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Nonesuch Press.. 1931 Prospectus of the Nonesuch Press.. London: The Nonesuch Press., 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1931 Prospectus of the Nonesuch Press. Forthcoming books from the press, printer of fine editions. Describes new editions of Don Quixote, Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad, Love Among the Haystacks by D. H. Lawrence, The Courtier's Library by John Donne, Sidney's Astrophel and Stella, Florio's Montaigne, and a bibliography of William Hazlitt by Geoffrey Keynes. 4to. Sewn in printed wraps. 7 x 11 inches. Letterpress on laid paper with deckle edges. Some age-toning, minor creasing, foxing on several pages, Good with marginal tears, otherwise Very Good Plus.From the collection of Frederick Gale Ruffner, Jr. (1926-2014) the founder of the Detroit based reference book publisher, Gale Research.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Homer; Alexander Pope (Translator). The Iliad. Nonesuch Press, London, England, 1931.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A beautiful limited edition (#1059 of 1450 copies) by fine binder Nonesuch Press. Parallel pages with English text on the left and Greek text on the right using the Alexander Pope translation of the first edition in English (1715). Full leather with gilt lettering and design, marbled endpapers, barred spine and rough-cut pages. The book's hinges are secure. There is no spine-lean. Pages are clean, unmarked, undamaged with very little toning. There are some stains to the leather on the front and back covers and some rubbing to the spine, top and bottom edges. Still a very handsome volume. It will be bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This is a heavy volume that will require extra funds for shipment outside of the United States.
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Turlock, CA, U.S.A.
HOMER:. Popes' Iliad.. , 1931.
Price: US$503.85 + shipping
Description: (London): The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Thick Roy. 8vo. Orig. full crushed niger morocco. Spine with raised bands. T.e.g. other edges uncut and partly unopened. Marbled endpapers. (ii, 930pp.). Title-page, with vignette, is printed in red/black ink. Text in parallel Greek and English. Edition limited to 1450 numbered copies. Fine. NOTE: When Homer's Iliad appeared in Alexander Pope's majestic translation between 1715 and 1720, it was acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal."
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$895.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First UK printing published by The Nonesuch Press, London in 1931. This is number '88' of 925 copies for distribution in the UK (There were also 525 copies for sale in the U.S.A.). The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. Original dark tan morocco, backstrip in six compartments with raised bands and gilt lettered direct, and with a two-line gilt border framing the front and rear covers, marbled end-paper, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some light rubbing to the lower board edges. The covers are only very slightly spotted and discoloured. A very tiny rub to the lower front board. A copy of Francis Meynell's uncommon notice 'On first looking into Pope's Homer' with instructions on how to open the book, is loosely inserted. Free from inscriptions and erasures. A beautiful production thoroughly worthy of the text, printed in Haarlem by Enschede with parallel text of facing pages employing Jan van Krimpen's Greek type and monotype Cochin. Partly printed in red and black, with text decorations and ornaments by Rudolf Koch. 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. Lacking the slipcase but the book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Collectible. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Homer. THE ILIAD. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 925 copies for England and 525 for the U.S. (this no. 1281). Quarto. 925p. Bound in full niger morocco with marbled endpapers and cloth reinforced inner joints, gilt spine titles and double rules around the covers, t.e.g., bottom and fore-edge untrimmed. Printed by Johannes Enschede en Zonen in Monotype Cochin and Jan van Krimpen's Antigone Greek on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Text in Greek and English. Dreyfus 72. Spine with just a little of the usual darkening, a rather nice copy in the original slipcase Limited to 925 copies for England and 525 for the U.S. (this no. 1281).
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Homer (trans. Alexander Pope). The Iliad [and] The Odyssey. Nonesuch Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Full tan and brick red morocco, five raised bands to spine, gilt title panel, double gold filleting to front and rear boards. Fore- and lower edges untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Lacking slipcases. Limited to 1450 copies (Iliad) and 1300 copies (Odyssey) of which these are stated "out of series" and 1019, respectively. Translation by Alexander Pope. Original publisher's insert with opening instructions included. Many pages left unopened. Greek and English translation, facing pages. Extremely sparse spot-staining to Iliad, still near fine, Odyssey spine darkened a shade with a couple tiny chips to fore edge, still fine. Both volumes in custom mylar covers.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Homer; Pope, Alexander (Translator). The Iliad and Odyssey (Two Volumes). The Nonesuch Press, 1931.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bilingual Greek and English, from the Oxford Classical Texts and from Pope's 1715 Iliad First Edition - 1725 Odyssey First Edition. Brown leather with gilt spine titles. Minor discoloration to the spines. Printed on rag paper with gilt page tops, marbled end papers. Vol. 1: The Iliad, 925pp. No. 507 of 525 in the US. Vol. 2: Odyssey, 759pp. No. 65 of 465 in the US. MC
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2351.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, The Nonesuch Press, 1931 [first thus]. Large octavo, two volumes, [ii], 927, [1] (colophon) and [ii], 759, [1] (blank), [1] (colophon) pages with ornaments by Rudolf Koch and Fritz Kredel. Original full tan morocco ('Odyssey' a darker shade of brown); sides bordered with double fillets; top edges gilt, others uncut; marbled endpapers; 'The Iliad' a little mottled (due to the retention of the publisher's original glassine dustwrapper with paper flaps, the glassine now a little tanned with slight loss); 'Odyssey' slightly scratched and indented; an excellent set in the publisher's matching marbled slipcases (both showing trifling signs of wear). 'The Iliad' is number 860 of 1450 copies for sale; 'Odyssey' is inscribed 'out of series', of a total edition of 1300 copies for sale. Loosely inserted in 'The Iliad') is the single-sided information sheet by Francis Meynell on how to properly open the book. 'The Greek text of this edition is, by permission of the Delegates of the Oxford University Press, that of the Oxford Classical Texts. The English is printed from the first (1715) edition of Pope's Iliad' [and the (1725) edition of Pope's Odyssey] (from the colophons). [2 items].
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Homer. THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY. Nonesuch, 1931.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A numbered, limited edition, two volume set of The Iliad and The Odyssey published by Nonesuch in 1931. Each volume includes the Greek from the Oxford University Classical texts, and Alexander Pope's original English translation. The Iliad is Pope's 1715 translation. It is number 941 of 1450 copies. The Odyssey is Pope's 1725 translation. It is number 366 of 1300 copies. Both books are bound in full morocco, with spines having five raised bands with gilt titles, and measure 10½" by 6". The top edges are gilt, while the bottom and fore edges are untrimmed. The endpapers are marbled, as are the slipcases. Both slipcases have wear and rubbing to top, bottom, and corners. Their condition is good. Each book has a faint 3/16th inch penciled number on the back free endpaper. Aside from these there are no other markings in either volume. There are no bookplates, no tears, and no folds. There is no toning or foxing. The free front endpaper in The Odyssey has small tears at the hinge over the stitching, which does not affect the soundness of the hinge. In both volumes the hinges and joints are sound. The condition of the covers and corners is excellent. The two volumes are beautiful copies in near fine condition.
Seller: Cedar Tree Antiques, Upland, CA, U.S.A.
Homer. The Iliad & The Odyssey. Nonesuch Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 927, 659 pages. 27 x 16 cm. Limited editions: 1227 of 1350 and 280 of 1300 respectively, the two volumes being largely unopened. Text in Greek (parallel with the English translation of Alexander Pope, which was first published in 17250) and printed in red and black, The pale gray Pannekoek mould-made paper printed at Enschede en Zonen in Haarlem with ornamental type throughout. Wood-engraved head pieces by Rudolf Koch and Fritz Kredel. Raised bands. spines very slightly darkened, some mottling to Iliad covers, probably caused by misapplied leather dressing. Full russet niger morocco, marbled endpapers. Near fine in very good matching marbled slipcases
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Homer. THE ILIAD. [and] THE ODYSSEY. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$5038.50 + shipping
Description: [In the English verse translation by Alexander Pope]. Two volumes, parallel Greek & English text. Pp. [ii]+928(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank)+[ii]+760(last blank)+[2](colophon), titles and headings printed in red, each volume with a title page decoration designed by Berthold Wolpe and numerous pictorial headpieces designed and engraved by Rudolf Koch; roy. 8vo; full tan niger morocco, spines lettered in gilt between raised bands, boards with double gilt rule borders, both volumes damp stained and slightly scuffed; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; marbled endpapers; tiny hole in bottom margin pp. 83/4 and a couple of small pencilled annotations to margins in The Iliad, small and faint damp stains to bottom fore-corner of a few leaves same volume, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1931. Editions limited to 1,450 and 1,300 numbered copies respectively. McKitterick 72 (Iliad) & 78 (Odyssey). *Lacking the slipcases. With the book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper free endpaper versos. Originally from the library of British politician and diplomat Duff Cooper, whose bookplate, designed by Rex Whistler, is on the upper pastedowns (slightly damp stained in The Odyssey). Presented after his death by his widow, Lady Diana Cooper, to her close friend the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, inscribed 'Paddy from Duff's library with love from Diana - 1956' in The Iliad, with a similar inscription in The Odyssey. In each volume Patrick Leigh Fermor has pasted a manuscript note, dated 1999, below the gift inscription: 'To be gratefully handed on, and back to John Julius in the fullness of time with love from Paddy and Joan'. Paper-clipped to the upper free endpaper of each volume is Patrick Leigh Fermor's card, annotated by hand: 'Left to be collected by the Viscount Norwich.' The card in The Odyssey is further annotated 'I'm not yet as feeble as this inscription looks!'. John Julius Norwich was the son of Lady Diana Manners and Duff Cooper [later Viscount Norwich]. Loosely inserted in The Iliad is the publisher's printed slip of February 1931, explaining the best way to open the books and cut the pages. The Greek text is in the standard Oxford Classical Texts versions by David B. Munro (Iliad, in 1902) and Thomas W. Allen (Odyssey, in 1908). Pope's celebrated English translation of Homer first appeared in 1715.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Alexander Pope. The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$5797.18 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine, limited edition set of Pope's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey with excellent provenance. Limited edition, With Homer numbered 1051 and The Iliad numbered 1196. With text in both Latin and Greek. 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. The 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' are central to the genre of ancient Greek Literature. The 'Iliad' is set during the Trojan War and The 'Odyssey' focuses on the ten year journey home of the king of Ithaca, 'Odysseus' following the fall of Troy. Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad was first planned in 1713. It appeared in parts from 1715-1720 and was hailed by Samuel Johnson as 'a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal'. Following his success from the 'Iliad', Pope pursued a translation of the Odyssey in 1726 with the help of William Broome and Elijah Fenton. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to the raised bands and to the extremities. Bookplate to the front pastedown, S L Courtauld. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom