Resultados de búsqueda: 1890's from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

London: Constable & Co., Ltd, 1933. First edition. 8vo., light green wrappers, pp. viii, 85. Small Australian bookseller's label, foxing to page edges, light dust soiling to covers. A very good copy..

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. First edition. A catalogue published in conjunction with the 1966 Victoria & Albert exhibition. Wrappers, 8vo., 18pp., of text and 50 black and white illustrations. Name neatly written on half-title, light soiling to covers, else a very good copy. Victoria and Albert Large Picture Book Number 32. Lasner 196A..

The Sheiling, Silverdale, nr. Carnforth, 6th June,. No Binding. Very Good. Gordon Bottomley, English poet and dramatist, author of numerous verse dramas with themes inspired by Celtic and northern legend. President of the Scottish Community Drama Association and Vice President of the British Drama League. 7" x 5.25" leaf, written both sides. To Mrs. Whale, regarding a Prize which Bottomley has been awarded. Bottomley discusses health matters and the difficulty of making travel plans to the ceremony. He mentions his play "Gruach", Mme de. Broutelles, and a portrait. About 400 words in the author's attractive hand. Very good condition.

The Sheiling, Silverdale, nr. Carnforth, [N.d].. No Binding. Very Good. Gordon Bottomley, 1874-1948, English poet and dramatist, author of numerous verse dramas with themes inspired by Celtic and northern legend. President of the Scottish Community Drama Association and Vice President of the British Drama League. 7" x 5.25" leaf, written both sides, just shy of 300 words. To [William] Aiken, director of the Tate Gallery [from 1917-30], "You have made the Tate a treasure-house to me in many ways; but my thoughts return to it particularly often just now on account of your 60's exhibition, for all the passions of my youth are focused there, and even in memory the spectacle is incomparable. I feel that those years are, so far, the golden time English art - such a time as the years just four hundred years before in Florence - and that that unique efforescence can never be too much prized. Your instinct for marshalling its manifestations must come out of an inspiration not unlike the… Leer más

Toronto: George N. Morang, 1898. First Canadian edition. 8vo., tan decorated cloth, pp.159; attractively decorated throughout in orange by the noted poster artist of the American 1890s. Front hinge cracked, spine is considerably darkened with loss at crown. A good copy of an attractive book..

New York: George Braziller, (1967). First American edition. Near fine in dust jacket (a bit rubbed along the spine)..

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896. First American edition. Small quarto, rose cloth, with elaborate pictorial stamping in the art nouveau style, pp. xii, 224. With 25 illustrations by Batten, including a photogravure frontispiece. With a section of notes by Jacobs on the historical basis of these legends and tales. Some pages roughly opened with resultant chips and small tears in the margins of some pages, some dustly thumb-marks to pages, covers are lightly soiled, with fraying and baring at the corner tips, and small frays at the spine ends. A nice copy of a beautifully designed 1890s book..

New York; Viking, (1987). First edition. A personal history of Vienese culture in the 1920s. The author studied with architect Josef Hoffmann. Near fine in dust jacket..

London: Jonathan Cape, (1922). First edition. Pale purple cloth, decorated in dark blue and yellow-brown, 8vo., (220)pp. This selection of fairy tales is reprinted from: A Farm in Fairyland (1894), The House of Joy (1895), The Field of Clover (1898), and The Blue Moon (1904). With a frontispiece, thirteen illustrations and a tail-piece by Housman in his typical 1890's style. Bookseller's label on rear paste-down, spine slightly faded, else very good. No dust jacket..

Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1971. First edition. Octavo, silver cloth, pp. xiv, 387; illustrated. Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket [a few small edge tears]. Comes with a mylar dust jacket protector..

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (1967). Unabridged reprint of the revised 1920 edition by John Lane. Quarto, plum cloth. Marillier's text is 15 pages, followed by over 100 plates. Some soiling to front free endpaper, covers show light soiling and wear, else a very good copy, in a worn, chipped dust jacket..

(Madison): University of Wisconsin Press, (1989). First edition, paper issue. Trade paperback format. A history of this significant publishing house, instrumental to the Symbolist and Decadent movements, as well as to the Celtic Revival. With a bibliography of Elkin Mathews imprints 1894-1921. Near fine..

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1896. First American edition. Translated by Barbara Leonora Jones. Very slightly bumped at top corners, else a lovely fine, bright copy..

Chicago: Academy, (1981). First edition. Quarto, blue cloth. pp. ix, 611; illustrated. The story of the Women's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893. Slight foxing to top page edge, else near fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. This book weighs over 1 kg, which may necessitate a request for additional postage, pending on shipping destination and delivery standard required. ..

London: Barrie & Jenkins, (1992). First edition. Slate blue paper-covered boards, 4to., 200pp., illustrated. Fine in dust jacket..

Philadelphia: MacManus, 1984. First edition, 1 of 500 copies. Blue cloth, small 4to., 111pp. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued..

Toronto: Musson Book Company, (1903). First Canadian edition. 8vo., green cloth with attractive art nouveau design in gold and white. Illustrated by Will H. Low, with decorations by Charles L. Linton. Uncommon Canadian issue. Non-authorial inscription and attractive Canadian bookplate (Estelle Allien Holland) on endpapers, light rubbing to upper corners, else near fine..

London:John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. First edition. 19.5 cm x 13 cm, publisher's original light green cloth, top edge gilt, other uncut, pp. 174, (2). Abercrombie's first book, with a brief presentation inscription from fin-de-siecle publisher John Lane to fellow publisher Charles Carrington. Carringtom was a publisher of Wilde, his catalogue also included a considerable amount of erotica particularly titles relating to spanking. Scattered foxing especially pronounced at title page, bookseller's ticket on pastedown, else very good. .

[Oxford}: Plantin Press, [1990]. First paperback edition. 8vo., wrappers, pp 472. Light edge wear and creasing to wrappers, else a very good copy..

(London): John Murray, (1988). First edition. Tiny remainder dot to top edge, else a fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket..