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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cream cloth stamped in gilt and brown. #464/1050. With eight full-page color illustrations by Alastair. The illustration opposite page 52 is signed in pencil, below the image. The covers are well worn at the corners are spine ends and severely soiled, sunned. The corners are bumped with the boards showing. Browning to the endpapers. All text and illustrations are just about fine. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
ALASTAIR (Illustrator); PATER, Walter.. SEBASTIAN VAN STORCK.. The Bodley Head, London. 1927., 1927.
Price: US$132.89 + shipping
Description: 4to, 68pp. Colour illustrations. A good hardback copy in pale illustrated cloth boards with general wear and tear, especially to spine which is frayed and split. Light toning to fore edges. Foxing to prelims. Previous owner's bookplate. Limited edition of 1050, numbered 631.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of Pater's short work, diabolically illustrated and signed by Alastair. Originally published as one of Pater's IMAGINARY PORTRAITS, the fictional Sebastian draws his philosophy from Spinoza and his aesthetic judgments from Pater's own. Konody's introduction offers brief recognition of the text's importance before rushing on to an ecstasy of frenzied adoration for the illustrator, to whom no superlative is equal: "Like Lindbergh upon his monoplane venturing alone across the Atlantic, Alastair has flown upon his pen the whole breadth of human emotions, and in so doing he has led the way that others may follow." Original beige cloth, stamped in brown and gilt. Number 632 of an edition of 1050 copies. 67, [1] pages. Eight illustrations in color. Signed by Alastair to plate facing page 42. Moderate soil and minor staining to cloth. Mild to moderate foxing throughout.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Walter Pater. Sebastian Van Storck. John Lane, 1927.
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1927. Hardback Very Good+ , clean tight copy. Introduction by P. G. Konody. 68 pp. With eight Illustrations in colour by Alastair. Folio, publisher's decorated cloth. First edition; No. - review - This is a limited edition of 1050 copies and this is a rare review copy.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.53 + shipping
Description: folio. 31.5cm, first edition, 68p., With 8 colour plates by Alastair, and with one plate at p54 signed by Alastair, limited to 1,050 copies, this being #140, in the original tan linen, gilt titles and pictorial decorations, t.e.g., a near fine clean copy in dust soiled original slipcase (spine cap broken) with printed paper label on the upper cover (agc).
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Pater, Walter. Sebastian van Storck. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927.
Price: US$248.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With eight illustrations in colour by Alastair.White decorated cloth. Some spotting to early pages, not affecting any illustration. Covers slightly browned, else very good copy.One of 1050 numbered copies with one plate signed by the artist.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to, number 352 of 1050 copies, original cloth, new blue textured board slipcase by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. Original label preserved.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$286.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, limited to 1,050 copies (this being #843), each containing one plate signed in pencil by the artist. 4to. 68pp. Cream cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board and with a brown-stamped decoration. Cloth marked, spotted and with some uneven discolouration. The corner tips and spine ends rubbed and chafed, and with a small nick to the head of the rear board, and another to the base. Some light browning to the free endpapers and the leaf margins, and with some fox-spotting throughout, although all of the plates are spared, bar a touch of very light occasional spotting to one or two plate margins. A good copy of a handsome production. Lacking the slipcase.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cream cloth stamped in gilt and brown. #464/1050. With eight full-page color illustrations by Alastair. The illustration opposite page 52 is signed in pencil, below the image. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: very good-near fine. A clean, tight copy that presents nearly fine. Covers: A small soil smudge about ½x1 on both panels near center of spine; otherwise fine with no bumping or rubbing. Internally: near fine -- some light toning and spotting to front matter pages occasionally very faint foxing; this appears to be a defect in the paper, not external damage [see photos] -- not affecting any of the plates which were printed on different stock. We have handled several copies of this book and this is the nicest copy we have seen. The slipcase is in fair condition. Fully intact but partially split at spine, chipped at bottom spine, surface wear, rubbing to extremities; small inked marking below front label, small stain at right edge corresponds to the soiling on the covers and probably due to removing the book with unclean hand.
Seller: Burns' Bizarre, IOBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. 68pp. 1/1050 copies. Decorated tan cloth with gilt title to cover and spine in original slipcase with cover plate. Spine sunned. Some staining and discoloration to boards. Upper corners bumped. Staining, discoloration and some rubbing on slipcase. Minor tearing to upper left corner of slipcase. Top edge gilt. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. Frontispiece. Illustrated with 8 reproductions of color plates by Alastair of which one is signed by him (opposite page 38). Introduction by P.G. Konody. Slipcase and binding in good, interior in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
PATER, Walter. ALASTAIR (illus.). Sebastian van Storck.. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1927.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Introduction by P. G. Konody. 68 pp. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by Alastair. Folio, publisher's decorated cloth. First edition; No. 198 of 1050 copies. A few areas of very slight darkening to the cloth (more so on the rear cover); an attractive copy, tight and sound. The Plate opposite page 52 is signed in pencil by Alastair.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Walter Pater's "Sebastian van Storck," Illustrated by Alastair [ALASTAIR, illustrator]. PATER, Walter. Sebastian van Storck. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by Alastair and an Introduction by P.G. Konody. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1927. Limited to 1,050 numbered copies (this copy being No. 40), each copy with one of the plates signed by the artist. Large quarto (12 3/8 x 10 1/8; 313 x 250 mm). 67, [1] pp. Eight color plates (including frontispiece). This copy with the third plate signed by Alastair in pencil. Original cream-colored cloth lettered in gilt and pictorially stamped in brown. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Very minor rubbing to spine and extremities. A near fine copy. Publisher's parchment dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's brown slipcase with printed paper label. Slipcase lacking spine and with some wear to edges. Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894). English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction. From 1885 to 1887 Pater published four new imaginary portraits each set at a turning-point in the history of ideas or art. These imaginary portraits included Sebastian van Storck, a powerful critique of philosophical solipsism, and perhaps Pater's most striking work of fiction. Alastair (Baron Hans Henning Voigt; 1887-1969). German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator. Mysterious, flamboyant, enigmatic and attractive to many people, he was born of German nobility in Karlsruhe. In his youth he joined the circus and learned mime. Shortly after leaving school he studied philosophy at Marburg University where he met the writer Boris Pasternak. He is best known as an illustrator. His drawings, which are often decadent in spirit and have the look of Art Deco, are considered "The legitimate successor of Aubrey Beardsley whose conventions served him not as models to copy, but as bases for new rhythms pulsing with strange nervous energy and sensibility" (Introduction).
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio. (68)pp. Eight full page color illustrations by Alastair; the most complicated of the illustrations, opposite page 42 has been signed in pencil by the artist. The binding is beige linen blocked in brown and gilt. One of 1050 numbered copies of which this is number 1001. The binding has some soil and wear at the area which corresponds to the thumb cutout on the slipcase, the spine is lightly darkened, else this is a very good copy with fine contents. The publisher's slipcase is lightly soiled and well worn at the edges, though still serviceable. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.