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BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron.. Manfred, a dramatic poem.. John Murray. 1817, 1817.
Price: US$120.40 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 3rd issue. Half title. Disbound. Ink ownership inscription on half title 'Chris. Wallis'. Randolph p.67; Wise I.123. With the two-line quotation from Hamlet added to the title.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron.. Manfred, a dramatic poem.. John Murray. 1817, 1817.
Price: US$126.81 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title; occasional spotting throughout. Later blue paper wrappers. 80pp. Randolph p.66; Wise I.122. With the imprint on the half title verso.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron.. Manfred, a dramatic poem.. John Murray. 1817, 1817.
Price: US$169.07 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 3rd issue. Without half title; some spotting. Later grey boards, brown cloth spine, maroon label. v.g. Randolph p.67; Wise I.123. With the two-line quotation from Hamlet added to the title.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, half title with imprint, title with quotation, 3/4 blue morocco, t. e. g., other edges uncut. First Edition, third issue. 2 steel engravings on India paper, mounted and inserted. Minor wear to the extremities, price sticker on the front pastedown, scattered foxing.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Byron, Lord (George Gordon). Manfred, A Dramatic Poem. John Murray, London, 1817.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, third issue with two-line Hamlet quote on title page. Lacks half-title page. No ads. Plain boards with leather backstrip. Boards have edge wear, minor scratches, minor scuffs, rubbed corners, rubbed/slightly chipped spine. Hinges very slightly cracked. A few bent page corners. Minor moisture waves in margins. Minor foxing. No writing.
Seller: Defunct Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Byron, George Gordon Noel (Lord). Manfred. John Murray, London, 1817.
Price: US$224.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 3rs printing; 80 pages. grey--green wraps, closed tear on rear flyleaf; moderate foxing of front flyeaf, some old staining; This issue has the 2 line quotation from Hamlet on the title, which makes it Wise's 3rd issue. Wise I, p123. Randolph p67 Size: 8 Vo; .5 Pound
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three poems bound up together in contemporary calf, moderate edgewear, corners rounded, rebacked, date to front blank, old Atwood armorial bookplate inside cover, scattered foxing and browning; Manfred with the added quote to the title and the Davison imprint at rear, usually regarded as the 3rd issue, bound without the half title. Mazeppa bound without the half title and the rear ads, apparently the 2nd issue (the imprint was moved to the verso of the ads page for the 2nd issue). The Deformed Transformed is the second edition. 80pp; 69, (1), pp; 88pp. The fragment, included after Mazeppa, is the result of the famous ghost writing contest which resulted in Frankenstein. This fragment provided the spark which resulted in Polidori's The Vampyre. Byron himself was the model for the vampire, Lord Ruthven. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Poetry. Inventory No: 047079.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). MANFRED,; A Dramatic Poem. John Murray, London, 1817.
Price: US$392.00 + shipping
Description: demi 8vo, pp. vi, [7]-80, ii. Bound in drab publisher's paper wraps (separate), untrimmed. little foxed, but a very good copy. Wise, p.123. Tinker 565. Benet notes: "The hero, Count Manfred, sells himself to the Prince of Darkness and lives wholly without human sympathies in splendid solitude in the Alps"[p. 627]. First Edition, third issue (with quote from "Hamlet" on the title-page).
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$610.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 80. with half-title. 19th century Spanish calf, gilt inside dentelles, rebacked (slight wear to corners, some foxing in first gatherings). First Edition, First(?) Issue with blank p. 76. Randolph pp. 64-67.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. Manfred / Hebrew Melodies. John Murray 1817 / 1815, London, 1817.
Price: US$880.00 + shipping
Description: Second issue of Manfred, with the imprint on the half-title verso and no quotation on the title page. Undetermined issue of Hebrew Melodies. Octavo (20.5cm), both titles bound together. In twentieth-century marbled paper-covered boards, titled in black on paper spine label, all edges marbled; later off-white endpapers; [1-7] 8-80, [viii], [1]-53, [1]pp. A sturdy, straight copy, rubbed at edges and joints, internally with occasional spots of fingersoil and foxing but largely clean: Very Good. Byron's closet drama Manfred bound with Hebrew Melodies, a collection of lyric poems that included the first appearance of "She Walks in Beauty." This copy lacking the final ad leaf of Hebrew Melodies, which would identify the issue, and without the inserted half-title and and title pages. WISE I pp. 103-4, 122.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.