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Washington Irving. The Alhambra. Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1896.
Price: US$6.35 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1896. No Edition Remarks. 436 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Rough-cut pages are moderately tanned with some foxing throughout. Slight crinkling to paper at gutters, however binding remains firm. Inscribed by a previous owner. Illustrations are moderately tanned with some foxing. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners. Visible crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Sticker remnants to rear board. Visible water staining and black marks overall. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows minor to moderate wear, tear, rubbing. Lacking ffep. Pages lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Washington Irving. The Alhambra. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full gilt embellishments. Spine a bit faded. Minor shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Irving, Washington. The Alhambra. MacMillan, London, 1896.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 436pgs, beautiful gilt covers, book pages show some waviness presumably due to exposure to moisture, covers ok, previous owner's name on first clean page, nice copy -
Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.
IRVING Washington, PENNELL Joseph [Illustrator]. THE ALHAMBRA. Macmillan, 1896, 1896.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: 1st edn. 8vo (7½ x 5 ins). Rebound (Henry Young & Sons Liverpool) in gilt tooled full calf prize binding, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (corners a little scuffed - otherwise VG). Pp. xx + 436, illus with b&w frontispiece with tissue-guard, b&w plates and drawings in text by Joseph Pennell (1904 Liverpool Institute prize plate on front paste-down; prelims lightly spotted; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Washington Irving. The Alhambra. London, Macmillan 1896, 1896.
Price: US$62.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: NOT Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/ Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.90 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex library book, usual markings. Hardback rebound by library. Some wear to spine and book covers, creasing and minor markings to a few pages, and discolouring due to age. Still very useable. Clean copy. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Price: US$93.68 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Heavy foxing to prelims. Top of spine nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 435 pages : 18. 5 cm. Subjects; Alhambra (Granada, Spain). Palaces Spain Granada. Islamic architecture Spain. Granada (Spain) Description and travel 19th century. Spain Description and travel 19th century. Spain, Southern Description and travel. Spain Granada Palaces Alhambra to 1896. ARCHITECTURE - Spain - Moors. ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - Spain - Granada. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Irving, Washington. The Alhambra. MacMillan and Co. Ltd, London, 1896.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cloth covered boards with gilt illustration and lettering to front and spine, gilt closed edges, spine edges worn and chipped in places, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, rear board rubbed and spot stained in places, black endpapers with small chip to centre, ink inscription to fep, fep, title page and introductory pages lightly creased, frontispiece entitled, 'Washington Irving's rooms, overlooking the Garden of Lindaraxa' with spotted tissue guard, spotting to title page and to the edges of some pages, Introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and illustrated with drawings of the places mentioned by Joseph Pennell, in-text illustrations throughout, text clear to read, lean to binding but pp secure. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Heavy foxing to prelims. Top of spine nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 435 pages : 18. 5 cm. Subjects; Alhambra (Granada, Spain). Palaces Spain Granada. Islamic architecture Spain. Granada (Spain) Description and travel 19th century. Spain Description and travel 19th century. Spain, Southern Description and travel. Spain Granada Palaces Alhambra to 1896. ARCHITECTURE - Spain - Moors. ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - Spain - Granada. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Thus. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp xx, 436. One of limited edition of 500 large paper copies; with 12 lithographs and many other illustrations. Covers and paper title label to spine a little rubbed; spine ends somewhat rubbed and bumped with small loss at head of spine; ownership inscription on ffep; fore edge and lower edge uncut o/w sound around VG with clean text.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: Macmillan. 1896. Delux first edition. Hardback in DW. Upper board and spine decorated in gilt extra. All page edges gilt. Pages foxed otherwise a rematkably clean and fresh copy in wrapper that is sunned to spine and torn and chipped to extremities. SCARCE in this condition.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~Limited edition: 'Five Hundred Copies of this Large Paper Edition, with Twelve Lithographs, were printed December 1896'. Original brick-red buckram cloth, printed paper label, slightly worn to spine. Slight fading to spine. Corners slightly pushed in. Top edges trimmed, other edges deckled. Large 4to (20 x 27cm). Front hinge very slightly slack. Mild cracking at gutter following front free endpaper. Mild foxing to early and late pages. Owner's signature dated 1902 to front free endpaper. Frontis with tissue guard. Profusely illustrated, with numerous in-text illustrations and engraved plates by Pennell and various artists, as well as 12 full-page lithographs by Joseph Pennell (not included in accompanying trade edition). Faint stain to pp. 200-201. Faint band of offset browning to lithograph following p. 242. Loose newspaper cutting of 'An Appreciation' of Joseph Pennell between pp. 98-99, with offset browning to adjacent pages. Beautifully illustrated edition of Irving's influential 1832 work, with introduction and illustrations by American husband and wife team Elizabeth Robbins Pennell (1855-1936), writer and critic, and Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), artist. Frequent collaborators and travellers through Europe, the Pennells were well-placed to shape this fine edition of Irving's classic 'Spanish sketchbook'. Joseph Pennell's illustrations were his first significant lithographs and a high-point of his impressive career in book-illustration. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: xvii, 436pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Description: One of 500 copies of the Large Paper edition with 12 Lithographs. Tall 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 inches), pages: xx;436, original burgundy cloth with printed paper label to spine, uncut. Front free endpaper removed, label chipped, crack at one inner gutter else very good indeed.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Washington Irving. The Alhambra. Macmillan and Co., Ltd.,, London:, 1896.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in its original dark red cloth covered boards with a printed, paper label on the spine. A small quarto of 10 3/8 by 6 3/4 inches with minor chipping and wear to the paper label on the spine, the joint to the front board shows splitting to the cloth at its lower 2 inches and the end sheets show minor foxing while the contents are free of foxing and tanning. One of only 500 limited edition, large paper copies printed. With an Introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and illustrated with drawings of the places mentioned by Joseph Pennell. 436 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 lithographs and numerous vignettes throughout.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1896 Macmillan London large paper edition limited to 500 copies cloth hardcover with paper spine label, rough cut edges. 12 lithographs in addition to illustrated text. Tight binding endpapers are foxed with very light spotting to text. No marks. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xx, 436 pages of text. Original maroon hardcover binding with a printed paper spine label. The spine is moderately sunned and rubbed, and there is other minor shelfwear; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. Limited to 500 copies printed, this large paper edition is complete with 12 original black-and-white lithographs by Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), signed in the plate. The pages edges are uncut and untrimmed, and in many cases the protruding edge is moderately browned, with a few edges soiled. There are approximately two dozen instances of minor soiling in the text. The endpapers are moderately foxed, and the corners of the first six pages have tiny perforations, affecting the margins only. First edition.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
IRVING Washington. THE ALHAMBRA. Edition : LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1896, 1896.
Price: US$544.42 + shipping
Description: Introduction by E. Robins PENNELL - Illustrated with drawings by Joseph PENNELL - texte en Anglais - Un des 500 exemplaire sur grand papier - 12 lithographies hors texte - Reliure in-8 percaline rouge, dos lisse, étiquette de titre imprimée - Grandes marges, non massicoté, en grande partie non coupé - Reliure légèrement frottée et décolorée, intérieur très frais - Bel exemplaire - Frais de port supplémentaires à prévoir, poids supérieur à 1 kg - Additional postage due to language may apply, please inquire XX, 436 pages, 27 cm, relié. Très bon état
Seller: Livres 113, BEAUTIRAN, France
Price: US$650.22 + shipping
Description: tela editorial reparada bien conservada con tejuelo original en papel 12 litografías originales y 375 ilustraciones en el texto, edición en gran papel,limitada a 500 ejemplares,con litografías originales de Pennell firmadas en la placa (estas litografías no se incluyen en la edición corriente ). .
Seller: LIBRERIA ANTICUARIA EPOPEYA, Zaragoza, Spain
Price: US$2309.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The limited edition large paper version of Pennell's masterclass in lithography, and Washington Irving's collection of essays, verbal sketches and tales, centred around the eponymous Alhambra Palace in Granada. Here in lovely condition. The lithographs in particular are considered one of Penell's finest works and are not included in the trade edition published alongside. The Alhambra has its origins in Irving's researches for his history A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. He raveled to Granada, where he managed to obtain access to the Alhambra palace from the governor. He was inspired by his stay there to write this work, which combines description, myth, and narrations of historical events, all the way up to the penisular wars and the earthquake in 1821. The book was first published in 1832 in the United States and England. It was highly influential, and this later limited edition is a testament to its enduring popularity. This edition was limited to 500 copies, and includes 375 vignettes and 12 original lithographs by Joseph Pennell, the celebrated American aritst and illustrator. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In the original cloth. Externally very smart with just a little fading to the spine. The free endpapers are a little foxed. The text block is untrimmed, and therefore the edges are a little dusty. Otherwise clean and bright throughout, and generally firmly bound. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom