Softcover. NY, Collins Design, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 528 pages. 500 Essential Graphic Novels is an all-in-one guide to this exciting form of visual literature. Including more than 350 authors and 400 artists, this lush volume contains an essential mix of some of the finest visually-stunning stories of our time. From politically-charged non-fiction sagas to imaginative fantasy tales, this ultimate guide has something to satisfy everyone's taste. The first of its kind, this book focuses on each graphic novel separately, honing in on art technique, style and prose, plus an age rating system so parents will know what is suitable for their children. Chapters are divided by genre, complete with individual plot synopses and star-scaled reviews for each book, providing the reader with a concise and balanced understanding of today's best graphic novels.
NY, The Brick Row Book Shop, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 1/4 ivory ribbed cloth, marbled paper covered boards with paper title labels mounted on upper front cover and upper spine. 73 pages. INSCRIBED TO COL. RALPH ISHAM BY EDITOR on the front fly leaf. Also laid-in: a Western Union telegram to recipient about purchasing books in London from Balderston. Isham was a avid book collector, his bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. Boston, G K Hall & Co, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 585 pages. Lists and provides the reader with descriptions of 1440 titles, 121 authors, with a brief plot summary. If you love the classic English mystery novels of the first half of the 20th century, this is a great book to have on your shelf. It chronicles all of the authors, novels and lead characters from these books. Special features include a list of 100 classics of the genre, explanations and charts of England's Police and class system, and maps of Great Britan and Ireland. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, otherwise clean.
Softcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. Color illustrations throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. Grantsville, Md., Hobby House Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. New York , R.R. Browker Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 290 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Ohio, Kent State University Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,115 pages, cream cloth with black lettering on spine.
Hardcover. MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear and sunning and a small sticker-stain to front cover.
Dubuque IA, William C. Brown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, no dj issued. There are more than 1,300 baseball fiction titles listed in this bibliography. You can find the books by the Author's Name Alphabetically, Chronologically from 1868 to 1990, Alphabetically by Title, By Adult or Juvenile Mysteries, Books About Integration and Race, Books About Women, Girls, and the Game, and Books About Major League Teams. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Phiadelphia, University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a peach-colored dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 116 pages with a reproduction of a Morley inscription as frontispiece. The fifth in the series of Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 277 pages. Dust jacket with extensive ripping and wear. Covered in mylar for protection. Dark red boards with gilt title to spine. Red staining to top edge. Soiling to ell edges. Overall, a tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages, Preface by Farrell. Green cloth binding with gilt on spine. Some light pencil marks in margins, on rear end papers.
Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 201 pages, b&w illustrations. Dark red cloth with edgeworn dust jacket, some light pencil notes in preface and rear endpapers. Publisher's review slip laid in.
Softcover. Paducah, KY, Collector Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers and light wear to edges of spine.
Hardcover. Taunton, MA, William S. Sullwold, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Black & white illust. 111 pages., end paper map. With an extensive bibliography by Ralph M. Titcomb.
Softcover. San Francisco, Argonaut Book Shop, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled wrappers, 48 pages. A Selection of Vintage Photographs Original Art and Related Material. As a photographer, Carl Moon photographed a total of twenty-nine tribes and villages. He studied the Indian from all sides and at close range. He lived in his camps and villages, became his friend and recorded a way of life that is no more. This catalog details 103 items of his work.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 351 pages including index. A list of writing relating to Charles Dickens and his works 1836-1944. A very useful bibliographic reference for Dickensiana.
Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth stamped with a wolf and rattler in silver on front cover and lettered in silver on spine. Fine/pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed). Half folio. Illustrated Contains articles and check lists on, amongst many, Peter Hurd, N. C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, Maynard Dixon, Edward Borein and Will James.
Hardcover. Cedar Grove NJ/UK, Dar-Web/John Sherratt & Son, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
New York, Collectors Editions Ltd., reprint , nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 375 pages. Corners lightly bumped. Entries comprise 863 illustrated books and 1251 caricatures and separate prints. Bibliographic collations are provided for the illustrated books with some annotations. Prints are arranged by title with imprints noted, a statement of any signature, and with a short description.
Hardcover. London, Metro Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages, 8 pages of color photos. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 86 pages. A bibliography of the publications of mystery writer Kenneth Millar who later wrote as Ross MacDonald. Illustrated with photographs that reproduce title pages of Macdonald's books. An excellent and informative introduction by Kenneth Millar. SIGNED BY BRUCCOLI on title page. Issued without a dust jacket. No names, writing, or marks in book.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 721 pages.; 144, playes, 133 b/w, 11 color. Approximately 500 biographical listings of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographers; Includes appendix of museums and galleries in the US.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 157 pages. A study of the popular English children's writer, Mrs Sherwood, 1775-1851 considering her style, writings, relations with publishers, etc. Includes reprints of The little woodman and his dog Caesar originally published: London, Houlston, 1850 and Soffrona and her cat Muff originally published: Wellington, Salop, Houlston, 1828. Includes a 38 page bibliography. "No study of nineteenth - century children's books in England can afford to ignore Mrs. Sherwood. She produced over four hundred different titles - books, tales, tracts, texts, magazines, articles in periodicals, cbapbooks, and Sunday School rewards. There is evidence that the writings of her Evangelical period, in particular, had a remarkable influence upon Victorian literature for the young.
Hardcover. Nantucket MA, Tetaukimmo Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards stamped in black with black cloth spine that has gilt title. 225 pages, 2 fold-out maps. A detailed study of writings. maps and other material concerning Nantucket Island. Still the essential resource for books about Nantucket and its history. It reprints selections of rare texts and provides a bibliography of printed materials.Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Bowling Green Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt medallion on upper cover, gilt-lettered on spine. limited to 1000 copies, this one of 750 for sale, this copy #62 and so attested to in ms. on the copyright-page by Edward Stern & Co., Inc. 368 pages, color frontispiece portrait, 87 reproductions of title pages, letters, portraits, etc. Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Well annotated, with full collations, descriptions, pagination, etc. This is the standard Oliver Goldsmith bibliography, but it can be read for enjoyment as well as for reference. Has much on Samuel Johnson. Previous owner's commentary on rear fly leaf, rear hinge cracked.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Boatner Norton Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated with black & white examples of works by Robert Crumb - 4 pages in full color.
Hardcover. Hong Kong, Chinese University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 598 pages, errata slip laid in. Spine slightly cocked, light shelfwear.
Hardcover. Oak Knoll Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 559 pages. First comprehensive bio-bibliography of one of the most loved children's book authors and illustrators in America and around the world. Not only does this book describe Tudor's sixty-year career, but also readers will enjoy the poignant stories about Tudor written by her two daughters, Bethany and Efner, and her editors, Patricia Gauch and Dorothy Haas. The daughter of naval architect, W. Starling Burgess, and portrait painter, Rosamond Tudor, Tasha Tudor, as a child, was greatly influenced by her father's engineering background and her mother's artistic life. She became particularly fascinated by life in the 1830's, which inspires her art, writing, and her own life. From 1938 onward, Tudor's children's books captivated a wide audience. Her fans are still intrigued by her magical stories and her romantic illustration of New England's countryside, drawn from her own experiences of family life. Her work is published in more than 90 books, which have been reprinted and republished many times. Through her eighties, Tudor remained active in publishing, meeting her fans, and autographing her books. In loving tribute, this work is illustrated with many drawings by Tudor's daughter, Bethany, as well as rare early photos of Tudor as a young woman, by Nell Dorr, and 16 pages of color photos of Tudor's book covers. The bibliography includes every known book illustrated and/or written by Tudor, including those published in the first half of 1998.
Hardcover. New Castle DE, Oak Knoll Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust wrapper. The Hares have collected and researched Tudor's works for over 15 years, and have worked closely with her two daughters, who granted them access to surviving publisher files and records at the Library of Congress. This work catalogs all of Tudor's work as well as those of her talented daughters and her husband. 559 pages includes index, bibliography, B&W and color plates.
Hardcover. Winchester UK, St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages. Mary Elliott (then Mary Belson) began writing for children in 1809, at a time when increasing literacy and wealth and more progressive understanding of the reading needs of children were creating a growing demand for more and more books for young people. Beginning with two books in verse - one a lively tale about town and country mice, the other, an anthology including many of her own poems - she went on to produce a stream of books on a variety of subjects. Her stories, some eventful and exciting, were mostly about real children learning to tackle the everyday circumstances and difficulties which they encountered in the world around them. These books were made all the more attractive by her publisher, William Darton, who provided them with entertaining illustrations, many of them interesting today for their depiction of contemporary scenes and fashions. Mary Elliott's books soon spread across the Atlantic, and American publishers reissued many of them, sometimes adapting the text to local circumstances. Although her books are now forgotten, they cannot be disregarded by researchers into the history of childhood and of children's literature. This bibliography contains about 470 entries. Clean.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. MI, Clarke Historical Library, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover with orange fabric covers. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbign to edges. Black and white pictures throughout.
Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Dartmouth College of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Grey cloth covers with silver titles to cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Oak Knoll Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, no dj issued. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of book, magazine, and graphic design during the Art Nouveau period. This extensive work also contains a biography of Bradley, a bibliography, and author, title, and publisher indices.
Softcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. Many color plates throughout. A nice copy. This book celebrates the art as well as the poetry of the great English poet William Blake. The Huntington Library has the most extensive collection of Blake's artwork in the world.
Hardcover. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth. No dust jacket as issued. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Portsmouth, NH, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 93 pages, with illustrations. Spotless and tight copy, with dust jacket. "A Collection with Comments" A bibliography based on the collection of Joyce Hanrahan for over 30 years, and additions she has seen. Listings include points for first editions, and price ranges. Sections on ephemera, periodicals, visuals and posters.
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