David nasby (38 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Minor shelf rubbing, small chip to the rear bottom edge, some toning to the covers, very little wear overall. Text is clean. 'David Nasby has spent the last two years photographing the people and the countryside near Guelph, Ontario. Free from sentimentality or nostalgia, and with complete respect…

[0887846181] 1973. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 66pp. B&W photos. "David Nasby's work was shown with Renaissance '71 at the University of Toronto, and in one-man exhibitions at Mount ST Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario and the Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh, S…

First Edition. Green cloth with ornate gilt-designed spine with illustrations. Some wrinkling to cloth, light wear at top and bottom of spine, otherwise a good+ copy. Illustrated. We provide PROTECTIVE packaging. Photos of our books are always available upon request. SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS ON ABE SINCE 1997 AND IN OUR STORE…

Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Pages are gilt edged. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. A couple of small ink stains on front pastedown endpaper. Bevelled boards covered in leather with gilt design. Decorative endpapers. Black and white engraved frontis with tissue guard. Fifteen other engraved illustrations…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 6" x 8 1/4." 672 pages, complete. 291 black and white illustrations, complete. From the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) 11842: "The true first printing, with the inclusion of Chapters 25-29." Pages are clean. Binding has very light cr…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket As Issued. First edition / 1st Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Fair, reading copy only, rubbed at top & bottom of spine & corners, cloth on covers is blistering in places, spine lettering barely readable, slight spine lean, front inner hinge cracked but solid, lacks front endpaper, n…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. 300 pp. Original purple cloth covers w/ gilt title and decoration on spine. Binding moderately rubbed w/ light fraying to corners and spine ends. Spine a bit sunned. Light scattered foxing. Two chips to outer margin of page 47, not affecting text. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Thomas Nast (illu…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 36 pages. 8 x 10". Illustrated in colour and black and white. Catalogue for an exhibition in Guelph and Burlington from 3 May through 26 July, 1981, which united 24 artists who share a concern with the portrayal of the real as opposed to the imaginary. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound cop…

Hardcover. Sixth Edition. Blue cloth, 424 pp., 8 BW illus. A satire of mid-19th-century American history, politics, and culture, written in twangy rural vernacular and from the point of view of the fictional author Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, "Lait Pastor uv the Chuch of the New Dispensashun." Includes an opening "indorsement" of…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front, Rear Covers Pulled From Removal of Stickers; Inside Front Cover Pulled From Removal of Pocket; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: A Rura…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good or better. First edition. 8vo. [5], 6-299, [3] pp. Maroon cloth with borders in blind on the boards, gold lettering and gold devices on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with seven plates by Thomas Nast. Encyclopedia Britannica, "Petroleum V. Nasby Ameri…

Side Stapled. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. This is a catalogue for a show that ran in 1981: May 4 to June 14 at the McDonald Stewart Art Centre, and June 21 to July 26 at the Burlington Cultural Centre. The cover covers a little over 3/4 of the half title page, and is a square red and black Barbara Astman Ektacolour Print. Some pr…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Illustrated by Thomas Nast. Introduction by Hon. Charles Sumner. A publisher's sample copy, with (1) alternate spine covers (with different prices) glued inside front and back covers, (2) handwritten description glued to front free endpage, (3) advertising notices and clippings bound in back of book, an…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Duodecimo size, 299 pp. The popular work of ironic fiction written by journalist and political commentator David Ross Locke (1833-1888). Locke's greatest influence was through his satirical writings as "Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby". The Nasby letters harshly ridiculed the plight of peop…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No date, but c. 1866. Printer's mark at end reads Halifax [UK]. Original decorative stamped and gilt blue pebbled cloth hard covers. Small format, measuring about 13 cm tall. Two works included, each with own title-page, preliminaries, and pagination. Moderate soiling and wear to covers and edges;…