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Thelma Niklaus. Harlequin Phoenix. The Bodley Head, 1956.
Price: US$6.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1956. 259 pages. Grey pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1956-01-01. John Lane, The Bodley Head. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles. Red cloth boards. Spine sunned. Ex libris bookplate. 9x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition. 9" x 6". 259pp + plates. Bookplate of previous owner on paste down fep, else, very good hardback in torn(with slight loss) but now protected, dustwrapper.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8 Original-Pappband en 259 pp. Schutzumschlag: m. Oumschl.
Seller: Der Buchfreund, Wien, Austria
Price: US$11.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.74 + shipping
Description: First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), 259pp. Frontispiece, plates (including 5 in colour). Original red cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is just about in good condition (chipped and torn with slight loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Niklaus, Thelma. Harlequin Phoenix. The Bodley Head, London, 1956.
Price: US$14.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good hardcover copy in an about very good dust jacket. The jacket has light soil, and the back panel has a small chip out of the lower edge. Very clean inside, but a short gift inscription to the front endpaper. This is a very comprehensive study of the figure of the harlequin, from his beginnings in renaissance Italy to our modern versions on film and stage. Illustrated in black & white and with a few color plates. 9" high X 6" wide, 259 pages.
Seller: Design Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION, SOLID & VERY CLEAN, NO MARKINGS. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. RED CLOTH BOARDS WITH VIVID GOLD GILT PHOENIX & LETTERING ON FRONT BOARD. 259 pp. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Price: US$19.82 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo, 259pp, colour & b/w plates. Jacket design & frontispiece by Mervyn Peake. Good hardback copy, with light foxing to edges, in slightly marked & foxed dust jacket with minor chips & tears. A comprehensive study of the character Harlequin.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: ex-library copy with two labels inside front cover; DJ price-clipped with minor wear; else VG/VG. 259 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unclipped dust jacket with edge nick; small tape repair.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.48 + shipping
Description: Colour & Black and White photographs and illustrations. DJ and Frontispiece by Mervyn Peake. Very Good in Very Good (â") Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. Minor chips and tears to DJ edges, owner's name on front free end paper.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.97 + shipping
Description: red cloth boards w/ gilt emblem & gilt spine printing. top edge red. 259 pgs w/ bw & color plates. pictorial, paper dustjacket. A history and analysis of the "commedia dell'arte" Harlequin character. A nice clean copy. VG. slight spine lean; textblock firm. scratches to cover. light shelf-wear to lower covers. foxing to opening & closing pgs. pgs clean. dustjacket spine tanned; covers scuffed & foxed; interior tape repair; flap clipped.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Thelma Niklaus. Harlequin Phoenix or The Rise and Fall of a Bergamask Rogue. The Bodley Head, 1956.
Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo 259pp Black and white illustrations. Dustwrapper and frontis illustration by Mervyn Peake. Red cloth, gilt. Very light rubbing to ends of spine, small knock to lower corner of front board. Pictorial dustwrapper not price clipped. Ends of spine and corners rubbed, grubby marks on rear panel.
Seller: Helen Deighton PBFA, Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 6 x 8.75 inches. 259 pp. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt with gilt block on front board, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper, designed by Mervyn Peake, which has sunned spine, some minor edge wear and foxing on rear jacket. Top edge red. Some foxing on edges, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by frontispiece by Mervyn Peake, 5 colour plates and 30 pages of black and white plates. Decorated by title page vignette. 1960 gift inscription on first free endpaper. The history of the fictional character from Arlechino of the Italian commedia dell'arte to Harlequin of the English pantomime. Dust wrapper and frontispiece illustrated by Mervyn Peak. PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE DRAMA HISTORY ILLUSTRATED PERFORMING ARTS
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First edition; 8vo; red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration, hardcover; 259 pages; color and black & white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy in a good lightly edgeworn dustjacket.
Seller: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, U.S.A.
Niklaus, Thelma. HARLEQUIN PHOENIX OR THE RISE AND FALL OF A BERGAMASK ROGUE. , 1956.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London 1956 1st Bodley Head. History and development of the Harlequin figure in the history of the theatre. Hardcover. Octavo, 259pp., red cloth. Near Fine, light stains on end papers, in VG DJ, designed by Mervyn Peake.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
PEAKE, Mervyn illustates. Harlequin Phoenix, by Thelma Niklaus.. The Bodley Head, 1956., 1956.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition, 1st issue in red cloth. Fine in dust wrapper with a short closed tear to the front panel. Front and spine panel of the dust wrapper by Peake, with a frontispiece reproducing the front panel.
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Yellow boards, spine lettered in black. Some discoloration of boards, jacket browned at edges and rear panel, small stains; in general, a decent, very good copy. Numerous illustrations, some in colour, one folding. Dust jacket art by Mervyn Peake. Traces the colourful history of this dramatic clown through the ages.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Price: US$57.33 + shipping
Description: 220 x 145mm, fine dark red cloth, spine lettered & ornamented in gilt, upper cover blocked & lettered in gilt with phoenix design above the words 'Io Rinasco', pp.260, frontispiece by Mervyn Peake, 5 full-page plates in colour, 45 black & white plates, top edge red. Neat ownership name on front free endpaper. Unclipped dustwrapper with design by Peake; chip at head of spine panel, lower panel slightly soiled. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with five full-page colour plates and forty-five black and white plates. With a black and white full-page frontispiece repeated from the dustwrapper illustration by Mervyn Peake. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and borders to the spine and a gilt phoenix design to the front board "Io Rinasco". The gilt is still nice and bright. Top edge of text-block stained red by the publisher (to match the boards). The boards have been affected by damp at some stage, and are now partially faded - but not affecting the interior of the book [please see scans]. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No foxing to the page block edges. Internally also very good, with clean pages and no foxing. No creases or tears. No inscriptions, but there is an interesting period illustrated bookplate on the front pastedown from the Seven Arts Book Club. There is a slight reading lean to the book. Spine tight. ***In a very good Mervyn Peake illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 42 s net. The dustwrapper is largely complete, with just some small areas of loss at the top and tail of the spine, and with a small chip at the bottom edge of the back panel. Edges of dustwrapper are slightly rubbed and creased, mainly affecting the folding edges along the spine. No significant tears or chips. Spine of dustwrapper is slightly darkened, with light fading to the pink titles on the spine. There is some staining to the back panel of the dustwrapper near the spine, and the back panel is also slightly darkened and discoloured being a white background. Front panel of dustwrapper bright. ***226 mm x 154 mm. 259 pages including bibliography and index to rear. ***'Harlequin is one of the most mysterious figures ever created. The four hundred years of his life cover a personal and dramatic history as fantastic as his appearance; and his final costume is perhaps the most beautiful and the most theatrically effective ever devised. ***Born in Italy, Harlequin played a leading part in the development of commedia dell'arte, a unique form of creative drama. Through him, new theatre forms were developed - opera comique in France, pantomime in England. His vicissitudes - and they were many - were closely linked with the social and political changes of four centuries of European history, his destiny shaped by his adventures abroad, and by the men who played him. The author traces his evolution from Arlecchino, the doltish Bergamask clown, through Marivaux's witty, elegant Arlequin, to the glittering spangled Harlequin of English pantomime, and draws her own conclusions from the wealth of historical material brought to light by her researches. ***Harlequin Phoenix is a book which every true lover of theatre will wish to have on his shelves.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, complete in its original dustwrapper illustrated by Mervyn Peake, and with the frontispiece also by Mervyn Peake. An unusual first edition title. A very good copy, with faults as described. A nicely produced book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.89 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 259 pages; A comprehensive study of the character Harlequin. Subjects: Harlequin (Fictitious character) . 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$82.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 259 pages; A comprehensive study of the character Harlequin. Subjects: Harlequin (Fictitious character) . 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.