Jessie s mccarthy (8 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. There is something inherently vintage about this book and I wonder if the topic: "Painting Roses on China" is still common? Doubtless there is someone out there who will enjoy this book and the guidance it provides. And then there is the collectible aspect to it; this book is signed by the Author. Even the binding--green cloth with silver gilt titling--seems a bit old-fashioned! Condition: This book is in very good condition. The dust jacket has some edge wear including three small tears and some wrinkles edges. The hard covers are clean and bright and barely bumped. Inside, the Author's signature, date and someone else gift inscription are the only marks I found. The interior pages and plates are clean and bright, without toning or foxing. Both hinges are intact and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. Jessie S. McCarthy (ilustrador). …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Presumed First edition. Very Good in Good Pictorial Dust Jacket. An excellent guide painting on china. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Green cloth with silver titling on front. Covers show mild wear, with bumps to corners and light rubbing at top & tail of spine. Dust Jacket shows moderate wear and soiling, with bumps/wear/mild loss at corners and tail of spine, 1" loss at top of spine, 4" tear along front spine edge, a few short closed tears along edges, mild residue from small sticker at top of spine. Mild toning at ends; otherwise interior is clean, crisp, tight & bright, unmarked. 63 pp. Approx. 9" x 11.25". Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all other questions; glad to respond.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Signed by the author. Illustrated with photos. ; 4to; 63 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condición: G/FR. Fort Worth, TX: Jessie S. McCarthy. G/FR. (1957). . Cloth. Signed by Author . 4to., 62 pp., dj: wrinkled & torn; bk: slightly blunted edges, some hinges worn . Black & White Photographs (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback book in near fine condition,dust jacket is very good to near fine,signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. A nice-looking lot of different editions of the Sufi poet's best-loved, classic epic poem. The individual volumes are illustrated beautifully by a range of different artists and in multiple formats. The poet, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere between about 1025 and 1050 A.D. His surname "Khayyam" means "tent-maker" in Persian, which might, like St. Paul/Saul, have denoted his father's vocation and major income-source. The lot is comprised of the following: 1) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d., but likely early 1900s, a stated reprint of the Second Edition of Macmillan & Co., and illustrated by the incomparable French-English artist Edmund Dulac's 20 tipped-in full-color plates, quite fine, including at frontis. Bound in a quarto hardcover format, brown cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt-stamped lettering to spine and front cover and elaborate designs at the latter. Previous owner's signature and date at half-title, chip to spine head glue-repaired, light scuffing to spine foot, else quite fine outside and inside. Unpaginated, but roughly 120 pp. Printed at the Edinburgh University Press by T. and A. Constable, printers to His Majesty; 2) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d., but likely early 1900s, and illustrated by the incomparable French-English artist Edmund Dulac's 20 tipped-in full-color plates, quite fine, including at frontis. Hardcover format, bound in blue cloth over boards, lightly rubbed gilt-stamped lettering to spine and front cover and elaborate gilt design at front cover of two elephants under a canopy. Scuffing to tips, spine head and foot, but decorated endpapers front and rear and lovely illustrations and with tissue guards. Gift-inscription in pencil at frontis. Also likely a reprint of the Second Edition of Macmillan & Co. ; s at the latter. Previous owner's signature and date at half-title, chip to spine head glue-repaired, light scuffing to spine foot, else quite fine outside and inside. Unpaginated, but roughly 120 pp.; 3) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d., but likely nineteen oughts and teens. Blue cloth over boards, lovely gilt illustrations to front cover, lettering to spine and front cover, protected by stiff Mylar jacket. Lovely full-color illustrations by Willy Pogany, pasted onto pages surrounded by quattrain text. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp.; 4) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, multi-variorum edition, translated by Edward FitzGerald, edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, and illustrated sumptuously by E.H. Garrett and Gilbert James, Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1898. An easily Very Good condition exemplar, creamy white cloth over boards, a bit of scuffing to tips, bumping to spine head and foot, but protected by stiff Mylar jacket. Stellar gilt-stamped designs to front cover and spine, gilt and red-stamped lettering to both, quite fine. Top edges gilt, fore- and bottom-edges rough-cut. Augmented with the notes, edits, and musings by the translator, Edward FitzGerald. Fine plate at frontis, tissue-guarded, and another eight, quite fine. 665 pp.; 5) Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, a new metrical version, published in Chicago and New York by the Laidlaw Brothers, 1931. Bound in a slender, pebbly burgundy, flexible hardcover format, scuffed a bit, all page edges gilt, and still sharp and distinct gilt lettering and design to front cover. 126 pp. and with plentiful full color illustrations and an added "In the Potter's House" at frontis; 6) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Library of Classics Edition, Near Fine condition bound in black flexible covers in a pocketsized format, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, and with top edges gilt. Uber-bright interior, and housed in cloth-covered, worn little cardboard slipcase. 255 pp. 7) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, from the metrical translations of Edward FitzGerald, but with the new augmentations o.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. A nice-looking lot of different editions of the Sufi poet's best-loved, classic epic poem. The individual volumes are illustrated beautifully by a range of different artists and in multiple formats. The poet, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere between about 1025 and 1050 A.D. His surname "Khayyam" means "tent-maker" in Persian, which might, like St. Paul/Saul, have denoted his father's vocation and major income-source. The lot is comprised of the following: 1) Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, New York and London: T.N. Foulis, 1920, a stated reprint of the Second Edition of Macmillan & Co. fro 1859, and illustrated with 15 colored plates by the incomparable artist Frank Brangwyn, tipped-in, onto stiff card stock, quite fine, including at frontis. Bound in a quarto hardcover format, brown cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt-stamped lettering to spine, brown-stamped designs to front cover. Light scuffing to edges, tips, but protected further by stiff Mylar jacket. Unpaginated, but roughly 80 pp. 2) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London and Glasgow: Collins, 1952. Illustrated by the incomparable artist Robert Stewart Sherriffs in full, bright color plates including at frontis. Flexible Hardcover format, bound in black pebbly cloth, edges and tips scuffed, but gilt edges all round and silk linen ribbon bookmark still affixed firmly. Cracking to front pastedown, erased name inside rear flap, and quite an involved edition. Long introduction by Lawrence Housman, biography of the translator, Edward FitzGerald by G.F. Maine, FitzGerald's biography of Omar Khayyam, then followed by First, Second and Fifth Editions of the Rubaiyat, followed by sections on variations between the editions, comparable table of quatrains, notes to the second edition, glossary and an index to the first lines of the quatrains. 224 pp.; 3) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Sullivan, New York: Three Sirens Press, a reprint of an Illustrated Editions edition, based on the First and fifth editions, and with a list at book's end of other editions on which this is based. Blue cloth over boards, pebbly black cloth-backed. Really lovely black-and-white drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan including at frontis. 193 [1] pp. 4) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the metrical translations of Edward FitzGerald and E.H. Whinfield and the prose version of Justin H. McCarthy, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1900. Bound in blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering and designs to spine, front cover. Scuffing to spine head and foot, edges, tips, faint remains of a gift inscription at first free endpaper, else a little, attractive tank. Introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse, followed by plentiful essays including by Mathilde Blind, Andrew Lang and others. 244 pp. including notes and bibliography; 5) The Rubaiyat of a Golfer, by J.A. Hammerton, published in London by Country Life in a First Edition edition, a skinny, short, 12mo hardcover, bound in gray cloth over boards, red lettering to front cover. Previous owner's ink-stamp along top edge, light rubbing to, sunning of front cover, fanciful, cartoonish illustrtions by D.L. Ghilchik. Unpaginated, but roughly 30 pp.; 6) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1898. Based on the texts of the Fourth Edition followed by that of the First Edition, with notes. Biographical Preface by Talcott Williams. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering and design to front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Extensive penned gift inscription at first free endpaper. Short, skinny, mass market paperback-sized, Fine illustration at frontis, tissue-guarded, but tissue torn. 75 pp. including notes by the editor.; 7) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1898, with introductory essays by Andrew Lang and Edward S. Holden. Bound in red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, rubbed, black-stamped design to f.…