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réf. 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
réf. 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
1870réf. 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
1837réf. 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
1911réf. 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
1911réf. 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
2022réf. 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
réf. 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
1821réf. 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
1876réf. 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
1876réf. 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
réf. 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
1996réf. 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
1927réf. 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
1833réf. 002252Edinburgh 1833 1833. THE LAST PERFORMANCE BY COOKE AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL EDINBURGH FOR 1833. Printed letterpress playbill/broadside 11-3/16" x 7-5/8" laid down on early cardstock toning heaver around edges all broadsides mentioning Cooke playing the Monster are scarce. The play's author Richard Brinsley Peake 1792-1847 was a prolific dramatist of the London popular theatre from 1818 until the time of his death. Presumption! appeared at the Lyceum the English Opera House in the late summer of 1823. During the autumn of the same year other serious adaptations of Frankenstein appeared at the Royalty and the Coburg. The part of the Monster was taken by Thomas Potter Cooke 1786-1864 a former sailor who had already earned popular and critical attention by his performance as Ruthven in The Vampire in 1820. Although Presumption! was not the first successful Gothic melodrama of the 1820s the popularity it achieved had an immediate effect on London theatre managements. Presumption! had helped to illuminate a public appetite for horrifying stage fantasies with morally unambiguous resolutions. The play was seen by Mary Shelley and her father William Godwin on 29 August 1823 at the English Opera House shortly after her return to England. Shelley approved of the way the Creature played by T.P. Cooke was represented by a series of dashes in the advertising. Mary Shelley had mixed feelings about the play when it opened but echoing Lord Byron wrote: "But lo and behold I found myself famous! Frankenstein had prodigious success as a drama and was about to be repeated for the twenty-third night at the English Royal Opera House". Edinburgh, 1833 unknown
1911réf. 34980London / Philadelphia: William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott 1911. First edition thus. Near fine. Elaborately ornamented edition of Shelley's 1820 poem lavishly illustrated by Charles Robinson and in the full maroon leather binding variant the scarcest of the edition's bindings. 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. A rare and beautiful copy. 10.25'' x 8''. Original full maroon goatskin with pictorial gilt decoration. Decorative white and gilt endpapers. Printed at the Ballantyne Press. Introduction by Edmond Gosse. 127 1 pages. 18 tipped-in color plates with additional illustrations in color and black and white by Robinson. Small bookseller label to rear paste-down. Faint toning and wear to spine some rubbing to rear board. William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott unknown
1843réf. 260343London: Thomas Rudd 1843. First. unbound. fine. 16 pages stitched as issued. Enclosed in a a half crimson morocco slipcase spine elaborately gilt; inner cloth wrappers. London: Thomas Rudd 1843. First Edition The publisher states that this is a facsimile reprint of the original edition of 20 copies printed in 1816 but no evidence indicates the existence of such an edition. Thomas Rudd unknown
1911réf. 34980London / Philadelphia: William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott 1911. First edition thus. Near fine. Elaborately ornamented edition of Shelley's 1820 poem lavishly illustrated by Charles Robinson and in the full maroon leather binding variant the scarcest of the edition's bindings. 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. A rare and beautiful copy. 10.25'' x 8''. Original full maroon goatskin with pictorial gilt decoration. Decorative white and gilt endpapers. Printed at the Ballantyne Press. Introduction by Edmond Gosse. 127 1 pages. 18 tipped-in color plates with additional illustrations in color and black and white by Robinson. Small bookseller label to rear paste-down. Faint toning and wear to spine some rubbing to rear board. William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott unknown books
1843réf. 260343London: Thomas Rudd 1843. First. unbound. fine. 16 pages stitched as issued. Enclosed in a a half crimson morocco slipcase spine elaborately gilt; inner cloth wrappers. London: Thomas Rudd 1843. First Edition The publisher states that this is a facsimile reprint of the original edition of 20 copies printed in 1816 but no evidence indicates the existence of such an edition. Thomas Rudd unknown books
2023réf. SBBI-mon0000154844Page Publications 2023. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Page Publications paperback
2017réf. SBBIH-DU6GV2DXO2S6Pinnacle Press 2017. paperback. Very Good. Most of our very good books have only minor imperfections such as shelf wear consistent with a new book that's sat on a bookshop shelf for a year or two. Occasionally we may miss other minor imperfections as we have to grade books at speed. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Pinnacle Press paperback
1828réf. 32206London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst Chance and Co. / R. Jennings 1828. Very Good. London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst Chance and Co. 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and R. Jennings 2 Poultry 1828. First Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's magenta moire silk gilt-lettered spine all edges gilt binder's ticket of F. Westley to rear pastedown; vii1360pp.; engraved presentation plate with initials "S.W." frontispiece and added title page sixteen 16 leaves of plates throughout collated complete. Some scuffing at corners and spine ends with brief exposure front hinge just starting else a Very Good internally clean and sound copy housed in modern linen clamshell box. Rather pretty orange contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown of George Gregory "Bookseller to H.M. Queen Alexandra." Magnificent example of this scarce keepsake volume with contributions by Sir Walter Scott Wordsworth Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley listed here simply as "the author of Frankenstein." The short story appears on p. 80 under the title "The Sisters of Albano" adorned with an accompanying engraving. As with her masterpiece "Frankenstein" Shelley returns to the nesting story within a story which opens with a pleasure party on the banks of Lake Albano observing a young couple a young worker with a rifle and his female companion. Thus sets off this tragic examination of "the mingling of love with crime" the story of sisters Maria and Anina the elder a devout nun the younger an adolescent who commits a crime for love that lands her before the executioner. In an act of desperation the sisters exchange garbs when Maria comes to visit Anina in order to save her but tragedy comes for all the characters in the end. Lyles D1c. Published for the Proprietor by Hurst, Chance, and Co. / R. Jennings unknown
1828réf. 32206London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst Chance and Co. / R. Jennings 1828. Very Good. London: Published for the Proprietor by Hurst Chance and Co. 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and R. Jennings 2 Poultry 1828. First Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's magenta moire silk gilt-lettered spine all edges gilt binder's ticket of F. Westley to rear pastedown; vii1360pp.; engraved presentation plate with initials "S.W." frontispiece and added title page sixteen 16 leaves of plates throughout collated complete. Some scuffing at corners and spine ends with brief exposure front hinge just starting else a Very Good internally clean and sound copy housed in modern linen clamshell box. Rather pretty orange contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown of George Gregory "Bookseller to H.M. Queen Alexandra." Magnificent example of this scarce keepsake volume with contributions by Sir Walter Scott Wordsworth Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley listed here simply as "the author of Frankenstein." The short story appears on p. 80 under the title "The Sisters of Albano" adorned with an accompanying engraving. As with her masterpiece "Frankenstein" Shelley returns to the nesting story within a story which opens with a pleasure party on the banks of Lake Albano observing a young couple a young worker with a rifle and his female companion. Thus sets off this tragic examination of "the mingling of love with crime" the story of sisters Maria and Anina the elder a devout nun the younger an adolescent who commits a crime for love that lands her before the executioner. In an act of desperation the sisters exchange garbs when Maria comes to visit Anina in order to save her but tragedy comes for all the characters in the end. Lyles D1c. Published for the Proprietor by Hurst, Chance, and Co. / R. Jennings unknown books
réf. 149800Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Archive of 12 vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1973 film. Eight photographs with the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso one photograph additionally SIGNED by the photographer. Five with manuscript annotations on the verso identifying either the film the subjects or location of the photograph one bearing the annotated date "1972." Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years photographing a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. A high-powered divorce attorney struggles with the end of his own marriage after he is caught having an affair only to discover he is still in love with his ex-wife. Photographs variously sized between 11.75 x 9.25 and 13 x 10 inches with most being 13.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
réf. 149800Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Archive of 12 vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1973 film. Eight photographs with the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso one photograph additionally SIGNED by the photographer. Five with manuscript annotations on the verso identifying either the film the subjects or location of the photograph one bearing the annotated date "1972." Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years photographing a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. A high-powered divorce attorney struggles with the end of his own marriage after he is caught having an affair only to discover he is still in love with his ex-wife. Photographs variously sized between 11.75 x 9.25 and 13 x 10 inches with most being 13.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
