William J Ibbett (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1915. No Edition Remarks. 43 pages. No dust jacket. Grey paper covered boards with green cloth to spine. Top edge of some pages uncut throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. …

Condition: Fair. 1931. No Edition Remarks. 38 pages. No dust jacket. Patterned paper covered boards. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to edges. Tear to edge of rear board.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 44 pp very good in thick card boards. No previous ownership markings. Printed at the Shakespeare Head press.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. 1st ed. Neat, tidy copy in tight binding. A couple of small marks on paper boards. Light foxing to front end papers; heavy foxing to rear free end paper. Top edge rough cut; Poetry text bright & clear. Used - Good. Good hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first edition of this selection, printed by A.H.Bullen at the Shakespeare Head Press. 8vo. 43pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards lettered in black at the upper board. A hint of toning to the board margins, some light browning and spotting to the endpapers with a hint of further spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy. Twenty-four poems plus twenty-three further brief 'Bookplate' verses. William Joseph Ibbett was a minor poet and amateur (by all accounts exceedingly poor) printer, who also published verse under the pseudonym Antaeus. He is perhaps most famous today for being a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders.…

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. -Limited Edition, this being number 83 of 240 copies printed and one of 224 copies on antique laid paper - Card wraps, attached at spine, are slightly rubbed and toned - Edges of text block toned - Some foxing throughout - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - 17 pages.…

First Edition. Pp. [32](including a blank), title page decorated in grey; small f'cap. 8vo; beige textured paper wrappers with flap folds and printed paper title label, edges a trifle rubbed; uncut; free endpapers faintly offset; High House Press, Shaftesbury, Dorset 1925. First edition, limited to 165 numbered copies. Tomkinson 1. *William Joseph Ibbett (1858 - 1934) also wrote poetry under the pseudonym Antaeus. The High House Press was founded by James Masters in 1924. At first, the entire work of the Press - typesetting, press-work, editing, etc. - was done by Masters alone, but after 1927 his wife helped with the typesetting. In 1936 James and Beatrice Masters moved to Westbury-on-Trym, where the High House Press operated for another four years.…

, 55 pages. Title page with coloured text. One of 150 copies printed between April and July 1899, red and black title page Limited Edition , spine head and tail and board corners slightly bumped, tiny open tear to upper joint, upper hinge split - board loose but held, light foxing to second title page, gutter between pages 32 and 33 split, some leaves untrimmed at fore edge, in good condition. , bound in green cloth with gilt border and title to upper board, gilt book block top edge , Octavo, 17 x 11 cm Hardback ISBN.…