Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red cloth with gold spine titles. Spine a bit darkened with age, but there are two quarter sized light blotches (below the spine titles not on them). Right hand corner (front and back) water damaged. Interior not affected except on one leaf.
Seller: Black Sheep Books, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: R. Worthington; New York, 1882. Hardcover. First Edition. Acceptable Only, broken hinge at page 94/95, TEG with moderate blemishes/rub marks, heavy discoloration to spine, tears to buckram of spine edges, abrasions to board corners, sunned pages, binding still intact, some loose pages, moderate use/handling marks, binding shaky, some soiled spots to boards, without Dust wrapper. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 321pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this translation by Lafcadio Hearn, *BAL* spine imprint A. Octavo. Red cloth gilt. Cloth is moderately nicked at the spine ends, both hinges neatly mended, very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 321pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Top edge gilt. In a custom light purple chemise and slipcase. The slipcase has a dark purple bonded leather spine with raised bands, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Good. The spine and boards are mildly darkened and soiled, and have numerous small moisture stains. The spine is subtly faded and rolled. The edges of the spine and covers are gently rubbed and bumped. The text block is cracked multiple times. Browned pages. The chemise is in very good condition, with a darkened spine panel, and a few small areas of light soiling. In a good slipcase. Light edge wear. The top 1/4 of the slipcase is heavily sun faded. Theophile Gautier was held in high regard by writers such as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 321p octavo, A fine tight copy in red cloth, quite uniformly browned, top edge gilt, and appears to be lightly read or unread copy. Tiny leather book plate of collector John Stuart Groves
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: From bibliographer Merle Johnson's original catalog description for an auction of his Lafcadio Hearn collection in 1914: "The genuine first edition of the Translator's first work of high association interest being Hearn's own copy, with his (signature) stamp on the flyleaf and the copy presented by him to Miss Annie Fields Alden, daughter of the late editor of Harper's Magazine. An autograph note of one page, 12mo., by Miss Allen which accompanies the copy, reads as follows: "This copy of One of Cleopatra's Nights, was the property of Lafcadio Hearn. He gave it to me while visiting my father, Henry Mills Alden." (signed) "Annie Fields Alden." Miss Alden has written in her autograph a poem entitled "Egypt" of fourteen lines, commencing: "Fantastic sleep in busy with my eyes." and in addition has drawn a clever pencil sketch entitled: "The Serpent of the Nile" opposite page (1). At pages 4, 14, 18, 54, 120, 122, 139, 174 and 235 are corrections thought to be in the autograph of Hearn. (A modern note by us, with references that were not available to Johnson: They are.). A letter signed by F.A. Nast to Merle Johnson, which also accompanies the copy, reads: ".Mr. Alden has seen the book and he states that the poem in the handwriting of his daughter Annie. the picture he does not know anything about, but the correction in the text he believes were made by Mr. Hearn," etc. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth, worn at extremities and with some staining from and back cover. This is the same condition it was in 1914, and we have declined to have it professionally restored, with our idea that the wear and staining were caused by the translator. Internally clean and unstained. Merle Johnson calls this book Hearn's first book. This translation precedes "Stray Leaves,." the first book authored by Hearn, by two years. Johnson claims this is the first state, with the publisher's name being in all capital letters at the binding's spine. The Bibliography of American Literature makes note of an earlier contribution by Hearn to a French language pamphlet published in New Orleans in 1879 and does not assign a priority to the capitalization of the publisher's name on this book.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.