Editor Grimaldi Joseph (10 results)

Very good copy in library binding; cloth boards backed in gilt-blocked leather. Spine and boards slightly dust-toned and dulled. Coloured prelims. Bookplates and/or library marks in prelims/title page, but the rest of text remains clear. Remains in particularly good condition. Physical description; xvi, 258 pages [11] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait. Subjects; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. Cruikshank, George 1792-1878. Whitehead, Charles 1801-1862. Grimaldi, Joseph 1779-1837. Clowns Great Britain ; Biography. Actors and actresses Great Britain ; Biography. 1 Kg. A new edition with notes and additions, revised by Charles Whitehead.

Very good copy in library binding; cloth boards backed in gilt-blocked leather. Spine and boards slightly dust-toned and dulled. Coloured prelims. Bookplates and/or library marks in prelims/title page, but the rest of text remains clear. Remains in particularly good condition. Physical description; xvi, 258 pages [11] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait. Subjects; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. Cruikshank, George 1792-1878. Whitehead, Charles 1801-1862. Grimaldi, Joseph 1779-1837. Clowns Great Britain ; Biography. Actors and actresses Great Britain ; Biography. 1 Kg. A new edition with notes and additions, revised by Charles Whitehead.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ix, 23 Pp. Complete With Half Title, Publisher's 36 Pp. Catalog, And Cloth Spine And Wrappers Bound In At Rear. Volume Ii Only. First Edition, In First Issue Without The Grotesque Border Around The Last Plate, With First Issue Salmon Cloth Covers Bound In At Rear. In A Fine Bayntun Binding (For Dutton's, New York) Of Full Red Morocco, 5 Bands, Two Black Morocco Spine Labels, Gilt In All Compartments And On Ribs, Date In Gilt At Bottom Covers With Three Gilt Rules With Devices At Corners, Elaborately Gilt Turns, Marbled Endpapers, Top Edge Gilt, Elaborately Embossed Salmon Covers And Spine Bound In At Rear. Book Near Fine, Some Rubbing At Edges, Original Covers Also Fine Or Nearly So.

x, [25] - 232 pp. Frontis of Grimaldi, lithographed by 'N. Currier'. 12mo. Bound in 6s. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4" A scarce Dickens item, as well as an early Currier item, who opened his own establishment only 3 years prior, 1835. Abt VG (joint cloth starting/2 contemporary po signatures/usual light foxing/faint whiff of tobacco). Original paper wrapped boards with red linen cloth spine & printed paper spine label (modern reproduction) 2nd US edition, 2nd state [Conningham 3297; Gimbel B66; Vander Poel B602(1)].

x, [25] - 232 pp. Frontis of Grimaldi, lithographed by 'N. Currier'. 12mo. Bound in 6s. 4 5/8" x 7 1/2" NB. Also an early Currier item, who opened his own establishment only 3 years prior, 1835. Binding: light extremity wear, bookplate, VG+. Text block: age-toning, VG - VG+ Modern buff paper wrapped boards with green linen cloth spine [in a period style] & printed paper spine label [which has an abrasion spot in center] 2nd US edition, Second state [Conningham 3297; Gimbel B66; Vander Poel B602 (1)].

Hardcover. Condition: Good- (Textblock Very Good). First Edition, First State. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. Signed fine binding by London's Root & Son. First issue, without the 'grotesque' border added to V2 p. 238 [Eckel, 140]. Includes 13 superb engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank. Noted flaws notwithstanding, a presentable (and repairable) set of this minor classic. Moderate shelf/edge wear, spine darked and dry (likely exposed, shelved, to a house fire), spine labels missing, all joints tender and/or split, front board of V2 free, light sporadic foxing, focused at preliminaries, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Signed full tan leather binding, five raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled endpages, tissueguard, teg. 8vo. 288; 263pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

1st edition, 1st issue (Eckel, p. 140). 2 volumes. Frontis & 12 plates by Cruikshank. 8vo. Gilt bright. A solid Very Good set. Original publisher's later-issue brown cloth with elaborate gilt stamping to spine (professionally recased).

1st edition, 1st issue (Eckel, p. 140). 2 volumes: xix, [3], 288; xix, [1 (blank)], 263, [1], 36 pp. Publisher catalogue concludes Vol II. Illustrated with 13 plates by Geroge Cruikshank. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5" Spines sun-tanned. Some foxing. Vol I with gutter break prior to the 'B' gathering. A VG set in a worn cloth clamshell case. Original publisher's pink ribbon-embossed cloth bindings. Yellow eps. Housed in a custom red cloth clamshell case.

Half Morocco. Condition: Very Good. Cruikshank, George (illustrator). xvi, 358 pp. Half black morocco with lettering and decoration in gilt to spine. Red speckled edges. Frontis and lively b/w illustrations throughout by George Cruikshank. Slight rubbing to extremities of binding and a repaired tear to illustration opposite p. 214 which has been trimmed and laid in. The occasional odd mark or spot internally but generally clean. No ownership names and binding tight. The autobiography of London's most famous clown, edited by Charles Dickens, who first saw him at seven years old. Bound in 8's. 16mo.

1st edition, 1st issue (Eckel, p. 140). 2 volumes. Illustrated by Cruikshank. 8vo. A Near Fine set (bpt of Frederic Robert Halsey; Last Song plate loose). Bound in full green morocco by Zaehnsdorf.