Gilbert Phelps Editor (12 results)

Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. condition is "as new" in very good slipcase , edited by Gilbert Phelps , travel book , first published in 1614 , describes the "long nineteene years trauyles , from Scotland , to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe , Asia , and Affrica " (his spelling , not mine ).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. First Folio Society edition, first printing. 292pp, with illustrated frontispiece and occasional illustrations in text. Green boards with gilt decorations front and spine, gilt titles on spine. Colour illustrated endpapers. Top edge sprayed brown. Boards very slightly pushed at spine ends, hint of spotting on fore edge, else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Housed in its slipcase, shelf worn, rubbed on corners, with a little cracking in paper along edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green boards with silver lettering to the spine. Minor shelf wear to the extremities. Glazed pictorial unclipped dust wrapper, spine lightly sunned now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 280pp, clean and bright pages with illustrations and images throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Folio. Protected in a slipcase. The boards are tidy overall with little edge wear. The binding is secure. Ink inscription from a previous owner on the half title page. No other ink inscriptions or annotations. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Folio Society Edition. 290pp, bw ills, col endpaper maps. Or green and gilt cloth lacking slipcase. Some minor foxing to page edges. Over 3 journeys in the 1600s Lithgow travelled through most of Europe, the Middle East and Holy Land, North Africa (including Morocco, Egypt and Libya). A shotened account of his first 'peregrination' was published in 1614, and a selection of his travels were published in Hakluyts Posthumus of 1625. Not until 1632 was the first full version published. As well as fascinating accounts of travel he tells of his capture and torment by the Spanish at Malaga under the Inquisition. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 290 pages illustrations, facsimiles, maps (on lining papers) : 22 cm. Issues in a slip case. Illustrations are reproduced from the first edition of 1632.

Condition: Fine. First Folio Society edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter Venetian red cloth, rose paper sides with simple floral border design, gilt and black back, top edge red, rose end sheets. 8vo. 9ĵ'' x 6''. Contains [xx], 166 pp with 12 monochrome illustrations throughout by Francis Mosley. Fine condition book in Fine condition open fronted slip case. Unused and unopened new book. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOLIO SOCIETY.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. An early 'travel' book. Beginning his travels in the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland, Lithgow soon went off to explore the Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, France, and Italy. He then traveled throughout Greece, Egypt, and Malta before having a spin through Western Europe again and finally returning to Great Britain. With illustrations&maps & an 'introduction' by the editor. / This is a cloth-bound 'reprinted' hardback with its slip-case in good condition-the slip case is faded, otherwise the book is in fine condition. (290 pages). Originally published 1632.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A splendid Folio First Edition of a book worth knowing. Clean and tight, this looks new and unread and the specially made slipcase is sturdy. Acid proof paper and the usual high standards of sewn binding and elegant typography; an exemplary presentation of a fascinating book of its time.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The first 8 issues, comprising vols. 1, 2, and 3. Large format measuring 8.5 x 11. Each issue between 40 and 160pp., on mimeographed sheets; each issue includes a photograph of each author, a small collection of each author's work, three or four critical studies, homages, commentaries, and long and detailed interviews with each author by editor Barry Alpert. An attempt at an encyclopedia of the New America, it features the following poets: Ed Dorn and Tom Raworth, Anselm Hollo and Ted Berrigan, David Bromige and Ken Irby, Fielding Dawson and Jonathan Williams, Robert Kelly, Gilbert Sorrentino and Donald Phelps, David Antin and Jerome Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low and Armand Schwerner. All issues are in Near Fine to Very Good condition.