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Apuleius Lucius. The Golden Asse. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback. A good copy in reddish-brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. A little wear at spine ends. Would be very good but front hinges tender. Bookplate. Some foxing mainly to front end-papers. No.2787 of 3000 copies. Pp.xxxv,282 + 4pp. adverts. 16 full-page plates of which 8 are in colour. Black and white head and tail pieces. Translated out of Latin by William Adlington. Introduction by E.B. Osborn.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$21.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pp. xxv, 282. Illustrated. Ltd edition 290 / 3000 Copies.
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Price: US$21.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, royal octavo bound in gilt decorated red cloth. Top edge gilt. 282 pages. Translated out of Latin by William Adlington. Introduction by E.B. Osborn. Illustrated with drawings and 16 full page plates by Jean De Bosschere, 8 of which are in full color with tissue guards intact. Limited edition of 3,000 of which this is number 2314. No previous ownership marks. Read cover badly damp-stained, not affecting spine. or interior. Else a clean sound, tight copy with all illustrations as called for, including Bosschere's magnificent color plates. Good.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.10 + shipping
Description: 4°. 25 x 16 cm. xxxv, 282 Seiten. Original-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Deckel- und Rückentitel und Kopfgoldschnitt. Nummer 2917 von 3000 Exemplaren. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Einband leicht berieben und fleckig, Kapitale berieben, Schnitt fleckig. Vorsätze leicht gebräunt, Vorsatzblatt mit privatem Eintrag, Blätter stockfleckig. Gutes Exemplar. Number 2917 of 3000 copys. English language edition. Cover slightly rubbed and slightly spotted, edges slightly spotted. Endpapers slightly darkened and with private inscription, sheets foxy. Good copy. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Lenzen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Adlington, William ( Translator ). Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius, The. Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 282 pages, No. 2852 of 3000, a few stains and previous owner's signature on front free end page.
Seller: Good Old Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.77 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Livre XXXV + 282 pages. « L'Âne d'or de Lucius Apuleius », Livre en anglais, book written in English. Traduction de William Adlington (1566). Illustré en couleurs et en noir et blanc par Jean de Bosschère (1878-1953, écrivain, peintre, illustrateur français, d'origine belge). 16 planches hors texte, sur pleine page, dont 8 en couleurs, et nombreuses vignettes en noir dans le texte. Edition limitée à 3000 exemplaires, celui-ci étant justifié 1793. « Le seul roman écrit en latin ayant survécut dans son intégralité à la chute de l'Empire romain » (Les Métamorphoses, IIè siècle). Couverture rigide (de W.H. Smith & Son, Paris), ornée, dorures. Etat : très bon. Intérieur : 2 pages avec petits manques de papier, hors texte, sur le bord. Couverture : bord intérieur des 3/4ème plats avec quelques frottements, sinon très frais. 25 x 16.5 x 4 cm 800g.
Seller: ABC - Eric Girod, Estavayer-le-Lac, FRIBO, Switzerland
. The Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No 2500 of 3000 copies. Translated by William Adlington, introduction by E B Osborn. A bright copy with ocassional spotting to the edges of pages and a little wear to extremities of spine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: #580 of 3000 Copies.Good. Scarce black DJ in Poor & fragile Condition, covers and flaps all separated and tucked in rear. Hardcover. Lacking Color Plates, Light to moderate shelf wear to boards/DJ. May require additional postage for priority or international shipping.Minor underlining/highlighting, otherwise clean text.
Seller: Earthlight Books, Walla Walla, WA, U.S.A.
BOSSCHERE (Jean de). The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius.. , 1923.
Price: US$132.59 + shipping
Description: John Lane, the Bodley Head Limited. 1923. Traduction de William Adlington, Introduction d' E. B. Osborn, illustrations en couleurs et noir et blanc de Jean de Bosschère. Cartonnage éditeur, percaline brique, premier plat illustré, dos titré et décoré. Exemplaire sur papier vergé , non rogné. Dim: 250 x 165 mm. 284 p. Ex libris gravé par Pierre Gandon. Livres
Seller: LIBRAIRIE SEKSIK, Paris, France
Price: US$177.78 + shipping
Description: First edition with Bosschere illustrations. 4to. Number 242 of 3,000 copies. Brick coloured cloth, lettered and decorated gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A very near fine copy, slight rubbing to the corners. Eight colour plates (many highlighted with gilt) under tissue guards, 8 full page black and white plates, plus chapter headings and tail pieces. A beautiful production, de Bosschere's Art Deco illustrations perfectly suit the bawdy nature of the tale.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Description: Royal 8vo (10 x 6.25 ins); pp [6], v-xxxv, [3], 3-283, [6]; 16 colour plates, including the frontispiece, by Jean de Bosschère, seven of which are brightly coloured and behind tissue-guards. Publisher's brown cloth with circular gilt device to front board, gilt rules and cornerpieces, gilt blocked ass and titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Edition limited to 3000 copies, this being number 529. Light foxing spots to endpapers and advertisement leaves. A near Fine copy. With the bookplate of Oliver Brett (1881-1963), Third Viscount Esher. Oliver Brett's library was sold at auction by Sotheby's London, 26 March 1946.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Apuleius, Lucius. The Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Translated by William Adlington. Introduction by E.B. Osborn. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere. Limited to 3000 copies. Fine in an about Very Good jacket, chipped at the edges. Brick red buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge. A beautifully illustrated edition of the only Latin-language novel to survive from the Roman Empire.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$387.82 + shipping
Description: London, John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1923. Grand in-8 (165 X 250) percaline havane, dos lisse et premier plat ornés de fers spéciaux d'après les illustrations de Jean de Bosschère, double encadrement de filet doré sur le premier plat, titre et auteur dorés au dos, tête dorée (reliure de l'éditeur) ; (2), frontispice, XXXIV (dont faux-titre et titre en rouge et noir)- 282 pages, une page non chiffrée (dessin en noir), 4 pages non chiffrées (catalogue de l'éditeur), (1). JOLIE EDITION ILLUSTREE comportant 16 PLANCHES hors-texte dont 8 en couleurs (frontispice compris) et 8 en noir, ainsi que des dessins en noir dans le texte. Tirage limité à 3 000 EXEMPLAIRES imprimés sur beau papier vergé. Quelques pages mal coupées, néanmoins BEL EXEMPLAIRE non rogné, dans son charmant et frais cartonnage décoré de l'éditeur. NICE COPY. PICTURES AND MORE DETAILS ON REQUEST.
Seller: LIBRAIRIE ÉRIC CASTÉRAN, TOULOUSE, MP, France
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An extremely bright, first edition copy of Jean de Bosschere's illustrated edition of the classic Roman novel 'The Golden Asse'. An uncommon work, especially in such a wonderful condition.'The Golden Ass(e)' is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety.Collated, complete with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Jean de Bosschere was renowned for his lavish and erotic colour plates, with their stunning use of saturated colour. Such plates are included in this work, and other erotic classics produced by him such as Aristophanes, Ovid, and Strato.A limited edition, numbered 1963 of 3000 copies.This text was translated by William Adlington one among the host of translators that made the Elizabethan era the "golden age of translations". His translation of this work in 1566 was the text's first appearance in English and has been steadily reprinted into the twentieth century.With an introduction by E B Osborn.A fantastic copy of this fantastically illustrated work. A truly brilliant example of Jean de Bosshere's striking illustrations. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent with just some minor bumping to the head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. A few light spots to the endpapers. Otherwise, pages are very clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full morocco, 9 inches tall. A splendid full crushed morocco by Bayntun with gilt raised bands, fine geometric gilt tooling to the panels and boards, gilt dentelles and all edges. The spine is slighted faded to a paler lilac but is still striking. One of a limited deluxe edition of 3000 copies. The original cloth binding is bound in. Extraordinary bold illustrations throughout by Jean de Bosschére. 'The Metamorphoses of Apuleius', a bawdy picaresque novel, also known as 'The Golden Ass', is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom