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Price: US$3.86 + shipping
Description: Grey cardboard with gilt lettering, in good condition. Please see description or ask for photos.
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
. The Week-End Book. The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1925.
Price: US$6.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good clean copy in maroon soft leather cover. Pull to top of spine, otherwise very good. Gilt title to spine. India paper edition; 360pp.Neat and amusing Christmas inscription to blank fep. Endpapers for draughts and Nine Men's Morris.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.68 + shipping
Description: London 1925. Sm.8vo. Or.baords spine defective. 16pp.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
NONESUCH BOOKS. Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925, for the Spring 1926. Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$9.63 + shipping
Description: 16pp catalogue in grey paper-covered boards; gilt title on front board. Free end papers a little discoloured; internally bright & clean
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Warlock, Peter, editor. Songs Of The Gardens. Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Disbound, no covers. ; Approx. 7 1/2" wide by 10 1/4". Copy #306 of 875. Written on the blank area of the limitations page is Z (in red pencil) Vkn.070 (in blue pencil). ; 96 pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hotson, J. Leslie. The Death of Christopher Marlowe. Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. An ex-library copy in brown cloth lettered in gold. The usual ex-libris markings, to include clear tape reinforcement at the spine. The binding is sound, and the text is clean/unmarked. No dust jacket.
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
. NONESUCH BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 1925 / SPRING 1926.. Nonesuch Press 1925, 1925.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Description: 8vo hardback bound in grey paper-covered boards with gilt letters, pp15, with insert for Plato's Symposium. Slight handling wear to boards, spine ends a little bumped. VG overall. (Shelf 201 BOX 3) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. 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
Vera Mendel. The Week-End Book. The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Edition 1925 copy of the Week-End Book by Vera Mendel. Blue boards, in very good condition with gilt title to spine. Top corners have taken a knock. Minimal shelf wear. Gameboards printed to endpapers. Gift inscription in pencil to prelim page. Pages are clean however pg 53-55 have been opened clumsily and edges are damaged.
Seller: Berry Books, Sudbury, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Description: 8vo, (194x138mm), 16p. Original blind-blocked grey paper boards, gilt lettered, free endleaves lightly browned. Printed by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if necessary the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.
Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Various. The Weekend Book. Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tenth Impression 1925 without Jacket on green cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Unpaginated 8pp booklet. Staple bound. Book List from Douglas Cleverdon's bookshop in Bristol. Undated but most recent item listed in dated 1925. Light foxing to front cover margins, fore edge and end page.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Mendel, Vera. The week-end book. London : The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$19.84 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 353p. Notes; Edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Mendell, and John Goss. Subject; English poetry. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$20.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925. Octavo, 15, [1] (colophon) pages. Blind-stamped gilt-decorated papered boards; edges uncut; covers slightly bowed and marked; endpapers discoloured; a very good copy. Loosely inserted is a slip reproducing a letter by the Press and published by the "Times Literary Supplement", October 1925, referring to 'the new edition of the Leslie-Birrell translation of Plato's "Symposium"', concluding that 'our consent was given for an edition which would be of a totally different character from our own'.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$20.52 + shipping
Description: Printed wrappers, [24] pp, 4 pp announcement of concert series and order form in pocket at end. The enclosed announcement is for a series of six Nonesuch Press concerts to be held at the Wigmore Hall. Duststained, otherwise Good.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Description: Endpapers slightly foxed; otherwise very good condition in sun-darkened glassine wrapper. ]. 15p.
Seller: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$21.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. No marks or writing observed in text. Back hinge is cracked but all is secure.
Seller: BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.05 + shipping
Description: 8°. 15,(1) S. Blind- und goldgepr. Orig.-Pappband. Ecken und Kanten etwas berieben und gering bestoßen.
Seller: terrahe.oswald, Gangkofen, Germany
MEYNELL, Francis (ed). The Week-End Book. The Nonesuch Press, 11th impression 1925, 1925.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: hbk 11th impression 351pp + charts and blank pages for notes at the end illustr music scores and endpaper maps lacks dj clean crisp blue cloth boards with gilt titles now in custom acetate jacket otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, thin 12mo, pp. 16, [1]; original dark gray paper-covered boards, stamped in blind and gilt on the front cover; near very good with boards slightly bowing and finger smudged, and offsetting to front pastedown and flyleaf from laid-in bookseller's invoice dated 1929. The invoice is from the London shop of W. & G. Foyle, Ltd. With printed slip reproducing a letter from the Press regarding the Leslie-Burrell translation of Plato's Symposium, as issued. Dreyfus P10.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, thin 12mo, pp. 15, [1]; Ward Ritchie's bookplate on front pastedown; extremities lightly soiled, head of spine chipped, else very good in original dark gray paper-covered boards, stamped in blind and gilt on the front cover. With printed slip reproducing a letter from the Press regarding the Leslie-Burrell translation of Plato's Symposium, as issued. Dreyfus P10.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$26.79 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 15[1]pp, head-pieces. Original blind-stamped grey paper boards gilt. Eps very slightly browned.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in Very Good condition, 4to, paged: [iv],329. Japon vellum with gilt-stamped borders and decoration, spine titles in gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, engraved title page and illustration, chapters with decorative head-pieces. Back outer joint splitting and spine darkened (else near-fine). Many pages unopened. From limitation page: "This book has been printed by Frederick Hall, printer to the University, at the Oxford University Press, where the proofs have been read. The copperplates have been designed and engraved by Stephen Gooden. The typography had been arranged by Francis Meynell. The edition is limited to 1,000 copies on Japon vellum and 75 copies on Arnold unbleached reg paper for sale in England and America." Clean un-marked copy, other than back joint. Extra postage may be required for international shipment of the heavy volume.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Mendel, Vera. The week-end book. London : The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$31.60 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 353p. Notes; Edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Mendell, and John Goss. Subject; English poetry. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ANON.. Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925 for Spring 1926. Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$32.06 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Physically 7¾" x 5½" (0.1 kg); 15pp; Includes tipped in copy of a review of Plato's Symposium printed by the publisher. Grey cloth with gilt titling to the upper board. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #159055|| Condition: Good+. Boards a little bruised and soiled otherwise a very well presented copy.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
ANON.. Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925 for Spring 1926. Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$32.06 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Physically 7¾" x 5½" (0.1 kg); 15pp; Includes tipped in copy of a review of Plato's Symposium printed by the publisher. Grey cloth with gilt titling to the upper board. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #159054|| Condition: Good+. Boards a little bruised and soiled otherwise a very well presented copy.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
MARLOWE, C. (By J.L. Hotson).. The Death of Christopher Marlowe.. 1925, 1925.
Price: US$33.41 + shipping
Description: London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925. 8vo. Orig.full buckram. (76pp.). With fold. frontispiece. Uncut.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$37.20 + shipping
Description: A publishers' catalogue A catalogue of book published by the Nonesuch Press. Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera Mendel, and David Garnett. Their first book, a volume of John Donne's Love Poems was issued in May 1923. In total, the press produced more than 140 books. The press was at its peak in the 1920's and 1930's, but continued operating through the mid-1960's. With gilt lettering on the front cover In a stiff paper binding. Externally sound with bumping to top corners. Internally firmly bound with pages bright and clean, though rough on edges. Some light foxing to free-endpapers. Previous owner's book plate to front pastedown. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Sparrow, J (ed). The Poems of Bishop Henry King. The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$37.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Nine hundred copies have been printed, of which this is number 388"Light brown boards somewhat faded and stained but binding is tight. Deckle-edged. Some foxing inside boards. No writing, highlighting, or marks in text. A remarkable book for its age.
Seller: Night Heron Books, Laramie, WY, U.S.A.
SPARROW, John (ed.). THE POEMS OF BISHOP HENRY KING. Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: pp. xxvii, 197,royal 8vo,Parchment paper covered boards,Bound in vellum-type parchment paper in an edition of 900 copies, of which this is #463. As was usual with this type of experimental binding by the Nonesuch Press, the boards have bowed, causing a small stress tear in the hinge near the head of the spine. The bottom corners have been gently bumped, and there is some general, quite light, soiling. Internally, the book if very clean and tight (and probably seldom opened and certainly unread).
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
. Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925/ Spring 1926. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$37.70 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo. Pp. 15. Catalogue for 1925/26. Paper boards in glassine dust jacket. Boards a little sunned at the edges, glassine chipped and edge-worn but otherwise a clean and tight copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: printed on Vidalon handmade paper, pp. 15, foolscap 8vo, original grey boards, blind-stamped border and gilt lettering to upper board, small inkspot to lower board, free endpapers faintly browned, Press ephemera laid in (see below), very good. The laid-in ephemera includes: a letter, signed by the Press's secretary E.S. Harper, to subscriber W.P. Dobson in Cumbria, advising him that 'even the prospectuses of The Nonesuch Press are "collected"'; a note about the Blake illustrations of Milton's 'English Poems', prompted by the discovery of the original woodblocks, and sundry other pieces.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition thus, 1925. This is number 804 of a limited edition of 1250 copies. the charming plates are all hand-Coloured. Endpapers browned. Page edges uncut. Bound in the publishers decorated paper covered boards with blue buckram spine. The paper is heavily rubbed around the edges and corners wish are frayed as well. Blue cloth spine is slightly faded and boards lightly marked. Still a good solid copy. 128 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
MARLOWE, C.. The Death of Christopher Marlowe. By J.L. Hotson.. 1925, 1925.
Price: US$40.10 + shipping
Description: London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925. 8vo. Orig. full buckram. (76pp.). With fold. frontispiece. Uncut.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
J. Leslie Hotson. The Death of Christopher Marlowe. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$46.18 + shipping
Description: Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding tight. Contents clean and bright. Some pages remain uncut. Overall very good. 76pp
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Keynes, Geoffrey. The Writings of William Blake (Volume 1). The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with no DJ. Bound with marbled paper and a vellum spine, gold lettering on the spine. Deckled edges, with some pencil marks on the inside of the front cover and the top right corner of the front free end paper. No number line. Assumed copyright date is 1924 or 1925. 364 pages. This is ONLY Volume 1. This edition is part of the limited printings on Vidalon handmade paper (1500 copies). This copy is number 1469. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping with be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Warlock, Peter (Editor).. SONGS OF THE GARDENS.. The Nonesuch Press, London: 1925., 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 96p. Decorated title page engraved by Stephen Gooden. Music and text engraved by Lowe & Brydone with the punches designed at the Oxford University Press. Eighteenth century ornaments engraved in wood by W. M. R. Quick. Printed at the Curwen Press. Uncut and unopened. 4to. Original full vellum binding. Front joint fragile. Loss at tail of spine. Hardbound. Limited Edition. Number 828 of only 875 copies. Selection of the songs sung at the London Pleasure Gardens during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Wonderful cultural record. Handsome copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PRESS/W43 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This Scarce book is internally in Very Fine condition, but is Very Good- overall due to some browning at top of front cover and spine wear. Includes a slip for Plato's Symposium. Nonesuch Press was co-founded in 1922 by Francis Meynell and David Garnett, an author who owned a bookstore in SoHo. This very prestigious press produced many highly valued collectible books.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Nonesuch Books. For Christmas 1925. For the Spring 1926. With a Handlist of Books hitherto published by the press. Books available from Nonesuch Press, printer of fine editions. In boards with embossed design on covers. One copy with glassine jacket over covers. 8vo. Letterpress with deckle edges. 15 pp. 5-1/2 x 7-5/8 inches. One copy has a 4-1/2 x 5-1/4 single sheet laid in, reproducing letter sent to the Times of London in 1929. Covers show minor shelf wear. Pages show some age-toning, some stray pencil marks. Otherwise Very Good.From the collection of Frederick Gale Ruffner, Jr. (1926-2014) the founder of the Detroit based reference book publisher, Gale Research.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.12 + shipping
Description: Pp. 16(last colophon), printed by Cambridge University Press in Poliphilus and Blado types on Vidalon handmade paper; impl. l6mo; grey Ingres papered boards, upper board lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, boards a trifle browned, very small bump in fore-edge of upper board; original glassine wrapper; uncut; endpapers offset; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925. McKitterick P10. *With the loose insert, A letter to The Times Literary Supplement about the Fortune Press edition of Plato's Symposium, printed on Japon vellum.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
William Blake; Geoffrey Keynes. Writings of William Blake Volume I. London The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No. 1084 of 1500. Volume I only. Rebound in modern green buckram. Library markings. Staining to top page end. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$61.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Issued by 26 November 1925, when it was advertised in "The Times Literary Supplement". Announcing for the winter of 1925: "Histories or tales of past times told by Mother Goose", Burton's "Anatomy of melancholy", "The collected works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester", "The tale of Mr Tootleoo , and for 1926: "The English poems of John Milton", "Ulick and Soracha", "The works of Thomas Otway" and "The mistriss and other poems". Contains the letter to "The Times Literary Supplement" about the Fortune Press edition of "Plato's Symposium" loosely inserted. ¶ Description: Grey Ingres paper covered boards, blocked in blind and gilt on front cover. Small octavo: 20 × 14 cm; pp. 15 [1]. Printed by Cambridge University Press in Poliphilus and Blado types on Vidalon handmade paper. ¶ Inserted: Letter to "The Times Literary Supplement" about "Plato's Symposium" (13 × 11 cm) loosely inserted. ¶ Ref.: Dreyfus: P10 ¶ Condition: Very light age toning to edges of covers and very minor abrasions and marks of usage. Lacking the glassine wrapper. Light age tanning to one side of free endpapers. Internally, clean and free of marks. According to the age a good copy of a fragile and ephemeral production. ¶
Seller: Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints, Zürich, Switzerland
n/a. Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925 and for the Spring of 1926. Nonesuch Books, London, 1925.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 15 (1)pp. original gray paper-covered boards with blind-stamped ruling and gilt lettering and tooling on cover. Decorative headpiece and publisher's device on title page. Decorative headpieces for each chapter. Catalog of forthcoming books of Nonesuch Press. "Nonesuch limited editions amount to no more than six for the year. The literary value and typographical pleasantness of these few books makes this list the most important, though the least extensive, annual programme which the Press has as yet undertaken>" (publisher). Advertisement for the Nonesuch title "Plato's Symposium" laid in. Very light wear and indentations (from paper clips) to binding. Foxing to endpapers and light age-toning to block. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$68.45 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo in fours. 127[1]pp, coloured frontis and text ills. Original blue ¼ cl incorporating original marbled sides, uncut. Spine slightly faded, board edges worn, eps browned, occasional spotting.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
. Prospectus and Retrospectus of the Nonesuch Press for the Years 1923-1925. Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$71.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1925. Pamphlet. .Printed Wrappers as issued.Nonesuch Books for theYears 1923 - 1925 .With a Hand-List of all the Publications of the Press. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Price: US$79.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, this is number 844 of 1250, printed on Dutch mould-made paper bound in decorated chinese paper on boards, with 8 hand-colored illustrations. A beautiful presentation of this children's classic. Former Owner's signature on end paper is the only mark in the book.
Seller: Trouve Books, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Peter Warlock; Various. Songs of the Garden. The None, London, 1925.
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Nonesuch limited edition collection of poetry and songs by a variety of authors and composers, with engravings throughout by W. M. R. Quick. A limited edition work, limited to eight-hundred and seventy-five copies, of which this is numbered five-hundred and thirty-four.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.A collection of charming poetry and songs hailing the beauty of gardens and nature.Containing 'The Lover's Lesson', 'The Air Balloon', 'Here's the Pretty Girl I Love', and more.With engravings by W. M. R. Quick.Edited by Peter Warlock, the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine, a British composer and music critic. In the original publisher's paper vellum binding. Externally, generally smart. Small crack to the head and tail of the front joint, resulting in a little lifting to the spine. Boards are a little sprung. Light discolouration and minor marks to the boards, as is usual with paper vellum. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A limited edition of the collected poems of Henry King. Henry King was an English poet and Bishop of Chichester in the seventeenth century, author of numerous elegies on royal people and on his close friends, who included John Donne and Ben Johnson.The present volume contains his collected poems edited by John Sparrow, published in a large paper, limited edition of nine-hundred copies, this number three-hundred and forty. The typography has been designed by Francis Meynell. In the original publisher's full paper vellum binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, light soiling to boards and spine, darkening to spine and minor chipping to extremities. Boards warped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Occasional leaf unopened. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$87.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: folio volume, brown paper covered board with gilt ornament, spine well in place but a little bumped at top and foot, this copy entirely uncut, tissueguards with engraved ornaments, no name or stamp, nice clean copy, Volume 3 ONLY Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
J. Leslie Hotson. The Death of Christopher Marlowe. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second impression of this exploration into the death of playwright Christopher Marlowe. Second impression published 1925, originally published earlier the same year. Illustrated with a fold out plate to the front, and four plates. Collated complete. Exploring the death of Christopher Marlowe, an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. A work uncovering the identity of Ingram Frizer as the killer of Christopher Marlowe. Written by John Leslie Hotson, an American scholar of Elizabethan literary puzzles. He had a number of notable successes, but not all of his "decodings" have been accepted by other scholars. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light age toning. Contemporary inscription to front endpaper. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.69 + shipping
Description: Two volume set in slipcase The Book of the Bear being twenty-one tales newly translated from the Russian (1926) and Histories or Tales of Past Times told by Mother Goose with Morals (1925). Published by the Nonesuch Press in London. Finely illustrated matched volumes.Clean pages, tight binding, cloth boards show bumping to edge, slipcase with edge wear Clean pages, tight binding, clot
Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 16 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Loosely inserted in the printed text of the letter to the Times Literary Supplement concerning the Nonesuch Press Plato. Dreyfus P10
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.83 + shipping
Description: 310mm x 210mm (12" x 8"). 328pp. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Spine darkened Cream/gilt hardback decorated vellum cover
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.83 + shipping
Description: 310mm x 210mm (12" x 8"). 418pp. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Spine darkened Cream/gilt hardback decorated vellum cover
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.71 + shipping
Description: A limited edition of the collected poems of Henry King, edited by John Sparrow. Limited edition of the poems of Henry King, collected poems edited by John Sparrow, published in a large paper, limited to nine-hundred copies, this out of series. The typography has been designed by Francis Meynell.Henry King was an English poet and Bishop of Chichester in the seventeenth century, author of numerous elegies on royal people and on his close friends, who included John Donne and Ben Johnson. In the original publisher's full paper vellum binding with yapp edges. Externally very smart with light bumping to extremities, boards and spine lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to. 10.5 x 7.5 inches. Unpaginated, [2] + [44] pp. (2 pp. letterpress captions and verse to each plate). In original paper-covered boards with spine and corner decorations and with red embossed vignette to upper board. Slight wear to extremities but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 22 full-page colour illustrations by Elinor Darwin to accompany verses by Bernard Darwin and by title page vignette. Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) was a grandson of Charles Darwin. He was a lawyer by training but not by inclination and moved into journalism, becoming a leading writer on golf, a game which he played well as an amateur. In 1906 he married Irish born artist, Elinor Mary Monsell (1879-1954) and found time to write a number of children's books that she ably illustrated. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$237.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1925(Writings) & 1927(Life). PP xviii, 364, [1]; vii, 397; vii, 430 (Writings vols 1-3); xv, 397 (Life). B&W illustrations - frontispiece plus 58 plates in the 3 volumes of Writings and 24 plates in the Life. Limited editions - The volumes of Writings are limited to 1500 copies and the Life to 1480 copies. Uniform binding - quarter cream vellum over marbled paper covered boards. Gilt titles to spines. Good to very good condition. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Top edges dusty. Some foxing and browning to endpapers, page edges browned, occasional scattered foxing to text. Spine a little foxed and worn/stained, some wear to boards (especially corners) and colours on boards a bit faded; edges a little worn. Damp staining to bottom of spine and end matter of The Life. Armorial bookplate the front pastedown of The Life. PLEASE NOTE: heavy books so extra postage will be needed for non-UK orders.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$272.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; oblong 4to; 22 full-page colour plates by Elinor Darwin, light toning to leaves, very occasional creasing; original brown pictorial boards printed in red, red blindstamped roundel to front cover, light wear to spine ends, corners slightly rubbed, some marks to boards, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of the first Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He collaborated with his wife on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. Dreyfus 27.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Richard Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy (2 volumes). Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number 625 of a limited edition of 750 copies in two volumes reprinted without the notes from the VI edition, corrected and augmented by the author.These volumes are rebound in bright red cloth with gilt-stamped black leather labels (See photo) Original dutch paper text block is excellent. Pages are very clean with deckle edges somewhat age-darkened. Text and all illustrations remain in beautiful condition throughout. More photos are available upon request. Will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking and insurance Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dogtales, Copake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: No. 584 of a limited edition of 1500 copies produced by Francis Meynell on Vidalon Handmade Paper; Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece; 58 other plates, 1 double-page; 26 text tillustrations; Edited with a preface by Geoffrey Keynes; Hardbacks: quarter vellum decorated in gilt on marbled boards, large quartos; Vellum a little dirtied, corners rubbed, tissue-guard to frontispiece defective, a near fine set.
Seller: Bookfare, Ambleside, United Kingdom
Price: US$357.89 + shipping
Description: Five Volumes. Tall hardbacks, 12 x 8 inches. All bound in vellum/parchment bindings, decorative gilt panelled boards and decorations to spines. In very good conditions. Some tanning to spines on covers and slightly to a couple of front boards. Bookseller labels to corners of endpapers ?Myers & Co. New Bond Street, London.? Some minor tanning and minor faint foxing spots to endpapers. Some occasional minor spots else pages all very clean and tight. Engravings all tissue guarded. Page edges rough. Else an excellent clean and tight set. 5 volumes: Illustrated with copperplate engravings (including decorative title pages) designed and engraved by Stephen Gooden. Limited Edition of 1000 copies on Japon Vellum.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard and Elinor. The Tale of Mr Tootleoo. Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing with clean but age-toned boards. Lightly bumped corners with hinges remaining firm. DJ is nicked along edges with wear to corners, spine and flap but remains, somehow, complete. BP/Case/NF/UP
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Blake, William. THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$400.98 + shipping
Description: Edited in three volumes by Geoffrey Keynes, totalling over 1200 pages, with frontispiece portrait volume I, plus 58 plates (one double page), text illustrations, notes, index of first lines; impl. 8vo; qr. parchment, spines lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the spines slightly soiled, with gilt dulled and extremities lightly bruised, fore-corners of boards lightly worn, the upper board of Volume I slightly soiled; uncut, partly unopened; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925. One of 1,500 numbered copies on Vidalon hand-made paper. McKitterick 24; Bentley 370A. *This collection includes for the first time all the variant readings, with Milton here printed in full for the first time, and the uncompleted Vala, Or the Four Zoas 'presented in a text prepared from the original manuscript' [McKitterick].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (presumably). Publishers's paper-covered boards with a relief medallion-like title on the front board; 1928 gift inscription; very good. [With] Tootleoo Two. London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. [ca. 1925 or later]. First Edition (presumably). Publisher's paper-covered boards; owner's initials on the front free endpaper; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
DARWIN, Bernard & Elinor.. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo.. London: The Nonesuch Press, [1925], 1925.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. The first Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (18761961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. With a handwritten note on the publisher's stationery loosely inserted, apparently unconnected to this copy. Oblong quarto. Original brown boards with red decoration, red blindstamped roundel to front cover. With dust jacket. With 22 full-page coloured illustrations by Elinor Darwin. Covers a little cockled, else a very good copy in the dust jacket, a little chipped and toned around extremities.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Williams, Bernard. MONOTYPE BORDERS. Kynoch Press, Birmingham, 1925.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: small folio. quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, paper cover label. pp.173-178. Showing variou Monotype borders / ornaments and examples of Cloister, Cloister Italic, Imprint, Garamond, Ancient Black, and Baskerville typefaces. Covers with uneven soiling and fading along the edges. Minor shelfwear. Free endpapers are heavily age-darkened, else the interior in near fine condition. A very scarce, beautifully printed book. Contains an introduction. According to an auction record from 1979, this book is one of 45 copies (CATALOGUE OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979). Designed and printed by Herbert Simon of The Kynoch Press, with all of the borders being executed on the Monotype "Keyboard" by Bernard Williams. Includes a title-page of Kisses Being the Basia of Iohannes Secundus (The Nonesuch Press, 1923). This book was commissioned by the Lanston Monotype Corporation for display at the Printing Exhibition of 1925. It was with the reintroduction of Caslon Old Face that would mark The Kynoch Press as it's entry into the field of lithography, and would be a printing house that used both letterpress and lithography as their methods of printing. The Kynoch Press continued to have success well into the second-half of the 20th century. For more information on this printing house, see The Kynoch Press: The Anatomy of a Printing House. 1876-1981, by Caroline Archer, The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2000. quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, paper cover label
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Burton, Richard. The Anatomy of Melancholy. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$697.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volumes. Folio. Edition of 750 numbered copies in two volumes on Dutch paper, this is no. 497. In quarter parchment over purple, black and white decorated paper boards. The spines darkened and scuffed, fore-edges of boards sunned and a little rubbed, the rear board of volume 1 smudged and the corners worn and bumped, books clean throughout and the bindings tight and square. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. A good to very good set.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Four volumes. Quarto, original half vellum, marbled boards, uncut and attractive. Limited Nonesuch Press edition of Blake's Writings, number 440 of 1575 copies (Life of William Blake is 1293 of 1480) printed on Vidalon handmade paper, the first complete edition of the poet's writings.This is the first attempted collection of Blake's prose and the first edition to contain all of his poetry and prose. It includes many previously unpublished and important letters and fragments and draws on the poet's annotations and manuscripts to present corrected texts of numerous poems. Keynes arranges Blake's writings chronologically, so the reader can clearly see how his mythic system evolved. Contains over 80 plates reproducing Blake's paintings and engravings. The Nonesuch Press was founded in 1923 with the intent to make books "for those among collectors who also use books for reading" (Ransom, 169). Bentley 2981. Interiors are near fine, ownership inscription in volume one on the half-title dated June 21st, 1927. A small bit of rubbing and soiling to the spines with it being a little more moderate on The Life of Blake volume. A near-fine set overall.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Burton, Robert [Democritus Junior]. THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 750 copies, this no. 749. Two volumes. Folio. xv [i], 299p, [v]; [viii], 301-588, [viii]. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Gilt-titled parchment vellum spines with Italian pattern paper sides. Printed by the Westminster Press on Dutch cream laid paper with the Nonesuch watermark. "Kauffer's illustrations for Burton's text provoked some spirited public arguments. Sir Edmund Gosse declared them 'hideous and irrelevant, and that a child would deserve to be smacked for drawing them'. But they were stoutly defended by Roger Fry. whose remarks were later reprinted as 'Book Illustration and a Modern Example' in Transformations (1926)." Dreyfus 28, p. 191. Spines with some light soil, else quite ffesh and crisp copies, uncut and unopened. These are very difficult to find in nice condition, and these are the best copies we have ever seen
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: A smart set of this reprint of Burton's scholastic work on the subject of melancholia, with illustrations throughout. Complete in two volumes. Originally published in 1621. Limited edition of seven hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number six hundred and nineteen. Illustrated throughout. On the surface 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' is presented as a medical text, which conveys Burton's expansive knowledge on melancholia. However, it is regarded as being as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, with Burton using melancholy as a lens to analyse human emotion and thought. A truly unique study applauded for its comprehensive nature, this work had admirers throughout time including Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, John Keats, and Samuel Beckett. Written by Robert Burton, under the pseudonym of Democritus Junior, an English author and fellow of Oxford University. Illustrated by Edward McKnight Kauffer, an American artist and graphic designer. In the original quarter vellum with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading to the extremities, with light discolouration to the spine as is typical with ageing. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Much of the textblock remains unopened to volume two. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
JUNIOR, DEMOCRITUS (BURTON, ROBERT). THe Anatomy of Melancholy. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two (2) volumes in quarter paper vellum gilt over patterned boards. Edtion limited to 750 numbered copies on japon paper. This is #295. Illustrated throughout by E. MacKnight Kauffer and designed by Francis Meynell. Wear to extremities and to vellum spines. Many pages uncut. Clean copies.Text taken from the 6th edition.
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Burton, Robert. THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. The Nonesuch Press, N, 1925.
Price: US$1169.52 + shipping
Description: What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it. . . . Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. In two volumes. Pp. xvi+300+[iv]+301-592(mostly printed double column, last blank), pictorial title page both volumes, frontispiece portrait Volume I, numerous text illustrations (a few full page), the half-title page printed in red & black; tall impl. 8vo; qr. parchment, spines lettered in gilt, Italian patterned papered boards, slightly rubbed (heavier on lower board of Volume I), edges lightly worn, the parchments slightly soiled; uncut; text block faintly browned at edges, a couple of spots of foxing and very occasional slight soiling; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925. One of 750 numbered sets on Dutch paper. McKitterick 28. *Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator on a preliminary blank in Volume I: 'For Ethel and Lloyd who nobly shared not a little of the melancholy of winter 1924-25 when Burton was only a third finished - and long overdue for publication. This copy is inscribed to them, with the affection and friendship of, E. McKnight Kauffer (Ted).' With the bookplate of Lloyd Osbourne on the upper pastedowns beneath later book label of David Levine, Sydney. Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947) was the son of Fanny Osbourne and stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island is said to have evolved from a pirate story Stevenson entertained him with as a child, and Lloyd was the model for the novel's young narrator, Jim Hawkins. He married his second wife, Ethel Blanche Head, in London in 1914, and they presumably met Kauffer there when he was living in London and producing his renowned posters for London Underground and London Transport.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Nonesuch Press. THE HOLY BIBLE [and] THE APOCRYPHA. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$3341.49 + shipping
Description: Reprinted according to the Authorised Version 1611. In five volumes, totalling approximately 1,600 pages, each volume with an engraved pictorial title page, headpiece and tailpiece by Stephen Gooden, printed from the copper; narrow med. 4to; cream papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges occasionally a trifle bruised, the spines slightly darkened, small orange/red ink stain to bottom edge of lower board Volume 2 (Genesis to Ruth); uncut and partly unopened; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing (mainly to top edges of leaves); The Nonesuch Press, London, 1924-27. One of 1,250 numbered copies (Apocrypha) and 1,000 sets on Japon vellum (total editions 1275 and 1075 respectively). McKitterick 20 and 21. *The Apocrypha was published separately in 1924, but the five volumes were always intended to form a uniform edition and were advertised as such from the beginning.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia