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Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Life and Works of Charles Lamb in Twelve Volumes; Volume V. Edition de Luxe. Publisher's brown leather binding with gilt stamping on front board and gilt titles on spine. Boards with solid edges and gently rubbed corners. Spine sunned and gently rubbed. Tight binding. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Otherwise, interior bright and clean. A beautiful copy. Photographs available upon request. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition 8/675 copies. This is volume #3 only of the set of 12. Volumes 3 &4 were titled "Poems, Plays and Miscellaneous Essays" & listed as Volumes 1 & 2 on their title pages. Handsome 1/2 red leather over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Spine with five raised bands, gilt ruled borders & lettering. Top edge gilt. Text tight, clean & intact: no foxing. Bookplate of George M. Thornton designed & engraved by E. H. Garrett of Boston. Poetry, Literature ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good plus copy in the original brown cloth binding. The binding is clean and undamaged, with unbumped edges and corners. Overall square and sound with uncracked hinges. Inside, there is a neatly inked gift inscription dated January 1900 (amusingly, the donor has started to write 1800, but has then corrected herself - plus ça change), but other than that there are no other markings of any kind. The text block is clean, bright, and undamaged. "Virginibus Puerisque (1881) was the first collection of Stevenson's essays. Containing what would have been regarded as personal essays in the tradition of Lamb and Hazlitt, the volume brought together essays previously published in the prestigious Cornhill Magazine ("Walking Tours" and "Virginibus Puerisque" [1876]; "On Falling in Love" and "Apology for Idlers" [1877]; "Crabbed Age and Youth", "Aes Triplex", "English Admirals" and "Child's Play" (1878); "Truth of Intercourse" [1879]) as well as essays printed in Macmillan's ("Ordered South" [1874]) and London ("A Plea for Gas Lamps", "Pan's Pipes" and "El Dorado" [1878]), and the previously unpublished "Some Portraits by Raeburn" and the second part of "Virginibus Puerisque". The essays promote a spirit of playfulness in defiance of both the hardships of human life and the restrictions imposed by bourgeois Philistinism. The volume did not sell well but had a good critical reception, confirming the author of Inland Voyage (1878) and Travels with a Donkey (1879) as one of the rising stars on the literary scene, notable for his youthful high spirits and elegant, if sometimes too showy, literary style".
Seller: Nineveh & Tyre, Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A limited edition de luxe of the various works of Charles Lamb, edited with notes throughout by Alfred Ainger. A limited edition work, limited to six hundred and seventy-five copies.Complete in twelve volumes.The works of Charles Lamb.Charles Lamb was a popular antiquarian and essayist, known for his work 'Tales from Shakespeare', which he co-authored with his sister. Volume I, 'The Essays of Elia'.Volume II, 'The Last Essays of Elia'.Volume III, 'Poems, Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays', Volume I.Volume IV, 'Poems, Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays', Volume II.Volume V, 'Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse', Volume I.Volume VI, 'Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse', Volume II.Volume VII, 'Tales From Shakespeare'.Volume VIII, 'Charles Lamb' by Alfred Ainger, illustrated with a frontispiece.Volume IX, 'Letters', Volume I.Volume X, 'Letters', Volume II.Volume XI, 'Letters', Volume III.Volume XII, 'Letters', Volume IV.Bookplate of the barrister Archer Ryland to the front pastedowns.Bookseller's label to the front pastedowns.With introductions and notes by Alfred Ainger. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities, resulting in some loss to the spines, a little heavier to Volume I. Spines are lightly discoloured. Minor marks to the boards and spines. Rear board of Volumes I, III, and IV are lightly faded. Bump to the rear board of Volume XI. Occasional spots to the fore edges. Bookplate and bookseller's label to the front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
. the life and works of charles lamb 12 volumes edition de luxe. macmillan, london, 1899.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Twelve volumes, " of this limited letterpress edition 675 copies have been printed This is no. 74" All 12 are numbered 74. All books are never read as some of the pages are not separated at the top. Dates on the first 6 are 1899, the second six are 1900. Some foxing and some various amounts of wear, mostly light wear to corners and spine ends.
Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: A smart complete set of this limited edition de luxe series of works by Charles Lamb, with the author's life. Complete in twelve volumes. Edition de Luxe. Limited to six hundred and seventy-five copies. The life and works of Charles Lamb, an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian who was at the centre of a major literary circle in England with friends including: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth. Lamb has been referred to by Edward Verrall Lucas, one of his principal biographers, as "the most lovable figure in English literature". Edited with an introduction and notes to the texts by Alfred Ainger, an English biographer and critic. This set includes: Volume I, The Essays of Elia, 1899. Volume II, The Last Essays of Elia, 1899. Volume III, Poems Plays and Miscellaneous Essays Volume I, 1899. Volume IV, Poems Plays and Miscellaneous Essays Volume I, 1899. Volume V, Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse Volume I, 1899. Volume VI, Mrs. Leicester's School and Other Writings in Prose and Verse Volume I, 1899. Volume VII, Tales from Shakespeare, 1900. Co-authored with his sister Mary Lamb, an English writer. Volume VIII, Charles Lamb, 1900. Written by Alfred Ainger. With a portrait frontispiece, collated complete. Volume IX, The Letters of Charles Lamb Newly Arranged with Additions Volume I, 1900. Volume X, The Letters of Charles Lamb Newly Arranged with Additions Volume II, 1900. Volume XI, The Letters of Charles Lamb Newly Arranged with Additions Volume III, 1900. Volume XII, The Letters of Charles Lamb Newly Arranged with Additions Volume IV, 1900. Bound by Pretoria. In the original half brown calf binding with cloth boards. Externally, smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages, with the odd handling mark. Bound by Pretoria. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$27360.00 + shipping
Description: One of an edition of 675 copies. Livingston notes that "Alfred Ainger's edition is valuable chiefly for the admirably edited Letters . which have never been superseded." The publication of this edition saw "further considerable additions" to the letters. This set has been bound by Birdsall in red morocco, gilt, and the front cover of each volume features a scene depicted in multicolored leather onlays measuring a generous 3 x 5 inches set within a single gilt frame. Meticulously executed, and showing a remarkable attention to detail, these bindings clearly reflect the period generally considered Birdsall's heyday, which was contemporary with the publication of this edition. This is a fine set, with each volume housed in a fleece-lined cloth slipcase. (Livingston, Appendix II, p. 278)
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.