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Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: 164pp This is Number 938 of 1800 copies. Contents include: Preface to the Life and Adventures; The Life and Adventures; Preface to the Scare-Crow; The Scare-Crow; Remarks of the Pamphlets lately published against Porcupine; Talleyrnd: A Spy; Farewell to America; The Court-Martial; and, A Retrospect. good+, brown cloth spine (hardcover)
Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 163pp. Limited Edition of 1800 copies. This is copy #1768. Printed by Constable Ltd of Edinburgh. Frontispiece, after the cartoon by Gillray, is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, London. Brown and grey fan-tail design paper covered boards with brown cloth covered spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Browned end papers. Some uncut pages. Clean inside pages. Slight bow to edge of boards.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo 163pp. Colour frontis after Gillray. Limited edition of 1800 copies this one numbered 127. Black cloth spine, gilt, with brown marbled paper covered boards. All edges rubbed with knocks to lower corners, endpapers browning, pages unevenly trimmed with some still uncut, internally clean and tight.
Seller: Helen Deighton PBFA, Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Description: 1st thus being a limited edition of 1800 copies. This number 655. Brown cloth spine, marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering to spine, no dustwrapper. 9.25ins x 5.75ins, [vi], 163pp, colophon plus colour frontis. Printed in Baskerville type upon Arches paper. The frontis (after the cartoon by Gilray) was coloured by stencils by the Curwen Press. Introduction by G.D. H. Cole. Free endpapers browned. Top corner of front free endpaper cut off. Corners worn. Marbled paper rubbed to the edges. Apart from the browning, VG internally. G+ externally.
Seller: Missing Books (PBFA), Great Leighs, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Nonesuch Press, London. 1927. Limited Editon no. 671 of 1800.A good, clean and sound copy in marbled boards with gilt title to black cloth spine, illustrated with colour engraved frontispiece.
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Cobbett, William. Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: US HIST-Good regular size hardcover; tips worn, contents clean, #818 of 1800cc. brown w/gilt titles Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited Edition (1927). No. 970 of 1800. No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine, with tanning to page block. Quarter brown cloth with marbled paper sides, gilt titling to the spine. Corners bevelled, spine top lightly crushed, spine bottom abraded to front binding edge, lightly toned to top edges, else secure and robust with no soiling. Several pages remain uncut at top edge. Introduction by G. D. H.Cole. Colour frontis, 163pp.
Seller: BBBooks, Poulton-Le-Fylde, United Kingdom
Cobbett, William. Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine.. Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: ".with other records of his early career in England & America viz: Life and Adventures, The Scarecrow, Remarks of the Pamphlets Lately Published Against Peter Porcupine, Talleyrand: A Spy, Farewell to america, A Court-Martial, and A Retrospect. 163 pages (some pages unopened). Marbled paper on covers (edges scuffed), gilt lettering on brown spine; in Baskerville type on Arches paper, frontispiece is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, London.; #713/1800; 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 ''.
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition #244. Textblock is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner worn; some light wear at the base of the spine. 163p. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, black cloth spine, marbled boards. 163pp. Frontis. No. 1700 of a limited edition of only 1800 copies. Extremities a little worn. Private ownership. (an9)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.65 + shipping
Description: Octavo, quarter black cloth & marbled boards, [6], 163, [1] pp. Color frontispiece. Good; extremities are shelf worn. Literature, Journalism, Pamphleteer, Political Science. zslic
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.80 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Prelims. + [164pp.] Colour frontispiece. E.ps. slightly browned. Original marbled boards backed with faded black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cloth lightly marked by damp. Limited edition, 1600/1800 copies. US$16
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.80 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Prelims. + [164pp.] Colour frontispiece. E.ps. browned. Original marbled boards backed with black cloth, faded spine lettered in gilt. Limited edition, 1542/1800 copies. US$16
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Cobbett, William. Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound handsomely in decorated paper over boards, brown cloth-backedwith 163 pp., plus colophon. Limited to 1800 copies of which this is #791. Scuffing to tips, extremities, toning to endpapers, else quite clean and bright of interior. Unexploded top edges, a few fore-edges, and illustrations at frontis in full color. Introduction by G.D.H. Cole.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo; Limited edition 1450/1800; G; Hardcover; Spine, black with gold print; Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and marbled paper to boards, wear to corners and spine caps, light bump to bottom edge, light shelfwear; Text block has deckled edges, owner label on front pastedown, tanning to endpapers, else clean and tight; 163 pages, frontispiece (color). 1333410. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown Cloth quarter binding with non parallel marbled paper covered boards and gilt titles to spine. 235 x 145 mm approx. 164 pp Colour frontis. No 1800 of the Limited Edition of 1,800 copies. The copy offered has an interesting provenance. There is a book plate of John Lowe to the front paste down and loosely laid in is a printed card with a cartoon in the style of Nicolas Bentley and initialed NB. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. The note on the card appears also to be printed rather than hand written. Good (Book- shelf wear and soiling to cloth and boards, offset browning to free end papers, book plate as above, top edge of book block dust soiled. No other notable defects).
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Nonesuch Press, London, 1927, 1 of 1800 copies, frontis, 8vo., hardcover, 163pp. pencilled, scuffed edges, lacks one of 3 front free eps, ow G $
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: no. 843 (handwritten) of 1800.163 pp. + colophon. Half-title; end papers uncut. Black spine; marble/bargello boards; cover clean and in good condition w/ one small tear at head of spine and minor signs of wear. Spine reads in gilt: "Peter Porcupine * Cobbett". No writing, highlighting, or marks in text. Deckle-edged on two sides. Volume is in amazing condition for its age.
Seller: Night Heron Books, Laramie, WY, U.S.A.
Cobbett, William. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE.. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth gilt with marbled paper-covered boards, 8vo., (iii), 163, (1) pages, frontispiece colored by stencil at the Curwen Press. One of 1,800 numbered copies printed on Arches paper. Page tips toned, moderate edgewear, else a very good copy in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Coloured frontispiece by Gillray. Introduction by G D H Cole. Limited edition of 1,800 copies (#997). Corners and top and bottom of spine are are bumped. Clean boards and unmarked contents. Edges of rough-cut pages are foxed.
Seller: judith stinton, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Come stains from age at front of book. Some uncut pages. Of this edition 1800 copies have been printed for sale in England and America by T. & A. Constable Ltd, the University Press Edinburgh, during May 1927 in Baskerville type upon Arches paper for the Nonesuch Press. The frontispiece, after the cartoon by Gillray is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press London This Number 142. Pictures on request
Seller: Old Village Books, Mt. Pleasant, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1,800 numbered copies bound in quarter black cloth with marbled paper boards. Very good condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature, pencil. Copy number 636 of 1800. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering, marbeled paper over boards, color frontispiece "after the cartoon by Gillray, is coloured through stencil," Introduction by G.D.H. Cole, 163 pages, Notes. Spine ends bumped, rubbed along edges of boards and at corners. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 14 oz. Category: History; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001642.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter gilt-stamped black cloth, marble papercovered boards. Color frontispiece is after the cartoon by Gillray. Extremities worn and nicked, some pages unopened, a very good copy. This is number 466 of 1800 copies printed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Colored frontispiece. Tall 8vo, black cloth, marbled boards, unopened. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Near fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 163 pages, brown cloth spine over marbled boards, some browning on endpapers. Number 1288 of 1800 copies. The frontispiece, after the cartoon by Gillray is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, London. Covers slightly worn at edges; some browning on endpapers. Introduction by G. D. H. Cole. "In this book we have a Cobbett not quite fully-fledged. He was between thirty-three and thirty-seven when he wrote the pieces here collected. of almost every political opinion Cobbett held in later years, the opposite is affirmed in his earlier writings with at least equal force of language." --from the introduction. Studio
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
Cobbett, William. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE. Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 163 pp., plus colophon. Limited to 1800 copies of which this is #644. half black cloth and decorative boards, gilt letters
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hbk 163pp quarter cloth over marbled boards gilt titles untrimmed pages illus colored cartoon print by Gillray significant edgewear and slight bumping to top and tail of spine otherwise internally a very good clean tight copy
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; 163 pages; Copy #620 of 1800. Small scuff to lower right front corner. Bookplate on inside front cover.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Marbled paper-covered boards with title in gilt on black linen spine. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear to cover edges, and head and tail of spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Some browning to endpapers. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. 163pp. Colour frontispiece after the cartoon by Gillray is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, London. One of a limited edition of 1800 copies, this is no.99.
Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.41 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over marble boards. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. An unread copy with unopened pages. Physical description; 163 p. : col. front. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Cobbett, William 1763-1835. Politicians Great Britain Biography. Journalists Great Britain Biography. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$43.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 1800 copies, 8vo, pp. [6], 163, [1]; frontispiece after a charact=cature by Gillray, original gray cloth-backed marbled boards lettered in gilt on spine; very good and sound. With the original slip with the copy number (756) penciled in at the top. Dreyfus 41.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 1800 copies, 8vo, pp. [6], 163, [1]; frontispiece after a caricature by Gillray, original gray cloth-backed marbled boards lettered in gilt on spine; very good and sound. With the original slip with the copy number (757) penciled in at the top. Dreyfus 41.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Cobbett, William. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE. , 1927.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 1927 Cobbett, William LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE London: Nonesuch Press, 1927 163pp color frontis #1365/1800cc 8vo cloth/marbled paper boards corners rubbed, crown of spine bumped, epages tanned, near fine.
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.88 + shipping
Description: NO. 7 OF 1,800 COPIES, 8vo, pp. [vi], 163, [1] + hand-coloured (through stencils) frontispiece. Original quarter black cloth, marbled boards. Edges rubbed, spine ends bumped.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over marble boards. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. An unread copy with unopened pages. Physical description; 163 p. : col. front. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Cobbett, William 1763-1835. Politicians Great Britain Biography. Journalists Great Britain Biography. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: 233 x 145 mm. (9 1/4 x 5 3/4"). [vi], 163, [1] pp. Publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper boards, title stamped in gilt at head of spine. Frontispiece of Peter Porcupine after a caricature by Gillray, colored through stencils at the Curwen Press. Pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir John Wormald. Dreyfus 41. âEdges a little rubbed, one corner slightly bumped, endpapers with offsetting from binder's glue, two leaves with very small punctures to the margins, otherwise an excellent copy, clean and bright throughout. This is a selection of writings by pro-democracy English-American pamphleteer and journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835), who wrote under the nom de plume "Peter Porcupine." As noted in the prospectus, "though passages from the works now presented have been used by his biographers, there has been hitherto no attempt such as this to let Cobbett speak, and speak at length, for himself. . . . The genetic history of his opinions has its own importance and interest; but the general reader will probably take more pleasure in the lively picture of himself which is presented incidentally by this most personal and self-revealing of controversialists." The introduction provided here by G. D. H. Cole is his first association with Nonesuch in a professional context, though he had been made familiar to Francis Meynell through academic and society ties.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 164pp. Coloured frontis after a cartoon by Gillray. Introduction by G.D.H. Cole. Number 996 of a LIMITED EDITION of 1800 copies. Quarter black cloth, marbled paper boards. Edges uncut. Off-setting to e.p's.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Cobbett, William. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, [12], 163 pages, [4]; G+; 1/4-cloth bound with marbled boards, and gilt lettering to side; Boards show light bumping and wear to head/tail of spine, light bumping to corners, and light toning to cloth on spine; Textblock has light plus age-toning and soiling to untrimmed edges, light age-toning throughout, and multiple pages uncut; Limitation Page at back of book states (handwritten in ink) that this is #1,133 of 1,800 copies printed for this edition. RWO. 1354963. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: #667 of 1800 copies. Frontispiece, after a caricature by Gillray, colored through stencils at the Curwen Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Introduction by G.D.H. Cole. Dreyfus 41 Original cloth-backed marbled boards, uncut, unopened. Spine a trifle faded, some rubbing to boards, endpapers foxed, bookplates removed, else very good Frontispiece, after a caricature by Gillray, colored through stencils at the Curwen Press. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
COBBETT William 1763-1835. Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+, 1927, private press, Ltd ed. In black quarter cloth over red marbled boards, corners brushed. Spine, titles in gilt, edges bumped lightly. In its plain paper wrapper, some marks. Internally, bookplate of Margery Wright to fpd, some light offsetting, half title, coloured frontis after Gillray, [1], 2-163 pp, [1] limitation, 1 pl (coloured by the Curwen Press), an edition limited to 1800 copies, text block edges uncut, many leaves un-cut, printed by T&A Constable Ltd, at the University Press, Edinburgh during May 1927. With an introduction by COLE, G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) 1889-1959. Title continues: With other records of his early career in England & America Viz: Life & adventures. The scarecrow. Remarks of the pamphlets. Talleyrand: a spy. Farewell to America. A court-martial. A retrospect. The pieces were selected "to make a sort of autobiography of William Cobbett up to the time of his return from America in 1800." (Not listed at Tomkinson) Cobbett, political writer and farmer in 1791, wrote an anonymous pamphlet entitled The Soldier's Friend (1792), a passionate indictment of the harsh treatment and poor pay of the common soldier. At the same time Cobbett attempted to launch a court martial against the offending officers, and when this threatened to rebound on Cobbett himself, he and his new wife, Nancy Anne Reid (1774–1848), fled to France for six months and subsequently to the United States, where they remained from 1792 to 1800. See ODNB. (Also see Muirhead - Bibliography of William Cobbett read before the Bibliographical Society in January 1939)
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$78.65 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, number 578 of 1800 copies on Arches; 8vo; coloured frontispiece, light foxing to prelims and edges; black cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, light rubbing to extremities, edges uncut and unopened, endpapers browned, overall a very good copy. Edition limited to 1800 numbered copies. Peter Porcupine was a pseudonym used by Cobbett for his political writings and pamphlets. The frontispiece, after the cartoon by Gillray, was coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
William Cobbett. Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine. Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Description: A selection of works by William Cobbett. 'Peter Porcupine' was a pseudonym used by Cobbett for his controversial political writings and pamphlets. With an illustrated frontispiece, hand coloured through stencils. With an introduction by G D H Cole. Limited edition, number 396 of 1800 copies printed for sale. Published by the Nonesuch Press. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books, but had them printed by commercial printers. In doing so, books with the quality of a fine-press were produced, but available to a wider audience at lower prices. In a quarter cloth binding with marbled paper boards. Externally, generally smart with bumping to the head and tail of spine. Patches of rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Offsetting to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned due to paper used. Several gatherings to the start and end of the work remain uncut to the head of pages. Just the odd light spot. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: thus. 8vo, pp. 163. 1/1800 copies printed on Arches paper. Frontispiece cartoon after Gillray is colored through stencils by the Curwen Press. Bound in little rubbed cloth-backed marble boards, uncut and unopened. Very nice copy.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.