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Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: Fronts. by H. Corbould. Contemp. full pink calf, spine gilt in compartments, borders in gilt & blind, black leather labels lettered 'Byron's Minor Works'; heads of spines chipped, hinges splitting, front board vol. II with sl. worm damage. A reasonable copy, internally tight & clean. Coleridge p.154.VIII.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: A reading or binding copy with most of leather gone, the only remaining portion a fragment of front panel, which is detached; binding sound, page edges tanned and foxed; first several leaves soiled, worn, chipped, torn; foxing throughout; last several leaves heavily worn, bumped, creased; first and last several page corners bumped. xl, 718 pp., frontispiece portrait. A facsimile letter, originally bound in, is detached and heavily worn. With a life of Lord Byron by J. W. Lake. Size: 8vo
Seller: Maya Jones Books, Cerrillos, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.16 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original quarter aniline over marbled boards. Spine worn; with tape to covers. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 1 v. Subjects; Cobbett, William 1763-1835. Byron, George Gordon Byron. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Popular literature Great Britain ; Periodicals. Arts ; Periodicals. Miscellany. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$172.00 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original quarter aniline over marbled boards. Spine worn; with tape to covers. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 1 v. Subjects; Cobbett, William 1763-1835. Byron, George Gordon Byron. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Popular literature Great Britain ; Periodicals. Arts ; Periodicals. Miscellany. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$212.56 + shipping
Description: Front. port., folding facsim. 'Vampyre' letter; sl. spotted. Contemp. full calf, panelled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, brown label; rubbed, functional repairs to hinges. A sound copy. This 1828 edition not in BL. Coleridge p.107.XXXV, with some corrections & additions to the 1826 & 1827 editions. In 718pp.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$215.45 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original half leather over marbled boards. Raised bands with a dark morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine worn; spine bands somewhat rubbed and bumped as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 718 pp. Subjects; English poetry Scottish authors.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$244.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original half leather over marbled boards. Raised bands with a dark morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine worn; spine bands somewhat rubbed and bumped as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 718 pp. Subjects; English poetry Scottish authors.Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BYRON (George Gordon, Lord). The Works. [printed by Thomas Davison for] John Murray, London, 1828.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Engraved frontispiece in each volume. Four volumes. 12mo. [154 x 95 x 108 mm]. ix, [iii], 362 pp; [3]ff, 424pp; vii, [i], 383, [1] pp; [3]ff, 429, [1] pp. Bound in the original boards, the spines with printed paper labels, plain endleaves, uncut edges. (Patch of water staining on spine of vol.1, a little rubbed with small chips to labels). With the half-title in each volume. A fine set, as originally issued. Vol.4 has a pencil note "Market Place, Cambridge 3/6 1905", indicating that they were quite possibly purchased from Gustave David's bookstall. Ink inscription in vol.1 "Marianne Schaefer, Christmas 1946".
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Nine 16mo. volumes; finely bound in crimson straight-grain morocco faded a bit at the spines; with the covers bordered in wide decorative gilt, and double ruled; spines richly gilt and lettered in gilt, turn-ins with a simple decorative rule; corners of the covers ruled at the edges; all edges gilt; a pleasing and well-preserved set.~~The first six volume are "The Works", printed by John Murray in 1826. Volume I is Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, concluded in Volume II; Volume II also contains The Glaour and The Corsair; Volume III has Lara, The Bride of Abydor, The Siege of Corinth, Parisina, The Prisoner of Chillon, Beppo, and Mazeppo; Volume IV has Manfred, Hebrew Poems, Ode to Napoleon, Monody on the Death of Sheridan, Lament of Tasso, Poems, and Prophecy to Dante; Volume V has Marino Faliero and Cane; Volume VI has Sardanapalus and The Two Foscari. Volumes VII and VIII were "Printed for the Booksellers in 1828, and are comprised of Don Juan; and finally, Volume IX was printed by John and Henry L. Hunt in 1824 (the year of Byron's death) and consists of The Age of Bronze; The Island; The Vision of Judgment; and the Reformed Transformed. Very Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, three volumes: pp. [i-v] vi-viii [1] 2-338 [note: final leaf, P1, is a single inset]; [i-ii] [1] 2-324; [i-ii] [1] 2-417 [418: blank] [note: first leaf of final signature, S1, is a single inset], nineteenth-century three-quarter brown leather and marbled boards, all panels stamped in gold. First edition. Published anonymously. The first of two novels published by George Croly (1780-1860), Irish clergyman, poet and miscellaneous writer, a popular gothic tale of the Wandering Jew. "The motif of the Wandering Jew has been used for a variety of literary purposes down through the ages, though it has attracted more interest from European than American writers (where it has tended to merge with the Flying Dutchman in such displaced forms as 'Peter Rugg' and 'The Man Without a Country'). One looks for fresh variations on the theme as well as overall literary ability, and Croly supplied both in this long novel. Its most direct genre affinity is with the romantic historical fiction of Walter Scott, the setting here being the Mediterranean world of the first century. The curse from Jesus (whom the Jew famously refused to help on his way to his crucifixion) is the starting point. The Jew's full understanding of his doom is the story's ending point. In between he encounters 'dreadful visions, imagined journeys through space, shipwrecks, hunger and thirst, violence of all kinds both real and imaginary' (Anderson, The Legend of the Wandering Jew, pp. 188-9). He emerges as a generally sympathetic adventure hero, the first time he was portrayed as a Jewish nationalist resisting both Romans and Christians, and as an unwitting inspiration to future rebels and innovators -- a doomed Byronic hero, in other words (Byron called the author 'roly-poly Croly'). In his definitive treatment of the Wandering Jew legend, George K. Anderson gives considerable space to SALATHIEL and, in comparing it to Maturin's contemporary tale of another doomed immortal, MELMOTH THE WANDERER (1820), declares Croly's work superior as literature (ibid., p. 189). While this judgment will strike most readers as controversial, to say the least, it does suggest that Croly's work does not deserve its present obscurity." - Robert Eldridge. "Croly's best known work, his novels, are a sort of combination imitation of Byron, De Quincey, and Moore. They are thoroughly meretricious and sensational, but colorful and bold, and SALATHIEL at least was very popular in its day." (Kunitz and Haycraft) "An impressive example of Gothic romance, on the old theme of the Wandering Jew, embellished with oriental scenery and oriental grandiloquence." (Baker). Frank, The First Gothics 77. Bleiler (1978), p. 53. Reginald 03632. Garside, Raven & Sch werling 1828:32. NCBEL III 375. Sadleir 661. Wolff 1633. Early oval ink ownership stamp of R. A. Heaver on the front and rear endpapers of each volume, contemporary book label of Mordaunt M. Fitzgerald affixed to front paste-downs of volumes one and two. Bindings rubbed, light foxing and stains to text blocks, a very good copy. (#137517)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$780.00 + shipping
Description: 138 x 88 mm. (5 1/2 x 3 1/2"). Two volumes. VERY PRETTY CONTEMPORARY BURGUNDY MOROCCO, GILT, BY BAQUIÉ (stamp-signed in gold at foot of spine), covers with thick and thin gilt-rule border enclosing a blind-stamped floral roll frame and large central panel formed by multiple gilt rules with spiraling acanthus leaf cornerpieces, very wide raised bands decorated with scrolling acanthus leaves accented with small tools and flanked by thick and thin gilt fillets, gilt titling and turn-ins, all edges gilt. Each volume with engraved frontispiece depicting a scene from "Don Juan," the main figure in both of these illustrations bearing a striking resemblance to the poet. First volume with front pastedown ex-libris shelf label of M. Ladenburg; front free endpaper of same volume with ink presentation inscription dated 19 April 1844 (names have been erased). See Day, "History of English Literature 1660-1837," pp. 402-6. âVery minor soiling and faint traces of leather preservative to covers, frontispieces rather foxed and with offsetting from them onto title pages (because of paper stock), but A VERY PRETTY SET in otherwise fine condition, the bindings bright and attractive on the shelf, and the text (on very good paper) entirely clean, smooth, and fresh. This is a charming little set, showing few signs of use, that contains several of Byron's best-known works, including his masterpiece "Don Juan," originally published in parts from 1811 to 1819. In that work, the fictional hero, the Spaniard Don Juan, is forced to undertake a journey (partly based on episodes from Byron's own turbulent life) that finds him in Greece, Turkey, and Russia as well as into and out of the arms of a succession of women. A composition marked by supple versification that is sunnier than much of his previous poetry, it is a work characterized by Day as "the greatest English verse epic since 'Paradise Lost.'" The name "Baquié" at the foot of the spine must surely be that of the binder (and surely he was French), but he does not appear in Ramsden, Beraldi, Flety, or Thoinan, and no binder by that name is found in online auction records. The design is elegant (while not more so than the contents deserve) and has the effect of making the small volumes seem significantly larger than they are. In any case, the execution is first rate and the condition matches it.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.. The Works.. London: John Murray and J. F. Dove, 1828-29, 1828.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: An attractively bound set of Byron's works, published by his friend and publisher John Murray (1778-1843). The last two volumes are published by John Fowler Dove (1787-1866), who worked for Murray and who also published the Dove's English Classics series. 6 volumes, duodecimo (136 x 87 mm). Contemporary dark blue calf, spines with four raised bands each decorated with a single gilt fillet closed by a foliate finial, compartments framed with triple gilt fillets enclosing a foliate panel, dark red twin labels, sides with border of triple gilt fillets enclosing a decorative gilt panel, gilt foliate turn-ins, French Shell marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece to each volume. Slight rubbing to spines and covers, small mark to front cover of vol. I, occasional spot of foxing, largely bright and clean with no ownership marks. A very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom