King Albert's Book: A Tribute To The Belgian King And People From Representative Men And Women Throughout The World (1914) by Hall Caine (Introduction) - 2007-11-10

New York: Hearst International, 1915. Hardcover. Good. Hearst International, New York, 1915. Good. , Hardcover, Original light green cloth. White title on front and spine. 187 pages. Short tear in spine. Edges rubbed. Some small light stains on cover. Front endpapers lightly soiled. Interior very good. 16 tipped-in color plates. Copyright date not stated. Circa 1915. 'Authorized edition', Hearst's International Library. Illustrations by Rackham, Dulac, Nielsen, Parrish, and others. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

Hearst's International Library Co, 1914-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. [Great War era Tribute to the monarch of occupied Belgium.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Some spotting to end page.

Hearst's International Library Co, 1914. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Blue cloth over boards. To of spine pulled with some loss. A bit of foxing and edge wear. Tipped in color plates.

New York: Hearst's International Library Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. A tribute to Belgium's King Albert, as well as to Belgium and the Belgian people. The king ruled Belgium during World War I, during which his nation was conquered, occupied, and ruled by the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Interior pages consist of tributes to the King by notable worldwide personages, along with tipped-in color artworks, musical selections and drawings. With frontis sepia-toned portrait of the King and an introduction by Hall Caine. --- In blue cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling in cream; text presented on buff-colored leaves. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With some loss of spine titling, and with a partial split near front hinge (which doesn't affect the stabilility of the binding), else a tightly-bound, sound, well-preserved copy.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 188 pages .

The Daily Telegraph, 1914. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Internally some foxing to pages, has several small marks. Contains full page colour plates. Large book postage at cost..

Hearst's International Library NY, 1914. HARDBACK NODustJacket , 1914, 1st U.S. Edition, NF/GOOD, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Oversized Embossed boards with Round white Emblem & Titles, Cover stains & light wear Rub, & tiny Chip Extremities, Interior nice tight clean light Fox & light wear edges few plates, 188 pgs, with contributions by Rudyard Kipling , Marie Corelli, Gertrude Atherton, Walter Crane ETC Illustrated with Tipped In Color Plates of Her Majesty Queen Mary, Walls of Old England, Harvest Moon, Louvain Cathedral ETC Illustrated in B/W, illustrations by William Nicholson, L. Raven-Hill, J. Montgomery Flagg, Solomon J. Solomon,ETC, few plates have some slight wrinikling, The book also includes musical scores by Claude Debussy and Edward Elgar. .with Contributions by Aga Khan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Edmond Rostand, Earl of Rosebery, Rudyard Kipling, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Robert Hichens, Miss Braddon, William Canton, Anatole France ETC The book also includes musical scores by Claude… Read More

New York: Hearst's International Library Company (Circa 1914) 188 pp. Original blue cloth covers, moderately soiled and rubbed. Light fraying to corners and spine ends. Front hinge starting. Evidence of small price label (?) removed from top corner of front blank endpaper. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ tipped-in color plates, and b/w plates.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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London: The Daily Telegraph. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and soiled. Eps foxed. 1914. First Edition. Cream hardback cloth cover. 280mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). 187pp. 16 tipped-in plates by Rackham, Neilsen, Dulac, Parrish et al; additional plates and b/w illustrations. 'A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from the Representative Men and Women Throughout the World'. A compilation of prose and illustrative work from the great luminaries of the age. .

New York: Hearst's International Library, 1914, 1st edition (?). Illustrated by numerous famous artists, including Dulac and Rackham and contributed to by many famous writers. Slight bumping on otherwise good cover, interior near fine. VG+/no DJ..