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Le-Gallienne, Richard. English poems. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1894.
Price: US$30.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Le-Gallienne, Richard. English poems. Third edition. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Bodley Head, January 1894. Hardback, Good. Blue cloth, bumped to corners, with gilt lettering to spine, the words hyphenated across multiple lines. Elaborately designed title pgae in black and red. viii, 129pp. + 24pp. of published catalogue. Pages rough-cut. Occasional marks and light foxing; otherwise contents clean and bright. Richard Le Gallienne (20 January 1866 15 September 1947) was an English author and poet. In 1883, his father took him to a lecture by Oscar Wilde in Birkenhead. In the summer of 1888 he met Wilde, and the two had a brief affair. Le Gallienne and Wilde continued an intimate correspondence after the end of the affair. He joined the staff of the newspaper The Star in 1891 and wrote for various papers under the name Logroller. He contributed to The Yellow Book, and associated with the Rhymers' Club.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Hopper, nora. Ballads in Prose. John Lane/Bodley Head, 1894.
Price: US$64.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Lime green boards, title and decorations in yellow, board colour quite bright and even, corners a little bumped, spine endds a little worn, slight surface rippling to the cloth, small blemish to the spine. top edge of page block yellow, other edges rough-cut (as issued), contents lightly foxed
Seller: old aberdeen bookshop, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Price: US$102.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 186pp., green decorated cloth, stamped in yellow. Cloth somewhat marked, but a very good copy. Her first book, strikingly designed, and admired by her countryman W.B. Yeats, who took from it his title 'The Wind Among the Reeds'.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 279. Plates. 6 page publisher's list. Original cloth. Light wear & soiling.Half of the front free endpaper removed. A decent copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.84 + shipping
Description: John Lane. The Bodley Head. 1894. First edition. Hardback, yellow of course with gorgeously printed covers. No DW. Spine sunned and chipped to head and tail, pages browned, inner hinge partially visible but very sound. A generally clean copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Third volume of The Yellow Book. All plates collated and present. Wear at both spines. Professionally repaired and strengthened. Knocks to corners. Light rubbing to boards. Inside, end papers foxing. Some sporadic light foxing through the text. Ex Convent library with their stamp on the ffep and the top and bottom edges only 'Newton College of the Sacred Heart Library, 885 Centre Street, Newton, Massachussets 02159'. 'For Room Use Only' stamped in large lettering on rear end paper. 279 + 8 ads + 14pp publisher's ads dated 1894. Size: 20.5 x 16 cms. Wt: 705g.
Seller: Begging Bowl Books, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.50 + shipping
Description: Original egg yolk yellow cloth boards with designs and lettering in black to boards by Percy Dearmer. [288] pages, illustrated plates (behind tissue), complete. Titlepage vignette (behind tissue). Covers brigh, spine slightly dulled. A fine copy. Contains four drawings by Beardsley. Also Apple-Blossom in Brittany, by Ernest Dowson; Credo by Arthur Symons; and three pictures by Sickert including Collins' Music Hall, Islington. The Yellow Book was a British quarterly literary periodical that was published in London from 1894 to 1897.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$2243.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 13 vols. (April 1894 - April 1897). No adverts to rear of volumes so early issue. Square 8vo. Publisher's original decorative cloth, yellow buckram with black block print designs to front panels, early volumes after illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley when he was editor, spines are a little faded but unduly so, boards still retaining their yellow brightness, and extremities still quite sharp, corners, heads & tails etc., the only exception probably being the first volume which is more worn than the others, a touch more shaken with a small split to head of the spine (easy repair), pages are generally clean and crisp throughout, illustrations with tissue guards present, and a number of leaves uncut, with the same bookseller's label to front paste-down of each volume (D. W. Edwards of Hull) demonstrating the set's originality; a wonderful run of this pioneering periodical of the nineties, with contributions from so many greats of fin-de-siecle writing, including a number of women like George Egerton and Ella D'Arcy. Beardsley edited for the first year until his sacking by John Lane, went to edit the rival Savoy and then vanished from public view in the wake of Oscar Wilde's trial. Turbulent times for decadent young men with artistic aspirations. A delightful set, in good clean shape, heavy together, may cost extra to ship. 272; 360; 278; 285; 317; 335; 319; 406; 256; 344; 342; 344; 316pp.
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$2420.00 + shipping
Description: First edition; 13 vols (complete), small 4to; illustrated throughout, with tissue-guards, advertisements, occasional foxing, Dutch bookseller's discreet labels to front pastedowns, minor dampstaining to lower right corner of vol. IX; publisher's pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, spines darkened, some soiling and rubbing to covers, extremities a little bumped, light spotting to edges, offsetting to endpapers, partly unopened, overall very good. A very good, complete run of the The Yellow Book, the quarterly that for many best enshrines the spirit of the Decadent movement and the 1890s. In April 1894 The Times described it as 'A combination of English rwodyism and French lubricity'. The Yellow Book was founded in 1894 by Beardsley and his friend Henry Harland, both keen on establishing an avant-garde organ that would capture the decadent & aesthetic gasp of the fin-de-siècle. Beardsley and the artist James McNeill Whistler approached the publisher John Lane with the idea to create a new quarterly journal that would put emphasis on both art and literature in equal measure. Lane agreed; Beardsley was, for the first four volumes, art editor and principal artist, whilst Harland oversaw the literary aspect. The yellow cloth covers blocked in black were an intentional nod to the yellow covers of French and European novels, generally of a less than salubrious character. Beardsley's cover designs are striking examples of his illustrative art; flat perspective, stylised form, empty space and the novel application of dots. Inevitably however they also quickly courted controversy. Oscar Wilde, whom Beardsley had insisted to Lane should not be allowed to contribute, commented on the first volume's cover-art, 'a terrible naked harlot smiling through a mask, and with Elkin Matthews written on one breast and John Lane on the other'. The cover for Volume III, in which a lady's boudoir is illuminated by a pair of miniature street lamps, potentially suggestive of a 'lady of the night', unsettled many contemporary reviewers. Beardsley's tenure only lasted for four volumes. Oscar Wilde's arrest at the Cadogan Hotel in April 1895, during which it is claimed he was holding a yellow book, and the surrounding scandal of his trial, led to a backlash against all those associated with his 'decadent' values, not least against the publishers of The Yellow Book. Lane sacked Beardsley in an attempt to ameliorate the angry mob (though he was commissioning works by the artist again within a month), and the magazine carried on without Beardsley at the helm, a lesser vessel perhaps, though it did at least bring on and champion more female contributors after his departure. Under Beardsley's aegis, The Yellow Book had seen works by such artists as Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert, and Philip Wilson Steer. The literary content was no less distinguished; contributing authors to the series included: Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Baron Corvo, Ernest Dowson, Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Symons, H.G. Wells and W.B. Yeats.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 13 volumes (1894-1897), complete. First editions, mixed issues. Volumes 3-12 are apparent first issues with rear ads; volumes 1, 2, and 13 are apparent second issues, without ads. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's yellow pictorial cloth with cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley and others stamped in black, top edges untrimmed. Some volumes bear an engraved bookplate signed in pencil by the designer. Some spines with light soiling, some covers lightly soiled. A few corners slightly curled. Overall, a very nice, complete set. Quite scarce as a complete set. This famous, epochal, and notorious periodical includes work by all the great figures of the 1890's including Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry James, Yeats, Gissing, Kenneth Grahame, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Baron Corvo, H. G. Wells, and many others. Beardsley's illustrations are well-represented. The Yellow Book is the most prominent expression of the ideas of the Romantic Revivalists. It contains some of the most characteristic work of Aubrey Beardsley, from whose name it is inseparable. Many of the contributions represent first editions of the early writings of men whose names have since become famous. It was in his capacity as art-editor of The Yellow Book that Beardsley made his first claim to public notice. The earlier volumes contain many designs from his pencil, in addition to others of the best known black-and-white artists of the day.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3204.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Copeland & Day, 1894-1897, First Edition, Later Issue, without the adverts at the rear. Thirteen volumes bound in the publishers original pictorial cloth binding. Bindings with general wear and some darkening to the yellow cloth. YELLOW BOOK, An Illustrated Quarterly, thirteen volumes, complete set. [authors and illustrators include W.B.Yeats, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Symons, Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, H.G. Wells, etc,etc,]. Volume I April 1894 to Volume XIII April 1897. First edition, later issue. The Yellow Book was a British literary periodical released quarterly between 1894 and 1897. It was a leading journal of the decade, with writers such as Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, Sir Edmund Gosse and Henry James contributing. The periodical was notable for publishing many female authors and illustrators within, including Ella D'Arcy, George Egerton, Ada Leverson and Ethel Reed. John Lane and Elkin Mathews, the founders of The Bodley Head, published this artistic and often controversial periodical. It differed from other contemporary periodicals by having no advertisements bar publishers' lists, and it was published clothbound. The Yellow Book became notorious when it was rumoured that Oscar Wilde, who never published within it, but knew many people who had, was carrying a copy on his arrest at the Cadogan Hotel in 1895, although the veracity of this rumour has never been confirmed. Aubrey Beardsley was the original art editor of the work (1872-1898); he was an English illustrator who contributed to the development of the Art Nouveau style, known for his grotesque, decadent and erotic depictions inspired by Japanese woodcuts. Other illustrators within include Walter Sickert, Charles Conder and John Singer Sargent. Complete with all the illustrations called for in the contents, pagination includes the illustration. Some foxing. With 18 illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley to Volumes I, II, III and IV. Provenance bookplate for Edmund Wilkes to the front paste down. Approximately 8 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition black titles to the yellow cloth, some fading to the black text, some wrinkling to the cloth see photos. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition yellow cloth with black pictorial images by various artists. Page edges good condition all hand cut or uncut. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound, some volumes strained to the gutter within the volume. Paste downs good condition tanned, bookplate. End papers good condition tanned. Title good condition tanned, some foxing. Pages good condition tanned, foxing to some volumes, some tissue guards missing. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1894-97 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$3717.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A complete collection of all thirteen volumes of the widely celebrated Victorian literary and artistic periodical 'The Yellow Book'. Each volume the first edition, first impression with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions.Complete run with all thirteen volumes of The Yellow Book, a leading British literary quarterly magazine in the 1890s, running from 1894 to 1897, with notorious authors such as Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, and Henry James contributing some first publications. The magazine contained a variety of literary and artistic genres, and was often associated with the currents of aestheticism and decadence. Including poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings.John Lane and Elkin Mathews, the founders of The Bodley Head, published this artistic and often controversial periodical.The iconic yellow cover is credited to Aubrey Beardsley, its first art editor, an allusion to illicit French fiction of the period, although Oscar Wilde notoriously dismissed it as 'not yellow at all.' Beardsley obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, and Philip Wilson Steer among other.Volume I with fifteen illustrations. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear.Volume II with twenty-two illustrations. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear.Volume III with fifteen illustrations. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear.Volume IV with seventeen illustrations. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear.Volume V with fourteen illustrations. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear.Volume VI with sixteen illustrations. Collated, complete. With book lists to rear.Volume VII with twenty illustrations. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear.Volume VIII with twenty-six illustrations. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear.Volume IX with seventeen illustrations. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear.Volume X with thirteen illustrations. Collated, complete.With advertisements and book lists to rear. Volume XI with twelve illustrations, including a colour plate. Collated, complete. With advertisements and book lists to rear. Volume XII with fourteen illustrations. Collated, complete. With publisher's book lists to rear. Volume XIII with eighteen illustrations. Collated, complete. With publisher's book lists to rear. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings with designs in black. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip gently darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to odd leaf, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$4230.56 + shipping
Description: A lovely set of all thirteen volumes of 'The Yellow Book' literary quarterly, published at the end of the nineteenth century, with numerous plates throughout each volume. Complete and highly sought after first edition thirteen volume set, containing second impressions without the adverts to the rear of text.This collection also includes one additional volume from 1949, containing selections from the 1894-97 volumes with the very rare dust wrapper for this.Illustrations include title-page engravings and numerous illustrated plates to each volume, illustrated by a range of artists.This is a lovely collection containing the entirety of 'The Yellow Book', the literary periodical that was published from 1895 to 1897. These issues contained a range of literary and artistic poetry, short, stories, and essays from very important writers of the day.These quarterlies were edited by Henry Harland, with the art edited by Aubrey Beardsley, who came up with the idea of the periodical's signature yellow cover.Volume I (April 1894) contains fifteen illustrated plates, with essays such as 'The Death of the Lion' by Henry James, 'A Defence of Cosmetics' by Max Beer Bohm, and 'Irremediable' by Alla D'Arcy.Volume II (July 1894) contains twenty-three illustrated plates, with essays such as 'Thy Heart's Desire' by Netta Syrett', 'Reticence in Literature' by Hubert Crackanthorpe', and 'An Epigram', by William Watson.Volume III (October 1894) contains fifteen illustrated plates, with essays such as 'The Headswoman' by Kenneth Grahame, 'Second Thoughts' by Arthur Moore, and 'The Ballad of a Nun' by John Davidson.Volume IV (January 1895) contains seventeen illustrated plates, with essays such as 'Theodora, a Fragment' by Victoria ross, 'Day and Night by E. Nesbit, and 'The End of an Episode' by Evelyn Sharp.Volume V (April 1895) contains fourteen illustrated plates, with essays such as 'The Ring of Life' by Edmund Gosse, 'Shepherds' Song' by Nora Hopper, and 'L'Eveche de Tourcoing' by Anatole France.Volume VI (July 1895) contains sixteen illustrated plates, with essays such as 'The Digger' by Edgar Prestage and 'Consolation' by J. A. Blaikie.Volume VII (October 1895) contains twenty illustrated plates, with essays such as 'A Sonnet' by A. C. Benson and 'Under Grey Skies' by S. Cornish Watkins.Volume VIII (January 1896) contains twenty-six illustrated plates, with essays such as 'A Slip under the Microscope' by H. G. Wells and 'Aubade' by Rosamund Marriott Watson.Volume IX (April 1896) contains seventeen illustrated plates, with essays such as 'A Ballad of Victory' by Dollie Radford and 'Hand and Heart' by Francis Prevost.Volume X (July 1896) contains thirteen illustrated plates, with essays such as 'Dogs, Cats, Books and the Average Man', by 'The Yellow Dwarf', and 'Kathy ' by Oswald Sickert.Volume XI (October 1896) contains twelve illustrated plates, with essays such as 'The Elsingfords' by Robert Shews and 'A Chef-d'oeuvre' by Reginald Turner.Volume XII (January 1897) contains fourteen illustrated plates, with essays such as 'The Lost Eden' by William Watson and 'St. Joseph and Mary' by Marie Clothilde Balfour.Volume XIII (April 1897) contains eighteen illustrated plates, with works such as 'The Blessed' by W. B. Yeats and 'On the Toss of a Penny' by Cecil de Thierry.1949 volume contains a frontispiece and thirty-six plates, with works like 'The Butterflies by D. Y. Cameron and 'Study of Durham' by F. G. Cotman.Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was an English illustrator and leading figure in the aesthetic movement alongside Oscar Wilde, who was also linked to 'The Yellow Book'.Henry Harland (1861-1905) was an American novelist and editor, whose works include 'The Cardinal's Snuff-Box', 'My Friend Prospero', and 'Grandison Mather'.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the 1949 volume in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Minimal edge wear to extremities, with just a bit of discolouration particularly to the spine of volumes. A few marks and fading to boards, particularly to Vol VII, X, and XIII. Offsetting to endpapers, with light spots to the endpaper of Vol XI. Dust wrapper is generally smart, with edge wear and chipping particularly to the bottom of spine region, and age-toning to reverse of wraps. Light spots to the reverse of wraps and to the fly leaves. Internally, firmly bound. Binding is loosening towards middle of Vol VII. Pages are bright and clean throughout, with light age-toning to pages and the odd spot throughout text. A bit more spotting to Vol V. Some pages are unopened to volumes, such as Vol V, VIII. Plates are very bright and clean, and are protected by tissue guards. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$4358.76 + shipping
Description: A sought after set of all thirteen volumes from the widely celebrated Victorian literary and artistic periodical 'The Yellow Book'. Complete run of all first edition thirteen volumes of The Yellow Book, a leading British literary quarterly magazine in the 1890s, running from 1894 to 1897, with famous authors such as Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, and Henry James contributing some first publications. The periodical was also notable for publishing many female authors and illustrators within, including Ella D'Arcy, George Egerton, Ada Leverson and Ethel Reed.The magazine contained a variety of literary and artistic genres, and was often associated with the currents of aestheticism and decadence. Including poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings.John Lane and Elkin Mathews, the founders of The Bodley Head, published this artistic and often controversial periodical.The iconic yellow cover is credited to Aubrey Beardsley, its first art editor, an allusion to illicit French fiction of the period, although Oscar Wilde notoriously dismissed it as 'not yellow at all.' Beardsley obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, and Philip Wilson Steer among other.Aubrey Beardsley was an English illustrator who contributed to the development of the Art Nouveau style, known for his grotesque, decadent and erotic depictions inspired by Japanese woodcuts.Volume I with fifteen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, second issue without book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear.Volume II with twenty-two illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, second issue without book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear.Volume III with fifteen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions.Volume IV with seventeen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions.Volume V with fourteen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions.Volume VI with sixteen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions.Volume VII with twenty illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions.Volume VIII with twenty-six illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions.Volume IX with seventeen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions.Volume X with thirteen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions. Volume XI with twelve illustrations, including a colour plate. Collated, complete. The first edition, second issue without book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear. Volume XII with fourteen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, first issue with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions. Volume XIII with eighteen illustrations. Collated, complete. The first edition, second issue without book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear. In the original publisher's striking full yellow cloth binding with illustrations to front board. Externally lovely with light bumping to head and tail of spine, boards only lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting scattered to leaves. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom