robinson luce (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Fred Kulz Ilustrador. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 289 page series of letters from son to his father as he enters Harvard U as a freshman and 19 subsequent letters. Pages slightly yellowed; tight; no markings in text; slight warping of pages. 6 illustrations in book; Sketch "The Girl the Son Married" is on front endpapers across from title page with onion skin protector page. Green woven like hard cover with gold lettering on front and spine. Cover and spine faded with minimal shelf wear on cover. Gold gilted page edges on top. previous owner name on front inside cover page.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 4 plates. Gilt-stamped cloth with gilt top. Spine sunned.

hardcover. Condición: Good +. Kulz, Fred Ilustrador. First Edition. Being the Replies to Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Illustrated by Fred Kulz. Octavo, green cloth covers, 289 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Browned spine with small abrasion. Former owner name inscription on front free endpaper. 021210B.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st. 396 pages. Yellow cover with blue and red decoration, frontispiece, 11 b&w illustrations. Previous owners' signatures to front endpaper, overall a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Fred Kulz, Illustrator Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Clean hardcover first edition. Green buckram cloth boards with gold lettering, small light green and red pork haunch decoration on cover; faded spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Neatly penned previous owner name on front fixed endpaper. No other marks. Illustrated with six full page drawings by Fred Kulz, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Pages are clean with gilt top edges. 289 pages. Letters from a son to his father as he attends Harvard University and replies to "Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son" -- (a book written by George Horace Lorimer).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue & red lettering and decoration on tan covers. 8vo, 396 pages. Spine lettering faded.

First Edition. First Edition. Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair to Good. Fred Kulz Ilustrador. 289 pp. Boards have shelf and edge wear, bumped corners, fraying at extremities, sunned spine. Hinges weak - no loose pages. Chipping to outer edge ffep and onion skin protecting frontispiece. Faint image of erased writing to ffep - interior o/w unmarked and solid.

Third edition, reissue; Folio (33.5 x 21 cm); woodcut initials, head, and tailpieces, ff 'c3' [i.e. C1] and c2 supplied for shorter copy, small hole with slight loss to Z1, MS pen trials to verso 2B2 and 3O4-5, 3K2 ('The Translator to the Reader') bound before ff 3k3-4 in line with foliation, but incorrectly with regards to textual continuity, occasional spotting, the odd marginal tear and small hole; contemporary blind-panelled sprinkled calf, rebacked, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine, alter endpapers, corners neatly repaired, very good; [40], 177, 188-189, [5], 199-262, 265-267, [5], 267-314, 317-430, [4], '431', [1], 433-528pp. The collected works of the Niccolà Machiavelli (1469-1527) in English, following the translation of the republican politician Henry Neville (1620-1694). Including his major titles The Prince, History of Florence, Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War, together with his lesser known Life of Castruccio Castricani of Lucca, novella Marriage of Belphegor, and the spurious letter to Zenobius Buondelmontius dated a decade after Machiavelli's death in which he defends himself from the worst imputations against him. From 'an early date Neville was thought to be the author of this letter, although it may have been an earlier forgery brought back, as the preface claims, from his visit to Italy in the 1640s' (ODNB).