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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 982 pages. Rebound in brown cloth.
Seller: Wild Hills Books, Largo, FL, U.S.A.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. Reminiscences of a literary life. John Major, London, 1836.
Price: US$156.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxii, [4], 556; [2], 557-982; 10 engraved plates, a number of illustrations in the text; contemporary calf-backed boards, rebacked in matching cloth, endpapers renewed; manuscript paper labels on spines; bindings rubbed and worn; a scruffy but sound set. Windle A62; Jackson, 86; Lowndes I, 642.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. REMINISCENCES OF A LITERARY LIFE, 2 VOLUMES. John Major, 1836.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 1/2 leather marbled boards, raised band gilted spine, a bit of edge rubbing, remains nice tight clean attractive set
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Front hinge on volume 1 broken, old paper spine label removed, old library embossed stamp on some leaves, modern withdrawn stamp on title page and end-papers, corners worn. ; 8vo; Dark green 3/4 leather, 6 panel spine, all edges marbled, bound in two volumes, xxxii, [1], [1], 982 p., 10 plates. **Only 19th century edition.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. Reminiscences of a Literary Life in two volumes. John Major, London, 1836.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volume set. 22.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavos. xxxii [4] 556pp, 557-982pp 44 [index] [4 ads]. Illustrated with 10 plates, including frontispiece in each volume, as well as additional in-text illustrations and facsimiles. Bound into full brown leather with leather spine labels and and gilt designs to spines. Spines have been rebacked. Marble endpapers and foredges. Bookplate of previous owner, George H. Brook, on front fixed endpapers. Front gutters feel weak but still holding.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$244.50 + shipping
Description: 2 vols: 982pp. numbered consecutively 8vo Illustrated with 10 full page engravings 3/4 calf and marbled boards, & leather spine labels by Zaehnsdorf, top edges gilt Ex-library with external markings neatly removed, lacks leather labels on volume 1, light rubbing of extremities: VG
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. Reminiscences of a literary life. John Major, London, 1836.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxxii, [4], 556; [2], 557-982; 10 engraved plates, a number of illus. in the text; contemporary calf-backed boards, joints restored, old library pocket inside back cover of both vols.; generally a good, sound set, or better. Windle A62; Jackson, 86; Lowndes I, 642.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$254.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback, large 8vo, edges browned, foxing on frontis and tissue goard, pencilled owner's name on flyleaf, rebound with new endpapers, brown cloth, printed paper spine title labels, Very Good condition
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$299.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 parts bound in 1 volume (xxxii, [4], 982, 44 p.): frontispiece, title vignette, 8 additional leaves of plates (1 folded), in-text illustrations and facsimiles; 22 cm. Contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title: Dibdin's Literary Reminiscences. Gilt- and blind-tooled spine decoration. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Paginated continuously. Includes list of subscribers and index. Frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by J. Posselwhite from a painting by George Richmond. Volume 2 title page omitted in binding. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper for William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork, with motto: Durum Patientia Frango. William Horatio Crawford (1812-1888) was a member of the prominent Crawford family in Cork and a renowned book collector and gardener. In Very Good Condition: binding is rubbed; slight loss of leather at head of spine; leather is separated along back joint from head of for 2 cm. and just starting to tear across spine; front endpapers slightly scraped; something formerly taped on blank page preceding frontispiece and back of frontispiece, now removed, leaving discoloration; frontispiece separated along gutter for 4 cm. from head; pages and plates are clean and tight.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. Reminiscences of a Literary Life - 2 Volumes. John Major, London, 1836.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half leather over marbled boards, top edge gilt, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering, with list of subscribers, all plates present. VERY GOOD previous owner signature, mild toning to frontispiece, verso thereof and title page of volume 1 and verso of frontispiece of volume 2, otherwise internally clean, some rubbing to boards
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$337.09 + shipping
Description: A complete two volume set of this first edition from Thomas Frognall Dibdin, with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with frontispiece and three plates. Volume two is illustrated with five plates. Collated complete. A biographical account from Thomas Frognall Dibdin, an English bibliographer and reverend, with anecdotes of numerous books and book collectors of his day. In the original half crushed morocco with patterned boards. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. Reminiscences of a Literary Life. , 1836.
Price: US$682.50 + shipping
Description: DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. Reminiscences of a Literary Life. London: John Major, 1836. 2 vols. (xxxii, [4], 556, [2], 557-982 p. + 44 p. index). Plates. Full modern morocco, gilt and marbled doublures. Some light foxing on frontispiece and a few plates, else a fine copy. First edition. Dibdin's bookish memoirs.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$801.37 + shipping
Description: Engraved frontispiece and eight plates Two volumes A little foxing and browning to end-papers and preliminary and final blanks, slightly affecting preliminaries, otherwise a very nice copy; armorial bookplate of William Charles Smith in each volume Later full red morocco, sides with triple fillet and ornaments, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered, decorated and dated in gilt, top edge and inner dentelles gilt, marbled end-papers, by Riviere
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom