Search Results: Titles starting with A from Cedar Tree Antiques

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1950 by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. Hardcover, first edition with 'A' on copyright page. Condition is fine, with no bookplate or markings. Dust jacket is not price clipped, showing $3.00. DJ is near fine with rubbing & chipping to top and bottom of spine. See photos.

THE AENEID is an epic poem written by Virgil about 20 BC. Published by the Easton Press in 1979 in Norwalk, Connecticut. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine condition, no jacket, as issued. Quarto, 9 ¾" tall. Illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. Full dark brown leather with gilt ornaments on front & back cover, gilt title & ornaments to spine, with 4 raised bands, light brown ribbon page marker and light brown moire endpapers. Smyth sewn binding, all edges gilt, no markings or bookplates. Pages are bright and fresh, textblock is tight. This book is from the Easton Press' "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" collection. A handsome book in Fine condition. Collector's edition. Suitable as a gift.

Paris: Dufour, 1803. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket, as issued. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. AMBASSADE DE M. SAMUEL TURNER AUPRÈS DU TESCHOU-LAMA, AU THIBET ET OU BOUTAN, Avec une Notice des événements qui s'y sont passés jusqu'e en 1793. Tome Premier. Translated from English and published in 1803 in Paris, with a large (21.5 cm x 26cm) fold-out map "Asie par Hérisson" by Beaublé fils from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and from Russia to Java Full calf with gilt title & ornaments to spine, 5" tall, 200 pages, marbled endpapers. Red ribbon page marker. No markings, no bookplates, no inscriptions. Binding is tight, pages are clean and bright except for a few small spots of foxing. Front free endpaper has open tear at hinge. In fine condition, nearly pristine after more than 200 years. "In 1783, at the opportunity presented by a new Panchen (or Teshoo) Lama, Bengal governor-general Warren Hastings sent a deputation to Tibet and Bhutan in the hope of promoting British-Indian… Read More

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1975. 1st Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket, as issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. ANNA KARENINA written by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Octavo, 8 ½" tall in dark red leather with gilt stamped ornaments to front & back cover, spine with four raised bands and gilt title & ornaments. First edition, first printing of this Easton Press collector's edition. In as new condition. No dust jacket, as issued. Peach colored ribbon with matching peach moire silk endpapers. No names or markings. A fine, bright copy of a finely produced edition of this great Russian novel. Anna Karenina deals with themes of family, faith, betrayal, marriage, desire, and Imperial Russian society. It tells the story of an extramarital affair between Anna and a dashing cavalry officer. Easton Press specializes in premium leather-bound books. This volume is one of Easton's "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series. All the books in this series… Read More

No Binding. As New. Between 1897 and 1913, Charles Paul Gruppé (1860-1940) lived in the Netherlands, where he painted with the Hague School of art and acted as a dealer for Dutch painters in the US. He, his wife Helen and their children returned permanently to America in 1913 ahead of World War I. All their children were active in the arts; Paulo as a cellist, Karl as a sculptor, Virginia in watercolors, and Emile Albert Gruppé. Please view the photographs. CONDITION: Excellent. DIMENSIONS: Frame 36 inches high x 32 inches wide x 3 1/2 inches deep.

Los Angeles. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. An original typescript screenplay called "The Anthem Sprinters" based on his 1963 short story. It was filmed in 1992 for the Ray Bradbury Theater television series. Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, is one of America's most celebrated science fiction, fantasy and horror writers. In this story, an American author visits a Dublin pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." Runners compete to see who can exit the theater fastest during the few seconds between the end of a film and the start of the Irish National Anthem. Handwritten changes by the author on a couple of pages (see photos). Included is a signed letter from Bradbury.

St Petersburg, Russia, 1823. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ATLAS OF THE CRUSADES translated by Ivan Grigoryevich Butovsky, published in 1823 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Full green morocco leather boards gilt stamped with the Imperial Romanov eagle on both front and back cover. Gilt tooled spine, gilt tooled and blind stamped borders. Front pastedown bears a paper label from the Pavlovsk Palace Library. This is a slim volume of only eight pages - title page plus seven maps. All edges gilt. Each of the eight pages bear an embossed device with the letters P and M, signifying Grand Duke Paul & Grand Duchess Maria. The seven map plates are: Asia Minor Plan of Antioch Plan of Jerusalem Christian Dominions in Asia Plan of Alexandria Plan of Constantinople Egypt Size: 10" tall, 13.5" wide. Condition is near fine. There is a faint scuff on the front cover. Front hinge starting, but the joints are sound. Paper on one map has… Read More