Life Exploits Ingenious Gentleman Don by Cervantes Charles Jarvis Translator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator). First Edition. 1925 Hardcover First thus edition published by Dodd, Mead & company in red cloth covered boards with gold gilt lettering and a gold silhouette of the Don tilting at windmills on the front cover. Translated from the original Spanish by Charles Jarvis. Very Good- condition. Includes 16 illlustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Bumped corners show some wear and fraying. Spine ends are a bit worn as well; otherwise the covers are in good shape. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked. Small abrasion to the half-title page. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment using cardboard and or bubble wrap for protection. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. Volumes two and three details / images on request.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Thus. Original full tree calf boards, gilt-stamped decorated and ruled borders, gilt dentelled edges, decorated endpapers. Volume I only, of 2. Both boards detached but present, lacking back strip. Leather is rubbed along edges and joints, exposed at corners but quite restorable. [4 blanks] + xxiv + 570 pp. [lacking final leaf, pp. 571/572], illus. w/ engraved frontis. portrait of author, engraved title pg., 5 additional engraved plates [may lack one plate]. Notably, this copy includes the engraved foldout map bound in between introductory material (p. xxiv) and the first page of text (p. 1), hand-colored in pale yellow, green, and red, quite nicely preserved, showing only (2) 1/4" closed tears along fore-edge fold lines and (2) approx. 1/2" closed tears at binding tab. Interior is clean, and plates are fully intact. Scarce with map. Sold as is, WAF. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

, Vol 1 - [4] lii [6] 280 [2], Vol 2 - [10] 311 [3], Vol 3 - [14] 300 [2], Vol 4 - [10] 355 [3], black and white frontispiece to Vol 1, 31 numbered black and white plates throughout Fourth Edition, thus , the books are rubbed at boards, corners and spines, spines are cracked and chipped at heads and tails, joints are cracked but boards held, Vol -1 gutter cracked at page 74/75, Vol 3 has a small amount of worming to upper endpaper, title page and first page of preface, Vol 3 has a partially detached lower board, all pages are a little foxed in places, light spotting throughout volumes, volume 4 is bound as volume 3 and visa versa, fair condition , quarter bound tan calf under marbled paper , 12mo, 17.5cm x 11cm Hardback ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S Draper in the Strand and R. Dodsley in Pall Mall. Translated by Charles Jarvis, Esq. The Second Edition in two volumes [8vo]. First published in Folio. xxii+ 406pp; 422pp, with all 23 engraved plates by Vanderbank (12 in 1st vol. + 11 in 2nd vol.). Complete. Some trivial foxing here and there. The odd old spot. Overall, very clean within. Plates in fine condition. Re-spined in period calf retaining original boards, with elaborate tooling by Courtland Benson, using period style tools. Full-Leather. Five spine compartments, raised bands. Armorial bookplates of "Sir John ABDY Bart" inside front covers.