Count potocki (108 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 7pp + [vii] catalogue of the far-right output of The Mélissa Press, the organ of Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, a New Zealand-born writer and eccentric. Plain grey card boards with green binder's tape along spine and title labels affixed to front board and spine. Block-printed frontis portrait of the author by Rigby Graham. Boards are somewhat rubbed along spine edge. A satirical poem maligning Lord Moyne, Walter Guinness. Signed by the author, numbered 37 out of an unstated limitation. An oddity. Signed by Author(s). …

Super Octavo Softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Octavo Softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

200 copies printed; duodecimo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards slightly bowed, betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages absent any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Original publisher's natural linen with spine label, over pale green boards slender 8vo., 51, (1) pages, illustrated with three mounted photographs. One of 100 (this 2) numbered copies hand-set and printed by R. T. Risk, and signed by him. Loose the inserted flyer for the book announcing publication printed on one side only. Bookplate of David & Hermione Chambers (designed by Reynolds Stone. David John Chambers (1930 - 2025) was an English bibliographer, printing historian, printer and book collector. Some faint spots at spine area else very good indeed. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Original publisher's natural linen with spine label, over pale green boards slender 8vo., 51, (1) pages, illustrated with three mounted photographs. One of 100 (this 22) numbered copies hand-set and printed by R. T. Risk, and signed by him. Signed presentation from the author "With thanks and best wishes, this modest effort on an impossible subject. Terry. May 1981." Terry = R T Risk. Spare label tipped-in at rear. Sound slightly used near vg with some slight foxing / tanning to covers, very slight bowing to covers very slight mustiness. Signedes. …

TEXT IN FRENCH and english, octavo, grey heavy card boards with beige title label & red lettering to front board, spine bound with red tape, 7pp, VG (light tanning to upper front board, spine tape slightly detached on front board, light foxing to eps).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 12 pages. handset on press in Hamilton NZ(pp 12) wrappers.

Numbered, limited pirated first edition; textured heavy cream boards with black lettering, grey cloth with black lettering to spine, 36pp, VG+ (a touch of scuffing and soiling) NR.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 12 pages. handset on press in Hamilton NZ(pp 12) wrappers.

Paper Covers. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good +. First / Limited. Number 47/150 copies. This is a sampling of the recent poems of Count Geoffrey Potocki of Montalk and includes "That Impossible Fellow", a brief essay by the Count telling of the ill-treatment he has received and concludes "We who, even if We are a difficult person, would still be a genius.". Blue paper covers are darkened at spine and somewhat soiled. Contents tight and clean with just a touch of foxing to e/p's. No inscriptions.…

Super octavo quarter bound decorated grey heavy card boards, cloth spine, 9pp, tipped in frontispiece, VG (light soiling foxing and scuffing to boards, light foxing within), with loosely enclosed note from bookseller describing . the Count, resplendent in scarlet cloack and hood, set off for London in his twenties (?), i.a. to assert his distaff claims to the Polish throne.).…

Octavo, grey heavy card boards with green cloth spine, yellow title labels with red lettering mounted to front board & spine, 29pp + 5pp adverts, VG (some fading to spine, light tanning to board edges, inscription in ink to fep.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Slim 8vo.pp. 43. Poetry. Original publisher's cloth binding in grey, lettered brown. Book plate on front paste down of D.W.T.C. Vessey. Very good. Slight tanning.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Some light age-toning, else fine in sewn wrappers. Printed by poet, eccentric, and pretender to the Polish throne Count Potocki of Montalk at his home in Provence.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. 16pp White printed sewn wraps .Chiefly a catalogue of material written or translated by, or concerned with, Count Potocki of Montalk available from the Melissa Press Consists mostly of advertisements for the Melissa press with a short (2pp) fairly mild rant about the decimal system which he states emanated from the French revolution, 'nit-witted doctrinaire notions that were originated by these rationalising but irrational revolutionaries.' He also notes that when it came in England, it led to a great rise in prices. A rather slight but rare piece of Potockiana. Also issued as number twelve of "Twelve catalogues of the Melissa Press 1959-1972", published 1974. About fine. Signedes.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. 10 by 15 cms. pp 4 Note "90 copies printed at the Cuckoo Hill Press"--Colophon, on p. [4] of covers. Issued tipped into green paper covers. A very slight and now rather rare item- a one page poem tipped into sage green printed wraps. The Count notes in print that the poem was written in January 1966 driving back from Cattistock. The Cuckoo Hill press was owned by the great bibliophile David Chambers from whom this copy came. Fine.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. 10 by 15 cms. pp 4 Note "90 copies printed at the Cuckoo Hill Press"--Colophon, on p. [4] of covers. One page poem. Issued tipped into green paper covers. A very slight and now rather rare item- a one page poem tipped into sage green printed wraps. The Count notes in print that the poem was written in January 1966 driving back from Cattistock. The Cuckoo Hill press was owned by the great bibliophile David Chambers from whom this copy came. Fine.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Brewhouse Broadsheet number eight. One of an edition limited to 240 copies printed by Caspar Standing at the Daedalus Press of Stoke Ferry. Signed handwritten presentation from the author on rear cover: "For Roderick Cave this 'French fold' being a format the French have never heard of- Potocki of Montalk." Illustrated brown paper portfolio with a french folded broadsheet consisting of eight printed pages with five illustrations. Illustration on cover and title page by Rigby Graham. 270 x 195 mm. A broadsheet and folder /portfolio. Very Good condition with light rubbing and very small split at spine, small faded oval stamp of a School of Librarianship on cover. Signedes. …

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo 8 pages. Original publisher's white wraps lettered black. Attacks the BBC , John Cowper Powys ('a pretentious windy writer. a disgrace to literature.') also compares himself to Shakespeare. Content very slight, 2 pp text + 5 pp ads for his other Melissa Press titles and 1 page on his translation skills and quotes praise of him by Charles Maurras and Richard Aldington. Rare. Only one copy found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue - at the British Library. He refers to this piece as 'an advertisement' price six sixpence 'until we choose to give it away.' Fine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. (1-4) 5-45 [1 (blank)] pages + portrait frontispiece and one other illus. Original publisher's light yellow / sand colour wraps hardback lettered black on spine and on front cover. 215 x 138mm. Poetry. Bookplate of David & Hermione Chambers (designed by Reynolds Stone. David John Chambers (1930 - 2025) was an English bibliographer, printing historian, printer and book collector. Some tanning / speckling but clean very good.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Slim 8vo.pp. 43. Poetry. Original publisher's off white wraps lettered dark brownon spine and on front cover. Bookplate of David & Hermione Chambers (designed by Reynolds Stone. David John Chambers (1930 - 2025) was an English bibliographer, printing historian, printer and book collector. Fine. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo. 14pp. Original publisher's string-tied gray wrappers printed red. Satiric interview, purportedly a memoir of Hardy walking unobserved in the countryside by a semi-retired rat-catcher. Humorous parody of Hardy scholarship. Printed (rather better than his usual) by Count Potocki of Montalk. 11,[3,ads]pp 8vo wrappers. Peter de Malion was a pen-name of P J Platts of New Brighton, Christchurch. Very slight tanning to rear otherwise very good indeed.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Small oblong beige/ pink printed thin card covers with a Polish coat of Arms on cover printed red. 16 by 12 cms. 4 pages, folded from one. A poem for the Feast of Saturn which Potocki printed each year and sent to friends.This was printed at his French home with a printed greeting in five languages, including Polish, French and English and German. Signed presentation copy: "Best wishes to alles. Potocki of Montalk." Very good indeed. Slight fading. Signedes.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Small pale faint green coloured printed thin card covers with a note saying that this is a sonnet by Wladyslaw the fifth, King of Poland on his indignation about Hess. 18 by 1 cms. 4 pages, folded from one. A poem for the Feast of Saturn which Potocki printed each year and sent to friends. With a printed greeting in five languages, including Polish, French and English and German. This a a supposed magical act to bring about the release of Rudolf Hess. Potocki has introduced swastika instead of the X in Xmas. Signed presentation copy 'For Christopher Martin Potocki of Montalk. Gluckliche Sonnabende! 24 vi 75. ' About fine. Signedes.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Small oblong beige/ pink printed thin card covers with a Polish coat of Arms on cover printed red. 16 by 12 cms. 4 pages, folded from one. A poem for the Feast of Saturn which Potocki printed each year and sent to friends.This was printed at his French home with a printed greeting in five languages, including Polish, French and English and German. Signed presentation copy to one Christopher Martin '.kind regards Potocki of Montalk.' About fine. Signedes.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Small sand coloured printed thin card covers with a Polish coat of Arms on cover printed red. 15 by 9 cms. 4 pages, folded from one. A poem for the Feast of Saturn which Potocki printed each year and sent to friends.This was printed at his French home near Draguignan. Signed presentation copy 'Christopher Martin from Potocki of Montalk.' About fine. Signedes.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo pp 4 with one short poem 'Counterpoint'. Original publisher's thin card printed beige wraps string bound at spine. Signed presentation from Montalk to his friend Roderick Cave ' For Roderick Cave I sent this to Zbynewski. this for a present and he complained in the Driennih Polski that it was dear at 1s 6d. Potocki of Montalk.' Fine. Signedes.…