Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 28p quarto, illustrated limited to 500 numbered copies printed on handmade Riccardi paper this copy#387 and signed by W Russell Flint bound in full burgundy calf by Frederico D'Almeida, top edge gilt, with inner dentelles, raised bands.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Idyls of Theocritus (Vol 1) Andrew Lang (Limited, #214) W. R. Flint, Art A firm square copy with sunned spine and cover edges. Owner's 1940 gift inscription to ffe. Volume 1, THE IDYLS OF THEOCRITUS only. (Volume 2, BION & MOSCHUS not present). Limited Edition. One of 500 copies. This is copy #214 of 500 copies. Rendered into English prose by Andrew Lang. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, gilt top edges, rough-cut fore and bottom edges. (Spelled as IDYLS on the cover and title page, American English). Short pastoral poems.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$292.40 + shipping
Description: pp. (iv), xxxv, (i), 92, (viii). Frontispiece and 14 plates, all in colour; (iv), xi, (i), 28, (vi). Frontispiece and 4 plates, all in colour. Linen-backed boards, paper labels on spines and front boards, dust wrappers, uncut and top edges gilt, wrappers slightly faded, scattered marginal foxing, a small rough patch at the lower edge of the front cover in the second volume clearly as issued, spare labels for each volume at the rear of the books, very good copies.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 500 copies on handmade Riccardi paper (this is #256, numbered on both volumes). Blue boards, natural linen spines. Edge rubbed, with bottom lower corner of volume 1. Paper pastedown titling on front boards. Inner front hinges cracked but not split. Top edges gilt, other edges are untrimmed. In edge rubbed DJs with age tanning on spine and top edges, minor chipping. Gray silk bookmark bound inside. 20 mounted color plates, including guards, from watercolor drawings by W. Russell Flint. ; Drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 92 & 28 pages; Theocritis - 3rd century BC Greek poet, known for Idyls. Bion - 2nd century BC from Smyrna and Moschus - 150BC are often linked together.
Seller: Liberty Book Shop, Avis, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$389.86 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two volumes. xxxv; 92; xi; 28 pages, rough cut page edges top edge in gilt. 17 mounted colour plates (one tissue guard lightly creased). Original light blue paper covered boards with buckram spine with printed paper title labels on the upper cover and spines (spare labels tipped-in at the rear of the volumes).Very light water stain to lower corner of a few pages to the rear of volume two. In complete but sun affected dust wrappers. With the near contemporary ownership inscription of Arthur M. Kelly lightly pencilled on the endpaper. A magnificent set.
Seller: Roger Collicott Books, Widecombe in the Moor, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: The Medici Society / Riccardi Press, 1922. First Thus. Limited Edition of 500, these being #188 and printed on Riccardi paper. Two large octavo volumes. 92 pp.; 28 pp. Color plates with lettered tissue guards, complete. Bound in full limp vellum lettered in gilt with green silk fore-edge ties; top edge gilt. No dust jackets. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Vellum boards wrinkled with some spotting along bottom edge of volume II. Bindings are sound. Dampstaining along bottom edge of many tissue guards; pages otherwise unmarked. Overall a Very Good, attractive set.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$412.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. In two volumes, limited to 500 copies by the Riccardi Press on hand-made Riccardi paper, 92pp., and 28pp., illustrated by W. Russel Flint with 20 color mounted plates, bound in 1/4 beige cloth over pale blue paper covered boards, paper labels and with spare paper labels to each volume at rear, top edges gilt, one bumped corner to each volume, in dust jackets with toning to spine and edges and minor tiny chips to spine ends or corners. A very good set.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$468.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 512 copies, this copy #294 of 500 on Riccardi hand-made paper; 2 vols., 4to, 20 mounted color plates by Flint, sensuously rendering the works of these late Greek poets; fine set in the orig. printed dust-jackets which are faded at the extremities.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$468.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 512 copies, this #389/500 on hand-made Riccardi paper, 2 volumes, 4to, 20 mounted color plates after semi-erotic drawings by W. Russell Flint; fine set in original holland-backed boards, paper labels on upper covers and spines; this set retaining its original printed dust jackets, lightly chipped at extremities.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$519.82 + shipping
Description: Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original beige linen-backed boards, printed cream paper title labels to the spines and to the front covers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 4to. 10¾'' x 8''. Hand written number 108 of 500 Limited Edition copies printed on hand-made Riccardi paper. Contains 2 volumes [xxxvi], 92pp; [xii], 28pp, 20 mounted colour plates by Sir William Russell Flint each with a tissue-guard with a caption in red. An excellent copy preserved in a custom made cloth covered slip case. Heavy 2 volumes weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British]
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom