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1910réf. 6404London: Robt. Riviere & Son 1910. A fine example. Square sixteenmo 5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm. 46 2 blank pp. Title-page and initial letters printed in red and black. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt surrounding an ornate floral design stamped in gilt each with twelve inlaid red morocco flowers spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins cream paper liners and end-leaves top edge gilt. Neat ink inscription on front free end-paper and a small gold bookplate. Shelley's poem The Sensitive Plant is a beautiful and tragic poem commemorating the brevity of life and immortality of cyclical nature. Written after death of his son while Percy and Mary Shelley struggled with their grief in Pisa the poem consists of four stanzas with three sections charting the change of seasons. It is set in a garden bursting with blooms but highlights the sensitive plant-a mimosa-with its humble leafy foliage. Human will is nothing in the face of the impartial power of nature and time. First published in Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems 1820 here it has been reproduced with a delicate binding to match its subject. "For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves even like Love its deep heart is full It desires what it has not the Beautiful!" "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. Robt. Riviere & Son unknown books
1902réf. 3497London: Hacon and Ricketts The Vale Press 1902. First editions thus. First editions thus. Tall 8vo. Two separate titles five total volumes two Keats three Shelley. A superb set of both Vale Press titles sold here together since bound similar and obviously stored safely together by the same owner as all five volumes in fine condition. Bound in publisher's original beige smooth buckram cloth. Borders initials and decorations including a full-page decoratvie title in each volume of the Shelley and double-page title spread in the Keats by Charles Ricketts. Spine as near to original hue as ever seen. Browning to prelims in the Keats but no browning in the three Shelley volumes amazingly. Shelley all three volumes unopened.The finest set we have seen in some time. Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press unknown books
1826réf. 322393London: William Benbow 1826. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems" published the same year. ii title contents leaf 144pp. headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1 1 and C-D 2E Z 2A-2B U-Y 2F 2H all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. Bound in Twentieth Century brown levant elaborately gilt with flower devices on the spine and front cover stamped by Riviere & Sons uncut fine. With the bookplate of Louis Ledoux. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems" published the same year. ii title contents leaf 144pp. headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1 1 and C-D 2E Z 2A-2B U-Y 2F 2H all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. But for 1824's Posthumous Poems this is the first selected poems of Shelley. This version reprints the poems from the earlier volume omitting the longer poems and translations but adding "Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples" with the fifth line of the first stanza with the correct reading "earth" for "air" which did not appear in the authorized editions until 1870. In Watt's "Poetical Album" 1829 this line is entirely omitted. Only four copies of this edition have sold at auction in the last 35 years. It was through this work that Browning first became acquainted with his first poetic hero. Grannis 87 William Benbow unknown books
1910réf. 6404London: Robt. Riviere & Son 1910. A fine example. Square sixteenmo 5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm. 46 2 blank pp. Title-page and initial letters printed in red and black. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt surrounding an ornate floral design stamped in gilt each with twelve inlaid red morocco flowers spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins cream paper liners and end-leaves top edge gilt. Neat ink inscription on front free end-paper and a small gold bookplate. Shelley's poem The Sensitive Plant is a beautiful and tragic poem commemorating the brevity of life and immortality of cyclical nature. Written after death of his son while Percy and Mary Shelley struggled with their grief in Pisa the poem consists of four stanzas with three sections charting the change of seasons. It is set in a garden bursting with blooms but highlights the sensitive plant-a mimosa-with its humble leafy foliage. Human will is nothing in the face of the impartial power of nature and time. First published in Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems 1820 here it has been reproduced with a delicate binding to match its subject. "For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves even like Love its deep heart is full It desires what it has not the Beautiful!" "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. Robt. Riviere & Son unknown
1902réf. 3497London: Hacon and Ricketts The Vale Press 1902. First editions thus. First editions thus. Tall 8vo. Two separate titles five total volumes two Keats three Shelley. A superb set of both Vale Press titles sold here together since bound similar and obviously stored safely together by the same owner as all five volumes in fine condition. Bound in publisher's original beige smooth buckram cloth. Borders initials and decorations including a full-page decoratvie title in each volume of the Shelley and double-page title spread in the Keats by Charles Ricketts. Spine as near to original hue as ever seen. Browning to prelims in the Keats but no browning in the three Shelley volumes amazingly. Shelley all three volumes unopened.The finest set we have seen in some time. Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press unknown
1826réf. 322393London: William Benbow 1826. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems" published the same year. ii title contents leaf 144pp. headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1 1 and C-D 2E Z 2A-2B U-Y 2F 2H all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. Bound in Twentieth Century brown levant elaborately gilt with flower devices on the spine and front cover stamped by Riviere & Sons uncut fine. With the bookplate of Louis Ledoux. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of "Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems" published the same year. ii title contents leaf 144pp. headline on page 143 not reversed. Collation as issued: 1 1 and C-D 2E Z 2A-2B U-Y 2F 2H all in 6s. 1 vols. 12mo 150 x 90 mm. But for 1824's Posthumous Poems this is the first selected poems of Shelley. This version reprints the poems from the earlier volume omitting the longer poems and translations but adding "Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples" with the fifth line of the first stanza with the correct reading "earth" for "air" which did not appear in the authorized editions until 1870. In Watt's "Poetical Album" 1829 this line is entirely omitted. Only four copies of this edition have sold at auction in the last 35 years. It was through this work that Browning first became acquainted with his first poetic hero. Grannis 87 William Benbow unknown
réf. 016593Pennyroyal West Hatfield 1983. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 14" x 10 1/2". . Book only lacks slipcase and portfolio of prints. Quarter leather with red cloth over boards 5 raised bands three volumes in one illustrated with woodcuts by Barry Moser. This book is number 142 of a limited edition of 350. Dampstain on spine corners rubbed spots of damage on gilded top text block edge some minor staining at bottom text block edge. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 6 lbs 7 oz. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016593. . Pennyroyal hardcover
2002réf. 82747Museum. New. 2002. Paperback. 0940717735 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Corresponds to ASIN: B002J7P3T0 and ISBN: B002J7P3T0. X 86 pages 89 illus. 4 in color appendices sm. 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
2002réf. 82746Museum. New. 2002. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- x 86 pages 89 illus. 4 in color appendicies sm. 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
1835réf. 170915004New York: Wallis and Newell 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Following the three volume British edition. Two volumes in one. Bound with The Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat as issued. 228; 219pp. Period half calf and marbled boards morocco spine label lettered in gilt. About Very Good. Small stain in upper margin of first 60 pages or so of Lodore. Crease down middle of spine wear to edges. Some textual foxing and spotting heaviest at Naval Officer title page and facing last page of Lodore; wrinkling to pages of Naval Officer. Published as part of the Franklin Library series but fortunately unlike most surviving copies not an institutional copy. The rare first American appearance of a proto-feminist novel by Mary Shelley best-known as the author of Frankenstein also known as The Beautiful Widow. Wallis and Newell hardcover books
réf. MWS006New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1983 With approximately 45 full-page black and white illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. Introduction by Stephen King. Limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson this being number 322 an additional 26 lettered copies were produced for private distribution. Publisher's black cloth with front board stylistically lettered in blue foil and gilt spine lettered in gilt and navy-blue endpapers; housed in publisher's blue slipcase. Fine book; fine slipcase with just a touch of soiling to panels. With parts of the original glassine wrapper laid in. Overall a marvelous strikingly illustrated copy. First published anonymously by 20-year-old Mary Shelley in 1818 Frankenstein is recognized as one of the greatest novels in the English language and a foundational text in the horror and science fiction genres. Mary Shelley famously devised the story during a stay at a mansion in Switzerland with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley her stepsister Claire Clairmont Lord Byron and John Polidori after the five of them began a game to see who could write the best ghost story. The story is told through a series of letters from Captain Robert Walton to his sister beginning in the middle of his voyage to the North Pole when Walton and his crew happen upon the lone emaciated Victor Frankenstein in need of shelter. They take the stranger on board and Walton slowly learns of his tortured past from a tragic childhood to scientific experiments that eventually resulted in the creation of a monster who threatens his life. For this edition of Frankenstein American artist Bernie Wrightson worked on the illustrations based directly on the 1831 text on and off for seven years. He wasn't paid for the project saying "I've always had a thing for Frankenstein and it was a labor of love. It was not an assignment it was not a job.". Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Wrightson Bernie. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, hardcover books
réf. MWS006New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1983 With approximately 45 full-page black and white illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. Introduction by Stephen King. Limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson this being number 322 an additional 26 lettered copies were produced for private distribution. Publisher's black cloth with front board stylistically lettered in blue foil and gilt spine lettered in gilt and navy-blue endpapers; housed in publisher's blue slipcase. Fine book; fine slipcase with just a touch of soiling to panels. With parts of the original glassine wrapper laid in. Overall a marvelous strikingly illustrated copy. First published anonymously by 20-year-old Mary Shelley in 1818 Frankenstein is recognized as one of the greatest novels in the English language and a foundational text in the horror and science fiction genres. Mary Shelley famously devised the story during a stay at a mansion in Switzerland with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley her stepsister Claire Clairmont Lord Byron and John Polidori after the five of them began a game to see who could write the best ghost story. The story is told through a series of letters from Captain Robert Walton to his sister beginning in the middle of his voyage to the North Pole when Walton and his crew happen upon the lone emaciated Victor Frankenstein in need of shelter. They take the stranger on board and Walton slowly learns of his tortured past from a tragic childhood to scientific experiments that eventually resulted in the creation of a monster who threatens his life. For this edition of Frankenstein American artist Bernie Wrightson worked on the illustrations based directly on the 1831 text on and off for seven years. He wasn't paid for the project saying "I've always had a thing for Frankenstein and it was a labor of love. It was not an assignment it was not a job.". Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Wrightson Bernie. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, hardcover
1835réf. 170915004New York: Wallis and Newell 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Following the three volume British edition. Two volumes in one. Bound with The Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat as issued. 228; 219pp. Period half calf and marbled boards morocco spine label lettered in gilt. About Very Good. Small stain in upper margin of first 60 pages or so of Lodore. Crease down middle of spine wear to edges. Some textual foxing and spotting heaviest at Naval Officer title page and facing last page of Lodore; wrinkling to pages of Naval Officer. Published as part of the Franklin Library series but fortunately unlike most surviving copies not an institutional copy. The rare first American appearance of a proto-feminist novel by Mary Shelley best-known as the author of Frankenstein also known as The Beautiful Widow. Wallis and Newell hardcover
1829réf. 042Octavo A beautiful Contemporary full decorative dark blue morocco binding elaborately gilt decorated spine and boards raised bands All edges gilt. No previous ownership inscriptions. Housed in green clamshell box with a marbled interior and a black morocco label. FIRST EDITION of this collection of works by these three Romantic poets. Comprises the first collected edition of Shelley the first collected edition of Keats and only the second collected edition of Coleridge with many poems published for the first time. With frontispiece portrait of the three poets. This edition was published in Paris because the poets lacked international copyright protection and no royalties needed to be paid. However Galignani in fact worked closely with friends and relatives of the poets to create these three exhaustive collections. The frontispiece portrait is the first printed portrait of Shelley. MacGillivray B1. Peck ii 440. A scarce and desirable copy in a beautiful and very appropriate period binding. A. and W. Galignani hardcover
1824réf. 2408424London: John and Henry L. Hunt 1824. Good fresh copy with a few bumps and scuffs. Octavo 415 pp. without errata not required in this first issue; contemporary polished green calf An attractive copy of this important collection with a short but poignant biographical notice by Mary Shelley. Shelley died in July 1822 drowned in the sea off Livorno. Mary spent the ensuing year in Genoa with Leigh Hunt and his family but returned to London in 1823 where she was granted a small allowance by Shelley's disapproving father Sir Timothy and busied herself with literary work including editing many of his poems and manuscripts for this edition. It includes Julian and Maddalo The Witch of Atlas Letter to Maria Gisborne The Triumph of Life Prince Athanase Ode to Naples and Mont Blanc as well as fifty-nine "Miscellaneous Poems" nine "Fragments" five translations and Alastor included because the original volume published in 1816 was now so scarce that even Mary had found it difficult to track down a copy. . John and Henry L. Hunt unknown
réf. 63939London: Edward Moxon 1839. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 4 vols. 8vo. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Handsomely bound by Morrell in contemporary straight-grained citron morocco sides ruled with two gilt fillets spines with raised bands and richly gilt-decorated compartments each stamped with central fleuron device complementary red and green morocco labels gilt inner dentelles blue-coated endpapers all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece in first volume. An excellent set in superb bindings. First collected edition of Shelley's complete poems compiled by his wife Mary. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established him finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language. Pirate editions of Shelley's works had persuaded his father Sir Timothy that all hope of obscurity had passed and Mary was allowed to prepare a proper edition provided she included only a minimal amount of biographical information. "Mary Shelley brought Shelley into the mainstream of the national culture. He was no longer the author of a notorious banned poem Queen Mab only obtainable from shops specializing in blasphemy sedition and advice on birth control. He was the prophet of Prometheus Unbound one of the most ambitious attempts ever made to uplift life by literature and of other works such as the "Ode to the West Wind". The notes that Mary added are masterpieces of editing adding so immeasurably to the reader's understanding that nobody would now consider printing Shelley's poems without them" St Clair p. 492. London: Edward Moxon, 1839. hardcover
1843réf. 245808London: Reprinted for Thomas Rodd Great Newport Street Compton & Ritchie Printers Middle Street Cloth Fair 1843. First edition. 16 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sewn as issued. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Fine. First edition. 16 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. According to Wise: "In 1843 when advertising the present pamphlet for sale Rodd asserted that it was a facsimile reprint of an alleged original edition of which the author had printed twenty copies in 1816. No example of this mysterious original has ever been unearthed; no trace of it beyond Rodd's own statement has ever been discovered; and no mention of any kind either of its printing or distribution is to be found in the correspondence of Shelley or any of his friends. My own opinion is that no original ever existed that the private impression of twenty copies was a myth and that Rodd's so-called facsimile reprint of 1843 is in fact the actual princeps of the Address." Political essay arguing that the death of Princess Charlotte in childbirth was "a private grief" while the execution of three weavers for high treason in Derbyshire was a national tragedy. "The execution of Brandreth Ludlam and Turner is an event of quite a different character from the death of Princess Charlotte . It is a national calamity that we endure men to rule over us who sanction for whatever ends a conspiracy which is to arrive at its purpose through such a frightful pouring forth of human blood and agony . Liberty is dead!" Uncommon. Ashley V p. 64; Granniss Shelley pp. 43-44; Wise Shelley p. 46 Reprinted for Thomas Rodd, Great Newport Street (Compton & Ritchie, Printers, Middle Street, Cloth Fair) unknown books
1843réf. 245808London: Reprinted for Thomas Rodd Great Newport Street Compton & Ritchie Printers Middle Street Cloth Fair 1843. First edition. 16 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sewn as issued. In half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. Fine. First edition. 16 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. According to Wise: "In 1843 when advertising the present pamphlet for sale Rodd asserted that it was a facsimile reprint of an alleged original edition of which the author had printed twenty copies in 1816. No example of this mysterious original has ever been unearthed; no trace of it beyond Rodd's own statement has ever been discovered; and no mention of any kind either of its printing or distribution is to be found in the correspondence of Shelley or any of his friends. My own opinion is that no original ever existed that the private impression of twenty copies was a myth and that Rodd's so-called facsimile reprint of 1843 is in fact the actual princeps of the Address." Political essay arguing that the death of Princess Charlotte in childbirth was "a private grief" while the execution of three weavers for high treason in Derbyshire was a national tragedy. "The execution of Brandreth Ludlam and Turner is an event of quite a different character from the death of Princess Charlotte . It is a national calamity that we endure men to rule over us who sanction for whatever ends a conspiracy which is to arrive at its purpose through such a frightful pouring forth of human blood and agony . Liberty is dead!" Uncommon. Ashley V p. 64; Granniss Shelley pp. 43-44; Wise Shelley p. 46 Reprinted for Thomas Rodd, Great Newport Street (Compton & Ritchie, Printers, Middle Street, Cloth Fair) unknown
2005réf. SKU0490637Prentice Hall 2005-05-01. Spiral-bound. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking Prentice Hall unknown
1835réf. 002398New York: Wallis & Newell 1835 1835. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 1 vol. 7-11/16" x 4-3/4" 228pp. bound in contemporary original floral grained mauve cloth gilt title to spine. Occasional minor foxing throughout inner and outer hinges fine head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss lacking rear blank endleaf bookplate to front pastedown matching ownership signature to front blank endleaf overall still a GOOD copy. Auction records locate only 3 copies EVER appearing at auction. Mary Shelley's most autobiographical work also published under the title of "The Beautiful Widow". "Lodore" follows the fortunes of Cornelia Lord Lodore's estranged wife and his daughter Ethel as they navigate societal expectations and personal struggles after Lodore's death with a focus on the relationships between women and the exploration of gender roles. New York: Wallis & Newell, 1835 hardcover
réf. 3269London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier 1818 for 1817. FIRST EDITION of Shelley's longest and most spiritually revolutionary work. xxxii 270 pp. COMPLETE WITH THE DEDICATION LEAF THE FLY-TITLE with a quotation from Pindar in the original Greek AND THE ERRATA LEAF. This copy is from the COLLECTION OF ROBERT HOE the greatest of all American book collectors with his small finely gilt leather bookplate on front pastedown his auction catalogue volume IV part 2 lot 2917. TEXT CORRECTED in accordance with the errata leaf IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Printed on fine wove paper. Large 8vo. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND surely for Hoe IN FULL HAVANA MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT BY RIVIERE signed. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Traces of wear to joints else FINE AND BRIGHT. For an interesting account of the publication of this volume see Buxton Forman's Shelley Library pp. 71-87. An outstanding copy of an important book. London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1818 (for 1817) hardcover
réf. FORT922810George Routledge and Sons. Used - Acceptable. Published in 1891. Rare binding variant. 12mo. Half-bound in beige cloth. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Blue cloth covered boards with white floral pattern. Top edges gilt. George Routledge and Sons hardcover
1931réf. 40563New York: Grosset and Dunlap 1931. First Photoplay Edition illustrated with scene from the Universal Film starring Boris Karloff and directed by James Whale at front jacket panel. Uncommon. Almost Near Fine some shadowing at endpapers perhaps from an old jacket protector in Very Good dustjacket some light soiling chips at spine ends and flap corners less than dime sized chip at mid front spine edge. Grosset and Dunlap hardcover
1839réf. 187817London: Edward Moxon 1839. Giving the productions of a sublime genius to the world First collected edition attractively bound by Peacock & Mansfield. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established him finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language. Pirated editions of Shelley's works had persuaded his father Sir Timothy that all hope of obscurity had passed and Mary was allowed to prepare a proper edition provided she included only a minimal amount of biographical information. "Mary Shelley brought Shelley into the mainstream of the national culture. He was no longer the author of a notorious banned poem Queen Mab only obtainable from shops specializing in blasphemy sedition and advice on birth control. He was the prophet of Prometheus Unbound one of the most ambitious attempts ever made to uplift life by literature and of other works such as the "Ode to the West Wind". The notes that Mary added are masterpieces of editing adding so immeasurably to the reader's understanding that nobody would now consider printing Shelley's poems without them" St Clair p. 492. 4 vols octavo 161 x 100 mm. Bound without the half-titles. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I. Early 20th-century brown morocco by Peacock & Mansfield spines lettered in gilt compartments and covers ruled and decorated in gilt floral gilt board edges and turn-ins pale yellow endpapers edges gilt green silk bookmarker. Bookplate and ownership inscription of Henry Lloyd Gibbs c.1861-1907 to each vol one dated 1886. Minor soiling and rubbing to leather light foxing to outer leaves. A very good set. Dunbar Shelley Studies 345; Granniss 88; Wise p. 87. William St Clair The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family 1989. hardcover
réf. 003235Mornay, 1932
