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Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, 1911.

Price: US$22.75 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: General wear to boards with marks. Hinges are split. Content mainly clean with light toning on the endppaers and spotting. No DJ.

Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story [First Edition]. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$63.83 + shipping

Description: Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, pp 350. Cloth very lightly spotted, previous owner's bookplates front endpaper and front free endpaper, very good condition. Classic comic novel.

Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$99.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Original gilt-titled cloth. Mild soil to cloth, corner/edge wear. Hinges starting. Trace foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

BEERBOHM, Max.. Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story.. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: 350 pp. 8vo, brown cloth (Gallatin Binding A). First edition. Gallatin & Oliver 8; Riewald 5. A little worn at head and tail of spine; covers slightly soiled.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Beerbohm, Max.. Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story.. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 350 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Some very scattered light foxing; endsheets tanned; some sunning and use to the cloth.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

MAX BEERBOHM.. Zuleika Dobson; or An Oxford Love Story. A novel.. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$129.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition (first printing) of Beerbohm's only novel. 8vo. 350pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's monogram blind-stamped to the rear board. Edges lightly dust marked and binding a little cocked. Cloth marked and a little soiled in places with a small bump to the base of the spine and a little wear to edges. Some browning to the endpapers and spotting to the preliminary leaves, and to occasional leaf margins throughout. A short tear to the base of the title page. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A handled and slightly dusty copy, lacking the very scarce plain dust wrapper. 2,150 copies were printed. Gallatin & Oliver 8a.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

Beerbohm, Max. ZULEIKA DOBSON or an Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$143.75 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 350 pages. Light foxing throughout, especially on the few first and last pages. Heavy foxing on the endpapers. Brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine; spine faded. Publisher's blind stamp at the bottom corner of the lower cover. Corners bumped. Binding tight. GOOD+

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson or, An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 350, [1] pp. Printed by Ballantyne & Co. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth, covers a little soiled, some small waterspots on lower cover, endpapers a little foxed 350, [1] pp. Printed by Ballantyne & Co. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson. Or an Oxford Love Story.. London: William Heinemann,, 1911.

Price: US$224.67 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 350pp. First edition. Light orange cloth with 3/4 brown leather, gilt title to spine, marbled e.ps., t.e.g., trimed edges (bound by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath). 19x14cm. Fore and bottom edges foxing and a small stain to bottom edge. Ownership inscription to front flyleaf. [Bee006-170717]

Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan

BEERBOHM, Max.. Zuleika Dobson. An Oxford Love Story.. London: William Heinemann, 1911, 1911.

Price: US$259.91 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of Beerbohm's classic, a romantic satire which sees the entire undergraduate body of Oxford University quite literally die for love of the novel's protagonist. Zuleika was "extolled as 'the perfect Oxford novel'" and described by E. M. Forster as "the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time" (Hall, p. 135). Beerbohm studied at Merton from 1890, where he was Secretary of the Myrmidon Club. While at Oxford Beerbohm became acquainted with Oscar Wilde and other members of the literary and artistic circle connected with The Bodley Head. The book was issued simultaneously in the present smooth cloth, and in rough cloth for circulating libraries. Gallatin & Oliver, 8. Hall, N. John, Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life, Yale University Press (2002). Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind to rear cover. Half-title and title page printed in brown. Slight nicking at spine extremities, rear hinge split but holding, slight foxing, light fraying around front free endpaper; a good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson (An Oxford Love Story). William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$320.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Smooth brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket. Front panel stamped (ex libris), "Ulbert Parsons Sachs". Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.

Beerbohm (Max).. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann,, 1911.

Price: US$341.14 + shipping

Description: Cloth somewhat soiled and bruised at extremities, end-papers browned and a little foxing, otherwise a nice copy

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo. Smooth brown cloth gilt. Moderate soiling on the boards, very good without dust jacket. Beerbohm's only novel, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford where the eponymous heroine lures numerous suitors with her charms but rejects them, driving them to suicide. Selected by the Modern Library's Board of Editors as one of the 100 Best 20th Century novels in English.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo. Smooth brown cloth gilt. Spine lettering a little dull, a couple of tiny spots on the boards, light edgewear, very good or a little better. Chock-full one page Autograph Letter Signed from Seymour Leslie in 1977 when he was 89, to collector Clinton Krauss discussing George Moore, and mentioning Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill. Leslie's copy, although nothing beyond the presence of the letter testifies to that; it came with other books from his library. Beerbohm's only novel, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford where the eponymous heroine lures numerous suitors with her charms but rejects them, driving them to suicide. Selected by the Modern Library's Board of Editors as one of the 100 Best 20th Century novels in English.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson or, An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Title page printed in brown and black. [viii], 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Oxford! The very sound of the word spoken, or sight of it printed, is fraught for me with the most actual magic." The incomparable Max wrote one novel, a satire begun in 1898 but abandoned for more than a decade and not finished until 1911. E.M. Forster wrote that Zuleika Dobson has "beauty unattainable by serious literature". Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Small pencil shelf mark at foot of title page verso. A near fine copy in morocco backed slipcase and cloth wrapper Title page printed in brown and black. [viii], 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo. Smooth brown cloth gilt. Tiny tear at the crown, corners a little bumped, very good or better without dust jacket. Beerbohm's only novel, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford where the eponymous heroine lures numerous suitors with her charms but rejects them, driving them to suicide. Selected by the Modern Library's Board of Editors as one of the 100 Best 20th Century novels in English.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Max Beerbohm. Zuleika Dobson: or an Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$454.84 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first edition of Max Beerbohm's only novel, one of only 2,150 copies printed. First edition. One of only 2,150 copies printed. Issued both in this decorative cloth and the plain cloth simultaneously. A satire of undergraduate life at Oxford, it includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. Written by Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson; Or An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Twelvemo, [6], 350pp. Full tan calf with double gilt-ruled border on covers. Title stamped in gilt over blue and green leather spine labels, raised bands with gilt embellishments. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with decorative gilt turn-ins and board edges. Bound by Bayntun of Bath, England. Solid binding, clean text with no marks or notations. Joints rubbed and beginning to split at ends. Housed in a tan cloth slipcase. (Gallatin & Oliver 8) A very attractive copy of this satire on undergraduate life at Oxford. Max Beerbohm was an English essayist and caricaturist. Zuleika Dobson was the only novel he ever published. The Modern Library Board selected it as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.

BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo. Smooth brown cloth gilt. Neat contemporary bookplate of publisher Martin Secker, faint but pervasive mottling on front board, small rubbed tear at the edge of the spine, else very good without dust jacket. Beerbohm's only novel, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford where the eponymous heroine lures numerous suitors with her charms but rejects them, driving them to suicide. Selected by the Modern Library's Board of Editors as one of the 100 Best 20th Century novels in English.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Max Beerbohm. Zuleika Dobson (in fine binding). William Heinemann, 1911.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: "Zuleika Dobson" by Max Beerbohm. William Heinemann, London. 1911 first UK edition first printing. Some spotting to fore-edge. Book rebound in fine binding: crushed half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Very nice copy

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

Max Beerbohm. Zuleika Dobson: Or An Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$825.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st UK Edition. Near Fine lacking the rare dust jacket.

Seller: Courtside Books, Medford, NJ, U.S.A.

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story. London: William Heinemann, 1911.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Octavo, original smooth brown cloth lettered in gilt; with a touch of soiling. First edition, one of 2150 copies. Gallatin 8. An exceptional copy enclosed in a custom-made slipcase.

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.

Beerbohm Max. ZULEIKA DOBSON or an Oxford Love Story. London William Heinemann 1911, 1911.

Price: US$935.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and printing, binding state A and one of only 2150 copies thus. 8vo, publisher’s original light brown cloth, the spine lettered in gilt. 350, [1] pp. A very good copy of a book nearly impossible to find in fine condition, the text is very clean with the normal foxing present only on the prelims and edges, the binding is solid and has very little wear or fading, there is a faint remnant of a sticker which was once on the spine panel. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. A fantasized distillation of the Oxford atmosphere of the 1890s. Beerbohm’s writing was characterized by elegance and a light but incisive touch of irony and wit. He was an associate in the 1890s of Wilde and Beardsley, the Rhymers’ Club, the Bodley Head Publishing circle and the New English Art Club. George Bernard Shaw, in his valedictory essay in the Saturday Review, dubbed him "the incomparable Max". Beerbohm was hired by the Saturday Review to replace the retiring Shaw. This was Beerbohm’s only novel.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.

Max Beerbohm. ZULEIKA DOBSON Or an Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$976.73 + shipping

Description: Very Good +. No jacket. A name and a number FEP. Endpapers foxed. Top of text block soiled. Spine starting and slighlty cocked. Boards discolored, crumpled at base of spine. Small indent bottom rear board. . Original smooth brown cloth lettered in gilt; First edition, one of 2150 copies. ;.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

Beerbohm, Max. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Beerbohm’s classic and only novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom chemise clamshell box. A very nice example. Zuleika Dobson largely employs a third-person narrator limited to the character of Zuleika, then shifting to that of the Duke, then halfway through the novel suddenly becoming a first-person narrator who claims inspiration from the Greek Muse Clio, with his all-seeing narrative perspective provided by Zeus. This allows the narrator to also see the ghosts of notable historical visitors to Oxford, who are present but otherwise invisible to the human characters at certain times in the novel, adding an element of the supernatural. Dr. Robert Mighall in his Afterword to the New Centenary Edition of Zuleika, writes: "Zuleika is of the future . [Beerbohm] anticipates an all-too-familiar feature of the contemporary scene: the D-list talent afforded A-list media attention." Beerbohm began writing the book in 1898, finishing in 1910, with Heinemann publishing it 26 October 1911. He saw it not as a novel, but rather as "the work of a leisurely essayist amusing himself with a narrative idea."

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Max Beerbohm.. Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story.. William Heinemann, London, UK, 1911.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition (1911), unstated in accordance with William Heinemann's customary practiceat the time of publication. Good+ in Fair DJ: Book shows indications of moderate use: binding shows slight lean, but remains quite secure; light wear to extremities; the corner tips somewhat soft, but not bumped; moderate rubbing and rather heavy soiling to the cloth-covered boards; former owner's name and date "5-xi-'12" at the front free end paper; the top edge is a bit dusted; the binding remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and several minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaws. The DJ shows heavy wear to extremities, with small chip loss; the hinges are split and the bottom third of the back strip is also split from the rest and the whole affair is only held together by a clear plastic sleave; mild rubbing and only faint soiling; the back strip is somewhat darkened, but the printed titles remain legible. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.85 x 5.75 x 1.5 inches). 350 pages. Language: English. Weight: 18.3 ounces. Rag-edged Fore-Edge and bottom edge. Hardback with DJ. First Edition of the author-artist's only novel with the rather scarce DJ. Originally published in 1911, Beerbohm's only novel is a absolute delight to read. The titular Zuleika visits her grandfather, a Warden at an Oxford college. She is a professional magician, but more known for her beauty than for her skill. Immediately men at Oxford begin to fall in love with her. The most important is the Duke of Dorset, a paragon of aristocratic virtue and a shining star at his college. He's never been in love before and his reaction to it is rather extreme. Honestly, the plot isn't all that complex and is even a little silly. What makes the book is the wit and pure talent with words that Beerhohm brings to it. The Duke's proposal speech is one of the most purely pleasurable things I'd read for a long time. Reading this book is a bit like eating candy - it's just so enjoyable and lighthearted, even though the subject matter is - at least in outline - pretty dark. Beerhohm had such a superlative way with words. First Edition (1911), unstated in accordance with William Heinemann's customary practiceat the time of publication.

Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.

Beerbohm. Max. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.. William Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$16000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Beerbohm's classic and only novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. According to Mark Samuels Lasner, the Beerbohm scholar and bibliographer, there have only been five copies of this book identified as still possessing their original dust jackets. Two are in institutions, two have been in private hands. Laid in is an autographed letter signed by Max Beerbohm dated August 3, 1911, the publication of Zuleika Dobson. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. "Zuleika Dobson largely employs a third-person narrator limited to the character of Zuleika, then shifting to that of the Duke, then halfway through the novel suddenly becoming a first-person narrator who claims inspiration from the Greek Muse Clio, with his all-seeing narrative perspective provided by Zeus. This allows the narrator to also see the ghosts of notable historical visitors to Oxford, who are present but otherwise invisible to the human characters at certain times in the novel, adding an element of the supernatural. Dr. Robert Mighall in his Afterword to the New Centenary Edition of Zuleika, writes: "Zuleika is of the future . [Beerbohm] anticipates an all-too-familiar feature of the contemporary scene: the D-list talent afforded A-list media attention."

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.