mathers e powys translator (6 Ergebnisse)

First printing thus. Very good copy in very good dust jacket, front panel of jacket has a small chip in the extreme lower left corner of the front panel and a small tear along the lower edge. Our current list includes a number of early and unusual translations of Flaubert into various languages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. Worm damage to edges. Very worn DJ. 102, [2] pages : illustration (frontispiece) ; 20 cm. Text in English, translated from the French, translated from the Arabic.

Hardcover. Gibbings, Robert (illustrator). First edition. 32 pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Four engravings on copper by Robert Gibbings. Limited edition, copy 23 of 500 on Batchelor hand-made paper. It was during this period that Gibbings had control of the Golden Cockerel Press, and according to Roderick Cave, "Gibbings policy at the Press paid off handsomely in financial as well as aesthetic terms." CHANTICLEER 64. Orig. tan buckram, spine darkened. Teg. Very good.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited. Hardback, original cloth. 24.5 x 16.5cm. teg. 28pp, [3]. 4 plates with tissue guards by Robert Gibbings. Number 280 of 500 copies. Spine age discoloured otherwise a very clean bright copy. Slightest wear only. Previous owner's small label to front pastedown.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good (+). Hester Sainsbury (illustrator). No 85 in a 4 Volume Limited Edition Set of 1,000 copies. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spines. Four very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, some rear covers very slightly rubbed, spines very well sunned, blind stamped in gilt and no bumping to any corners. Upper page edges dark blue, fore and lower pages edges untrimmed, dusty and lightly foxed. Notes and introductory pages plus total of 1664pp. The first translation into English of 'The Eastern Art of Love', printed on all rag paper and published 1927-1929 The four books contain 12 volumes of Eastern Anthology on the subject of Love including ancient literature from India, Persia, Arabia, Laos, Cambodia and Japan. The copper-plate engravings throughout the books have been hand coloured. A heavy set. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inches.

FIRST EDITION, pp. [15], 108, 8vo, original pink marbled boards, backstrip lettered in black, knock to top corner of upper board and light wear at extremities, top edge a little dusty, other edges untrimmed and slightly toned, faint partial browning and a few faint spots to free endpapers, front pastedown with the bookplate of C.E. Bechhofer Roberts (see below), dustjacket darkened to backstrip and borders, chipped at ends of backstrip panel, this reinforced internally with brown paper at ends, very good. Inscribed by E. Powys Mathers on the flyleaf: '"To the saints which are at Ephesus", from Powys Mathers, 27.5.36'. The recipient, C.E. Bechhofer Roberts, was an author, the majority of whose fiction titles were published under the pseudonym 'Ephesian'. A typed letter to the same (as 'Dear Ephesian') is laid in, this from Mathers' wife, Rosamond, who passes on information from her husband (referred to by his nickname, 'Bill') regarding literature on the theme of the Black Mass; a lengthy manuscript note on the same subject, including lengthy quotations from Boguet and Montague ('Monty') Summers is signed 'A' - identity obscure. Bechhofer Roberts, who had met Rasputin and Gurdjieff during the Great War, wrote, largely from a sceptical position, on themes of the spiritual and supernatural. Mathers' well-regarded translations of the Arabic folk-tales were based on the French renderings of J.C. Mardrus; they would constitute the greater part of his literary legacy, were it not for the cryptic crosswords he compiled under the name 'Torquemada' - which he extended to a fiendishly difficult piece of detective fiction in the form of a puzzle - 'Cain's Jawbone'. He had earlier been educated at Trinity College, Oxford.