Corvo Frederic Baron (23 results)

hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. First Edition. London, 1924; tan cloth covered boards; corners and spine edges rolled; dark spot at fore-edges of front board; crown of back strip frayed; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; interior pages in very good condition; Interior is clean and unmarked; 193 pages; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, staining, tanning, lacking dj. Pages tanned and clean.

soft cover. Condition: fine. first edition. Grand In-8° broché, 16 pages - Articles originaux : La grue et le labyrinthe (II), par Marcel Détienne - Éloge de Billy B., par Frederic Rolfe et le Baron Corvo - Note sur un détail d'Ada de Vladimir Nabokov, à l'usage du lecteur français, par Patrick Mauriès - Sir Francis Burton, voyageur et sexologue, par Juan Goytisolo. Magnifique exemplaire non coupé de la revue phare de Patrick Mauries, qui a fait découvrir Mario Praz, Cecil Beaton, Madame Solario, Connoly, Quincey, Arbasino et tant d'autres, la plus chic des années 80.…

soft cover. Condition: very good. first edition. Grand In-8° broché, 16 pages - Articles originaux : Un Lear alchimique, par Frances Yates - Les Vénitiens, par Frédéric Rolfe et Baron Corvo - Le papillon et les fleurs, par Federico Zeri - Un nouveau regard sur la Mélancolie I, par David Pingree.

soft cover. Condition: fine. first edition. Grand In-8° broché, 16 pages - Articles originaux : Fragments., par Jean Genet - De la conversation, par José Lezama Lima - Les Vénitiens (II), par Frédéric Rolfe, Baron Corvo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Nicely produced edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated from the French version of J. B. Nicolas, with the original french text facing the english translation. With notes and an introduction by Edward Heron-Allen. With 16 stylish colour illustrations by Hamzeh Carr. Fore-edge uncut, top edge tinted. 4to. Some mild rubbing to edges. A couple of spots to fore-edge, mild tanning within. Good/very good. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Edition: First Edition Thus (first appearance of this Heron-Allen-edited text with Hamzeh Carr's illustrations) Pages: 193pp, with a reprint of the French text alongside the English, and 16 full-page colour plates by Hamzeh Carr Condition: Good, ex-library. Beige cloth stamped in gilt, black and red; cloth frayed at spine head and tail, boards lightly soiled with scuff marks to the rear panel. Ex-Stirling District Library copy, with library stamp and cancellation stamp to the title page, accession number and shelf label to the pastedowns, and a barcode sticker (remnant of a removed pocket label) to the front board interior. Page edges browned throughout with occasional minor chipping to leaf corners; text and all 16 colour plates present, complete, and unmarked internally. Description: A celebrated illustrated edition of the Rubáiyát, notable for its unusual translation history: French orientalist J.B. Nicolas's prose rendering of the Persian quatrains was itself translated into English by Frederick Rolfe, the eccentric author writing as "Baron Corvo" — a version whose idiosyncratic, sensualist interpretation Edward Heron-Allen addresses directly in his introduction. Illustrated with sixteen vivid colour plates by Hamzeh Carr in a Persian miniature style. A landmark among illustrated Rubáiyát editions, of interest to collectors of Omar Khayyám translations and of Corvo/Rolfe association material. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus; First Printing. The Bodley Head Limited. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering and colored figural embossings. Sixteen beautiful color illustrations by Carr. Text in both French and English. Rubbing and toning, brief bumps to the spine ends and corners, and light foxing to the page edges. Some pages still uncut. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 193 pages. Illustrated by Hamzeh Carr (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tan cloth covered boards with gold titles; edges and covers worn and soiled; spine of book is darkened/discolored; jacket is worn with chips and tears along edges, now in Brodart like cover; 4to, 9 3/4" to 12" tall; toning to endpapers; gift inscription on free front endpaper dated 1931, Illustrations by Hamzeh Carr; uneven edges; no internal markings; 193 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. First Edition. Illustrated by Hamzeh Carr. Covers shelfworn and soiled. Bookplate on front flyleaf. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. xlviii 193pp. Grey illustrated cloth. This edition is translated from the French into English by Frederic Baron Corvo and includes the poem in both French and English. Edited and with an introduction by Edward Heron-Allen. Complete with16 color illustrations by Hamzeh Carr. Some pages remain unopened. Spine is sun toned. Minor fraying to head and tail of spine.…

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO80177816: 1984. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 403 Pages. 1 Illustration en couleur sur le 1er plat. Salissure sur le 11er plat sans conséquence pour la lecture. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1924 First Edition. Hardcover. Good. No Dust Jacket. Bumped corners. Wearing and some rubbing on the covers and spine. Some damage along top of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Includes thirty-one illustrations. PO's bookplate on fly. 193p. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator).…

(1924). First edition thus. Small quarto. xlviii (notes and appendix), [194] pages. Woolf B2b (750 copies--first issue). Contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper, uniform brown offsetting to the endpapers (as usual), else fine in the original gilt-stamped tan pictorial cloth decorated in red, black and gold; remnants of most the dust jacket laid in at rear. Edited with notes and a comparative study of the original texts, and an Introduction by Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S. With sixteen illustrations in color by Hamzeh Carr. An exceptional edition printed at the Curwen Press. Text in English and French.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Deluxe Illustrated Edition. Quarto. xlviii (ii), 193 (1) pp, with 16 color illus. Translated from the French of J. B. Nicola, together with a reprint of the French Text. Edited with notes and a comparative study of the original texts, and an Introduction by Edward Heron-Allen: 1925. Light external with lightly age-toned text block. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.5" x 10.5". Illustrated-tan cloth with gilt lettering to the front board, and black lettering to the spine. In Mylar (glassine) protector. Size: Quarto. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. 1924 edition; has colored illustrations by Hamzeh Carr. Minor wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. A near fine copy with slightly bumped corners. The book is covered in olive linen. The lettering is gold. on the front is an engraving of Umar in red, gold black and blue. 191 pages, some uncut. This is a lovely book. Hamzeh Carr Hamzeh (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. A near fine copy with slightly bumped corners. The book is covered in olive linen. The lettering is gold. on the front is an engraving of Umar in red, gold black and blue. 191 pages, some uncut. This is a lovely book. Hamzeh Carr Hamzeh (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition thus. Translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Baron Corvo. Sixteen color plates by Hamzeh Carr. Edited with an introduction, notes, and comparative study by Edward Heron-Allen. Small quarto. xlviii, 193pp. Parallel French and English text. Oatmeal colored decorative cloth. Spine tanned with the corners and spine ends gently bumped (one corner with a tiny tear), endleaves lightly foxed with some offsetting on the flyleaves, title page and frontis plate with modest foxing and soil, a bright very good or better copy in a sound but good only dust jacket with edge loss, extensive external and internal tape reinforcement, and a small paper repair at the spine base.…

Original Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Published. First English Edition. First English edition, with original French text on opposite page, xlviii, 193pp, 16 colour plates, black top stain, fore and bottom edges uncut, original beige cloth with illustrated figure on front and spine, spine edges and top and bottom slightly worn with two small stains. Size: Large 8vo. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator). Illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo (super). Together with a reprint of the French text. Facing translations. Edited with notes and a comparative study of the original texts, and an introduction by Edward Heron Allen. With sixteen illustrations in colour incl. frontis. 193 p.p. Original illustrated beige cloth with gilt titling and colour vignettes to front board and spine. Bumping to spine ends and corners, a few spots to rear boards. Roughly cut edges, some leaves uncut. Minor wear and soiling to dust jacket, creasing to rear cover. This selection of quatrains, attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia," was originally translated to English from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. Carr, Hamzeh (illustrator). …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A beautiful edition of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khaiyam, translated from the French of J B Nicolas. The first edition by the Bodley Head illustrated by Hamzeh Carr. A beautiful first Bodley Head edition of the Rubaiyat by 'Umar Khaiyam.Containing the fascinating and popular Persian poems, here translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederic Baron Corvo, printed with both the English and the French text. Nicolas' translation was the first French translation seenBrought to popularity in the West with the English translation of Edward Fitzgerald, whose work has been published in several editions and has inspired translations both in English and in other languages.Edited with notes and comparative studies of the original texts, and an introduction by Edward Heron-Allen, who published a prose translation of the text in 1898.With sixteen extremely charming illustrations in colour by Hamzeh Carr. Collated, complete. In the unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally excellent with only minor shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The dust wrapper is unclipped and sound with some shelf wear and chipping, and a minor loss to the head of the spine, which is slightly sunned and rubbed. With minor damp staining internally to the wraps, not affecting the externals. internally, firmly bound. With some minor faint scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves; otherwise, the pages are bright and clean. With sixteen extremely charming illustrations in colour by Hamzeh Carr. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed. Hamzeh Carr (illustrator). book.…

(Carr, Hamzeh)illus. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAIYAM, translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederic, Baron Corvo. Small, Maynard, Boston, 1925. Cloth, DJ, 193pp., text in English and French on facing pages, 16 color plates. The book Fine, DJ has some stains. Carr, Hamzeh (illustrator).