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Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, this one hand-numbered 243. Folio., green clothbound hardback with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Endpapers feature maps drawn by the Editor. 80pp. with b/w portrait frontispiece and wood-engraved decoration to title page by John Buckland-Wright. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Pages edges very slightly tanned. A couple of small marks to boards and light rubbing to edges. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 5) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
De Chair, Somerset (editor). Napoleon's Memoirs. Golden Cockerel Press, 1945.
Price: US$254.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volume set. Hardbacks, original decorated cloth. 32 x 20cm. 422pp, [1]; 78pp. Frontis in each volume. Title page and binding decoration by John Buckland Wright. Spines a little faded. Slight mottling to areas of boards. Inside pretty clean, a few spots mainly to end-papers. A rather pleasing copy.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$279.85 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 4to./Slim 4to. 422pp. + [ii] limitation + 78pp. + [ii] limitation leaf. Port. frontis., t.ps. with engraving by John Buckland Wright. Printed on Arnolds mould-made paper. E.p. maps, fore-edge of leaves sl. spotted very occasionally intruding onto inner margins, original gilt lettered green cloth with gilt device by John Buckland Wright to upper boards, fading to boards, lightly rubbed, corners sl. bumped, t.e.g. rest uncut. No. 136 of a Limited Edition of 500 Sets. US$279
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
De Chair, (Somerset - Editor). Napoleon's Memoirs. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945.
Price: US$356.17 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Size: Quarto. 2-volume set (complete). Slight wear to spine. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Britain/UK; 1940s;
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$407.05 + shipping
Description: TWO VOLUMES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION IN GREEN BOARDS. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 9.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$457.93 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 360 of 500 copies, two volumes, folio. Wood engraving to titles by John Buckland Wright, portrait frontispieces, map endpapers. Original gilt decorated green buckram, also designed by Buckland Wright, t.e.g, light discolouration to the covers otherwise a very good set. Cockalorum 167.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 422, [1]; 78, [2] pp.; collotype frontispieces, tall 4to, green cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt design on upper covers, t.e.g. fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Title page and cover designs by John Buckland Wright. Designed by Christopher Sandford and printed on Arnold mould-made paper at the Chiswick Press. No. 423 of 500 copies. An uncommonly well-preserved set, the green covers still bright (with only a tiny nick on the hinge of Volume I and a slight bump to one corner) and the contents fresh throughout. Sandford, Cockalorum 167.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$978.50 + shipping
Description: Thick Quarto. Two volumes in one, limited to 500 copies. Volume I is #366; portrait frontispiece, 422pp. with a detailed map placed before Volume II, which is #466, 78pp and is devoted entirely to the Battle of Waterloo, the beautiful paper, type design and issues inherent in the work of the Golden Cockerel Press are present as well as a gathering of the memoirs of his staff which had been out of print for a century. Here Somerset de Chair has assembled them in proper order and edited them to race his career his military triumphs, and his return from Elba and Waterloo. Beautifully bound in 3/4 green morocco over orange cloth, marbled endpapers, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated with "bees" used as Napoleon's emblem to represent his status as Emperor, top edge gilt all others uncut.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1647.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes, full two-tone morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe bound in green and red, ruled and with bee designs in gilt, top page edges gilt, in clean, bright condition, slightly sunned on the spines, small hole to the gutter of the front endpapers in volume 1. Number 8 of 50 special editions, signed in both volumes by Somerset De Chair and Oliver Lyttelton and housed in a cream slipcase which is spotted in places. Title pages and binding designs by John Buckland Wright. Contents clean and fresh, with an accompanying typed letter from Somerset de Chair Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$4992.00 + shipping
Description: 317 x 190 mm. (12 1/2 x 7 1/2"). 422, [2]; 78, [2] pp. Two volumes bound in one. Translated and edited by Somerset de Chair. HANDSOME RED MOROCCO BY BAYNTUN (RIVIERE) (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in), covers with double gilt rule surrounding a field of alternating gilt tools (a bee, and the letter "N" encircled by a wreath), upper board with inset WATERCOLOR OVAL PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON, with two flags, a gun, and a saber outlined in gilt appearing to cross behind it, lower cover with large gilt armorial device, raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt with bee or "N" tool at the center, gilt lettering, thick turn-ins with gilt rules and decorative cornerpieces, blue watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original map endpapers bound in. Volume I with a frontispiece portrait of Napoleon, volume II with a black and white photograph of a modern sculpture of the general, title page of each volume with a woodcut design of an eagle clutching a flag among other accoutrements of war. Title page of volume one SIGNED BY THE EDITOR in ink. Chanticleer 167; Cave & Manson 167. âSmall nick to head of spine and some minor damage along the tail, two small stains and a couple of dings to covers, but still a beautiful binding in very pleasing condition. Small repair to edge of one of the map endpapers, one or two isolated trivial smudges elsewhere, but the contents nearly pristine. This is a finely bound copy of an innovative version of the memoirs that were based on conversations between Napoleon and Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné-Joseph, Comte de Las Cases (1766-1842). The count accompanied the defeated emperor into exile on Saint Helena as an informal secretary, took a great many notes about Napoleon's life, inserted his own impressions, colored his account to the point of (favorable) misrepresentation, and published the work as the celebrated "Mémorial de Ste. Hélène," from which he made a substantial amount of money. Our translator and editor Somerset de Chair has turned the text into a first-person narrative and rearranged the pieces so that events are recalled in chronological order. The first volume covers the general's career from Corsica to Marengo, and the second is devoted to Waterloo. The so-called "Cosway" binding, featuring handsome morocco inset with one or more painted miniatures, apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909. It was in that year that G. C. Williamson's book entitled "Richard Cosway" (dealing with the British miniature painter of that name, 1742-1821) was remaindered by Sotheran and presumably given this special decorative treatment. The name "Cosway" was then used to describe any book so treated, whoever its author. Other prominent binderies, chiefly Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Bayntun, produced their own versions of the popular style. The Bayntun firm, founded in Bath in 1894, is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. Among the great English workshops of the Edwardian "golden age" of lavish bindings, Bayntun has the distinction of being the only one located outside London's West End to be sought after by bibliophiles. In 1939, Bayntun took over the esteemed Riviere firm, founded in 1829. The oval portrait on the present work is especially pleasing because it communicates something of Napoleon's character: he appears smug and in control, yet expressing some of the famous charisma that contributed to his success. The miniature bears the monogram "WMB," quite likely the initials of William Mineard Bennet (1778-1858), a painter and miniaturist who studied under Thomas Lawrence. According to Benezit, he went to Paris in 1835 "where he was extremely well received, enjoying the patronage of both the Duke de Berry and King Louis-Philippe.".
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.