Search Results: Titles starting with V from Thorn Books

London: John Murray, 1897. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. xiv,(ii),212pp. Illustrated with drawings and maps throghout and, at the end, the folding plate of the glacier, the map of the Matterhorn, and the large folding map of the Valley. The latter map has been reinforced at the folds and has a few marginal chips, and two slivers of loss at folds. Contemporary binding of black half leather rebacked at an early date retaining the original gilt title from the spine; boards are covered in bookcloth of black and silver with embossed leaves and tendrils; patterned endpapers. Old tape repair to the inner hinges, ownership bookplate on the front pastedown, else a very good copy. The bookplate is that of Ridgely B. Warfield.

London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. xxv,(1),27-84pp. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones' Third Issue. Half-title is present. The 'Extract', pp. 73-84, is present. Both Extracts are sometimes attributed to John Mitford. Nicely bound to style in quarter calf, spine gilt; leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards, vellum tips. A fine copy. This title has a curious bibliographic history, with first issues attributing authorship to Lord Byron, then removing Byron's name, then this issue (Viets IV), with gathering 'A' reset to 23 lines to account for the removal of a slur on Mary Godwin and Jane Clermont and with 'lmost' on page 36. Earlier issues are nearly unavailable, making this essentially the earliest printing obtainable of the first book on vampires. See Viets in PBSA LXIII (1969), 83-103.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 4tp. xviii, 231, (1) pp. Red brown cloth blocked in black, white and gilt. Illustrated with 80 photogravures illustrating Indian chiefs and Indian life. With the signature of Axel Lindegard (1862-1945) on the front free endpaper. A fine copy. .

London: George G. Harrap, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Arthur Rackham. Full vellum, gilt. No. 447 of 775 copies signed by Rackham. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 12 mounted color plates. Boards yawning slightly, light soil, else a fine copy. Very slight soil else a fine copy. Latimore & Haskell, p. 65.

Bedfird Oark: Caradic Press, 1903. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. (4), 211, (2)pp. Finely printed in red and black throughout. Full limp vellum, printed spine title. Frontispiece engraving signed by the artist and printer, Harry George Webb. Partially unopened. A fine copy. One of 360 copies on paper; this is number 42. .

Madrid: Imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1751. Hardcover. Good. Segunda Edición, 4to, (28) 176pp. Errata printed on page (17). Woodcut on p. 70 of the kind of cross on which San Felipe was crucified in Japan. Woodcut chapter heads and tails. 19th cent (?) speckled calf spine, tooled in blind and gilt, leather lettering label, gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. The title page is soiled and has been remargined with slight loss to the corners of the printed boarder; some page corners have been repaired; the final page (index) has been mounted on tissue for strength; a small stamp on the upper right corner of the title, else this is a good copy. Some copies of this have a portrait of San Felipe preceding page 70; this copy is bound without it. Franciscan Friar Philip of Jesus (San Felipe de Jesús), 1542-1597, a native of Mexico City, was traveling from Manila to Mexico to be ordained when his ship was driven by a storm onto the coast of Japan. There he and his… Read More

London: Richard Sare, 1696. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (8),344pp. Full contemporary calf, the spine in five compartments with raised bands, the boards with light blind tooling on the borders. Bound without spine title. Branded ownership initials on the text block edges (WT?) Lacks front free endpaper, last 60pp have light stain on upper corner, else a very good copy. Wing Q202. ESTC R29407.

New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Illustrated by Virginia Gerson.. Thin 4to. Unpaginated (24pp.) Each page with a full page chromolithograph and the famous poem on the facing page. Red cloth spine, glazed pictorial boards, patterned endpapers. Boards scratched & rubbed and worn at edges and especially corners; inner hinges neatly repaired; occasional light fingering soil and offsetting form the plates to the facing text, else a very good copy. Inscription on the front free endpaper dated Chrstmas, 1886. .

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1820. Hardcover. Very good. The third edition. 8vo. 138pp. Illustrated with full page plates, including 12 aquatints which are vividly and magnificently hand-colored. In a contemporary binding of full crimson straight-grain morocco. The spine is in five compartments with raised bands, all intricately tooled in gilt. Gilt and blind rolls border the boards with a gilt vignette of the monastery on the center. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Williams of Blaina Gwent and also the ownership signature of Augustin Williams. Occasional foxing, else a very good copy in a fine binding with lovely illustrations. .

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes. 8vo. (xiii), 528; xi, (1), 610 pp. Full polished calf. Spine in six compartments, gilt, with red and brown lettering labels, gilt; gilt rules on the boards; blind inner dentelles; marbled endpapers and edges. Text illustrations. Light rubbing and aging else a near fine copy. The third edition. Blindstamp on the front free endpaper of J. Galt, Manchester, Bookseller to the Queen.

London: John Murray, 1820. Hardcover. Near fine. The third edition. 8vo. (6),339,(1)pp. Engraved frontispiece of Sir Murray Maxwell, the captain of the Alceste. Illustrated with six handcolored full page plates. Folding engraved map of the Eastern and Yellow Seas is present. Nicely bound to style in half brown morocco, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, tooled in blind, and with a red morocco lettering label, gilt. The map has had a short repair to a closed separation at one of the folds else is near fine. There is occasionally very light foxing and fingering else this is a near fine copy in a fine binding. The author was the ship's surgeon. The plates include as subjects a Lewchew (Loochoo) Chief, and a Corean (Korean) chief, Fort Maxwell, a Temple Garden at Lewchow and Islanders from Sir James Hall's Group. Von Wenckstern, Japanese Bibliography, 473. .