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Price: US$253.83 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title. Disbound. Wise 46.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$394.85 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title; titlepage carefully laid on to linen backing, and with the perforated & printed stamps of Bradford Public Library. Nicely rebound in half calf, olive green leather label. v.g. Wise 46.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$493.56 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Titlepage sl. spotted. Sympathetically bound in later half calf, spine with gilt bands & maroon leather label, vellum-tipped corners. v.g. Wise 46.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Zapolya: A Christmas Tale, in Two Parts. Rest Fenner, London, 1817.
Price: US$628.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A leather bound first edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Christmas verse play, 'Zapolya'. The first edition of this work. Bound without a half-title. 'Zapolya' is a Christmas verse play, presenting the drama of aab Kiuprili, a heroic chieftain who confronts the usurper of the crown. The play was rejected by the Theatre Royal on Drury lane, and was performed instead at the Surrey Theatre under the production of Thomas Dibdin. Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poet who is known as being one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in literature. His best known works are 'Kubla Khan', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', and 'Biographia Literaria'. From the library of Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth, critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. In a full calf binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored. Some light patches of rubbing to the boards, and minor marks to the boards. Small surface cracks to the boards. Front endpaper and front free endpaper detached but present. Bound without rear endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some marks. Title page detached but present. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [viii], 128 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Prideaux p. 46; Haney 29; NCBEL 3:218 Later blue morocco, gilt, a.e.g. Joints lightly rubbed. Very good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1022.39 + shipping
Description: pp. (viii), 128. Half title present. 8vo. Full calf, all edges gilt, spine with gilt decoration,red and green labels. 1st edition. A pretty copy. Wise p109. Rejected in 1816 by the Committee of Drury Lane, the manuscript was given to Murray for publication, but in 1817 it was redeemed by Rest Fenner & published by him. The success of the book with the reading public resulted in Zapolya being adapted for the stage in 1818.
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Price: US$1022.39 + shipping
Description: pp. (viii), 128. Half title present. 8vo. Full calf, top edges gilt, spine relaid, with red labels. 1st edition. With modern cloth slipcase. A very good copy. Wise p109. Rejected in 1816 by the Committee of Drury Lane, the manuscript was given to Murray for publication, but in 1817 it was redeemed by Rest Fenner & published by him. The success of the book with the reading public resulted in Zapolya being adapted for the stage in 1818.
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Price: US$1089.69 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. [viii], 128; complete with the half title; a fine copy, uncut and partly unopened, in the original boards, rebacked. The Nowell Smith copy, with booklabels. First edition. This drama was composed by Coleridge in rural exile at Calne in 1815-16, 'in humble imitation of the Winter's Tale of Shakespeare'. In February the Literary Fund gave him £30 and Lord Byron, out of the blue, £100. These gifts enabled him to return to London, where he met Byron (for the first and only time), showed him Zapolya and recited Kubla Khan. To his credit, Byron - himself beset by troubles and about to leave England for good - remained generous in spirit, read the play straight through, heard the recital and was 'highly struck' with it, and urged him to publish. The play was eventually issued by Rest Fenner, after Murray had published Christabel and the sale had proved disappointing, but it was to prove the beginning of an unfortunate entanglement with Fenner and his backer, the Rev. Thomas Curtis, neither of whom were reliable or honest. Wise, Coleridge, 46; Tinker 700.
Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Zapolya: A Christmas Tale, in Two Parts. Rest Fenner, London, 1817.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [vi], 128 pp., lacking half-title. 8vo. First edition in wrappers of Coleridge's Christmas drama modeled after Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and written with Byron's encouragement. The play was rejected by Drury Lane and Covent Garden but found favor with the reading public, leading to its eventual stage production at the Surrey Theater under the title Zapolya: or the Warwolf. A fine copy in wrappers; Wise notes that Zapolya was issued in either boards or wrappers. Haney 29; Prideaux, p. 46; Wise, Coleridge 46 Original pale blue stab-sewn wrappers. Sporadic spotting, else a fine, fresh copy. Bookplate. In custom card box [vi], 128 pp., lacking half-title. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.