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Trevelyan, R. C.. Rimeless Numbers.. Leonard and Virginia Woolf / Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$33.59 + shipping
Description: Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, good condition, marbled covers, title label front cover & spine, strong foxing edges & first few pages (lesser foxing title page, plus spotted foxing to margins of some other pages), pages little toned, some edgewear, bookseller sticker. 80 pp. Scarce collectible verse play from the publishing house of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Plus verse translations from classic texts at the rear, including Theocritus, Catullus and Ovid. The last page has a note on metre. (Sticker of A. H. Spencer, Melbourne.).
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, one of 400 copies. Pre-publication presentation copy, inscribed by Trevelyan on the front free endpaper, to the Canadian artist, and dedicatee of Trevelyan's Idylls of Theocritus, Elizabeth Muntz (1894-1977): "'E.M.' Betty, from R.C.T. 21 April 1932". The edition was not published until May. Woolmer 311. Octavo. Original marbled paper boards, paper title label to spine and front board. Light wear to extremities with small loss to head of spine, small split to upper front joint, the binding otherwise unfaded and sound, very occasionall faint foxing to contents, else clean and unmarked; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Treveleyan, R. C.. RIMELESS NUMBERS. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. First Edition, TREVELYAN, R[obert] C[alverley]. RIMELESS NUMBERS. London: Hogarth Press, 1932. 8vo, pp.80 8 5/8" x 5 1/2" Published May 1932 for 5s, 400 copies printed. Woolmer (311). Brown Marbled paper boards with cream label printed in black on the cover and cream coloured vertical label on the spine. A very good copy with moderate wear.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Trevelyan, Robert Calverly. Rimeless Numbers [SIGNED]. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 80pp. Brown marbled paper covered boards, cream labels printed in black (spine label a bit darkened). Hinges lightly rubbed and minor wear at tips. Tiny chips at extremities of spine, but still a very good + copy. A presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper to H. A. Shelley, from R. C. Trevelyan, dated 26 May 1939. Of this work 400 copies were printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Robert Calverl(e)y Trevelyan (28 June 1872 - 21 March 1951) was an English "eccentric" poet and translator, of a traditionalist sort, and a follower of the lapidary style of Logan Pearsall Smith.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
TREVELYAN, R[obert] C[alverley].. Rimeless Numbers.. London Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$786.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, sole impression; one of 400 copies only, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's marbled paper boards, cream paper title labels to upper board and spine printed in black. A superb copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'Elizabeth Jungmann from R. C. Trevelyan October 1941'. The recipient was a woman of considerable interest. She had been secretary and interpreter in the employ of Gerhart Hauptmann. She fled the Nazis and fetched up in London where she reconnected with Max Beerbohm (a friend of Hauptmann's). Max employed her as secretary through the early 1950s, before marrying her in the last months of of his life.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom