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18211213New York: J. Baldwin 1821. First American Edition. Full-Leather. 12mo. 1-3 4-181 1pp. publisher's ad; with the engraved title only; page 24 misnumbered 4; bound in full contemporary green straight grained morocco bordered in decorative rolls in blind slightly raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated red morocco spine label gilt all edges gilt; edges lightly rubbed; neat previous owner's name on front free end sheet; early repair to upper joint. Internally clean without foxing; housed in a cloth slipcase. The first of Shelley's work to be published in America. <br/><br/> J. Baldwin hardcover books
1862295516London: Edward Moxon 1862. First. hardcover. fine. Edited by Richard Garnett. Slim 12mo 191 pages beautifully rebound in full black morocco gilt geometric pattern on spine and front and rear covers a.e.g. London: Edward Moxon 1862. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Scarce First Edition of this compilation of Shelley s poems essays letters and miscellaneous fragments.<br/><br/> Edward Moxon unknown books
186241242London: Edward Moxon & Co 1862. 12mo pp. xvi 191; later three-quarter green calf over marbled boards gilt-stamped spine in 6 compartments 2 red gilt-lettered morocco spine labels t.e.g. marbled endpapers; spine faded to brown; edges spine head and foot rubbed interior fine. <br/><br/> Edward Moxon & Co hardcover books
18876291London Privately Printed 1887. 1887. Square 8vo. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. 64 pages. Later plain vellum paper wrappers. Very good. Rare. One of only 16 copies on large paper on Whatman paper watermarked 1886. Printed by Richard Clay & Sons. Soft cover. London, Privately Printed, 1887. hardcover books
188330498NY: Appleton 1883. 12mo pp. 255. Frontis illustration. TEG. White paper over boards. Cover little soiled o/w a VG tight copy. Appleton unknown books
36514SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. SELECTED POEMS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. London: Oxford University Press 1924. 12mo. Decorated cloth. viii 479 pages. First published as one volume of The World's Classics in 1913. Bound in distinctive decorator binding. Very good. unknown books
1944321904Golden Cockerel 1944. One of 50 copies with the facsimile letters; signed by the editor Walter Sidney Scott. With portraits; and an added gathering of 7 facsimile letters and view of the shop of Monday and Slatter. 1 vols. 4to. Full tan niger morocco t.e.g. by Leighton-Straker. A few chips to endpapers. Very good. One of 50 copies with the facsimile letters; signed by the editor Walter Sidney Scott. With portraits; and an added gathering of 7 facsimile letters and view of the shop of Monday and Slatter. 1 vols. 4to. Handsome volume recording the correspondence of a key period in Shelley's life. Golden Cockerel unknown books
1944309503Golden Cockerel 1944. One of 50 copies with the facsimile letters; signed by the editor Walter Sidney Scott. With portraits; and an added gathering of 7 facsimile letters and view of the shop of Monday and Slatter. 1 vols. 4to. Full tan niger morocco t.e.g. by Leighton-Straker. One of 50 copies with the facsimile letters; signed by the editor Walter Sidney Scott. With portraits; and an added gathering of 7 facsimile letters and view of the shop of Monday and Slatter. 1 vols. 4to. Handsome volume recording the correspondence of a key period in Shelley's life. Golden Cockerel unknown books
185924910London: Smith Elder 1859 1859. First edition. NCBEL III 315. Cloth slightly worn; front hinge skillfully repaired; nearly fine copy. 8vo original decoratively blind-stamped blue cloth gilt decorations and lettering. Frontispiece. 34-page publisher's terminal catalogue. ¶ An important collection of pieces about Shelley and his association with the other principle romantics. <br/><br/> London: Smith, Elder, 1859 hardcover books
1932030191London: Humphrey Milford 1932. Edited with an introduction by John Shawcross. xlvii 244p. original green cloth. Reprint of the 1909 edition. Humphrey Milford unknown books
6293LONDON FABER 1930. 1/950; SLIPCASE VERY GOOD. LONDON, FABER, 1930 unknown books
6292LONDON FABER 1930. FIRST EDITION THUS GOOD-VERY GOOD. F. LONDON, FABER, 1930 unknown books
1819219217Livorno Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street 1819. First edition one of 250 copies without initial blank. 104 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 9-1/8 x 5-3/4 inches: 232 x 146 mm. Bound in full green morocco gilt spine t.e.g. by Riviere & Sons professionally rebacked in invisible fashion spine gilt very slightly sunned else fine. Bookplate of Robert Hoe and Blairhame. First edition one of 250 copies without initial blank. 104 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 9-1/8 x 5-3/4 inches: 232 x 146 mm. Hoe Copy of Shelley's verse drama. First edition of Shelley's dramatization of this dark tale of parricide child abuse and incest - based on actual events - and arguably the most enduring Romantic verse-play. Only 250 copies were printed according to Shelley himself. According to Granniss "With the exception of Queen Mab The Cenci is the only one of Shelley's works which reached a second edition during his lifetime ." On the other hand the play was never staged until the Shelley Society produced it on the occasion of Robert Browning's birthday on May 7 1886. Granniss 50; Ashley V 69; not in Tinker Printed for C. and J. Ollier Vere Street, Bond Street unknown books
1821226038Livorno Italy: C. and J. Ollier 1821. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of only 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later half red morocco spine gilt t.e.g. others uncut. Fine copy. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of only 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ashley Library V p. 69; Wise: A Shelley Library p.51 C. and J. Ollier unknown books
190140982Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1901. Cambridge edition 8vo pp. xliii 651; engraved portrait frontispiece; contemporary three-quarter black morocco over blue marble boards gilt-stamped spine in 6 compartments t.e.g. marble endpapers; spine toned to a dark brown upper cover nearly detached general light shelf wear else a very good attractive copy. Forms part of the series The Cambridge Edition of the Poets. Printed at the Riverside Press. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
18995827Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1899. Handsomely bound in 3/4 burgundy grain morocco and marbled boards. Triple gilt-ruled spine compartments with decorative gilt-tooled motifs. Raised bands. Gilt titles. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. 8vo. Illustrated with monochrome frontis and title plates. . Full page tape repairs to prelims frontis and title pages mild rubbing to extremities else a Very Good copy. Houghton Mifflin Company. hardcover books
1933030131New York: Oxford University Press 1933. Edited by Thoma sHutchinson. With introduction and notes by benjamin P. Kurtz. lvi 928p. original burgundy cloth. Oxford standard edition. Oxford University Press unknown books
1892318687Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1892. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901. 8vo. Bound in modern half brown morocco over marbled boards spines gilt with burgundy and green calf title labels some foxing to endpapers uncut and largely unopened else fine. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901." 8vo. Centenary Edition. Printed at the Riverside Press unknown books
1964226125New York: Knopf 1964. First edition. 4 271 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. 4 271 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy to John Dreyfus. A notable First edition. In 1962 the Pforzheimer Library bought the Esdaile notebook containing fifty-seven poems of which only 14 had been previously published. Inscribed by Pforzheimer on the front pastedown to the great typographer and designer John Dreyfus: " . in appreciation for the close cooperation in producing a volume so pleasing textually and typographically; and with great admiration and warm regards - Carl Pforzheimer Jr. 11/72. Knopf unknown books
1909259154London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd 1909. First edition Copy no. 4 of 200 Large Paper Copies. lviii 479; xvi 481-1020 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in half publisher's black pebbled morocco and cloth t.e.g rest uncut. Fine. First edition Copy no. 4 of 200 Large Paper Copies. lviii 479; xvi 481-1020 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. EDWARD DOWDEN'S SET PRESENTATION. Inscribed "To Professor Edward Dowden with Roger Ingpen's compliments & thanks Sept 6th 1909." WITH a full page ALS to Dowden from Ingpen tipped in on the same date. Telling him he is sending this copy of his book which was to be published the next day the 7th. One can see his acknowledgement to Dowden's scholarship on p. vi of the Preface and his thanks in this letter. A great association copy. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd unknown books
223295New York: Brentano. hardcover. near fine. Thick 8vo. Magnificently rebound in full burgundy morocco with gold floral designs on the covers and spine t.e.g. New York: Brentano no date circa 1950. A fine copy but for a bookplate neatly removed from inside front cover.<br/><br/> Brentano unknown books
1832000649London: Edward Moxon 1832 1832. FIRST EDITION FIRST BINDING COMPLETELY UNRESTORED. 1 vol. 12mo bound in the original tan boards the secondary binding was cloth printed paper spine label partially present uncut as issued outer hinges starting inner hinges fine internally clean and bright a VERY GOOD UNSOPHISTICATED COPY. Housed in a full green straight grained morocco solider slipcase gilt lettered spine. <br /><br />Written to denounce the state of things that occasioned the notorious 'Peterloo Massacre' at Manchester in 1819 for publication in The Examiner but turned down by the editor Leigh Hunt ".because he thought that the public at large had not become sufficiently discerning to do justice to the sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse." London: Edward Moxon, 1832 hardcover books
194610534Yonkers: Alicat Bookshop 1946. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Pamphlet. Number 4 in the "Outcast" series of chapbooks published by the Alicat Bookshop. 24 pp. Includes selections from The Necessity of Atheism A Letter to Lord Ellenborough A Refutation of Deism and Essay on Christianity by Shelley. A clean near fine example of this uncommon book. <br/><br/> Alicat Bookshop paperback books
188021450London: Printed for Private Distribution 1880. Number 10 of the 50 printed for American distribution from an private issue edition of 100 copies. Engraved frontispiece marked "Proof" title vignette folding pedigree illustrations in text. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary half green morocco original wrappers bound in. Some rubbing original wrappers and adjacent leaves spotted and browned else a good copy from the library of Henry Cabot Lodge. Number 10 of the 50 printed for American distribution from an private issue edition of 100 copies. Engraved frontispiece marked "Proof" title vignette folding pedigree illustrations in text. 1 vols. 4to. Printed for Private Distribution unknown books
1901292613London: Vale Press 1901. Limited. hardcover. very good. Charles Ricketts. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts with initial letters and several elaborate wood engraved border designs. 3 volumes. 8vo white cloth spines sunned as usual. London: Hacon & Ricketts The Vale Press 1901. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> A very good copy with some very light foxing at bottom margins of a few pages otherwise fine & fresh.<br/><br/> Vale Press unknown books
