Samuel chamberlain introduction (25 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. New York, 1957; blue cloth covered boards; mild corner and spine edge wear; no jacket; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 348 pages.

unpaginated Profusely illustrated with black and white photos by Samuel Chamberlain Introduction by Viriginius Dabney Owner's inscription in pencil on endpaper else Near Fine/VG- dj (edges and rear panel torn, price-clipped).

Fourth printing (as stated upon copyright page; first published December 1940). 173 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 18cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some soiling; 2.25cm deep chip at rear panel's top edge; other smaller chips, tears, creasing, and nicks/scuffs; long tears at lower spine with verso tape repairs; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right; rear flap's bottom corner clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth; spine's gilt stamping a bit dulled in comparison to front board's gilt stamped vignette. Past owner's pencil signature at title page's top right; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a good dust jacket. With Introduction, Note, and ten chapters: "Her Villages;" "Her Towns and Cities;" "Her Cathedrals and Churches;" "Her Varied Shore;" "Her Countryside;" "Her Bridges;" "Her Cottages;" "Her Farms;" "Her Manoirs;" "Her Chateaux.".…

Hardcover w/DJ. Condición: Good/Good. First Edition. New York, NY: Atheneum. Good/Good. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 750 p.p., Cracked inner hinge; shelf lean; shelf wear; head and tail of spine and top right corner of front dust jacket panel torn; dust jacket spine sunned; back dust jacket panel toned; original price intact; edges of dust jacket panel fold-overs toned; pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Plates (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good to Very Good. No Dust Jacket. (1947) Original green cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding lightly rubbed. Corners and spine ends bumped. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece of The Garden in Morven, Virginia, and numerous b/w photos. Contents nice.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, 4th Printing of 1946. Text/VG, showing faint margin discoloration. Vintage 1946 First Edition, 4th Printing. Unpaginated pgs w/3 folded corners & 5 pgs w/repaired closed tears to lower text edges. Gilt embossed green linen boards/VG; Strong & sound w/light rubs to leading edges & fading to spine. DJ/None. First published 1944; this copy is the 4th Printing of 1946. Elegant historical photographic essay of New England of yesteryear. Samuel Chamberlain (Author-Photographer) (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. Royal octavo bound in tan cloth with marbled boards in publisher-issued paper-covered slipcase. Illustrated with monochrome gravures. Condition: minor rubbing to edges of slipcase; previous owner's label on first free endpaper; else fine in very good slipcase. Pages: xii, 483. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 173oo. Illustrated end pages. Cloth's extremities moderately soiled, else a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine No dust jacket as issued. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. No dust jacket as issued; Full gilt-decorated black leather binding, AEG, ribbon marker, 3 raised bands. xiv + 486 pp. B&W illustrations. Index. Autobiography of Harvard historian and descendant of John Q. Adams. Easton Press Notes from the Archives laid in. Part of Easton Press The Collector's Library of Famous Editions; 8vo; xiv + 483 pages.…

hardback. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. slipcase shows signs of wear Description: xii, 483 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.

hardcover with dustjacket. Condición: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDsm4to; 252 pages; good hardcover with dustjacket; dustjacket ripped and torn, scuffs; tips bumped boards; faint tanning ; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Chamberlain, Samuel (Designer and Editor); Introduction by Donald Moffat. THIS REALM, THIS ENGLAND THE CITADEL OF A VALIANT RACE PORTRAYED BY ITS GREATEST ETCHERS. New York: Hastings House, (1941). This is number 232 of 300 copies, signed by Chamberlain and Moffat. 179 pages, complete, illustrated. 9 ½" x 7", red cloth spine with tan paper covered boards. The covers are slightly soiled and rubbed but the contents are bright and complete. Near Very Good. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large, thick octavo. B&W illustrations, maps. Condition: DJ nicked with minor chipping; else fine in very good DJ. Pages: xix, 752.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardback 1942. 26x16.5cm. xii+483 pages. Illustrated with Gravures by Samuel Chamberlain. Clean & tight book. Front end paper has the inscription: "Christmas 1976". NO JACKET. SLIPCASE IS WORN AND DAMAGED. Dispatched Royal Mail TRACKED 24 boxed in cardboard. ref hm. Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography. Published in 1942 by Heritage Press Limited Editions Club, New York, USA. Samuel Chamberlain (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Good. Hastings House, New York, copyright 1941. 91 of 300 autographed copies, with signed Chamberlain etching. 179 pages. Illustrated: Bone, Pennell, Whistler, Brangwyn. 9.5 x 7", cloth spine, printed paper boards. Royalties and profits to benefit war relief. Boards soiled, spine sunned, tips worn, owner rubberstamp, text VG.…

Hardcover. Sixth Printing. Octavo, xviii, 486 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Faded drawn black, yellow, and sky blue spine with white lettering. Dust jacket has mild shelving wear, mild chipping along tail edges, mild chipping along front cover head edge, moderate chipping along rear and spine head, moderate age-toning along spine, and mild wear along spine tail. Boards have mild shelving wear, mild sun damage along edges, mild wear along corners, and mild wear along spine head and tail. Textblock has mild wear along the tail edges of pages 13 - 44, mild wear along edges, and blue staining along head edge. Shelved ND-A. 1381391. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. Limited Edition. Number 144 of 1500 copies; signed on the limitation page by Samuel Chamberlain. Royal octavo in brick red-colored cloth binding with gilt lettering and rules on spine. Contains 12 etchings by Chamberlain. Condition: this copy lacks its slipcase; upper corner of front cover lightly bumped; else fine condition. Pages: xvii, 486.…

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Very Good. Boston Public Library, 1968. Copyright 1968. Meriden Gravure Company. xi,227 pages. Illustrated. Checklist of etchings, drypoints, lithographs, books, portfolios. 12.5 x 9", cloth, dj. 'Birthday Greetings to Emerson Oliver from Samuel Chamberlain' on blank. Small dj edge tear, light edge wear, VG/G. …

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st Edition, 2nd printing October 1953: xix, 619 pages, illustrated, pictorial end papers, spectacular b/w photos covering each province in France, maps, line drawings, with recipes from each region, an epicurean tour. Minor shelf wear, contents clean, a very nice copy. Second impression of the First Edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4383. This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. …

Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First British Edition, First Impression. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket, Unclipped (35/- net). Light rubbing, sunning, and dust soiling to extremities. Text block a bit toned and foxed with some spots of thumbing, a few leaves with minor curling. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Striking dust jacket has a small loss at crown, otherwise a few small chips and creased. Panels are a bit toned, scuffed, and dust soiled. Hardcover. Octavo. [xxii], 302pp. [16 Unnumbered Full Color Illustrations]. Publisher's Red Cloth, Stamped Gilt Detailing. Lavishly Illustrated by the Author (ilustrador).…

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, Printed by The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1942. 4to, xvii, 485 pp. 12 etched plates by Chamberlain. Publisher's red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, original slipcase. Slightest hit of fading to backstrip else a fine copy inside and out, slipcase sunned, paper label to slipcase with slight wear. § Copy #1290 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Chamberlain. Illustrated with twelve etchings by Samuel Chamberlain. Introduction by the American critic Henry Seidel Canby. "The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication of the book had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century." (Wikipedia). Signed.…

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); two-tone red and navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and navy blue on spine and front cover; map endpapers; dustjacket; x,301,[9] + [16]pp of inserted color plates. Base of spine gently nudged, subtle offsetting to endpapers, touch of dust-soil and a few tiny spots to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.00), edgeworn, spine-sunned, with numerous small chips, tiny tears, and attendant creases to extremities, and a ca.2" split to upper rear joint; Very Good. The memoirs of American soldier of fortune and amateur painter Samuel Emery Chamberlain (1829-1908), whose exploits throughout the American Southwest and Mexico during the mid-19th century, both during the Mexican-American War and later with the infamous Glanton Gang, became key primary source material for Cormac McCarthy's fifth novel, Blood Meridian. "Now brought to light after more than one hundred years, this unique document will surely excite nation-wide interest and delight as a classic of picaresque adventure. The manuscript has been checked and rechecked by experts for accuracy and authenticity. Less than one-fifth of the book appeared in Life in three installments in July and August, 1956" (from rear flap). 9028.…

First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (24cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxii,301,[1] + [16]pp of inserted color plates. Faint musty odor, some offsetting to endpapers, with just a hint of foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 35/- net), lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears, and some very faint foxing on verso; Near Fine. The memoirs of American soldier of fortune and amateur painter Samuel Emery Chamberlain (1829-1908), whose exploits throughout the American Southwest and Mexico during the mid-19th century, both during the Mexican-American War and later with the infamous Glanton Gang, became key primary source material for Cormac McCarthy's fifth novel, Blood Meridian. "Now brought to light after more than one hundred years, this unique document will surely excite nation-wide interest and delight as a classic of picaresque adventure. The manuscript has been checked and rechecked by experts for accuracy and authenticity. Less than one-fifth of the book appeared in Life in three installments in July and August, 1956" (from rear flap). The UK edition contains a foreword by D.W. Brogan that does not appear in the American edition. 9029. …