loves cross currents years letters von algernon charles swinburne (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1964. First printing. 158 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some moderate marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Cover and edges shows wear. Pages shows light tanning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New. In.

1st.ed. Some pages uncut, but blue cloth badly mottled on boards & spine. Used - Good. Good hardback in dark blue cloth with gilt Used - Good. Good hardback in dark blue cloth with gilt.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Zustand: Good. 8vo., 245 pp., Very Good, Beige Illustrated Cloth, staining & rubbing on cover, shelf wear.

Zustand: Good. 8vo., 245 pp., Very Good, Beige Illustrated Cloth, staining & rubbing on cover, shelf wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American edition. Owner names else very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. x, 258 pgs. Blue buckram boards with gilt lettering on spine. A true first. Beveled edges, gilt upper text block, deckled edged paper. Condition is GOOD+ ; wear to edges and corners, covers rubbed with whitish areas. Spine faded. Binding is tight and text clean. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown, one glued over the other. Some very mild foxing. Letters. RGR.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First American edition. Decorative cloth. Small owner's label on front pastedown (slightly offset on front fly) and small embossed stamp, near fine.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. An epistolary novel in thirty letters by the controversial author Algernon Charles Swinburne, the first edition. Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English author, known for writing about taboo and controversial topics of the time, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism and many others. He contributed to the noted eleventh edition of theEncyclopaedia Britannica.Serialised in 1877, it was originally published under the pseudonym Mrs. Horace Manners, and was never publicly acknowledged by Swinburne. This is the first edition in book form.This novel is told through a series of thirty letters with a prologue in five chapters. Following the unforgettable character of Lady Midhurst and affairs of marriage within her family. Complete with half title. One leaf of advertisement bound in to the front. In a half pebbled calf binding over marbled boards, gilt to the top edge. Externally sound with minor shelf wear, minor rubbing to the spine, joints, and extremities. Minor chipping to the head of the spine. Minor loss to the lower right corner of the text block, not affecting any of the text. Internally firmly bound. Minor age toning to the odd leaf, otherwise the pages are bright and clean, only some faint handling marking to p. 47. Very Good. book.

First edition. Octavo. pp x, 258. Period binding by Zaehnsdorf of full green straight-grain morocco with raised bands, ornate, finely tooled, gilt design on spine and inner dentelles, gilt rules. Top edge gilt. Green silk endpapers. From the Library of the noted American collector and bibliographer, Major William W. Van R. Whitall, with his small gilt decorated leather bookplate on front pastedown. Joints and corners a little rubbed. Very good indeed. Attractive binding.