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De Voltaire, M.. The Princess of Babylon. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$11.52 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Limited Edition 1008/1500 Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:

Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Voltaire M. De. The Princess of Babylon. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: New. In remarkable condition for its age. Limited edition of 1027 of 1500 copies

Seller: R.D.HOOKER, Christchurch, United Kingdom

Voltaire, M. De.. THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON.. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$20.73 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1927. The Nonesuch Press. Hard cover. Book- VG, rough edges, some marks on cover, quarto bound, guilt titles on spine. 7.5x4.5. 156pp. Several b/w illus inc frontis by Thomas Lowinsky. The Princess of Babylon is a rarely published philosophical tale that Voltaire wrote in 1768.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Voltaire, [J.F.M.A.] de.. THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON.. Nonesuch Press, 1927., 1927.

Price: US$21.45 + shipping

Description: Small 8vo. Prelims. + [158pp.] B/w. frontispiece and illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. Original half japon with marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Some slight wear. T.e.g. Limited edition, 302/1500 copies. US$21

Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom

M. De voltaire. The Princess of Babylon. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Red stain at front and back endpapers. Otherwise interior clean. Nice black and white illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. Pictures on request

Seller: Old Village Books, Mt. Pleasant, SC, U.S.A.

VOLTAIRE, M. de. PRINCESS OF BABYLON. , 1927.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: VOLTAIRE, M. de. THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited edition of 1500 numbered copies on handmade paper, translation that of the Glasgow edition of 1769. Illustrated with drawings by Thomas Lowinsky. 156 pp. 12mo., marbled paper-covered boards with white paper corners and spine, printed in gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Very good plus with light rubbing to boards and spine.

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

VOLTAIRE, pseud., i.e. François-Marie Arouet. The Princess of Babylon: [a fable]. By M. de Voltaire. With decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Quarter parchment, marbled boards, vellum tips, top edge gilt. Spine very slightly darkened. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies, this copy with the pencilled ownership signature of Alice Meynell, the publisher's niece; printed at the Westminster Press. "The translation is that of the Glasgow edition of 1769."

Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom

M de Voltaire. The Princess of Babylon. With decoration by Thomas Lowinsky. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$30.42 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description:

Seller: Books for Libraries, Inc., Santa Clarita, CA, U.S.A.

De Voltaire, M.. The Princess of Babylon. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.

Price: US$33.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo. 158 pp. 3/4 vellum over marbled boards. With decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. Pages untrimmed. 1/1500 numbered copies. Corners bumped. Wear to spine. Boards somewhat scuffed. Else in good condition.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Voltaire, M. De. THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$34.80 + shipping

Description: THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON, The Nonesuch Press, 1927, vellum spine lightly soiled, else a tight, fine copy in the publishers original binding. Illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. 1/1,500 copies.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

M. De Voltaire. The Princess of Babylon. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.

Price: US$49.38 + shipping

Description: Quarter bound; marbled boards. Gilt titling to the spine, which is slightly sunned. Contents clean and bright; profusely illustrated. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. Binding tight. Previous owner's nameplate to the rear paste down. Overall good. 157pp

Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom

Voltaire (1694-1778). Lowinsky, Thomas, Ill.. The Princess of Babylon / by M. De Voltaire ; with Decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. London : Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$55.69 + shipping

Description: Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked quarter-cloth over marble boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Ex-libris copy with bookplate attached; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages; Physical desc. : 156 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Limited Edition: No. 235 of 1500 copies. Subject: Princesses --Babylon (Extinct city) --Fiction 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

LOWINSKY, Thomas (illustrates). VOLTAIRE, M. de.. The Princess of Babylon.. The Nonesuch Press, London., 1927.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Description: First edition. Small octavo. pp [viii], 157. Eleven full-page black and white illustrations as well as other decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. Quarter parchment with marbled boards. Top edge gilt. One of 1500 numbered copies. At the foot of the title is a small ownership inscription. Very good indeed.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

VOLTAIRE, F. A. M.. The Princess of Babylon. Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. Near fine in three quarter vellum with marbled paper covered boards, top edge gilt, in a good dustwrapper with a browned spine, chips at the spine ends and corners, soiling. Number 1413 of 1500 copies.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Voltaire (1694-1778). Lowinsky, Thomas, Ill.. The Princess of Babylon / by M. De Voltaire ; with Decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. London : Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$70.00 + shipping

Description: Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked quarter-cloth over marble boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Ex-libris copy with bookplate attached; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages; Physical desc. : 156 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Limited Edition: No. 235 of 1500 copies. Subject: Princesses --Babylon (Extinct city) --Fiction 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET, M. De. The princess of Babylon . With decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.

Price: US$81.25 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 1500 copies, 12mo, pp. [6], 156, [2]; original parchment-backed marbled paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g., publisher's slipcase (with copy number '854' and stamped with the title); generally fine. Dreyfus 48.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Voltaire, M. de. The Princess of Babylon. London: The Nonesuch Press. MCMXXVII [1927], 1927.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover. 12mo (7.5" x 4.75"), quarter parchment, marbled paper over boards. t.e.g., deckled edges. [4], 157 pp., [4], 11 full page and 3 smaller illustrations by Lowinsky. Bookplate of Wyman Parker at front pastedown. CONDITION: Good, spine browned, covers worn with some loss, faint evidence of formerly present label at lower spine. Lacking slipcase. Number 186 of edition limited to 1500 copies. The first Nonesuch Press book illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. "The Princess of Babylon is the airiest and most charming of all Voltaire's romances. Never, one thinks, was he more aware that he was writing for the fine ladies as well as for philosophers, never are his wit and style more perfect.It is the most fanciful and poetic of his parables and yet it had the true Voltairean tang of malice" (McKitterick 48). Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books.

Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.

VOLTAIRE M. de. The Princess of Babylon. , 1927.

Price: US$112.28 + shipping

Description: First edition, limited to 1500 copies. Illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. 8vo., half parchment over marbled boards, fore and lower edges untrimmed. London, The Nonesuch Press. The translation taken from the 1796 Glasgow edition, the translator unidentified. A moral tale in the manner of his earlier masterpiece 'Candide', full of contemporary satire, a virtual primer of Enlightenment thinking, with a light touch. Illustrated with Lowinsky's delightfully surreal line drawings. A clean and fresh copy, the boards very slightly rubbed.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

VOLTAIRE, M. De. The Princess of Babylon. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$116.96 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: LIMITED EDITION; number 845 of 1500. 8vo (19 x 11 cm); Engraved frontis. and t-page; with 10 full page monochrome plates by Thomas Lowinsky throughout the text. Very minor age-toning, pages mostly bright and unmarked. Dedicatory inscription of previous owner on first flyleaf. Uncut pages. Bound 3/4 vellum and marbled boards; gilt title on spine; t.e.g. A fine copy, bright and clean.

Seller: Symonds Rare Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom

VOLTAIRE, M. De. The Princess Of Babylon. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [157] pp. Of this edition 1500 copies have been printed this is number 789 w/ decorations by Thomas Lowinsky VOLTAIRE, M. De The Nonesuch Press 1927 7.5" x 4.75"

Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.