Titles starting with U from Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books

Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. BAL Binding B variant. "25th thousand" on each title page. First Edition, Second Printing. Original brown cloth, gilt vignette of cabin on upper boards. BAL notes first publication date in March, with 50,000 printed by May 15. Hobart & Robbins imprint on copyright page of both volumes. Sympathetically and skillfully recased and rebacked with original spines laid down. Foxing and spotting present on both volumes, particularly heavy on the preliminary... more information

London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., (ca. 1930). Large octavo bound in original pictorial cloth-backed boards. Pages,ii, 5 thru 55, iii. Aside from shelfwear on the lower edges, this is a fine copy in very lightly worn pictorial dust wrapper. Illustrated troughout with Greenaway's charming color drawings. ... more information

Sarasota, Florida: Marlin Media, (2004). A fine copy of the first edition, inscribed and signed by the author. ... more information

London: George Allen & Sons, (1909). A superb Art Nouveau binding with a strong Arts and Crafts influence, with a tantalizing link to John Ruskin. This slim 16mo of 199 pages is bound in full calf of deepest burgundy with a cover design in gilt of a stylized trellis with six repeating squares containing a single blossom and foliage, repeated on the spine. All edges gilt. This superb little volume contains some of Ruskin's most penetrating essays on the nature of Man, originally published in the Cor... more information

London and Glasgow: Charles & Son, (ca. 1920). A green cloth 12mo with black lettering. 86 pages well illustrated with drawings and photographs on cane weaving and tying. Chapters include materials and tools, round bases, oval bases, borders and foot ridges as well as one chapter with 11 different projects. A very good copy with one small closed tear on the title page. ... more information