Edited Penzer (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Book measures 23x16cm, 310pp. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt title lettering. Binding with minor wear, rubbed corners. Binding in very good clean condition. Internally pages very clean. A very good clean copy.

Hb. Condition: VG. None. Limited Edition. No date, Limited Edition of two-thousand copies; presumed First Edition. Teal green/grey cloth on boards, gilt title and gilt border trim.Mild soiling and rubbings. Spine: foot with thin bumping and rubbing. Edges: top-edge gilt with mild rubbing; light old foxing to fore and bottom edges. Small rubbing to boards fore corners. Eps: small signature 1996 to head ffep. Mild foxings to eps. Frontis: illustration of 'Judgement of Paris'. Only three pages with a word or ?? to the margin, otherwise clean contents. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG+.Wrinkled blue ribbon bookmarker with frayed end. 310p. Blanch, Illustrated with a Series of Original Drawings (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Undated c1930s. First Thus. Limited Edition of 2000 Copies, printed on Basingwerk Parchment. Hardback copy in light blue cloth boards with lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 310pp. B/w frontispiece 'Judgement of Paris', 5 full-page b/w illustrations, b/w illustrations within text. Not library copy, no inscriptions, few marks to boards, fading to gilt lettering on spine. (26/7).…

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No dj. First Edition. Tight square boards, no wear, a little even sunfade to spine panel, gilt titling still bright. Insides free of markings, foxing blotches near endpapers and occasionally throughout, not too detracting, a fine copy save for this. Size: Royal 8vo.

John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. 1932. First edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated in b/w. Large quarto. Head and tail of spine and boards slightly sunned and spotted, in a wrapper that is worn with damp stain to top of spine. Red gilt to top of pages and pages uncut. Otherwise a clean and sound copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. lx, 381 pages, 1 leaf : color frontispiece, maps (1 folded) facsimile. Publisher's binding sturdy and attractive, finger smudges to front and rear panels, cup rings to rear panel, tape residue at endpapers, contents unmarked, partly unopened, and very pleasing. This is copy 964 of an edition of 1050 copies. 1700 grams.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition light blue vellum, gilt stamping, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges untrimmed. 8vo 10" x 6" xvi, 276 [pp]. A facsimile Limited Edition 1 of 750 copies of the original edition published in 1751, this copy is not numbered. Four black and white illustrations. Includes an early and imaginary voyage that includes a trip to the moon by flying machine, this being one of the illustrations. Foxing to the front end papers and title page, spine tanned, name to front end paper, corners pushed in. In Very Good sound and tight condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945. …

First English edition, first printing. Signed by the editor. Numbered 282 of of 525 limited copies. Original quarter vellum with orange cloth-covered boards, titles in gilt to the spine and a gilt motif to the upper board. Illustrated in black and white with a fold-out map, a fold-out frontispiece, and five further illustrations. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the velum and cloth with some light discolouration, the edges a little rubbed and a slight bump to the bottom corner of the lower board. Without the silk page marker. The contents, with some offsetting and spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout. Signed by N. M. Penzer in black ink on the half title. The first English translation of an anonymous account of a Spanish 1792 expedition to what is now British Columbia, describing the geography, flora, fauna and the indigenous people that they came across, as well as an encounter with an English expedition led by George Vancouver. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. …

Limited Edition. Folding map with route coloured in red and a further ten maps throughout the introduction. lx+ 381pp Coloured photographic frontispiece, title-page with original woodcut vignette by William Monk, notes, bibliography. Original yellow cloth covered boards stamped with an armorial device, vellum spine lettered in gilt, endpapers with faint foxing and the silk tie marker loosely inserted, some edges rough cut. Vellum slightly darkened, cloth lightly discoloured on the rear board, yet a lovely tight, firm, and clean copy of a handsome edition. Limited to 1050 vellum bound copies, this being No. 848. 25.5 x 19cm. The sixth publication of the Argonaut Press.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 014786. Illustrated by Blanch (illustrator).

Adam and Charles Black, London. 1937. Second revised edition. Hardback with DW. Large 8vo. Fold out map + 10 other maps and illustrations. Page edges very slightly foxed. Contents clean. Wrapper price clipped and browned with small tears to top edge. Spine sunned and closed tear to tail. Generally a clean and sound copy.…