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Published by Collier Books, 1962
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 2nd printing(1967), 320 pages, glossary. Spine creased and bowed, taped-over scrapes and chips near the top front edge and lower spine. Binding holding well, text clean.
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1929
Seller: High Barn Books, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Hardback. Good+ hardback (light edgewear, black marks on front board, spine title dull, light foxing). 189 pp 16mo blue cloth with gilt lettering. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale.
Published by The Walter Scott Publishing
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No Date. 276 Pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Fading on the spine. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, minor foxing, overall clean and complete. Tightly bound.[Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co., 1901
Seller: High Barn Books, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Hardback. New edition. Good+ hardback (light edgewear, esp. to spine title label, foxing to outer pages and page edges, ownership sig.). 278 pp 8vo red cloth with paper title label pasted to spine. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale.
Published by Thomas B. Mosher
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1900. Decorative slipcase, Japan vellum wraps, 12mo, xxxvi and 27 pp. From a limited run of 425 copies. Slipcase has shelf wear. Book itself is Very Good, with minimal shelf wear, tight binding and clean, bright pages.
Published by Longmans, Green & Company, 1900
Seller: Ancient World Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Ffeps are tanned. Spine ends are frayed. Spine has been repaired with clear adhesive tape. Spine title is worn. Mild tanning to pages. ; 306 pages.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co 1900, 1900
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, Leipzig, 1901
First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. First German translation of this essay by William Morris discussing the art and beauty of the Earth. An ode to the beauty of the earth by influential artist and author of the nineteenth century William Morris. German edition translated by M. Schwabe, first thus.Morris was one of the most significant cultural figures of Victorian Britain, best known as a poet in his time, but now also widely celebrated for his designs. In the original publisher's wraps. Externally sound with some shelf wear, lightly chipped to extremities, faint minor spotting to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor faint spotting to endpapers, pages otherwise bright and clean. Good. book.
Published by Walter Scott Publishing London (1912), 1912
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
hardback in original cloth Very Good small octavo lii + 276pp., bibliog., index,
Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland Maine, 1909
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Third Edition. A near fine copy in the publisher's original title-printed stiff-card wrappers, cased in a slightly worn, floral decorated, card slipcase. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 66 pages 1 Kg.
Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland Maine, 1909
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Third Edition. A near fine copy in the publisher's original title-printed stiff-card wrappers, cased in a slightly worn, floral decorated, card slipcase. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 66 pages 1 Kg.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. VG clean and tight copy, slight scuff to cover, spine paper label slightly worn.
Published by Liberty, MO: Jotun's Bane Kindred 21st September 2010 Trade Paperback ISBN 978-1452830728, 2010
ISBN 10: 145283072XISBN 13: 9781452830728
Seller: N & A Smiles, Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
Book
Soft cover. Condition: As New. Very Fine. A new unread copy. In stock, ready to ship.
Published by F S Ellis, 1869
Seller: High Barn Books, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Hardback. Second edition. Good+ hardback (light edgewear, ownership sig., endpapers foxed otherwise clean, bright and tight). 304 pp 8vo black cloth with paper title label on spine. Deckled page edges. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this collection of Icelandic tales, translated by Eiríkur Magnússon and William Morris. The first edition of this work.Translated from the original Icelandic by Eiríkur Magnússon and William Morris. Magnusson taught Morris Icelandic, prompting him to publish his translations of 'The Saga of Gunnlaug Worm-Tongue' and 'Grettis Saga'.This volume features six tales, including the tales of Frithiof the Bold, Viglund the Fair, and Roi the Fool.With the bookplate of the Yale University Library to the front pastedown, and their stamp to the title page verso.An attractive example of this collection of tales by the prominent textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist. In the publisher's original cloth covered boards. Paper spine label age toned, with minor losses to perimeter. Light cockling to front board. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Stamp to title page verso. Pages clean and bright. Pages of Index to rear unopened. Very Good. book.
Published by London Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second edition. 191 pages. Some wear on spine pastedown. Rubbing to covers. Else, very good condition. A tight copy. (S3).
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1904
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smart example of William Morris and A. J. Wyatt's English language translation of the Old English epic poem 'Beowulf'. First published in 1895 by Morris's own Kelmscott Press, and first published in a trade edition in 1898 this is a lovely later edition.Because his understanding of Old English was limited, Morris's translation was based on the pre-existing work of Alfred John Wyatt. Critical responses to Morris's translation upon its publication was unfavourable.With an advertisement leaf to the rear.With the inscription of E. G. M. McClure, dated 1907, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Paper spine label age toned. Otherwise, externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good. book.
Published by The Folio Society 2014, 2014
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
#619 OF A NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 980, octavo sized book presented in a quarto sized clam shell presentation case, enclosed is the quarto sized commentary & translation, The Odes of Horace text is fully leather bound with raised bands & gilt lettering to spine, each of the 183pp are beautifully illustrated and/or decorated, the insert in which it sits is maroon velvet & has beautiful gilt decoration in its surroundings, the quarto sized accompanying commentary & translation sits atop the presentation text nicely and is of deep green heavy boards with gilt lettering to the front board, it also has a frontispiece & 63pp. With the exception of the clam shell case, both text & commentary are in Near FINE condition. The deep green clam shell case is with gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & silver gilt decoration to front board & in VG+ condition (light chafing & soiling to case only) A truly magnificant addition to anyone's bookcase!.
Published by Longmans, Green & Company, 1898
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 191 pp; Second edition, first printing, very rare early reprint. Book has previous owner's bookplate, bound in black fabric with paper paste-down spine label, tiny white spot on back cover, light wear to the corners/spine ends, spine lable chipped around the edges and toned, pages unmarked and lightly age toned, no foxing. A nice, clean, tight and attractive book.
Published by (Chiswick Press), (London), 1901
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition thus. Quarto, 293pp. A good or better smoker's copy (with only faint odor) in the publisher's blue paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine, and spine label. Darkening to spine and spine label. Very minor partial split signature at pp.112-113. Corner tips gently worn. Despite these notable flaws, an internally clean and bright example, fit for anyone who appreciates the work of William Morris. Includes the publisher's duplicate spine label, tipped into the front endpapers.
Published by F. S. Ellis, London, 1870
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A beautiful first translation of this epic poem by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris bound in delightful decorative cloth. Translated from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris. A scarce volume. Translated from the Volsunga Saga, late thirteenth century poetic rendition in Old Norse concerning the origin and decline of the Volsung clan, and from theNibelungenlied, Middle High German heroic epic.The decorative binding was designed by William Morris and Philip Webb. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with decorative gilt embossing to boards and spine. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to endpapers, pages otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.
Published by Ellis & White, London, 1875
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
256 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Edition, One of 25 on Whatman. First Edition, One of 25 on Whatman. 256 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ONE OF 25. Buxton Forman 40 Full red contemporary morocco, gilt spine, a.e.g. by Hodson Binder, Liverpool. Bookplate of Earl of Derby.
Published by Printed For Private Distribution, London, 1873
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo ( measuring 5 1/2 x 8 3/5 inches), in quarter tan cloth over blue paper-covered boards, re-inforced at the joints, possibly, with a vellum strip, the spine with a printed paper title label, plain cream endpapers. [Alternative title spelling given in page headers.] Collation: [6] 1-61, [3]pp. First edition in English.**CONDITION: Very Good. Exterior of boards show moderate soiling and edge wear. Hinges in order. End papers browned. Very light foxing to prelims at margins, and along all outer edges of text block. Pages are moderately age toned, generally clean. Presentation inscription: " William Morris, Esq. /from H. Buxton Forman" (undated) in old ink to prelim. page.**Morris wrote to Forman thanking him for the book (Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol 1, No. 216). Kelvin records his actual thank you letter for the book in 1873 (as No. 216 in Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol. I) which reads in part: "nor am I much interested in anything Wagner does - his theories on musical matters seem to me as an artist and non-musical man perfectly abhominable (sic): besides I look upon it as nothing short of desecration to bring such a tremendous and world-wide subject under the gaslights of the opera: a most rococo and degraded of all forms of art. I wish to see Wagner uprooted" ( Letters, Vol. I, p. 205) ** Henry Buxton Forman (1842-1917) , brother of this book's translator, was one-half of the most notorious British book forging partnerships in modern times, with Thomas J. Wise. The relationship between Harry Buxton Forman and William Morris is a fascinating yet convoluted tale. Forman was in initially a bureaucrat at the Royal Mail, then "a failed poet," and an obsessive collector of books and bibliographic detail, which he parlayed into a second career as a contributor of literary criticism and editorial services to some of the big-name authors of the day, including John Keats and Percey Shelley. His articles for Tinsley's Magazine, entitled "Our Living Poets" brought him to the notice of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others of the Pre-Raphaelite circle whom he had written about. Forman did have a legitimate working relationship with Morris, as described by biographer John Collins in his book, The Two Forgers (1992): "William Morris was clearly a specialty, as Swineburne was of Wise. Forman had been on nodding, if not intimate, terms with William Morris for some twenty-five years: he was known as a keen and punctilious collector of his works, and as a useful literary type who could safely be entrusted with a set of proofs to read. He certainly admired Morris greatly, so it was in the natural course of things that he would write the standard bibliography and forge the productions of his hero." (p. 132) It is estimated that up to ten percent of the pamphlets and other shorter works listed in The Books of William Morris, edited by H. Buxton Forman (1897) were, in fact, forged or pirated, which the book then "authenticated". OCLC 753144914. RARE--only three copies shown in libraries in the U.S and Britain. Inscribed to William Morris from H. Buxton Forman (translator's brother).
Published by London: F. S. Ellis, 1869, 1869
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by one of the translators on an inserted leaf before the half-title, "To Beresford Hope, Esq. M.P. with kindest regards from Eiríkr Magnússon", together with an autograph letter signed from Morris to Magnússon. The Conservative politician Alexander Beresford Hope (1820 1887) was also known as a writer on architectural, archaeological, and ecclesiastical subjects. William Morris studied Old Norse with Magnússon (1833 1913), an Icelandic scholar at the University of Cambridge. Within a year of Morris starting his studies, teacher and pupil published the present volume, the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. For Morris's biographer Fiona MacCarthy, Old Norse literature and Iceland became so important to Morris between 1868 and 1876 that they were to become a "central obsession" in his life. The undated letter dates from 1868 or 1869, near the beginning of their collaboration. Morris suggests that he visit Cambridge for "the great pleasure of an evening's reading and chat with you". He provides an update on progress ("I have been hard at work with the translations and have come to end of Harald's Saga"), and suggests a new text if his intended reading "doesn't fill my belly or kill you". In addition to his work on the translation, Morris contributed a sonnet which appears before the title page. As Buxton Forman notes, "the sonnet form was an unusual one for Morris". Buxton Forman 22; LeMire A-5.01 Octavo (215 x 135 mm). Brown morocco by the Club Bindery, dated 1901, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, ornate floral border to covers in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, folding map. Together with an autograph letter signed from Morris to Magnússon, 2 leaves (184 × 117 mm) written on 3 pages, Morris's letterhead (26 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, W.C.). Front and rear joints somewhat rubbed, corner and raised bands lightly rubbed, front inner hinge split but tight, tiny repair to inscription leaf, very minor tear to title page, occasional light browning or foxing, else an attractive and very good copy. Autograph letter signed with creases where once folded, single line of rust staining, otherwise very good.
Published by London: F. S. Ellis, 1870, 1870
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Morris on the half-title, "Algernon Charles Swinburne, from his friend William Morris". This is an exceptional Pre-Raphaelite association: Swinburne was an intimate friend of Morris, one of the earliest admirers of his poetry, and one of the first writers with whom Morris shared his interest in Icelandic epics. The pair first met in Oxford in July 1857, when Morris was working (with Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti) on the murals in the debating chamber of the Oxford Union. It was, creatively and personally, a vital time for Morris: in September that year he met Jane Burden, his future wife and muse, and in October he submitted the manuscript for his first book of poems, The Defence of Guenevere, to Macmillan. Swinburne, at the time, was a student at Balliol College; his friendship with Morris was founded on a shared enthusiasm for Malory and Arthurian legend, and the two quickly began reading and appraising each other's writing. Swinburne was "among the most fervid admirers of Morris's early poetry" (Mackail, vol. I, pp. 131-2): his juvenile poem "Queen Yseult" clearly shows the influence of Morris's own "La Belle Iseult", and in December 1857, in a letter to John Nichol, Swinburne remembered how he read his version "one evening to Morris and the others. They all praise the poem far more than I (seriously speaking) believe it deserves. Morris says it is much better than his own poem, which opinion I took the liberty to tell him was absurd" (Lang, vol. I, p. 13). Swinburne was a frequent guest at Morris's Red House in London in the 1860s, and in 1864 introduced him to F. S. Ellis, the publisher of the present edition. Around this time, Swinburne read a copy of George Powell and Eiríkur Magnússon's Legends of Iceland (1866), and hoped to introduce Powell to Morris. He wrote to Powell that Morris "is as much interested as you are, though ignorant as I am, concerning Icelandic matters. He is in my opinion, and in that of older and wiser men, one of the best poets of the time, and a great admirer of your work" (Lang, vol. I, p. 164). Though it seems Morris never did meet Powell, in 1869 he did meet Magnússon, and the two began collaborating on the present translation of Icelandic epics in earnest. Morris was keen to share his early endeavours with Swinburne, and in December 1869, he wrote to tell him that "I am about an Icelandic translation now which throws all the other stories into the shade. This is the Völsunga, the story of Nibelungen in fact. I should like very much to show you the translation which is nearly finished now; you can't fail to be moved by it I'm sure" (Kelvin, pp. 100-101). The work was published a few months later: the publisher's catalogue bound at the rear of each copy carries an advertisement for Swinburne's Songs Before Sunrise, listed as "nearly ready". Following Morris's death in 1896, Swinburne paid tribute to his fellow Pre-Raphaelite, writing to his mother that Morris was "one of the best friends we ever had, and one of the best men that ever lived - simple as a child and unselfish as few children are, brave and kind and true and loyal as any one of his own Icelandic heroes or medieval knights. My friendship began with him in '57 - think of that! - and was never broken or ruffled for a moment" (Lang, vol. VI, p. 116). Buxton Forman 28 ("750 copies printed"). Norman Kelvin, ed., The Collected Letters of William Morris: Volume I, 1848-1880, 1984; Cecil Y. Lang, ed., The Swinburne Letters, 6 vols, 1959-62; John William Mackail, The Life of William Morris, 1922. Octavo. Original green cloth by Burn & Co., expertly rebacked preserving most of the original spine, spine lettered in gilt, spine and front elaborately decorated in gilt after a design by Morris and Philip Webb, 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear, binder's ticket to rear pastedown. Housed in a custom green cloth folding box. Bookplate of Jerome Allen Johnson (1896-1960), dated 1927, to front pastedown; bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper. A dozen letters carefully retooled at head of spine, faint damp staining to endpapers, else an attractive copy.
Published by Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1894
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
16mo. 130pp. One of twenty copies printed on vellum, a substrate on which Morris' skill with the materials of printing shines particularly well. The pairing of the two tales herein relays the historical arc of Morris' literary and aesthetic interests: Emperor Coustans ruled in 4th-century Byzantium, and the Tale of Over Sea follows the exploits of a familiar knight's quest. This copy specially bound by Deborah Evetts, whose signature appears at the foot of the lower doublure, in full green morocco. Covers with single gilt rule to head, double rule to foot, and both with gilt-stamped points and flowers that finely evoke the Pre-Raphaelite zeal for the natural. Gilt title to upper cover. Spine in four compartments, gilt ornament continuous across. A very fine copy, housed in dropback box. (Peterson A26).