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Flaubert, Gustave; translated by M. French Sheldon. Salammbo. Saxon & Co, London and New York, 1886.
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . . . . Second edition. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, blue cloth. Good condition. Covers moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on first blank page. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight, with no cracking at endpaper seams. 421 pp. 19th, Century, French, History, Literature,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No DJ ex-library book; pages are spotted; cover is slightly scuffed
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Salammbô. Translated from the French ("Englished") by M.French Sheldon first and the only autohrised translation.1886 Second Edition. Good minus condition rubbing to edges with small lost to corners ,foxing to end papers and edges, age related stains to covers, bindinding is shaken. Published by Saxon & Co., London. Inv U5A5."
Seller: Eurobooks Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The first English-language edition of Flaubert's celebrated historical novel. 8vo. 421pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Blue cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With bevelled edges and patterned endpapers. Cloth marked in places, and with a little wear to the spine ends and corner tips. The front hinge tender, with a touch of light very occasional spotting, and with some damp marking to the lower inner margins of quite a number of leaves. Embossed W.H.Smith stamp to the tip of the front free endpaper. Quite a good bright copy of this first edition in English.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Description: Orig. pink printed boards, commercial ads on e.ps; sl. wear to corners & head & tail of spine, but overall a good-plus copy. Salammbô, 1862. First English edition, 1886.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Flaubert, Gustave.. Salammbo.. London and New York: Saxon and Co., 1886, 1886.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: London and New York: Saxon and Co., 1886. First edition thus, translated by M. French Sheldon. Original deep blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and the front, flowered endpapers, 421 pp., one p. of ads. The first edition in English of this historical novel set in Carthage in the 3rd century B.C. A lengthy gift inscription in French on the front flyleaf, signed "Capeline Vert" (the Green Hat) and dated 1892. Front free endpaper with a square inch tear at the lower corner, mended with tape. Light rubbing and soiling, a Very Good copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
FLAUBERT Gustave, By M. FRENCH SHELDON. SALAMMBÔ. Saxon & co., 1886.
Price: US$115.11 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO40239638: 1886. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 421 pages. Text in English. Titres dorés sur le dos et le 1er plat. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons de bibliothèque en page de titre. Nombreuses annotations (notes critiques en anglais) en pages de garde. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Flaubert, Gustave; Sheldon, M. French. Salammbo. Saxon & Co, London and New York, 1886.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Good + condition with bumped corners, light shelf wear to edges of cloth, shelf wear to top and bottom of spine, cloth very lightly rubbed with a few light marks, backstrip with darkening and a couple tiny spots, front pastedown endpaper with small spot plus two tiny spots, book opens a bit wide at middle, otherwise the book is in vg condition with excellent color to cloth, vg/vg+ gilt, clean interior with only light aging, overall lightly used.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Gustave Flaubert. Salammbo. Saxon and Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Saxon and Co, London, UK. 1886. xxiv, 422 pgs. Bound in the original gilt green cloth boards with gilt titles. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. We join war-torn Carthage in the third century B.C., as the city is on the cusp of the Mercenaries' Revolt. Uncertainty pervades the once-great capital, whose finances are in disarray as a result of the lengthy Punic Wars. As it cannot pay or fulfill the promises made to mercenaries it hired, many of these mercenaries turn on the city, with the intention of claiming their dues by force. The main character is Matho, a Libyan mercenary who leads his own company in an assault against the city of Carthage. He has his eyes set not merely on gold but on a strikingly beautiful woman named Salaambo, who is the daughter of Hamilcar, one of the city's leading generals. However, Salaambo proves more than just a mere beauty. She seeks to confound Matho, whose wits are blinded with lust, by stealing back the Zaïmph - a sacred, jewel-encrusted veil said to protect Carthage and its people. The Zaïmph carries immense importance both patriotic and religious, however it is also foreboding; it is said all who touch it will shortly die. Written by Flaubert immediately after he finished the realistic novel Madame Bovary, Salammbo is an enthusiastic departure from gritty realism into the entirely different genre of historical exoticism. The author invested much time into painstakingly researching the surviving accounts and most authoritative histories of Carthage, which to this day is one of the less fictionalized powers of ancient times.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$204.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition without jacket on blue cloth with bold gilt nlkettering to both spine and frontis + a tasteful ownership crested sticker inside cover will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE; Sheldon, M. French Trans. Salammbo. Saxon & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$224.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. First English trans. from French by M. French Sheldon. VG+ in sapphire blue cloth with bevelled edges. Gilt lettering on spine and front board. Light edge wear to extremities. Otherwise quite a nice copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Flaubert, Gustave & Sheldon (trans), M. French. SALAMMBO. Saxon & Co, United Kingdom, 1886.
Price: US$236.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An epic story combining lust, cruelty, riches, ritual and sensuality. Set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome. First English Language Edition. Saxon & Co., London 1886. xxiv + 422pp hb gilt blue bevelled boards, spine faded, covers rubbed, pages browned, previous owner’s signature, good
Seller: Occultique, Northampton, United Kingdom
Price: US$249.77 + shipping
Description: [Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 422 [6]. INSCRIBED by the translator in black ink to title page, dated to March 26th 1886. Small vignette to title page. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Bevelled edges. Floral endpapers, edges untrimmed. Ex-library copy; purple stamp to title page. Toning to endpapers and edges. Soiling and bubbling to cloth in places. Rubbing and wear to joints and extremities. Good. The first English translation of Flaubert's famous novel set during the Mercenary War (241-237 BC).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xxiii [xxiv] [1] 2-421 [422: tailpiece] [423: ad] [424: blank], original blue bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge untrimmed, floral patterned endpapers. First printing of this edition. Probably the first edition in English, a different English translation was published in Paris by Vizetelly in the same year. This edition has a fifteen-page historical and critical introduction by Edward King. An exotic novel set in ancient Carthage, originally published in French in 1862. ". the action of this book, a product of vivid and imaginative writing, is colorfully romantic," but the historical detail was the result of painstaking research. "Before writing it, Flaubert made a voyage to Tunisia, thus carrying out his artistic theories of precise and accurate documentation literally." - Benet, Reader's Encyclopedia (1965), p. 891. A major work by Flaubert, not far behind MADAME BOVARY (1857). Spine ends and corner tips lightly worn, a very good or better copy with fine interior. (#161519)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
SHELDON, M. French. Salammbô of Gustave Flaubert. Saxon & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, floral pastedowns and free end papers. Very good, light bumping to spine ends and corners, pages slightly agetoned, pages uncut.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
SHELDON, M. French [Translator]. Salammbô of Gustave Flaubert. Saxon & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Second Edition, First and Only Authorised Translation. Octavo. Original blue cloth over boards with beveled edges, gilt lettering at front cover and spine, floral end papers, signed and inscribed by translator at dedication page. Very good, spine ends slightly bumped, corners slightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened, small spot at center of rear panel, front hinge cracked, sticker remain at top of front pastedown near edges, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$281.79 + shipping
Description: Half title with ad. on verso, front. port. of Flaubert, 24pp cata. (Apr. 1886); sl. browning to prelims. Orig. orange cloth, front board elaborately blocked with gilt bands at top & bottom & central panel lettered in black on dark red with gilt border, spine dec. & lettered in gilt, Vizetelly monogram & double border in blind on back board. A v.g. bright copy. Salammbô, 1862. The first English edition, translated by M.F. Sheldon & published by Saxon, preceded the Vizetelly edition by a matter of weeks.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London & New York: Saxon & Co., 1886. The great French realist Gustave Flaubert's first published this historical (and considered salacious) novel in 1862; English versions were simultaneously published by Vizetelley and Saxon, with different translators (this Saxon version is less common). This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition, "Englished" by M. French Sheldon. ("New York" is listed as well as London for the publisher's location; Quercus believes this an indication of the First American Edition.) Bright blue cloth binding, beveled, with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Clean text; xxiii, 421 pages. One publisher advert in the rear (unopened), for Welcome's "Alamo." The spine has darkened, but the gilt remains bright. Very light rubbing at the margins. A superior copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$493.13 + shipping
Description: 4pp blanks preceding half title, final ad. leaf. Orig. dark blue cloth, bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; spine sl. darkened & rubbed. Booklabel of R.W. Harper, Inner Temple. A good-plus copy. Salammbô, 1862. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION - followed swiftly by Chartre's translation for Vizetelly, also 1886.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Flaubert, Gustave. Salammbô; Englished by M. French Sheldon. Saxon & Co., London, 1886.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt. This copy has been inscribed and signed by the translator on the title page. Very slight lean, tips and extremities a trifle rubbed, else an exceptionally fine, bright copy.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
FLAUBERT, Gustave. Salammbo [also known as Salambo]. Saxon and Company, London, 1886.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First English edition (a different English translation was published by Vizetelly in the same year). Translated (here described as "Englished") by M. French Sheldon. Some scattered foxing to the text, a very near fine copy. An exotic novel of ancient Carthage that belongs in the second rank of the author's work behind *Madame Bovary*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Gustave Flaubert, (Translator) M. French Sheldon. Salammbo. Saxon & Co., London, 1886.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. 1st edition of this translation. LIMITED SIGNED ISSUE, one of 100 SIGNED by the translator, the publisher, and the author of the introduction, but not signed by the dedicatee. Rebacked. Full leather; t.e.g. Translator's and Mrs. M. French Sheldon's photos pasted in at recto of f.f.e.p. and second blank. A few scrapes to boards, rubbing to edges and some wear to fore-corners. Chipping to edges of free endpapers. A little toning to leaves, offsetting to pps. 94-95, obviously from a plant laid-in at a previous time. Offsetting to first blank. Newspaper clippings pasted to verso of second blank and recto of third, also causing offsetting. Negligible stains to edges of text block. VG.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
FLAUBERT, Gustave. Salammbo [also known as Salambo]. Saxon and Company, London, 1886.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English edition (a different English translation was published by Vizetelly in the same year). Translated (here described as "Englished") by M. French Sheldon. Small, contemporary owner name on the title page, some scattered foxing to the text, else a fine copy. An exotic novel of ancient Carthage that belongs in the second rank of the author's work behind *Madame Bovary*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$745.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Flaubert, Gustave. SALAMBO. Translated by J.S. Chartres. [also known as Salammbo]. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886. First English edition, & First Edition in English (a different English translation was published by Saxon in the same year). 8vo., pp xvi + 360 + 24 adverts at rear. Rust boards with gilt titling & decorations to spine & upper board, blind-stamped decoration & borders to lower board, title in black within gold decoration. Pale blue endpapers. Tissue-guarded portrait of the author etched by Bocourt. Text block clean & free of blemish, a couple of preliminaries including the half title slightly darkened as always. An exceptionally bright fresh copy. Seldom seen as such. Vizetelly published Madame Bovary in the same format.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Flaubert, Gustave (M. French Sheldon, Translator). Salammbo. Saxon & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo., 421(1)pp. Beautiful First American Edition, bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front board. Square, tight and clean throughout save a few scattered spots. Cloth and gilt both fresh and bright. Rubbing to edges. Wear to spine ends and tips. Gift inscription on verso of flyleaf. Signed and dated by Sheldon, the translator, on the title page. A solid collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Flaubert, Gustave. Salammbo. Saxon, London, 1886.
Price: US$799.98 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original blue beveled cloth. First translation in English by French Sheldon. Inscription in ink to Col. W. W. Clapp, a notable Bostonian, signed by French Sheldon. From the library of notable book collector Sydney Ross with his bookplate. Near Fine.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Flaubert, Gustave. Salammbo. Saxon & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 100 copies signed by M. French Sheldon, Henry Morton Stanley, and Edward King. Translated by. M. French Sheldon. Very Good. Leather binding by Zaehnsdorf, faded at the spine, rubbed at the edges and joints. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, silk endpapers with a small chip to the front endpaper, label inside the front board, Royal Yacht Squadron label on the verso of the front endpaper, additional inscription on one of the front flyleaves. Flaubert's best-selling historical fiction about the theft of a sacred veil after the First Punic War.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.