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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$154.35 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Set in Garamond type with Fournier titling. Number 37 of 100 (750) copies specially bound and signed by the author. Illustrated with collotype reproductions of pictures by Boucher. Blue half morocco with crimson buckram boards titled and stamped in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Cloth slipcase. Bookplate. A fine copy. (Cockalorum 173) 'A biography of the Irish imp who fascinated Louis XV, and was model to the painter Boucher.'
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
HERIZ, Patrick de. La Belle O'Morphi: A Brief Biography. Golden Cockerel Press, 1947.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition thus. Thin octavo. 12 collotype illustrations after Francois Boucher. Original gilt stamped half blue morocco over red cloth, uncut by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Fine. Publishers light blue cloth slipcase. No bookplates. Number 59 of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by de Heriz on limitation page. Cockalorum 173.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Heriz, Patrick De. La Belle O'Morphi. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1947.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 100 specially bound copies, of which this is number 65. Signed by author. Original light blue slipcase is a bit soiled. Blue morocco binding is bright and clean. The half crimson cloth appears a bit tired in comparison. Pages are very clean. Some yellowing on endpapers with former owner's name written on ffep. Gilt on the spine and boards is quite bright. Garamond type on mould-made paper. Illustrated abundantly. A pleasing copy; The brief biography of Marie-Louise OMurphy, the model of the celebrated artist, François Boucher, and minor mistress of King Louis XV. Her exciting life began as the impoverished daughter of Irish immigrants, included her time as Bouchers muse, her rise and fall at Versailles, three marriages, and her travails during the Reign of Terror; 8vo; 36 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Heriz, Patrick de. LA BELLE O'MORPHI. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$201.86 + shipping
Description: A brief biography. Pp. 36, l2 collotype reproductions after paintings by Francois Boucher; roy. l2mo; half dark blue morocco and crimson buckram boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; t.e.g., others uncut; within pale blue/grey cloth slipcase, which is faintly soiled and a trifle rubbed at edges; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, The Golden Cockerel Press, London, n.d.[1947]. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies on mould-made paper, this being one of 100 copies specially bound, and signed by the author. Cockalorum l73: 'A biography of the Irish imp who fascinated Louis XV, and was model to the painter Boucher. . . .'.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$231.53 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; some light offsetting from front paste-down to front free endpaper; red buckram, boards blocked in gilt, blue crushed morocco lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 95). With the morocco bookplate of G.E.G. Tooth mounted on front paste-down. A further 650 copies were issued in a standard binding. Cockolorum 173.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom