Search Results: Titles starting with A from Nana's Top Shelf: Rare and Collector Books

c. 1910 Don Quixote de la Mancha, Cervantes. 1st Burt Edition, Rare VG+ Condition
Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha, Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Charles Jarvis, with Illustrations, Complete in One Volume, New York: A.L. Burt Publisher. Undated by estimated at circa 1910. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine and embossed crest on front and rear covers. Black and white full-page illustrations. 811 pages, 7.5" x 5.25" (8vo).
This is a sought-after collector's volume in rare VG+ condition. Suitable as bespoke gift or investment book. Compare with the couple of other copies of this book currently available on the internet at $295-$385, both in considerably lesser condition.
Condition: Very Good+. Cover corners are very lightly (barely) bumped; light shelf wear to bottom edge of spine; very light elsewhere. Very small scuffs to front and rear covers (see photos). Binding is fully tight except for gentle parting between pp. 406-407. Owner… Read More

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, tipped-in color plates by Harry Rountree, published by Sully and Kleinteich, New York, 64 pp., 8" x 10". 1915 (n.d., but see Morgan Library; www.themorgan.org/printed-books/344180). Red cloth stamped in gold with color plate mounted on front cover, with paste-in color pictorial. Original dust jacket present (see below).
This volume has been a gem of our personal bookshelf, but we've decided to list it for sale for the first time. Rountree's beautiful color plates and its extreme scarcity make this an aspirational goal for Alice collectors; the condition and presence of the DJ make this book literally unique.
Overall condition of book is Very Good. Cover corners and edges are sharp, with the lightest of wear. Light foxing of interior of front and rear boards, where not enclosed by DJ. Binding is tight. All plates present and firmly in place. Interior pages are bright and clean and as-new, but for faint droplet stain on p.16. Only other sign of wear… Read More

10" by 12" hardcover. Undated but looks like early 20th Century edition. Original pictorial covers with green cloth spine. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings. A nice early-edition illustrated children's book, suitable as a bespoke gift or investment."Sir John Tenniel(28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914)[1] was an English illustrator, graphichumorist and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19thcentury. He was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel isremembered mainly as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine forover 50 years and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventuresin Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There(1871).
Despite the thousandsof political cartoons and hundreds of illustrative works attributed to him,much of Tenniel's fame stems from his illustrations for Alice. Tenniel drew 92drawings for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland… Read More