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Max Beerhohm. The Poets' Corner. William Heinemann, London, 1904.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Series of caricactures (colour) of current and past writers, poets, playwrights etc by writer and artist, Max Beerbohm. In a very fragile condition, tanned etc - hence condition assessment of poor and lack of internal images. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request an additional payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2328.

Seller: Amnesty Bookshop - Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

Beerbohm, Mac. The Poets' Corner.. William Heinemann, London, 1904.

Price: US$51.98 + shipping

Description: A complete copy of this portfolio of cartoons by Beerbohm. 21 poets depicted in 20 plates. 4 cm burn mark on front cover which also affects ffep and title page. Tear across Robert Browning plate - easily repaired. Small tears at edge of Rossetti plate - not affecting image or title. No inscriptions. Covers chipped at edges and slightly marked, as per normal usage. Some plates coloured, others black and white.

Seller: Pricewisebooks, MARLBOROUGH, United Kingdom

Beerbohm, Max. The Poets' Corner.. London: William Heinemann,, 1904.

Price: US$89.87 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Unpaginated (20 plates.) First edition. Large folio (37.5x27.7cm.) Thick card board, illus.to front board. 20 colored plates. No d.w. Front and rear boards somewhat stained and darkened. Spine damaged and missing. E.ps.stained. 'Contents' and first 5 plates torn at joint. Last 2 plates, rear flyleaves and rear board out of joint. [Bee021-170712]

Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan

BEERBOHM, Max. THE POET'S CORNER. William Heinemann, London, 1904.

Price: US$103.96 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Original pictorial wrappers. Folio. 14.25 x 10.75 inches (37 x 27 cms). With 19 (of 20) coloured plates, being caricatures of poets living and dead after drawings by the author. Lacking lower wrapper and last plate (Rudyard Kipling). Upper wrapper has some foxing and creases to corners. Staples oxidised. Grease spot to prelims and first plate. All else in good condition. A few very slight handling marks but the plates are free from foxing and are in nice, clean condition. The poets depicted are Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Watson, William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, Paul Verlaine, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Homer, Robert Burns, Dante, Austin Dobson and Edmund Gosse, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A fragile publication and quite scarce.

Seller: Owen & Barlow Rare Books, Welshpool, United Kingdom

Beerbohm, Max;. The Poets' Corner.. William Heinemann, 1904.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Illus. with 20 full page lithographs. Large 4to. pict. limp bds. Cover and spine very worn and marked contents v.g.

Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom

Max Beerbohm. The Poets' Corner. William Heinemann, London, 1904.

Price: US$165.00 + shipping

Description: Twenty color lithograph plates. (Folio) cloth-backed pictorial boards. Rebacked. First Edition. Boards worn at edges, rebacked, book plate on front paste down. Overall Very Good+ condition. A well known title for the collector's library. Includes a note regarding the provenance of this edition on Balliol College/Oxford letterhead: Dear Nitya: I hope you like Beerbohm. Do read Zulecha (?). You can get better copies in a Avenue(?) than here. I was afraid that the "Poet's Corner" was too topical, but somehow, on reading it over, it seems to fall right in line with your divine revenue of humor. It is a First and they are getting rare; so sell the piano first if worse comes to worse./Tom/ Omar, Tennyson and Wordsworth are my favorites." 20 color plates by Beerbohm of Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Rudyard Kipling. A very short note on the rather interesting Max Beerbohm: Max Beerbohm was a writer, essayist, and artist who, though less famous than some of his contemporaries, was admired and praised by many literary giants of his time, such as George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf. He was known for his witty and elegant prose, as well as his brilliant and humorous caricatures of prominent figures. He was born in London in 1872 and educated at Oxford, where he became a regular at the Café Royal, "the haunt of intellect and daring," with patrons including Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. His brother was Herbert Beerbohm Tree, a renowned actor and theater manager who produced plays by Wilde and Shaw at His Majesty's Theater. There, young Max mingled with artists, writers, and actors, and developed a keen sense of observation and satire. At the age of 25, he was handpicked by Shaw as his successor for the position of drama critic for the Saturday Review. He also published his first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm, a collection of parodies and essays. His most famous work, however, was The Poet's Corner, a series of caricatures of famous poets, accompanied by witty captions. In one plate titled "Mr. W. B. Yeats presenting Mr. George Moore to the Queen of the Fairies," Beerbohm poked fun at the writer's beliefs about rural fae lore. He was able to capture, with a mix of warmth and jest, affectations and eccentricities of his subjects, and his caricatures became legendary. Writer Edith Wharton said that dining with Max "was like suddenly growing wings" and Shaw called him "The Incomparable Max." His essays impressed even Virginia Woolf, who gushed over him uncharacteristically: "If you knew how I had poured over your essays.how they fill me with marvel.how I can't conceive what it would be like to write as you do." He insisted that "the perfect caricature (be it of handsome man or hideous or an insipid) must be the exaggeration of the whole caricature, from top to toe.The whole man must be melted down, as in a crucible, and then, as from the solution, be fashioned anew. He must emerge with not one particle of himself lost, yet with not a particle of himself as it was before." One of his favorite possessions was a convex mirror, "There is no poetry in a straight mirror-just a reproduction of life. But what one sees in a convex mirror is a complete picture." He had owned it since his nursery days. "I began to think of all that it had seen since my father bought it.I began to see this mirror as a collaborator, with memories of its own. I began to write a novel about it, an autobiographical novel called 'The Mirror of the Past'." This novel was never completed. He had a storied life, moving to Italy at the height of his success, away from the public eye. During both world wars, he provided BBC radio commentary about life during tumultuous times of war. Friend and feminist critic and writer Rebecca West referred to Beerbohm as "the last civilized man on earth." And despite years of caricaturing the Royal Family, he was knighted in 1939.

Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.

BEERBOHM, MAX.. The Poets' Corner.. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1904.

Price: US$168.94 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Folio. 37 by 28 cm. Twenty colour lithograph plates. Beerbohm's caricatures of Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Boethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Watson, William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, Paul Verlaine, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Homer, Robert Burns, Dante, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Rudyard Kipling. Printed by Hazell Watson and Viney. Original pictorial limp boards, recent cloth spine. Covers rubbed and spotted.

Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom

BEERBOHM, MAX.. The Poets' Corner.. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1904.

Price: US$233.92 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Folio. 37 by 28 cm. Twenty colour lithograph plates. Beerbohm's caricatures of Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Boethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Watson, William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, Paul Verlaine, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Homer, Robert Burns, Dante, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Rudyard Kipling. Printed by Hazell Watson and Viney. Original pictorial limp boards, paper spine. Covers rubbed and spotted, off-setting from newspaper cutting to front endpapers and titles.

Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom

BEERBOHM, Max.. Poets' Corner.. William Heinemann, London, 1904.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 20 caricatures in color by Beerbohm. Folio, original light gray pictorial flexible stiff wrappers (the second state of the binding). First edition. Gallatin & Oliver 5; Riewald 17. Wrappers foxed and stained near the stapled areas, with a tiny chip and a tiny bookseller's ticket at the bottom edge.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Beerbohm, Max. The Poet's Corner. William Heinemann, London, 1904.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: Beerbohm, Max. First edition. With 20 plates in colour by Beerbohm of of Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Watson, William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, Paul Verlaine, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Homer, Robert Burns, Dante, Austin Dobson and Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Rudyard Kipling. 1 vols. Folio (14.5 by 11 inches,). Hart-Davis p. 12, et seq Original stapled pictorial wrappers, Very Good copy of a notoriously fragile large book. Laid into a black cloth dropbox With 20 plates in colour by Beerbohm of of Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Watson, William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, Paul Verlaine, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Homer, Robert Burns, Dante, Austin Dobson and Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Rudyard Kipling. 1 vols. Folio (14.5 by 11 inches,)

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Beerbohm, Max. The Poets' Corner. William Heinemann, London, 1904.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Folio, 14.5 by 11 inches, 37 by 28 cm. Twenty color lithograph plates. Beerbohm's inimitable satirical caricatures of Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Boethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, William Watson, William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, Paul Verlaine, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Homer, Robert Burns, Dante, Austin Dobson and Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Rudyard Kipling. Printed by Hazell Watson and Viney. Original wrappers, with chipping and minor losses by the joints and on the spine, as well as along the edges. The pages are on brittle card, as always the case. That said, this is a remarkably well-preserved copy of a work that unfortunately, given the acidity of the paper, seldom survives in good shape.

Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.