James humphry iii (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good condition. No dust jacket. First Edition, Limited 300 copies. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1950. Very Good condition (something roughly erased from the front pastedown end paper) Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies. Includes a 9 page essay on Robinson and his books. Handsomely printed by The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, Bound in the original gray cloth, stamped in black on the spine. First Edition, Limited 300 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 59pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (ilustrador).…

4to. stiff paper wrappers mounted on heavier paper. 31 pages followed by large foldout table. B2-1487. With chapters on The State Library Commission and the State Library, Community Library Service, School Library Service, Academic and Special Libraries and Recommendations for Library Improvement. Includes appendices of statistics. Ex-library copy. stiff paper wrappers mounted on heavier paper. …

stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 31 pages followed by large foldout table. B2-1487. With chapters on The State Library Commission and the State Library, Community Library Service, School Library Service, Academic and Special Libraries and Recommendations for Library Improvement. Includes appendices of statistics. …

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Usual ex-library features, some marked through. The interior is clean and tight. Binding and cover are good. The book has been library hard bound. 116 pages. Ex-Library.

Condición: Fine. First deluxe edition hard back binding in half black leather, gilt title lettering to the spine, turquoise cloth sides, top edge gilt, hollow gilt circle details to the spine ends and board edges, cream and green marble end sheets. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Carl J. Weber and with a check-list (a useful bibliography) of the Rubáiyát Collection in the Colby College Library compiled by James Humphry III, including a number of editions not in Potter's Bibliography, which only goes to 1929. Also 2 indexes to the checklist of Illustrators, Artists, Designers, and of Editors, Commentators, Bibliographers, Owners, etc. 158 + 1 pp. In Fine condition. Memo sheet from Professor Carl J. Weber giving details of the book stating (unbound leaves). Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. A fine start on a collection of various (and variant) editions of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, most being in no worse than Very Good condition, one in Good condition, some being Near Fine, with special issues and flaws noticed below. The subject and author of the dozen (12) tomes comprising the collection, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere in the 11th century from 1025-1050 A.D. His surname Khayyam means "tent-maker" in Persian. The bibliography consulted is Ambrose G. Potter, A Bibliography Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Together With Kindred Matter In Prose And Verse Pertaining Thereto, published by Ingpen and Grant, London, 1929. The collection is comprised of the following: 1) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872), measuring 218 x 163 mm. (8 5/5" x 6 1/2"). Third Edition. Original publisher's maroon cloth over boards, roan-backed spine. Wear on spine, scuffing to spine head and foot, wear to joints, darkening of edges of cover, but still nearly an excellent copy of interior, sturdy, attractive. sewn-in silk-linen bookmark. [iii], iv-xxiv [1], 1-36 pp.; 2) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1878), measuring 175 x 130 mm. (6 3/4" x 5"). This is the First published American Edition from the Third London Edition. One of 500 copies printed. Bound in publisher's original reddish-brown cloth over boards, with gilt and black titling and decoration. Bookplate of Church Periodical Club, thus ex-libris, but not ex-library. Dark burgundy endpapers front and rear. Red-stamped page-edges all round. The bibliographer Potter says that this is a variant binding. Minor defects in the form of slight scuffing to tips, spine head and foot, else Near Fine. [3], 4-77 [1] pp.; 3) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: L.C. Page and Company; London: Macmillan and Company, 1898), measuring 210 x 145 mm. (8 1/4" x 5 3/4"), an edition complete in two volumes. Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Multi-Variorum Edition. Bound in the original publisher's white cloth over boards, with red and gilt decoration, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, publisher's red oil-cloth dust jacket, quite fine, sturdy, substantial. Eight illustrations by multiple artists. This edition, "Edward Fitzgerald's Version," so-called for comparing "English, French, German, Italian, and Danish translations" to Fitzgerald's version. Dust jacket spines a bit sunned, otherwise a beautiful copy of the first trade edition of "the first extensive scientific edition," and thus itself a collectible. Volume I: clxxvii, [3], 3-203 pp.; Volume II consists wholly of appendixes, indexes, another nine fine illustrations; frontis matter, 210-655 pp.; 4) THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900), measuring 210 x 153 mm. (8 1/4 x 6"). Translated by Edward FitzGerald, E.H. Whinfield, and Justin Huntly McCarthy. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with quite elaborate gilt decoration, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Fine Introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Owner's signature at endpaper in the form of a penciled gift notation. Spine rubbed, dulled slightly but still attractive, rear cover a bit grubby, slight dings to board fore-edges, else with a beautiful cloth decoration to front cover. Fine black-and-white engraving of FitzGerald at frontis, captioned and tissue-guarded. xl, 1-244 pp.; 5) BJERREGAARD, C.H.A., Translator. SUFI INTERPRETATIONS OF THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM AND FITZGERALD. (New York: J.F. Taylor and Company, 1902), printed for them by the Tudor Press, measuring 306 x 240 mm. (12 1/2" x 9 3/8"). Bound most handsomely in the publisher's original gray paper over boards, fore- and tail-edges untrimmed. French-fold text. Spine lettering faded (as on all copies), scuffing to spine head and foot, otherwise clean, unmarked, bright, attractive of interior. Full-page plate at frontis, tissue-protected, with second title page, also with title vignette, with Preface.…