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44677LONDON KEGAN PAUL TRENCH TRUBNER AND CO. LTD. 1912. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN CREAM BOARDS DECORATED IN GILT AND GREEN. GILT TO TOP PAGE EDGES. ALL THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS EDITION ARE REPRODUCED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS SPECIALLY TAKES FOR IT IN THE EAST BY MRS. EARDLEY-WILMOT. THE INITIAL LETTERS AND DECORATIONS HAVE BEEN SPECIALLY DESIGNED BY MR. W.G. JOHNSON. WITH 36 OF THE 38 PLATES PRESENT. INSCRIPTION TO FREE END PAPER. LONDON, KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER AND CO., LTD., 1912 hardcover
190039689Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1900. Hardcover. Edited by William Augustus Brown. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards titled in gilt in Arabic. 159pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear with spine age toned. A tight attractive copy of this edition limited to 300 numbered copies this #87 -- "a reprint of the Second Edition modified by the insertion of omitted stanzas and by some of the variants of the First Third and Fourth Editions." A lovely copy of this English verse rendering and legitimately scarce. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1904001329<p>Reprint of 1st Translation of Rubaiyat beautifully illustrated throughout with ornate art nouveau style page decoration and lettering ; very finely decorated . Frontispiece Tissue protected portrait of Author. However outside grubby white cloth boards with faded green lettering to front and spine. Torn on front with card underneath showing through. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to board edges. Spine damaged by tear but still tight binding. B/w frontispiece tissue protection is present . <br /><br /></p> Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co Ltd hardcover
19151236E031London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent and Co. Ltd. 1915. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 90. Very Good. 5.5 x 7.5 inches 14 x 19 cm. Brown buckram binding with illustrated panel to front board. Light foxing to front board and top page edge. Tanning and spotting to endpapers. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. Potter 1166. Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £18.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5.5 x 7.5 inches 14 x 19 cm. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. Ltd. hardcover
189449513Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. Hardcover. Lovely arts and crafts binding in faux-leather brown cloth with beveled edges and still-bright gilt decoration to front board and spine; illustrated endpapers; front hinge noticeably shaken rear hinge less so with one of the several blank front endpapers loose; unmarked clean and crisp throughout with entire text illustrated by Vedder followed by 60 pages of introduction and print text. Gilt top edge; a few short edgetears to front endpapers where the pages were uncut. Illustrations are printed one-sided throughout. An attractive edition. . Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1874011441London: Reeves and Turner 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 502pp; Half-Leather marbled boards raised bands gilt lettering & decorations to spine marbled endpapers bookplate to front pastedown rear hinge professionally repaired top edge gilt wear to joints & top of spine faint musty odor text unmarked binding is tight Good condition. Second volume of collection of songs and ballads from the 16th & 17th centuries including: Good Ale for my Money; A Good Wife or None; The Industrious Smith; The King and the Northern Man; The Lover's Dreame; A mad kinde of wooing; many more. Illustrated with woodcuts. Reeves and Turner hardcover
1887g7835London: George Bell and Sons. G : in good condition plus. Cover lightly rubbed. Teg. 1887. New Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xvi 193pp. Numerous gilt decorated illustrations printed by B. Fawcett Driffield. . George Bell and Sons hardcover
193215490Worcester Mass.: Priv. print. 1932. Paperback. Very Good/None. An unusual collection of four books: 1. In full red moroccan with gilt titling on the front The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam 5 x 6 ins. containing a foreword with details about the miniature hand printed and bound book which is missing from this collection; 2. The Proof Sheet a light tan card cover booklet sewn with brown yarn contains a single proof sheet of a page from the miniature book 4pp. of text on one sheet; 3. A Thimbleful of Books 'being some account of small books in all ages and more particularly of the smallest printed book in the world' which tells how this book was made 1/5 smaller than the smallest book up until then and how its translation was completed Priv. print. paperback
1930ZZ0189New York: The MacMillan Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. Numbered. Hardcover. 44 pp. Frontis. Spine corners bumped and rubbed. Red textured boards with an inset pastedown for the title. Number 59 of a numbered edition of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. A poem recounting the epic rescue of the crew of the SS Antinoe by the SS Roosevelt in 1926. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . The MacMillan Company hardcover
2004w230732550University of Toronto Press 2004. 294pp. Dark gray cloth hardback with DJ VG no names or markings index works cited chapter notes and references attempts a new interpretation of the history of the renaissance romance epic in northern Italy focusing on the period's three major chivalric poets Boiardo Ariosto and Tasso . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. University of Toronto Press Hardcover
198154359New York: The Sheep Meadow Press 1981. Paperback. Very good/fair. 6 x 9 in. Paper wraps. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean minimal shelf wear. BInding tight text spotless. Original mylar wrapper is FAIR ; open tears at upper and lower front rubbed. Poet. RGR. The Sheep Meadow Press paperback
1881008294England: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1881. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In signed fine binding of full tree calf "Bound by Baker & Son Clifton". With crest of Clifton College tooled in gilt front cover and Clifton College award bookplate front paste down dated July 25 1882 "A Williams Class Prize" and signed by the Head Master. The back intricately tooled in gilt with red morocco label. marbled end papers and edges. Very Good Plus wear to joints near top edge corners a bit rubbed. Oxford at the Clarendon Press Hardcover
1912007918London: Printed for James Ridgway 1912. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Handsomely bound in contemporary full polished calf the back ornately gilt double gilt rules to covers matching marbled end papers and edges. Near Fine scattered light toning covers rubbed a bit at tips. Printed for James Ridgway Hardcover
194815574Toronto: The Ryerson Press 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for a bit of spotting or foxing to top edge. Internally fine. Jacket is a little dust soiled with no chips or tears. The Ryerson Press Hardcover
19832091202133001100Kyoiku shuppan 1983. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kyoiku shuppan paperback
191625070331Ward Lock 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 156 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Ward Lock 1916. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Edges of boards have superficial edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine has slight fading. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 25070331. Ward, Lock hardcover
1970515266Leeds: Julliard 1970. Staple-bound paperback in very good condition. First edition 4to 46 leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; original pictorial wrappers by Joe Brainard. Light toning to covers and some marks including light foxing. Pages are clean and clear throughout. AD. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Brainard Joe. Used. Julliard Paperback
1910091972London: George G. Harrap 1910. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¼ - 12" tall. Willy Pogany. First edition first printing thus Large quarto hardback. Gilt embossed decoration on front cover and spine; olive green cloth. 21 tipped in colour Illustrations plus other black and white illustrations Content within is in excellent condition. Boards in Good condition with slight faded bottom right hand edge of front cover due to damp. Slightly discoloured spine. Has a custom made olive green box which it is kept in. No inscriptions. Photographs available on request <br/> <br/> George G. Harrap hardcover
190267460Chicago: Thompson & Thomas. Very Good. 1902. Hardcover. Decorated red cloth with some light fraying to spine; hinges just slightly shaken; all plates and text are clean and bright with no foxing. This variant shows a seated young man in the boatswain's chair. ; 11 x 14.25; A large-format folio edition approximately 11" x 14.25" featuring the full text of Coleridge's classic 1798 Romantic poem a supernatural ballad of sin curse redemption and the sea's horrors with lavish illustrations: "40 full-page engravings by Gustave Doré the French master illustrator known for his dramatic atmospheric black-and-white plates depicting vast stormy seas ghostly apparitions the cursed ship the albatross skeletal Death figures and the mariner's torment-many of these are iconic and larger/more detailed in this edition than in smaller reprints. "12 included designs by Sir Joseph Noel Paton Scottish artist and Queen's Limner; these are bound as a separate section at the rear in monochrome providing additional interpretive illustrations of key scenes like the mariner's tale to the wedding guest the becalmed ship or supernatural elements. The edition includes the complete poem in its restored form edited with added commentary by Alfred Trumble. Printed on heavy stock with plates on one side only for impact. The front cover features a dramatic scene of a young man seated in the bosun's chair with silver setting sun in the background. . Thompson & Thomas hardcover
1910016611George G. Harrap London 1910. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Pogany Willy. Signed by Illustrator. Size: 12 3/4" x 9 1/2". . Full leather with gilt image of a ship at sea on front board includes all 20 tipped-in plates. This book is number 158 of a limited edition of 525 and is signed by Pogany on the limitation page. Wear at extremities covers stained a couple minor instances of toning in interior. Illustrator: Pogany Willy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 5 lbs 0 oz. Category: Poetry; Signed by Illustrator. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016611. . George G. Harrap hardcover
1931009767New York: Cheshire House 1931. Book. Near Fine. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Limited and Numbered Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. #374 of 1200 copies printed by Richard W. Ellis for Cheshire House on hand-made paper. Near Fine small rubs at corners. in a Very Good slipcase 2" tear top edge at opening some fading. A lovely copy and uncommon thus. Cheshire House Hardcover
013194Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company Book. Illus. by Dore Gustave. Good Minus. Hardcover. Reprint. 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 Inches. Original olive cloth with gilt lettering and black and silver Art Deco decoration. Flower patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's name. Spine is badly faded. Wear to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Back cover is wrinkled at bottom corner. Print is only on right hand side of pages left pages blank. There are two sections to the book: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which has drawings on every page and several black and white plates by Dore: and a section in the back called "Favorite Poems" which is an unillustrated anthology of various poets' work. Heavy book. 84 pp. M.A. Donohue & Company hardcover
2017fol163London: The Folio Society. VG : in very good condition with illustrated blue slipcase. Slipcase marked with some bumping to tail of spine. Light bumping to corner of rear cover. 2017. First Edition thus. Pale blue illustrated hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 230mm 12" x 9". 104pp. Illustrations by Harry Brockway. Additionally comprises 'Christabel'; 'Kubla Khan' and 'The Pains of Sleep'. . The Folio Society hardcover
1875009526New York: Kilbourne Tompkins 1875 Book. Illus. by J. Noel Paton R.S.A. Good Minus. Hardcover. Reprint. 9 1/4 x 11 Oblong. Blue cloth on boards lettered and illustrated in gilt. 20 detailed monochrome drawings by the famous Scottish painter Sir Joseph Noel Paton 1821-1901 installed as Queen's Limner in 1866 and knighted the following year. Top cover abraded along joint and corner tips worn through. All edges gilt. Bookplate carelessly removed. Previous owner's name and date in pencil 1875. NOTE: The initial "J" in the artist's name resembles a modern "F" which led me to confuse him with his second son F. Noel Paton who served as director of Commercial Intelligence to the Government of India. 69 pp. including versos of drawings. First published in 1763 this poem is remembered as the source of numerous popular quotes. Kilbourne Tompkins hardcover
1931007922New York: Cheshire House 1931. 52pp/illus. Number 133 of 1200 copies. Rag paper 15-page introduction by Edmund Blunden. 7 color illustraions in green and brown title page an cover illustrations by H. Charles Tomlinson. Title page printed in green brown and black; text printed within green borders. Pictorial light green boards stamped in green and white uncut slight fading. No slipcase. Spine faded. Text clean. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Limited Numbered Copy. Cheshire House hardcover