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SHELDON, M. French [Translator]. Salammbô of Gustave Flaubert. Saxon & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Second Edition, First and Only Authorised Translation. Octavo. Original blue cloth over boards with beveled edges, gilt lettering at front cover and spine, floral end papers, signed and inscribed by translator at dedication page. Very good, spine ends slightly bumped, corners slightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened, small spot at center of rear panel, front hinge cracked, sticker remain at top of front pastedown near edges, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$251.83 + shipping
Description: [Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 422 [6]. INSCRIBED by the translator in black ink to title page, dated to March 26th 1886. Small vignette to title page. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Bevelled edges. Floral endpapers, edges untrimmed. Ex-library copy; purple stamp to title page. Toning to endpapers and edges. Soiling and bubbling to cloth in places. Rubbing and wear to joints and extremities. Good. The first English translation of Flaubert's famous novel set during the Mercenary War (241-237 BC).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Gustave Flaubert, (Translator) M. French Sheldon. Salammbo. Saxon & Co., London, 1886.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. 1st edition of this translation. LIMITED SIGNED ISSUE, one of 100 SIGNED by the translator, the publisher, and the author of the introduction, but not signed by the dedicatee. Rebacked. Full leather; t.e.g. Translator's and Mrs. M. French Sheldon's photos pasted in at recto of f.f.e.p. and second blank. A few scrapes to boards, rubbing to edges and some wear to fore-corners. Chipping to edges of free endpapers. A little toning to leaves, offsetting to pps. 94-95, obviously from a plant laid-in at a previous time. Offsetting to first blank. Newspaper clippings pasted to verso of second blank and recto of third, also causing offsetting. Negligible stains to edges of text block. VG.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Flaubert, Gustave (M. French Sheldon, Translator). Salammbo. Saxon & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo., 421(1)pp. Beautiful First American Edition, bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front board. Square, tight and clean throughout save a few scattered spots. Cloth and gilt both fresh and bright. Rubbing to edges. Wear to spine ends and tips. Gift inscription on verso of flyleaf. Signed and dated by Sheldon, the translator, on the title page. A solid collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Flaubert, Gustave. Salammbo. Saxon & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 100 copies signed by M. French Sheldon, Henry Morton Stanley, and Edward King. Translated by. M. French Sheldon. Very Good. Leather binding by Zaehnsdorf, faded at the spine, rubbed at the edges and joints. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, silk endpapers with a small chip to the front endpaper, label inside the front board, Royal Yacht Squadron label on the verso of the front endpaper, additional inscription on one of the front flyleaves. Flaubert's best-selling historical fiction about the theft of a sacred veil after the First Punic War.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.