William Locke Intro (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Both hinges having the paper cracked and binding stretched in a few places; in bright red cloth with bright gilt decoration to front; sunned spine; gilt top edge; unmarked but for name to front endpaper.; 272 pages.

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Hardcover in slipcase. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. reprint. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 272 pages; 1919 John Lane the Bodley Head. HC/DJ. Early printing in original dust jacket. Soundly bound in original red cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine; rules and titles in blind to cover. Aubrey Beardsley illustrated endpages. Original dust jacket of light tan paper with titles and rules in cream. Cream on tan dulled but legible to jacket spine. Light shelf rubbing and nicks to jacket edges. Uncommon early dust jacketed copy. VG+/VG-.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black cloth cover with gilt shows minor wear and rubbing. Decorative endpapers. Pages are tanned and clean.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first English edition and first illustrated edition of Anatole France's historical novel, with illustrations by Frank C. Papé. The first English edition and first illustrated edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board. Small bookplate of the North of England School Furnishing Company to the front paste down. Illustrated with an illustration to the paste downs and endpapers, a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated, complete. A historical novel, first published in 1893, which tells of the struggles of the young Jacques Ménétrier at the beginning of the 18th century. It was written by the French journalist and author Anatole France (1844-1924), who won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature. This edition was translated by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson, and illustrated throughout by William J. Locke. 2 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart, with just some light shelf wear to the extremities and rear board. Front hinge is slightly strained but is held firmly. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Frank C. Papé (illustrator). book.…