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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, this illustrated version. Also contained in this volume: the Daughter of Lebanon, Suspiria de Profundis, The English Mail-coach, & The Nebula in Orion. Octavo in black cloth binding with gilt lettering & ornamentation. B&W illustrations. Condition: top of spine nicked & a bit chipped; bottom of spine nicked; edges of binding rubbed and binding shows some wear; inked gift inscription on half-title page; else good. Pages: xix, 304.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 304 pp., 25 cm, ill., good copy, traces of use, cover und especially spine bleached out, edge irregular, Ilustrations and Decorations by Sonia Woolf. A239 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 884
Seller: Antiquariat Buchhandel Daniel Viertel, Diez, Germany
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Nice copy, Binding has minor wear and bumping, paper has ligh yellowing.
Seller: From Away Books & Antiques, Greenville, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Description: First Edition : Hardback, green bds., gold titles and illustration, 160 x 245 mm., 1kg. (extra postage), 304 pp., illustrated by Sonia Woolf with illustrated frontis with tissue guard and full page illustrations with tissue guards, illustrated eps., sunned spine and rubbed crns. and edges, no dw., Good+ copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
DE QUINCEY, Thomas. The confessions of an English opium-eater. John Lane the Bodley Head, 1930.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Description: Published 1930, with illustrations by Sonia Woolf. Owner's name and date (1933) on half-title page. Light scattered foxing, largely on illustrative plates. Binding tight. Green cloth faded around board edges and faded to brown on spine. Gilt lettering on front board and spine. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 304 pages, Corners and edges of backstrip rubbed and showing some wear. Lower portions of covers somewhat spotted. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
thomas de quincey. the confessions of an english opium-eater. the bodley head, london, 1930.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, illustd, 304pp, illustrated end papers, orig green/khaki cloth, spine just a little sunned and few minor spots, binding vg clean and tight, contents vg clean and sound
Seller: Peter Sexton, arlington, United Kingdom
Quincey Thomas De. The Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater. John Lane , The Bodley Head, 1930.
Price: US$38.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 304pp. Black and white illustrations. Some loss to head of spine of jacket. A couple of small chips and tears to jacket.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in black cloth. First Thus. Light wear to tips, trace of foxing on frontisr, nice bright copy.
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S CLOTH BINDING, GILT DECORATION TO FRONT BOARD, ILLUSTRATED ENDPAPERS, 12 X FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS WITH TISSUE GUARDS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 19 + 304 PAGES. VERY SLIGHT FADING TO SPINE, CORNERS BUMPED, HALF TITLE LIGHTLY BROWNED WITH AN INSCRIPTION TO REAR DATED 1933, PAGE EDGES ROUGH CUT WITH THE VERY OCCASIONAL TEAR OR LOSS TO OUTER PAGE MARGIN [NO LOSS TO ANY TEXT]. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY & CLEAN INTERNALLY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust jacket rubbed in places, chipped and edgeworn, head of spine chipped, corners chipped with closed tear to corner at foot of front cover 1cm, spine sunned, feint ring stain to front board, corners and spine ends bumped, spine sunned, black etchings to endpapers, ink inscription to head of fly-title page, tissue guards to frontispiece and to all illustrations, light spotting/tanning to closed edges and light spotting to edges of final pages, pp very clean and text clear to read, binding sound. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Pagination: 304p. Publishers black cloth over boards gilt title to spine and front cover with gilt vignette. Fully illustrated with full-page plates and endpapers. A near fine copy. With original tissue guards for plates and fine illustrated endpapers. No jacket, not uncommon. Scarce in this good of condition.
Seller: Dark Parks Books & Collectibles, Fallon, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [3], v-xix, [4], 4-304 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of 21/- net on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Illustrated with decorative endpapers and pastedowns, a frontispiece, and eleven additional plates all done by Sonia Woolf. The true first edition was published in 1822, with subsequent editions in 1823 and 1856. Hailed as a monumental and early drug memoir, De Quincey details his addiction to laudanum (opium mixed with alcohol) and the visions he saw while taking the drug. A beautiful copy of the Bodley Head edition, with captivating drawings by Ms. Woolf. A Near Fine book with the green topstain faded away, dust jacket is very near Fine with just a bit of edge wear.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.