June 8 1876 (3 results)

Condition: Very Good. Eleventh printing hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in black to the back and front. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 176 pp. Prize plate to the front free end paper dated 1946. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips to the spine ends, white paper down the spine faded to light brown, not price clipped, 5/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.…

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Wedgwood blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, top edge gilt. Thick 8vo. 9'' x 6''. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s and is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece, (xix)-1, 375 pp with 5 further tissue-guarded full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Old label partially removed from the top of the front paste down, foxing to the end papers and uncut closed text block edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Scarce. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. With ten etchings in two states by H. Toussaint after paintings by J. Le Blant. Hand colored etched frontispiece. 8vo, top edge gilt, fore edge uncut. Bound in half-red French levant morocco and red cloth boards, red end-papers. Gilt rules on front and rear covers with spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt. With the 1 x 2 inch bookplate of Thomas D. Murphy (who was also the binder) in the upper right- hand corner of the back side of the front free end-paper. Also tipped in is a half -page letter of approximately fifteen lines and sixty words in blue ink in the author's hand and signed and dated December 20th, 1860 by the author. Also included is another half page holograph translation in another hand. This volume is from a twenty volume set entitled The Masterpieces of George Sand printed on Japanese vellum with prints in two states with the frontispiece in color. The set is limited to one thousand sets. Signed.…