Resultados de búsqueda: Fiction from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1976. Illustrated by Ron Fendel. First edition. Holliston Black Novelex. Inscribed by author "To Brian, a wander round the maze inside my skull! All the best from Ramsey 25/9/76". 12mo. pp. xx, 229, [1] blank, [1] colophon. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. ($7.50) Traces of edgewear and light soil to white areas of jacket, with small rub on jacket front.Eighteen short stories..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, February 1924. First US edition. (c.1904 London, two issues). Brown cloth decorated and embossed clay and gilt, clay and gray deco eps., uncut, t.e. clay (First Issue). 12mo. pp. 223. VG/No jacket. Rubbed boards, one small fore-edge stain, foxing starting..

London: Macmillan, 1899. Illustrated by several vignettes. First (SD) edition. Green cloth, gilt print spine and topboard, uncut, t.e.g. 8vo. pp. 294, [14] ads, [1] blank. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Rubbed caps, internally near fine, faint ink owner..

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. Illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft jacket. Stated First (&N1) edition. Second book. Tan boards, quarter cloth printed green, map end papers. 8vo. pp. xii, 704. NF/VG+/Unclipped price ($19.95) in mylar. Slightly concave spine in bright jacket with spots of edgewear mostly at folds with one chip at top flap. ISBN: 0030627737. Oversize..

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1976. Illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian jacket and frontis. First edition. [4053 copies]. Holliston Black Novelex. 12mo. pp. xi, 202, [1] blank, [1] colophon. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price ($8.95) in mylar. Chilling Sea tales from around the world..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition. The Ivory Series. Decorated tan cloth, top edge gilt. 16mo. pp. vi, 163, [1] blank. Good/No jacket, as issued. Lightly soiled boards, slightly shaken. Bookplate of Stephen Ellsworth Clow and Ruth Hazen Clow (Clough), small bookseller ticket (W.B. Clarke & Co., Boston). One of four tales on Australia. Author married Constance Doyle, sister of Arthur Conan Doyle..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1896). Presumed first edition. First and only book. White boards decorated and embossed in gilt and blue (flower vine design), gilt print. 12mo. pp. 86. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Some cap, spine and corner wear. Tale of a page-boy in family service, as told by his mistress--in the 19th Century sense..

New York: D. Appleton, 1899. Illustrated by b/w frontis and 7 plates by Frank Merrill. First American (assumed) edition. (c.1889). Blue cloth, gilt pr & dec. 12mo. pp. vi, [2], 368, [8] Ads. VG/No jacket. Traces of wear to corners and caps..

New York: Grove Press, (1993). Translated by Megan Backus from the Japanese. Stated First English-language (&N1) edition. First novel. c.1988 Fukutake Publishing. Cloth backed boards. Cr.8vo. pp. [vi], 152, [2] about author. As New/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Unread copy with no flaws. Two tales: Kitchen and Moonlight Shadow. The later won the Nikon University Department of Arts Prize in 1986 and the former won the Kaien magazine New Writer Prize in 1987..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, March 1912. First edition. Green cloth, gilt print spine, gilt pr & dec top emblem. 12mo. pp. 378. VG/No jacket..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Translated by Charles Archer and J.S. Scott from the Norwegian. later edition. c.1920-22. 3 volumes. Brown cloth printed gilt, brown topstain. 8vo. pp. 1043, [5]. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Traces of wear to binding; internally fine. Her renown trilogy of Scandinavia set in the Middle Ages..

Worcester, MA: Self published [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], 2010. Illustrated by Grant Sarber cover. First edition. First Book. Stiff illustrated wraps. Signed by author on half-title. 8vo. pp. 293. Near Fine. Traces of wear. ISBN: 9781466420021..

London: G. Routledge & Co, 1856. Translated by [assumed H. D. (H.W. Dulken)], preface by. Illustrated by Engraved frontis and three additional plates with tissue guards. Later edition. (from the Jugendschriften of Gustav Nieritz). Original royal blind-stamped cloth, gilt decorated spine, topboard gilt print, yellow eps. 16mo (16cm). pp. 192. Good/No jacket, as issued/In mylar protector. Cap and corner chipping, joints rubbed, several scuffs to boards. Ink owner and oval remnant ffep, partial bookseller ticket front pastedown. Assorted small stains and foxing on 65% of contents (including 3/4 plates), 4 straightened dogears. Hinges tight with a bright spine. Appropriate juvenile historical fiction reading copy..

Paris: Calmann-Levy, n.d. Illustrated by Color series cover, Lobel Riche b&w frontis and text. Nouvelle Collection Illustree No. 11. Illustrated tan cloth. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 124, [4] Ads. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Ink owner 1910..

Paris: Le Livre de Demain, Fayard, 1933. Illustrated by 32 bois originaux de Claudel (woodcuts). Yellow illustrated wraps, unopened, uncut. Cr.4to. pp. 126, [2] colophon. Very Good. Archival spine reinforcement and repair; most sections unopened..

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1899. Illustrated by b&w frontis and illustrated title with 6 additional plates. First thus edition. c.1894 Ladies Home Journal. Decorated green cloth in tan, red, gilt and green. 16mo (16cm). pp. 154, [30] Ads. Very Good+/No jacket, as issued. Light cover soil, quill owner and date, foxing starting..

MŸnchen: Hans von Weber, 1919/20. Illustrated by Kšnig b&w line drawings in text. First thus edition. c.1826/7. 2 volumes. Burgundy marbled paper covered boards with top board and spine paper titles in slip cases. 12mo (20cm). pp. 209, [3] blank; . Near Fine/No jacket, as issued/Very Good. Lightly sunned spines, 1/8 corners worn, overall page toning in sunned and rubbed slip cases (one small joint tear) with added paper labels. Memoirs of Beelzebub in old German font finished in two parts..

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1970). First edition. Taupe boards, quarter tan cloth, brown spine flash printed gilt and red. Signed by author on ffep. in navy felt-tip pen. Demy 8vo. pp. 794. Very Good/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Traces of wear to edges and corners of binding, bright jacket with faint rear dampstain along bottom, some edgewear and gloss separation chip through one layer at bottom of front hinge. First in the Houston series of six..

New York: American Tract Society, (1852). Illustrated by BW tissue frontis. First edition. Original Blind-stamped cloth. 16mo (16cm). pp. 78. Very Good. Foxing starting, faded cloth binding..

Konstanz (Constance): Buch- und Kunstverlag (Book and Art Publisher) Carl Hirsch A. G., (1924). Illustrated by Color frontis and one plate (H.K.T.). Assumed first edition. Cloth backed paper covered boards, cover pictorial paste-on, purple end papers. Cr.8vo. pp. 64. About Very Good. Top board appears to be stained with sprayed ink; pages toned internally; short edge tear to rear end paper. "Man proposes and God disposes". Contents: Des Majors Schnupftabaksdose, Grossmutters Osterbotschaft, Marjories Dankfest, Eine Sommersrische in cool breeze. One of a curious series of moral tales (shorts) in German (Fraktur)..