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Algernon Charles Swinburne. A List of Books/ Atalanta in Calydon. Edward Moxon & Co., 1865.
Price: US$27.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edward Moxon & Co. 1865 first edition, rebound. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy. Edward Moxon & Co., London, 1865.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in red cloth. 130 pages. 12mo size. Light to moderate wear to cloth with a little fraying at top and bottom of spine, as well as a little light soiling to cloth. Bookplate of Francis Golffing on front end paper. Golfing was a prolific writer of and We provide PROTECTIVE packaging. Photos of our books are always available upon request. SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS ON ABE SINCE 1997. GERMAN & FRENCH CUSTOMERS PLEASE CONTACT US USING THE LINK ABOVE.
Seller: Muddy Turtle Books, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Atalanta in Calydon. Edward Moxon & Co., 1865.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not the Moxon edition but re-issued and rebound for the riccardi press special edition this being 469 out of a limited run of 1025 on patterned cloth with yellow bound spine cover
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Atalanta in Calydon: a tragedy. Edward Moxon & Co., 1865.
Price: US$102.98 + shipping
Description: In publisher's blue ribbed cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. 16pp publisher's catalogue dated Nov.1865 sewn into front end paper; lacks number in address on title page. Bookseller's blind-stamp on front free end paper; owners' inscriptions on half-title page; bindign tight; cloth a little darkened on spine, with slight shelf-wear at head & foot Used - Very Good. VG hardback in dark blue cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Swinburne, Algernon Charles.. Atalanta in Calydon.. London: Edward Moxon, 1865, 1865.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: London: Edward Moxon, 1865. Second edition, first issue. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped. Sixteen pages of ads bound in at the front. The first edition, also by Moxon and in the same year, was so successful that Swinburne became a star, prompting this second edition in a smaller format. Cover has some soiling, very little wear. A Very Good copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Atalanta In Calydon. A Tragedy. Edward Moxon & Co, London, 1865.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 1 vols. 12mo. Rare Forgery. Ashley VI; Hayward 279, both for the first edition Blue calf gilt by Bayntun Half-title and title supplied in facsimile but the publisher's address incomplete on the title-page. An attractive copy
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Square octavo; xii, 111, original bevelled cream cloth with the gilt roundels designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, spine darkened and tips worn, covers soiled. This is the larger format than that of the 1865 2d edition. Has the cancel leaf 85/86 tipped-in. [ Wise 9; Sterling 874; Hayward 279, Nowell-Smith 720]. No holographic corrections in this copy. A Greek tragedy in poetry, with some Greek text. A. E. Housman wrote of Swinburne that he "possessed an altogether unexampled command of rhyme, the chief enrichment of modern verse." [ Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ] "penchant for achieving his effects through hardly more than a hint of design is again apparanet in his binding for Swinburne's ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865), consisting of four simple gold roundels on white buckram." - James G. Nelson, THE EARLY NINETIES, p.73.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 111 pages; 1st edition in the Rossetti designed 1st issue binding. Believed to be an issue of some 300 or so copies. Cream linen beveled edge boards with gilt roundels to the cover and titles in gilt to spine. Cover board with what appear to be some light wine spill outlines, referenced on a small 1940 Sotheby's label tipped in on the front flyleaf. Spine remains creamy and not much darkened as often found. Mild nickling to cloth at upper corners. Armorial bookplate of Sir Cornelius Marshall Warmington mounted to the front pastedown. VG copy
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$736.50 + shipping
Description: [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.[2] xii; 111 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt devices stamped to upper board, designed by D.G. Rossetti (1828-1882). One of just 100 copies thus. All edges untrimmed. Engraved bookplate of Lady Winifred Burghclere to front pastedown. Moderate spotting to endpapers and preliminaries. One leaf, pp.85/85 (M3), cancelled and replaced. Heavy soiling and splashing to cloth; spine toned. Very good. An early work by Swinburne, who collaborated with his friend Dante Rossetti in the production of this pastiche of a Greek Tragedy. One of just two plays by Swinburne which were actually performed on stage during his lifetime. Lady Burghclere was brought up at Highclere Castle, the location for 'Downton Abbey,' and was the older sister of Lord George Carnarvon, who provided the money for Howard Carter's famous Tutankhamun discovery in 1922. WISE, Thomas J., 'A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne,' (London: 1919-21), I:9.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 1/100. Small quarto. (xii, *12 for 14) 111pp. Modern beige cloth slipcase. Beige buckram boards with gilt stamped debossed circular designs on the front cover, and gilt lettering on the spine. Beveled edges. The beautiful binding was designed by the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Includes a letter from Swinburne's sister Isabel (1846-1915), which is an poem (with illustrations) written to her cousin, signed & dated "July 6th, 1879", and laid in at the interior front cover. The work is a first edition of one of Swinburne's most famous works, printed in an edition thought to have been limited to 100 copies. The p.85 & 86 cancels are present. Binding with some water stains, smudges and scratching to boards. Light rubbing and bumping to corners and along hinges of the spine. Small 1/4" tear halfway up the spine. Interior with some minor sporadic smudges and foxing to some pages. Starting at a few of the roman numeral pages. Previous owner's insciption in pencil, at front free endpaper Book block fairly tight overall. Slipcase in very good+, binding in good, interior very good condition overall. Rare.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Algernon Charles Swinburne. Atalanta in Calydon. A Tragedy.. Edward Moxon, London, 1865.
Price: US$890.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A bright first edition of Swinburne's tragic Greek-inspired poem, praised by T. S. Eliot as ' effective because it appears to be a tremendous statement, like statements made in our dreams'. The first edition of Victorian era poet, playwright and novelist Algernon Charles Swinburne's mid nineteenth century tragic poem, in the original cloth binding designed by Swinburne's friend, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.An excellent example of the Victorian 'Greek' tragedy, a genre of poetry inspired by the forms, contents, and styles of Attic tragedy, drawing on the rhymes and metres of Ancient Greek literature.With the armorial bookplate of T. M. Bruce Gardyne to the front pastedown.A lovely copy of a lesser known work from a celebrated member of the Decadent and pre-Raphaelite movements. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with spine lightly age toned, and handling marks to boards. Small light tide marks and light spotting to boards. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. One gathering - leaves B to B4 - working loose. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd light spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2241.51 + shipping
Description: First edition of Swinburne's play, in a superb Birdsall binding. This famous and beautifully designed book was the subject of one of the bibliographic fraudster Thomas J. Wise's more easily disproved frauds - he held there to have been only 100 copies printed. Swinburne himself wrote of 300, prompting an American collector to assemble 101 copies to prove its falsehood. Quarto (214 x 169 mm). Finely bound by Birdsall of Northampton & London in blue-green crushed morocco, spine and front board lettered in gilt within decorative border of floral motifs in red, green, and orange morocco onlays on gilt pointillé background, single gilt rule frame to boards, turn-ins elegantly gilt with floral motifs on pointillé background in gilt to corners, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of one Richard Hughes to half-title, sometime washed; neat ink gift inscription dated 1930 from one Gilded Age New York society figure Bronson Winthrop to the New York wool merchant Blake Leigh Lawrence, on the first blank; red morocco gilt book label of noted US author and historian Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) to front pastedown. Spine sunned, neat repair to front joint, front free endpaper and half-title expertly reattached, offsetting to endpapers, a couple of nicks to brittle fore edge of book block, internally fresh; a very good attractive copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Small 4to. Exquisitely bound in Turn of Century binding by Riviere & Son in full crimson crushed morocco with an ornate and pleasing Arts & Crafts style all-over gilt design comprising curving gilt decoration of flowers and leaves and dots, the spine with gilt dot decorated raised bands, the compartments paneled, lettered, the remaining four compartments fully and finely decorated with flowers, leaves and dots, a gorgeous design. Neatly rebacked in closely matching leather, only the left-hand side of the top of the spine chipped; the spine a little darkened, new inner hinges; some slight damage to endpapers; else a near fine copy. Even with faults noted, a truly wonderful Arts and Crafts binding by one of the leading bookbinders of the period. Ink stamp of Helen Ladd Corbbet, one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Oregon.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3069.52 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xii S., 1 Blatt, 111 S. Rehbrauner handgebundener signierter Kalbledereinband mit 2 farbigen, goldeprägten Lederschildchen sowie 4 goldgeprägten Blumen auf dem Rücken, linienvergoldeten Deckelkanten, goldgeprägten Fileten auf den Spiegeln und dreiseitigem Goldschnitt. Handeinband. Der Vortitel mit handschriftlichem Zitat aus den Fragmenten des Euripides in griechischer Sprache und eigenhändiger Signatur des Dichters A. C. Swinburne (mit Bleistift von fremder Hand auf 1875 datiert). Der symbolistische Lyriker Swinburne (1837-1909) stimmte mit seinem Versdrama einen neuen, eigenen Ton in der englischen Literatur an und erregte durch seine ungewöhnliche Beherrschung von Reim und Rhythmus sofort ungeheures Aufsehen, denn so hatte seit Shakespeare niemand mehr das Englische zum Klingen gebracht: "When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, / The mother of months in meadow or plain / Fills the shadows and windy places / With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain / [.] Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers, / Maiden most perfect, lady of light, / With a noise of winds and many rivers, / With a clamour of waters, and with might." Zu seinen deutschen Bewunderern und Übersetzern gehörten Stefan George und Rudolf Borchardt. Der hier vorliegenden Erstausgabe, die als Privatdruck in einer Auflage von nur ca. 300 Exemplaren erschien (und in einem von Dante Gabriel Rossetti entworfenen Leineneinband ausgeliefert wurde), folgte noch im selben Jahr im gleichen Verlag die erste öffentliche, etwas kleinere Buchausgabe (130 S.). Den verso auf dem fliegenden Vorsatz angebrachten Stempel "Bound by Riviere & Son, London" gebrauchte die Werkstatt des Buchbinders Robert Riviere (1808-1882) seit ca. 1880. Frühe Werke mit Signatur des Dichters sind sehr selten. Der Einband an Gelenken und Kanten gering berieben, sonst insgesamt schönes, gut erhaltenes Exemplar. - With handwritten quotation from the fragments of Euripides in Greek language and autograph signature of the poet A. C. Swinburne (dated to 1875 by foreign hand in pencil). The symbolist poet Swinburne (1837-1909) set a new, unique tone in English literature with his verse drama and immediately caused a sensation with his unusual mastery of rhyme and rhythm. His German admirers and translators include Stefan George and Rudolf Borchardt. The present first edition, privately printed in about 300 copies, was originally delivered in a linen cover designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was followed the same year by the same publisher's first public, slightly smaller book edition (130 pp.). Our calfskin binding, stamped "Bound by Riviere & Son, London", by the bookbinder Robert Riviere (1808-1882), who used this stamp since about 1880. Early works with signature of the poet are rare. The cover of joints and edges slightly rubbed, otherwise it is an overall nice, well-preserved copy.
Seller: Antiquariat Rolf Bulang, Dautphetal, Germany
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Atalanta in Calydon. Edward Moxon, London, 1865.
Price: US$3836.90 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo, 16pp ads, xiv, 130pp, publisher¿s blue cloth with title on the spine. The second edition preceded by the limited edition of 300 with cover designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , minor rubbing to the edges but overall a near fine copy. Inscribed by author on front blank to his sister Isabel Swinburne. Signed copies of Swinburne¿e early works are uncommon, and those to his family are rare. The last signed (presentation) copy we can trace appeared at auction in New York in 1976.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland