Search Results: Authors starting with T from Nudelman Rare Books

Roma: Casa Editrice Vallardi, 1913. First edition. First edition. Original printed paper wraps. Translations of poems by DGR. Scarce. Some wrinkling and discoloration of spine, very good.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1914. First Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's gilt blue fine woven cloth. With the bookplate of "Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet." Preface by W. B. Yeats. Fine copy.

London: Rest Fenner, 1818. First edition. First edition. Contemporary three-quarter polished black calf, marbled boards and endpapers. 194pp. Engraved frontispiece, "Well Do I Remember..." Anne C. Morrel, well-known collector's copy with her bookplate. With nice contemporary presentation inscription last page "Louisa H. A. Jones, from her dear papa, Christmas..." Calf rubbed, occasional wear.

London: Printed for Darton and Harvey by W. Darton, and Joseph and James Harvey, 1809. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Two separate titles bound contemporaneously. The excessively rare and important "Rural Scenes," the first book by Jane and Ann Taylor, few if any copies sold of the first edition (i.e. 1805) in recent memory, and few held in institutions. Three-quarter light tan polished calf, black calf label on gilt spine, early marbled boards, endsheets. "Rural Scenes," 64pp., 32 plates with superb woodcut engravings; "City Scenes," 76pp., 36 plates with exquisite woodcut engravings. A wonderfully preserved, clean, tight and near fine copy internally. edge-wear to calf. A rare survival indeed.

Amsterdam: S. L. Van Looy, 1913. First edition. First edition. Original publisher's pictorial paper covered boards with green designs over beige, that open up into the form of a folding folder. 36 superb and highly decorative color plates comprising highly stylized and graphically pleasing studies on form, geometry and color of leaf patterns, blossoms, etc. in light green, ochre, red, dark brown and other colors. Extremely attractive and evocative of both Art Nouveau as well as Secessionist design elements. Near fine, with slight cover soiling. Very scarce.

ALS from E. T. Reed, artist, to John Tenniel, 2+ pp., He sends figures gathered by his father's secretary for the Mediterranean Fleets. "My dear Tenniel, Following are the figures gathered by my father's secretary after great difficulties. The French & Russian were most difficult to ascertain exactly, he says." List of figures given. "Whether the Black Sea ships should be included and or not I can hardly say.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1862. First edition. First edition. First edition. Folio. Superbly bound in full cherry red morocco with attractive rectilinear gilt-ruled frames and blossom motifs at four corners on both covers, very ornate gilt leather doublures, watered silk fly-leaves. Each page is a tissue-guarded engraved cartoon with titles and captions covering England and the USA from 1859-1862. Rebacked with original spine remounted. Wear to corners, spine, else very good and tight.

A fascinating manuscript poem written by Frederick Tennyson, brother of Alfred Tennyson, of a poem by Alfred. The poem was originally wedded to a copy of Frederick Tennyson's "Days and Hours," (1854) and presented to "Charles F. Goss from his pal, A Tennyson," but now stands alone. A few lines: "Most dignified Flunkey beware of the hour/ When Davy shall ask thee with manner so sour,/ If yet thou hast washed with the ordered soft soap/ For if not, you ought to be whipped with a rope..." 16 lines in total, followed by "Alf. Tennyson/ Poet Laureate." A rare survival indeed.

London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1864. First edition. First edition. Bound in superb Art Nouveau style binding (ca. 1910) in full green morocco with lavish gilt stamped design on both covers and spine using tools that lay down thick gilt area, especially on leaves and petals, with onlaid red morocco in blossoms and pleasing gilt fillet geometric shapes leaving negative space. Double stipple borders on dentelles, marbled endleaves. With a clipped signature of Tennyson affixed to the front free fly. Bookplate of Geo. A. Zabriskie, a noted collector of the period, appears on front pastedown. A most attractive and well-executed binding on a rather scarce first edition Tennyson. Fine.

London: Edward Moxon, 1845. Third edition. Third edition. Two volumes. Original green cloth with ornate blind-stamped designs on covers and spines. Gilt lettering on spines. A fine copy of the Third Edition. Scarce in this condition.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1902. Thick octavo. 7 1/2 x 5 x 2 inches. A sumptuous and visually pleasing binding by Alice Pattinson, a Douglas Cockerell student and one of the most accomplished women binders working early in the century. Bound in full crimson crushed morocco with striking gilt-tooled petal, leaf and vine design surrounding a center double fillet ruled open rectangle on both covers and spine. Wide dentelles, with triple fillet gilt ruling. AEG. A fine copy of an excellent Pattinson binding.

Two pages on large 12mo mourning stationary on Tennysonís ìAldworthî stationary. To author Francis Overend White. [Printed} Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey. ìJuly 2/86 Lord Tennyson begs to thank Mr. White for his kind letter. He could have much pleasure in possessing Archbishop Tenisonís Life: and is grateful to Mr. White for the thought of sending it to him. Lord Tennyson would be delighted to give Mr. White an order to see the portrait at [Punninpond??] if he feels inclined to go and see it at any time.î Together with an unrelated empty envelope addressed in Tennysonís hand: ìHer Royal Higness/ The Crown Princess of Prussia & Pfse Royals/ Osborne/ Tennyson.î.

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. Original decorative vellum spine, cloth boards. With a superb vertical fore-edge painting by Martin Frost after Edward Burne-Jones famous painting, "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid." Monogrammed by Frost, premier fore-edge painter, with his authenticity ticket tipped in.

London: Moxon, 1866. arthur hughes. First Illustrated Edition. Frontispiece portrait by Thomas Woolner and 26 superb wood engravings by ARTHUR HUGHES. Original blue cloth with magnificent gilt stamped design on both covers and spine. Royal 8vo, beveled edges, 81pp on thick card paper. Expertly re-cased with almost no signs of repair. Spine sl. darkened. Occasional foxing, mostly to one tissue guard, internally clean and bright. Blue cloth (versus green cloth variant) is considered the rarer state. Fredeman 93.5.

London: Hacon & Ricketts, 1900. First edition thus. First edition thus. Beige smooth cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 320 copies. Full-page decorative title-page, initials and flourishes throughout by Charles Rickets. Near fine. Housed in superb marbled paper covered boards slipcase with matching cloth folders.

London; London: Effingham Wilson; Edward Moxon, 1833. First editions. First editions. Charles Merivale's Copies, signed by him on both volumes contemporaneously. Similarly bound in 19th Century wavy-grained maroon polished calf, ornate gilt border designs on both covers, morocco labels on spines, four bands with blind-stamped designs. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, with first issue error, on page 91 (mis-numbered as "19"). 154pp. with errata slip at end and no ads. Poems with "Ouverie" Street imprint on verso of title-page. A matching set handsomely bound with marbled edges on all three sides and marbled endpapers. Both with contemporaneous inscriptions, 1830 and 1833 by Merivale, noted English historian and churchman and main founder and promoter of the famed "Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race" which took place at Henley n 1829. His principal work, "A History of the Romans Under the Empire," was eight volumes 1850-1862. Poems with one thin peeling of leather about 2" long, else both very good or better.

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First American edition. First American edition. Publishers fine pebbled cloth with gilt vignette on cover, gilt lettering on spine. 284pp. Top of spine frayed, else very good.

London: Day & Son, 1861. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Publisher's green pebbled and embossed cloth with near all-over intricate gilt-stamped floral design on cover by John Leighton, gilt spine. With 22 superb tissue-guarded color plates comprised lavishly illuminate border work, illustration and typography, by Mrs. W. H. Harley. Printed on one side only, interleaved with tissue. Sticker on rear pastedown, "Bound by Leighton Son & Hodge." "H. G. Goodday" [Horatio George] copy, with his signature. Front cover slightly stained and showing wear, internally very good with slight foxing to some tissue guards.

London: Macmillan, 1894. First edition thus. First edition thus. Attractively bound in full crushed maroon morocco with central armorial gilt design on both covers, five raised bands on spine with lettering in Arts and Crafts motif. With a gorgeous fore-edge painting by Martin Frost of "The Creation," by Edward Burne-Jones and a handwritten note by Frost regarding the painting. Book and fore-edge are fine. A truly exquisite Pre-Raphaelite fore-edge painting.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. First edition. First edition. Superbly bound c. 1900 by Bradsteet's of New York (signed with an ink pallet on front endleaf) in full brown morocco with elaborate bold gilt blocked floral and quatrefoil centerpiece design on both covers, elaborate gilt-tooled spine. The name "Dr. Henry M. Garsson" appears in gilt at the bottom right front cover, gilt dentelles. First issue point of p.91 mis-numbered as "19." Also with the scarce errata leaf and even scarcer two-page advertisement at end. "Carcanet" is spelled correctly (second state point). This is Tennyson's first regularly published book. Bradstreet's was a very well-respected binder and received an 'honorable mention' in de Bois's "Historical Essay on Art of Bookbinding" (1883)/ Henry Garsson founded a munitions contracting business in 1941, and, interesting, after the war, was found guilty of defrauding the U. S. government and was imprisoned. Fine.