philip hofer (355 resultados)

Large Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Former library copy with stamps on title and copyright pages and some marks on endpapers, but no external marks. 1953 Large Hardcover. 63 pp. "A collection of drawings and poems by Edward Lear, published posthumously." Includes: Introduction by Angus Davidson; Foreword by Philip Hofer; Teapots and Quails Sequence; Limericks; The Adventures of Mr. Lear, the Polly and the Pusseybite; Flora Nonsensica; The Scroobious Pip; Cold are the Crabs.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 4th printing. [From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Gift inscription on paste down on front end page. Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Soft cover with a DJ & small.

Staple Bound Pamphlet. Condición: Very Good. Edward Lear Ilustrador. First Edition. Address on Lear's life & career delivered to the Grolier Club in December, 1961. Includes some of Lear's verse & artwork. Of the first edition, 960 were distributed to the Grolier Club and to the Typophiles as Monograph Number 71; how many more might have been printed is not noted. Stapled pamphlet, lilac covers. Light wear, covers show light wear, minor fading, stains, faint crease; corner torn off half-title/title page spread. Text clean; [48] pages. Size: 4½" by 6".

Paperback. Condición: VG. 45pp. Extremities lightly rubbed. Illus.

Saddle-stapled wraps. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. A 4.5 x 6 in. saddle-stapled copy. 45pp., illustated with reproductions of Lear's drawings. A Very Good copy with minor browning to the cardstock wraps. A handwritten greetings card to William H. Matchett laid in loose.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. previous owner's bookplate, minor scuffing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Author Illus Ilustrador. 2nd printing (1954); pictorial c w/lite wear at extremities; illustrated end papers; 63 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Author Illus Ilustrador. 2nd printing; dj w/lite wear, unclipped price, in mylar; illustrated end papers; 63 clean, unmarked pages. Previously unpublished poems, from a collection at Houghton Library, Harvard.

Stapled wraps. Condición: Very Good. Tidy. Small white spot on front. (B553).; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 45 pages.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Issued as a season's greetings booklet by Oxford University Press.

Condición: Good. Well-illustrated Ilustrador. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. x, 97 pages, illustrations; 21 x 24 cm. Reproduction of Goya's Disasters of War (Madrid, 1863). Includes original Spanish title page and preface with English translation. Translation of: Los desastres de la guerra. With 3 extra plates and some new material. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Another copy available. *** More relevant than ever. Size: Oblong.

Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Lear, Edward Ilustrador. First. Very good in original wraps, wraps slight crease. 88p., 24 black & white plates of Lear paintings and drawings, sublime to nonsense. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Worcestor Art Museum, 1968. Charming design, useful reference. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Drawings Ilustrador. Second Printing. Illustrated end pages. Textblock and binding is clean and tight; unclipped, heavily edge-worn and chipped dust jacket; jacket spine and front panel sunned; 63pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Approx. 5 1/4" wide by 7 1/2". Nine facsimile letters. ; 48 pages.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. Illustrated Ilustrador. 1st. 12mo, 45 pp.

Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good. B&w illustrations Ilustrador. No edition designated. 69pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. x, 97 pages, illustrations; 21 x 24 cm. Reproduction of Goya's Disasters of War (Madrid, 1863). Includes original Spanish title page and preface with English translation. Translation of: Los desastres de la guerra. With 3 extra plates and some new material. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. More relevant than ever. Size: Oblong.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Edward Lear Ilustrador. A vintage booklet that covers drawings that were created by Edward Lear to illustrate the letters of the alphabet, and done in devotion to his friends' children. A short introduction provides background together with a brief biography of Lear. The bulk of the booklet is the b/w drawings themselves, done in pen and ink and accompanied with short verses or limericks about each. Measures 5.5" x 8.5" with 16 pages. Originally published in 1954, this edition was from a second printing in 1965. In excellent condition.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. 45, [2] pp., illustrated, 12mo, stapled card wrapper, dustjacket. Text adapted from an address delivered by Philip Hofer at the Grolier club on December 12, 1961. Of the first edition, 960 copies were printed for the Grolier Club and as Monograph No. 71 for members of the Typophiles. Very good copy; light fading at the wrapper edges.

Softcover. Condición: Fine. 13 pp. plus 16 plates; small 8vo, wrapper. Printed by Meriden Gravure Co. and The Stinehour Press. Fine copy.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. B/w Illustations Ilustrador. First Thus. In stapled wraps, 12mo, 46pp. Illustrated. A printing of a Grolier Club address from 1961. Size: 12mo. Book.

Condición: Very Good. Signed Copy . Acceptable dust jacket. Inscribed by "the author" on front endpage, no signature. (Landscape Drawing, Art, Biography).

Condición: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. John Howard Benson And His Work, 1901-1956. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff brown wraps, lettered in turquoise, illus. in black. A few mild surface rubs/marks to front cover with one tiny hole near lower fore-edge. 48 pp., illus. 1st ed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Stapled Binding. Condición: Good Plus. First Edition. One of 960 copies. Original mailing label with author's signature on it loosely enclosed. Light stain on spine and back cover. Slight soiling on edges, content clean. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).