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19053905London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press 1905. Thick octavo. Bound in dark green morocco by the W.H. Smith bindery under Douglas Cockerell featuring a subtle but signature Cockerell design in blind and gilt consisting of triple leaf motifs connected to bands across spine and multiple solid gilt dots on both covers. Spine very slightly faded boards a bit bowed. Green marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. <br/><br/> Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press hardcover books
19053905London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press 1905. Thick octavo. Bound in dark green morocco by the W.H. Smith bindery under Douglas Cockerell featuring a subtle but signature Cockerell design in blind and gilt consisting of triple leaf motifs connected to bands across spine and multiple solid gilt dots on both covers. Spine very slightly faded boards a bit bowed. Green marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press unknown
1830880P38London: Alfred Miller 1830. Paperback. Good Only. 6" by 4". Robert Cruikshank. The first illustrated edition of this anonymously penned poem thought to be written by a young Mary Shelley. The scarce first illustrated edition.Illustrated with an engraved title and six plates by Robert Cruikshank. Four pages of adverts to the rear.Collated complete.'Monsieur Nongtongpaw' is thought to be a juvenile poem by Mary Shelley written when she was a child. It was first publishing by her father William Godwin's publishing firm in 1807. Some modern scholars believe it to have been penned by John Taylor.A charming poem based on Charles Dibdin's 1796 song of the same name mocking English and French stereotypes. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally worn front wrap is held by two cords only rear wrap is working loose. Lacking most of the back strip. Wraps are a little discoloured with some light marks. Edge wear to the wraps with a few small chips. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with scattered spots and handling marks. Prior owner's ink inscription to the title page. Good Only Alfred Miller paperback
1911941Q5London: William Heinemann 1911 . First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 8". Charles Robinson . The first Robinson illustrated edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's romantic dreamlike poem elegantly bound in half crushed morocco. The first Robinson illustrated edition being the first appearance of Charles Robinson's illustrations. Bound in half crushed morocco with cloth boards. Beautifully illustrated by prolific book illustrator Charles Robinson. Collated complete with eighteen plates and numerous additional vignettes. First published in 1820 'The Sensitive Plant' explores nature art and the human psyche. Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley this romantic poem comments on society's' view of perfection and humankind's place in the universe. With the bookplate and inscription of Marjorie E. Waggett. Bound in half crushed morocco with cloth boards. Externally excellent with a few marks to the boards and a touch of fading to the spine. Ink inscription to half title and bookplate to following blank. Internally firmly bound with bright clean pages. Very Good Indeed William Heinemann hardcover
1876129623London : Reeves And Turner 1876-1877 1876. 1st Buxton Forman edition in this form. Hardback. A fine set in the original full calf. Period sympathetically re-backed with a red Morocco gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Scans &c. On request. ; 1 pages; Physical desc. : 4 v. : ill. fronts. ports. . pl. facsim. ; 22 cm. London : Reeves And Turner [1876-1877] hardcover
SONG0134444914Pearson 2016-10-10. 1. paperback. Used: Good. 10.70x8.40x0.40. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Pearson paperback
1880AQ26576London: C. Kegan Paul & Co 1880. One volume bound as two. 2 xxvi 188; 189-393pp 1. With an engraved frontispiece vignette of Shelley's tomb on india paper. No. 20 of just 50 copies on large paper; each endorsed by the publishers 'Charles Whittingham & Co'. Uncut and partially unopened finely bound in gilt-tooled green morocco by S.imon Kaufmann. A little rubbed and marked. From the recently dispersed library of Stopford Brooke with a loosely inserted 4pp A.L.S. folded and lightly spotted addressed to him by Lady Jane Shelley dated Good Friday 1899 on Boscombe Manor headed notepaper. An appealing large paper copy finely bound and with an interesting additional A.L.S. from Lady Jane Shelley - the daughter-in-law and fierce protector of the late Victorian reputation of the poet and his second wife Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - of the Richard Garnett's 1835-1806 selection of Shelley's shorter pieces. Garnett was better known as a librarian and editor but the first of his slim volumes of verse to bear a name on the title - Io in Eygpt London 1859 - included a sonnet 'To the memory of Shelley' which 'which appears to have given Garnett an introduction to the poet's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley and his wife Jane' Bell A. 2004 September 23. Garnett Richard 1835-1906 librarian and author. Oxford DNB. Garnett visited Boscombe Manor in 1859 and despite turning down an offer to write Shelley's authorized biography remained a strong proponent of Shelley's work and stayed in touch with Sir Percy and Lady Jane even after coming to regret his being drawn into the latter's dispute with Shelley's friends Hogg Peacock and Trelawny'. The inclusion of an A.L.S. to Stopford Brooke 1832-1916 Anglican clergyman poet university lecturer and literary editor in this copy from Lady Jane Shelley the wife of Shelley's only son with his second wife neatly ties together three of the poet's late Victorian supporters and editors. Like Garnett before him Brooke edited and arranged an edition of Shelley's verse for publication by Macmillan in 1906. The letter itself - written in the very final year of her life - also mentions Garnett in relation to one of Lady Jane's pet topics; the collection and curation of material relating to her father-in-law and the protection to her very end of his reputation from the views especially of T.J. Hogg referring to Garnett's keenness to 'go through.letters which I have been able to purchase from the executor of Hoggs daughter who died last year'. Provenance: From the remains of the library of Stopford Brooke recently dispersed from the estate of his great-grandson Patrick Dockar-Drysdale 1929-2020. . Limited edition on large paper. 8vo. C. Kegan Paul & Co unknown
122691London George Routledge and Sons Broadways Ludgate Hill Glasgow and New York 1888. . 12mo 3.5 x 9.5 cm; ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto gutter-margin split at half-title but otherwise holding; publisher's original red-cloth backed marbled boards slightly rubbed with minor loss to edges and corners of boards spine slightly darkened overall very good; xv 317pp.<br /> A scarce late 19th-century Routledge pocket edition of Mary Shelley's seminal Gothic masterpiece first published in this format and binding in 1883.<br /> London, George Routledge and Sons, Broadways, Ludgate Hill, Glasgow and New York, 1888. hardcover
1894143164London: Privately printed 1894. First edition one of a stated limitation of 30 copies presentation copy inscribed on the half-title by the bibliographer editor and notorious forger "To Henry Norman With Kindest Regards from Thos. J. Wise. 7/iv/95". Henry Norman 1858-1939 was a Liberal politician and journalist who worked for a time at the Pall Mall Gazette under the editorship of W. T. Stead. He was on the staff of the Daily Chronicle from 1892 becoming assistant and literary editor in the year of this presentation. He was knighted in 1906 and made a baronet in 1915. As a journalist he is remembered for his revelations on the truth behind the Dreyfus affair. 2 vols small folio. Engraved device of the Ashley Library at end of each vol. Original red cloth over bevelled boards titles to spines in gilt untrimmed. A touch rubbed slight soiling the bindings otherwise sharp and unfaded very occasional faint toning else internally bright and fresh; a very good set indeed. hardcover
2019031528San Francisco: Arion Press 2019. Book. Illus. by Tim Hawkinson. Fine. Leatherette. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. Bound in white leatherette debossed in matte grey; with a blue cardstock chemise laser cut with titling; and a slipcase with a printed paper wrap-around featuring the image of a ship. Features nine illustrations and a vignette by Tim Hawkinson. This copy is number 76 of a limited edition of 220 copies and is signed by the illustrator Tim Hawkinson. Publisher's prospectus and subscriber letter laid in. Fine copy. Arion Press Hardcover
61This very rare edition of frankenstein is in mint condition. It is a true luxury edition which will be sent in the box that it got received in. It will be sent fully insured and tracked.: Amaranthine books hardcover
182832206London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst Chance and Co. / R. Jennings 1828. Very Good. London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst Chance and Co. 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and R. Jennings 2 Poultry 1828. First Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's magenta moire silk gilt-lettered spine all edges gilt binder's ticket of F. Westley to rear pastedown; vii1360pp.; engraved presentation plate with initials "S.W." frontispiece and added title page sixteen 16 leaves of plates throughout collated complete. Some scuffing at corners and spine ends with brief exposure front hinge just starting else a Very Good internally clean and sound copy housed in modern linen clamshell box. Rather pretty orange contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown of George Gregory "Bookseller to H.M. Queen Alexandra."<br /> <br /> Magnificent example of this scarce keepsake volume with contributions by Sir Walter Scott Wordsworth Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley listed here simply as "the author of Frankenstein." The short story appears on p. 80 under the title "The Sisters of Albano" adorned with an accompanying engraving. As with her masterpiece "Frankenstein" Shelley returns to the nesting story within a story which opens with a pleasure party on the banks of Lake Albano observing a young couple a young worker with a rifle and his female companion. Thus sets off this tragic examination of "the mingling of love with crime" the story of sisters Maria and Anina the elder a devout nun the younger an adolescent who commits a crime for love that lands her before the executioner. In an act of desperation the sisters exchange garbs when Maria comes to visit Anina in order to save her but tragedy comes for all the characters in the end.<br /> <br /> Lyles D1c. Published for the Proprietor by Hurst, Chance, and Co. / R. Jennings unknown
149800Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Archive of 12 vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1973 film. Eight photographs with the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso one photograph additionally SIGNED by the photographer. Five with manuscript annotations on the verso identifying either the film the subjects or location of the photograph one bearing the annotated date "1972." <br /> <br /> Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years photographing a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. <br /> <br /> A high-powered divorce attorney struggles with the end of his own marriage after he is caught having an affair only to discover he is still in love with his ex-wife. <br /> <br /> Photographs variously sized between 11.75 x 9.25 and 13 x 10 inches with most being 13.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
186993832Boston:: Sever Francis & Co. Good. 1869. Hardcover. Third American edition. Small octavo bound in burgundy cloth with the title in gilt lettering on the spine dark brown endpapers. An ex-library copy with typical markings: moderate to heavy shelf wear and aging frayed with loss at the spine ends library book-plate on front paste-down small library stamp on title page library pocket and card on rear paste-down occasional foxing throughout text block else good. ; 177 pages . Sever, Francis, & Co., hardcover books
1818WRCLIT65256London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier 1818. 2v-xxxii2270pp. plus errata. Large octavo. Full ruby-red morocco raised bands gilt inner dentelles t.e.g. by Riviere. Some rubs to joints and tips faint signs of ownership stamp in lower margin of title occasional small marginal spots and tanning; generally a very good copy with the erratab2 bound at the end. First edition second state comprised of sheets from LAON AND CYTHNA equipped with a cancel title and considerably revised via some 26 cancel leaves. A few copies appeared with title-leaves misdated 1817. TINKER 1895. GRANNISS P.50. WISE SHELLEY LIBRARY p.50. Printed for C. and J. Ollier hardcover books
183737724New York: Harper and Brothers 1837. First American Edition. Original green cloth with paper label octavo. Novel of a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure. Nearly Very Good contemporary previously owner signature at front endpaper some loss to spine label expected foxing to pages Harper and Brothers hardcover
1821339097London: Printed and Published by W. Clark 1821. First published edition unauthorized expurgated state and with publisher's ad leaf presentadverrtising this editio at 1s. 6d. bds. 182 1 adspp. 8vo. Bound in contemporary quarter brown calf and marbled boards. First published edition unauthorized expurgated state and with publisher's ad leaf presentadverrtising this editio at 1s. 6d. bds. 182 1 adspp. 8vo. This edition was published without Shelley's consent and the publisher spent four months in jail on the grounds of distribution of illegal material and he was eventually pardoned agreeing to provide all unsold copies to the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Tinker 1888; NCBEL III 314; originally privately printed in a very small edition in 1813 Printed and Published by W. Clark unknown
1821246037London: Printed and Published by W. Clark 1821. First published edition. 182 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter green morocco and cloth. Bookplate of Barnton. Fine. First published edition. 182 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Though a piracy by William Clark - with the help of book pirate Thomas Moses whose monogram appears in black letter below the imprint on the penultimate leaf - the is the first published edition of Shelley's first poem of any length. It was privately printed in 1813 in a very small edition and originally contained a poetical dedication to Harriet. Shelley was in the habit of cutting out the title page and the dedication in copies he gave to friends to avoid his inflammatory views about politics the family and religion being noted by the authorities. <br /> <br /> There are two known versions of this edition the first that prints the notes in their entirety and excises the dedication and a second that includes the dedication and deletes words and lines from the notes. Shelley wrote a letter from Pisa on June 22 1821 both "exonerating" himself and asking to "restrain the sale." Clark threatened by prosecution for Vice voluntarily discontinued distribution after selling about only 50 copies. He was brought to trial and found guilty serving four months. Clark's piracy was the first of three caused Shelley's poem and the ideas therein to be discussed publicly for the first time.<br /> <br /> This copy has certain sections omitted on pp. 146 & 147 it is lacking the advertising page and in its place is bound the dedication "To Harriet" from Carlile's 1822 edition that used Clark's plates. Granniss 19; Tinker 1888 Printed and Published by W. Clark unknown
183154983New York: Wright & Owen 1831. Stated second American edition. 12mo 18.5cm. In original cream paper-covered boards backed in light green muslin with original printed paper label to spine largely intact; plain endpapers; viii 9 10-120pp. Ink ownership inscription of H. A. Fletcher to title page. Temoin on final leaf of text. Straight tight and clean with general mild wear to boards spine faded one or two minor chips to spine label with some foxing heaviest on endleaves: Very Good. Includes an 8-page preface by Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen. <br /> <br /> The uncommon second American printing of Shelley's revolutionary epic poem published by the radical utopian duo of Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen. A favorite book among the Owenites and unofficially adopted in the 1830's as the "Bible of the Chartists" Queen Mab was first issued privately by Shelley in 1813. It remained unnoticed by the public until a London piracy of 1821. That same year another piracy with a false New York imprint was issued by the prolific pirater of Shelley William Benbow; this London-printed piracy is often and incorrectly referred to as the first American edition. <br /> <br /> The true first American edition was "published by Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen in New York in 1831" and "reprinted in the same year with a simplified title page bearing the words 'Second Edition.' Subsequent reprints of this edition with Wright & Owen's preface were made in 1842 and 1852. It is noteworthy that in these latter editions Wright and Owen are referred to as the 'First American Publishers.'" George T. Goodspeed in The Colophon March 1939. <br /> <br /> A survey of institutional copies finds 19 locations in North America but we note no recorded copy of the second edition in auction records for at least 25 years for comparison we note a comparatively plentiful 40 institutional locations for the privately-issued 1813 edition of which no fewer than five copies have appeared at auction in the last decade. Cf. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 9172. Wright & Owen unknown
1833002252Edinburgh 1833 1833. THE LAST PERFORMANCE BY COOKE AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL EDINBURGH FOR 1833. Printed letterpress playbill/broadside 11-3/16" x 7-5/8" laid down on early cardstock toning heaver around edges all broadsides mentioning Cooke playing the Monster are scarce. The play's author Richard Brinsley Peake 1792-1847 was a prolific dramatist of the London popular theatre from 1818 until the time of his death. Presumption! appeared at the Lyceum the English Opera House in the late summer of 1823. During the autumn of the same year other serious adaptations of Frankenstein appeared at the Royalty and the Coburg. The part of the Monster was taken by Thomas Potter Cooke 1786-1864 a former sailor who had already earned popular and critical attention by his performance as Ruthven in The Vampire in 1820. Although Presumption! was not the first successful Gothic melodrama of the 1820s the popularity it achieved had an immediate effect on London theatre managements. Presumption! had helped to illuminate a public appetite for horrifying stage fantasies with morally unambiguous resolutions. The play was seen by Mary Shelley and her father William Godwin on 29 August 1823 at the English Opera House shortly after her return to England. Shelley approved of the way the Creature played by T.P. Cooke was represented by a series of dashes in the advertising. Mary Shelley had mixed feelings about the play when it opened but echoing Lord Byron wrote: "But lo and behold I found myself famous! Frankenstein had prodigious success as a drama and was about to be repeated for the twenty-third night at the English Royal Opera House". Edinburgh, 1833 unknown
1843260343London: Thomas Rudd 1843. First. unbound. fine. 16 pages stitched as issued. Enclosed in a a half crimson morocco slipcase spine elaborately gilt; inner cloth wrappers. London: Thomas Rudd 1843. First Edition<br/><br/> The publisher states that this is a facsimile reprint of the original edition of 20 copies printed in 1816 but no evidence indicates the existence of such an edition.<br/><br/> Thomas Rudd unknown books
191134980London / Philadelphia: William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott 1911. First edition thus. Near fine. Elaborately ornamented edition of Shelley's 1820 poem lavishly illustrated by Charles Robinson and in the full maroon leather binding variant the scarcest of the edition's bindings. First published with "Prometheus Bound" in 1820 "The Sensitive Plant" was inspired in part by Margaret King Lady Mountcashell: author political radical onetime pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft and acquaintance of Shelley that most sensitive plant of all. A rare and beautiful copy. 10.25'' x 8''. Original full maroon goatskin with pictorial gilt decoration. Decorative white and gilt endpapers. Printed at the Ballantyne Press. Introduction by Edmond Gosse. 127 1 pages. 18 tipped-in color plates with additional illustrations in color and black and white by Robinson. Small bookseller label to rear paste-down. Faint toning and wear to spine some rubbing to rear board. William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott unknown
1843260343London: Thomas Rudd 1843. First. unbound. fine. 16 pages stitched as issued. Enclosed in a a half crimson morocco slipcase spine elaborately gilt; inner cloth wrappers. London: Thomas Rudd 1843. First Edition<br/> <br/> The publisher states that this is a facsimile reprint of the original edition of 20 copies printed in 1816 but no evidence indicates the existence of such an edition.<br/> <br/> Thomas Rudd unknown
1996Alibris.0000007New York NY: Oxford University Press USA 1996. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine in Very Good to Fine Dust Jackets. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 4176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Additional shipping and insurance required. Please inquire. Set includes The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches 1867-The Innocents Abroad 1869-Roughing It 1872-The Bilded Age 1873-Sketches New and Old 1875-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876-A Tramp Abroad 1880-The Prince and the Pauper 1881-Life on the Mississippi 1883-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885-A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889-Merry Tales 1892-The American Claimant 1892-The 1 000 000 Bank Note and Other New Stories 1893-Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894-The Tragedy of Pddd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins 1894-Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 1896-The Stolesn White Elephant and Other Detective Stories 1882 1896 1902-How to Tell a Story and Other Essays 1897-Following the Equator and Anti Imperialist Essays 1897 1901 1905-The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays 1900-The Diaries of Adam and Eve 1904 1906-What is Man 1906-The $30 000 Bequest and Other Stories 1906-Christian Science 1907-Chapters from My Autobiography 1906-1907-1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead 1882 1909-Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven 1909-Speeches 1910. Oxford University Press, USA hardcover
187623925London: Reeves & Turner 1876. 4 volumes 8vo later full green pebble-grain morocco gilt rules on covers fleurons in the corners inner dentelles gilt decorated spines a.e.g. by Little Brown & Co.; Franklin Dexter bookplates; 10 plates and facsimiles; slight rubbing but near fine throughout. <br/><br/> Reeves & Turner unknown books
