griset ernest illus (3 resultados)

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: NO Dustwrapper. or, Tales of Hindu Devilry. Memorial Edition (Volume 5 in the series). One of the masterpieces of Indian literature and a fine example of humorous supernatural fiction. Edited by his wife, Isabel Burton, With 33 illustrations by Ernest Griset. Gilt picture of a devilish flying vampire on cover. Tylston & Edwards, London 1893. b/w illus xxiv + 244 + 4pp adverts hb No Dust-wrapper, pict gilt dark brown cloth, spine gnawed top & bottom with fang marks down spine, corners bumped, pages browned, internally sound, previous owner's signature, internally sound, good.

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling with black decoration to spine, gilt decorative tooling & black decoration to front board, blind stamp motif to rear board, frontispiece, illus title page & prelims, xvi + 517pp + unpaginated adverts to rear, VG (light creasing & chippping to spine extrems, light discolouration to spine, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, light soiling to boards & edges, moderately heavy tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, heavy cracking to gutters, frontispiece quite loose but attached, sporadic light foxing to pages throughout, bookseller's label & owner's name in ink to front pastedown, sm numbering in ink to half title page).