Piccolo's Progress by Debenham, Gillian - 1970

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1928, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 600. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. The dust jacket spine is lightly faded. Illustrations by Robert Gibbings. (Fiction, Private Press).

Fawcett, Robert [Illust] : Epitaph. A poem by Theodore Dreiser. N.Y. Heron Press Incorporated. 1929. 32pp Uncut, printed on hand made Keijyo Kami. Clean. Limited Edition 900/1100. Large 4to. Signed by Author, frontis signed by the artist. Woodcut illustrations. Spine sunned, recent cloth slip case wholly sympathetic to original, retaining limited edition panel.

London: Virtue & Co., c1890. Hardcover. Good +. May Rivers. Worthington G.Smith. Geo Shayler. Volume 1 Division 11. Decorated cloth covers HB. Pages numb.177-344 (none missing) + 4pp (book adverts) Incl. 8 unnmb. tissue-guarded Chromo-lith. plates of named fruits: *Apples -Gascoigne's Seedling/Sandringham. *Pears: Bergamotte Esperen/Josephine de Malines/Marechal de Cour. *Peaches: Rivers' Early York/Alexander. *Apricots: Gross Peche/Large Early Montgamet/Royal. * Plums: Early Transparent Gage/Rivers' Early Prolific * Grapes: Victoria/White Dutch/Black Naples *Apples: King of Pippins/Belle de Pontoise/Braddick's Nonpareil * Banana * Monstera deliciosa (last 2 on one plate). Text - various cultivation, disease subjects - extensive Apple section. Cond. Covers minor wear spine ends,corners & flecking.Good+ Plates gen. clean, few edge finger marks - no foxing. Text/illust - clean very good. Overall Good+. Scarce Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently ship items only to… Read More

2nd edition thus. Signed binding. Dark green calico-texture cloth over boards, front cover and spine gilt-stamped with pictorial scene with seated woman under tree and floral designs; all edges gilt; dark brown end papers; tissue-guarded frontispiece; tan and black pictorial title page; binder's diamond shape ticket on rear pastedown at inner corner 'Bound by | Burn | & Co'. Bright, clean covers and spine (no edge wear); tightly bound; frontis tissue somewhat age darkened; frontispiece and title page slightly age darkened at edges; clean interior with slight age darkening at page edges. Over 100 illustrations by Caldecott. 12mo, 284 pp.

This Book describes the early life of Norman Rockwell, and his rise as the most famous American illustrator of art, magazine covers, and drawings. The Book contains photographs of many of his works. The Book has blue cloth covers with a gold lettered title. The Dust jacket for this Book is made on matching blue cardboard with four seasonal illustrations. Book has 208 pages and hundreds of illustrations. This Book is the Third Edition printing of this Norman Rockwell masterpiece. Book comes in a matching blue cardboard slip case.

Nister & Co.Ltd.,Circa 1906. FIRST EDITION WITH THESE ILLUSTRATIONS. Oblong Large 12mo. (10.8 x 8.3 inches). 12 fine colour plates. A lovely copy in publishers glazed boards. The front board in full colour. Green cloth spine. In the rare original dustwrapper which is split along the spine and in two pieces, held together by a wrapper protector. Thumb sized piece missing from the middle of the spine and front panel but overall the wrapper is in very good condition. A rare survivor.:

John Bailey. Darlington. nd. [1881] Quarto. 20 litho plates. Original pictorial boards, reinforced to edges with paper tape. Hinges cracked, endpapers chipped. Occasional spotting.

Paris: Aux Èditions Rieder, 1936. Limited Edition. Lucien Boucher. Satircal French novel illustrated by Lucien Boucher. First illustrated edition, limited to 2500 copies. Quarto, 298 pages, spine chipped else fine.

London:: George Bell & Sons, 1895. Original grey and black hardback boards. Gilt titles. A little marking to the top of the front board. A touch of bumping to the boards. Internally clean, with just a touch of darkening to the end papers. Frontis illustration by Toulouse Lautrec. Numerous illustrations both in text and full-page plates on glossy art paper. Xvi, 368 pp. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).

The Easton Press, 1990 (1972). First Edition thus; Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "as new" / unread condition. Very minor shelf wear to bottom edges. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A beautiful gift copy!