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1982120200Castenedolo Italy: Il Caso Faurisson 1982. 31p. wraps. Original English text of Shelley's poem facing Italian translation on opposite pages. Former owner's name on first page. Il Caso Faurisson unknown books
9352Cambridge: Limited Editions Club. Shirley Smith. Introduction by Stephen Spender. Illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Designed by John Dreyfus. Printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge. Originally limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist this copy is out of series signed by Shirley but unnumbered. Bound in quarter reddish-brown morocco with pale orange cloth over boards. A black portrait medallion of the poet is stamped on the front cover. Monthly LEC letter is laid in. Book is fine in a fine slipcase. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1975213883Saratoga CA: Saratoga Trunk 1975. Paperback. 46p poetry sunning to spine otherwise a very good first edition trade paperback limited to 100 copies in green pictorial wraps. California poet. Saratoga Trunk paperback books
184056583Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. First US edn. 2 volumes. 8vo pp .243 248. Original cloth little wear to the top of the spine o/w a very nice copy. Includes a 15pp preface by the editor. Includes an essay on poetry philosophical specualtions etc. Author editor and soldier Thomas Wentworth Higgisonson's copy with his ownership signature and date in both volumes. Wikipedia: "Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1823 - 1911 was an American Unitarian minister author abolitionist and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown. During the Civil War he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers the first federally authorized black regiment from 1862-1864. Following the war Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves women and other disfranchised peoples." Howeverm he is probably best remembered as the editor who worked American poet Emily Dickinson. This work includes a 15pp preface by Mary Sheeley and her Journal of a Six Weeks Tour Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni. Also in volume two are a number of letters from Percy Shelley to Mary Shelley. The Percy Shelley material includes an essay on poetry philosophical speculations and the like. Lea and Blanchard unknown books
19921331513Dhaka Bangladesh: Centre for Development Research 1992. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 200; VG-/VG-; green spine with yellow and white text; dust jacket has light rubbing to exterior; mildly dinged edges; cloth shows clean exterior; cocked spine; text block clean; illustrated. 1331513. FP New Rockville Stock. Centre for Development Research hardcover books
1938WRCLIT54844London: Oxford University Press 1938. xvi23453pp. Large octavo. Gilt blue cloth. Portrait and plates. First edition. Spine and upper edges rather sunned else near fine without dust jacket. Publisher's compliments card and review slip laid in. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1970WRCLIT47518Np: Reprinted from KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL Volume XIX 1970. 41-48pp. Large octavo. Printed stapled wrappers. An author's separate retaining original pagination. With Chernaik's signed first name only presentation to Frederick Pottle on the front wrapper. Few pencil notations in text by recipient but a very good copy. Reprinted from KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL, Volume XIX unknown books
200481304Madrid:: Del Prado Publishers. Fine. 2004. Hardcover. 8497980255 . Part I only. Part of The Miniature Classics Library series. Unabridged. First edition thus miniature - measures roughly 2" x 2.5". Fine in a cream colored leather binding. . Del Prado Publishers, hardcover books
1998Embry 168151Alfred A. Knopf 1998. First edition thus. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition thus. unknown books
1998Embry 158658Alfred A. Knopf 1998. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine publisher's slipcase. Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First U.S. edition. unknown books
19822310301Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1982. Trade Paperback. Good. Minor ink marks edges foxed. 1982 Trade Paperback. xlv 287 pp. Edited with variant readings and introduction and notes by James Rieger. "James Rieger's Frankenstein is relatively special among editions: it is the definitive scholarly text and it is also the most readable copy for the classroom and the general reader. . . .The Rieger Frankenstein is very simply the best edition of this tremendously important and popular novel. The University of Chicago Press paperback books
198752308New York: E. P. Dutton 1987. Octavo pp. i-vi vii viii ix-xiii xiv xv xvi 1-2 3-248 cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. A revision of Spark's first book CHILD OF LIGHT: A REASSESSMENT OF MARY SHELLEY first published in 1951 by Tower Bridge Publications Limited. Barron ed Horror Literature 8-91. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #52308 E. P. Dutton unknown books
188944014London: Richard Bentley & Son 1889. First Edition. With portraits and facsimile. xv 369; viii 325 1 imprint 1 note verso blank 1 errata verso blank 2 ads pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original tan cloth with decorative overlays to boards. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge. Spines dull heads bumped else very good plus. First Edition. With portraits and facsimile. xv 369; viii 325 1 imprint 1 note verso blank 1 errata verso blank 2 ads pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Richard Bentley & Son unknown books
197552301Boston: New York Graphic Society 1975. Octavo pp. i-v vi-xi xii 1-244 illustrations cloth. First edition. Popular study that provides historical and geographical background on Shelley and her literary creation. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 10-125. See Barron ed Horror Literature p. 420. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #52300 New York Graphic Society unknown books
195994855New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959. Octavo pp. 1-10 1-275 276-278: blank note: last leaf is a blank boards. First edition. A fine copy in very good plus dust jacket with touch of edge wear and some dust soiling to white background mainly on rear panel. #94855 Appleton-Century-Crofts unknown books
1976138367Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1976. Octavo cloth. First edition. The definitive collection of Shelley's twenty-five short stories several of which are science fiction or Gothic tales. Includes two recently discovered and eight previously uncollected stories. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1465. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2019. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with some general dust soiling and tanning latter mainly to spine panel and along flap folds. #138367 The Johns Hopkins University Press unknown books
19942310055New York: Signet 1994. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Faintly toned. 1994 Mass Market Paperback. The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monstrous creature he created. Signet paperback books
198321260New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1983. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Near fine. First trade edition with the Wrightson illustrations. Small folio. 1922pp. Red paper spine gilt; green paper boards gilt title on the upper board. Deep blue endpapers. There are some spots on the textblock edges and a gift inscription on the front free endpaper else a fine copy. The dustarapper is price-clipped. It has a stain along the bottom edge else is in very good condition. Berni Wrightson's genius brings a new dimension to Mary Shelley's masterwork. He has created magnificent pen and ink drawings that appear to be nothing less than 19th century wood or steel engravings. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
198449068Northampton MA: Pennyroyal 1984. Moser Barry. Broadside 9-1/2x25 inches. Fold across at the top third. Advertises the publication of Pennyroyal's edition of Frankenstein with illustrations by Barry Moser. One of the woodcuts of lightning decorates the broadside. Printed in black with Frankenstein in rust. Slightly soiled at top slightly rippled but VG. Pennyroyal unknown books
183030088London: Alfred Miller 1830. First Illustrated Edition. Robert Cruikshank. 12mo pp. 19 11 4. Illustrated with 6 engraved plates. Bound in original net-grain brown wrappers spine slightly sunned two short tears in the title-page fore-margin a very clean tight copy. Sometimes described as her first published work this was first issued at her father and step-mother's M. J. Godwin's press in 1808 as Mounseer Nongtongpaw: a new version. A satirical poem about an Englishman in France and the linguistic misunderstandings that ensued. Alfred Miller unknown books
183036306London: Alfred Miller 1830. First Illustrated Edition. Robert Cruikshank. 12mo pp. 19. Illustrated with 6 engraved plates with contemporary hand coloring. Bound in later 3/4 morocco and marble boards by Root and son front cover very loose a very clean copy. Sometimes described as her first published work this was first issued at her father and step-mother's M. J. Godwin's press in 1808 as Mounseer Nongtongpaw: a new version. A satirical poem about an Englishman in France and the linguistic misunderstandings that ensued. Alfred Miller unknown books
189180722London: William Paterson & Co. 1891. Octavo pp. i-iv v-xv xvi 1 2-386 387-388: ads inserted frontispiece portrait of the author original decorated blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold all edges untrimmed slate coated endpapers. First edition. Seventeen stories some fantasy including "Transformation" and "The Mortal Immortal" many appearing in this collection for the first time in a book. Issued as the second volume of Paterson's "Treasure House of Tales" series which is used as the binder's title. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-88. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 194. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 47. See Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1465c d and e. See Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2021c. Bleiler 1978 p. 178. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. Merest hint of rubbing to cloth at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips several tiny bits of leather adhered to rear cover some transfer from a once adjacent leather bound volume else a bright near fine copy. A nice copy of a book usually found in lesser condition. #80722 William Paterson & Co. unknown books
194430542Norman OK: University of Oklahoma 1944. First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo pp. 379 390. Illustrated. VG in little chipped dj. Included are many previously unpublished letters from after 1822 the year of Shelley's death. University of Oklahoma unknown books
1909164655N.p. New York: Issued by Mossant 1909. Octavo pp. 1-2 blank 3-30 31-36: blank not paginated half title leaf and title leaf printed in red and black embossed decorated wrappers printed in red yapp edges sewn as issued. First separate edition. Shelley's most frequently anthologized short story first published in THE KEEPSAKE FOR MDCCCXXXIV 1833 and collected in TALES AND STORIES . 1891. This booklet was probably printed in the early 1900s. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1465d. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2019c. Reginald 13004 dating "1910" Covers tanned and rubbed a very good copy. A fragile uncommon booklet. #164655 Issued by Mossant unknown books
1823117880London: G. and W.B. Whittaker 1823. Rare first edition of Shelley's second novel which has been called "a meditation on political psychological and sexual power" and is considered by many to be her finest work. 12mo. bound in 19th century three quarter calf over marbled boards by Bumpus gilt titles and tooling to the spine morocco spine labels raised bands. In very good condition contemporary name. A very sharp example. Valperga "was a novel surprisingly long in its gestation " and possibly concurrent with Frankenstein . "Although not published until 1823 its inception actually dates from six years earlier. 'I first thought of it in our library in Marlow' Mary Shelley wrote as she was completing it in 1821." See: Curran Stuart. Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley". The preface details some literary sources for this historical tale of the fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani. In terms of historical fiction it represents a feminine counterpart to the male romanticism of Sir Walter Scott. Ref: Block p 213; Summers A Gothic Bibliography p. 541. G. and W.B. Whittaker hardcover books
