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194242594<p>London : Gerald G. Swan 1942. First edition. Her first crime novel - and we meet the curious investigator Jacob Chaos. Murder in a madhouse - Dr Royd has been killed and any number of people had good cause. Crown 8vo 19cm. 224pp. Plan. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt; front free endpaper neatly excised; text a little tanned but otherwise a very good copy in the striking original dust-jacket - a little trimmed slightly marked and very lightly worn and nicked but also very good.</p> London : Gerald G. Swan, (1942). hardcover
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1992367752US: Kidsbooks 1992. Kidsbooks 1992 New/ Very Fine. Illustrated. Pages lightly tanned. Paperback. New. Kidsbooks Paperback
1967551927Cambridge England: Philip Steadman 1967. Softcover. Very Good. No. 4. Oblong small octavo. 32pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Illustrated in black and white. A couple of tiny spots on the cover top corner creased throughout very good. This issue features three articles on Black Mountain College: "The founding of the College" by Lewis Shelley "The Hochschule at Ulm" by Josef Albers and "Albers' 'Graphic Tectonics'" by Irving Finkelstein; two articles about concrete poetry: "Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry: Exhibition notes and map" and "The early days of Concrete Poetry" by Eugen Gomringer; two articles about art by Charles Biederman: "Symmetry: Nature and the Plane" and "A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality"; "What is Kinetism" by Lev Nusberg; the poem "The Coherences" by Anselm Hollo; and more. Philip Steadman unknown
1903ST17129-027Edinburgh: Printed by Turnbull and Spears for Otto Schulze & Co September 1903. No. 25 OF 40 COPIES printed on Japanese Vellum. 208 x 176 mm. 8 3/4 x 7". v 289 1 pp. 1 leaf colophon. <br/> MOST ATTRACTIVE DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY OTTO SCHULZE & CO. stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with complex strapwork frame raised bands spine compartments with lobed centerpiece gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. With woodcut white-vine border on title page and on the first page of three poems large white-vine initial printed in red on title page numerous six-line white-vine initials throughout. Printed in red and black. Nearly invisible short scratch near head of front board a couple of corners gently bumped trivial internal imperfections but A VERY FINE COPY with virtually no signs of use inside or out.<br/> <br/> This collection of poems by the great Romantic rebel is a strictly limited deluxe production from Edinburgh publisher Otto Schulze clearly intended to capitalize on the allure of books produced by the great English private presses. Operating during the first 10 or 15 years of the 20th century Schulze usually had his books printed by George Robb or as here Turnbull and Spears with some copies then finely bound under his firm's name. Such bindings often were done for rather than by the publisher or bookseller whose name is stamp-signed on the volume but since our volume says that the binding is by--and not for--Schulze we can only assume that our publisher had an in-house binder. Whether in-house or outsourced bindings signed by Schulze are consistently attractive but are not common: since 1975 ABPC has listed six such morocco bindings two of them described as "elaborate" or "extra.". Printed by Turnbull and Spears for Otto Schulze & Co unknown
1892ST18713London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Reeves & Turner 1892. Third Edition with the Notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 188 x 122 mm. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4". Two volumes. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. <br/> PARTICULARLY FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND ONLAID BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE stamp-signed on front turn-in covers framed by multiple plain and decorative rolls cornerpieces with the gilt torch of liberty extending obliquely from an onlaid green morocco heart bracketed by volutes front boards with central onlaid citron morocco medallion stamped with the poet's gilt monogram rear boards with onlaid citron morocco pansy surrounded by a gilt collar with the quote "Pansies let my flowers be" from "Remembrance"; raised bands spine compartments with onlaid green morocco quatrefoil at center volutes at corners volume I with FRONT DOUBLURE OF BROWN MOROCCO semé with rows of alternating quatrefoils and dots at center A MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF SHELLEY UNDER GLASS framed by a laurel wreath inlaid with four red morocco cinquefoils navy blue moiré silk endleaves all edges gilt and delicately gauffered. Housed together in a fleece-lined red cloth drop-back box. Frontispiece in each volume vignette title pages. Front flyleaves with engraved bookplates of Edward Laurence Doheny and Carrie Estelle Doheny. A FLAWLESS AND SPARKLING SET.<br/> <br/> This is the outstanding Doheny copy in lovely bindings of a body of literature graced with a lyricism Day asserts is "unmatched elsewhere in English verse in its ethereal ideal beauty." While the notes of Shelley's wife appended here have aroused considerable denigration she is accused among other things of making her husband's verse less political than it actually was her editorial work is nevertheless professional and has remained an essential source for the study of Shelley's work. As Betty T. Bennett explains "biographers and critics agree that Mary Shelley's commitment to bring her husband the notice she believed his works merited was the single major force that established Shelley's reputation during a period when he almost certainly would have faded from public view." Thanks to her efforts Shelley 1792-1822 is one of the best-known English poets and an icon of the Romantic movement. According to DNB our editor Henry Harry Buxton Forman 1842–1917 "channelled a general enthusiasm into a minute study of textual details for which his careful and exacting temperament was ideally suited. His patient application produced impressive editions of Shelley" who was along with Keats Forman's main literary interest. After studying under and then working for Douglas Cockerell Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe founded their own bindery in 1901 and continued in a successful partnership until 1912 when Francis tragically drowned. Despite this loss the firm grew and prospered employing a staff of 80 by the mid-1920s and becoming perhaps the most successful English bindery of the 20th century. The "Cosway" binding with painted miniatures inlaid in handsome morocco apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909 the year G. C. Williamson's book entitled "Richard Cosway" was remaindered by Sotheran and presumably given this special decorative treatment. The name "Cosway"--referring to the British miniature painter Richard Cosway 1742-1821--was then used to describe any book so treated whoever its author. This set was bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for book dealer J. W. Robinson of Los Angeles who supplied many books for the superb collection of Estelle Doheny 1875-1958 one of the most distinguished women book collectors of the 20th century whose magnificent library was especially rich in fine bindings. Volumes from her collection are sought after for their especially fine condition. [Printed at the Ballantyne Press for] Reeves & Turner unknown
1829ST17129-039London: Printed for John Brooks 1829. 229 x 152 mm. 9 x 6". xxxii 1 leaf section title 270 2 pp. without the initial blank. <br/> LUXURIOUS OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO VIGOROUSLY AND SPLENDIDLY GILT BY ZAEHNSDORF stamp-signed on front doublure and with the firm's oval exhibition stamp on rear endleaf covers framed by multiple plain and decorative rules and garlands of palm and olive branches large central panel densely tooled with 13 horizontal rows of either four or five elegant floral sprigs of various shapes some within flower-framed ovals others on a stippled background; flat spine gilt in similar fashion gilt titling TAN MOROCCO DOUBLURES with intricate central gilt arabesque on a field semé with gilt dots and daggers tan morocco endleaves with gilt border top edge gilt and beautifully gauffered to match the floral design on the covers. From the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck though apparently with his bookplate removed. Granniss 45. Spine sunned toward brown a ubiquitous problem with green morocco very slight rubbing to joints top inch of rear joint a little more significantly so front flyleaf with small closed tear at fore edge title page with small mended half-inch tear in the same place but a very desirable copy nonetheless the text clean and pleasing and the riotously embellished binding almost flaming with gold.<br/> <br/> With distinguished provenance this is a glittering exhibition binding that makes a memorable display with its fine and dense pointillé ground its exquisitely gauffered top edge and its especially refined floral and leafy ornamentation being particularly notable. A spiritual odyssey of lovers divided and seeking reunion "The Revolt of Islam" is Shelley's longest work despite its title the poem has little if anything to do with Islam though religion is generally addressed. The work was issued late in 1817 as "Laon and Cythna" but certain passages of that piece disturbed the publisher who demanded that they be changed or removed. Shelley reluctantly agreed and his alterations included the substitution of the present title. We have the Brooks edition with a new title page using the text of the first edition second issue with the fly title correctly bound as d1 and the preface ending on p. xxi. As Granniss indicates "the original quires and cancel leaves of the work fell into the hands of John Brooks who issued them in 1829 with a new title." Our volume comes from the illustrious collection of Cincinnati businessman arborist and philanthropist Cornelius J. Hauck 1893-1967 whose fortune was made in the family brewery; the auction of his library at Christie's in 2006 totaled more than $12.4 million this item was lot #593 selling for $3360. Printed for John Brooks unknown
1969575217London: A. Zwemmer Limited 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 240pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps bumped and worn with a diagonal crease across the front cover a bit of delamination a well loved about very good copy. Inscribed on the title page by director John Frankenheimer as well as on the inside front cover by Academy Award winning actress Shelley Winters who was in Frankenheimer's film The Young Savages and on the inside back cover by producer Robert L. Rosen produced six of Frankenheimer's films. A. Zwemmer Limited unknown
1836041575New York: The New York Mirror Co 1836 1837 1836. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Full Page Plates. 52 Issues Complete In Publisher's Binding Marbled Boards With Leather Spine Gilt. Full Page Plates And Musical Melodies In Some Issueswear Paper And Leather Worn At Edges Of Boards But Binding Solid Contents Clean Except For Light Foxing At Edges Of The Full Page Plates. P. 119/120 Has Upper Corner Torn Away Removing About 1/2 Of Text. Long Closed Tear Pp 303/304. Pp 215/216 Excised.Includes The First Appearance In America Of An Up-And-Coming Young British Writer Charles Dickens Writing As " Boz" Or As "Excerpts From Dickens": "The Fashionable Dancing Academy" P. 122; "Miss Evans And The Eagle" P. 134; "The Bloomsbury Christening" Pp. 146-47; "The Steam Excursion" Pp. 162-63; "Meditations In Monmouth Street" Pp. 177-178; "The Great Winglebury Duel" Pp. 186-87; "A Christmas Dinner" Pp. 202-203; "Excerpt From 'Pickwick;" P. 294; "Minns And His Cousin" Pp. 305-306; "Our Next Door Neighbors" Pp. 314-315; "The Parlour Orator" Pp. 322-323. P. 328 Has Short Review Of Mary Shelley's "Falkner" "By The Author Of Frankenstein. This Work Exhibits A Greater Range Of Her Powers Than The Book By Which Mrs. Shelley Is Best Known But It Must Not Be Denied That It Lacks All That Strange And Terrible Interest Which Give Its Particular Character To Frankenstein. <br/> <br/> The New York Mirror Co 1836 1837 hardcover
1913305335London & New York: Macmillan & Co 1913. One of 50 copies on Fabriano hand-made paper. Illustrated. 2 vols. Folio. Publisher's printed wrappers. Covers stained and toned edges chipped. One of 50 copies on Fabriano hand-made paper. Illustrated. 2 vols. Folio. The only two issues published until the revival of the journal in the 1950s. Vol. I contains a catalogue of the library at the Keats-Shelley Memoiral. MacGillvray X5 Macmillan & Co unknown
197687631Toronto:: Clarke Irwin & Company Limited. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0772010587 . The novel portion is the Mary Shelley work edited and abridged by the authors. First Canadian printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, hardcover
2000G7564204451I3N00Shanghai University of Finance Press Pub. Date :20 2000. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Shanghai University of Finance Press Pub. Date :20 paperback
190955051Boston: Virtue & Company 1909. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. This handsome set of matching volumes in green cloth with paper labels is number 102 of a limited edition of 1000 copies designated as "The Library Edition". Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Illustrated with full page gravure plates with tissue guards. Just very minimal bumping of corners and nicks to a couple of the labels still very good. Size: Octavo standard book size. 8-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 55051. . Virtue & Company hardcover
188577416London: John Slark 1885. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. No. 73 of 200 numbered copies of this edition. Half red leather over marbled boards. An attractive and meaty set. Introduction by William Rossetti. Size: Octavo . 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 77416. . John Slark hardcover
95432W. Heinemann / J. B. Lippincott n.d. ca 1911. Tall 8vo. Full vellum binding with elaborate gold decor.& ills.on front cover & spine. Pict.endps; In good condition. Corners bumped. Some minor rubbing to edges. Spine and boards darkened. Some minor handling marks and slight darkening to top edges else inside pages clean and tight throughout. Size 10.5 x 8 inches 18 very nice col./tinted plts. mounted. Every page has in addition a small ill. mostly in colour. 128pp. W. Heinemann / J. B. Lippincott (n.d.) ca 1911 hardcover
2432<p>London & Philadelphia: William Heinemann & J. B Lippincott Co. 1911. A quarto bound in original full limp morocco with elaborate design on the upper cover and spine in gilt. Top edge gilt. Eighteen tipped-in color plates by Charles Robinson as well as many vignettes in halftone. A most unusual format for this title seemingly a publisher's deluxe binding. Dark leather is prone to fading and this copy has had some professional color restoration and the head of the spine is chipped. Still a most attractive copy of a very rare binding for this title.</p> hardcover
1880230111London: Printed for Private Distribution 1880. No. 10 of 50 copies for American of an issue of 100. Frontispiece portrait illustrations of coats-of-arms folding genealogical chart. 19 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarter green morocco marbled boards original wrappers bound in. Extremities rubbed else Fine. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge. No. 10 of 50 copies for American of an issue of 100. Frontispiece portrait illustrations of coats-of-arms folding genealogical chart. 19 pp. 1 vols. 4to. <br/><br/> Printed for Private Distribution hardcover
1924236470Paris: Emile Paul Frères 1924. First illustrated edition one of 1600 copies this being no. 1107 on Vélin de Rives. Frotispiece in color and vignettes by Hermine David. 276 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full blue morocco boards ruled in gilt patterned endsheets t.e.g. Fine. First illustrated edition one of 1600 copies this being no. 1107 on Vélin de Rives. Frotispiece in color and vignettes by Hermine David. 276 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Maurois' fine interpretation of Shelley. <br/><br/> Emile Paul Frères hardcover
1897333380New York: Bangs & Co 1897. First edition. Frontispiece portrait 236 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In contemporary library buckram about fine; bookplate of Louis Ledoux. First edition. Frontispiece portrait 236 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Mr. Frederickson about 20 years ago conceived the idea of having the larger portion of his buying concentrated on Shelley. We say.that this Shelley library is the most remarkable ever collected in this country" Preface signed by Ernest Dressel North. <br /> <br /> Among the great rarities is Mary Shelley's copy inscribed from Shelley of "A Philosophical Poem"1813 with her notes and two manuscript verses describing her love for Shelley. There are also several autograph Byron letters Coleridge autograph letter and poem 24 pages of the original manuscript of Irving's "Life of Washington" two Keats letters each 2 pages several Lamb letters a Poe letter discussing "The Mystery of Marie Roget" about 65 Shelley letters and several Mary Shelley letters. An amazing collection. Bangs & Co unknown
1840324477London: Edward Moxon 1840. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Recent half morocco and cloth. Formerly in the Exeter City Library with stamps. With a number of early neat pencil annotations in an unidentified hand 1:164 1:167; 1:234-239 three pages with lines shaved at the bindery. Very good. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Contains the first printing of Shelley's "The Defence of Poetry" and also his translations from the classics including Plato's "Symposium" "Ion" and fragments from "The Republic" and 67 letters. "The Defence of Poetry" was edited by John Hunt for inclusion in "The Liberal" but the magazine folded before it could be published. This first appearance used John Hunt's edited version. <br /> <br /> Inscribed in each volume "Julia Robinson from her affectionate friend Mary Shelley Putney 22 Dec. 1839". This inscription documents Mary Shelley's close connection with the Robinson family who figure for many years in her journals as well as in the Journals of William Godwin her father. From February 1827 Mary became close to Julia and Isabel or Isabella Robinson daughters of Joshua Robinson an Oxford graduate and a successful builder with a large family and a large residence Park Cottage in Paddington. After Isabella bore an illegitimate child she and Mary Shelley shared lodgings in the south of England in the summer of 1827. The inscription also points to a long-secret chapter in Mary's life documented by Betty T. Bennett in Mary Diana Dods A Gentleman and a Scholar 1991. Mary Shelley's friend Mary Diana Dods was the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish earl and wrote numerous works for Blackwood's Magazine under the name David Lyndsay including a story collection Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful 1825. Beginning in 1827 Mary Dods assumed the name and persona of Mr. Walter Sholto Douglas and with Isabella Robinson determined to live on the Continent where it was cheaper and where the legitimacy of Isabella's child would not be questioned. Mary Shelley secured the passports for the couple to travel to France as Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sholto Douglas. In April 1828 Mary Shelley travelled to Paris with Mr. Robinson and Julia "who has become Mary Shelley's new young companion" Bennett 38 to visit the Douglases. During much of that stay Mary was ill with smallpox and "her great regret is that she endangered Julia Robinson" Bennett 136. Mr. Sholto Douglas was later imprisoned for debt and died in France. Isabella was estranged from Mary Shelley when she returned to England in 1830 but Mary and her son lived with Julia Robinson for part of 1833 and clearly preserved friendly ties thereafter. <br /> An important book with an evocative association. Forman 77; Graniss 82. For Isabella Robinson and David Lyndsay see Betty T. Bennett. Mary Diana Dods A Gentleman and a Scholar 1991 Edward Moxon unknown
188828674London: Printed for Private Circulation Only 1888 1888. First and only edition: "Of this Book Twenty-five Copies have been printed." There were also apparently three copies printed on vellum as noted in one OCLC record. Fine copy. Small 4to original printed tan paper boards untrimmed. An essay on Shelley's faith which concludes "Just as Religion is above all creeds dogmas and theologies whatsoever so was Shelley's Faith above those articles and doctrines which many accept in place of Religion. Shelley's Faith was in the Eternal Goodness in the Eternal Truth and in Eternal Love." W. Kineton Parkes 1865-1938 was a novelist art historian and librarian who had some involvement with the Pre-Raphaelites and compiled an interesting anthology entitled Painter Poets. His Shelley's Faith was probably first read as a paper possibly before the Shelley Society though that is not so stated. This publication has the earmarks of the involvement of T. J. Wise but the stated limitation may not be as fallacious as in some of Wise's publications; it is indeed scarce. Bookplate on the front paste-down of Louis V. Ledoux. London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888 unknown
1888260925London: Printed for private circulation for the Shelley Society 1888. One of three copies on vellum signed by the printers Richard Clay & Sons. ii 17 9 pp. 8vo 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches. Polished tan calf gilt spine front hinge started but holding by Tout. Bookplate of Edwin B. Holden. One of three copies on vellum signed by the printers Richard Clay & Sons. ii 17 9 pp. 8vo 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches. Printed for private circulation [for the Shelley Society] unknown
1821267479London: J. Porter 1821. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Volumes 94-96 Complete three volume set for 1821. Octavos. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards. Overall scuffing to the spine and boards chipping to the spine backs else a good sound set. Contains reviews of Shelley's "The Cenci A Tragedy" and "Prometheus Unbound" William Edward Parry's two "Journals" of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage and a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions the "Principles of Political Economy" by Malthus "The History of British India" by James Mill and much more. J. Porter hardcover
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
1830314911London: Saunders and Otley 1830. Second edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Near contemporary half-calf and marbled boards. Covers detached spines perished. Second edition. 3 vols. 8vo. From the library of Sir Percy Florence Shelley 1819-1889 the only surviving child of Percy and Mary Shelley. Sir Percy who inherited the family baronetcy in 1844 on the death of his grandfather also inherited his father's papers on the death of Mary Shelley; he and his wife Jane Lady Shelley created at Boscombe Manor something of a shrine to the poet's memory and had much to do with shaping the Victorian cult and myth of Shelley. Margaret Shelley 1801-1887 who owned this copy prior to her nephew was one of the poet's four younger sisters. The book combines two novels by Griffin issued together for this second edition the year after their first appearance. Provenance: Margaret Shelley ownership signature to titles dated 1839; Percy Florence Shelley bookplate in each volume Saunders and Otley unknown
