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1840410501840. SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. ESSAYS LETTERS FROM ABROAD TRANSLATIONS AND FRAGMENTS. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. In two volumes. London: Edward Moxon 1840. First edition. 8vo. brown cloth; xxvii 319 pp. viii 360 pp. Book plates. Corners slightly bumped wear to heel and crown and small tears at spines on both vols.; mild soiling sunning and rubbing at boards. Hinges tender; one signature starting at vol. I; mild over-opening and soiling at endpapers on both vols. Text very clean. Good. unknown books
20007370Bisbee AZ: Pequeno Press 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tight bright and unmarred. Tri section binding text attached to each section grey endpages. 71x79mm. np. Illus. color plates. Numbered limited edition this being 15 of 50. <br/><br/>Signed by Pat Baldwin. Pequeno Press hardcover books
1911013590St. Louis Missouri: William K. Bixby 1911. THREE VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Portrait frontispiece of Shelley in Volume 1. Back strips of first two volumes are worn and soiled. Gilt lettering is readable. Volume 3 is much brighter. One quire in Volume 1 is partially loosened. These volumes were published for the Bibliophile Society. The original note books were owned by William K. Bixby. He was given permission to privately print 250 copies for presentation purposes omitting the Bibliophile imprints. This is copy #130/250. The set is a presentation to the Grolier Club SIGNED AND DATED on the front free endpaper by Mr. Bixby. The book-plate of the Grolier Club is affixed to the front pastedown acknowleding the gift. Furthermore there is a letter tipped-in at the rear of Volume 1 on Mr. Bixby's letterhead confirming the gift. See photos. The note books were deciphered transcribed and edited with full commentary by H. Buxton Forman C.B. In spite of the roughened bindings this is a very good set and a fine addition to any English literature library. 209 187 179pp. Signed by Publisher. Limited Edition. 1/4 Vellum Over Grey Boards. General Wear/No Jacket. Royal Octavo. William K. Bixby Hardcover books
1911313406Boston: Printed for Members of the Bibliophile Society De Vinne Press 1911. One of 475 copies printed for the Members of the Bibliophile Society. 3 vols. 4to. Original parchment-backed gray boards. Fine fresh copy. One of 475 copies printed for the Members of the Bibliophile Society. 3 vols. 4to. Presentation copy of WK Bixby. This copy of the limited edition of 475 bears a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: Miss Anne Woodin with best wishes of Mr & Mrs W.K. Bixby Nov. 1920. <br/><br/>These notebooks had originally been given to Richard Garnett by Sir Percy and Lady Shelley in recognition for his long devoted service in assisting to sort out all the Shelley papers and manuscripts and then made their way into the possession of William Keeney Bixby. W K Bixby was born in 1857 and was a passionate collector of autographs manuscripts rare books and art. His work with the Union Pacific Railroad and American Car & Foundry Company allowed him to retire at the age of 48 and devote the rest of his life to travel and literature. <br/><br/>These volumes contain the first printing of the stanza from "Love's Philosophy" that Shelley did not present to Miss Sophia Stacy when he gave her the rest. Granniss 91 Printed for Members of the Bibliophile Society [De Vinne Press] unknown books
1911226056Boston: Printed for Members of the Bibliophile Society De Vinne Press 1911. One of 475 copies printed for the Members of the Bibliophile Society. 3 vols. 4to. Original parchment-backed gray boards. Fine fresh copy. One of 475 copies printed for the Members of the Bibliophile Society. 3 vols. 4to. These notebooks had originally been given to Richard Garnett by Sir Percy and Lady Shelley in recognition for his long devoted service in assisting to sort out all the Shelley papers and manuscript<br/>They contain the first printing of the stanza from "Love's Philosophy" that Shelley did not present to Miss Sophia Stacy when he gave her the rest. Granniss 91 Printed for Members of the Bibliophile Society [De Vinne Press] unknown books
191156895St. Louis:: William K. Bixby. Good. 1911. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. Deciphered transcribed and edited with a full commentary by H. Buxton Forman. Limited edition of 250 copies - this set is numbered 194 and initialed by the publisher. Also INSCRIBED by the publisher in the year of publication. Octavos half bound in white vellum with gilt lettering along the spines and gray paper covered boards. The vellum spine of each volume is soiled heavily on the first two volumes Volume I has a small area of abrasion on the spine some of the corners are bumped and worn occasional foxing to endpapers and throughout text blocks else each volume is good or better. No dust jackets. . William K. Bixby, hardcover books
197574817n.p.:: Folcroft Library Editions. Very Good. 1975. Hardcover. Introduction by Hugh I'Anson Fausset. A reprint edition. Very good in a blue buckram binding. No dust jacket. ; 16 pages . Folcroft Library Editions, hardcover books
1931295380London: Privately Printed 1931. hardcover. fine. 116 pages slim 8vo 3/4 orange morocco ornately gilt spine. all edges gilt. London: Privately Printed 1931. Fine.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
192242568London: Chatto & Windus 1922 1924 1927. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Dramatic Poems; Lyrical Poems and Translations; Narrative Poems in Two Volumes. London: Chatto & Windus 1922 1924 1927. arranged in chronological order with a preface by C. H. Herford . 4 vols. xi 412; xxvi 480; v 352; v 301 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Recently rebound in undecorated 3/4 brown faux morocco over faux marbled paper covered boards. Top edge gilt. Fore end bottom edges untrimmed. Excellent condition but unassuming shelf presence of this scholarly work. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1971122678N.P.: Limited Editions Club 1971. quarter leather slipcase. Limited Editions Club. tall 8vo. quarter leather slipcase. xxvii 312 4 pages. Selected edited and introduced by Stephen Spender. Illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Smith LEC 443. Printed at Cambridge University Press under the direction of Brooke Crutchley and designed by John Dreyfus. Monthly Newsletter / prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in fine slipcase. Limited Editions Club unknown books
19176290MILAN FRATELLI TREVES 1917 1917. BLACK MOROCCO OVER MARBLED BOARDS; 2 VOLS VERY GOOD. Hardcover. MILAN, FRATELLI TREVES, 1917 hardcover books
6289LONDON MACMILLAN 1901. 3/4 BROWN MOROCCO VERY GOOD. LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1901 unknown books
65489SHELLEY Percy Bysshe. THE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Edited by Edward Dowden. New York/Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell n.d. c. 1900. 8vo. navy cloth lettered and decorated in gilt a.e.g frontis portrait. Minimal soil to front board. Title page starting else a fine bright copy of an attractive binding. unknown books
1443London: Reeves & Turner 1886. Octavo 572 pp; 580 pp. plus 14 page publisher's catalogue bound in the back of the second volume. Original light brown cloth with elaborate early Art Nouveau gilt pictorial covers featuring the subjects of many of Shelley's poems.heaven and earthly pleasures found in the sun stars and wildflowers.two opposite corners occupied by a butterfly and bird in flight. Engraved portrait of the poet is the frontispiece of the first volume. This is the second edition of the highly regarded editorial work of H. Buxton Forman with the notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Aside from some very minor rubbing this is a fine set with the small booksellers ticket of Clarke & Carruth Boston on the front free endpaper. hardcover books
1824140941633London: Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt 1824. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. xi iii 415 1 pp. bound with the errata leaf. Later green calf gilt smooth spine gilt brown decorative morocco lettering-pieces gilt all edges gilt blue marbled endpapers stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf for A. C. McClurg. Near Fine with slightly sunned spine some minor rubbing to extremities. From the collection of Louis V. Ledoux 1880-1948 poet and Japanese print collector with his bookplate. An attractive copy. One of only 500 copies. Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt unknown books
190421976London: Essex House Press Edward Arnold 1904. leather_bound. Orig. full limp vellum with yapp edges. Near fine. 96 pages. Folio 29.5 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition copy 67 of 200 of 220 20 printed on vellum. Frontispiece by C.R. Ashbee with text printed in red and black in Endeavour type. Wide text margins bright copy top front tie lacking backstrip lettered in gilt. Essex House Press (Edward Arnold) unknown books
188710389London: Shelley Society 1887. original boards. Forman H. Buxton. 4to. original boards. xii 40 17 12 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Cover extremities chipped; soiled. Shelley Society unknown books
1822146161822. in original boards London: Printed and Published by R. Carlile 1822. Original drab paper-covered boards. First Published Edition second issue -- which is to say the sheets of William Clark's 1821 pirated edition with the 1822 cancel title leaf of radical publisher Richard Carlile. "Queen Mab a Philosophical Poem in Nine Cantos with Seventeen Notes" -- Shelley's first major poetic work -- was first privately-printed in 1813. Since it was a radical and revolutionary vision of a utopian world from an atheistic viewpoint Shelley never intended it to go beyond his friends. But in 1821 a stash of the undistributed sheets was discovered by London bookseller William Clark and the result was an 1821 pirated edition with the help of the infamous book pirate Thomas Moses whose monogram also appears here on the final page of text. Shelley tried to suppress this Clark/Moses edition but was unsuccessful because the courts ruled that "books liable to conviction for blasphemy or sedition are not entitled to legal protection." Clark spent four months in prison courtesy of the Society for the Prevention of Vice; Clark's sheets ultimately fell into the hands of his former employer Richard Carlile who issued this edition with his own title leaf in 1822 -- Shelley having just drowned off the coast of Italy in July 1822. This copy includes at the rear Shelley's dedicatory poem "To Harriet which had appeared in his 1813 copies but which Shelley had ever since tried to suppress -- and for good reason. In 1811 19-year-old Shelley had eloped with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook under her threat that she would otherwise take her own life; in July 1814 -- after the 1813 QUEEN MAB was printed with its dedication -- Shelley fled pregnant Harriet for the Continent with Mary Godwin and after Harriet did in fact take her own life married Mary at the end of 1816. In 1818 Mary's FRANKENSTEIN was published. This copy is still remarkably in the original drab paper-covered boards albeit without spine label; the leaves are uncut and the original endpapers are intact. There is minor edge-wear and one small patch of the spine has chipped away but this is certainly near-fine condition. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with leather label. Incidentally in the legendary eight-day Jerome Kern sale of January 1929 the highest price achieved today just over $1 million was by a copy of QUEEN MAB annotated by Shelley -- thanks to Lee Biondi for this tidbit. unknown books
18981Shelley Percy-Bysshe. QUEEN MAB. London: Printed for the Joint Stock Book Company and Published by Richard Carlile 1826. First 32mo edition with the suppressed dedication appended at end of text. Original drab boards paper label on front cover uncut. A little chipping at spine light rubbing else tight clean copy in the rare original boards binding with a nice full label. The first edition was published in 1813 in octavo and pirated by Clark in 1821 in duodecimo. Clark was sent to jail for his trouble and the following year Richard Carlile reprinted the book again in octavo and had on hand for sale 180 copies of the 1813 edition. Brooks and Watson produced octavo editions in 1829 and 1841 respectively and in 1832 Carlile issued a duodecimo edition but this near miniature edition of 1826 was the smallest trigesimo-secundo of the early editions and rather scarce; Thomas Wise had all of the above mentioned editions including Shelley's own heavily revised copy of the 1813 edition. Forman A SHELLEY LIBRARY 28. Cf. Wise ASHLEY LIBRARY V:57-8150. hardcover books
1821114154London: Clark 1821. First. hardcover. near fine. Later 1/2 brown morocco over marbled boards spine gilt with five raised bands g.t. London: W. Clark 1821. First published edition after a privately printed edition in 1813. Pirated edition printed in 1821 by Clark -- who spent 4 months in prison for it -- without Shelley's authorization.<br/><br/> Title page expertly repaired; although it lacks the advertising leaf and has the bowdlerized text with words being replaced by hyphens on several pages the rare dedication page in verse to Harriet his first wife who had committed suicide in 1816 usually missing is present as is Clark's imprint on the final page of text.<br/><br/> Clark unknown books
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
