Tauchnitz Bernard (5 results)

catalog. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz , 1932 First edition 16 page Catalog of Publications of 1931 of the Collection of British and American Authors. A near fine copy with light wear. See Photos whbx 1 / E.

Catalog. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Leipzip, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1908 First Edition 16 page Tauchnitz Monthly Catalog for April 1908. A Monthly Descriptive List of the Latest Volumes. A near fine catalog with minor wear. See Photos whbx 1 / E.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 173. Original publishers cream covers, lettered black and red. Slight marking to covers otherwise near very good.

Magazine: [8] + 80pp. In blue printed illustrated wraps. Internally in good condition, on aged paper, with unopened signatures, in worn and chipped wraps. Stamped in red at head of front cover: 'SPECIMEN COPY.' Announcement at foot of front cover: 'This magazine is not to be introduced into England or its colonies nor into the United States of America.' The first eight pages carry advertisments, as do both sides of the back wrap. The presence of the wraps is particularly notable, as the inside front cover carries a message from Bernard Tauchnitz, dated 'LEIPZIG, August 1st, 1891.', and beginning: 'We believe that by this new enterprise we shall satisfy a want long felt by all readers of English and American literature on the Continent, and especially by English and American tourists. The chief aim of our new venture will be the publication of good, new, short stories, which will be given complete in each number, an arrangement - hitherto, we believe, untried - which will, it is hoped, meet with general approval.' The contents are: 'The new Assistant at Pine Clearing School. By Bret Harte'; 'A Study in Grey | From the "Cornhill Magazine."'; 'The Blue Rose. By E. Nesbit | From "Longman's Magazine."'; 'My Uncle's Story. By Lady West | From the "English Illustrated Magazine."'; Paganiniana | From the "Cornhill Magazine."'| "The Closing of the Doors." By James Payn | From the "Forum."' | "Table Talk"; and 'The "Papercutter'. The 'Tauchnitz Edition' catalogue is in very good condition, tipped in at the rear, and consists of 16pp, 16mo. Listed are: 'Collections of British Authors'; 'Manuals of Conversation'; 'Collection of German Authors'; 'Series for the Young'; 'Dictionaries'. No copy recorded on WorldCat or COPAC for UK or USA.

3 vols. 8vo, publisher's gray cloth, gilt-lettered on spines, each preserved in a custom quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Three distinguished bookplates on each front pastedown and a fourth, the Rockwell Kent bookplate of Frederick B. Adams, in each chemise. First English edition. This is as nice a copy of "A Laodicean" as one can reasonably hope to find. The volumes are ever so slightly shelf-slanted. A beautiful set. Laid in is a two page ALS from Thomas Hardy, January 16, 1882 to Bernhard Tauchnitz, advising the publisher that he has directed Williams & Norgate to send proof sheets of "A Laodicean" to him, "that you may form an estimate of what the story is worth to you." Former owner of this set, Frederick Adams, has laid in two additional notes, to the effect that Tauchnitz published Laodicean later in 1882, and that this was also George Barr McCutcheon's copy, although there is no indication of that in the volumes.