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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 49pp. Quarto [34 cm] 1/2 gray cloth over marbled boards with a printed paper label on the backstrip. Better than very good. Bookplate on front pastedown. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. This work was printed in a limitation of 455 copies. Original issue of 'The Spectator' tipped-in following the half-title. The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
PARTRIDGE, Eric. SPECTATOR. , 1939.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: PARTRIDGE, Eric. An Original Issue of "THE SPECTATOR" together with the story of the famous periodical and its founders, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. [CA]: (Grabhorn Press)/Book Club of CA, 1939. 4to., beige cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper label. Fine, with just a hint of sun, one small patch of rubbing at the rear board.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the plain paper wrapper (dust jacket). Limited to 455 unnumbered copies, printed for the The Book Club of California by the Grabhorn Press. Tipped in is an original page of The Spectator from Friday Dec. 21. 1711 (Num CCLIV) which starts off with a humorous letter to a happily married woman about how she should comport herself in the society of TOWN life. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is an ink stamped previous owner's name to both front and rear pastedown pages. The text pages are clean and bright. "But Addison and Steele were at least conscious that, all being well, they would make a good job of it, for when they launched The Spectator in 1711, they possessed invaluable and illuminating experience. They had scored an almost instantaneous success with The Tatler, which maintained its success and achieved an enviable prestige; in short, they knew how to go about it when they planned the yet more famous periodical." (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 33.5 x 20 cm, [50], colophon pp., [GB 312, BCC 56], 455 copies, Grabhorn Press. Issue is from October 22, 1711, title and caption printed in black and red, red ruled borders, mold made paper, yellow brown green marbled boards, linen spine with spine label printed in black original advertisement brochure laid in
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Limited to 455 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Folio. Pp. viii, 50. Tipped-in original leaf. Title-page vignette of Addison & Steele. Cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper spine label. A fine copy. This copy contains Number CCCLXV of The Spectator, for April 29, 1712. [Book Club: 56; Grabhorn: 312].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$334.15 + shipping
Description: Together with the story of the famous English periodical and of its founders, Joseph Addison & Richard Steele, by Eric Partridge. Pp. [viii]+50, two linked medallion portraits on title page, the title and caption printed in red; f'cap. folio; qr. natural linen (slightly soiled), with printed paper title label on spine, marbled papered boards; fore-edges uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset; Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1939. Edition limited to 455 copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press. Hamel 82; Heller & Magee 312. *In this copy, the original leaf from The Spectator, which is tipped-in after the title page, is from issue Number CXXXIX, Thursday, August 9, 1711.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 455 copies, folio size, 58 pp., with original leaf from "The Spectator" tipped in, with Ex-Libris of Alfred Sutro and postcard addressed to him written and signed by Eric Partridge. "The Spectator" was created in 1711 by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729); published daily for the first two years, it served to inform people of subjects like literature and philosophy and to encourage educated conversation. Supposedly it was intended especially for female audiences, to make available subjects and education that might not have been offered to them otherwise. This volume was printed by the estimable the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, and includes a leaf from the March 9th, 1711, issue of "The Spectator"; this would have been a very early publication, and in fact is "Numb. VIII". Originally, one of the Club's members, M. S. Slocum, was asked to write an essay for the book, but he declined because of his other work; thus Eric Partridge (1894-1979), notable lexicographer and expert on the period of Addison and Steele, was asked instead. Loosely laid into the volume (at one time tipped in, see "Description" below) is a postcard (postmark date 3 Aug 1939, the year of publication) with a short note in his hand pointing out an error in the book: after citing the page and line number of the error, he states "This error was, I see, in the typescript & I had failed to notice it.", he then signed the note "Eric". There is indeed a pencilled correction to the page and line number in the postcard, possibly that of Alfred Sutro, whose Ex-Libris is on the front pastedown. Alfred Sutro (1869-1945), a lawyer residing in San Francisco, was an avid book lover and collector, and served the Book Club of California (in San Francisco) for decades: first as Vice-President from 1914 to 1925, then as President from 1925-1945 (during which period this book was published). ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter natural linen with marbled paper boards, tan paper spine label with black lettering, fore-edge uncut, beige endpapers, on the flyleaf is a small mounted piece of white paper titled "Errata" listing the corrections outlined by Partridge in his postcard, beneath that is some residue of the glue which was originally used to tip in the postcard, limitation page with printer's device in black, title page in orange and black with two black-and-white photographs captioned "J. Addison" and "Richard Steele", an original leaf of "The Spectator" tipped in onto a page with a red ruled border, facsimile of the handbill in the British Museum announcing the publication of "The Spectator", the pencilled correction to the appropriate page as set forth above; Baskerville monotype, American mold made paper, folio size (13.5" by 8.5"), pagination: [i-viii] [1-3] 4-49 [50], one of 455 copies, unnumbered. The postcard is addressed to "Alfred Sutro, Esq" at his home in Atherton, California, with two postage stamps carrying the profile of King George VI, postmarked "London, W.C., 11:15 am, 3 Aug, 1939", the back with no printing, just the hand-written note by Eric Partridge. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, with clean boards, straight corners, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and other than the mounted Errata slip and the pencilled corrections entirely free of prior owner markings; the bottom corners are rubbed (top corners unrubbed) and a few spots of foxing to the linen shelfback, else fine. The postcard is near fine, clean and without wear, the glue residue matching that on the flyleaf on the front beneath Sutro's address. ___CITATIONS: Grabhorn Press Bibliography, no. 312; BCC no. 56. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.