Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Spine missing; original boards attached and somewhat worn; inside front cover with previous owner's name, also another free end paper with previous owner's name; missing first free end paper; very good text is clean and unmarked.
Seller: Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Wordsworth, William. The Prelude. Edward Moxon, London, 1850.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 372pp. Full tan calf, gilt titles on red spine label, gilt accents on front and rear boards and spine. Four raised bands on spine. Mild wear to gutters, corners (upper front corner slightly bumped) and spine ends. Pages evely age toned, otherwise clean and unmarked. With 2pp publisher's advertisements in back, followed by 8pp catalog of Moxon-published titles. Original binding cloth and spine mounted on pages and bound in at back of book. A gorgeous copy of Wordsworth's final work, in smooth, tan calf. A gift-worthy copy. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$282.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original cloth, rebacked with remains (95%) of original backstrip relaid, corners badly rubbed, initial publishers catalogue dated July 1850, advertisement leaf, ownership signature front pastedown and free endpaper, joints cracked, good. first edition; 374 pages including notes; keywords: poetry;
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Prelude, or Growth of a Poets Mind; An Autobiographical Poem; William Wordsworth, Edward Moxon, London, 1850, 372 pp plus notes and publishers list in front, dark green blind cloth, 9.25 x 5.75, 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with crushing to corners, rubbing to surface of boards, light, overall soiling to cloth, and nearly cracked hinges. Spine concave and discolored. Chipped end bands with soiling overall. Bookplate of Lewis Perry Curtis on front pastedown. Old hand ownerships on end papers. Toned interior with slightly brittle edges. Binding tender, albeit intact. All leaves present. Free of known markings. Please see photos. First edition, second state. July 1850. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Written in blank verse, The Prelude, is one of Wordsworths most influential works.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$510.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound without adverts. in full green morocco, the hinges slightly worn but not cracking. all edges gilt, an attractive copy, with just a few spots of foxing.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.