colby library (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. . Limited edition of 100 hardcover copies. Boards a bit bleached around edges. (rare books, exhibition catalog).

Zustand: 3 VG PBs. Photos (illustrator). Articles on "Remembering Thomas Mann", a Thomas Mann collection, Meetings with Thomas Mann by Robert Nathan, Klaus Mann and Decision by Lloyd Frankenberg; The Fourth William James by Harold A. Larrabbee; James family letters in Colby College Library; Henry James Businessmen by Blair G. Kenney; Henry James Juvenilia; Thomas Hardy and the Barrens by Edwin D. Merry; Thomas Hardy's "The Three Tall Men" by Frank R. Giordano, Jr.; Existential Failing in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"; Self-Revelation in Hardy's Early Love Poems; Thomas Hardy by Irene Cooper Willis; A Calendar of Thomas Hardy Correspondence by Richard Cary; listing of letters to and from Thomas Hardy. Library stamp on front covers, notations on back covers, pen dot on top fore-edge.

First deluxe edition hard back binding in half black leather, gilt title lettering to the spine, turquoise cloth sides, top edge gilt, hollow gilt circle details to the spine ends and board edges, cream and green marble end sheets. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Carl J. Weber and with a check-list (a useful bibliography) of the Rubáiyát Collection in the Colby College Library compiled by James Humphry III, including a number of editions not in Potter's Bibliography, which only goes to 1929. Also 2 indexes to the checklist of Illustrators, Artists, Designers, and of Editors, Commentators, Bibliographers, Owners, etc. 158 + 1 pp. In Fine condition. Memo sheet from Professor Carl J. Weber giving details of the book stating (unbound leaves). Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is one of 100 bound in red cloth, slim 8vo, pp. 16; elaborately designed capital "B" printed in red and blue; original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; fine.