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Price: US$14.11 + shipping
Description: Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 102 pp, 9 plates, ills. 727 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: " . the Golden Cockerel Press Troilus and Criseyde, 1927, The Canterbury tales, 1929-31, The four gospels, 1931, illustrated by Eric Gill; the Cresset Press, Pilgrim's progress, 1928, illustrated by Blair Hughes Stanton, and Gullivers travels, 1930, illustrated by Rex Whistler; Edward Calvert's A memoir of Edward Calvert, 1893, and Samuel Palmer's Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, 1892; the David Jones Rime of the ancient mariner, 1929, the John Martin Paradise lost, 1827, and the Paul Nash Urne buriall, 1932; books illustrated by Beardsley, Bewick, Muirhead Bone, Burne-Jones, Craig, Walter Crane, Dulac, Russell Flint, Birket Foster, Claud Lovat Fraser, Robert Gibbings, Stephen Gooden, Rigby Graham, Norman Lindsay, Mervyn Peake, Lucien Pissarro, Rackham, and Charles Ricketts; an extensive collection of books illustrated or engraved by William Blake, including publications of the Trianon Press; drawings by Birket Foster, Warwick Goble, Sir J.E. Millais, Ernest Shepard, Sybil Tawse and Hugh Thomson." Wrappers partly faded, otherwise Very Good. Printed list of buyers and prices realized laid in.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Commentary and Bibliographical History by Geoffrey Keynes. Facsimile in color. Folio, publisher's quarter morocco and marbled boards in publisher's marbled slipcase. Fine facsimile edition; No. 418 of 750 copies. A fine copy in a near fine, very slightly sunned slipcase.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: facsimile edition, 4to., patterned boards, black leather backstrip,In the original slip case Size: Quarto. Category: Art & Design; For further info on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
BLAKE William.. The Book of Ahania.. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1973.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Description: Quarto fascsimile (29 x 23.5cm), the six plates printed from copper plates, some of which coloured by hand by the stencil process and with ten pages of explanatory text. No. 255/750 copies. pp. [12],10. Publisher's quarter morocco, gilt, in marbled slip-case. Vg. [Bentley A15]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
BLAKE, WILLIAM. The Book of Ahania. Trianon Press, Paris, 1973.
Price: US$207.33 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto. Gilt lettered quarter navy morocco over marbled paper boards. Housed in matching marbled cardboard slipcase. Edition limited to 808 copies of which this is #465. A facsimile of the original edition. includes the original prospectus. Nice copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Blake, William. The Book of Ahania. Trianon Press, London, 1973.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Blake, William. Total edition of 808, this is copy 438. Color facsimile. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter blue morocco and marbled paper boards, as new in original slipcase
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Blake, William. The Book of Ahania. Trianon Press, Clairvaux, 1973.
Price: US$280.68 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto: 6 colour facsimile leaves : 5 pp. of commentary : quarter black morocco : slipcase. 367 of 750 copies bound in quarter leather morocco with hand-marbled paper sides. Bentley, Blake Books, A15. "Blake suppressed the "Book of Ahania" and recast her tale in "The Four Zoas". She is Urizen's âShadowy Feminine Semblance' ". (Damon, Blake Dictionary). Erdman understands her as Blake's personification of nature as both Eve and the Garden, recalling that pleasant time before the Fall i.e. before private ownership gave rise to man's exploitation of man. (Blake. Prophet Against Empire, p.233).
Seller: Archives Fine Books (ANZAAB, ILAB), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Price: US$282.21 + shipping
Description: 4to, 8pp text, 7 fascimile collotype plates, orig. navy morocco backed marbled boards gilt. A fine copy in matching marbled slipcase. Limited edition, No.94 of 750 copies. This fascimile edition reproduces the text from the only complete copy of the title page and text to which has been added the frontispiece as conceived by Blake.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Blake, William. THE BOOK OF AHANIA. The Trianon Press, London, 1973.
Price: US$334.15 + shipping
Description: [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [22](last colophon), comprising coloured frontispiece and facsimile title page, 4 tinted facsimile text pages (the last of which includes a coloured tailpiece illustration), one black & white plate and 8 pages of editorial matter, including Commentary and Bibliographical History by Geoffrey Keynes; wide demy 4to; qr. navy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the leather faintly scuffed; uncut; within matching marbled papered slipcase with morocco fore-corner tips; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little light foxing (mainly of endpapers); published by the Trianon Press (France), for The William Blake Trust, London, 1973. One of 750 numbered copies thus bound (of a total edition of 808), printed on Arches pure rag paper. *Blake completed only one copy of The Book of Ahania, which continues the story of the Book of Urizen, and he never included it in any list of his productions. The paper for this edition was specially made to match that used by Blake, with the addition of his monogram as a watermark.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Blake, William. THE BOOK OF AHANIA. Trianon Press, London, 1973.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, limited to 808 copies on Arches paper. Folio. Color facsimile reproduction of the illuminated pages by the collotype and stencil process. Gilt-titled morocco spine with marbled boards. Fine in matching marbled slipcase, slipcase with wear at opening only First edition thus, limited to 808 copies on Arches paper.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Blake, William. The Book of Ahania. Trianon Press, Clairvaus, Jura, and Paris, France, 1973.
Price: US$551.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: black quarter morocco leather with hand-marbled papered boards, gilt lettering to spine, in matching hand-marbled slipcase, No. A of 26 copies reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust and the Publishers Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Blake, William. The Book of Arania. The Trianon Press, London, 1973.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 324 of 750 copies bound in quarter-leather blue morocco with hand-marbled sides in shades of blue and brown--beautiful. A facsimile from the only complete copy in existence owned by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald. Very large book, shiny dark blue leather spine and sides, marbled boards in a matching marbled slipcase with leather entrance top and bottom, bright gilt lettering on spine. Very Fine book in Fine slipcase.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Black 1/4 morocco, blue marbled paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in gilt, slipcased. 7 plates (6 color), printed on rectos only. No. 433 of an edition limited to 808 total copies, 750 of which were numbered (rear colophon). As issued. Slipcase shows slight shelf wear. A fine facsimile printed with collotype process on Arches rag paper, with color applied via stencils. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
BLAKE, William. The Book of Ahania. Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, Paris, 1973.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Facsimile edition. Quarto. Quarter morocco and marbled paper covered boards. Copy letter W of 26 copies reserved for The William Blake Trust. Fine in fine slipcase with very slight wear.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Blake, William. The Book of Ahania 1/32 Deluxe. Trianon Press, 1973.
Price: US$1282.76 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Limited Edition thus, Trianon Press 1973. No. 14 (XIV) of 32 of the Deluxe edition fully leather bound in black morocco housed in the publisher's marbled slipcase. A Fine copy. Probably unread, in mint condition. Note each copy of the 32 Deluxe edition contains an original guide-sheet, stencil and copperplate, and a set of plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Blake, William. The Book of Ahania. Trianon Press, London, 1973.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Blake, William. Copy #1 of 32 special copies. Color facsimile accompanied with a set of paltes showing progressive stages of the collotype and hand stencil process, together with a guide sheet and stencil (Only in Roman numeral copies) and unique to COPY ONE the etched copper plate for the title-page tipped in at back and etched in "Copy 1". 1 vols. 4to (11 x 9 inches ; 22.5 x28 cm.). COPY NUMBER ONE, WITH COPPER PLATE. Bound in publisher's full black morocco , as new in original slipcase Color facsimile accompanied with a set of paltes showing progressive stages of the collotype and hand stencil process, together with a guide sheet and stencil (Only in Roman numeral copies) and unique to COPY ONE the etched copper plate for the title-page tipped in at back and etched in "Copy 1". 1 vols. 4to (11 x 9 inches ; 22.5 x28 cm.)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.