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Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1817 first UK edition first issue, errata f., lacking half-title, L5v newspaper cutting relating to Bertram Dobell mounted in lower margin, offsetting on to opposite f., [Wise 45; Ashley vol.1, p.206], Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1817 bound with Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Christabel, &c., second edition, half-title, lacking advertisements at end, Printed for John Murray, 1816, some spotting and staining, the latter mostly in second work, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked, gilt title to spine, rubbed, 8vo. ? The first mentioned is the first publication to contain the final version of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Rare title
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., 6 x 9 inches, 303pp. Original drab boards, rebacked with new endpapers, printed paper label on spine. Extremely scarce Coleridge title containing the first appearance of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to appear under Coleridge's name, and with an additional stanza on page 15. As well, the collection includes for the first time "The Nightingale," "Dejection: An Ode," and "France: An Ode." With the original half-title and two-page errata (often not found). With a very early, small bookplate ("Libertas Suprema, etc) and a "Rugby School Library Hodgson Bequest, Section Poetry." accession label, both affixed to front pastedown. A clean, very good copy. Very scarce.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
S. T. Coleridge Esq.. Sibylline Leaves A Collection Of Poems. Rest Fenner, London, 1817.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 1st edition, in original boards. Housed in chemise and slipcase. From the library of Abel E. Berland. With armorial ex-libris bookplate of E. Hubert Litchfield at front pastedown. Spine darkened, cracked at mid-signature, one by one half inch chip at tail; paper title label rubbed and darkened. Joints split, binding holding fairly well by strings and endpapers. Toning to boards, edges worn. A few minor pencil notes to endpapers. Some foxing, mildly effecting text. Dust soiling and foxing to edges of text block. Some toning and light edgewear to chemise and slipcase. VG in VG chemise and VG slipcase.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.