W J Ibbett (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good. Jacket Condition: Fair; some tears to glassine wrap. Soft Cover High House Press 1931 Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good; some darknening to endpapers; some tears and some loss to glassine wrap. Hard Cover High House Press 1929 Poetry.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Number 39 of 110 copies handset in 24-pt. Monotype Bembo, decorated with typographic flourishes and ornaments, and printed on Arnold handmade paper. Illustrated with 3 wood engravings by J.R. Biggs. Italian pattern-paper-covered boards, lime-green, white and grey, white buckram back with gilt spine titling. Damage to corners, browning to endpapers, both common with this book. A good copy. There are two, significantly different, issues of this Preface, this is the first. One of the most successful of High House Press books and now justly prized. This was James Masters' first use of the Bembo type, upon which Beatrice Warde was so keen, and which in later books he much favoured. John R. Biggs (illustrator). …

Printed wrappers, handmade paper, all edges uncut, small 4to, [6], 42 pp. The three letters are: I The Benignity of Venus in the Vegetable World; II The Rites of Venus; III The Kindness of Venus in the Life and Death of Man. 'Curious poems, couched in the metre of Pope, and conceived in the Lucretian spirit". Buxton Forman's co-forger, Thomas James Wise, sent a copy of the volume to John Henry Wrenn "because their author is a good fellow!" (letter June 10, 1897). The print run was no doubt small - as well as the paper copies Ibbett produced one copy on vellum for Harry Buxton Forman (Norman Colbeck collection). From Stetz: 'England in the 1890s: literary publishing at the Bodley Head': 'William J. Ibbett, a colleague of Buxton Forman's in the Post Office, can best be described as a minor poetaster in an age of minor poets. Nearly all his books were issued in tiny editions.". John Collins in 'The Two Forgers' notes that Forman patronized Ibbett ' a minor poet of West Country origin, who ran a private press at Epsom'. It has been said: "[Ibbett's] poetry was notably bad. Only Ibbett could write, publish and re-publish a poem titled 'To a Dead Mistress' (Casey Jones). Spine and top edge duststained, yapp edges slightly frayed, otherwise a Very Good unopened copy.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. First Edition. Original wraps chipped at edges and lightly browned. Fine internally. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 044834.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A very scarce limited edition of Wm. J. Ibbett's English language translation of the Latin poem 'Pervigilium Veneris'. A very scarce first edition. Number 1 of 115 copies printed on hand-made paper. This issue has not been bound. W. J. Ibbett's English language interpretation of Pervigilium Veneris (or The Vigil of Venus) is a Latin poem of the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries. Ibbett suggests that this anonymous poem was written in the time of Julius Caesar, claiming 'the author used the vulgar speech, because he was, as I am, a Venereal Epicurean.' Unbound. Light handling marks to outer leaves. Leaves unbound and loosely inserted. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Limited. Hardback, stiff card covers. 24.5cm x 16.5cm. 12pp. Decorative colour title page by James Guthrie. No. 14 of a limited edition of only 100 copies. Ex-library copy with label to lower spine, labels and stamp to front end-papers, and stamp to half-title, title page, verso of title page, page 1, 5 and 11. Extremities slightly worn. Some spotting to a few pages inside. A decent copy. (r25).…

First edition, limited to 100 copies only, of which this is number 20; 8vo (250 x 164mm); pictorial title intaglio printed in red and blue designed by John Guthrie, generally tone, hinge split but holding, light foxing to preliminary leaves and rear endpapers; publisher's cloth-backed boards, browned, upper board marked, pictorial dust-jacket,browned, split in two at spine, chipped with some loss to top edge. …

In kleiner Auflage erschienener Privatdruck. Ibbett (1858-1934) wählte für seine literarischen Veröffentlichungen gerne bekannte Pressen wie die Chiswick Press oder die Shakespeare Head Press seines Freundes A. H. Bullen. Harry Buxton Forman, an den die gereimten "Three Letters" gerichtet sind, ist heute, neben seinen bibliographischen Arbeiten, vor allem als Fälscher von Erstausgaben viktorianischer Autoren, die er gemeinsam mit Thomas J. Wise fabrizierte, unrühmlich bekannt. - An zwei Seiten unbeschnitten, Vortitel mit Namenseintrag. Am Schluss sind Vortitel und Titelblatt versehentlich nochmals beigebunden.…