Search Results: Titles starting with F from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977 ¶ FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. ||| Collation: 233 x 155 mm: Pp. [1], 446. Binding: Black cloth, dust-jacket. Condition: A good copy. Reference: ISBN 067122347X. .

Paris: Cosson & co (Paris), for Elie Gauguet, 1860 In 12s and 6s (184 x 118 mm untrimmed): Pp [i-iv] [1] 2-296. Title within a fine wood-engraved architectural border incorporating birds, grapes, a serpent, and a fox, its base lettered 'Esope La Fontaine Phedre', after Louis Browne by I. Bichon(?). Six wood-engraved plates signed with monogram BJL (3) or unsigned (3), by I. Bichon(?) (4) or unsigned (2). Publisher's printed blue wrappers (the upper wrapper reproducing the titlepage, advertisements on the lower wrapper, spine priced 3 francs), plain tissue pastedowns. Partly unopened, sellotape on spine, withal a very good copy. *** THIRD EDITION, ENLARGED, and the earliest edition known in America; comprising 150 FABLES IN FRENCH VERSE, arranged in six books of twenty-five fables each; together with a general prologue, special prologues for books iii and v, and general epilogue, all in verse. An alphabetical index at the end distinguishes Bourguin's original fables -- of which there are… Read More

Chaumont (Haute-Marne): widow Bouchard, 1803     ¶  ONLY EDITION; comprising one hundred fables in French verse, chiefly original but one translated from Phaedrus; together with a charming dedication to the author's wife and a short verse Prologue and Epilogue. The text is arranged in five books of twenty fables each; and many of these have subtitles serving as promythia, eg "Le deux chenes; ou, L'orgueil puni" (The two oak-trees; or, Arrogance punished). A nice epigraph from Diderot adorns the titlepage: "Les Fables sont devenues la nourriture et les délices des esprits les plus délicats, le plus cultives, les plus profunds."  Of Bazinbois himself almost nothing is known. In 1787 he published a volume of Fables nouvelles . . . ; suivies d'un Traite sur la bienfaisance, under a (false) London imprint: Only one edition of this is known; and copies are preserved at Paris, Nancy, and Poitiers. From footnotes in the… Read More

Aix-en-Provence: H. Gaudibert, 1829 *** ONLY EDITION; CONTAINING NINETY-EIGHT FABLES IN PROVENCAL (OCCITAN) VERSE glossed in French, together with a verse prologue celebrating La Fontaine and a long introductory essay in French on the Provencal language. The latter was written originally for an etymological dictionary whose publication had been delayed and which was, in fact, never published. ONE OF ONLY 200 COPIES, printed for friends of the author and fans of 'lo gai saber'--ie, the Troubadour aesthetic. (The allusion here is to the Consistori del Gai Saber, a literary school or circle established at Toulouse in 1323, which codified Troubadour versification and fostered Troubadour-revival poetry slams.) -- Known for his numerous and charming poems and songs, the author was born at Eguilles, a commune about six miles northwest of Aix, on 19 September 1771. He taught for some years at Eguilles, and then married the owner of a silkworm-farm at Rognes. He moved afterwards to Aix, where he served as the… Read More

Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa s.a., 1994 -- "A veritable wealth of texts" (Carlson): 148 verse fables by the Mexican fabulists José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ("El Pensador Mexicano", 1776-1827) and José Rosas Moreno (1838-1883); and 275 fables by Aesop and Phedrus (in Spanish prose) and by La Fontaine, Ruiz, Iriarte, Samaniego, Arenal, Hartzenbusch, and Campoamor (in Spanish verse); with short biographical notices. (Series: Sepan cuantos, no. 16.). Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy.. In 16s (220 x 137 mm). Pp. [viii], 293, [294-322].

Oxford: at the Scrivener press, 1950 -- ONLY EDITION of the standard bibliography. Numerous facsimiles.. Quarter cloth, printed boards. Near fine.. In 8s (280 x 219 mm). Pp. xvii, 369.

Paris: Librairie Vanier, 1893   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and indeed the only separate edition, of Verlaine's biographical sketch of Francis Poictevin, a minor Symbolist writer. Verlaine's work is enlivened here by Luque's punning caricature of Poictevin as a corkscrew. The artist's most famous work was his caricature of Rimbaud coloring the vowels 1888 (Dillon no. H000335). (Series: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui, no. 424.) ||| Collation: 292 x 202 mm: Two leaves, paginated [1-4] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Wood-engraved portrait 201 x 149 mm after Manuel Luque (b. 1854), signed "M Luque" in a stylized pallette in the block lower left, printed in black and HAND-COLORED au pochoir, AS ISSUED.  Binding: (A bifolium loose as issued, never bound.) Condition: Slightly browned as usual, top margins slightly chipped without loss, withal a very good copy of a scarce and fragile pamphlet.  References: Vicaire (1894-1920) vii 1002; Carteret (1924-28)… Read More

Paris: Librairie Vanier, 1885   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and in fact the only separate edition, of Verlaine's sketch of François Coppée; enlivened by a striking caricature of the poet holding a red rose and toting a wagonload of hearts across the Place de l'Odéon--where his comedy Le passant had given Sarah Bernhardt her first triumph.   ¶ Coppée was a leading poet and dramatist of the 1870s and '80s, and the progenitor of Les Vilains Bonshommes ("The Nasty Boys")--a group of younger Parnassians whose monthly dinners were celebrated, famously, by Fantin-Latour in his large canvas Coin de table, now in the Musée d'Orsay. (It was at one such dinner, in 1871, that Rimbaud made his Paris debut. The Nasty Boys were not amused.) Coppée is now remembered chiefly for his role in excluding Mallarmé and Verlaine and Charles Cros from the third volume of Le Parnasse contemporain 1876. (Series: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui,… Read More

¶ Only edition, notable here for Paola Cosentino's paper "Un plagio del Principe: Il De regnando peritia di Agostino Nifo", pages 139-60, which has not been reprinted. This is "an overall re-examination of the literary, historical and cultural value" of Nifo De regnandi peritia 1523, famous for containing the only version of The prince published in Machiavelli's lifetime. Scarce in America. Series: Università di Roma 1. Dipartimento di italianistica e spettacolo. Studi (e testi) italiani, no. 1. Collation: In 16s (240 x 170 mm, 9½ x 6½ inches): 212 leaves, paginated [1]-[424]. Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers. Condition: As new. References: C. Mordeglia, in The first translations of Machiavelli's Prince ed. R. De Pol (2010), page [59]n. Unknown to De Bellis! Bibliografia di Agostino Nifo (2005) page 283. .

Peterhead (Aberdeenshire): Aulton Press, 1987 *** ONLY EDITION IN MODERN SCOTS; COMPRISING TWENTY-SIX FABLES IN NORTHEAST-DIALECT VERSE, with a preface by Billy Kay and a Scots-English glossary. Wheaton's illustrations are quite delightful: Several of them show frogs in kilts or playing the bagpipes, a tortoise in a tam-o'-shanter, &c; another incorporates the aurora borealis. The poet Robert Strachan Stephen (b. 1949) afterwards published By the shores o' Galilee: Stories from the Gospels in Scots verse (1989); In the beginning: Stories from the Old Testament in Scots verse (1991), and Troll tales (1999). The Aulton Press is apparently his private imprint; and this is its first book. *** Out of print, and already quite SCARCE. Only two other copies are known in America. -- References: CAIRNS; Carlson; COPAC; OCLC 16472225. . First edition.. Publisher's glazed pictorial b. 280 x 210 mm: Pp [i-viii], 1-86 [87-88]. Eight col.

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett publications inc, 1966     ¶ ONLY EDITION, first printing. A James Bond pastiche relating the mock-heroic adventures of Satyr-Man; by the author of The Mothman prophecies (1975, film 2002). Scarce. (Series: A Fawcett gold medal book. Fawcett world library.)   ||| Collation: 179 x 105 mm: 80 leaves, paginated [1-4] 5-160. Eight full-page illustrations after Jaffee (1) or unsigned (7).  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers (priced 50¢, stock-number d1719/9).  Condition: A very good copy, slightly bumped.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below..