Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The Limited Editions Club, 1945.
Price: US$79.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, 734/1500. SIGNED by the illustrator on one of the back pages. Book has minor wear. Slipcase is in poor condition. **PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***
Seller: The Book Files, Broken Arrow, OK, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The solander case and outer slipcase are worn at the edges, bottom face of slipcase has a 1.5" tear. #304 of 1,500, signed by the illustrator on the colophon. The most unusual ostrich boards have a few light spots, spine shows some rubbing at the head/tail. Clean interior. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1945.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Thin quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in full russet ostrich hide, certainly one of the more unusual bindings of the press. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley. Includes the author's marginal notes. Designed by C. P. Rollins at the Yale University Press. Introduction by John L. Lowes. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Light, scattered foxing. Minor edgewear and a few scuffs on the rear board. Very Good, lacking the chemise and slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 956 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator at rear. Very good in full ostrich hide, rubbed at corners and spine ends, else nicely preserved. Complete with fragile paper chemise which is split along the joint, and paper slipcase which shows small loss along bottom edge at opening. Top edge starting to split as well. Chemise and slipcase good only, but complete.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, 68 pages; VG-; in G+ cork-pattern slipcase and wrapper, with publisher's original glassine; full russet ostrich skin binding; spine with gilt lettering; wrapper spine cork-pattern, with maroon lettering; mild shelf wear and soiling to volume; mild wear to crown of spine; illustrated endpapers; signed flat Wilson at colophon; hand-numbered 1114 at colophon; pages clean; shelved Case 9 3/4. 1347157. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.. Allen Lane,, 1945.
Price: US$355.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. No publisher stated but privately printed for Richard and Allen Lane 1945. Limited edition, being one of 700 unnumbered copies, 8vo (227 x 140mm.) Text in red and black, 5 colour plates by Duncan Grant. Publisher's blue niger morocco with gilt medallion to upper cover, t.e.g. spine rubbed, a few small scuffs to lower cover. Internally exceptional. Clean and bright with fresh lithos and no ownership inscriptions or spotting. Loosely inserted is a signed Christmas card from publisher Allen Lane
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.. Allen Lane,, 1945.
Price: US$355.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. No publisher stated but privately printed for Richard and Allen Lane 1945. Limited edition, being one of 700 unnumbered copies, this one signed and inscribed by publisher Allen Lane 8vo (227 x 140mm.) Text in red and black, 5 colour plates by Duncan Grant. Publisher's blue niger morocco with gilt medallion to upper cover, t.e.g. spine rubbed, a few small scuffs to lower cover. Internally exceptional. Clean and bright with fresh lithos and no ownership inscriptions or spotting.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1945.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Thin quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in full russet ostrich hide, certainly one of the more unusual bindings of the press. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley. Includes the author's marginal notes. Designed by C. P. Rollins at the Yale University Press. Introduction by John L. Lowes. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies. Mild rubbing to spine tips and corners, neatly retouched. Near Fine in a Very Good chemise with and a Good slipcase with splits to the top edge
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.