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1832rif. AQ27628London: Edward Lumley 1832. vii 1 79pp 1. With an engraved frontispiece misbound after the title and a further 27 engraved plates several displaced. Later calf-backed marbled paper boards contrasting red calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. William St. Clair's copy with his pencilled ownership inscription and a note in his hand to recto of FFEP: 'The translation by PBS of the May Day Night Scene is presumably reprinted from the version in The Liberal. The Note is also taken with some omissions from The Liberal. Does the attribution 'L H' Leigh Hunt imply that Hunt was concerned with the book as a whole Lumley published The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley pirated but claiming authority from Leigh Hunt in 1831.' An anonymous translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1749-1832 magnum opus appended by Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1792-1822 translation of the May-day Night scene. Shelley's obsession with Faust spanned the majority of his writing career beginning with a translation of the drama’s opening thousand lines in 1815 and culminating in a poetic rendition of the 'Prolog im Himmel' and 'Walpurgisnacht' finished shortly before his untimely death. William St. Clair 1937-2021 British scholar and senior civil servant notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys The Biography of a Family 1989 and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period 2004. . New edition. Quarto. Edward Lumley hardcover
1888rif. FRANKENSTEIN02Author : Mary Shelley Title : Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. Publisher : London Glasgow and New York George Routledge and Sons 1888. Routledge's Pocket Library collection Language : Text in English Size : 5.5 " X 4 " Pages : 317 pages Binding : Very good original quarter cloth binding hinges fine overall slightly worn and scuffed. Content : Very good content bright tight and clean name of a previous owner on first endpaper. The book : Extremely Rare edition of Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus -- a novel written by English author Mary Shelley 1797–1851 that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818 when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition published in France in 1823. The author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851 was an English novelist short story writer dramatist essayist biographer and travel writer best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus 1818. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Routledge paperback
1895rif. 87912Chicago: Donohue Henneberry 1895. Hardcover. 1895 8vo. Original brown cloth decorative border and lettering in silver. Attractive 1890s edition of Shelley's sci-fi horror classic. Contemporary ownership inscription dated May 24 1895 some toning; cloth slightly softened at head of spine but overall an attractive copy. No jacket Donohue, Henneberry hardcover
rif. 34901ITALY OFFICINA BODONI 1923. LIMITED TO 222 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM-PAPER WITH THE ORIGINAL TYPES OF GIAMBATTISTA BODONI BOUND IN FULL VELLUM GILT TITLES AND MOTIF TO FRONT BOARD. BOOKPLATE OF ROBERT ELWELL TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. SMALL INSCRIPTION TO FEP. VERY GOOD IN A WORN AND DAMAGED SLIPCASE. ITALY, OFFICINA BODONI, 1923 hardcover
1888rif. SHELLEYM014142Routledge London. 1888. New edition issued in Routledge's Pocket Library series. 16mo. pp 317 1 1 adverts. Cloth-backed marbled boards.Covers rubbed at the edges. Spine darkened. Head and tail of spine slightly scuffed. Good. Routledge, London. hardcover
1818rif. 184058London: John Murray 1818. The author. often leaves us in doubt whether he is not as mad as his hero First edition of the first review notoriously scathing of Frankenstein. Croker a serial foe of young Romantics and Jacobins condemns the presumed male author and damns the novel as "a tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity". He continues by noticing that the novel "is piously dedicated to Mr Godwin and is written in the spirit of his school. The dreams of insanity are embodied in the strong and striking language of the author notwithstanding the rationality of his preface often leaves us in doubt whether is is not as mad as his hero. Mr. Godwin is the patriarch of a literary family whose chief skill is in delineating the wanderings of the intellect and which strangely delights in the most afflicting and humiliating of human miseries. His disciples are a kind of out-pensioners of Bedlam and like 'Mad Bess' or 'Mad Tom' are occasionally visited with paroxysms of genius and fits of expression which make sober-minded people wonder and shudder." Octavo 211 x 131 mm pp. vi 554; the review is on pp. 379-85. Contemporary diced russia spine lettered in gilt with volume number blue marbled sides brown speckled edges. Joints with superficial split but holding firm minor rubbing light foxing to contents. A very good copy. unknown
1826rif. AQ31162London: William Benbow 1826. 2 144pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later full calf ruled in gilt and blind contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked upper board sunned. Bookplate of John A. Radford to FEP leaves browned and stained title and frontispiece chipped and small marginal loss to upper edge of terminal leaf. An early pirated edition of Shelley's poetry one of many publications produced by radicals and Reformists to spread Shelley's poetry affordably to a working-class audience. As such the typesetting is far from perfect with the running title being inverted on one occasion. The collection contains mostly shorter lyrics particularly sonnets dirges and other songs as well as multiple fragments. William Benbow 1787-1864 was linked to the piracy of Shelley as early as 1815 due to his association with George Cannon pseudonym Erasmus Perkins editor of the Theological Enquirer a periodical which reprinted substantial portions of Queen Mab. A nonconformist preacher and major figure of the Reform Movement Benbow was imprisoned several times for alleged political and publishing offences but never charged. . 8vo. William Benbow unknown
1821rif. 4025London: W. Clark 1821 1821. 8vo. 230x140mm. pp. 182 2. First published albeit pirate edition printed by William Clark assisted by the book pirate Thomas Moses whose "T.M." monogram appears below Clark's imprint on the final page of the text. Original drab boards backed with green cloth remains of paper label on joints. Corners worn and edges a little rubbed boards marked in places. Hinges cracked with some loosening. Slightly foxed but otherwise very good internally. Front pastedown has booklabel of Christopher Clark Geest. First published in a small edition with a dedication to Harriet in 1813 Queen Mab was then printed twice without Shelley's permission in 1821. This copy is the version with the notes printed in full and with the dedication removed. It also has the final advertising leaf and some intentionally missing words on pp146-148. A scandalous work published scandalously "pounced upon" by the Society for the Prevention of Vice and resulting in the imprisonment of Clark the printer and bookseller. It also led to Shelley's radical ideas on subjects including vegetarianism and atheism being openly discussed in the public forum. Always dangerous. Granniss 19. London: W. Clark 1821 hardcover
1891rif. WW9178Frederick Warne & Co 1891. Original maroon cloth spine slightly marked and faded. Crack to gutter at title page front hinge slightly slack. Mild foxing to prelims. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Bookplate of Frances and Gilbert Chesterton to inside front board. Inscribed 'Frances Blogg Christmas 1893'. Frances met Chesterton in 1896 and they married in 1901. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition thus. Hardcover. Good/Fine. xvi 656pp. Frederick Warne & Co Hardcover
rif. HFL/BOX5/AS1/08082025-RLMay 01 2000. Very Good. Sold by the UK Charity Kisharon Langdon. offering opportunities and surpport for people within the autism and learning disbaility community. this book is paperback. unknown
1901rif. 456247London : Printed at the Ballantyne Press 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copies in the original title-blocked cream buckram. Unread with uncut pages. Boards are stained with bumped corners. Foxing to page edges and scattered throughout. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 v. ; 24 cm. Contents; V.1. Prometheus unbound. Cenci. --v.2. Adonais. Epipsychidion. Alastor Hellas. The witch of Atlas. The sensitive plant. Ode to the west wind. To a skylark. To night. To the moon. Hymn to intellectual beauty. Hymn of pan. Arethusa. The cloud. An exhortation. ""Chameleons feed on light and air."" Evening. Ponte a mare Pisa. Stanzas written in dejection near Naples. ""Rarely rarely comest thou spirit of delight."" A lament. ""O world! O life! O time."" ""When the lamp is shattered."" Mutability. ""One word is too often profaned."" ""Music when soft voices die."" Time. ""That time is dead forever child."" A song. ""A widow bird satmourning for her love."" The world's wanderers. A dirge. Dirge for the year. Lines to an Indian air. Good night. Summer and winter. Time long past. -- v.3. The revolt of Islam. London : Printed at the Ballantyne Press hardcover
rif. JD37146London W. Clark 1821 first edition. This is the book that launched his career first published edition Queen Mab was originally printed at Shelley's expense in 1813 this version was not approved by Shelley ultimately publisher Clark was jailed for four months with publisher's ad in back and without the dedication "To Harriet" at front includes the preface to the Notes by W. Clark half bound in rich green leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering and five raised bands on the spine. Front hinge cracked occasional foxing slight scuffing to coves minor wear to edges owner's 1875 ink name bookplate of Charles Archibald Stonehill. London, W. Clark, 1821, first edition. hardcover
rif. 61This very rare edition of frankenstein is in mint condition. It is a true luxury edition which will be sent in the box that it got received in. It will be sent fully insured and tracked.: Amaranthine books hardcover
1870rif. 95863London: E. Moxon Son & Co 1870. Finely bound example of the Poetical Works of Shelley. Octavo 2 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf by Zaehnsdorf gilt titles and tooling to the spine morocco spine labels gilt ruled raised bands inner dentelles top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Frontispiece of Shelley to volume one. Folding facsimile manuscript of Shelley's writing to volume two. Carefully revised with notes and a memoir by William Michael Rossetti. In near fine condition. Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language and one of the most influential. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron Leigh Hunt Thomas Love Peacock and his own second wife Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein. E. Moxon, Son, & Co hardcover
1837rif. 26946New York: Harper & Brothers 1837. First US edition. Binding in fine condition; Text block rippled with a fair amount of age toning; A few signatures protrude slightly from the fore edge of text block. Complete in one volume; Recent rebind in green leather with gilt spine titles and rules and marbled end papers; 321 pages. Harper & Brothers unknown
1911rif. 35036London / Philadelphia: William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott 1911. Very good plus in very good jacket. Scarce and magnificent deluxe edition of this beautifully illustrated edition of Shelley's poem in the original dust jacket. First published with Prometheus Bound in 1820 The Sensitive Plant was inspired in part by Margaret King Lady Mountcashell: author political radical onetime pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft and acquaintance of Shelley that most sensitive plant of all. Quite rare in the original unrestored dust jacket and with the vellum as fresh as this. 10.5'' x 8''. Full publisher's vellum with elaborate pictorial gilt. Top edge gilt. In original pictorial dust jacket with "cash price in Great Britain and Ireland 15/- net." Pictorial endpapers 18 tipped-in color plates and additional illustrations by Charles Robinson. Contemporary ink gift inscription to half-title. Mild areas of discoloration and faint spotting to boards. Jacket with some chipping and a few small tears to jacket particularly at spine. William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott unknown
1911rif. 35036London / Philadelphia: William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott 1911. Very good plus in very good jacket. Scarce and magnificent deluxe edition of this beautifully illustrated edition of Shelley's poem in the original dust jacket. First published with Prometheus Bound in 1820 The Sensitive Plant was inspired in part by Margaret King Lady Mountcashell: author political radical onetime pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft and acquaintance of Shelley that most sensitive plant of all. Quite rare in the original unrestored dust jacket and with the vellum as fresh as this. 10.5'' x 8''. Full publisher's vellum with elaborate pictorial gilt. Top edge gilt. In original pictorial dust jacket with "cash price in Great Britain and Ireland 15/- net." Pictorial endpapers 18 tipped-in color plates and additional illustrations by Charles Robinson. Contemporary ink gift inscription to half-title. Mild areas of discoloration and faint spotting to boards. Jacket with some chipping and a few small tears to jacket particularly at spine. William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott unknown books
2022rif. BTETM0002014London: The Folio Society 2022. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Super octavo 8vo 7 נ11 in 178 נ279 mm . Angela Barrett. Signed by Illustrator. Please email for Photographs or further information.2022 First Folio Society EditionFRANKENSTEINBy Mary ShelleyKEY DETAILSCondition: FineFormat: Hardcover Super octavo 8vo 7 נ11 in 178 נ279 mm Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.Published By: The Folio Society London 2022Language: EnglishLimited Edition: 498/750 CopiesSigned By: Signed by IllustratorIllustrated By: Angela BarrettCollation: xxx 202 pp.; colour frontispiece and seven colour plates; nine black-and-white vignettes.SKU: BTETM0002014Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5 L: 30 W: 25 Units: cm W: 2KgTracked Shipping Insurance Coverage as per Customer RequestDESCRIPTIONFrankensteinor The Modern PrometheusA striking signed limited edition of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus published by The Folio Society in 2022 and limited to just 750 hand-numbered copies. This is copy 498/750 signed by illustrator Angela Barrett on the limitation label.One of the most ambitious modern Folio Society treatments of Shelleys Gothic masterpiece this edition presents the authoritative 1831 text with an introduction by Richard Holmes and an extensive suite of illustrations by Angela Barrett. Eight brooding colour plates are complemented by nine finely worked black-and-white vignettes with Barretts designs extending to both the full leather binding and the publishers slipcase.A particularly handsome production bound in ice-blue leather and dramatically blocked in silver and black foils with all three page-edges silvered. The volume is housed in its black cloth-covered slipcase blocked in silver and retains the original Folio Society shipping carton an increasingly desirable point of completeness for collectors of modern Folio limited editions.CONDITION COLLATION & COPY NOTESA highly attractive example of this signed Folio Society limited edition.Bound in full ice-blue leather blocked in silver and black foils with a design by Angela Barrett. Binding presents extremely well. All three page-edges are silvered and the volume retains its ribbon marker.Internally clean and bright printed on Abbey Pure Rough paper and set in Clifford type with Operetta for display. Complete with colour frontispiece and seven further colour plates printed on Arctic Volume Ivory paper together with nine black-and-white vignettes by Angela Barrett. Limitation label present and signed by the artist.Housed in the publishers black cloth-covered slipcase blocked in silver foil with a further design by Barrett. The original Folio Society shipping carton is also retained adding to the completeness and collector appeal of the set.A fine and complete example of one of the most visually accomplished modern Folio Society editions of Frankenstein combining a major literary text with Barretts atmospheric illustration and elaborate production design.Please see Photos as part of condition report.SYNOPSISVictor Frankenstein a brilliant and obsessively ambitious young scientist discovers a means of imparting life to inanimate matter. His triumph becomes horror when the creature he has assembled awakens and Frankenstein abandons his creation.Intelligent sensitive and initially longing for companionship the creature encounters fear cruelty and rejection wherever he turns. His isolation gradually develops into rage against the creator who gave him life yet refused him responsibility or affection setting in motion a devastating cycle of vengeance guilt and pursuit.Moving from Geneva and the Alps to the remote wastes of the Arctic Shelleys novel explores creation and responsibility scientific ambition isolation prejudice and the limits of human knowledge. More than two centuries after its first publication Frankenstein remains one of the defining works of Gothic literature and a foundational text of science fiction. The Folio Society hardcover
rif. CA01C-00158Grosset & Dunlap. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1931. Photoplay edition. 8vo hardcover. Red cloth with black lettering top edge dyed green. xiv240pp. B/W plates. Near Very Good book. No dust jacket. Some wear to bottom edge. Numerous page corners creased else VG. In polypropylene bag. Horror Monsters Classic Fiction Inquire if you need further information. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1821rif. SHELLEYP004351W. Clark London. 1821. Second unauthorised edition. The first edition of which were there were approximately 250 copies was privately printed by the author in 1813. The first regularly published edition did not appear until 1822 after Shelley's death under the imprint of the radical publisher Richard Carlile. Carlile had wanted to publish the poem in the first place but had been refused permission by Shelley his reason for doing so being that he did not want to be represented to the wider public by an immature work. Carlile's former employee William Clark was rather less scrupulous and both he and another piratical publisher William Benbow brought out editions in London and New York respectively. In his haste to take advantage of the poem's notoriety Clark printed the poem in various states and always without its secondary title A Philosophical Poem: With Notes; also he dropped the quotations from Voltaire Lucretius and Archimedes from the title-page. Clark's aim was strictly monetary whereas Carlile was politically motivated. Shelley sought to suppress the 1821 editions but because of a court ruling stating "that books liable to conviction for blasphemy or sedition were not entitled to legal protection" his hands were tied. The government stepped in and indicted Clark who after a court case spent four months in prison. Octavo. 183 pages with the rarely included 2-page dedication poem to Harriet Shelley's first wife which in this copy is placed at the rear in lieu of the advertisement leaf found in the majority of copies - in some copies poem appears after the title-page. In most copies it doesn't appear at all. Original grey paper boards. Early ownership signature on front pastedown. Covers worn and defective at head and tail of spine and split at the hinges. Endpapers spotted. Good. Preserved in a slightly rubbed full leather book-form slipcase with raised bands gilt rules and burgundy leather title-label and black leather author label. W. Clark, London. hardcover
1876rif. 23925London: Reeves & Turner 1876. 4 volumes 8vo later full green pebble-grain morocco gilt rules on covers fleurons in the corners inner dentelles gilt decorated spines a.e.g. by Little Brown & Co.; Franklin Dexter bookplates; 10 plates and facsimiles; slight rubbing but near fine throughout. Reeves & Turner unknown
1876rif. 23925London: Reeves & Turner 1876. 4 volumes 8vo later full green pebble-grain morocco gilt rules on covers fleurons in the corners inner dentelles gilt decorated spines a.e.g. by Little Brown & Co.; Franklin Dexter bookplates; 10 plates and facsimiles; slight rubbing but near fine throughout. Reeves & Turner unknown books
rif. 174248Philadelphia: William Heinemann J. B. Lippincott N.D. First Edition; First Printing. Fine binding. Very Good in decorative boards. Light bump at spine heel.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. William Heinemann, J. B. Lippincott unknown
1996rif. Alibris.0000007New York NY: Oxford University Press USA 1996. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine in Very Good to Fine Dust Jackets. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 4176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Additional shipping and insurance required. Please inquire. Set includes The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches 1867-The Innocents Abroad 1869-Roughing It 1872-The Bilded Age 1873-Sketches New and Old 1875-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876-A Tramp Abroad 1880-The Prince and the Pauper 1881-Life on the Mississippi 1883-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885-A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889-Merry Tales 1892-The American Claimant 1892-The 1 000 000 Bank Note and Other New Stories 1893-Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894-The Tragedy of Pddd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins 1894-Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 1896-The Stolesn White Elephant and Other Detective Stories 1882 1896 1902-How to Tell a Story and Other Essays 1897-Following the Equator and Anti Imperialist Essays 1897 1901 1905-The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays 1900-The Diaries of Adam and Eve 1904 1906-What is Man 1906-The $30 000 Bequest and Other Stories 1906-Christian Science 1907-Chapters from My Autobiography 1906-1907-1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead 1882 1909-Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven 1909-Speeches 1910. Oxford University Press, USA hardcover
1927rif. 047508London: Julian Editions -- Ernst Benn Limited 1927. 1st . Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket. 8 Vo; .22 Pounds. Limited edition 1st thus; 10 volumes 8vo. Finely bound in quarter vellum black label gilt title and decoration to spine green cloth boards with gilt triple rule top edges gilt. a couple of volumes has some spottiing Volume 8 has lite scuff mark on top edges; Labels are in VG condition vellum has darkened a bit with age; one of 780 sets printed in the UK and 285 in the US; in mylar protective wraps Julian Editions -- Ernst Benn Limited hardcover
