H I Woolf Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stout8vo half bound orange boards, mock vellum spine with mock morocco label to spine with gilt lettering, spine is sunned, mock vellum shows minor soiling. Tibetan bell illustrated frontispiece, Pages 3-5 have small chips to foot (no loss of text). Neat inscription to head of fep No other inscriptions or annotations. Not dated but presumed 1925 heavy book, will incur additional postage outside the uk. Goloubew (illustrator).…

[10], 350 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 16.25cm. No dust jacket. Art Deco influenced green pebbled leather binding; unfortunate surface loss to leather at spine heel with much scuffing/wear along joints and at board edges particularly at corners; spine leather quite darkened but with gilt stamping still fairly bright; triangular black leather and gilt stamping to slightly darkened front board; undecorated green rear board slightly darkened with some discoloration occurring along joint margin. All edges gilt; staining and some scuffing loss to bottom edge gilt. Floral patterned endpapers; front and rear free endpapers have strong bands of toning at top, bottom and fore-edge margins caused by respective board's leather overlaps on pastedowns. Impression from past bookseller's erased pencil note at top of front flyleaf recto; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Only a good copy per the adverse exterior spine cosmetics. Brief Acknowledgements essay states "The translation of 'The Princess of Babylon' is by H. I. Woolf . . . The translations of 'Candide,' 'Zadig' and the other romances were done by R. Bruce Boswell originally for Bohn's famous classical library." Table of Contents cites slightly different pagination than what is actually presented which, via collation, is precisely: "Candide" (pages 1-95), "Zadig" (pages 97-170), "The Princess of Babylon" (pages 171-233), "The Child of Nature" (pages 235-304), "Micromegas" (pages 305-325), "Cosi-Sancta" (pages 327-334), "Memnon" (pages 335-342), and "The One-Eyed Porter" (pages 343-350).…