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E.M.Forster. Pharos and Pharillon. The Hogarth Press, Richmond, Surrey, 1923.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Menelaus accordingly leads the Alexandrian pageant with solid tread; cotton brokers conclude it; the intermediate space is thronged with phantoms, noisless, insubstantial, innumerable, but not without interest for the historian." 98pp. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press.
Seller: Wadard Books PBFA, Farningham, KENT, United Kingdom
FORSTER,E.M.. Pharos and Pharillon. hogarth press richmond 1923, 1923.
Price: US$20.71 + shipping
Description: second edition 100pp VG (in blue paper wrappers,mod.rubbed and stained,mod.wear to extrems.,owner's inscr.and dealer's stamp to ffep,content edges sl.foxed)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Forster, E. M.. PHAROS AND PHARILLON. , 1923.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Surrey 1923 2nd Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. 12mo., 98pp., wraps. Author/title penned in ink on spine. VG, spine browned.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
FORSTER, E.M.. Pharos and Pharillon. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1923.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thin 8vo, cloth backed patterned boards, paper label; boards rubbed at edges, label rubbed, fore-edge & several pages foxed; small book label. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1923. First Edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Forster, E. M.. Pharos and Pharillon. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1923. First edition. 80pp. plus a 1 page catalogue. Alexandria, Egypt, at one point a trading hub and a cosmopolitan crossroads of the world, was also the place where, during World War I, E.M. Forster fell in love with a young Egyptian man. Pharos and Pharillon is a collection of essays and articles he wrote about Alexandria, mostly written during that time and dedicated to that man, Mohammed el Adl. Organized in two parts, the book opens with Pharos and seven stories that paint a poetic picture of the ancient city and its history. The second half, Pharillon, consists of four stories, followed by Forster’s moving introduction of the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy to the English-speaking world. The division in the book is signaled by Cavafy’s now famous poem, 'The God Abandons Antony.' The sketches were written for the local Egyptian press and were also published in The Nation and Athenaeum, a British political newspaper owned by Leonard Woolf, husband of writer Virginia Woolf. The Woolfs published Pharos and Pharillon in 1923, and with its poignant accounts of the events and history of one of the first global cities, it remains an enlightening portrait, and a useful guidebook. The book is bound in the original striped blue paper covered boards with a blue cloth spine and a paper title label on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling on the boards and wear with a little damage to the paper covering the corner tips. The bottom of the spine is lightly bumped and there is slightly heavier bumping to the top of the spine. The paper title label is worn with small pieces missing from the top corners. The contents are tight and clean with some faint foxing to the free endpapers and some very faint marks on the title-page. There is a light stain of about 1/8" running along bottom edge of the title-page. There is no inscription.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Forster, E. M.. Pharos and Pharillon. Surrey: The Hogarth Press, 1923., 1923.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. 6 x 8.75 inches. 80 pp, [1]. Quarter navy cloth and patterned paper boards with paper spine label. Minor foxing to endpapers, previous ownership signature at front free endpaper, toning, corners bumped and worn. Good.
Seller: Free Play Books, NEW HAVEN, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$185.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 80.1 page publisher's list. Original cloth-backed patterned boards with printed paper title label to spine (chipped with loss). All edges worn. With the bookplate of Michael Ernest Sadler to the front paste-down endpaper.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Forster (E.M.). Pharos and Pharillon.. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923.
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, some light spotting, pp. 80, [1], crown 8vo, original quarter mid-blue cloth with patterned paper boards (the design running vertically), the boards a little worn at edges with some light spotting, backstrip with printed label, edegs untrimmed and a little spotted, the endpapers likewise, contemporary ownership inscription in pencil to flyleaf with bookseller ticket at foot of front pastedown, good. Without the prospectus for the author's 'Alexandria', sometimes present; essays on the Egyptian city, including an account of Cavafy (and that poet's 'The God Abandons Antony' as a central marker). (Kirkpatrick A9a: Woolmer 29)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
E.M. Forster. Pharos and Pharillon. Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press,, 1923.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press; Richmond, 1923. Hardcover. A Good, paper boards and blue cloth spine with paper label on spine, small chip to bottom spine label, binding sturdy and intact, crimping to spine edges, exposed board corners, sunned spine and board margins, rubbing along board and spine edges, some age toning to pages, small crease top corner first 16 pages, top text block edge a bit dusty, few scratch marks bottom text block edge, faint soiled spots on fore-edge, without Dust wrapper. A good, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 80pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. 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.
Forster, E.M.. Pharos and Pharillon. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1923.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 900 copies were hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Decorated paper boards, cloth spine with paper label. Corners worn, otherwise very good (not issued in dust jacket). Variant with the cover paper design running horizontally. Bookplate of G.L. Lazarus. Includes the first publication in English of a poem by C.P. Cavafy. Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 9.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Forster, E. M.. PHAROS AND PHARILLON. The Hogarth Press, Richmond, Surrey, 1923.
Price: US$258.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 80 pp. White endpapers, with very slight yellowing along the edges. Quarter blue cloth with blue patterned boards. Yellowed spine with head and tail lightly worn, corners bumped, edges yellowed and lightly worn. VG Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Forster, E. (Edward) M. (Morgan). PHAROS AND PHARILLON. London: The Hogarth Press, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 80 pp. 1/4 navy blue cloth, white paper boards shot through with royal blue horizontal design. A very good copy indeed with some wear at the extremities and the heel and crown of the spine. Boards slightly darkened at the edges. Rubbing to paper label on the spine. Kirkpatrick A9a. Woolmer 29. The first appearance of Greek poet C.P. Cavafy in English. 900 cc.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Richmond, Surrey: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. First Edition in a print run of 900 copies. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth over decorative boards of blue paper shot through with royal blue running vertically, printed paper spine label; [2],80,[2]pp. Boards a bit rubbed and toned along margins, spine label also toned, scattered foxing to textblock, else a Very Good, quite attractive copy overall. KIRKPATRICK A9a; WOOLMER 29.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
FORSTER, E. M.. Pharos and Pharillon.. Richmond, Surrey: The Hogarth Press, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, one of 900 copies hand-printed by the Woolfs. This collection of articles and essays was written by Forster about his time in Alexandria and also includes the first appearance in English of poems by C. P. Cavafy, in the final chapter "The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy". It includes some of Cavafy's most famous poems, "The God Abandons Anthony", "The City", and "Ithaka", translated by George Valassopoulos. It is here that Forster's memorable first impression of Cavafy appears: "a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe". The articles were originally published between 1921 and 1923 for the British newspaper, The Nation and Athenaum, owned by Leonard Woolf. The binding appeared in two states with no priority, the royal blue design running either horizontally or vertically. Woolmer 29. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed horizontally patterned blue boards, printed paper title label on spine. Spine and extremities toned, spine ends bumped, covers rubbed with tiny loss to label, edges a little worn, contents toned. A good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Forster, E. M.. Pharos and Pharillon.. The Hogarth Press, 1923.
Price: US$394.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 80 pp. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, cloth spine. Previous owner's signature on the pastedown. "Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press".
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
E. M. Forster. Pharos and Pharillon. The Hogarth Press, London UK, 1923.
Price: US$423.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Includes the first English translation of any poetry by C. P. Cavafy. A two page introduction precedes the five chapters previously published in The Nation and the Athenaeum plus nine further chapters and a conclusion never previously issued in England. Original cloth backed paper covered boards with a paper strip spine. Toned and rubbed title label on the spine. The boards are worn with rubbing and wear to the corners and edges. Previous owner signature on the front free page dated Oct. 1919. The contents are foxed in places. 8vo. 80 pp plus one page of publisher’s catalogue.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
FORSTER, E. M.. Pharos and Pharillon.. Richmond, Surrey: The Hogarth Press, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$481.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, one of 900 copies hand-printed by the Woolfs, being a collection of articles and essays Forster wrote about his time in Alexandria, during which he met and fell in love with a young Egyptian man, Mohammed el Adl. The final chapter features the first appearance in English of C. P. Cavafy's work, including some of his most famous poems, "The God Abandons Anthony", "The City", and "Ithaka", translated by George Valassopoulos. It is here that Forster's memorable first impression of Cavafy appears: "a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe". The articles were originally published between 1921 and 1923 for the British newspaper, The Nation and Athenaum, owned by Leonard Woolf (Advani, p. 16). The binding appeared in two states: with the royal blue design running horizontally (as with this copy) or vertically, with no priority between the two. Woolmer 29. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed patterned blue boards, printed paper title label to spine. Board edges a little toned, else bright, light rubbing and wear to extremities, top edge dusty, foxing to edges, affecting a few margins, contents otherwise clean and free from marks. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
FORSTER, E. M.. Pharos and Pharillon. , 1923.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: FORSTER, E. M. Pharos and Pharillon. Original cloth-backed fancy boards, printed paper spine label. Richmond, Surrey: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition, first state. Kirkpatrick A9a. Woolmer 29. One of 900 copies. Light shelfwear, light scattered foxing to pastedowns and exterior leaves, else a very good copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 81 pp. 8vo, blue cloth-backed decorated boards with printed paper label on spine. First edition. Kirkpatrick A9a; the state with the binding design running vertically (no priority). Very minor wear to edges of boards.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1373.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: blue cloth spine, papered boards, label on the spine, no dust jacket, 80 pp_first edition inscribed by the author to Jacques Heurgon on the front endpaper foxing on the edges and pages covers worn on the egdes corners bump and worn label on the spine scuffed Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Forster, E. M. [Edward M.].. Pharos and Pharillon.. Richmond, Hogarth Press, 1923.
Price: US$1648.38 + shipping
Description: Richmond, Hogarth Press, 1923. 80 Bütten-S., 1 Bl. (22 cm). OHLn. mit blaugemustertem Papierbezug u. RSchild. Erste Ausgabe der beiden "Pharos" und "Pharillon" betitelten Gruppen von Essays, mit - seltener! - eigenhändiger WIDMUNG E. M. Forsters für Sir Henry Head (1861-1940), den bedeutenden englischen Neurologen (Head-Holmes-Syndrom), der u.a. den traumatisierten engl. Kriegsdichter und Erzähler Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) behandelte. - Gedruckt in nur 900 Exemplaren in der Hogarth Press von Virginia und Leonard Woolf. Forster hatte die Essays während seines Alexandria-Aufenthaltes in "The Egyptian Mail", "The Egyptian Gazette" und, nach seiner Rückkehr nach London, in "Athenaeum" veröffentlicht. "- under Pharos I have grouped a few antique events; to modern events and to personal impressions I have given the name of Pharillon, the obscure successor of Pharos ." (Introduction). - Unbeschnitten. Einband gebräunt u. an den Kanten teils stärker berieben, Rückenschild beschabt; innen gut u. sauber
Seller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany