The Sonnets of Michelangelo
London: The Folio Society, 1961. FIRST. NF. Teal cloth in gray slip-case. Previous owner embossed stamp. A very clean and solid copy. Includes drawings by Michelangelo.
London: The Folio Society, 1961. FIRST. NF. Teal cloth in gray slip-case. Previous owner embossed stamp. A very clean and solid copy. Includes drawings by Michelangelo.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. 148 pages, no ads. One scratch on the front board. Previous owner signature on the ffep. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Wright, 3740.
New York: The Classics of LIberty Library, 1992. F. A fine copy in all respects. One quarter leather on cloth. Brown leather spine is lettered in gilt. Brown cloth boards are decorated in gilt. a.e.g.
New York: Scribner, Armstrong Company, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original blue cloth which is ornately decorated in gold and black. Some very minor wear to the spine ends. All the colors remain bright. Original brown "bible" paper endpapers. Contains chapters on Gulliver, Sir Walter Scott, Goldsmith, Bunyan, Robinson Crusoe and Gutenberg. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrated throughout, some.....
Paris: Bibliotheque de la Pleiade/Librairie Gallimard, 1951. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Two volumes, complete. These books remain unopened and unread for over 60 years. A cleaner, nicer set won't be found. Both volumes are housed in a card-stock slip-case. Not very attractive, perhaps, but very effective in protecting these two small octavo volumes...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. A beautiful copy. Fontispiece showing the Seal of Bishop Poore, with tissue guard. Vol. xviii of the Medieival Library. Unopened and unread. Mostly un-cut.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Bound in original green cloth with a complete and fine example of the dust jacket. The book was issued in three variant bindings and the consensus now is that the green binding takes precedence, followed by orange, and brown. The author's name is spelled Nabokoff with this title but.....
London: Heinemann, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Book plate on paste-down. In a complete fine dust jacket designed by Sheila Perry. Contains 13 short stories. An extremely clean, bright and crisp copy.
Norfolk, Conn. New Directions, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. In original deep red burlap weave cloth with paper label to the center of the front panel and another label at the spine. This copy meets all of the points to be listed as A21.1. The front and spine labels are in the small size. The name.....
Boston: Little Brown, 1957. FIRST. VG / VG.
Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. FIRST. NF / NF. A lovely set. Previous owner name on ffep and the dust jacket is price-clipped. Very nice.
Mount Vernon: The Limited Editions Club, 1968. FIRST. F / F. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Illustrated by Eugene Karlin and signed by him at the limitation page. From an edition of 1500 copies, this one being number 136. Prospectus laid in.
New York: Lewis Copeland, 1931. FIRST. NF. Marbled boards with red cloth spine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Contributions from Langston Hughes, Clarence Darrow and Robert Frost, to name a few. Some pages uncut.
New York: The Viking Press/Studio Books, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Beautifully illustrated in color by Boris Zvorykin. Previous owner signature and embossed name. Introduction by Petger Ustinov. A lovely copy. Small folio.
Moscow: State Publisher of Fiction And Literature, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Original paper on boards. Text entirely in Russian. A clean and solid copy. Illustrated frontispiece and small vignette illustrations throughout.
Moscow: 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine. Three volumes, bound in gray and lettered in gilt. Contains Tales, Poems, and Dramatic Works including the epics Boris Godunov and Eugene Onegin. Entire contents printed in Russian. Small previous owner initials to the front paste-downs else fine. Illustrated throughout with some portraits of Pushin printed in color. A very nice set...
London: David Nutt, 1900. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Three 8vo volumes. Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. Introduction by Charles Whibley. Boards are a smooth glossy burgundy paper and the spines a paler burgundy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A lovely set.
Moscow: State Publisher of Fiction And Literature, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Original gray cloth with lettering on the front panel and the spine. Previous owner initials on the front paste-down. A very clean, bright and solid copy on better paper than normally seen with Soviet era production. A very nice fold-out map is also present. Text entirely in Russian...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. A very bright and solid copy. Previous owner signature to the front paste-down, else fine. The jacket is complete and fine.
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A lovely example of this elegantly produced volume. Illustrated By John Howe.
Berkeley: The University of California Press, (1997). First printing. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Unopened and unread. A clean, bright and pleasing copy of this exensive presentation of the Jason story, with the translation, introduction, commentary and glossary by Peter Green. A lovely and important text. With promotional sheet laid in.
London: Printed for Payne and Foss for Thomas Davison, 1829. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. First two volume edition. Lovely full dark green grained morocco binding signed by William George of Bristol. Marbled endpapers. Both half-titles present with one page advertisement at the end of volume II. Top edge gilt. "This edition is reprinted from a copy of the former.....
Privately Printed, 1904. VG. Two volumes, 8vo. Printed on antique rag paper and illustrated by twelve exquisite etchings by Ed. Hedouin and by portraits of Rousseau and Madame de Warens. Bound in art canvas with paper labels. Previous owner signature and book-plate present on the endpapers. From the private collection of Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, noted Frederick County, Maryland jurist.....
London: The Folio Society, 1977. NF. A lovely volume. Deep red silk boards, illustrated in silver and gold. Previous owner's name-embossed. With perfect box.
London: The Richards Press, 1950. NF / VG. A very clean, bright and solid copy. The jacket is price-clipped and chipped at the head of the spine.