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Previous owner's neat name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear gilt lettering to spine, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 772pp. Chaucer's tales and his poetry, in one volume.
Front free endpaper almost loose. Titles all underlined in red on title page. Joints of spine both cracked.. Wear to extremities and surfaces of covers.
Edinburg(h), at the Apollo Press, by the Martins, 1782, in-12, mezza pelle coeva ed angoli, piatti marmorizzati, pp. 274, (2). Con una tavola incisa in rame su disegno di Stodhart. Piatto anteriore semistaccato e macchie di muffa ai fogli di guardia e alle prime 40 pagine, interessando anche la tavola (che ha restauro al margine); asportata la sguardia anteriore. "Bell's Edition, the Poets of Great Britain commplete, from Chaucer to Churchill", N. 6.
8vo., Third Impression thus; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, decorative endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in EL in 1908. EL 307; Seymour 185.0.
In-8 (cm. 23.40), mezza tela editoriale, custodia illustrata, pp. XXXVIII, (2), 1074, (6). A cura di Vincenzo La Gioia. Introduzione di Piero Boitani. Prima edizione. Testo originale a fronte. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
8vo. First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; faux-vellum blocked in gilt, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. First appearance in FS as a single volume. Wright's translation was first published by OUP in 1985, and subsequently by FS in three volumes (with parallel Middle English texts) in the following year. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous illustrations, initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Gill in the text; full niger morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, silk marker, Commentary Volume bound in boards with buckram back, the two fine volumes housed in publisher's cloth solander case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1980 COPIES. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel masterpeice, widely regarded as the finest private press production of the period.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers; oatmeal holland, brown cloth backs lettered in gilt, green tops, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at heads and tails of backstrips.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 324 pages. "Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences, traditions, and practices to ourselves and then manifest them to others. Ethnomimesis is an element of ordinary social communication, but springing out of it, too, is that extraordinary summoning up that produces our literature, our art, and our music."
New Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 432 p. Dersim masallari 1. Compiled folk and fairy tales in Dersim region.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Large format: 10 1/2"w x 13 7/8"h. 128 pages. Many color illustrations.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Large format: 10 1/2"w x 13 7/8"h. 128 pages. Many color illustrations.
Book is in excellent condition, Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
114 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition in pictorial paper-covered boards
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, 14 coloured illustrations (2 double-page) and monochrome tail-pieces; pictorial cloth (blue/green respectively) blocked in yellow and black, backs lettered in gilt and yellow, printed endpapers, silk ribbon markers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
311 pages. Black and white illustrations. Prior owner's ink stamp inside front board and upon front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy with bright gilt lettering upon red cloth-covered boards. Book
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (23.5 x 16 cm). In Turkish. [iii], 78 p. A precious study on Anatolian mythology. Anadolu mitolojisi.
G (paper covered boards with black/red illustration of village boys watching witch-doctor, edges rubbed and corners lightly bumped, shadow browning free endpapers, no inscriptions and pages clean) octavo 104pp. First edition. Faraway Tales No.2. With clean bright 2-colour frontispiece and 10pp b/w illustrations.
Fair (paper covered boards with black/blue/pink illustration of Chinese boys in boat, spine covering is missing, corners of front board bumped,shadow browning free endpapers and faint spotting fixed endpapers, no inscriptions and pages clean) octavo 102pp. First edition. Faraway Tales No.1. With clean bright 3-colour frontispiece and 10pp b/w illustrations.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 310pp. A trus and humorous account of the life of a bookseller based in Wigtown, Scotland. The diary consists of entries for every day and some of the unusual people he encountered.
287 p. Hardcover Good condition; spine soiled & ends worn
pp. xiv, 823. 16mo. Original full cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold. Hardbound. First Modern Library Edition. ISLAM BOX 2
Folio unp., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
In-8°, (2), 172 i.e.173cc, buone condizioni tranne le prime carte restaurate all’angolo superiore con parziale mancanza di testo, legatura in pergamena. Passano I, 164 “collezione curiosa di novelle, moltissime delle quali assai licenziose. Il Libri, che così lo qualifica (Catal. del 1859, n.464), aggiunge che è libro estremamente raro”. Brunet I, 193. Conforme a Edit 16 id.CNCE 7834 Il volume contiene anche L’isola di Narsida (1572) vero e proprio romanzo utopistico, antesignano dei primi romanzi di fantascienza. In-8 °, (2), 172 i.e.173cc, good condition although the first leaves have been restored at the upper corner (the text is partially missing), vellum binding. Passano I,164 “curious collection of short stories, many of which are very licentious. Libri, which qualifies it this way (Catal. of 1859, n.464), adds that it is an extremely rare book ". Brunet I, 193. In accordance with Edit 16 id. CNCE 7834 The volume also contains The Island of Narsida (1572) a true utopian novel, a forerunner of the first science fiction novels.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 596 pages. Previous owner's inscription. Full blue cloth boards. Small format: 3 3/4"w x 6"h. Gold ribbon bookmark. Text in German. Black and white illustrations. Edge wear to dust jacket.
