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Hardcover. Fair. spine somewhat damaged Offered by the UK charity Langdon: Supporting young men and women with disabilities.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1909. This is an "envelope book" designed as gift books that could be folded into an envelope. This book measures approximately 6.75" x 3.5". This book is in very good plus condition. Minor bumping to both ends of spine and around all edges. Minor staining and scuffing to both boards. "Dec 25,1909 D.E.L" written on front endpaper. This book is a collections of poem written by Robert Browning. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N7-5).

London & Edinburgh. T. N. Foulis. o. J. (about 1910). Softcover. Gut. I --- With illustr. by Lewis Baumer, In-12, o. Pag., good copy

New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1906 Brown Suede Embossed W/Cloth End Pages. Colorful Title Page And Frontis. Gilt Fore Edges. Covers Curled A Bit At Edges. Attractive Color Illustrations. Rare Edition.. Illus. by Frederick Simpson Coburn. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full leather Soft cover. Good.

15, Frederick Street, Edinburgh and London: T.N. Foulis, Publisher, c. 1908 Hard cover chapbook, 12mo, measuring 3 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches), in brown jute buckram, blocked brown titles to front and spine, with a color lithographed scene applied of two lovers romantically enjoying a moonlight gondola ride upon the Grand Canal of Venice, with St. Mark's Basilica in the background. The remaining illustrations are tipped onto gray card. Frontispiece and hand-lettered title page are on subsequent, rather than facing pages (as was usual.) Printed by Neil and Company, Edinburgh upon heavy, laid paper. While undated, the sole T.N. Foulis Company address at Frederick Street, Edinburgh indicates this was an early imprint, since later issues of the same series also list the newly expanded premises in London as early as 1909, so this is prior to that date. The book cloth of brown Jute buckram was specially produced for the publisher in Dundee. This series was conceived for the gift market and was carefully detailed… Read More

T N Foulis, London & Edinburgh, No Date (1908). 1st Edition Thus. HARDCOVER. 1st printing. Tall narrow 4to (approx 18.5 x 9.5 cm) in light brown cloth, colour plate and gilt embossed front cover, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated, approx. 32pp on thick rough-cut paper, colour illustrated title-page, colour frontispiece (by Baumer) and two other tipped-in colour plates (unattributed). 1pp publishers ads at rear plus 3 blanks __CONDITION : A well preserved about FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (end leaves tanned). A nice copy. ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. Book. Illus. by Armstrong, Margaret; Coburn, Frederick Simpson. Good. Hardcover. Signed in binding. First Thus. 12mo.. New York: Putnam's, 1906. First thus. 12mo. Decorative green silk binding, signed in design in gilt by Margaret Armstrong, all edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Plates and frontispiece engraving with protective tissue. Every page decoratein four colors. Shallow chipping top and bottom of spine. Spine very faded with small rub to boards. Good..

London: T.N. Foulis, 1908. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus. 3.75 x 7.25 inches (9 x 18.5 cm). Brown buckram binding with colour illustrated panel to front board. Gilt title to front board and spine. Page edges untrimmed. Complete with the tipped-in colour frontis, title page and two further illustrations, all laid on card. Very clean condition throughout. Includes the original Christmas Greeting slip, dated Christmas 1913. An attractive Edwardian pocket edition. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.20; USA £18.10; Oceania £18.05; Rest of World £15.85. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 3.75 x 7.25 inches (9 x 18.5 cm). Hardback

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. 40pp. duotone frontispiece and 5 illustrations. Brown Smooth leather, embossed decorations and gilt lettering on the front panel. Silk endpapers. All edges gilt. At each chapter head is a color illustration. Silk ribbon marker is laid in. There is fraying to the extremties, small chips to the spine edges. Overall, an attractive copy of this romantic love poem. . First Edition. Leather. Good+. Illus. by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Octavo.

Leather Bound. Very Good. First ed. , first printing 1900, signed by HUBBARD and Lula REED, the illuminator, NUMBER 148 of 940 copies. Very good three-quarter black leather, red corners, and later floral cloth over boards, hardcover without case or silk ribbon marker. Floral endpapers. Frenchfold. Slight wave and browning at page edges. Brown leather (suade) paste-on titling "The Last Ride" gilt on leather on spine; bright gilt sheaf like floral emblem on front cover, with two stems and two (roses?) in top of stamped hour glass with 18 gilt emblems creating a small wave of what look like Chinese characters at top and bottom of hourglass design. Roycrofters stamp/ ghost visible at blank endpapers.

New York: Putnam, 1906. Limited. hardcover. very good. Armstrong, Margaret & Coburn, Frederick Simpson. Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn with 6 full-page sepia plates each protected with lettered tissue, and 20 text pages with large colored headpieces and decorations. Tall 8vo, the original vellum boards with handsome gilt-stamped design by Margaret Armstrong are preserved, but the book has been re-backed in plain gray cloth, a.e.g. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1906). First Edition thus.<br/> <br/> Limited Edition - number 95 of only 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum. The limitation page calls for the book to be signed, but all 100 copies were issued without signature.<br/> <br/>

G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press (1906), New York, 1906. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Coburn, Frederick Simpson (illustrations); Armstrong, Margaret (binding, endpapers, and title page) (illustrator). "The Last Ride Together" was printed in several versions, this printed on Japanese vellum paper in the Blue green cloth, the flowers simply embossed. Beveled boards bound in cloth, decoration in blind-stamping and gilt on both front and spine, lettering on front and spine in gilt, all edges gilt, end papers of gray with red decoration by Margaret Armstrong (unsigned), frontispiece and five other illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn, each with a lettered tissue guard, title page in brown upon a green decorative background by Margaret Armstrong (unsigned), printed on Japan vellum with each page printed on the recto only, separately hinged, and each page having both a small illustration at the top most in two colours, as well as a hand-coloured decorative border, final… Read More

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1900. Limited edition. Flexible boards. Good Plus. Limited edition. Flexible boards. McKenna # 59. 7 3/4" x 5 /34". 10pp. # 525 of a limited edition of 940, printed on Roycroft hand-made paper, SIGNED BY HUBBARD. French folded. Each stanza of the poem has beautifully decorated borders that have been hand-colored. Bound in full vellum with cloth ties. Satin paste-downs. Though the vellum is very clean and nice there are four brown spots on front cover. Toning and foxing to endpapers. Tie ends are torn, and are not long enough to tie together; cover is therefore bowed.

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1900. Limited edition. Flexible boards. Good. Limited edition. Flexible boards. McKenna # 59. 7 3/4" x 5 /34". 10pp. # 556 of a limited edition of 940, printed on Roycroft hand-made paper, SIGNED BY HUBBARD. French folded. Each stanza of the poem has beautifully decorated borders that have been hand-colored. Signed by the illuminator Loretta Hubbs. Bound in full vellum with cloth ties. Satin paste-downs. Vellum is soiled and bowed. Ties are present but worn. Endpapers are browned, foxing throughout. Ownership signiture on fly leaf in pencil.

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1900. First American edition. First American edition. Publisher's original limp flexible full vellum with gilt lettering on cover, original beige ties wholly in tact. One of 940 copies specially hand-illumined copies, signed by Hubbard as well as the illuminator, Emma Johnson. Silk mauve front and rear paste-downs. Superbly presented with ten full-page illustrations by Henri Caruchet which are expertly hand-illumined by one of the Roycroft's artists. One of the more visually pleasing set of illustrations in all the Roycroft oeuvre. Warping of vellum covers, nice internally. One tie partially lacking, others foreshortened.

New York; (1906): G.P. Putnam's Sons. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is #66 printed on Japanese Vellum, this copy is not signed by the publisher. Browning's poem about the last ride with his mistress, is he dying or is he simply saying goodby knowing the relationship has come to and end? A beautiful copy bound by Harcourt bindery in full green morocco highly decorated in gilt, raised bands with compartments lettered and fully gilt decorated, full morocco doublures suptuously decorated in gilt, blue silk brocade free endsheets, all edges gilt, upper corner of front free silk endsheet with tiny wear. Nearly fine.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters. Original vellum with the ties snaking through it as designed. Limited Edition: No. 289 of 940 hand-illumined copies. Signed by Elbert Hubbard and Elgie Fattey, who did the hand-illumination. Laid in is the slip with the publisher's warning: "Do not cut the leaves of this book. It is printed on one side of the paper only, after the Japanese manner, and to cut the leaves is to spoil your volume." The leaves are uncut. Near Fine. Remarkable condition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1900.

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1900. Kinder, Louis. Octavo. 8ff., frenchfold. One of twenty-five (i.e., twenty-one) copies printed on vellum. Signed on the colophon by Elbert Hubbard, and with an inscription by the illuminator, Frances Carmody. Designed by Samuel Warner. Illustrated throughout with hand-illumined art nouveau borders. The Last Ride was one of only two or three books printed on pure vellum by the Roycrofters. The present copy features a magnificent binding by Louis Kinder of turquoise levant with intersecting brown and black morocco onlays, bordered in gilt, sweeping across both covers, and a gilt tooled fern spray radiating out from the center, against a backdrop of gilt-tooled stars. Elaborately tooled vellum doublures carry the fern motif inside, where they form a horizontal plane that divides the doublures into four sections, decorated with gilt strapwork, at the center of which are four tooled devices: a pair of clasped hands, a pair of hearts pierced by an arrow, an hourglass… Read More