Wraxall translator (9 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n/a. Solid and unmarked copy a little worn around edges. Robert-Houdin's memoir translated with an appreciation my Milbourne.

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Good. Reprint. Chicago: Brewer, Barse, no publication date. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in blind. 281 + 237 pp., complete in one volume. Pages tanning. Illustrated in black and white. Two old newspaper articles pasted in. Solid book. Good. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 8vo. White softcover, xlii, 477pp, in-text line drawings, some markings on outer edges, small brown stain on top-edge, tear to lower hinge of rear cover repaired with archival tape. Very Good. Georg Kohl was an ethnologist and well traveled European writer, who turned his attention to the daily life of the Ojibway, closely detailing their religious life, customs, modes of travel, clothing, games, food and medicine, hunting and fishing. Contains a new appendix including five stories of Menaboju (Nanabush), legendary Ojibway trickster, originally published in the German 1859 Edition but unavailable in English until this publication.…

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Revised, 1864. Slanted, with a bookplate and owner's name to the front pastedown. Front free endpaper has a tear across the top of page. Front hinge weak, slightly dampstained. Near Good. English translation of the German book "Fritz Wildaus Abenteur zu Wasser und zu Lande." (Voyages, Adventure, Pacific Ocean).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: As is Rough. No Jacket. Book is quite old, definite age unknown. EXLIBRARY and though clean text, there are many breaks in the spine. Two ownership marks in quill and ink on the FEP, and stamps from the "Presbyterian Hospital Library" Fading on the spine, edge wear and corner wear down to the boards.The free front endpaper is missing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 4to. Pp. xv, [9], 3-291; 3-272; 3-257; 3-258; 3-288. Introduction by André Maurois. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Bound in black cloth; spine lettered in gilt over brick-colored block. Clean throughout. Lacking slipcase. Number 723 of an edition limited to 1500 hand-numbered copies signed by Lynd Ward. A bright set. Lynd Ward illustrations (illustrator). Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Five volume set published by Limited Editions in 1938. Number 1024 out of 1500 copies. Signed by Lynd Ward (illustrator) at back of Vol. 5. No dust jackets. Slipcase is missing. Black covers with gilt lettering and design on brick red labels on spine. The gilt has faded some. Volumes 3 and 4 have some scratches on back covers. Vol. 2 has some small stains on side edges of pages. Books have some wear along side and bottom edges of covers. Books are in good plus condition. Small 4to, 1466 pages, 9.1 lb.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 1466 pages; Signed by Illustrator.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. This is Copy Number 828. Black cloth covers with brick colored spine plaque and gilt spine title, gilt is faint on the fifth volume. Pages clean. NW3. Ward, Lynd (illustrator).

1). The Border Rifles, A Tale of the Texan War. Engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated title-page, 10 engraved plates. 12mo. Publisher's green pebble-grained cloth, richly decorated in gilt and blind. A.e.g. Small hole to pp.167-8 with loss of a few characters, else very good. viii, 311, [1]pp. London, Ward & Lock, 1862.  2). The White Scalper, A Story of the Texan War. Engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated title-page, 10 engraved plates. 12mo. Publisher's orange pebble-grained cloth, richly decorated in gilt and blind. A.e.g. Very good. viii, 352pp. London, Ward & Lock, 1863. 3). The Trail Hunter, A Tale of the Far West. Engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated title-page, 9 engraved plates. 12mo. Publisher's orange pebble-grained cloth, richly decorated in gilt and blind. A.e.g. A few quires a little loose. Very good. viii, 392pp. London, Ward & Lock, 1863. 4). The Pirate of the Prairies, Adventures in the American Desert. Engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated title-page, 10 engraved plates. 12mo. Publisher's aqua pebble-grained cloth, richly decorated in gilt and blind. A.e.g. Spine lightly rubbed, one loose quire. Very good. viii, 320pp. London, Ward & Lock, 1862. 5). The Indian Chief, A Tale of the Desert. Engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated title-page, 10 engraved plates. 12mo. Publisher's brown pebble-grained cloth, richly decorated in gilt and blind. A.e.g. Very good. [viii], 324pp. London, Ward & Lock, 1863. 6). The Prairie-Flower, Adventures on the Indian Border. Engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated title-page, 9 engraved plates. 12mo. Publisher's indigo pebble-grained cloth, richly decorated in gilt and blind. A.e.g. Very good. viii, 360pp. London, Ward & Lock, 1862. 7). The Indian Scout, A Story of the Aztec City. Engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated title-page, 10 engraved plates. 12mo. Publisher's plumb pebble-grained cloth, richly decorated in gilt and blind. A.e.g. Very good. vi, 429, [1]pp. London, Ward & Lock, 1863. Gustave Aimard (1818-1883) was born in Paris, the illegitimate son of a French noble woman and a Corsican general. He was raised by the Gloux family (his name is sometimes given as Olivier Gloux), who were paid for their trouble. At age 12 he ran away to sea, graduated to the French Navy at 17, and promptly deserted in either Mexico or Chile at the first chance he got. Thus commenced ten years of roving through Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, California, New Mexico, Texas and beyond. He claimed to have been adopted into the Comanche tribe, and many of his novels purport to draw on the firsthand experiences he had living amongst Native Americans. He returned to France in 1847, just in time for the French Revolution, in which he served with the guarde mobile - the "Working Class Army". After these excitements, he turned his full intensity to writing and galloped through novels with a demon speed - in his lifetime completing at least 78 works. A seeming adventure addict, Aimard appears only very loosely disguised as the character "Valentine Guillois" in many of his novels, which though they could be deemed juveniles, contain every imaginable vice. Whether it be an innocent nun buried alive in cave called "Hell" beneath a Mexican convent, or a Comanche chief nailing the heart of his horse to the door of the woman he is courting, between near constant knife-fights and murder plots, it's easy to see how Aimard's work is considered an important early example of the "Western" genre. As with much in his novels, his observations of Native American customs speak both of experience and exaggeration. He takes pains to carefully describe the difference between tribal costumes and ceremonies, whilst also falling back heavily on tropes of captivity narratives, with endless white women swept off, in need of rescue. Known as "The French Fenimore Cooper", Aimard's attitudes, though sensationalising, do near invariably align his sympathies with those oppressed by colonial rule.   Immensely popu. …