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BYRON, GEORGE GORDON.. CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. CANTO THE FOURTH.. John Murray, London, 1818.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Front cover detached. Edges untrimmed. Paper spine label chipped and faded. Spine chipped. Covers soiled and rubbed. Internally rather clean throughout. 14 pages of adverts at the conclusion, dated April 1818. A shabby cover, priced to condition. 257pp. Size: Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.58 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Disbound. Some light foxing. Signature of A Frage(?), Dartmouth, 1823, on title. Wise I.61: with the text re-set in signature L.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.63 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. Final ad. leaf. Uncut in orig. blue-grey boards; worn & rubbed, rear board faded, hinges splitting, spine defective but sound. Ink ownership inscriptions in two different hands on leading f.e.p. & on titlepage. Wise I.63: with 3-line errata on p.236.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label; 8vo; edges untrimmed, pp. xiv, [2], 257, [3] (ads). Boards a bit scuffed; thin crack in the gutter after FFEP, with title-page and pp. iii-iv detached, but present. A nice, internally clean copy.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 257 pages; 1818 John Murray. London. 1st edition. One of 10.000 copies of the 1st, this copy in a later variant. Bound in original drab paper covered boards with spine toned and small chips missing from the paper covering at spine ends and mid-spine with half of the printed paper title label lost. Boards scuffed and rubbed at edges. Bound with 4 pp of Longman publisher ads at front dated April, 1818 and with single leaf 2pp ad at rear. 4 (ads) , [i-iii], iv-xiv, [2], (1-2) , 3-257, [3] pp. Single leaf, 2 pages of ads at rear. Soundly bound; edges untrimmed. 6 lines on errata leaf. W. A. Harding bookplate to front pastedown and a different ownership plate to rear pastedown. VG- thus
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$169.39 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. Final ad. leaf; final sheets of 'Poems' unopened. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper label; worn & rubbed, rear board faded, hinges splitting but sound. Ink ownership inscription on leading f.e.p. Wise I.63: with 3-line errata on p.236.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$197.62 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. 4pp ads bound before title, final ad. leaf. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper label; worn & sl. marked, spine defective but sound. Ink ownership inscription Jos. Dockray on front board. Wise I.61: with the six-line errata.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.09 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. 12pp cata., final ad. leaf. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper label; extremities a bit rubbed, front hinge split but sound, spine creased & chipped at head & tail. Wise I.63: with 3-line errata on p.236.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. 19th century 1/2 brown calf over marbled boards (front cover detached). Good. 257 pages + 2 pages advertisements at end. Small bookseller's ticket of C.E. Rappaport, Rome. First issue of the concluding cant, with an introductory letter of Byron; plus two of Byron's translations (of a Spanish ballad and a sonnet by Vittorelli). Includes a page of advertisements for Byron's works; the second page is an advertisement for Hakewill's Views in Italy. Printed by T. Davison, Lombard St., Whitefriars, London.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$310.55 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. 12pp cata., final ad. leaf. Uncut in orig. blue boards, grey spine, paper label; paper on upper margin of boards worn away, showing card underneath, spine chipped at head with inch-long chip in centre. Wise I.63: with 3-line errata on p.236.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4th issue. Final ad. leaf. Uncut in orig. blue boards; carefully rebacked with appropriate drab spine, front board a little creased. A good-plus copy in custom-made green cloth envelope & box, with the armorial bookplate of G.C. Hutchinson. Wise I.63: with 3-line errata on p.236.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$449.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: John Murray, 1818. Four volume set containing a collection of various editions of Byron's works up to the 1818 date of publication. Each volume contains a title page indicating the set as the works of Byron, but the various works also have separate title pages, dates, etc. Includes: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt : and Other Poems (Cantos I and II, 1815, 10th edition); Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Cantos III and IV, 1816); The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale (1815, 13th edition); The Bride of Abydos, a Turkish Tale (1814, 10th edition); The Corsair, a Tale (1815, 8th edition); Lara, a Tale (1814, 4th edition); The Siege of Corinth and Parisina (1816, 3rd edition); The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems (1816); Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (1814, 10th edition); Hebrew Melodies (1815); Poems (1816); Monody on the Death of The Right Honourable R. B. Sheridan, Spoken at Drury Lane Theatre (1817); The Lament of Tasso (1818, 6th edition); and Beppo, a Venetian Story (1818, 6th edition). Full red crushed morocco lettered in gilt, covers decorated in gilt and in blind, slightly raised spine bands with decorated compartments, slightly later blue endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon bookmarks, frontis portrait in volume I, [4], xii, 302p; [4], 257p; [8], 75, [5], 71, xi, [1],112, [2], 74p; [4], 89, [7], 60, 17, [7], 53, [1], 39, [1], 80, 18, 51p, 1p ads. Some rubbing to the edges and extremeties, joints rubbed but sound, spines slightly faded with spine gilt a little dulled, gilt on covers and edges very bright. Sound text blocks with no loosened pages, some very light foxing to the first and last few pages in each volume, frontis plate offsetting to title page, no names or other markings. Covers of volume I have some old dampstaining but the interior of the book is not affected, and there is no warping to the covers or other evidence of prolonged exposure to moisture. A clean, sound and handsome set. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: TP + [iii]-xiii + [xv] = Contents + half-title + [3]-257, Octavo. Wise, Volume I, pp. 61-62, 64, 66-67 (all quotes below are from Wise). One of ten thousand first edition copies (this count includes all five issues of the first edition, Murray's records do not differentiate by issue). This copy is a rare variant of the First Edition, Second Issue which has the "early or proof copy [of the Dedication] preserved by chance". There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.(Canto CLXXVIII)The very rare xiii-page dedication (in virtually all copies this ends with p. xv) was included because the printers were under so much pressure to get out copies of the second issue that "every available scrap that could be employed was made use of." Wise notes that he had seen only two such copies and "heard of" two others: one in original boards and three rebound. Of the three rebound copies, two unseen copies were held by American collectors. A very rare variant of a fairly common book. Front free endpaper missing. Bound green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Occasional pencil marks and some mild foxing especially to the title page. The unnoted errata in Canto 132 has been corrected in ink by a contemporary hand. A nice copy of a rare book. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
Seller: Athena Rare Books ABAA, Fairfield, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue (see Wise for list of ponts). xiv, [ii], 257, [1] pp. + [12] pp. publisher's catalogue. 8vo. In the author's estimation, the most successful canto of his masterpiece. Wise , "Byron" I, pp. 62-3 Uncut in the original drab boards, printed paper spine label. Spine defective, upper cover detached, text very good xiv, [ii], 257, [1] pp. + [12] pp. publisher's catalogue. 8vo First edition, second issue (see Wise for list of ponts).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.