like new, gift quality copy.

Mrs. Charlton M. Theus, (1967), 1967. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Small 8vo. pp. xi, [3], 3-100. Includes index. Illustrated. Bound with stiff wraps, protected in new mylar. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed only, not inscribed to anyone. A study of furniture made in and shipped to Savannah and how to identify it. With a biographical directory of cabinetmakers. A very attractive copy, clean and tight, no previous owner's names or marks.

Savannah, Georgia: The Beehive Press, (1973), 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Oblong 4vo. 160 pages. Illustrated on every page with period photographs and maps. Second Edition. The book is housed in an illustrated slipcase. Very slight wear to corners of slipcase. The book was planned and typeset at The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, and printed at The Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut and as such is most handsome and of very high quality. A very attractive copy.

Sea Island, Georgia: Sea Island Company, (2003), 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio - 12 1/4" tall. 188 pages. Illustrated in color and in black & white with period photographs. Dust jacket and book are in excellent condition. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar sleeve. No previous owner's names or marks. The story of the building of The Cloister and Sea Island. A beautiful, gift quality book, like new.

Kansas City, Missouri: The Lowell Press, (1976), 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Square 8vo. pp. viii, [2], 117. Illustrated in color. Map end papers. Dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve. Signed on the half title, "With best wishes, Dean Krakel II". Beautiful, full color photos on every page. No previous owner's names or marks. Not price clipped. From the dust jacket, "A compelling portrait of the elk, a species that has been driven to final sanctuaries by the rush of civilization. Set in the majestic splendor of Wyoming's rugged Teton mountains, Season of the Elk is a poignant chapter from the saga of our vanishing wilderness and a captivating wildlife documentary on America's last great elk herds." A scarce signed copy of a gift quality book.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1955), 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Leonard Weisgard. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear, a 1/2" closed tear and small corner chips at the top of the spine, price clipped. Book in in fine condtion with an inscription on the front free end paper to a girl from her school, dated July 14, 1955.

New York: The Neal Publishing Company, 1910. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. 12mo. 163 pages. Protected in new mylar. Binding has light rubbing, a few spots and damp stain. Previous owner's name and date of April 1910 on the front free end paper. A very light damp stain on a few pages, otherwise the interior is clean, no other marks. Binding is slightly cocked, but solid and tight. Stories and reminiscences of those who once lived in the counties of Glynn and McIntosh and on the islands along the Georgia coast. A scarce first edition.

London: Jonathan Cape (1926), 1926. First British Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 287 pages. Protected in mylar. Previous owner's book plate on the front paste down. End papers have slight browning. Over all the binding and interior is clean and in great shape.

Chichester, UK: Springer-Praxis Books, (2011), 2011. Soft cover. New. 8vo. pp. xxv, 1-371. Illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page. Book protected in new mylar. For the first time the 32 finalists are revealed, but only seven were selected as America's Mercury astronauts. A new, gift quality, collectible, signed copy.

Stuttgart-Unterturkheim: Daimier-Benz Aktiengesellschaft. Soft cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Thick 4to. Illustrated. No date. Reprinted by Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc. Large two inch thick service manual. In excellent condition with a small amount of scuffing on the fore-edges.

Shanghai. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio. pp. [4], 128, [1]. No date, most likely 1980's. Large folio size, 15" by 10 1/2". Illustrated in full color. In both Chinese and English. English text by Xie Zhi-Liu. Printed by Shanghai Fine Arts Printing House. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Dust jacket has some edge wear, overall a very attractive book. From the preface, "In compiling this pictorical album, . . . a total of 121 masterpieces painted by 63 of the most prominent contemporary artists who either made their abode in Shanghai or resided in Shanghai for a certain period of time. This is, indeed, a pioneering act, in so far as Shanghai is concerned, for pictorical albums of this kind have no precedent in Shanghai." Includes paintings by Zhang Zixiang, Ren Weichang, Xu Gu, Zhu Menglu, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Wu Qiunong, Lu Lianfu, Cheng Yaosheng, Zhu Qizhan, Ling Fengming, Zhang Daqian, Huang Huanwu, Lu Yanshao, Xie Zhiliu, Tang Yun, Ying Yeping, Shen… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1931), 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 382 pages. Illustrated. Maps, one fold-out. Dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve, not price clipped. Dust jacket has slight edge chipping and darkening of the spine. From the dust jacket, "It was Grant's opinion that Sheridan belonged to the very first rank of soldiers, not only of their own country but of the world. He ranked Sheridan with Napoleon, with Frederick and other great commanders of history." Book is solid and square.

Atlanta, Georgia: A.E. Sholes & Co., 1879. Hardcover. Good Condition./No Jacket. 8vo. pp. x, 934, (2). Illustrated. X-library with a book plate on the front past down. In a library binding with library markings. Interior of book has had some repairs to a number of pages. The title page is chipped along the edges, detached, and split down the middle. Last page of ads has been repaired with loss of 2" along the bottom. Pages 607 - 634 are bound following page 572. Most of the interior pages are in very good shape with many illustrated ads, business directories by towns, lists of planters and farmers, railroads and government officials. In some regards not in the best shape, but mainly a solid, original copy of a rare state gazetteer.

New York: William Morrow, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 59 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar sleeve, not priced clipped. First edition, first printing with the "1" in the number sequence. The winner of the Walt Whitman Award in 1979. This book is the collection of poems for which he won the prize.

Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, (1998), 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo. pp. xvii, [1], 1-190. Photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum. First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar sleeve. No previous owner's names or marks. A very handsome, gift quality copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989), 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 330 pages. First printing with the "1" in the number sequence. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper, "For Harold & Nancy - You don't sleep with the fishes; you eat them. Best wishes, Nick Taylor 9-17-89". Dust jacket protected in a new mylar sleeve, not price clipped. Slightest of foxing on the fore edge, otherwise a clean, tight, square copy of a scarce inscribed first printing.

London: Methuen & Co., (1908), 1908. Three-Quarter Morocco. Near Fine. 8vo. Edmund J. Sullivan. pp. viii, 193. Frontispiece engraving by Albrect Durer. 20 illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. Translated by A. C. Farquharson. Bound by Riviere & Son with raised bands and gilt on the spine. Marbled end papers. Previous owner's name on a blank page. Minor edge damp stain on the last few pages. A beautiful, very attractive book, handsomely bound and finely printed.

Platt & Munk Co., 1932. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. From series 3000 and 3100. Six booklets from 1932-1934. Illustrated in color and black & white. Three booklets have former owner's name on front covers. Chicken Little has minor damp staining and tape repair on rear cover. Jack and the Beanstalk has a damaged front cover. Overall in very good condition.