Search Results: Titles starting with A from Thorn Books

(Tacámbaro, Michoacán): n.p., 2015. Limited edition. Broadside. Fine. Broadside, 20 by 26 inches printed in black and red with Artemio's linocuts illustrating the 29 letters of the Spanish alphabet. Here are Zorro, Vaca, Quetzal; Ojo, Lluvia, Libro; Estrella, Chapulín, Armadillo. (The images favor animals.) Finely printed on heavy laid stock. One of 60 numbered copies. Signed by Artemio at the bottom, and followed by Artemio's blindstamped hand mark. A fine copy, suitable for framing. In Spanish. .

London: Printed for W. DIckinson, et al., 1787. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Henry William Bunbury. Folio. vi,(3),vi-xx,38pp. Eleven pates plus frontispiece: full page copper engravings by Bunbury. Wanting B1 of the prelims, and apparently issued that way, As the ESTC notes, "Possibly deliberately mis-signed in order to support the 'missing' portion of the author's preface - see editor's note." Bound to style in half calf, red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Two signatures have been remargined for strength and without loss; the title page has been mounted and lacks upper and inner margins but also without loss, plates and text occasionally foxed but a very good copy, completely uncut and with wide margins, in a fine binding. Reprinted in 1788, 1791, 1792 and 1796. A sequel, "Annals of Horsemanship", was issued in 1791. "A lively and entertaining jeu d'esprit of the pencil and the pen...." Lowndes, p. 860.

London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from Moscow to China via Siberia in 1654. Wagener traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This account is taken from his diary. He was in China in 1653. The account is quite short. .

London: Printed for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. Extracted from third edition of Churchill's Voyages, II, pp. 699-743. Bound to style with leather spine, marbled paper boards, leather lettering label, gilt. The bottom of the last page has been remargined (margin only, no text loss) else this is a fine copy. Father Borri was one of the earliest missionaries to China. His work is important in that he provides considerable information on the country apart from an account of missionary work. Cox I, p. 323 .

London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1745. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Pp. 373-749 extracted from Volume 6 of Churchill's Voyages, third edition. Engraved and wood illustrations in the text. Bound to style with dark brown quarter leather spine, marbled paper boards, morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the upper board. Portion of lower margin lacking on the final page (not affecting the text), light foxing, else a fine copy. ESTC T97845. .

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thick large 8vo. 703pp followed by the errata page. Publisher' blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and in gilt and black on the upper board. Illustrated with four portraits on steel. Brown coated endpapers. The cloth is rubbed at edges and hinges, and the upper inner hinge is cracked but firm, else this is a very good copy. Chronicles the organization in 1855, the service in Texas to the Canadian River in 1856-1861, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Southern Reconstruction, 1866-1868, Service on the Plains, 1868-1871, Arizona and Apache Campaigns, 1872-1875, and Plains from Texas to Montana, 1875-1883. Howes, P-542. .

London: John Field, 1657. Hardcover. Very good. Three Acts bound as one in 19th century paper over boards, leather label, gilt. Fine copies; the the binding is worn at the upper hinge else is in very good condition., The first Act banned public practice of Catholicism, Catholic priests were killed when captured; Catholic-owned land was confiscated and given to Scottish and English settlers, and Catholic landowners were relocated to Connacht. (Hence the expression attributed to Cromwell: To Connacht or to Hell.) The second Act set forth procedures for soldiers and officers who served in Ireland to recover a "great Arrears of pay". The third Act assessed Ireland the sum of £20,000 for support of the Spanish War, to be levied and paid "in such manner and form as by the Lord Deputy and Council, or any three or more of them shall be Ordered and Directed." Rare .

Santa Fé: The Press at the Panace of the Governors, 2016. First edition. Wraps. Fine. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. (16pp.) Finely printed on handmade Fabriano Umbria by Tom Leech, James Bourland and Caleb Orega. Cover paper came form Saint-Armand in Montreal. Decorated endpapers. Frontispiece based on a mural in Old Havana. A fine copy. One of 105 numbered copies, signed by the poet on the title p[age.

London: George G. Harrap and Co, Ltd, 1936. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Plates and Decorations by Stephen Gooden.. 4to. Publisher's full cream-colored vellum, gilt spine titles and gilt rules and vignettes on the boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. Finely printed letterpress by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. Copper plates by A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., in London. One of 525 copies on hand-made paper. This is copy number 256, signed by the artist. The boards are yawning a bit as happens with full vellum in a dry climate, and there are a few small faint stains on the endpapers, else this is a fine copy. .

London, New York: Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton Co, 1910. Only edition. Hardcover. Fine. Square 4to. (12)pp. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. Stories of airships told in verse, featuring four full color pop-up scenes; each scene with a pop-up airship on a color background drawing. Upper cover with a color drawing of an army airship rounding St. Paul's Cathedral in London and titles printed in red. A fine copy. Conjectural date range is based on the year of first flight of airship Le Republique, illustrated on page [12], in 1908, and date of inscription on front flyleaf. "No. 3521" on title-page. "Printed in Bavaria" on page [12]. Illustrated with 4 color pop-up pages, each a different blimp or balloon that pops-up as the page is turned. Pictorial cover. Not found in Montanaro .

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1880. Hardcover. Very good. Large thin 4to. Upper board in full color chromolithography; rear board in single color and listing the five books in the Pantomime Series. 10pp of text, with the two remaining blanks serving as front and rear pastedowns. With a full color chromolithographed harlequinade inside with pages of varying sizes which tell the story of Aladdin as described in the text and as a stage production. Light wear to the corners; fingering soil; hinges neatly mended, though there is some partial separation of the inner sections; still a very good copy. Rare. .

Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Ten illustrations housed in a portfolio of cloth spine, decorative paper boards, facsimile of Houser's signature inset on the upper board, tape ties. The colophon is likewise on a folio-sized sheet. The illustrations are selected from four books: "Cochise" (1953), "Blue Canyon Horse", (1954), "The Cave" (1958) and "Desert People" (1962). The illustrations are printed letterpress by the Palace Press on paper handmade by Mark Fredrickson at his Singing River Studio in Santa Fé. One of 50 numbered copies of which this is No. 30.

Teheran: Offset Press and Soroush Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Elephant Folios. The first work is bound in clue cloth, gilt spine title; blindstamping on the boards; blue endpapers. With 34 large mounted full color plates form the 15th century manuscript. Introduction by Basil Gray, who was the former Curator of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. Text in English, French and German. One of 3000 copies. There is alight stain to the botom edge of the textblock not affecting the pages. The cloth is worn at the rear corner, else this is a very good copy. The duatwrapper is worn at the edges and has an inner repair at the rear corner, else is in very good condition. Together with: Tableaus from the Shahnameh of Hakim Abolghasem Ferdowi, Soroush Press, 1990. Black polished leather spine, gilt; blue cloth boards. Illustrated endpapers. 28 large mounted full color plates of miniatures by Karim Safaee with facing calligraphy by Amir Ahmad Falsafi. Introduction in… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1966. First English edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. 8vo. 188pp. Blue textured paper over boards, gilt spine title. Map of Prydain double page frontispiece. Small bumps on the upper right corner of the upper board and on the spine tip, else a fine copy. The duswrapper is not clipped. There is offset on the rear panel from an early protective covering, faint crease to the upper panel, and some light soil, else the dustwrapper is near fine. The first title in Alexander's acclaimed Prydain Cycle. The American edition of this title was printed in 1964. This first in the series introduces Taran and the oracular pig, Hen Wen, and sets the stage for the Black Cauldron. .

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 539pp. eige buckram block in gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Percy Smith. Ribbon marker. Trace of foxing on the fore edge else this is a fine copy in a very good publisher's slipcase. One of 1025 copies signed by the author and numbered. This is copy 22. .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1912. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Illustrated by Gustave Baumann.. Thin 4to. Unpaginated; (10) plus twelve full page illustrations in colors, cut on wood by Gustave Baumann on rectos with Riley's poems on the opposing pages. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gold on the upper board. A fine, bright copy. The dustwrapper lacks small pieces at the head and tail of the spine else is in very good condition. This is the limited printing for the Rotary Club in blue cloth with the gilt device of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis on the upper board and printed in blue on the dustwrapper. .

New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Illustrated by the author.. Thin folio. (40)pp. Orange cloth printed in dark brown on the spine and the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a fine copy with only a trace of wear and soil. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the folds and edges and is rough along the top else is in very good condition. It is price-clipped. Inscribed by Wolo on the page facing the title page "To Suzanne Burdett" and with an original full color picture of a smiling flower, signed "Wolo" Wolo (Baron Wolff von Falkenstein) was a refugee form Nazi Germany who took up residence in San Francisco where he worked for the Chronicle and developed his superb artistic ability.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1941. First edition. Fine. Hardcover. Thin folio. (40)pp. Orange cloth printed in dark brown on the spine and the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a near fine copy with only a trace of wear and soil. The dustwrapper has a couple of short closed marginal tears, else it is in fine condition. It is not price-clipped. This copy inscribed on the reverse of the dustwrapper with a lovely full color prancing pig bearing a purple tulip and signed 'Wolo '41". Beneath the illustration, in Wolo's calligraphic hand, is the inscription: "To Lambie Taylor from Amanda and Sir Archibald and Wolo." Wolo (Baron Wolff von Falkenstein) was a refugee form Nazi Germany who took up residence in San Francisco where he worked for the Chronicle and developed his superb artistic ability.

London: Vizetelly, 1882. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. Two volumes. Illustrated with nearly 400 engravings. Blue­green cloth blocked in black and gilt, chocolate coated endpapers. Wear to the hinges and edges, inner hinges on Volume I cracked but firm.The inner hinges on volume II have been badly glued at some time. So while the set gives a near very good appearance, the bindings are only good at best.

NY: Banks and Brothers, 1870. New edition. Hardcover. Good. Large thick 8vo. The New and Enlarged Edition. xxiv,800pp. Modern full navy blue polished calf. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; dark red morocco lettering pieces, gilt; marbled endpapers. Old presentation inscription on a preliminary blank from George Denis of the Los Angeles firm of Denis & Loewenthal. Text block very good; binding fine. The foremost American treatise in Admiralty Law by a leader of the admiralty bar and the last edition to appear in Benedict's lifetime.