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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [4] pp., single sheet folded once to 11 x 8.75 in. Prospectus only; printed in red and black, including the specimen page. Good copy only, with some overall creasing and quarter-inch closed tear at the bottom.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Broadside 4 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches, with a trial title-page printed in red and black on Amalfi paper, folded once to 9 by 11 inches. A fine copy.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Off-white wraps with bw illustration and red lettering on front cover; 12 unnumbered pages, bw and color illustrations. "2000 copies printed at The Gehenna Press. The ornaments on the cover were arranged by Patricia Milne-Henderson"--Colophon. Prospectus announcing the newly completed edition of The jolly beggars: a cantata, by Robert Burns (which has colophon dated June 1963); recent publication "this spring" of Encantadas, by Herman Melville, with illustrations by Rico Lebrun engaved in wood by Leonard Baskin; continuing availability of Homage to Redon: ten portraits by George Lockwood (published 1959), Thirteen poems by Wilfred Owen, with drawings by Ben Shahn (published 1956), and Pike: a broadside, poem by Ted Hughes, with woodcut by Robert Bermelin (published 1959); and 2 works in progress, Rembrandt, blindness, and the Tobias story, by Julian S. Held, and The general defense of Gracchus Babeuf before the high court of Vendome, edited and translated with an essay on Babeuf by John Anthony Scott (both published in 1964). A printed slip, laid in, gives price and order information for The jolly beggars. VG- (light shelfwear to wraps, pages are otherwise very clean)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, unpaginated (about 30pp.). A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's grey cloth, very good or better, with a few mild scrapes to the rear board. Contents clean; a beautifully produced volume. This is number 243 of 300 limited copies. Lacks slipcase.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Limited to 300 un-numbered copies edited by John C. Weston which is preceded by 300 copies bound in cloth backed marbled covered boards. This copy bound in full gray cloth, spine lettering gilt, text printed in red and black. small bump with split to foot of spine otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Burns, Robert. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata. Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1963.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edited by John c. Weston. Wood engraved portrait by Gillian Lewis. one of 300 unnumbered copies. Fine condition in torn glassine.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Burns, Robert. The Jolly Beggars, A Cantata. Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1963.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ROBERT BURNS. The Jolly Beggars, A Cantata, Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1963.Quarto, copy No. 58 of an edition limited to 300, unpaginated, sheet music laid in, marbled boards quarter-bound in brown cloth with paper labels on spine and front, in matching slipcase. Frontispiece is a woodblock print of Gillian Lewis's portrait of Burns. An attractive private-press effort presenting a work that is believed to have first appeared in 1799.Condition of this book: Fine in lightly worn case. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; 18th century; Music. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55422.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
BURNS, Robert. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata. The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1963.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition. With a woodblock illustration by Gillian Lewis. Fine in a near fine slipcase with just a bit of wear along the edges. Numbered 215 of 300 copies printed on Amalfi, a hand-made Italian paper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
[Gehenna Press]: Burns, Robert. THE JOLLY BEGGARS A CANTATA. Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1963.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Cloth backed marbled paper over boards, paper labels. Portrait. Fine in lightly edgeworn slipcase, with the original prospectus laid in. First edition, first printing. Edited by John C. Weston. The wood engraved portrait is by Gillian Lewis. One of three hundred numbered copies printed on handmade Amalfi. A second printing was produced in 1967 and bound in gray cloth. It retains the original date on the title-page. BASKIN 34. BROOK 32a,
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.