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Price: US$220.30 + shipping
Description: [first edition] rebind 319pp ills.[b/w by ernest griset] VG (rebound in blue cloth w.gilt titling to spine,mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.sunned spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,new eps,sl.foxing to contents w.insect holes throughout,tight)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$274.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original maroon cloth, as illustrated, worn at foredge corners and spine ends, front inner paper hinge cracking, text block slightly shaky but generally sound and clean. - has clearly been read several times. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Glenbower Books, Dublin, Ireland
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition rebound in brown cloth with a black spine label lettered in gilt. Adapted by Richard Burton. Heavily (33) illustrated in black & white, completely colated. Book is in fine condition with no writing or marks. Pages are clean. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Richard F.Burton. Vikram and the Vampire. Longman's Green, 1870.
Price: US$320.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original spine replaced by very lovely leather spine 33 ills. by Ernest Griset Ist edition 2nd issue. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-xix [xx-xxi]xxii [xxiii-xxiv [1] 2-319 [320: blank], 33 illustrations (including sixteen on inserted plates) by Ernest Griset, original bevel-edged pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, slate coated endpapers. First edition, second binding. A translation of eleven (of the twenty-five) Hindu fairy tales told by a Baital, "a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies." Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, partial hairline crack along inner front hinge which is still holding tight, a very good copy. A scarce book. (#165201)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry. First Edition. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870. Pages: xxiv + 319 pages, with 33 illustrations by Ernest Griset. Contemporary half calf and marbled papers, all edges speckled red, green endpapers. Boards rubbed, edges worn, spine heavily worn; Fine interior. Collection of 11 vampire stories with an introduction and conclusion.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in third issue pictorial green cloth binding. xxiv, 319 pp. with thirty-three illustrations by Ernest Griset. Light edge wear, the endpapers repaired at the folds.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$531.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, Penzer's second issue binding, small 8vo, pp. xxiv, 319; 15 plates, other illustrations in the text; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt on upper cover and spine; top of spine chipped level with text block; all else very good. Penzer, pp. 80-82: "The date of the original collection of the vampire tales is unknown. They were certainly written in Sanskrit some time anterior to 1070 . Burton's work is an incomplete adaption of the Hindu version, and until 1921 no actual translation (complete or otherwise) existed." Casada 93.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [xix], 319 pp. Illustrated. Pictorial cloth, gilt lettered, corners bumped, very good. (61850). Illustrated by Ernest Grisit.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Richard F. Burton. Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry. Longmans, 1870.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry" by Richard F. Burton. Longmans Green, London - 1870 first UK edition - condition: very good, rebound in half morocco binding, scattered faint spotting, all plates and illustrations incl frontispiece present.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$658.41 + shipping
Description: 1 volume. In-12 319 pp. Reliure plein maroquin noir. Dos à nerfs ornés d'un filet perlé, caissons dorés et date au talon. Encadrement de filet doré sur les plats. Toutes tranches dorées. Reliure signée The Chelsea Hindery. Intérieur très frais. Avec 33 illustrations en noir d'Ernest Grisset, dont un frontispice, 15 hors-texte à pleine page et 17 dessins dans le texte. Excellent état Première édition.Ex-libris gravé collé sur le premier contreplat, ex-libris manuscrit sur le premier contreplat.
Seller: Librairie KOEGUI, BAYONNE, France
Price: US$701.29 + shipping
Description: first edition first issue [penzer p.81-82] xxiv+319pp ills.[b/w by ernest griset] VG (black cloth w.red dec.stamped devils and gilt lettering,bevelled edges,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,minor bubblimg to cloth on top board,mod.wear to extrems.w.sl.chipping to head/foot of spine and corners,brown eps sl.soiled,owner's inscr.to half-title,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed w.some minor foxing to contents,binder's label to rear pastedown [edmonds & remnants london],spine cracked but tight) tidy copy;penzer describes this issue as very rare
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$751.77 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue binding. 8vo., orig. red cloth with pictorial decoration in black, gilt lettering, xxiv, 319, (320 blank). Illustrated. Slight rubbing to the spine ends but o/w an about fine copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Burton, Richard. Vikram and the Vampire. Longman's Green, London, 1870.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: or Tales of Hindu Devilry. Penzer p 82. 319 pp, ill. All edges gilt. Stories were adapted by Burton from a Hindu version of vampire stories. Splendidly bound in full leather with original front cover laid in at rear. Raised spine bands, gilt rules in bands, contrasting colored spine labels, gilt rules both covers, gilt inner dentelles, marbled enpapers.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.