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Price: US$3.19 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. 8vo half leather bound. Boards are also bound in a marbeled design. Leather is very worn and peeling away on corners and spine. Some of the marbled design is peeling on both boards too. Gilt lettering on spine. Ridges on spine and gilt decoration on top of each ridge. Top of page edges are a dark brown colour, the rest of page edges are red speckled. Picture page with signature underneath. Some foxing throughout. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Talfourd, T N. The Letters of Charles Lamb (Volume 2). Edward Moxon, 1837.
Price: US$3.19 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. 8vo. Brown 1/2 leather binding with marbled boards. Visible shelf wear. Binding reinforced with tape. Light foxing throughout but otherwise clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$14.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1837. Edward Moxon. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, half leather boards. Beautiful gilt decorated spine. Patterned page edges. Foxed and marked both internally and externally - some affects the text. Leather is worn and parts discoloured. Spine is split. Spine partially cracked. 7x5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$14.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1837. Edward Moxon. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, half leather boards. Beautiful gilt decorated spine. Patterned page edges. Spine is rubbed and parts of the decoration are detaching. Foxed and marked both internally and externally some affects the text. Leather is worn and parts discoloured. Spine is partially cracked. 7x5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - both volumes: corners bumped with small area of boards exposed - boards rubbed, unevenly faded and shelfworn - rebacked with original spines stuck down (missing a little top and tail and a little stained) - foxing and toning to endpapers and title pages - edges of text block rubbed, toned with minor foxing - some minor pencil marginalia to a handful of pages - Books ow/ strong, content clean and bright - portrait frontispiece to both volumes - 335 + 338 pages - 673 pages
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.58 + shipping
Description: First edition hardbacks. The cloth bindings are worn and have faded to brown, they remain sound. The portraits have some foxing and this has affected the adjacent pages. There is some foxing in a few places, some marginal fingermarks, and Portraits, 335 + 337
Seller: Gage Postal Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$36.63 + shipping
Description: x, 335; [4], 338, [2] p. Frontispiece in each volume. Adverts at the end of Vol. II. First edition. Later half calf with marbled boards. Rubbed but sound, with replacement labels. Damp mark to the top corner of the first few leaves in Vol. I, otherwise clean and tight.
Seller: Cobnar Books, Deal, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Professionally rebound in brown contemporary style buckram with gilt titles and decoration hammered to spine in the style of the period. Text blocks are tight, clean, unmarked and whole, with minor age spots to the first three leaves as usual in a book of this period. All correspondence Lamb left behind, plus a memoir of Lamb by a friend and contemporary. Extremely scarce.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$114.66 + shipping
Description: First edition. Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards. Two volumes 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches), pages: x:335 & 338. Very attractive contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments and with black and crimson lettering pieces. Foxing to prelims and portraits, the body of the text however unaffected. Gilt to spines dulled however still very pleasing and in excelent condition.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$122.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: DARK GREEN COVERS WITH MARBLESQUE INLAY-NO MARKINGS-ONION PAPER OVER PORTRAITS INTACT
Seller: EKER BOOKS, bryantown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$133.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, first edition, complete 2-volume set. Includes half-titles and engraved frontispieces. Bookplate of Sir John Rolt, Attorney General 1866 and Privy Councillor, to front pastedowns and signature of another previous owner to half-title page. Brown cloth boards are tanned at spines and cloth is split along spine sides. Light foxing to internal pages and watermark to FEP of v.2. Spines lightly cocked. Authoritative pencilled notation from previous bookseller to FEP reverse of v.1, easily removed if desired. Text is clean and unmarked throughout. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two frontispiece portraits in first volume including the Brook Pulham and Robert Hancock portraits of Lamb, Wageman portrait in the second volume. 2 vols. 8vo. with an AUTOGRAPH NOTE written in the third person, with integral address leaf from Thomas Noon Talfourd , editor of these Letters to Mr. Nugee St. James Street requesting a black dress coat by Tuesday next at three o'clock 2 Elm Court Temple Friday Evening. NCBEL 3:1226 Half green morocco. Covers detached, spines chipped, some light browning of interior but generally quite a good copy Two frontispiece portraits in first volume including the Brook Pulham and Robert Hancock portraits of Lamb, Wageman portrait in the second volume. 2 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.82 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Half title, front. ports. Contemp. half maroon calf over pebble-grained cloth, spines elaborately gilt, brown morocco labels; extremities sl. rubbed, spines faded to brown. Booklabel of Francis Trickett on leading f.e.ps. A nice copy. Roff pp271-272: 'Though Lamb's two executors are entirely responsible for the volumes, they took very many arbitrary liberties with the text of the letters'. Dedicated to Lamb's sister Mary: 'The memorials of many years which she spent with the writer in undivided affection; of the sorrows and the joys she shared, of the genius which she cherished, and of the excellences which she best knew; are respectfully and affectionately dedicated, by the editor'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.82 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Half titles, fronts, ad. leaf preceding half title in vol. I, final ad. leaf vol. II. Untrimmed in orig. purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt; small nick on spine vol. II affecting letters 'MB' of 'LAMB', v. sl. marked. Contemp. ownership inscription on half title vol. I. A good-plus copy. Roff pp271-272: 'Though Lamb's two executors are entirely responsible for the volumes, they took very many arbitrary liberties with the text of the letters'. Dedicated to Lamb's sister Mary: 'The memorials of many years which she spent with the writer in undivided affection; of the sorrows and the joys she shared, of the genius which she cherished, and of the excellences which she best knew; are respectfully and affectionately dedicated, by the editor'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: London: Edward Moxon, 1837. First edition (NCBEL, v.3). Original purple cloth, gilt. Edited by Thomas Noon Talfourd. Some wear, spine and edges faded to tan. Engraved bookplate and a signature from that family (Fitzpatrick of Grantstown Manor, Queen's County) in each volume. A Very Good copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Together five volumes (3 + 2). Bound by Riviere in half brown morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, a.e.g., gilt spine titles. Inscribed on the half title by a friend and executor of the author. Moderate rubbing, some chipping, water stain to preliminaries and title page of vol I of Life, with those pages detached. Decent shelf appearance
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$369.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely set of this collection of poetry, prose, and letters by Charles Lamb in Sotheran Sackville signed morocco bindings. A beautifully bound collection of works and letters by Charles Lamb, including three sets rebound in Sotheran Sackville signed half morocco with marbled boards.Includes the following sets:The Letters of Charles Lamb with A Sketch of his Life by Thomas Noon Talfourd, complete in two volumes (1837). Illustrated with frontispiece portraits to each volume. Collated, complete.The Prose Works of Charles Lamb, complete in three volumes (1838). Prior owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper from 1879 to Volume I.Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of his Letters Not Before Published, with Sketches of some of his Companions, by Thomas Noon Talfourd, complete in two volumes.A lovely rebound set of the works and correspondence of the English poet and essayist. Rebound in Sotheran Sackville signed half morocco bindings and marbled boards. Externally, smart. There is some rubbing to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities. The joints are slightly cracked. The hinges are strained but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper from 1879 to Volume I of 'Prose Works'. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom