Cros Edward (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Angus & Robertson Pty. Ltd. First Edition 1960. Hardcover (14 x 22 cm), viii, 180 pages, b&w photographs & illustrations. The book Good condition. Full-bound turquoise green boards with gold lettering along spine. Bumped. Rolled, creased at corners and at head & foot of spine. Soiled along edges. Bookstore stamp at bottom corner of front free page. Pages tanning, foxing. Top corners creased. The dust jacket is in Poor condition. Torn, chipped, creased and soiled. Large portions missing from front, along top and down fore edge and at foot of spine. The dj is not price-clipped. Still shows original price of 25s. The dj is now protected in an archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Scarce title. publisher: Angus and Robertson, Hardcover First Edition A hardcover book in fine condition, dated 1960. Jacket is in near fine condition with a few nibbles to the spine of dust jacket and one 10mm small tear and another on edge of back flap. No sun fading. With previous owner's name on inside front endpaper. 180pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. A hardback book in near very good condition, dated 1960. Jacket is in near good condition with a little wear to the edges in places. Jacket is protected by a new, clear, loose fitting sellophane wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Limited Edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by Edward Gorey. Copy #207. Paper bound in covers illustrated by Gorey. Light browning only to fold of wrapper. Private collector's seal on inside cover. A beautiful collector's copy.

Oprawa wydawnicza broszurowa. @ Blurb / Notka wydawnicza: Warszawa: nakladem Ksiegarni Gustawa Szylinga, 1924; @ Size of the book block / Wymiar bloku: 18 cm; @ Circulation / Naklad: -; @ Comments/ Uwagi: Rzadkie. // - Edward (Edouard) Cros (5.11.1896 Moskwa - 18.03.1944) polski slawista, zwiazany ze Szwajcaria profesor Uniwersytetu Fryburskiego 1932-1944, pisarz. Autor glownie poezji i dramatow; @ Weight / Waga: 30; @ Pages / Strony: 26s.; @ Thematic categories / Kategorie tematyczne: literatura poezja, literatura polska literatura 1901-1944, okres wydania 1901-1944 / 45 / literature poetry, , period of edition 1901-1944 / 45 / Literatur Dichtung, , Erscheinungsperioden 1901?1944 / 45; Egzemplarz z nieznacznie zagietymi rogami, oprawa nieco poplamiona i nieznacznie uszkodzona, blok czysty i bez innych wad, brak wpisow i pieczeci. Pozycja w stanie wiecej niz dobrym.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [44 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. English version of Cros' poem by Alphonse Allais, illustrated by Gorey. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Gorey. Toledano B49b.

First Edition. First edition. Small softcover. Copy 186 from an edition of 326 copies of which 300 were numbered. A poem by this French poet with the English version by Alphonse Allais. Illustrated by Gorey. A very near fine copy in string tied wrappers with some slight toning to the spine Signed by Gorey on the colophon page. Toledano B49b. Signed.

Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Signed limited first edition thus, an out of sequence copy not signed or numbered on the limitation page, but instead signed by Gorey on the title page. This poem was first composed in 1872 as "Le Hareng saur," an unusual example of French nonsense verse - a genre much more popular in England than in France. As Scott Bates notes, "if there is any one French poem that appears to fit the criteria of childishness, gratuitousness, and unconscious revolt characteristic of true nonsense, it is Charles Cros's 'Le Hareng saur." 5.25'' x 6''. Original green pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Gorey in black and white. Translated from the French by Alphonse Allais. [44] pages. Signed by Gorey on the title page, crossing out his name. Touch of the sunning that often affects this title, tiny bump to corner. Signed.

Saddle-stitched. First Edition, #203/300 Copies. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's light green paper covers with black lettering and pictorial design on front cover. Slight age-toning all over. Mild sun-toning on spine. Signed and numbered by Gorey on limitation page. Shelved case 3. Toledano B-49b. 1412046. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Signed.