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Gollancz, I. Charles Lamb's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (Volume 1). J.M. Dent & Sons, 1893.
Price: US$5.13 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Volume 1.Who lived about the time of Shakespeare, including extracts from the Garrick Plays, now first edited by Israel Gollancz, M.A. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Bound in grey cloth, gilt title on front cover. Backstrip is missing. Covers are rubbed and corners are bumped. The book has fallen apart into two halves. Page edges are rough and jagged, top of page edges are gilt. Title page is black and red ink. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$8.21 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1893. No Edition Stated. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound in velum and green cloth. Limited edition to 150 copies, of which this is copy no 89. Rough-cut pages. Binding remains firm. Pages are prominently tanned. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Pencil inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Splits to spine joint causing boards to be loose. Strong tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. xxvii, 310; xii, 356 + 2 plates. (2 vols) 1000 small paper copies printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham; there were also 350 on large paper. From the Temple Library series. For this edition, Lamb's text is dated, revised & corrected with the Garrick extracts restored & incorporated chronologically. Top edge gilt & others untrimmed & dusty. Cloth a little soiled; mostly at spine & slightly rubbed at extremities. May require additional postage.
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Temple Library 2 vol edition 12mo. Grey bevelled boards with gilt to front and spine, no jacket, dulled spines, mild wear , small mark to back, vol 2 sound binding, vol 1 front hinge cracked else sound binding, a nameplate inside front, eps browned, page edges as published, very good internal condition.
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Description: Large paper edition of 200 numbered copies, 8vo, (210x135mm), [2],xxxviii,310p. frontispiece portrait. Untrimmed and largely unopened in original quarter art vellum, green cloth sides, backstrip discoloured and degraded. Printed on Spalding handmade paper. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if possible the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.
Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition Thus. Hardback. 12mo. pp 190. Original publisher's cream cloth, lettered brown and gilt on spine and front cover. Illustrated in b/w throughout by Aubrey Beardsley. Ownership signature (in pencil) of V&A curator and writer on art Stephen Calloway. Some tanning in the preliminaries and slight marking to covers, overall used, near very good with clean text.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Lamb, Charles and Douglas Jerrold.. BON MOTS OF . . .. J.M.Dent: London, 1893.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Description: "Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley," 5.25 x 3.25, pict cloth, 191 pp, t.e.g., covers spotted and soil stained, tissue guart at frontis missing piece, page frayed else ok. FIRST ED, Edited by Walter Jerrold.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UK small-format hardback. 191pp. First edition with superb Aubrey Beardsley illustrations throughout. Good overall with some grubbiness to boards, a few spots and somewhat darkened spine.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Bound in cream cloth with stamped gold and red front board and spine, cloth evenly soiled with bubbling of cloth on front and rear. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley whose name appears on the front board. Scarce little collections of Bon Mots (Good Words) of successful writers/thinkers of the victorian times. Spotty foxing throughout, top edge gilt, tight binding, tissue guards in place. Good -.
Seller: Charles Thomas Bookseller, Stratham, NH, U.S.A.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.. Bon-Mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold. , 1893.
Price: US$83.15 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Illustrated with Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley. 12mo., original white cloth, lettered in gilt and with Beardsley device in black. Bon Mots Series, [No. 2]. London: J. M. Dent and Company, Includes 29 new designs; 39 are reprinted from the first volume in the series, as are the title-page design and the front cover ornament. Lasner, AB, 19. A near fine copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Lamb, Charles. SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, VOLS. 1 & 2. J. M. Dent & Co., 1893.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, VOLS. 1 & 2, J. M. Dent & Co., 1893, first edition, obvious wear to the bottom section of the spine along with a two inch separation to the bottom front hinge of volume 2, some foxing to the frontispiece of each volume, else vg copies bound in green cloth with vellum spines. This #120 / 150 large paper copies printed for the U.K.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. xxix, 310 + 11 (plates); xiii, 356 + 12 (plates). No. 74 / 100 copies printed for sale in England. There were also 50 copies for sale in the US. For this edition, Gollancz's text is dated, revised & corrected with the Garrick extracts restored & incorporated chronologically. Cloth gilt lettered & decorated with a heraldic device on front boards. Spines a little darkened & cloth slightly foxed & soiled. Edges untrimmed & mostly unopened. Some offsetting at end papers & tissue-guarded plates; text stock unaffected aside from occasional spots of foxing at edges. A heavy set which will require additional postage. Extra Illustrated Large Paper Edition (First Edition Thus).
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cocked; coveres slightly creased and soiled; inner hinges cracked; front flyleaf absent.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Bound in cream cloth with stamped gold and red front board and spine. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley whose name appears on the front board. Scarce little collections of Bon Mots (Good Words) of successful writers/thinkers of the victorian times. Spotty foxing throughout, top edge gilt, tight binding, tissue guards in place. Good +.
Seller: Charles Thomas Bookseller, Stratham, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$121.23 + shipping
Description: XX, 346; VI, 335 S. Zustand: Band 1 schön erhalten, leichte Gebrauchsspuren, Band 2 mit Beschädigung am oberen Kapital, Buchblock zw. S. 96 u. 97 aufgebrochen. ExLibris Robert Saitschick auf Vorsatz Bd. 1. Papier alters- und qualitätsbedingt leicht gebräunt. - Frakturschrift. - Inhalt: Texte von W.M. Thackeray, Almeida Garret, Leconte de Lisle, John Keats, Arabische Dichter, William Wordsworth, Sydney Dobell, Jose Zorilla, Giacomo Zanella, Sajib, Charles Lamb (Satan auf der Brautschau), Francois Villon, Synesius, Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe (Zante). Band 2.: Arrigo Boito, Alfred Tennyson, Giovanni Berchet, Arthur Hugh Clough, Meibom, Thomas Hannes Bayly, Leigh Hunt, Altfranzösisch, Gregor von Nazianz (Hymne), Paulus Silentiarius, Richard Henry Horne, Alfred de Vigny, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Bayly Aldrich, Nisami, George Eliot, Thomas Chatterton, Bayard Taylor, Enrico Panzacchi, Charles Dickens (Der Epheu), Alexander Smith, Matthew Arnold, Angel de Saavedra Herzog von Rivas, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 751 Kl. 8° (18,5x12,5cm), Leinen mit reicher Gold- und Schwarz-Schmuckprägung, marmorierter Schnitt
Seller: Antiquariat ExLibris Erlach Eberhard Ott, Ochsenfurt - Erlach, BY, Germany
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Very good conditon for it's advanced age. Deckle edge papers, edge and corner wear, some rubbing. Hand marbled cover and end papers. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, ordinary issue in cream cloth. Title page, front cover ornament, and 74 grotesques by Beardsley, 29 of them new to this volume. Slight wear on spine ends, a little puckering on the cloth, very good or a little better. The second book in the "Bon-Mots" series. *MSL 19.*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, ordinary issue in cream cloth. Title page, front cover ornament, and 68 grotesques by Beardsley, 29 of them new to this volume. A bit of soiling on the boards, else near fine. The second book in the "Bon-Mots" series. *MSL 19.*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold. Bon-Mots. J.M. Dent, 1893.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo. (6 1/2" x 4") Tan cloth. With gilt lettering and design to front cover. 191pp. Black and white grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley. Toning to covers. Limited to 100 large paper copies for England and America of which this is copy #51.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Lamb Charles. Charles Lamb's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets. J.M. Dent, London, 1893.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Two volumes, bookplate of Henry Skelding inside front cover, 150 copies for sale in England, 50 for America--this copy is 116. Badly damaged to entire surface of vellum spines, rough-cut pages, olive green cloth boards, slight wear to tips, 309 pages in Volume I, 355 pages in Volume II, contents are fine. Reading Set or worth rebinding.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: 3 volumes 12mo 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches- original publisher's cloth. Smith/Sheridan volume a third edition- the other two first editions. Portrait frontispieces and vignettes by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) throughout. A little shaken and a corner bumped. Unusual to have three volumes together. Bookplate of Herbert John Buckmaster (1881-1966)- the inventor of Bucks Fizz - a cocktail of champagne and orange juice
Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, cirencester, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, limited issue. Title page, front cover ornament, and 68 grotesques by Beardsley. Cream cloth gilt. Copy number 43 of 100 copies of the Large Paper issue in cream cloth. Boards foxed and toned, about very good. *MSL 19.*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.