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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Estes and Lauriat, 1883.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Corners rounded and to boards. Spine cover is gone. White cover design is bright. White cover is soiled.
Seller: FOLCHATT, Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Estes & Lauriat, Boston, 1883.
Price: US$263.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Floral cloth with 1/2 spine linen cloth with gilt illustrations on cover, words in black, no printing on spine, spine is stained, and some staining goes on to front and back for about 2 inches. Page edges are silver. Illustrated by Gustav Doré, Birket Foster, et al. 27 black and white illustrations. Unpaginated. 7x 9 inches.
Seller: Toadlily Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus; early printing; stated Copyright 1883 by Estes and Lauriat. Rare example from HM Caldwell Company. Larger 7" x 9" format than similar designs from Estes & Lauriat. Fine green cloth spine wrap wrapping to back board, floral and leaf decoration to front cover, moderate shelf wear, rub. Beautiful gilt cover titles surrounded by circular pattern of bells and leaves. Heavy stock coated pages, near fine. Attractive antiquarian inscription and signature at front blank endpaper: "Miss Kitty H. Miller, Merry Xmas and Happy New Year, Dec. 25th, 1902. Remembrance of Muril." Amazingly haunting illustrations throughout. Very attractive. String-bind good; hinges intact. Includes twenty-seven dramatic illustrations by Gustave Doré, Birkett Foster, et al. Scarce very good illustrated edition. Coleridge's masterpiece concerns a sailor who offends nature by killing a seabird takes the listener on a macabre odyssey that includes brushes with monsters, a ship manned by zombies, and a game of dice with Death. The work of an imagination some say was distorted by opium and alcohol, the poem has retained its power and beauty for over two centuries. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.