Robert Southey Editor (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Maroon-boards hardback with an unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket has edgewear and a small missing chip on the rear-top, but is now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. A clean, tight copy- no underlining/notations observed. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy cardboard box. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.…

304pp. + catalogue. Edited, with biographical & critical introduction by Sidney R. Thompson. of the series: The Canterbury Poets. Previous owner's bookplate, binding lightly cracked & slightly cocked: Very Good/no dj.

Condition: Poor. 1st edition. Full calf, P+. 2 volumes, xvi+336pp, xii+370pp, engraved frontis & engraved title ( with vignette ) to each volume, leather rubbed & marked to both volumes with the top compartment missing to volume I & the upper board detached to volume II, both engraved titles & frontis are tanned & marked, a working set. The life & works section of the complete Southey edition ran to 3 volumes ( with 12 further volumes covering Cowpers poems, translation & letters ). William Cowper [ 1731 - 1800 ] English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. 750 grams. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. -----------Original dark tooled cloth, 7 1/2" tall. 471 pages, with illustrations.GOOD CONDITION, solid tight book, text clean of any markings, but with some damp stain, exlibrary book with bookplate- - no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Hardback w/ jacket; unmarked; no bent/torn pp.; some wear to jacket at edges.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 201 pages, b/w/sepia illustrations throughout. A paperback copy incorporating the dust jacket and therefore perhaps a proof or advanced reading copy, but in all other respects identical to the hardback edition. Binding very good with a little wear to the spine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Size: 4to (approx. 21 x 26cm). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 260 pages. 8.40x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Octavo. Condition: tiny nick to top of spine; else near fine. 360 pages.

Centaur Classics edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth, top edge blue (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 360 (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. First edition. 511pp. Original cloth. A very good copy in dustwrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. 1st edition thus, 1849. A Good+ book. 8vo., 693 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Tips, edges and top/base of spine rubbed and bumped. Call letters at base of tanned spine. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover, blind stamp on title page. Text edges dusty. Text appears unmarked.…

Condition: Fine. Limited Editions Club 1958 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Publisher Folio Society, London 1956. Good condition. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering and design, spine faded. Wear to ends of spine. Pages tanned, some foxing. Tight binding, no markings or inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school and was considered one of the Lake Poets. He was poet laureate from 1813 until his death in 1843. He was also a historian and prolific biographer, including biographies of the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. Octavo. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt title on dark red leather label to spine. Cover shows light wear and a few minor stains. Chipping to spine ends and browning to spine. Pages are clean, but show toning. Minor rubbing to front and back endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. 433 pages, with book advertisements at end. ENGHIST/081322.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. It was written to provide young seamen with a clear concise account of the exploits of one of England s greatest hero's, is a model among short biographies. . With illustrations. / This is a cloth-bound 'reprinted' hardback with its slip-case in good condition-one of the slipcases edges is split & the cloth to the spine is faded. (303 pages & 12 pages of illustrations). Originally published 1813.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Handsome collection of extracts from various great histories by eminent authors describing key events, including The Fire of London, The Discovery of America, The South Sea Bubble, The Salem Witch trials and dozens more. Decorative blue cloth. Bevelled edges. All edges gilt. With frontispiece. Printed in double columns. No date but c. 1900. Some rubbing to edges and bumping to corners. Contents clean and tight. Very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Half leather, marbled boards, covers worn and titles in manuscript across spine, split between front end papers and front cover attached but loosening, previous ownership book plate on front fee end paper and later ownership on front free end paper, text block tight, clean with occasional foxing, 330 pages. [QP]. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Very good or better in good dustwrapper. Hardcover has dustwrapper with 1 inch closed tear top front, bottom front, frayed, smudged on back/ Volume I.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leather binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. Two volumes of appr. 550 pages each. The collected letters of Robert Southey- 497 in all. Covers period 1792-1838. Dust jackets are bright, complete and clean. Red cloth exteriors with title in gold within a black title block on spine. Interiors are unmarked, tight and clean. Uniform in appearance and condition.…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ex library, very good condition. Size: 8vo. Ex Library.

420 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 13.75cm. Contemporary full leather binding; boards decorated with gilt stamped border but scuffed at edges; bright gilt stamping to spine with slight furrows and some dryness/brittleness to surface leather; past owner's age-toned personal library label affixed above spine heel. Slender abraded patch at lower fore-edge with some twenty leaves having associated shallow light stains at their margins. Antiquarian ink signature "S.B. Mathews" on front pastedown; top fore-edge corners of pages 409-412 creased from past fold-downs; varied foxing throughout. Binding is firm. Still an attractive volume. Unpaged b/w frontispiece opposite unpaged pictorial title with b/w vignette profile portrait of Henry Kirke White; pagination initiates with text title leaf.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leather binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 557 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

3 vols. Folio, publisher's decorated boards in glassine and publisher's slipcase. Volumes fine; two glassine wrappers split at spine and chipped; slipcase splitting at one joint and worn at corners. Blindstamped on each colophon page: "One of 15 copies for presentation Out of Series." Jean Hersholt has signed and inscribed all three colphons. The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 31 x 20.5 cm. Limited to 2500 sets of which this is set 1729. Lacking slipcase. "Joseph" is illustrated with mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk "Bears" is illustrated by William Moyers. Small stain to bottom edge of cloth of "Bears". There is also a brown marker mark over a paragraph symbol (like it was a mistake corrected by a reviewer) on the first story page of "Bears". Aladdin is illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Mild soiling to covers of "Aladdin" All 3 volumes are signed and inscribed to original owner by editor Jean Hersholt on their colophon page. Arthur Szyk (illustrator); William Moyers (illustrator); Fritz Kredel (illustrator). Signed.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Poetry, essays, biographies. Four volumes complete. First editions, First Series - 1849, Second Series - 1849, Third Series - 1850, Fourth Series 1851. Uniform fine leather bindings lightly scuffed, top of the first spine slightly chipped, covers edges gilt decorated, marbles endpapers, marbled book edges. Interiors clean and tight, hinges cracked but firm. First volume edge of the front endpapers, frontis, and half title page have an edge stain that does not extend into the book, pages generally toned/tanned but clean. Handsome set, 7 1/2" shelf length. Large set, additional postage required for international orders. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st ed. [8], 300, [6], 299p. Later full green leather with gilt-stamped inner dentelles. 17cm. Backstrip toned to brown. Joints showing slight tenderness. Edges lightly rubbed. Letter dated 5/3/1891 from E. D. North at Charles Scriber's Sons to an unnamed recipient (indicating that he was sending this set and two other works on "approbation") has been folded and neatly bound in. Later gift inscription in first volume dated 1941. Scattered foxing, soiling and edge-wear in both volumes. All edges gilt, presumably when this was rebound. Major contributors to these volumes were Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb. No more volumes published. Two issue points: (1) "War Poem" by Southey was deemed objectionable so almost all copies, including this one, were issued without leaf B8 (pages 31-32) in Volume I which contained that poem; and (2) leaf C3 (pages 37-38) in Volume II is in uncancelled state with "wicked" appearing on line 9 on page 37.…

Two vols, 12mo, (viii), 300; (vi), 299 pp., names of the contributors added in a later hand, some light foxing, contemporary calf, spines gilt, spines rubbed and a trifle worn at ends, upper joint of vol. I attached, but loose. First edition. A major collection of original new verse, edited by Southey, and with contributions from most of his early circle of friends. Prominent among these is Coleridge, who provided no fewer than twenty-seven poems. Other contributors, aside from Southey himself, include Joseph Cottle, Humphry Davy, Thomas Beddoes, George Dyer, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd, Robert Lovell, Amelia Opie, Mary Robinson, and Francis Wrangham. CBEL3, IV, 457.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine, handsomely bound. First Edition. Two volumes (4" x 6-1/2") bound in recent half brown morocco with matching corners retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled. Leaf B8 (pages 31-32) lacking in first volume, as usual; C3 in second volume in uncancelled state, with word "wicked" present on page 37, line 9. [Tinker 1953; Wise, Coleridge, 15]. Contributions by Samuel T. Coleridge (27 poems, some previously unpublished), Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Robert Lovell, Humphry Davy, Amelia Opie, and others. Pages 31-32 contained Southey's "War Poem," but were canceled in all but two known copies as the poem was considered unpatriotic. A third volume was advertised but never published. A remarkable and important collection of early Romantic poetry, here in unusually nice condition.…