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Price: US$28.05 + shipping
Description: sm4to. 27.5cm, 167p., "edition de luxe"; number 466 of a limited edition of 500 copies, 8 plates including frontis, 10 act head & tail engraved illustrations, tissue guards, in the original dark blue green gilt decorated cloth, beveled edges, gilt titles, a fine copy (lt). ~ An attractive American edition of Hugo's classic poetic drama. With a significant translator's preface "I have adopted the twelve syllable metre of rhyming verse, because it is the nearest approach to the great original."
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hugo, Victor. Ruy Blas. Estes and Lauriat, 1894.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Text is in English. Very good condition for its age. Small book plate on flyleaf. Paper beginning to age but still bright. Binding tight. Minimal bumping of corners. Edition de Luxe. Limited edition number 56 of 500.
Seller: Dave Wilhelm Books, Evanston, IL, U.S.A.
Victor Hugo. Ruy Blas. Estes and Lauriat, 1894.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original hardcover, no jacket as issued, about 7 1/2 x 11, LIMITED EDITION, #55 of 500 copies, 1894, Estes and Lauriat, b + w illustrated frontis with tissue guard, several excellent b + w plates, some with tissue guards, throughout book; rough-cut page edges, gilt top page edges and gilt on both spine and front cover. Condition: some rubbing and fading to the boards; light fraying and scuffing along edges and corners; some bumping along board edges and at corners; normal age-toning to the pages with light reference wear. Despite age, book is very solid and square and the spine it remarkably solid. About good plus to very good condition. Comes in rubbed glassine sleeve
Seller: Snowden's Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Hugo, Victor.. Ruy Blas: A Drama in Five Acts.. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894., 1894.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with numerous compositions by Adrien Moreau, etched by Champollion with tissue guards. LImited Edition of 500 numbered copies. This is #22. 4to. 167 pp. Frontispiece. Original green cloth with gilt decorations and titles. Top edge gilt. Name front free endpaper and light wear at the spinal extremities else a tight, near fine book.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Hugo, Victor.. Ruy Blas: A Drama in Five Acts.. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894., 1894.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894. January 1894 Binding: Hardcover one of 500 edition de luxe edition $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.