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19934350Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton 1993 Cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Alan Sutton hardcover books
1976WRCLIT84660Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1976. Cloth. First edition American issue printed in Britain. Very good in dust jacket. Cornell University Press hardcover books
1986UBECARM00EFArmy Records Society 1986. Very Good. Beckett Ian F. W. editor. The Army and the Curragh Incident 1914. London: Army Records Society 1986. 456pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges and lower corner subtly chewed. Light stains on fore-edge. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges and lower corner chewed. Bookseller's label on front flap. Army Records Society hardcover books
198627454Dublin: Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber London. with Rier Run Press stamped over 1986. First edition. xxvi 2 402 p. Eoin O'Brien ; photography David H. Davison ; foreword James Knowlson ; illustrations Robert Ballagh. ill. ; 27 cm. Cloth fine in slightly faded dust jacket. <br/><br/> Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber, London. with Rier Run Press stamped over hardcover books
1986311812Dublin: Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber 1986. First trade edition. Photography by David H. Davison. Illustrations by Robert Ballagh. Oblong 4to. Original cloth dust jacket. Minor shelfwear near fine. First trade edition. Photography by David H. Davison. Illustrations by Robert Ballagh. Oblong 4to. With inscription from Beckett. With a slip mounted to f.f.e.p. inscribed "For Bill Targ from Sam March 1987". William Targ 1907-1999 was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint Targ Editions; he was also a noted bibliophile and Beckett collector. His wife Roslyn Targ 1925-2017 was Beckett's literary agent. Black Cat Press in association with Faber and Faber unknown books
2014287491New York: Grove Press 2014. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. First Printing of The Collected Poems of Samuel Becket edited by Sean Lawlor and John Pilling. With no marks. Hardcover. Fine with Fine dustjacket. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket. Grove Press unknown books
1846015195Published at The Punch Office 1846. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Beautiful Fine Copy In Light Full Brown Leather Six Compartments With Gilt.First Edition1846 Parts 1-IV Gorgeous Copy. Published at The Punch Office Hardcover books
1844245664Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1844. Very Good binding. Cruikshank. The first two parts of the First American Edition bound together dated 1844 and 1845. Brown ribbed cloth binding rebacked with most of original spine and leather title label laid down. Some foxing rather heavy to preliminaries but scattered and moderate thereafter. Very Good binding. Carey and Hart unknown books
1846WRCAM37115Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1846. 94pp. including 5pp. of publisher's advertisements plus engraved frontispiece and titlepage after George Cruikshank. Dbd. 12mo. Small bookseller's stamp in lower margin of engraved titlepage. Foxed else very good. First American edition of the first part of the brilliant legal satire by Gilbert Abbott àBeckett after the first British edition of the same year. Beckett who here parodies the revered 18th-century jurist William Blackstone pursued careers as both a barrister and a comic writer - he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1841 the same year in which he helped found PUNCH as part of its original staff. THE COMIC BLACKSTONE was published in both its American and British editions in four parts between 1844 and 1846. The printed titlepage in the present copy refers to the work as whole without mention of the parts with 1846 as the publication date while the engraved titlepage states 1844. The publisher's advertisements are dated May 1845. Carey and Hart unknown books
1847313830London: Published at the Punch Office 85 Fleet Street 1847. First edition. 20 colored etching and 120 woodcuts by John Leech. xii 320; xii 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in half calf with gilt spine and marbled paper boards. Loss of text on plates due to trimming in rebinding else very good. Leech John. First edition. 20 colored etching and 120 woodcuts by John Leech. xii 320; xii 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street unknown books
1850D14014London: Bradbury Evans and Co. n.d. c. 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. Half gilt-ruled green morocco and green cloth gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands a.e.g.; complete set of 2 volumes 8vo; pp. xviii 320; 304; with 20 hand-colored steel-engraved plates 10 in each volume numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text; collates complete. Spines sunned; boards lightly rubbed; corners a little scuffed. Internally bright and clean with plates in excellent condition colors remain true. Armorial bookplate of George Burnham Wells on front paste-down of Volume 1. A handsome set. <br/><br/> Bradbury, Evans, and Co. hardcover books
1847D4612London: Punch Bradbury and Evans 1847-8. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Complete set of 2 volumes. Lovely dark brown gilt-ruled morocco and blue marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering and detail in compartmented spine all edges gilt. Each volume complete with 10 hand-colored etchings 20 total as well as numerous woodcuts in text. Joints a bit scuffed; corners lightly bumped; otherwise a simply lovely set. <br/><br/> Punch [Bradbury and Evans] hardcover books
106004London: Published at the Punch Office 85 Fleet Street 1847-8. Two vols 8vo. xii 1-320; xii 1-304 pp. title-page printed in black and red ten hand-colored etchings and 120 woodcuts to each volume including frontispieces. Contemporary half dark-blue calf ruled in blind marbled paper boards backstrip lettered and ruled in gilt. Scattered foxing and damp stains to both volumes backstrip has some minor chips and boards are a bit rubbed; otherwise a good copy with lovely color plates. Bookplate of H. V. Harris to first pastedown in both volumes. § First edition illustrations by John Leech. This extremely popular work was originally printed in parts. Gilbert Abbott À Beckett 1811-1856 was a comic writer and police magistrate The Comic History of England is one of his best known and widely reprinted works. His friends and contemporaries including Charles Dickens Douglas Jerrold George Cruikshank Sheridan Knowles and others. Published at the Punch Office hardcover books
1852028146London: Bradbury Agnew & Co 1852. Octavo. hand-colored frotispiece and nine other hand colored plates pictorial title page in red and black xii 308 pages. In the middle of the 19th century there was a taste for humor with issues of Punch and in books by Lewis Carroll and Gilbert A Beckett which often had symbolical or allegorical overtones. The puns in this volume often bring a hidden delight along with the ten etched engravings by John Leech all of which are handcolored. Cicero Denouncing Cataline is issued as a frontispience instead of at the end of the book. Bound in 3/4 red polished calf over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled raised bands with lettering gilt and compartments fully gilt decorated edges rubbed. A clean bright copy without foxing names or bookplates. Bradbury, Agnew & Co unknown books
D6454Bradbury Evans and Co. n.d. Hardcover. Very Good. Half red morocco and cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine. With illustrated title-page printed in red and black numerous wood engravings in text and 10 steel-engraved plates printed in full color. A few small scuff marks on spine otherwise a lovely copy with previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. First steel-engraved plate detached but laid-in and a bit chipped along the edges. <br/><br/> Bradbury, Evans, and Co. hardcover books
216417London: Bradbury Agnew. hardcover. very good. From the founding of the city to the end of the commonwealth. Illustrated title page 10 color plates and black & white illustrations by John Leech 308pp. 8vo 3/4 calf green leather spine label ornately gilt spine marbled boards marbled edges lightly rubbed. London: Bradbury Agnew & Co. n.d. ca. 1860.<br/><br/> Bradbury, Agnew unknown books
123208London: Bradbury Agnew. hardcover. very good. From the founding of the city to the end of the commonwealth. Illustrated title page 10 color plates and black & white illustrations by John Leech 308 pages 8vo 3/4 leather gilt-lettered raised bands t.e.g. tissue guards; lightly rubbed. London: Bradbury Agnew & Co. n.d. ca. 1860. Very good.<br/><br/> Bradbury, Agnew unknown books
WB92126London: Bradbury Evans and Co. Prior owner signatures on front free endpaper. Complete 10 full page full color plates by John Leech. Red morocco spine titling piece with chip missing affecting last portion of author's name. Spine ends and all edges with shelf wear. Green calf dulled to brown on spine with all over gilt decoration. Matching marbled boards end papers and edges. . First Thus. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John Leech. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Bradbury, Evans, and Co. Hardcover books
198220081Ohio: Viscerally Press 1982. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paperbound quarto. The Fall 1982 issue of this small press poetry magazine edited by Tom Beckett. Very good condition in photo-illustrated bound wraps. This issue devoted to works by and about Charles Bernstein and includes an interview with him as well as a bibliography. Contributors include Jackson Mac Low Robert Creeley Robert Grenier Ron Silliman and others. 115 pp. Cover photograph by Susan B. Laufer. Uncommon issue of this magazine. <br/><br/> Viscerally Press paperback books
198018913Kent Ohio: Viscerally Press 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Squarish paperbound 8vo. The first issue of this small press poetry journal edited by Beckett and Neikirk. Multiple by Tom Raworth included. Light toning at spine else a solid clean very good example in printed bound wrappers. <br/><br/> Viscerally Press paperback books
198263385Kent: Viscerally Press 1982. 4to. 114 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Works and an interview with Bernstein followed by contributions by Creeley Grenier Mac Low Piombino Silliman Watten and several others. Kent: Viscerally Press, unknown books
193129757Dublin: New Square Publications 1931. Wrappers light wear. Contains Beckett's "Alba" Padraic Colum on Roger Casement. <br/><br/> New Square Publications unknown books
1987036829London: Phaidon Press and Barbican Art Gallery 1987. 176p. colored and b/w illus. original stiff wrappers quarto format. Phaidon Press and Barbican Art Gallery unknown books
1987300424London: Philosophical Library 1987. hardcover. fine/fine. 230 illustrations 41 in color. 176 pages 4to black cloth d.w. London: Phaidon Press and Barbican Art Gallery 1987. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Philosophical Library unknown books
1953WRCLIT71763Paris & Limerick ME 1953. II:3. Printed wrappers. Large octavo. Spine a bit nicked and creased lower wrapper a bit soiled otherwise a very good copy. Edited by Alex Trocchi et al. Beckett and Seaver translated Beckett's contribution. Includes additional contributions by J. Crews R. Horan Stanley Hayter Trocchi Ionesco Svevo Patrick Bowles Guy Daniels et al with the illustrated "The Red Cloth" by George Bartholick occupying substantial conclusion of the issue. F&F 372. hardcover books