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James Dalton. The Gentleman in Black. William Kidd, London, 1831.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: William Kidd, London. 1831, 1st edition. (12mo) good plus. 309pp. Illus.- 5 plates & tail piece. 3/4 period green morocco gilt, with marbled boards, boards rubbed, endsheets flawed by a removal of an early book plate else good plus, the text is very good and spine is slanted but a sturdy copy and priced thus Block, p.52; Cohn 219; Wolff 1713, publisher & date same, but pagination and illus differ. Illustrations by Cruikshank.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. The Gentleman in Black. William Kidd, London, 1831.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in full blue leather with gilt decoration, and raised spine bands with labels and designs between. OVERALL VERY GOOD. LIGHT WEAR TO EDGES, SMALL CHIPS AT SPINE ENDS, INTERIOR CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH BRIGHT GILT PAGE EDGES AND NO FOXING. MARBLED ENDPAPERS CLEAN. OWNER BOOKPLATE. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
[DALTON, J.].. The Gentleman In Black. London: William Kidd, 1831., 1831.
Price: US$166.50 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. iv, 309, [1]blank + 10(ads). 5 plates (incl. frontis.) & tailpiece engraved by J.Thompson & C.Landells after designs by George Cruikshank. printers device on title. untrimmed in original cloth (spine chipped, joints cracked, light foxing throughout). First Edition. Cohn 219.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
(CRUIKSHANK, George. ). The Gentleman In Black. With Illustrations.. William Kidd, London, 1831.
Price: US$263.05 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., cont. half calf, marble boards, 309pp. Recent e/papers, outer hinges rubbed and tender, a very good copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
. The Gentlemen in Black. William Kidd, Old Bond Street, London, 1831.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus.- 5 plates & tail piece. Full red polished calf; double filets, rosette corners. Exquisite dentelles on finely marbled endpapers. One tan and one black morocco labels on gilt spine. Joints lightly rubbed. Stain on rear cover, a very lovely little volume.
Seller: Green Mountain Books & Prints, Lyndonville, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), II,366 attributes the Gentleman in black to either James Dalton or J.Y. Akerman; Wolff attributes it to James Dalton, author of The Robber (1832), The Maiden's Talisman (1834), and The Rival Demons (1836). Twelvemo. iv, 309 pp. Five engraved plates. Engraved title-page vignette and tail-piece. Contemporary half burgundy calf over marbled boards. Spine stamped in gilt and black with black morocco label. Binding extremities rubbed and a bit scuffed, a bit of foxing. The publisher's ads have been removed in rebinding. A good to very good copy. First edition. Cohn 219. Wolff 1713.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Dalton's The Gentleman in Black. Octavo, bound in three quarter navy morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and four engraved plates by George Cruikshank. In near fine condition. A handsome example. Praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his lifetime, British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank illustrated numerous works for close friend Charles Dickens including Sketches by Boz (1836), The Mudfog Papers (1837â"38) and Oliver Twist (1838). He also illustrated Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838), which Dickens edited under his regular nom de plume, "Boz". Cruikshank even acted in Dickens's amateur theatrical company.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.