Search Results: Titles starting with A from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

London: William Heinemann. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. c.1916. Limited Signed Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Tail fore corners bumped, some light rubbing at the hinges, light overall foxing to the free endpapers with a bit on the pastedowns, light dampstain at the tail of the front free endpaper and the next two leaves, a sliver of unobtrusive foxing along the fore edge of numerous pages. Light scuffing to the cloth of the rear cover. The slipcase has light rubbing to all edges, with wear to the head and tail of the leather.; These 13 collected tales represent the traditions of the Allied nations of World War I and, arguably, amount to uplifting, positive propaganda, possibly for the young and most certainly for their parents. English, "Scotch," Welsh, Irish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Siberian, and Belgian folk tales and "fairy" tales recount the meek besting the mighty and both people and the supernaturals working toward the common good.… Read More

Tavares, FL: SPS Publications. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. Faintest scuffing to covers from shelving. ; Sourced from personal correspondence, records, and interviews with those involved with Roycroft, this is a biography of both Elbert and Alice Hubbard. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founded The Roycroft Shops, based on his version of the European Arts and Crafts movement. Roycroft ultimately became an artisan community based on hand crafts and publishing, with Elbert writing and lecturing to capitalize the business. Hubbard's second wife Alice Hubbard (1861-1915) was profoundly influential in Elbert's pursuits, wrote books that Roycroft published, and directed and managed much of the business of Roycroft. This book covers both positives and negatives in the Hubbard's mutually-supportive relationship, as they lived and worked together before their deaths in the 1915 sinking of the S. S. Lusitania. Foreword by Elbert "Bert" Hubbard II, son of Elbert… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Slight rub to spine tail. Faintest marring to the surface of the paper belly band.; This veteran cartoonist's first graphic novel is Asterios Polyp's "...search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions." It's his life presented in graphic fashion. The design and illustration reinforce and enhance, but never overwhelm the story that stands on its own as well-wrought fiction. Asterios Polyp is a middle-aged, barely successful architect, teacher, aesthete, and womanizer, whose New York City life falls apart. He moves to a small town where we follow the flowchart of his life, with side trips into philosophy, morality, religion, his identical twin Aristophanes who died at birth, and his self-examination. It's a deceptively simple story, a challenging read at times, and has a powerful ending. Author and illustrator David Mazzucchelli's… Read More

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Lacks the slipcase. Volume I: Very short closed tear adjacent to the head of the dust jacket.; This 2-volume set presents 197 full-page plates showing poetry in manuscript by 146 English authors from the 14th to 20th centuries. Manuscript examples from Butler, Dryden, Keats, Milton, Swift, Thomas, Yeats, and 139 others. The manuscript plates are printed on the recto of pages and each facing page includes a detailed explanation of the poem and poet, with a transcript of the manuscript poem. Viewed chronologically, the varied styles of printing and cursive describe the evolution of English handwriting over 6 Centuries. These is set 1,355 of a limited edition of 1,500. The 1st English edition. Compiled and Edited by P. J. Croft with his Acknowledgements, Introduction, Notes on the Transcripts, Table of Manuscript Locations. Commentary and Transcripts. Croft was a long-time manuscript… Read More