villon francois swinburne algernon charles (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Slim octavo. 18pp. Original printed paperback. Plain wrappers with printed pink dust jacket. Very good. Limited to 226 copies.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. One of Nine Hundred and Fifty Copies on Van Gelder Hand-made Paper. Scarce printed slipcase is present, albeit worn, with most of top strip lacking, but did do its job protecting the book itself that shows some age, otherwise Fine (see scans). Paper title labels to front upper board, and spine title complete. All corners sharp, Sewn Binding Tight. As above, Van Gelder Hand-made paper, with deckled edges. P/O to ffep., with some lightly pencilled (and easily erasable) notes in French. Rear flys have a long passage from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1882 critique of Villon, from "Familiar Studies of Men and Books". Once again, easily erasable if so desired. Limited, Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/In Slipcase. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Large Octavo; VG-; light brown spine with gilt text to paper label; brown slipcase with slight sun faded exterior; paper label to slipcase rear edge; intact slipcase; cloth exterior clean; tight binding; no jacket; textblock exterior head edge gilt; lightly toned deckled fore and tail edges; faint offsetting from illustrations, otherwise interior clean; illustrated with wood block cuts by Howard Simon; pp 103. 1365506. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Simon, Howard (illustrator). First edition thus. Quarto (11-3/4" x 8"). (8), 103, (1)pp. Brown linen with leather spine label. T.e.g. Housed in a brown cardboard slipcase with cloth top & bottom edges and a paper spine label. Illustrated with 26 monochrome woodcuts by Howard Simon, plus 2 additional woodcuts not called for. One is a laid-in gray toned woodcut (5" x 3-1/2") on tissue paper, limited to 1/30 and signed in pencil by Howard Simon. The second woodcut, also laid-in, is on a folded sheet of special paper. that accompanies "Ballad to His Mistress" and differs from the image that is bound into the book. This edition of "The Lyrics of Francois Villon" is limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #380), signed on the limitation leaf by Howard Simon. Spine of book is somewhat darkened and the bottom surface of the slipcase has a 1-1/2" tear to the cloth and is missing a small chip. #43 of The Limited Editions Club Bibliography.