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William Wordsworth. The Recluse. Macmillan and Co., 1888.
Price: US$13.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1888. No edition remarks. 56 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Publishers stamp to title page. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Further marking to both boards. Gilt lettering is darkened. Mild crushing to spine ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. , 1888.
Price: US$15.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1888-01-01. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover. GOOD First Edition. Gold text on green cover. Clean inside and out. Spine cracked. Deckled page. Minor foxing. 8x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. Macmillan and Co, London, 1888.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Neat contemporary name on front free endpaper with light foxing as usual to all endpapers otherwise a firm, clean copy in very slightly rubbed original cloth gilt.
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
WORDSWORTH, William.. The Recluse.. Macmillan & Co. 1888, 1888.
Price: US$35.91 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title. Orig. dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed. Wise (34). 'In the prefatory advertisement to the First Edition of the Prelude, 1850, it is stated that the poem was designed to be introductory to the Recluse, and that the Recluse, if completed, would have consisted of three parts. The Second part is the Excursion. The third part was only planned. The first book of the first part was left in manuscript by Wordsworth. It is now (1888) published for the first time in extenso.' (Introductory note.)
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. MacMillan & Co., 1888.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small hardcover, size 18 x 11cm, in green cloth boards, gilt titles, some foxing to the endpapers, otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, pp56, cut-out contemporary newspaper article about the book and a letter about the book on "The Burlington Fine Arts Club" stationary. Poem
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
Wordsworth William.:. The Recluse.. London Macmillan and Co First edition, 1888.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Sm.8vo. 56pp. Now for the first time published 'in extenso'. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Slight spotting to end papers and very slight rubbing to extremities but overall a near fine copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Wordsworth William. The Recluse. Macmillan and Co, 1888.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green cloth, gilt titling. Endpapers are a little spotted, but otherwise clean. A very good copy of a posthumously published work. All books outside the UK are sent airmail and those over £30 are tracked; those inside the UK are signed for. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
WORDSWORTH, William.. The Recluse.. Macmillan and Co. London, 1888.
Price: US$41.69 + shipping
Description: First edition. Slim 8vo. 56pp. Orig. green cloth gilt, Spine sl. rubbed, affecting text, extremities sl. worn. Prelims foxed, small 1cm split in paper at bottom of inner hinge o/w contents clean and sound. Published posthumously. Wise 34.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. Macmillan and Co., 1888.
Price: US$47.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1888. 1st Printing. Green cloth, gold spine lettering. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Scattered foxing on endpapers only. 56 pages. The Prelude (1850) was designed to be introductory to the Recluse, and the Recluse, if completed, would have consisted of three parts. The second part is the Excursion. The third part was only planned. The first book of the first part was left in manuscript by Wordsworth. It is now (1888) published for the first time in extenso. 7221
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. Macmillan and Co. London and New York, 1888.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine. 56pp. Housed in a custom made tri-fold case within a slip case all in green cloth over board with gilt lettering to a darker green spine label. Light tanning to endpapers and light wear to covers and slip case. Very good. From a preliminary page ".It is now published for the first time in extenso"
Seller: Abacus Books, ABAA/ILAB, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
WORDSWORTH, William. The Recluse. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, (vi), 56 pp. Contemporary owner's inscription to half title with their bookplate to the paste down, later bookplate to front blank. Original gilt titled green cloth, some very minor rubbing otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Wordsworth, William. The recluse. Macmillan and Co, London & New York, 1888.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, slim 12mo, pp. [6], 56; original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine; old tape stain in top and bottom margin of p. 1; binding a bit skewed and with 2 small blank ink smudges on the upper board; all else very good and sound. The Prelude (1850) "was designed to be introductory to the Recluse, and the Recluse, if completed, would have consisted of three parts. The second part is the Excursion. The third part was only planned. The first book of the first part was left in manuscript by Wordsworth. It is now (1888) published for the first time in extenso" (p. [5]).
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. Macmillan & Co Limited, 1888.
Price: US$69.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 56pp. First edition by William Wordsworth.This part of the Recluse was left in manuscript by Wordsworth and this is the first piublishing of it 'in extenso'. Light soiling to the cloth boards with slight rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Book name plate to the front paste down. Light foxing to the end papers and paste downs. Clean interior and tightly bound. A very good copy from this classic poet.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. Macmillan and Co., London, 1888.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: some shelf wear but clear green cloth and gilt lettering. S10 5
Seller: COVENANT HERITAGE LIBRIS, Saint John, NB, Canada
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. Macmillan & Co, London, 1888.
Price: US$83.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Macmillan & Co, 1888, first edition. Green cloth, gilt titles on spine, very light shelf wear, clean and in very good condition. Some very small areas of very light foxing on the endpapers, otherwise clean. First publication of the first book of the first part of The Recluse, which was left in manuscript form by Wordsworth.
Seller: Ellis and Co., Shrewsbury, SALOP, United Kingdom
Wordsworth, William. The Recluse. Macmillan & Co., London, 1888.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very slim booklet in green cloth binding. Pages remain uncut at head edges. A few faint fox-spots to eps.
Seller: Black Box Books, ASHFORD, United Kingdom