Edited Buxton Forman (31 results)

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, blue cloth lettered gilt to spine, boards water stained at bottom edges but this not penetrating. The text is tightly bound and aside from the dated signature of a previous owner is clean free of markings, b&w frontis, plates, xxiv + 306pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hbk, lxxxii, 491 pages : frontispiece port. Previous owner's name on front end-papers o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. [Poetry, English] s510.

Condition: Very Good. 1948. Hardback. Fine in fine publisher's cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little shelf wear and age. Lightly toned, light spotting on edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lxxxii. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Early Printing, 1924 Date On Title Page. Slight Usage, Gilt Brilliant, Small Frays At Ends Of Spine, Hinges Solid, Former Owner's Signature On Front Endpaper Dated 1927, And Her Notes On Rear Pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. One volume of the Hampstead Edition, sadly separated from its comrades. This is a handsome book, bound in burgundy cloth. It is a re-issue of the 1939 edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, and although I haven't seen the original, this has the look of a facsimile. Inclued are letters 142 through 241. There are no signs of any prior use or wear.…

Condition: Very Good. 1948. Hardback. Fine in fine publisher's cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little shelf wear and age. Lightly toned, light spotting on edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. xxx,572, xiv, 580 pp. Binding designed by Rossetti, brown polished buckram with gilt pictorial designs on front covers. Etched portraits by Rossetti's friend William Bell Scott in each volume. Volume I is cocked, both volumes are a bit rubbed at extremities of spines. Name in ink on free endpaper of Volume I and note that this is the Prize for the Exam in Homer, Iliad iii - ix.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oxford Edition. All edges gilt. Good condition hardback, with blue covers. Light sunning to cover spine and light to moderate edge wear to cover extremities. Previous owner name(?) ink stamped to ffep (first interior page) with impression of stamp to inside front cover. -- General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall condition of the book(s) or other item. We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Please note that if there is a photo next to the listing which is titled 'Stock Photo', this is a generic photo provided by abe and not a photo of the actual book listed. The appearance and condition of the book or jacket may differ. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by tracked mail for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Reptint. No dj. Original cloth boards with gilt titling on spine and shield o upper cover. Slightly sunned spine. Frontis plate. lv, 496 pages. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Brown boards with gold decoration to the front and spine. Gilt to the closed page edges. Gift inscription dated 1941 to the ffep. Rubbing and wear to top of the spine. Creasing along the spine and top right hand corner of the front board beginning to loosen. No further inscriptions, 491pp, Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. NO JACKET. Hardback 1910. Bright gilt spine lettering. Clean & tight. Front end paper has a Book-plate. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F8511. Letters of Edward John Trelawny. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. Published by Oxford University Press, London.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st thus. 491pp. HARDCOVER Outstanding copy. No inscriptions. Gilt titles to burgundy cloth - all in lovely condition. Internally, foxing apparent to verso of frontis. O/w lovely & clean throughout. Roughcut pages. Strong binding. Gilt dustguard to top edge. **A lovely copy in amazing condition considering its age. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.…

Oxford University Press. 1935. 2nd edition. Hardback, NO DW. Worn covers, sunned spine and covers, lightly marked rear board. Front endpapers contain neat ownership inscriptions in pen. b/w frontispiece with intact tissue guard. Pencil notations on rear pastedown. Page contents clean and sound, page edges lightly browned and frayed.…

Blue cloth. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped decorations to front cover and giltstamped lettering to spine. With ex-libris labels of "Halton Bucks" to front pastedown. With illustration pasted down to frontispiece with protective sheet bound in. Staining is apparent to reverses of ex-libris label, to front free endpaper, and frontispiece protective sheet to title page, text otherwise fine. Deckled edge. Slight tearing to heads of few early pages due to them being stuck together. Slight foxing to edges. Slight wear and slight soiling to spines, covers, corners and pastedowns and endpapers.; 22.4x15x3.5 cm; 408 pages.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing in original publisher's gilt-stamped full navy cloth, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages clean & unfoxed, t.e.g., dark blue endpapers, very slight stressed wear to cloth at spine ends & corners, small sticker scar to endpaper corner, else Fine exemplary copy of the Buxton Forman one-volume edition in its first Oxford issue; 8vo; lxxvii; (2) 491pp indexed & illus; portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; facsimile title pages.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Reprint. Good 5 volume hardback set. Vol. 1: Poems Published in 1817 'Endymion' (li, 208pp). Vol. 2: Lamia. Isabella & Posthumous Poems to 1818 (ix, 243pp). Vol. 3: Posthumous Poems 1819-1820 'Essays & Notes' (ix, 291pp). Vol. 4: Letters 1814 to January 1819 (xxxiv, 210pp). Vol. 5: Letters 1819 and 1820 (x, 269pp). Previous owner's name inside cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Originally published 1900/01 - this set reprinted 1921-1929. 0. Book. …

Condition: Very Good. Reprint, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xvi,209;vii,187;vi,179, red cloth, gilt, b/w plates; pale foxing to edges, Volume III cased upside-down, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good+ set. No dust-jackets.

Full Calf. Condition: Near Fine. Full blue calf binding, outer edge dentelles , six gilt decorated compartments, gilt title on spine,gilt edges, marbled endpapers gift inscription on endpaper.496 pp, frontispiece, introduction and textl notes. Size: Octavo -1 2.5x18.5cm.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. London . Reeves & Turner . 1884 . Un volume in-8 , reliure toile illustrée de l'éditeur , 13 x 20 cm , de XXXI , 597 pages + 10 pages de catalogue . Un portrait gravé . Petites marques aux coins , bon état .

lxix, pp 561 Single volume, second edition, second impression 1942, with revisions and additional letters. Very good in clean pink cloth, pages crisp; in a very good, price clipped dust jacket, tanned to spine. Ownership inscription of Mary Eyre Wallis, October 1944, "from Teener". This book comes from the collection of the scientist and pioneer birth-control campaigner Marie Stopes (1880-1958) which was inherited by her son the philosopher Harry Stopes Roe (1924-2014) and sold following the death of his widow Mary Stopes Roe in May of this year. Mary was herself an academic and author, the daughter of the engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb, Sir Barnes Wallis. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. HARDBACK BOUND IN A HALF LEATHER PRIZE BINDING, FRONTIS ILLUSTRATION, GILT MOTIF TO FRONT BOARD. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. SOME RUBBING TO EDGES OF SPINE WITH A FEW MINOR SCUFFS TO LEATHER ON SPINE, SPINE SLIGHTLY SUNNED, MINOR MARKS TO ENDPAPERS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH BOARDS FIRMLY ATTACHED & CLEAN INTERNALLY. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. One-Volume Edition in gilt-stamped brown polished buckram with leaf & bird designs to front panel, Sixth Edition in which "two trifles have been added" and some pieces previously appearing in earlier issues rejected on new evidence, in Good condition with tight binding & bright unfoxed pages, all plates present with browned tissue guards, cloth split externally to both panels at gutter/fold but binding uncompromised and inner hinges are sound, light shelf wear otherwise with bump to top front corner and offsetting to rear panel, spine a little darkened but titles clear, from collection of Keats scholar Earle Vonnard Weller with his donation bookplate to his alma mater (Occidental College) to front pastedown, else nice copy of the Buxton Forman edition, scarce in all original iterations; 8vo; (xxxi) 597pp indexed & illus. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 597pp. three volumes. 3/4 burgundy leather, marbled boards.5 Raised bands. Frontispieces with tissue guards. Top edges gilt. Gilt decorated spines.Volume 1 has matching burgundy archival tape on the inner hinge, Besides that the hinges are in excllent condition. The front panel of volume 1 has been professionally reinforced.There is a piece of tape with a number on the fronf free endpaper. The corners of all three volumes are worn through, the upper spine edges have a light chip, Regardless a well preservied, very attractive set. Laid in is a blank postcard from the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. Size: Octavo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ No dust jacket as issued. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. A good working set, although needing many leaves to be opened (with a blunt knife) before they can be read. Complete with all plates.; Four volumes, complete. All volumes rebacked in original boards. Gilt butterfly and bird illustration at two corners of front boards. Later endpapers. Volume Two has most of the original spine cloth laid down. The other 3 volumes have plain spines with no lettering. Volume 4 only with top page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 220 x 139mm. Volume One: [4], cxiv, 413, [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 2 plates; Volume Two: vii, [1], 438, [2 (blank)] pages + frontispiece; Volume Three: xx, 477, [2], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 3 plates; Volume Four: xix, [1], 573, [2], [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Most leaves unopned in all volumes One and Three, some leaves unopened in volume Two. [NB: No additional shipping other than our usual book rate will be required on this heavy (3.71kg) set.].…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Complete Prose Works of Shelley in the Buxton Forman edition, Volumes 5-8 of the complete works in verse and prose published in 1880 (the first 4 contained Shelley's Poetical Works), this set in publisher's original variant burgundy full cloth binding with gilt-stamped titling to spine & butterfly & bird to front panel boards, minimally ex-library with only a stamp to front endpaper & 2 largely removed labels to endpaper & pastedown and very faint call letters to lower spine, no other markings, institutional or otherwise, some corner & spine end wear/bumping with a little fade to board edges & spines (titles clear & legible), mild foxing to prelims, bindings tight, large folding pedigree chart present in Vol I, frontispieces & original loose tissue guards intact (save tissue guard from Vol IV), a very nice set of this first full edition of Shelley's prose, still largely unsurpassed; 4 8vos: xl + 424; viii + 408; x + 412; x + (corrections page) + 399pp indexed; illus; frontispieces to each volume. EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGE REQUIRED FOR THIS LARGE HEAVY SET (PRIORITY DOMESTIC SHIPMENT OR DELIVERY OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES MAY BE SIGNIFICANT). Internationasl customers: Please inquire for a shipping quote BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hard Cover. One-Volume Edition in gilt-stamped black polished buckram with leaf & bird designs to front panel, Sixth Edition in which "two trifles have been added" and some pieces previously appearing in earlier editions rejected on new evidence, binding tight pages bright with occasional light foxing, unfaded boards are bright and show minimal scuffing & scratching to panels with corners & ends unbumped, all plates present, foxing to prelims & end matter, many pages still uncut (especially in second half of book), attractive bookplate to front pastedown, else clean tight exemplary copy of the Buxton Forman collected edition, scarce in all original iterations; 8vo; (xxxi) 597pp indexed & illus.…

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. A scarce edition of a complete catalogue of the poetry of John Keats, including those posthumously published and his famous odes. A scarce edition of The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited with an introduction and textual notes by bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller Henry Buxton Forman. Published by Humphrey Milford of the Oxford University Press in 1921.In decorative full calf binding, with a beautifully illustrated frontispiece of the poet by Joseph Severn.A catalogue of poetry from the prolific romantic poet John Keats, including his sonnets, Endymion, Lamia, Isabella, posthumously published poems and those written during his annus mirabilis of 1819. Despite having a very brief career due to a tragically early grave, Keats is regarded as one of Britain's greatest poets and is known for his beautiful celebration of nature. In decorative full calf. Externally, in near excellent condition, with clean boards and minimal edgewear. Slight rubbing to joints and small rubbing marks to spine. Blue marble end papers in beautiful condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the rare small mark to leaf extremities and faint age toning. Spotting to blanks. Near Fine. Joseph Severn (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. All 8 volumes in slipcases, and in very good unmarked condition, apart from minor fading of spines.

Frontispieces Two volumes Spines a touch sunned, but a very nice copy indeed A relatively plain binding but one which is both sturdy and most attractive. Full brown morocco, spines with raised bands, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, turn-ins with elaborate gilt roll, patterned end-papers gilt, by Arthur S. Colley "Second Edition with the notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . Eight volume hardback set. Hampstead Edition. Limited to 1250 numbered copies of which this set is numbered 632 in each of the8 volumes on their limitation pages. . Please note that this is not the signed and numbered edition of 1250 copies, this set is from the numbered edition of 1250 copies without the signatures. All volumes have clear thick Mylar dustjackets on them, but I am not sure if this is how they were published or made for the set afterwards by the previous owner. All volumes have very slight dustsoiling to the outer matte finish grey buckram covers, as is normal, otherwise all volumes are Tight sound unmarked copies in Very Good plus condition. No Signature.…