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Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 1/100. Small quarto. (xii, *12 for 14) 111pp. Modern beige cloth slipcase. Beige buckram boards with gilt stamped debossed circular designs on the front cover, and gilt lettering on the spine. Beveled edges. The beautiful binding was designed by the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Includes a letter from Swinburne's sister Isabel (1846-1915), which is an poem (with illustrations) written to her cousin, signed & dated "July 6th, 1879", and laid in at the interior front cover. The work is a first edition of one of Swinburne's most famous works, printed in an edition thought to have been limited to 100 copies. The p.85 & 86 cancels are present. Binding with some water stains, smudges and scratching to boards. Light rubbing and bumping to corners and along hinges of the spine. Small 1/4" tear halfway up the spine. Interior with some minor sporadic smudges and foxing to some pages. Starting at a few of the roman numeral pages. Previous owner's insciption in pencil, at front free endpaper Book block fairly tight overall. Slipcase in very good+, binding in good, interior very good condition overall. Rare.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3090.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xii S., 1 Blatt, 111 S. Rehbrauner handgebundener signierter Kalbledereinband mit 2 farbigen, goldeprägten Lederschildchen sowie 4 goldgeprägten Blumen auf dem Rücken, linienvergoldeten Deckelkanten, goldgeprägten Fileten auf den Spiegeln und dreiseitigem Goldschnitt. Handeinband. Der Vortitel mit handschriftlichem Zitat aus den Fragmenten des Euripides in griechischer Sprache und eigenhändiger Signatur des Dichters A. C. Swinburne (mit Bleistift von fremder Hand auf 1875 datiert). Der symbolistische Lyriker Swinburne (1837-1909) stimmte mit seinem Versdrama einen neuen, eigenen Ton in der englischen Literatur an und erregte durch seine ungewöhnliche Beherrschung von Reim und Rhythmus sofort ungeheures Aufsehen, denn so hatte seit Shakespeare niemand mehr das Englische zum Klingen gebracht: "When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, / The mother of months in meadow or plain / Fills the shadows and windy places / With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain / [.] Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers, / Maiden most perfect, lady of light, / With a noise of winds and many rivers, / With a clamour of waters, and with might." Zu seinen deutschen Bewunderern und Übersetzern gehörten Stefan George und Rudolf Borchardt. Der hier vorliegenden Erstausgabe, die als Privatdruck in einer Auflage von nur ca. 300 Exemplaren erschien (und in einem von Dante Gabriel Rossetti entworfenen Leineneinband ausgeliefert wurde), folgte noch im selben Jahr im gleichen Verlag die erste öffentliche, etwas kleinere Buchausgabe (130 S.). Den verso auf dem fliegenden Vorsatz angebrachten Stempel "Bound by Riviere & Son, London" gebrauchte die Werkstatt des Buchbinders Robert Riviere (1808-1882) seit ca. 1880. Frühe Werke mit Signatur des Dichters sind sehr selten. Der Einband an Gelenken und Kanten gering berieben, sonst insgesamt schönes, gut erhaltenes Exemplar. - With handwritten quotation from the fragments of Euripides in Greek language and autograph signature of the poet A. C. Swinburne (dated to 1875 by foreign hand in pencil). The symbolist poet Swinburne (1837-1909) set a new, unique tone in English literature with his verse drama and immediately caused a sensation with his unusual mastery of rhyme and rhythm. His German admirers and translators include Stefan George and Rudolf Borchardt. The present first edition, privately printed in about 300 copies, was originally delivered in a linen cover designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was followed the same year by the same publisher's first public, slightly smaller book edition (130 pp.). Our calfskin binding, stamped "Bound by Riviere & Son, London", by the bookbinder Robert Riviere (1808-1882), who used this stamp since about 1880. Early works with signature of the poet are rare. The cover of joints and edges slightly rubbed, otherwise it is an overall nice, well-preserved copy.
Seller: Antiquariat Rolf Bulang, Dautphetal, Germany
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Atalanta in Calydon. Edward Moxon, London, 1865.
Price: US$3863.74 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo, 16pp ads, xiv, 130pp, publisher¿s blue cloth with title on the spine. The second edition preceded by the limited edition of 300 with cover designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , minor rubbing to the edges but overall a near fine copy. Inscribed by author on front blank to his sister Isabel Swinburne. Signed copies of Swinburne¿e early works are uncommon, and those to his family are rare. The last signed (presentation) copy we can trace appeared at auction in New York in 1976.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland