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NICHOLS, Robert. The Smile of the Sphinx. Beaumont Press, 1920.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Color title page and endpapers, plus b/w text woodcuts by Ethelbert White. Original 1/2 gilt stamped tan buckram over brick-red and ochre patterned boards, uncut. Very good. 59 pages. No dust jacket. Number 217 of 260 numbered copies. Designed by Cyril William Beaumont.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Robert Nichols. The Smile of the Sphinx. The Beaumont Press, London, 1920.
Price: US$43.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition on hand-made paper, number 223 of 295. Illustrated title page, decorated end-papers, black and white headers and footers and vignettes' Linen spine with gilt lettering, patterned paper covered boards are darkened, corners are rubbed. Sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Contents are: Dedication; An Essay on the Philosophic Conte; The Smile of the Sphinx; Colophon. Illustrator: Ethelbert White. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10117081067. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service.
Seller: Bailgate Books Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
(BEAUMONT PRESS) NICHOLS, Robert. The Smile of the Sphinx.. Beaumomt Press, London, 1920.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: One of 225 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Small octavo with woodcuts by Ethelbert White. Publisher's quarter brown cloth over patterned boards, gilt spine lettering. Very good.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Nichols, Robert.. The Smile of the Sphynx.. Beaumont Press, 1920.
Price: US$57.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover with cloth covered spine and paper covered boards, some Very Light shelfwear and roughcut pages but otherwise in Near Fine condition. Limited edition of 295 [132], pp 58.
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
Nichols (Robert).. The Smile of the Sphinx. Beaumont Press,, 1920.
Price: US$60.84 + shipping
Description: Decorations by Ethelbert White One of 260 numbered copies on handmade paper Fine copy
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Nichols, Robert. The Smile of the Sphinx. London: The Beaumont Press, 1920.
Price: US$64.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original binding of quarter grey cloth over red and orange patterned paper with gilt lettering to spine. Page edges untrimmed. Decorative endpapers. Limited edition of 295 copies of which this is numbered 136. With black and white illustrated head and tail pieces. Endpapers slightly browned, otherwise the book is in very good condition in good condition covers which are slightly rubbed to head and tail of spine. 230
Seller: Jeremy's Books, Andover, HAMPS, United Kingdom
Nichols Robert.:. The Smile of the Sphinx.. Beaumont Press Limted edition of 295 copies, 1920.
Price: US$64.38 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 60pp. Illustrated with woodcuts. Printed on hand made paper. Copy number 78 of 295 copies. Advert slip for the book tipped in. In quarter buckram with marbled paper boards. Gilt titles to spine. Edges uncut. A very good copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Nichols, Robert. THE SMILE OF THE SPHINX. The Beaumont Press, London, 1920.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: No. 76 of 260 copies. This signed by the author. Eleventh book of the press. 58p. The cover and wood cut decorations by Ethelbert White, the title page and endpapers in three colors. Typography and binding arranged by Cyril William Beaumont. Bound in gilt-titled quarter linen over marbled boards. Covers and boards mildly faded and a bit worn, contents fine No. 76 of 260 copies. This signed by the author. Eleventh book of the press.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Nichols, Robert. The Smile Of The Sphinx. Beaumont Press, London, 1920.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 58 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition copy 228 of 295 on hand made paper. Woodcuts by Ethelbert White, endpapers are colored woodcuts. Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, noted war poet of World War I, and a playwright. Very fresh copy. Orig. beige basket weave spine, patterned boards, gilt spine letters bright. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
WHITE; Ethelbert; NICHOLS, Robert. THE SMILE OF THE SPHINX. Beaumont Press, 1920.
Price: US$106.87 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Number 118 of only 260 copies printed on handmade paper. Publisher's quarter beige cloth over pattered paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. All edges untrimmed. A near fine copy. Charming colour and black and white woodcuts by Ethelbert White throughout.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Nichols, Robert. THE SMILE OF THE SPHINX. Beaumont Press 1920, 1920.
Price: US$110.20 + shipping
Description: THE SMILE OF THE SPHINX, Beaumont Press, 1920, first edition, a near fine copy. 1/295 copies of this fine press edition.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Nichols, Robert. THE SMILE OF THE SPHINX. Beaumont Press, London, 1920.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #191/295. Slim 8vo. Illustrated with woodcuts. 58 pp. White endpapers with very light foxing, previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Quarter beige cloth with gilt titles and patterned boards. Corners bumped, light wear along the edges. VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada