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Tennyson Alfred Lord. Tiresias And other Poems. Macmillan, London, 1885.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Endpapers a little foxed. 204pp.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Tennyson, Alfred. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan & Co., London, 1885.
Price: US$8.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bright green binding, but the spine is darkening and a little worn at the edges. Lightly foxed.
Seller: Amolib Books, Oxford, OXON, United Kingdom
Alfred Tennyson. Tiresias and Other Poems. London,Macmillan & Co, 1885.
Price: US$10.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London,Macmillan & Co,1885, 1st edition small hardback No DJ. Green cover with gilt titling on spine 204 pages, name to fep and light foxing to extremeties otherwise in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.
Seller: D2D Books, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Tennyson Lord Alfred. Tiresias And Other Poems. Macmillan, London, 1885.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. The book is in very good condition. The boards have a few marks and the spine tips and corners are a little rubbed.
Seller: P Rulton Rare Books, Leominster, United Kingdom
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Tiresias And Other Poems. MacMillan & Co., London, 1885.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Half-title, title, and contents pages are detached but present. Binding is weak in places. ; Private bookplate of Richard Little Purdy (on top of a bookplate remenant for a bookseller or a private circulating library).
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Tennyson, Alfred. Tiresias - And Other Poems. Macmillan, London, 1885.
Price: US$15.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publishers green cloth, titled gilt. Tiny booksellers neat stamp at base of title page (Kaltaneram - Madras?). No dustwrapper as issued
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing (second state with printer's name to last page). No jacket as issued. Green boards with gold lettering to spine are very good with minor pushing/bumping to corners, little darkening to spine, the odd small mark, odd small bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/tiny splits to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Rough cut page edges, tops and bottoms. Inside boards-end-papers bit tanned with mild foxing/odd small mark. Top of pages slightly dusty. Mild foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Odd small mark/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Tennyson,Alfred:. Tiresias And Other Poems. London,Macmillan & Co,1885, 1885.
Price: US$18.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1885. Hardcover. Good clean copy rebound in green cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. Covers showing some age and shelf wear. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page and small bookseller sticker to top corner of inside cover. Light soiling to top corner of pages but all text remains bright and clear. No dust jacket. Remains a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the true first edition. ***Very good in green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Pages untrimmed (rough-cut, as called for). Spine tight. Edges of boards rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Small, neat owner's name and address red ink stamp to front free endpaper and a ink 623 number to top corner of ffep. ***188 x 118 mm. 204 pages. ***Poems: To E. Fitzgerald; Tiresias; The Wreck; Despair; The Ancient Sage; The Flight; Tomorrow; The Spinster's Sweet Arts; Balin and Balan; Prologue; The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava; Epilogue; To Virgil; The Dead Prophet; Early Spring; Prefatory Poem to my Brother's Sonnets; 'Frater Ave atque Vale'; Helen's Tower; Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe; Epitaph on General Gordon; Epitaph on Caxton; To the Duke of Argyll; Hands All Round; Freedom; To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice; 'Old Poets Foster'd Under Friendlier Skies. ***First impression of the true first edition. A nice copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan, London, 1885.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii, 204, small 8vo, original green cloth, gilt spine title, edges untrimmed. First edition, first issue, without the printer's imprint at the foot of p. 204. A very good, well-preserved copy; contents fine, some scattered small marks on the covers, gilt title a little dulled. Wise, Ashley Library, vol. VII, p. 152.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord.. Tiresias and Other Poems.. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885., 1885.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: [First edition, first issue]. Gilt-lettered green cloth, bumped at corners; spine darkened and ends lightly creased; blue streak along centre of rear cover. Without imprint at foot of p. 204 (c.f. Wise, T.J. The Ashley Library , v. VII, p. 152).
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Tennyson, Alfred Lord.:. Tiresias and Other Poems.. London: Macmillan and Co First Edn, 1885.
Price: US$20.53 + shipping
Description: A Clean Copy of the First edition, [Thomson xcvii.] T. Wise's First issue, without the printers name on the final page 8vo.viii 204 pps. Original publishers green cloth. Twenty six poems including "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava" and Tennyson's tribute "To E. Fitzgerald" (sic), the translator of Omar Khayyam; dedicated as a whole to fellow poet Robert Browning. Neat 1889 inscription from a father to his daughter. Loosely inserted is an early newspaper cutting relating to the Charge of the Light Brigade and Tennysons poem
Seller: John L. Capes (Books) Established 1969, STAITHES, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.89 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Small edge tear towards top of spine. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 203 pages; Physical description: viii, 203p. ; 18cm. Subjects: Tiresias (Greek mythology) -- English poetry -- English literature -- 19th century. Contents: To E. Fitzgerald.- Tiresias.- The wreck.- Despair.- The ancient sage.- The flight.- Tomorrow.- The spinster's sweet-arts.- Balin and Balan.-Prologue.- The charge of the heavy brigade at Balaclava.- Epilogue.- To Virgil.- The dead prophet.- Early spring.- Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets.- 'Frater Ave atque Vale.'- Helen's tower.- Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.- Epitaph on General Gordon.- Epitaph on Caxton.- To the Duke of Argyll.- Hands all round.- Freedom.- To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice.- 'Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Tennyson Lord Alfred. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan, London, 1885.
Price: US$23.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 203pp. Uncut. Variant without imprint at end. Endpapers foxed, boards slightly edge-worn and bumped
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Tennyson,Alfred:. Tiresias And Other Poems. London,Macmillan & Co,1885, 1885.
Price: US$23.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1885. Hardcover. Good clean copy rebound in green cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. Covers showing some age and shelf wear. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page and small bookseller sticker to top corner of inside cover. Light soiling to top corner of pages but all text remains bright and clear. No dust jacket. Remains a good copy. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. TIRESIAS and Other Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885., 1885.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. 1885. Good. - Small octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on spine. The covers are bumped with some very light staining to the front cover; the spine is somewhat faded. viii & 204 pp. There is a contemporary ink inscription on the front endpaper; there is light soiling to the prelims & a small stain to the margin of 1 page; the page edges are slightly darkened. Good. First edition. This is the issue WITHOUT the imprint on page 204.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co, London, 1885.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. First issue, without printer's name on the last page. 16mo. Green cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Very good with unused decorative bookplate laid on front pastedown, gutter cracked, spine darkened, small ripples in cloth, small stain on top edge of front board. Contains: "To E. Fitzgerlad", "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava", "Epitaph on Caxton", and others.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord.. Tiresias and Other Poems.. Macmillan and Company, London, 1885.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second Issue. A Fine copy in grainy dark green cloth stamped in gilt at spine, all edges untrimmed. 204pp. Despite the book's age and the fame of its author, a common book by all accounts. Q05773
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Good copy in original green cloth . Nineteenth century english poetry. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co, London, 1885.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. First issue, without printer's name on the last page. 16mo. Green cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Very good with owner's name penned on front fly, endpapers foxed, spine darkened. Contains: "To E. Fitzgerlad", "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava", "Epitaph on Caxton", and others.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.74 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Small edge tear towards top of spine. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 203 pages; Physical description: viii, 203p. ; 18cm. Subjects: Tiresias (Greek mythology) -- English poetry -- English literature -- 19th century. Contents: To E. Fitzgerald.- Tiresias.- The wreck.- Despair.- The ancient sage.- The flight.- Tomorrow.- The spinster's sweet-arts.- Balin and Balan.-Prologue.- The charge of the heavy brigade at Balaclava.- Epilogue.- To Virgil.- The dead prophet.- Early spring.- Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets.- 'Frater Ave atque Vale.'- Helen's tower.- Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.- Epitaph on General Gordon.- Epitaph on Caxton.- To the Duke of Argyll.- Hands all round.- Freedom.- To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice.- 'Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.57 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 203, [1]p. ; 18cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Alfred Tennyson. Tiresias and other Poems. Macmillan, London, 1885.
Price: US$40.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK 1885. Spine lettering is bright gilt. Clean & tight book. Neat 1885 inscription. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard, ref o1001. Tiresias and other Poems by Alfred Tennyson. Published by Macmillan, London
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
TENNYSON Alfred Lord.. Tiresias and other poems. Prima edizione.. London, Macmillan, 1885., 1885.
Price: US$44.08 + shipping
Description: in-16°, pp. VIII-204. Leg. in tela edit. coeva con tit. in oro al dorso, ivi etichetta di biblioteca. Ex libris all'interno e tracce d'uso. Dedica sulla prima pagina.
Seller: Libreria Gullà, roma, ROMA, Italy
Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tiresias and other poems. Macmillan and Co., London, 1885.
Price: US$48.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bright first edition of this anthology of verses from celebrated poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. The first edition of this work. Anthology of poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, featuring poems such as 'Tiresias,' 'The Wreck,' and 'To Virgil' among others.Alfred Lord Tennyson was a widely influential and celebrated English poet, the Poet Laureate during much of the reign of Queen Victoria.S F Widdrington's bookplate to front pastedown. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip lightly darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to first and last few leaves, pages otherwise generally very clean throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.59 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 203, [1] pages 18 cm. Contents; To E. Fitzgerald -- Tiresias -- The wreck -- Despair -- The ancient sage -- The flight -- Tomorrow -- The spinster's sweet-arts -- Balin and Balan -- Prologue -- The charge of the heavy brigade at Balaclava -- Epilogue -- To Virgil -- The dead prophet -- Early spring -- Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets -- Frater ave atque vale -- Helen's tower -- Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe -- Epitaph on General Gordon -- Epitaph on Caxton -- To the Duke of Argyll -- Hands all round -- Freedom -- To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice -- Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies. Subjects; 1885. Tobacco pipes. English poetry 19th century. Tiresias (Greek mythology). Tobacco pipes. English poetry 19th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Tiresias and other poems. Macmillan & Co., London, 1885.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BP/Poetry
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 203, [1]p. ; 18cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co., London, 1885.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: 203p. Good condition, top of spine chipped, bookplate
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord.. Tiresias and Other Poems.. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885., 1885.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. First edition. Green cloth.
Seller: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 203, [1] pages 18 cm. Contents; To E. Fitzgerald -- Tiresias -- The wreck -- Despair -- The ancient sage -- The flight -- Tomorrow -- The spinster's sweet-arts -- Balin and Balan -- Prologue -- The charge of the heavy brigade at Balaclava -- Epilogue -- To Virgil -- The dead prophet -- Early spring -- Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets -- Frater ave atque vale -- Helen's tower -- Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe -- Epitaph on General Gordon -- Epitaph on Caxton -- To the Duke of Argyll -- Hands all round -- Freedom -- To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice -- Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies. Subjects; 1885. Tobacco pipes. English poetry 19th century. Tiresias (Greek mythology). Tobacco pipes. English poetry 19th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan & Co., London, 1885.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of a collection of poetry dedicated to Robert Browning, by the then Poet Laureate of England, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 203pp. Bright, clean interior, unmarked. A number of pages unopened. Tight, square binding, sound hinges. Green cloth shows virtually no wear and is generally very clean and bright. Weight, 336g, Size: 18cm
Seller: Antiquarius Booksellers, Falkland, BC, Canada
TENNYSON Alfred Lord.. Tiresias and other Poems.. , 1885.
Price: US$66.92 + shipping
Description: London: Macmillan and Co. 1885. 8vo. Orig. full green cloth edges slightly rubbed. Spine gilt. viii 204pp. 1st edition: 1st issue. Uncut. The armorial bookplate of Lord Archibald Campbell on front fly-leaf. Light foxing to prelims. and endpapers.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Description: , viii, 204 pages, this being a true first edition without printers name on last page, a fine binding First Edition , spine a little dulled, nice tight binding, internally clean, book in very good condition , contemporary half vellum with marbled paper sides, gilt titles on coloured leather spine labels, gilt decoration to spine, all edges gilt, gilt floral patterned endpapers Octavo, 17 x 11 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Tennyson Alfred. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co., London, 1885.
Price: US$77.14 + shipping
Description: Prima ed. In 16? (18x11cm), 204 pp., cop. in tutta tela verde stanca con inc. in oro al dorso. Discreto esemplare.
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Giovanni Bosio, Magliano Alpi, CN, Italy
TENNYSON, Alfred. Tiresias and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co, London, 1885.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: 12mo (16.75cm.); contemporary full crimson gilt-ruled and -lettered morocco, spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; viii,203pp. Extremities a bit rubbed and darkened, contemporary gift inscription to front fly leaf, else contents fine. Very Good and sound in an attractive binding.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord,. TIRESIAS and Other Poems. Macmillan and Co., London, 1885.
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: half-title, 204pp. A fine, unfaded and tight copy. Publishers green cloth, gilt. End-papers toned as often. No inscriptions. A collection of twenty-six poems that includes "The Ancient Sage," "The Spinster's Sweet-Arts," "To Virgil," "The Dead Prophet," etc Size: small 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Tennyson, Alfred.. Tiresias and Other Poems.. London:Macmillan. 1885. Hardcover., 1885.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. v.g. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord. Tiresias and other poems. Macmillan, London, 1885.
Price: US$281.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, sm. 8vo, pp. viii, 203, [1]; fine, bright, largely unopened copy in orig. green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Dedicated to Robert Browning. Wise 153.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.