Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$9.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 10 pages, good condition in stapled paper covers, tears at the top and bottom of the spine, staples rusting, text pages in very good, clean condition.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 850 copies. 102p. Gilt-titled cloth over boards. The second book of the Nonesuch Press. Dreyfus #2. Upper corner lightly bumped, else fine in d.j. with large chips
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
thomas Stanley ( Translated By ). Kisses Being the Basia. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: tall 8vo, orange printed design paper covered boards, number 276 of 725 copies, boards bit rubbed, cut repair to front paper cover( good) contents vg clean and tight. good tight copy.
Seller: Peter Sexton, arlington, United Kingdom
Price: US$22.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Clean Tight Book, Previous Owner's Bookpate Laid In ( Was Affixed But Has Come Loose And Left Glue Mark On Front Verso. Previous Vendors Code On Top Left Corner Of Front Verso Otherwise Unmarked. Limited Edition Of 1000 This One Being Number 670. Rough Cut Block Edge.Brown Cloth Covered Boards , Very Solid. Cream Paste Down Title Label With Brown Lettering. Very Minor Bumping . Very Small 'Bleached Mark On Upper Spine And One On Rear Board, This Does Not Detract From This Being A Very Solid Book In Excellent Condition.
Seller: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: , Meredith, George, 1828-1909. The letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell, with annotations thereto, 1896-1907. London, San Francisco, Nonesuch Press, 1923, 104pp., very good light brown half-cloth with brown boards, light wear around edges, previous owner's note in ink on front endpaper Elsinaes/ May 26th 1923 / Read in the T[??]ford House. / on the lawn & a joke each / hour or so. -. Number 44 of 850 printed. Previous readers note about reading the book, apparently in Manchester-By-the-Sea (Massachusetts) in 192. The house he mentions: Elsinaes, was bulit in 1899. "Elsinaes was redesigned and built for Elsie Forbes Perkins Hooper, one of the first of the seasonal summer people to become a full-time resident." (the house had many secret doors) (Holt, Manchester by the Sea, p. 96).
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Hudson, W.H.. 153 Letters from W.H. Hudson.. Nonesuch Press, 1923.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: No. 186/1000 copies. 191pp. A fine copy but for slight rubbing at the top of the paper spine-label. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: D. Richards, Bookman, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Description: Translated from the German by Vera Mendel. Monochrome paper covered boards in good condition despite a little sunning to the spine, white paper title band partly detached. Untrimmed edges. Pages clean with just the very occasional spot of foxing. pp. x 58. Overall a good copy.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original plain grey paper covered boards with beige cloth spine and gilt title, 104pp, a limited edition of 850 copies, of which 780 are for sale, this being No 529 Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Martin Bott Bookdealers Ltd, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
Stanley, Thomas (trans).. KISSES: BEING THE BASIA OF IOHANNES SECUNDUS.. Nonesuch, 1923.
Price: US$27.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1923. Nonesuch. Hard Cover. Book- Good, edgewear. 10.5x6.5. 16pp.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$31.25 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, 12mo, pp. x, [2], 57, [1]; photogravure frontispiece and 3 other gravures mounted to text pages; original paper-covered boards batik printed with black zigzag design, printed paper label on spine, and a spare tipped in at back; the spine faded with all joints beginning to crack and portions of the paper label chipped away, though not affecting text; still good and sound. Written while Toller (1893-1936), a left-wing activist and player in the Bavarian revolution, was imprisoned for high treason. The illustrations show scenes from the 1921 Volksbuhne production. With a "Note on the Production of 'Masses and Man'" by Jurgen Fehling.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition in English. Translated from the German 'Masse Mensch' by Vera Mendel. The first book by Ernst Toller to be translated into English. With four photographs printed by photogravure and tipped in, including a frontispiece. ***Very good in striking Batik paper covered boards, printed with a repeated zigzag pattern in cream. Name inked out on recto of title-page. Off-setting to rear endpaper. Corners frayed and bumped. Spine professionally rebacked. ***Translated from the original German by Vera Mendel, this is the complete text of the play based around the social revolution of the 20th Century, first produced in Germany in 1921. *** With a two-page introduction -' The Author to the Producer, October 1921' and Jürgen Fehlings' essay, 'Note on the Production of Masses and Man', bookend Toller's play, penned during his imprisonment at Niederschönenfeld following his involvement in the establishment of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. ***A scarce and fragile book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 104 pp., 8vo, quarter natural canvas, brown Ingres paper sides; all edges untrimmed, original brown-grey Ingres paper dustjacket (in mylar cover) with title printed on upper panel. Title page printed with red border. The letters are from an annotated transcript that Meynell made for her family. Printed by the Kynoch Press on Fabriano cream laid Ingres paper. Number 8 of 780 copies for sale. A fine, well-preserved copy of the book; the dustjacket has some small bits of chipping at the top edge (mostly at the head of spine). Nonesuch Century 2; Dreyfus, Nonesuch Press 2.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hudson, W. H. (Edward Garnett, Ed.). 153 Letters from W. H. Hudson. Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Description: Book has owners signature and bookplate, modest soiling with four faint spots on the cover, paper spine label is chipped but the replacement paper spine label is in VG plus condition. Limited editioin # 935 of 1000 copies.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First English edition hardback, 1923, with unclipped jacket. In overall good to very good used condition with some signs of handling and storage - original black and cream zig-zag-print paper-covered boards, with cream title label to spine, are tanned to spine and rubbed to edges with small chip to backstrip at spine head. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; rough-trimmed page-ends and endpapers tanned but text bright and clear throughout. Frontispiece tipped-in photograph of The Guide and The Woman by Lisi Jessen from the Volksbuhne production. Not an old library book. Photograph available.
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.39 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (60) un-paginated; decorated endpapers, decorative boarders on all pages, original quarter parchment with decorated boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, original slipcase (a little worn), bookplate on front endpaper, good copy. This edition of 625 numbered copies, this being copy number 195. William Adlington's translation of the XI Books of the Golden Asse was first published in 1566. From the 1639 reprint, in which the spelling only is slightly and comfortably modified, the present text is exactly reproduced. The borders are those designed by Geofroy Tory circa 1524. They are here enlarged a little.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Andrew Marvell. Miscellaneous Poems. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A collection of miscellaneous poems by metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell, being a limited edition work. Limited to 850 copies with this being number 133.Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician. This work contains a collection of his miscellaneous poetical works including On a Drop of Dew, Eyes and Tears, Young Love and The Fair Singer.With a frontispiece.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original hardback binding. Externally, generally smart with a chip to the front extremity and fading to the spine. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Edward Garnett. Letters from W H Hudson. Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garnett Edward, Letters from W H Hudson, Limited Edition hand annotated 279 of 1000. Brown cloth binding with small liquid "splash" mark to front and back cover, otherwise very little wear to book cover. Age toning throughout book. Very solid crisp binding. Marked Ex Libris A C Seward ( Famous botanist and geologist). Seller Inventory # 002291
Seller: UK Countryside Booksellers, Cromford, DERBY, United Kingdom
Price: US$53.03 + shipping
Description: Orig.-Pappband im Orig.-Schuber, 8°, ca. 40 Seiten. Nr. 363 von 625 Exemplare. 2 Seiten mit 2 Flecken, Rücken verblichen, Schuber gebräunt und stark beschädigt, sonst guter Zustand
Seller: Antiquariat Hans Hammerstein OHG, München, Germany
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 750 copies (this being no. 641). slim 8vo, pp. [23]; title within elaborate red printed border; original Italian paper-covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover, original glassine jacket chipped and torn, with splits; very good.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, 12mo, pp. x, [2], 57, [1]; photogravure frontispiece and 3 other gravures mounted to text pages; original paper-covered boards batik printed with black zigzag design, printed paper label on spine, and a spare tipped in at back; the spine a bit toned, else very good. Written while Toller (1893-1936), a left-wing activist and player in the Bavarian revolution, was imprisoned for high treason. The illustrations show scenes from the 1921 Volksbuhne production. With a "Note on the Production of 'Masses and Man'" by Jurgen Fehling.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Hudson, W H. Letters from W H Hudson. Nonesuch Press, UK, 1923.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett. A UK limited edition - one of 1000 copies, this being copy number 38. Original buckram boards with paper spine label. The Wrapper : No wrapper. The Book : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean. There is a barely discernible hint of fading to the top edge of the front board and to the spine. The corners are sharp. The pages and closed page edges are bright, clean and unmarked. No foxing, no spotting. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. A handsome copy. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copy 99 of 950. 104 pages, letters printed with annotations opposite, followed by George Meredith's article on Alice Meynell's two books of essays and Meynell's "A Remembrance" about her father and her column "The Twenty-First'; 8vo brown boards/cloth. Very good, cover corners slightly bumped, label inside front cover of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Library for reference, no other marks; contents fine; mended dust jacket good- with edgewear, Serving the antiquarian and used book world since 1980
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 191p. Portrait photograph on title page by Opie, Redruth. Title page ruled in brown. Uncut and unopened. Pen sketch drawing. Brick Row Book Shop label. Extra spine label tipped in on rear paste down. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding, stained. Original paper spine label. Hardbound. Limited Edition. Number 937 of only 1000 copies. Nice example. William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PRESS/W43 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.46 + shipping
Description: Pp. 12(last blank), decorative border first page, plus decorative initials, printed by the Pelican Press in Caslon Old Face and Narcissus titling on laid paper; 24.6 cm. x 12.2 cm.; self wrappers, stapled; contents browned and lightly foxed, with some creasing, small hole lower margin, edges lightly worn and split, horizontal fold near centre; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923. McKitterick P1.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Toller, Ernest. MASSES AND MAN. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$63.82 + shipping
Description: A fragment of the social revolution of the Twentieth Century. Translated from the German by Vera Mendel. Note on the production of "Masses and Ma' by Jurgen Fehling. Pp. [xii]+58, hand-tipped photogravure frontispiece and three plates; cr. 8vo; black batik patterned papered boards, printed title label on spine (spare title label tipped-in at end), edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the spine (and label) faded; uncut; text block faintly browned, outer leaves and edges foxed; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923. Unlimited edition. McKitterick 8. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label above the earlier armorial bookplate of Sir Frederick Richmond on the upper pastedown. The first translation of Toller's work into English. Masse-Mensch was first produced in Nuremberg at the Stadttheater in November 1920, with an English production by Lewis Casson and the Stage Society at the New Theatre in May 1924. 'Ernst Toller (1893-1939), son of a Jewish merchant, fought in the German army in World War I, but was invalided out. He set up the Students League for Peace in Heidelberg and later organized a strike among the munition workers. He was imprisoned until 1918 and became a communist; on his release he was elected the first President of the Bavarian Republic; he was seized and sentenced to death, but the solders refused to fire, and his sentence was commuted. From 1919 to 1924 he was in prison where he wrote Expressionist poems and plays' [McKitterick p. 179].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A LIMITED Edition of 1,000 copies, this being a very early copy, # 11 Limited. Tan buckram is tight and clean with the exception of discolorations on rear cover and spine cloth. Paper spine title in excellent condition. Interior is PERFECT, including a fabulous small vignette photo of Hudson on title page. Editor Garnett (British author, critic and literary editor) became a close friend of Hudson's ( a British naturalist and ornithologist) after the publication of Hudson's "El Ombu". (No dust jacket). Volume is protected in stiff mylar.
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$69.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Covers and spine show fading, bleaching, rubbing, scuffing and browning from age and book has no dust jacket. Edges show some bumping, rubbing, scuffing and corner wear. This is #984 of 1000 printed. Pages show some foxing and browning.
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$71.00 + shipping
Description: 104p. Uncut. Printed on Ingres paper. 8vo. Original linen backed paper binding. Gilt lettered spine. Hardbound. Limited Edition. Number 629 of which 850 copies for England and 780 for America. The type has been distributed. Very nice copy. PRESS/W43 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1,200 copies, this one is #993. Some light spotting on the vellum spine, as is common with this title, but this copy has less than other copies I have seen. Overall a very good copy. [FOL] We provide PROTECTIVE packaging. Photos of our books are always available upon request. SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS ON ABE SINCE 1997. GERMAN & FRENCH CUSTOMERS PLEASE CONTACT US USING THE LINK ABOVE.
Seller: Muddy Turtle Books, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original steel blue buckram covers, paper spine label. 8vo. 10½'' x 6½''. First edition of this most important and attractive specimen book printed in three colours, folding title page, folding capital letters leaf, and folding press devices. First Century Roman Inscription plate missing, spine sun faded and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In tan boards with with gilt titling, upper covers with decorative gilt blocking and borders, edges untrimmed, 8vo, [3]+ 148 +[2]pp. Frontis portrait illustration. A reprint of the 1681 edition set in Monotype Garamond, printed at the Kynoch Press on Perusia handmade paper with the Nonesuch watermark. This copy is #580 of a limited edition of 850 copies. (minor light browning to deckled edges). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Donne, John; Izaak Walton. Love Poems of John Donne.. Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1923., 1923.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. #230 of 1250 copies printed on Vidalon hand-made paper. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. xxiii, 91 pp. Half-bound in vellum with decorative papers over boards. Light bumping and wear at tips, small leather owner's label front pastedown and name second free endpaper, else this is a tight, very good plus book; spinal vellum quite nice.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Hudson, W H. Letters from W H Hudson. Nonesuch Press, UK, 1923.
Price: US$100.48 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett. A UK limited edition - one of 1000 copies, this being copy number 156. Original buckram boards with paper spine label. The Wrapper : The wrapper on this copy is bright and complete. It is unclipped. The front panel is bright and unfaded, showing a touch of bruising at the top edge and bruising and attendant creasing at the bottom edge. The spine is clean and unfaded. It is split at the bottom along the spine / front panel crease ( 4 cm ) and there is a slither of loss at the head of the spine. The spine has been internally reinforced. The back panel is sound, showing gentle bruising to the top and bottom edges. Looks sharp in protective plastic. The Book : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean. The corners are sharp. There is a hint of bruising to the spine tips. The pages and closed page edges are bright, clean and unmarked. No foxing, no spotting. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. A handsome copy. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Andrew Marvell. Miscellaneous Poems. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$101.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition on Italian handmade paper of the miscellaneous poems of Andrew Marvell. Limited edition. One of 850 copies printed on handmade paper, this number 538. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of the author.A miscellany of the poems of Andrew Marvell, English metaphysical poet, satirist, and politician of the seventeenth century. In the original publisher's decorative paper covered boards, with gilt lettering to spine. Externally with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Boards lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: A limited edition work featuring a selection of sermons by John Donne, selected by Geoffrey Keynes. Limited edition. Number 11 of 725.Private Press.With illuminated letters.This limited edition work features a selection of ten sermons by English poet and cleric in the Church of England, John Donne.In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper to the boards. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper to the boards. Externally excellent with minor fading to the spine, the odd minor mark and bumping to the head of the boards. Internally cords showing in places, otherwise firmly bound, with bright and clean pages. The odd page unopened. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
DONNE, JOHN. X Sermons Preached by that Late Learned and Rev. Divine John Donne. , 1923.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: DONNE, JOHN. X Sermons Preached by that Late Learned and Rev. Divine John Donne London: Nonesuch Press, 1923. Folio. [6], 162 p. Printed in red and black. Brown paper-covered boards, natural linen spine with printed paper label. Spine a bit darkened, glue stain below label, ms. notes of the original owner on the front blanks. One of 725 numbered copies. Donne's sermons selected by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 725 copies of which this is number 50. Brown Boards with off white linen spine. Faded and tanned paper label on spine. 2nd label bound in at back of book. Three Corners of board binding rubbed, Spine discolored, Top of spine slightly rubbed and bumped. 162pp. Contents clean, bright and sound.Deckeled front fore edge. This book may require additional postage. Photos available on request.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vellum backed, patterned boards . 91 pages frontispiece (portrait) 27 cm. Institutional blind stamps, book plate. Limited edition # 1,000 of 1,250 copies. Frontispiece illustration.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Nonesuch Press limited edition of the Odes of Anacreon. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum over gold paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with four full-page tissue-guarded copperplate engravings of Cupid, Bathyllus, Europa, & Venus, headpieces, and tailpieces by Stephen Gooden. One of only 725 copies produced, this is number 680. In very good condition. Founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett, The Nonesuch Press was established in the basement of Garnett's bookshop in Soho. Nonesuch was unusual among private presses in that it used a small hand press to design books and then had them printed by commercial printers. Among the press's best-known editions were the collected works of William Congreve and William Wycherley and translations of Cervantes and Dante. Originally published in 1686, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds is considered to be one of the first major works of the Age of Enlightenment, offering an explanation for the heliocentric model of the Universe, suggested by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1923. Francis Meynell's copy, with his bookplate, and numerous marginal notes. Good condition. Small chip at head of spine. Volume 1 (of 2) only, Introduction and Catalogue. This volume is illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece in photogravure, and 10 other plates illustrating studies for the etchings. Lacks Volume 2, the illustrated etchings volume. Volume 1 contains detailed descriptions of 389 etchings by Rembrandt. From the library of Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell, founder of the Nonesuch Press, with his engraved armorial bookplate. There are many useful annotations in the margins, possibly in Meynell's hand, amplifying and correcting Hind's entries. Laid in are a four page typescript listing errors in Munz's catalogue, and a cross reference concordance table, Hind to BB. Index. Bound in the original green cloth. 2nd Edition, Revised & in part Rewritten. Hardcover. Good condition/No dust jacket. ix, 149pp. + 11 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 2nd Edition, Revised & in part Rewritten.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 1000 copies, small 4to, pp. [2], 191, [2]; title-page and small photogravure portrait of Hudson printed within brown rules, 1 illustration after sketch by Hudson in text, and spare printed paper spine label tacked to penultimate page; a fine mostly unopened copy in a very good dust jacket, the spine panel lightly sunned and a few tears and nicks at extremities. Dreyfus 10.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback book (no dust jacket) titled ANACREON: done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683. Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden. Published in 1923 in a limited edition of 725 copies (#708)by The Nonesuch Press. Boards are scuffed/worn at edge - light foxing on endpapers. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-7-bottom-R) rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 inches (216 x 128 mm); 72 pp. Monotype Garamond, with Caxton Black and drawn lettering for display on Vidalon handmade papers. Borders designed by Gefroy Tory, ca. 1524. and printed in red-brown on every page. Quarter binding in dark red stained parchment, with cream and red Italian star-patterned paper covered boards and matching endpapers, gilt title on spine. Minor split at title page but binding solid and internally clean and bright; boards have minor wear on edges and front. Bookseller stamp on f.e.p. verso. Copy 603 of 625, penciled in limitation page. The text is taken from the fifth edition (1639) of William Adlington's translation of Apuleius' famous tale. This story is a rare instance of a fairy tale preserved in an ancient literary text (Luke and Monica Roman. Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology , 2010) and is one of the 'digressions' in the only full novel in Latin to have survived: The Golden Ass (Asinus Aureus). The NONESUCH PRESS was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett who was a bookseller in Soho's Gerrard Street, in the basement of which the press began. It was unusual among private presses as it used a small hand press to design books, but had them printed by commercial printers, in order to produce book designs with the quality of a fine-press but available to a wider audience at lower prices. Meynell also wanted to demonstrate that "mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends." He believed that the production of exquisitely designed and produced books was not the preserve of the private press predicated upon the example established by William Morris's Kelmscott Press, which emphasized the primacy of the hand press printed book.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
John Donne. The Sermons. Nonesuch Press, 1923.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. $288/725 limited edition copies. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.
Seller: Green Apple Books and Music, san francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Marvell, Andrew. Miscellaneous Poems. Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition # 670 / 850. "Reprinted from the copy of the first edition, catalogued as C.59i.8 in the British Museum--a copy unique in that it contains pages 140 to 144, which were withdrawn for political reasons from the book as it was published . . . The Nonesuch edition is therefore closer to the original plan of the first edition than was that book itself." Original full vellumette boards, heavily gilt decorated with a central urn and floral design. 148 pages, plus Contents and Publisher's Advetisement. Fine laid paper, deckle edges. Frontispiece. Small ownership inscription to the front flyleaf, dated 1924. Booksellers stamp "Gotham Book Mart" on the rear pastedown. The textblock clean and bright. Hinges solid. Slight rubbing to the extremeties as expected. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED! Offered by Hirschfeld Galleries of Saint Louis--Rare Books--Since 1931. Photos upon request.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Number 678 of 1000 copies, designed by Francis Meynell. Photogravure vignette portrait of Hudson on the title-page. 193 pp. Printed by William Brendon and Son Ltd. 1 vols. 8vo. Dreyfus #10 Brown buckram, paper spine label, in brwon printed dust jacket. Book fine, small tear at head of dj spine. Second spine label tipped to rear endpaper Photogravure vignette portrait of Hudson on the title-page. 193 pp. Printed by William Brendon and Son Ltd. 1 vols. 8vo Number 678 of 1000 copies, designed by Francis Meynell.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$156.25 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 725 copies (this no. 619), 8vo, pp. [20], 52, [4]; 7 engravings by Gooden including the engraved title-page; original parchment-backed paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine; small snag in the front joint, edges rubbed, marginal tear in leaf B3; all else very good.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$167.95 + shipping
Description: Now for the first time reprinted from the editions of 1633 and 1652 with one additional Probleme. Pp. viii+80, title within decorative border, decorative headpieces and initials; narrow demy 8vo; patterned papered boards, printed paper title label on spine, tiny ink mark near bottom fore-corner of upper board, the patterned paper occasionally a trifle wrinkled; uncut; housed within a custom-made maroon buckram solander box with maroon leather title label lettered in gilt; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers slightly offset, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923. Edition limited to 645 numbered copies, printed in 17th century Fell type on hand-made paper. *Lacking the dust wrapper.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$172.34 + shipping
Description: unpaginated small 8vo Illustrated with 7 copper engravings by Stephen Gooden Gold boards and vellum back #483 of 725 copies issued. Light cover soil: VG+/no dj
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete four volume set. Tall light-blue boards, dark-blue cloth spine with light-blue paste-on label with dark-blue lettering, v.:1 xiii, 255 pp., v.: 2 271 pp., v. 3: 235 pp., v. 4: 226 pp. This edition was printed and made in England by the Nonesuch Press in the summer of 1923. It is limited to 900 sets of four volumes. of which this number 473. Laid in v. 1: Book review newspaper clipping from the Sunday Times, October 14, 1923 in mylar. The review reveals, among other tidbits, the original publisher's price of 63 shillings. All volumes have moderate wear, bookplates with names Walter and Dorothy Donnelly on the front paste-down endpaper of all four volumes, all volumes have clean texts and tight bindings. **Heavy (8 lbs.) multi-volume set will require extra charges for priority and international shipping.**
Seller: Bob's Book Journey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Meynell, Francis. Typography. Pelican Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 2 folding plates. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nonesuch Press Precursor. The book "sets forth the aims of the Press (Meynell's precursor to his Nonesuch Press), but also contains chapters on the History of Printing, Printers' Flowers." type specimiens, borders, etc. An important book. Publisher's blue-green cloth with paper label. Spine faded. R.S. Hutchings booklabel 2 folding plates. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Abraham Cowley; Anacreon. Anacreon. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A beautiful limited edition volume of the odes of Greek lyric poet Anacreon, this Nonesuch edition using the translation of Abraham Cowley. A Nonesuch limited edition, limited to a total of seven-hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered five-hundred and twenty-nine.Abraham Cowley's translation of the collected odes of Anacreon, the Greek lyric poet known for his drinking songs and erotic poems.Illustrated by Stephen Gooden with an engraved title, four plates, and head- and tail-pieces.This translation was first published in 1683.Pencil inscription of William Russell Flint, dated 1936, to the recto of the front endpaper. Flint was a Scottish artist known for his watercolours of women, as well as being an author of short stories. He illustrated editions of many notable books, including 'King Solomon's Mines', 'Le Morte d'Arthur', and 'The Canterbury Tales'.Bookplate of Charles Ballantyne to the front paste down.Collated, complete.The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife, Vera Mendel, and their friend, David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books, but had them printed by commercial printers. In doing so, books with the quality of a fine-press were produced, but available to a wider audience at lower prices. In the original publisher's quarter paper vellum with gold paper to the boards. Externally, smart, with a little rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards, heavier to the rear board. Bookplate to the front paste down, pencil inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 900 sets, four volumes (complete), quarto size, total of approx. 1025 pp. William Congreve (1670-1729) "wrote some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period", at a time when women themselves were just beginning to play female roles. In addition to being a playwright, he also penned two operas, wrote poetry, and translated the works of Molière, Homer, Ovid, and Horace - among other accomplishments (n.b., quote and info from Wiki). This publication by The Nonesuch Press was the "first collected edition of Congreve's complete works", the plays reprinted from the original quartos; the publication also included "hitherto unpublished letters by Congreve" (n.b., from "A History of the Nonesuch Press" by John Dreyfus, pp. 177-178). ___DESCRIPTION: All volumes bound in quarter black cloth over blue paper-covered boards, blue paper spine labels with dark blue lettering, top edges rough-cut, fore- and bottom edges uncut, ornamental title page borders, limitation statement on the verso of the title page in Vol. 1, vintage bookseller's ticket (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco) on the rear pastedowns; Monotype Caslon (titles and sub-titles in Stephenson Blake Old Face open) on machine-made laid paper with the "Nonesuch" watermark, quarto size (10 5/16" by 7 7/8"), pagination: Vol. 1, [i-x] xi-xiii [1, blank] [1-2] 3-255; Vol. 2, [i-viii] [1-2] 3-271; Vol. 3, [i-viii] [1-2] 3-235; and Vol. 4, [i-viii] [1-2] 3-226; this set no. 362 of 900. ___CONDITION: Overall the set is better than very good: the boards mostly clean with a few light marks and dustiness, the bindings strong and square with solid hinges, the interiors clean with the pages uniformly and lightly toned, and the only prior owner markings we see being the Ex-Libris of Ben Ray Redman (see Provenance, below); most of the corners bumped and lightly rubbed, the spine labels slightly sunned with some wear to the label for Vol. 1, light offsetting to the front free endpapers from the Ex-Libris. Note that the set was issued with glassine wrappers, in a slipcase, both of which are lacking with this set. ___CITATION: Dreyfus, no. 5. ___PROVENANCE: With the Ex-Libris of Ben Ray Redman (1896-1961) in each volume (artist's name indecipherable). Redman "was described upon his death as a debonair gentleman-scholar type, an authentic bookman who was born for a part in a Noel Coward play. A prolific writer of book reviews, he contributed pieces to the New York Times, Harper's, and the American Mercury" among much more (n.b., quote from Redman's obit in the online"Greenwich Village Bookshop Door"). ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually heavy set and additional postage will apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$206.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A collection of letters from George Meredith to Alice Meynell. This Edition is limited to 850 copies, on Ingres paper, for England and America, of which 780 are for sale. The type has been distributed. This is number 563. In a cloth binding with grey paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart, lightly rubbed in places. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$216.43 + shipping
Description: 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8"). xiii, 255pp; 271pp; 235pp; 226pp. William Congreve (1670-1729) studied law but did not pursue this as a profession, preferring to write novels and plays, such as The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, Love for Love, and, The Mourning Bride. He was an entertaining and colourful character. He enjoyed the friendship and respect of his literary contemporaries and counted the Duchess of Marlborough and the actress Mrs. Bracegirdle among his mistresses. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. VG : in very good condition. Spines faded. Unopened Blue hardback boards with blue cloth spine
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. One of 725 numbered copies. Title-page and seven copper engravings, with tissue guards, by Stephen Gooden. Parchment-backed gold paper boards. Gooden's first illustrated book, which Francis Meynell considered his finest. These are the first examples of the strapwork borders and cartouches which are often found in Gooden's work. Bookplate on front free endpaper; small nameplate on front pastedown. Very good indeed in very good plain gold dustwrapper nicked and rubbed at the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full morrocco leather boards with double gilt ruling on borders of front and back, hubbed spine with gilt titling. Gilt top edge. Book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of any markings or flaws inside or out. This is the Limited Edition reprint - No. 610 out of 1,450 copies printed to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of the famous work "De motu cordis." Very high quality book contains Harvey's pioneering writings on the circulation of blood, taken from the first English translation of 1653. The first publication was in Latin in 1628 and is one of the most sought after books regarding anatomy and medicine. A ground-breaking work - Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood changed our basic understanding of how the body works and established its author as one of the greatest physicians in the history of medicine. Beautiful fold-out plate very similar to that in "De motu," showing various veins in the forearm, engraved after a drawing by Stephen Gooden. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Printed and made in Holland with the types of Joan Michael Fleischman and of Christopher van Dijck. Colophon: This edition, printed by Job. Enschede en Zonen on Dutch paper, is limited to 1450 copies for sale in England and America. Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar and bibliographer, was a regular editor in the early days of the Nonesuch Press. His expertise in both medicine and literature came together fortuitously in the various studies he made of Harvey, including the standard biography of 1966. The Nonesuch Press was founded in London in 1922 by Francis Meynell and others and issued over 140 titles from 1923 to the mid-sixties. This private press designed its own books but sent them out to commercial printers to obtain a wider circulation and lower prices for its readers.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Bernard Salomon. The Book of Ruth. Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Publisher's flexible batik boards, board slipcase. One of 250 copies. 18 pages; 23 cm. "The borders are enlarged from copies of those designed in the mid-sixteenth century by Bernard Salomon for Jean de Tournes." Dreyfus 3.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Gooden, Stephen. Number 487 of 725 copies. Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden [title page, head-piece to the first Ode, 4 full-page engravings of Cupid, Bathyllus, Europa, & Venus, & a tail-piece to the last Ode.]. 52, [4] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Parchment-backed gilt-papered boards. Fine copy, in original gilt dust jacket slightly worn Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden [title page, head-piece to the first Ode, 4 full-page engravings of Cupid, Bathyllus, Europa, & Venus, & a tail-piece to the last Ode.]. 52, [4] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 130 of 250 copies printed in modified Caslon on Van Gelder paper at the Pelican Press. Decorative borders after Bernard Salomon printed in sienna. Sewn into batik paper-covered boards, predominantly mauve and beige, all edges uncut. Blue paper slipcase with decorative printed label. A little light offsetting. Slipcase slightly faded. A very good copy. (Dreyfus 3)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$335.90 + shipping
Description: enerator Riched20 6.3.9600}{*mmathPrmdispDef1mwrapIndent1440 }viewkind4uc1 dbfs24 The Bible: THE BOOK OF RUTH. Translated out of the original tongues; & with the former translations diligently compared and rived by His Majesty's special command. Pp. [18], title and text within elaborate decorative borders printed in red; tall demy 8vo; stiff paper or card (described by McKitterick as 'thin boards loosely covered with maroon batik paper') wrappers covered in blue/green & yellow batik paper, backstrip lightly faded and rubbed at extremities; within blue paper slipcase with white cloth top & bottom edges and paper title label printed in red & black; slipcase within a plain blue cloth portfolio, lightly marked and worn; all within a later (but not recent) custom-made slipcase of qr. navy morocco, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, blue cloth sides, slightly foxed and worn, with a few small surface to grazes; endpapers lightly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923. McKitterick 3, variant binding. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, whose book label is on verso of the linen portfolio; with the earlier armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett (below a remnant of another label) on verso of upper wrapper. Oliver Brett (1881-1963), third Viscount Esher, was a notable collector of British literature, whose library was sold by Sotheby's over three sales in 1946.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Summers, Montague (edits). Complete Works of William Congreve. Nonesuch Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. 4 volumes. Vol 1: 255 pp. * Vol 2: 271 pp ⢠Vol 3: 235 pp ⢠Vol 4: 226 pp. No. 17 of 75 copies printed on English hand-made paper. Quarter vellum on patterned paper covered boards, gilt titling spines, overall very good condition. (93309). Vol 1: Introduction by Montague Summers ⢠Letters * Incognita ⢠Old Batchelour ⢠Vol 2: Double-Dealer ⢠Love for Love ⢠Mourning Bride. Vol 3: Way of the World ⢠Judgment of Paris * Semele ⢠Squire Trelooby ⢠Humour in Comedy ⢠Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations ⢠vol 4: Congreve's Poems ⢠Preface to Dryden ⢠Tatler.â"Book plate of John Roland Abbey. Major John Roland Abbey (1894-1969) was an English book collector and high sheriff of Sussex. abbey would become the largest English book collector of his time.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.