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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume Seven Only. Mildly darkened along spine. Front board, slightly darkened at one corner. Very slight wear along bottom edges of boards. Several pages remain unopened. Otherwise very good.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Horace. The Odes & Epodes of Horace Volume VI. The Bibliophile Society, 1901.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: #265 of 467 numbered and signed copies. Translated by Clement Lawrence Smith. Fronticepiece etching signed in pencil by Bricknell. Also a pencil signed etching by Edmund H. Garrett. Page edges uncut. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7 parts in 9 volumes - original edition 1901, half faux-vellum over brown covers, sides untrimmed. This copy with duplicate frontispieces portraits of Horace from etchings by W. H. W. Bickell (3), James Fagan, Edmund H. Garrett, Howard Pyle, with the extras signed by them. Pages watermarked Bibliophile Society on the vertical. Limitation for this set is in Vol II Part 1, this Roman Numeral X, a complimentary copy printed for the editor Clarence Lawrence Smith with the limitation signed W. F. Hobson. Title page illustrated in woodcut by Howard Pyle (H.Pyle cut into lower right). A handsome production. Spines tanned a bit. A slight abrasion to the spine of Volume 1, a short tear to the top of Volume 3. Unused volumes, leaves uncut, internals quite bright, some light foxing confined to prelims and rears.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Six volumes, bound in eight. Horace's text complete, but without the bibliographical volume. Wonderful etched plates and woodcuts by Howard Pyle, W. H. W. Bicknell, and others. Includes extra plates printed on Japan Vellum. Some plates signed in pencil. Square 8vo. Beautifully printed on beautiful paper. Uncut and unopened. Paper boards backed in a simulated vellum. Slightly chipped and soiled at spine, but still an attractive set. This is the first publication of the famed Bibliophile Society. This is set number 369 of an edition limited to only 467 copies. Mills 2296. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W126 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$765.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The complete set of eight volumes in ten, all in double slipcases. All volumes are in very good to near fine condition. All are bound in quarter vegetable vellum over brown paper covered boards; most show light spotting to vellum and/or darkening to spine, and some are lightly rubbed at top or bottom edge of boards; in every case, contents are bright, fresh, and unmarked, with foxing to the front free endpaper of Volume VII only. The outer slipcases, though somewhat age-darkened, are in very good to near fine condition, with paper labels intact, all joints strong, and minor bumping only. The cloth-lined inner slipcases range in condition from poor to very good. That for Volume VIII is in poor condition: bottom panel broken (but complete), top and bottom joints split, and cloth lining loosened. Three others show cracking or splitting at joints; the remaining six are intact. This is set number 61 of an edition of 467 copies.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
HORACE. Odes and Epodes. , 1901.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: HORACE. Odes and Epodes. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901. Seven volumes bound as nine. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. Housed in publisher's original chemises and slipcases. $5000.Limited illustrated edition, one (unnumbered) of 467 sets, with title page decoration by Howard Pyle and 12 double suite etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan and Edmund H. Garrett, signed in pencil by the respective artist on one impression, including a Bicknell etching after a Pyle painting, signed in pencil by Pyle, beautifully bound and in fine condition.Latin text edited by Clement Lawrence Smith of Harvard University, who also provides a life of the Roman poet. Translations are provided as "versions, paraphrases and explanatory notes by eminent scholars, statesmen and poets." Each poem is additionally decorated with numerous woodcut vignettes, borders and ornamented capitals. Volume VII, Bibliography, includes 21 facsimiles of title pages of editions of Horace. Volume II, Part II and Volume IV, Part II issued without the limitation page or Pyle title page. Volume VII also without limitation page; marbled boards and endpapers differ from those of the other volumes but spines uniform, as issued. "Bibliophile Society" appears in watermark on the outer margin of each leaf. Minor spotting to a few interior leaves of Volume IV, Part I. A lovely set in fine condition.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.