Potocka Countess (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The book has some surface wear. The cover has some scuffing along the edges.

1/2 Leather. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. New York, NY: Doubleday & McClure Company. G/No Dustjacket. 1900. . 1/2 Leather. 8vo., 253 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, spine splitting,hinges cracked, page toning . Black & White Plates (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900. First American edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 253 pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Delfina Potocka, née Komar (March 1807- April 2, 1877), a Polish countess, was a friend and muse to noted Polish expatriate artists Frédéric Chopin and Zygmunt Krasin'ski. Antique ex-library with bookplate from 1901. Rebound in library cloth with new sturdy hinges by library. No pocket. Tiny stamps at corners of illustrations. A few library marks. Corner of front board and spine has water stain; does not affect text, which is clean. A solid, sound book. Good condition. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy. 8vo., 253 pp. Rebound in a beautiful burgundy half morocco with red cloth over boards; boards single lined ruled in gilt. Gilt spine titles and elaborate decorations, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, and silk ribbon markers, with a small, handsome royal themed cloth book plate. A Near Fine copy in handsome Fine Binding. *****. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. (i-xxii), 253 pp. Green cloth boards w. gilt title to spine. Good, strong cover, tho' cnrs bumped. Spine somewhat worn and title faded, bumped top & btm and at edges, but sound. Gilt & silver motto on front cover. TEG. Side & btm edges rough-cut. New endpapers. Portrait frontispiece. Memoirs of the Countess Potocka, edited by Casimir Stryienski. Authorised translation by Lionel Strachey. Facsimile page of the orig. MS at front. Preface by Translator. Genealogical table. Translator's note . Map of Europe at front. Illus. w. numerous b&w plates., (Plates opp. p.12, and p.58 loose).…

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Octavo, three-quarter red leather over marbled boards with gilt titles and rules, five raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated. xxii [2]. 253 pages. Beautiful binding. 112304A The Countess Potocka was a friend and muse to Polish expatriates artists Frederic Chopin, and Zygmunt Krasinski.…

Hardback. Edited by Casimir Stryienski. xxiii, 253pp, 50 plates, NY 1901. Back cover marked, otherwise a very good copy in green cloth with gilt crest on cover.

Condition: Good. Original platinum print 15 x 10cm.