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Price: US$6.36 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fine paper edition, 1910, 193 pages, near fine condition in publisher's green suede flexible binding, top edge gilt marbled paper end-papers, spine faded, ink gift inscription on front end-paper dated 1911.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.36 + shipping
Description: hardback, small 8vo, 193pp, marbled endpapers, foxing on edges and prelims, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, gilt-decorated parchment covered-boards, browning, the spine a bit dull, Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: tiny split on top of spine prev owners name inside browning to endpapers(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.)
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Stevenson, Robert Louis. VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE AND OTHER PAPERS. Chatto & Windus, London, 1910.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fine paper edition; Gilt top edge; green boards show wear to the finish, edge wear; owner's name.
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. Chatto & Windus, London, 1910.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fine Paper Edition. 194pp. Original green cloth boards, blind tooling to front and gilt titles and decoration to spine. 12mo. Patterned endpapers, two colour title page. Top edge dust-soiled and some light rubbing to boards. A nice, compact and clean edition of this classic work.
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$63.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited to 250 copies on Aldwwych hand-made paper this being #229. Light blue paper covered boards with buckram spine. 12 colour illustrations by Norman Wilkinson. Covers heavily marked with rubbing to corners and edges. 120 pages. Light foxing to some pages.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Paper copy no. 20 of 250. Boards rubbed and marked, spine marked, wear to corners, pencil inscription to front free endpaper, top edge gilt, fore edge lightly foxed. pages lightly foxed, otherwise clean throughout. Good
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
STEVENSON (Robert Louis). Virginibus Puerisque and other Papers.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1910.
Price: US$120.84 + shipping
Description: Fine-paper edition, small 8vo, vii, [3], 4-193, [1]pp., half-title, title in red and black, presentation inscription on fly-leaf "J. H. A. Sparrow from Anthony Asquith, December 21st. 1920.", cont. vellum, decorated in gilt. Anthony Asquith was a respected English film director, he was the son of Herbert Asquith, the Prime Minister during World War I. Between 1927 and 1964 he directed 40 films, his first successful film was 'Pygmalion' (1938), his later films included 'The Winslow Boy' (1948) and 'The Browning Version' (1951). At the height of the Profumo scandal, Asquith is widely believed to have been the 'man in the mask' at an orgy attended by Stephen Ward, Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davies and a host of top establishment figures.
Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$498.33 + shipping
Description: London, Published for the Florence Press by Chatto & Windus, 1910 (first thus)/ 1881. Quarto, [x] (first and last blank), 120, [2] (colophon, verso blank) plus 12 plates (chromolithographs after designs by Norman Wilkinson) with captioned tissue-guards. Original limp vellum with overlapping edges, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; green silk ribbon ties; top edge gilt, others uncut; short split (a production flaw) to the uncut edge of one leaf; minimal signs of handling; a near-fine copy. Number 124 of 250 copies on Aldwych hand-made paper (of which 235 were offered for sale); a further 12 copies were printed on vellum (of which 10 were for sale). This collection of essays by Stevenson was first published in 1881.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 86 from a print run of 250. 12 copies were published on full vellum. It appears a few copies were printed on handmade paper but with a vellum binding very similar to the special copies. Vellum a little toned. Four ribbon ties. Silk marker ribbon present and attached. Gilt to upper face of page block. Binding firm. Faint pencil marks to ffep. Toning around p56 and the plate 'Ordered South' caused by a piece of tissue paper being left in at that page. Spotting to pp108/9/10, otherwise contents very bright. Eleven essays/articles. Twelve elegant colour plates by Norman Wilkinson. 120pp. Further details available on request. (Ud5)
Seller: Morning Mist Books and Maps, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Price: US$7875.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: VELLUM COPY. Limited edition (number 5 of 10 copies on vellum for sale, of a total edition of 262). London: Published for The Florence Press by Chatto & Windus, 1910. Quarto (9 3/4" x 7 3/8", 248mm x 188mm). 12 chromolothographed plates (on paper) by Norman Wilkinson, each with a captioned tissue guard. Bound in publisher's laced vellum with green cloth ties and yapp edges. Title gilt to the front cover and to the spine. Fine. With toning to one plate ("An Apology for Idlers"). Ex libris of Maude Bentley on the front paste-down. (Purchased from the Sotheby's sale of Jacques Levy, 20 April 2012, lot 319.) 'Virginibus Puerisque' (published 1881) was "the first collection of Stevenson's essays. Containing what would have been regarded as personal essays in the tradition of Lamb and Hazlitt, the volume brought together essays previously published in the prestigious 'Cornhill Magazine' ("Walking Tours" and "Virginibus Puerisque" [1876]; "On Falling in Love" and "Apology for Idlers" [1877]; "Crabbed Age and Youth", "Aes Triplex", "English Admirals" and "Child's Play" [1878]; "Truth of Intercourse" [1879]) as well as essays printed in Macmillan's ("Ordered South" [1874]) and 'London' ("A Plea for Gas Lamps", "Pan's Pipes" and "El Dorado" [1878]), and the previously unpublished "Some Portraits by Raeburn" and the second part of "Virginibus Puerisque". The essays promote a spirit of playfulness in defiance of both the hardships of human life and the restrictions imposed by bourgeois Philistinism. The volume did not sell well but had a good critical reception, confirming the author of 'Inland Voyage' (1878) and 'Travels with a Donkey' (1879) as one of the rising stars on the literary scene, notable for his youthful high spirits and elegant, if sometimes too showy, literary style."
Seller: Arader Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to, 10 x 7 1/2 in. (253 x 189 mm); [6] leaves, including 1 blank + 120 pp + [2] leaves, including 1 blank. 12 chromolithographed plates by Norman Wilkinson, printed on plate paper and not included in the pagination, legends on tissue guards printed in red. This is COPY no. 4 OF 12 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM, as noted on the limitation page, on verso of second leaf: «Of this edition of Virginibus Puerisque / have been printed on Aldwych hand- / made paper 250 copies, of which 235 are / for sale; on vellum 12 copies, of which 10 / are for sale. / Vellum Copy No. 4». Limp vellum binding with four green ties; gilt lettering on spine and upper cover, t.e.g. Very faint spotting to front free endpaper, slight offsetting of ties. Otherwise a pristine copy. Provenance: William Russell Flint (from the family, by descent). [Beinecke, Stevenson 79; Ransom 278:6; Tomkinson 85:6; Prideaux 13]. A splendid edition of Stevenson's first collection of essays which promote a spirit of playfulness in defiance of both the hardships of human life and the restrictions imposed by bourgeois callowness. The volume brought together essays that had been previously published in the Cornhill Magazine and Macmillan's: "Virginibus Puerisque i" (1876); " ii" (1881); "iii: On Falling in Love" (1877); "iv: The Truth of Intercourse" (1879); "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1878); "An Apology for Idlers" (1877); "Ordered South" (1874); "Aes Triplex" (1878); "El Dorado" (1878); "The English Admirals" (1878); "Some Portraits by Raeburn" (previously unpublished); "Child's Play" (1878); "Walking Tours" (1876); "Pan's Pipes" (1878); "A Plea for Gas Lamps" (1878) The essays inspired Norman WILKINSON (1878 - 1971) to create the 12 striking and lyrical images that accompany the texts. Wilkinson was a British artist, renowned for his poster work and honored by the British Admiralty for coming up with the idea and design for "dazzle camouflage" to protect Royal Navy ships from attacks by German submarines. Founded in 1908 by the London publishers Chatto & Windus and operated by Philip Lee Warner, THE FLORENCE PRESS had as its mission to produce "beautiful books in the choicest types," but in somewhat larger and less costly editions than Kelmscott and the other more celebrated English fine presses. Florence books are readily distinguishable by their special type, designed by Herbert P. Horne after 15th century Italian faces that are elegant, simple, and easily readable. [Tomkinson p. 84] This volume comes from the collection of Sir William Russell Flint (1880 - 1969) a Scottish artist, illustrator and author who was linked to the Pre-Raphaelites and art nouveau designers. He enjoyed much commercial success during his career, was on staff for years at 'The Illustrated London News', was commissioned to illustrate many books and the librettos of several Gilbert and Sullivan librettos. He served as president of both The Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers and the Royal Watercolour Society, and was knighted in 1946.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$13000.00 + shipping
Description: 250 x 185 mm. (9 7/8 x 7 1/4"). 5 p.l., 120 pp., [1] leaf. ANIIMATED DARK GREEN INLAID CRUSHED MOROCCO, ELABORATELY GILT, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (signed on front turn-in), covers with inlaid border of russet ribbon laced at each corner through a blue heart from which is suspended a pair of bells in inlaid brown morocco, an inner border of red inlaid hearts alternating with small gilt floral tools, front cover with centerpiece medallion of five inlaid flowers in green, white, and yellow on a densely stippled ground within a red inlaid circle with a gilt collar of oak leaves and acorns, rear board with centerpiece inlay in brown and pink of Pan pipes suspended on a ribbon, the whole enclosed in a gilt garland; raised bands, spine gilt in compartments featuring floral cornerpieces and knotwork centerpiece with red heart and dot inlays, very ornate gilt inner dentelles, silk pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt. In a (slightly marked) quarter morocco fleece-lined clamshell box with gilt titling on spine. 12 fine color plates by Norman Wilkinson. With the binders' typed description of the binding on Sangorski & Sutcliffe letterhead laid in at front. âTips of joints and corners almost imperceptibly rubbed, one leaf with small faint stain, a few minute marginal adhesions, otherwise INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY IN VIRTUALLY PERFECT CONDITION. This is a finely bound and finely printed edition of a group of essays, short stories, and autobiographical and travel sketches, originally published in various periodicals and first printed as a collection in 1881. Founded in 1908 by the London publishers Chatto & Windus and operated by Philip Lee Warner, the Florence Press had as its expressed intention the production of "beautiful books in the choicest types . . . in larger editions, and at [lower] cost than [was] usual with such monuments of typography as the issues of the Kelmscott [and other] presses." Florence books are readily distinguishable by their special type, designed by Herbert P. Horne after 15th century Italian faces that are elegant, simple, and easily readable. Binders Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe met as boys attending Douglas Cockerell's bookbinding classes at the L. C. C. Central School. Cockerell was so impressed by their skill that he hired Sutcliffe as a finisher and Sangorski as a forwarder. In 1901, Francis and George went into business for themselves, and before long, they had become two of the most renowned English binders of the 20th century. We can date the time of our binding to the decade of the 1910s because there is a letter from the binders laid in with an explanation of the decoration on stationery with the printed date "191__." The letter indicates that "250 different pieces of various colored leathers are used as inlays," many to suggest the contents of the essays: "the wedding bells and heart border are suggestive of the first essay, 'Virginibus Puerisque.' The front centerpiece composed of spring flowers surrounded by a wreath of oak [suggests] 'Crabbed Age and Youth,' and the back centerpiece [suggests] 'Pan's Pipes.'" In terms of its design, quality of execution, and condition, the binding is simply beautiful. ONE OF 250 COPIES ON PAPER (12 additional copies were printed on vellum).
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.