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Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explore the enduring beauty of verse in 'Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems' by Thomas Runciman. This carefully prepared print edition presents a rich collection of poetry, including sonnets and a variety of other poetic forms. Delve into timeless expressions of love, reflections on life, and observations on the world, all captured in Runciman's distinctive voice.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Runciman, Thomas (illustrator). Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. An extremely bright, scarce printing of Thomas Runciman's collection of songs, sonnets and miscellaneous poems. Illustrated, with a portrait frontispiece of Thomas Runciman.One of one hundred and fifty copies printed by hand at the Temple Sheen press, in March 1922. The colophon notes that this collection was printed for Walter Runciman.Walter Runciman writes the preface to this collection. He was a noted Liberal politician and descendant of the author of these poems.Several gatherings remain unopened to the top edge.In the publisher's original cloth binding, in a very bright condition.A scarce, beautifully presented poetry anthology. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelfwear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Minor offsetting to the endpapers. Otherwise, pages are very clean. Near Fine. book.

Brown hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Good. Limited Edition [150]. G: in good condition. Soiling to cover. Browning to eps. Offsetting from frontispiece. Some pages uncut. 280mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). 44pp. Photogravure frontispiece. Signed and dedicated by Walter Runciman, (nephew to Thomas), in pencil on fep.

First edition. Quarto. 43 pages. Frontispiece photogravure portrait. Introductory note by Walter Runciman, the prominent Liberal politician who was a descendant of the author of these poems, and the father of Sir Steven Runciman. 150 copies were printed. Period fine binding by Rivière of full dark blue crushed morocco, inner rules gilt, top edge gilt.Fine.

Hard Cover. LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies only, printed by Arthur Salvin on Kelmscott handmade paper. Quarto, pp. 43, [1]. Full purple morocco by Riviere & Son with two raised bands and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt, gilt dentelles. Three copies of the same captioned photographic portrait of Runciman laid-in (each image approx, 13 cm x 9 cm on paper 26 cm x 22 cm). Wear with minor loss to leather at spine tips and corners. Slight foxing to endpapers; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Thomas Runciman (1841-1909) was a Northumbrian landscape and portrait artist, and a pupil of William Bell Scott; his poems were never published but were sent to family and friends and are here privately printed along with others found by relatives in scrapbooks and letters. Introductory note by descendant Walter Runciman, who commissioned the publication.

4to, pp. 43. Original linen boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Leading and lower edges uncut. Gilt a little faded and some light marking to boards, small bookplate to front free endpaper. A very well preserved copy. Temple Sheen Press edition, hand-set and published by Arthur K. Sabin, founder of the Press. One of 150 copies. NUMEROUS HOLOGRAPH CORRECTIONS IN SABIN'S HAND THROUGHOUT TEXT. Introductory note by Walter Runciman [1870-1949], Liberal MP and descendant of the poet. (As head of the 1938 diplomatic mission to Czechoslovakia, and author of the Runciman Report, Walter Runciman was a central figure in the appeasement of Nazi Germany before the Second World War.).