Search Results: Authors starting with I from Bird's Books

London: William Heinemann, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, green cloth boards with label on spine. 180pp. Marbled endpapers with some discolouration. Nice and clean inside.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889. Hardcover. Good. Kate Greenaway. First edition. Small 4to. Illustrated paper covered boards. Boards darkened with age, loss of paper to spine, chipping etc. 48pp illustrated with 12 coloured plates by Kate Greenaway engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. A story of a toddler and his court of puppies, toys and family, who wanders off, but is found and all is forgiven. Undated circa 1889.

Frederick Warne & Co, London and New York, 1889. Special Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Frederick Warne & Co, London and New York, 1889. Special Edition . Poor. 8 vo, original calf binding with gilt titles on spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Spine & front board detached. Xxiii + 520pp with 18 illustrations and portrait frontispiece. Contemporary name on title page. Ghost stories, legends etc. Ex reference library with dedication & decorative bookplate on front pastedown & endpapers, handwritten reference on endpapers. No other library markings, inner book is clean & in generally good/very good condition.***Over 1kg & may require extra overseas postage.***

London: J. M. Dent, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Adrien De Friston. 8vo, blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and vignette on front. Xiv + 368pp fully illustrated with 28 drawings in pen and ink by Adrien De Friston and many contemporary portraits. Very nice copy with minor edge wear, clean inside with a little age toning to page edges and endpapers. Cellini was a noted goldsmith, sculptor and author, born in Florence, Italy in the 16th century.

London: James Carpenter, London, 1836. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. James Carpenter, London, 1836. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. Xii + 27 pp plus engraved frontis & 74 engraved plates. Brief summary of each work from various Italian artists such as Dominichino, Julio Romano, Nicholos Poussin, Giorgione, Caracci, Titian, Raffaelle, Correggio, Paul Veronese, Albano, Rubens, Da Vinci, Reni et al. Library rebound in blue cloth over board with gilt lettering. Bookplates and stamps to front and rear endpapers, stamps also on reverse of each plate. Plates generally nice and clean. ***** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Good. - An Education in the Twenties -. First edition and a rare signed copy. Gift dedication on front endpaper to his friend Jeremy signed by Isherwood and dated May 1961. 8vo, blue cloth boards with black titles on spine. 312pp illustrated with frontis portrait of Isherwood in 1921. Tear to spine at front board and some edge wear. Inner book very good and clean.