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Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This 6.125 x 8.5 inch, 79 page hardcover book is the 1929 fine press edition by John Henry Nash of San Francisco. This first edition as such by Nash was printed with 250 numbered copies and this is number 166. This printing by Nash featured two separate books and housed together in a slipcase. This is only *one* of the two items often found together, the facsimile edition of 1678. This copy is in very good condition with only one condition issue to mention - - all four corners of the red paper-covered boards are worn through with the black boards under the paper showing. The worn corners only extend an eighth of an inch from the corners. Beyond that this volume would be in at least near fine condition as there are no additional issues to mention. The white vellum spine is bright and clean with the gilt lettering also bright. The interior text shows a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown but beyond that the interior text pages are in fine condition with the older looking paper and lettering are without blemish or markings. 79 pages.
Seller: JDBFamily, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 169 of a limited edition of 250 copies. This is the small folio volume that was originally issued along with its 8vo companion and together housed in a slipcase. The smaller volume and the slipcase are not present. 97 pages followed by 13 color illustrated plates. Vellum over spine, with red paper over boards. Paper covers are a little worn at corners and show a few light surface scuffs. Slight signs of handling, though otherwise in very nice condition.
Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Vellum spine and red paper over boards. Title in gold on the spine. xxix + 97 pages + suite of color plates at the rear. Good condition (there's a bump at the foot of the spine and a tiny chip at the rear hinge). Binding tight. Pages clean. Measures 12.75 x 9 inches. A limited edition of 250 copies -- this copy is not numbered. Usually this volume is found with the companion facsimile of Dryden's work in a slipcase, but this volume is all alone. Perhaps, since it is unnumbered, it is an out-of-series volume. Or perhaps it has simply gotten separated from the slipcase and smaller facsimile.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two hardcover volumes in a custom slipcase. Vellum spine and red paper over boards. Title in gold on the spine. xxix + 97 pages + suite of color plates at the rear. Good condition. Binding tight. Pages clean. Measures 12.75 x 9 inches. A limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 18. The first edition facsimile is bound in the same style, and measures 8.5 x 6 inches. A bookplate is neatly affixed inside the front cover. The slipcase is red paper over boards with a paper label on the spine. It has some shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping around the corners, but is sturdy. Please e-mail us with questions or to request photos. This is an oversized (and overweight) book. Extra shipping charges will be required for international or priority delivery.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: FINE, both books. TEG. The smaller a facsimile reprint. The larger in a modern font. 8.5"x6" & 12.5"x9". 79 & xxix, 97pp. Both are 99 of 250. Tipped in slip reads: "Compliments of William Andrew Clark, Jr. Christmas, 1929". Clark wrote a 22 page preface, followed by a dedication, then Dryden's preface, then the play in modern font. Last, the color plates. Both books immaculate, flawless BUT: minor wear of upper tip of smaller vol. There is more wear on lower tips of larger vol, this appears to be worse than it actually is as the underlying board is black. Both vols with bookplates of Stuart Walker, of the Portmanteau Theater. Bkplts designed by Dugald Stewart Walker 1883-1937. Dugald was a writer, children's book illustrator and bookplate designer. He wrote a few books, illustrated dozens and designed many dozen bookplates. His career as an illustrator was covered in the 1991 "Virginia Cavalcade". The artical: "The Art of Make-Believe, The Bookplates of Dugald Stewart Walker", is by Stacy Moore & Edward Campbell. A google search found a 1917 artical in the Pensacola News Journal connecting both Walkers. It describes a play by Dugald performed in Stuart's Portmanteau Theater. A 2nd bkplt in the smaller of the Bridgewater Library.
Seller: Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.73 + shipping
Description: 2 voll. in-4°e in-8°, pp. 97; 79 13 tavv. a colori f.t. tratte dai dipinti di Allyn Cox, due ritratti in antiporta, uno di Shakespeare di WilliamWilke e uno diDrydenda un ritratto forse diKneller; legatura in mezza permanena con titolo in oro al dorso in custodia., taglio supeirore in oro. Il secondo volume in-8° è la fedele ristampa anastatiche dell'opera originale edita nel 1678. Titatura di 250 esemplri numerati, il nostro è il n. 72. Piccole abrasioni alla custodia. Pubblicato privatamente da William Andrews Clark, Jr., nel 1924 come regalo personale ad amici e colleghi, questo volume estremamente raro di sole 225 copie accuratamente prodotte con carta fatta a mano. Stampato privatamente a San Francisco dall'importante editore di stampa fine John Henry Nash. William Andrews Clark, Jr. (1877-1934), figlio del senatore William Andrews Clark, fu il fondatore della Filarmonica di Los Angeles nel 1919. Quando morì nel 1934, lasciò in eredità la sua vasta biblioteca di libri e manoscritti rari, la William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, all'Università della California
Seller: LIBRERIA XODO, Torino, Italy
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. Quarto and octavo. The second (smaller) volume is a facsimile of the first edition. One of 250 copies printed by John Henry Nash. Color plates. Parchment-backed rose boards, spine gilt-lettered, top edges gilt. Complimentary slip tipped-in. Small bookplate, else a fine set housed in a split-level slipcase.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$398.63 + shipping
Description: 2 Vols. folio & 8vo Facsimile Edition. pp. xxix, 95, [5]; [20], 78, [2]. 2 frontis. portraits of Shakespeare & Dryden & 13 colour plates. bds. in worn & faded slipcase. Limited to 250 copies for private distribution.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada