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(CARLYLE, THOMAS). THE LIFE OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER. Taylor and Hessey: London, 1825.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Portrait, 8.5 x 5", 3/4 calf, raised bands, marbled boards, 352pp, bookplate (William Frederick White), hinges broken, spine crudely taped, head chipped, spine label mostly gone. FIRST EDITION. Lacks half-title but has errata).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$127.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Possibly rebound. 352 pages. Foxing on several pages. Lithograph verso title page, leaving discoloration to title. Some margin pencil lines. Text mostly very good. Carlyle on banded spine.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$147.95 + shipping
Description: 240mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). vi, 352pp + ads. Frontispiece engraved portrait. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with edge-wear. Slight foxing and marks within. Loss to title label
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches high. vi + errata + 352 pages. Quarter brown, shiny cloth with tan boards, paper label on spine. Appears to have been re-backed over light blue cloth spine. Condition of book is GOOD +; Brown cloth is splitting at top & bottom edges of spine, part of spine label missing, boards lightly worn & soiled, frontis portrait very nice with lt. blue tissue protector intact, realistic facsimile signature on frontis, part of the top edge of text block has been eroded by something to 1/8 inch depth, endpapers yellowed but text is very clean. Bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedown. Bio Rare RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$176.76 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Front. port. after John Bull, errata slip preceding text; bottom corner pp351/352 torn not affecting text. Contemp. half calf, marbled boards, black morocco label; a little rubbed. Contemp. signature on title.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$211.34 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Front. port. after John Bull. Sl. later full tan calf, gilt spine & triple-ruled borders, boards stamped in gilt with emblems of Glasgow College; sl. rubbing to extremities. Glasgow College engr. prize label (1861, in Latin) & small binder's ticket: Carss & Co., Glasgow. An attractive copy in prize binding.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Tall octavo, original boards, original cloth spine, worn, joints cracking, some fading and soiling, name on end-paper, errata sheet loose, minor spotting and light foxing, uncut, good in original condition and with the half title and frontispiece portrait. The first original book publication by Thomas Carlyle. Tarr Carlyle. A.3.1.A. The first editioin.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp vi, 1 leaf, 352. Original publishers plain brown card boards. Author's first book. Slight foxing in the preliminaries, spine renewed with plain buff cloth and new endpapers, overall very good in custom made box. Neat contemporary name on title page. Decent copy.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
[Schiller, F.]; [Carlyle Thomas]. LIFE OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER. London Taylor and Hessey 1825, 1825.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Schiller. 8vo, publisher's original cloth over boards, the spine with a printed title label. [viii], 352 pp. A good copy in the original cloth. Some edge wear and a bit of chipping to the spine label, the text-block loose between the covers. FIRST EDITION OF THOMAS CARLYLE'S FIRST ORIGINAL BOOK PUBLICATION.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$434.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With frontispiece portrait of Schiller engraved by Bull after Graff. 8vo, bound in three quarter polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, the spine with raised bands gilt decorated, the compartments of the spine gilt tooled, one compartment with lettering label gilt. vi, 352pp. A good copy of the author's first book, some light offsetting to the title from the frontispiece portrait, some rubbing and light edge wear to the binding, rear board tender and nearly detached. FIRST EDITION AND A VERY EARLY WORK BY ONE THE GREATEST SOCIAL COMMENTATORS OF HIS TIME. Carlyle's thinking was heavily influenced by German idealism, and he established himself as an expert on German literature. He was well suited to craft this fine biography of the famous German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. As both an historian and essayist, Thomas Carlyle was a pivotal thinker in nineteenth century Britain. He became the center of a circle of intellectuals in London that included John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$522.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With frontis portrait of Schiller engraved by Bull after Graff. 8vo, in the scarce original textured cloth, paper label on the spine printed in black. vi, 352pp. A near fine copy of the author's first book, some offsetting to the title from the frontis portrait, light edge wear, light wear to the spine label, not affecting lettering. A VERY EARLY WORK BY ONE THE GREATEST SOCIAL COMMENTATORS OF HIS TIME. Carlyle's thinking was heavily influenced by German idealism, and he established himself as an expert on German literature. He was well suited to craft this fine biography of the famous German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: In full contemporary polished calf, with each cover decorated with a border of 4 blind rules, two gilt fillets and blind dot roll tool, inner corners with fine gilt floral tool, spine with 4 padded compartments with gilt rules and 4 with blind rules, gilt lettering and tail date, marbled edges and endpapers. With the small label of Hessey Bookseller Fleet Street rear end page. Thomas Carlyle's first published book. Near fine, boards lightly rubbed, spine a bit darkened, light toning, primarily to end pages.SCARCE in contemporary fine binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.