Colbeck Norman Compiler (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. The books are very good, but the back covers of both volumes are warped out slightly. There is no indication of it being from dampness as there isn't any staining, etc. The ends of the spine are slightly worn as well. ; In two volumes. "The Norman Colbeck Collection .in the Special Collections of The University of British Columbia.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 VOLUME SET ; Volume 2 ISBN : 0774802820 ; no inscriptions ; both fresh,crisp copies ; 502 pages + 1059 pages ; POSTAGE TO U.K. ONLY.

First edition, 2 vols., xxxii, [2], 502; viii, 503-1059pp., frontispieces, orig. cloth. The collection has 465 author sections with 13,291 numbered items, all with full collations. The Colbeck collection fills a respectable niche on Victorian reference shelves alongside the more famous libraries of Thomas Wise (The Ashley Library) and Chauncey Brewster Tinker and the two great Victorian collections of fiction formed by Michael Sadleir and Robert Lee Wolff.…

First Edition. The Norman Colbeck collection of nineteenth-century and Edwardian poetry and belles lettres in the Special Collections of The University of British Columbia. Compiled with a Preface by Norman Colbeck. Edited by Tirthankar Bose, with an Introduction by William E. Fredeman. In two volumes. Pp. xxxii+[ii]+502+viii+503-1060(last blank), mostly printed double column, frontispiece to both volumes, appendices; cr. 4to; navy cloth, lettered in gilt, a couple of the fore-corners slightly bruised; University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1987. First edition. *With two original prospectuses loosely inserted. Norman Colbeck was a British bookseller who emigrated to Canada in 1967, presenting his book collection of poetry and belles lettres to the University of British Columbia. The collection contained material written by and about English and Anglo-Irish poets and essayists of the Romantic, Victorian and Edwardian period, including many presentation and association copies. Includes items relating to Thomas J. Wise and his Ashley Library catalogue.…