Search Results: Fine Binding from Charles Agvent

New York: Greenway Publishing Company, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. Minor wear, spine sunned and a bit marked. Very Good. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8") bound in 3/4 blue polished leather and blue boards, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers; [iv], 506 pages. The English translation is uncredited.

London: Oxford University Press for Henry Frowde, n.d. [1891]. Hardcover. Fine. Full contemporary crushed olive morocco leather (3-3/4" x 5-3/4") by John Bumpus with a large gilt fleur–de–lis on the front cover within gilt frames, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, foliage frames gilt in remainder, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles. Frontispiece, text printed in red and black. A sumptuous binding showing the influence of the Art Nouveau from a renowned London binder.

London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, (1940). Reprint. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate from the 1940s on the front free endpaper. Spine pleasantly sunned. Near Fine in a decorated floral paper slipcase. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") bound in 3/4 green morocco and decorated boards, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, top edge gilt; xxiv, 912 pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas Hutchinson and including two prefaces by Mary Shelley and an index to first lines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet.

London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1923. Reprint. Hardcover. Close to Fine and beautifully bound. Octavo (4-5/8" x 7") bound by Donnelly in full bright brown morocco with gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; xxiv, 912 pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas Hutchinson and including two prefaces by Mary Shelley and an index to first lines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet.

New York & London: Oxford University Press, [1960s]. Reprint. Hardcover. Owner name on verso of front endpaper with generic bookplate on facing blank; slight wear at top and bottom of joints. A lovely binding in just about Fine condition. Two volumes in one bound in full polished blue calf leather (4-3/4" x 7-1/4") by Frost & Co. with double gilt-ruled borders, gilt decoration on the spine with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; l, 561; vi, 614 pages. Translated by E. J. Trechmann with an introduction by J. M. Robertson.

New York: Greenway Publishing Company, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. Minor wear, spine sunned and a bit marked. Very Good. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8") bound in 3/4 blue polished leather and blue boards with the owner's name in gilt on the front cover, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers; xvi, 554 pages.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. New Impression. Hardcover. About Fine. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco for G. P. Putnam's with gilt rules and gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt; xv, 328 pages. Philosophical ruminations about happiness, the law, politics, religion, money, marriage, time, success, and death.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Some rubbing to the spine tips and book edges, as often the case with this fragile binding. Very Good in a stained, Good slipcase. Ruth Reeves. Quarto (8" x 11-1/4") bound in full natural lambskin, goldstamped with a gold embossed medallion on the front cover. Translated and introduced by George Moore. Designed and printed on a hand-press by Porter Garnett in Pittsburgh. Copy #834 of 1500 illustrated with etchings by Ruth Reeves and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1905. Reprint. Hardcover. Light rubbing to spine and corners. An attractively bound edition of this poet's works in Near Fine condition. Octavo (5-1/4" x 7-3/4") bound in 3/4 green morocco with double gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers; viii, 623 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet.

London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, (1940). Reprint. Hardcover. Fine in a marbled paper slipcase. A beautifully bound edition of this poet's works. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") bound in full light brown morocco leather with double gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers; xiv, 698 pages. Includes an index to first lines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet.

London: Oxford University Press, (1967). Reprint. Hardcover. Neat owner inscription on the front endpaper. Fine in a lovely binding. Beautifully bound by Lauriat of Boston in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather and blue cloth with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt. xxiii, 918 pages.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with slight loss of paper on the top edge. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Translated from the Italian by Hill Thompson with a new preface by Irwin Edman. Copy #844 of 1500, issued unsigned.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Fine, bright copy in a Near Fine slipcase. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Translated from the Italian by Hill Thompson with a new preface by Irwin Edman. Copy #740 of 1500, issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in as well as something we've not encountered before: a broadsheet titled "How to Tell Gold from Shoddy," a translation taken from the MANUALE TYPOGRAFICA printed in 1788 by Giambattista Bodoni.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing to spine edges; some uneven fading to covers. Near Fine. Quarto (8" x 10") bound in full olive green morocco leather with gilt-ruled and decorated covers, a gilt-ruled and lettered spine with five raised bands, top edge gilt; [1-7], 8-48; 6, [63] pages.

London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1809. First English Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing to the frontispiece with slight offsetting to the title page; contents quite clean and bright. Binding tight and firm. About Fine and quite scarce. Duodecimo (3-7/8" x 6-1/4") bound in modern quarter calf leather over marbled boards, five raised bands and gilt rules to spine, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers; xxxvi, 115, {5 advertisements] pages. First published in Paris by Didot in 1802, this is the first edition of the first English translation from the French by William B. Hewetson. Includes a Life of the Author by Jauffret. Complete with half-title page, frontispiece engraved by Mackenzie after Thomson, and 5 pages of ads at the end. According to medieval legend William Tell from Burglen was known as an expert marksman with the crossbow. In the early 1300s, the Habsburg emperors were seeking to dominate Uri. Hermann Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian Vogt of Altdorf, raised a pole in the village's… Read More

London & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., (1965). Hardcover. Close to Fine. S. Van Abbe. Octavo (5-3/8" x 8-1/4") bound in 3/4 red polished calf leather and red cloth with a gilt-decorated spine and matching black gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with line drawings and 8 color plates by S. Van Abbe.