Search Results: Authors starting with M from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Paris: Lallve Graveur [1791]. 8vo. [8], xvi, 99 pp., 45 fine copper plates with explanatory text opposite, plus 2 portraits and 2 engraved titles. Large paper copy, 21.2 cm tall. Beautiful nut brown full straight grained morocco binding with a Sotheran's stamp. Gilt ruled lines, and wonderful tooling to boards. All edges gilt. A touch of wear to leather, slight dents to top edge. Scattered light foxing, but very good and clean internally. Vol 1 only. An old pencil note on the endpaper declares this the 1st issue with 'peuvent' on the engraved title. . Very Good. Full Straight-grained Morocco. 1791.

N.p.: Printed Privately 2007. Tall 8vo. This is copy no. 204 of an edition limited to 300 copies signed by the author and illustrator. ix, 92 pp. Quarter dark green cloth over green boards with pictorial onlay to front board. No jacket, as issued. Faint mark to front board. Internally clean. With illustrations by Georgina Warne. . Near Fine. Cloth Spine. Limited Edition. 2007.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer 1867. Small 8vo. 210, [2] pp. Red full morocco with elaborate gilt decoration, raised bands, gilt-stamped devices and lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt - a Riviere binding. Engraved throughout by George Scharf. Ink inscription on ffep., dated May 1867. Rubbing to the extremities and joints which are tender. Foxing to first and last pages, but otherwise internally clean. . Good. Gilt-decorated Morocco. New Edition. 1847.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1952. 8vo. 864 pp., Blue cloth with pictorial dustjacket. Jacket is slightly edgeworn with some sunning to the spine and chipping to the edges. Small stain to the tail of the binding. Internally fresh and bright. Binding firm. First edition thus. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 1952.

London: Phaidon Press Ltd. 1999. 4to. 182 pp. Hardback. In As New condition. Still in shrinkwrap. 9780714838748 . As New. Hardcover. 1999.

Eynsham: Fantasy Press 1954. 8vo. This is copy no. 9 of an edition limited to 150 copies signed by the author. 25 pp. Full cloth with gilt lettering to front boards. In original glassine wrapper, which is chipped & torn. Cloth clean. Internally clean. . Very Good. Cloth. Limited Numbered Edition. 1954.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press 2001. 4to. 160 pp., Hardcover with pictorial jacket. Jacket bright with large patch of loss to the rear. Boards clean and binding firm. Internally clean and bright. Illustrated in both black and white and colour. 0520230493 . Very Good. Hardcover. 2001.

London: Blackie and Son circa 1900. 12mo. iv, 264, [2] pp. Decorative cloth Arts and Crafts binding. Slightly slanted binding in very good condition and bumped corners and spine ends. Foxing to edges and occasionally throughout. FFEP missing. With 4 colour plates and several attractive black-and-white in-text illustrations inside. . Good. Decorative Cloth. 1900.

London: Blackie and Son Limited 1900. 8vo. vi, 378, 32 pp. Original blue cloth with pictorial design in red-brown to front board, and gilt design and lettering to spine. Light wear to extemities and light rubbing to boards and spine. Slight spine lean and a few splits internally, though all together. Ink inscription opposite half-title. Generally internally clean. 75 in-text black & white illustrations by Arthur Hughes, with a frontispiece and the cover design by Laurence Housman. . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1900.

London: J. M. Dent and Sons 1956. 8vo.Illustrated. First published in 1949, this is the 1956 reprint. 238 pp. Cream and purple illustrated cloth with blue lettering to spine and front cover, in a dust jacket. Some bumping to spine ends. Rubbing to edges of jacket and a small closed tear to back panel. With illustrated endpapers, black-and-white illustrations and colour plates. Binding designed by Alexander H. Williamson, complete with matching endpapers. Part of the 'Children's Illustrated Classics' series. . Very Good. Illustrated Boards. Reprint. 1956.

London: Edward Arnold 1897. 8vo. vi, 349pp, illustrated in b/w, some foxing to pages and fading to spine cloth. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First Edition. 1897.

London: Henry Sotheran & Co. 1899. Folio. Limited edition. This is copy no. 171 of 300 copies for Guarantors signed by the author Reginald J. Macdonald. xx, 131 pp. Original quarter white cloth over blue paper-covered printed boards. Bevelled edges. Rubbing & wear to corners and slight marks to boards. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Spotting to prelims. Tissue-guarded colour frontis and 24 additional full-page tissue-guarded colour plates. Additional in-text illustrations. Plates complete. List of subscribers and guarantors at rear. Errata slip tipped-in. Binding firm. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Hardback. Limited Numbered Edition. 1899.

London: Longman, Orme, and Co. 1840. 8vo. (vi), viii, 133, (1) pp. Contemporary blind-stamped red cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Spine slightly faded. Slight foxing. Partially uncut. With three full-page hand-coloured plates. Colours bright. . Very Good. Blind-stamped Cloth. 1840.

London and Oxford: Alistair McAlpine / Oxford University Press 1989. 4to.Illustrated. 432 pp., Green gilt lettered cloth binding with pictorial dustjacket. Jacket bright with minor scuffing. Boards clean and binding firm. Internally clean and illustrated throughout in black and white and with 71 colour plates. 0199201714 . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1989.

London: Hutchinson & Co. ca. 1920. Small 4to.Illustrated. xii, 326 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. With 20 coloured plates and 6 pencil drawings by the author. Fading and rubbing around the spine and edges. Cloth slightly loose and stained at spine. Internally clean. From the library of actor Richard Briers, with his ink inscription to first free endpaper. . Good. Cloth. 1920.

Prague: Artia Graphic Design 1965. 4to. English language. 82 pp. Decorative hardback in decorative slipcase. Slipcase's corners and edges worn. A couple of marks to boards. Internally clean. With black & white illustrations by Jan Zrzavy. Edith Pargeter's English translation of Czech Romantic poem Maj by Karel Hynek Macha. . Very Good. Decorated Boards. 1965.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1915. Small 8vo. 86 pp., in the original blue boards (with publisher's adverts on the rear). Minor marks to the boards, with splits to the spine and slight loss to the ends. Binding firm with some spotting. Transfer of cello tape to the endpapers. The author, born Arthur Llewelyn Jones in Caerleon, was a mystic, supernaturalist and psychogeographer. The text details the origin of the Legend of the Angels of Mons and was written by Machen as a short piece of fiction. However it soon became accepted as fact and folklore. . Very Good. Decorative Boards. First Edition. 1915.

London: Philip Allan & Co. 1925. Small 8vo. First Edition thus. xi, 163 pp. Recently rebound in 1/4 morocco binding with gilt lettering and devices to spine. Minor spotting to edges of text block, with slight denting along the fore-edge. Boards clean and gilt bright. Light scattered foxing. . Near Fine. 1/4 Morocco. First Edition Thus. 1925.

London: John Macqueen [1902]. 8vo.Illustrated. xii, 300 pp. Publisher's original pictorial cloth. Spine is sunned with slight wear to the spine ends and rubbing to the extremities. A well-read copy, bright and clean internally with the occasional scuff to pages. Illustrations throughout by Tom Browne depicting the characters and nightlife of London. . Very Good. Pictorial Cloth. First Edition. 1902.

London: Oxford University Press 1967. Small 8vo. 76 pp., Hardcover with dustjacket. Slight marks to the jacket and small split to the hinge of the front flap. Boards clean with minor sunning to the spine end. Binding firm and internally fresh. Presentation copy to David Shapiro of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, with inscription and owner's name to the front endpaper. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1967.