Symonds John Editor (41 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. San Diego: A Harvest Original / Harcourt Brace & Company 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 015600559X "Gathering some of the best travel writing ever collected about the enchanted Emerald Isle". 293+ pages, frontispiece map. National Geographic Ireland and Northern Ireland: A Visitor's Guide color map folded and laid in. Near fine with ight edge wear. clph.

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 436 pp. Vol. 31 issue only! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Last page torn. Smooth covers. Gold lettering on spine. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ***Please Read*** DJ and a hard slipcase in good condition - Size is 21x29x2.8 cm - 302 pages - My shelf location - k-30-b*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. An English-language edition of volume two of the 16th century Florentine artist, sculptor and author's tempestuous autobiography. Edited and translated by John Addington Symonds. Illustrated throughout with tissue-guarded portraits and scenes from Cellini's life. Volume two only of the two-volume set. --- Printed at Boston's Merrymount Press. In dark red cloth-covered boards with elaborate decorations in gilt to cover & spine, gilt-stamped spine titling, TEG (top edge gilt), remaining textblock edges deckled. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With mild sunning to spine, a dampstain to back cover, some leaves unopened. Overall, an attractive, sound copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; viii, 387 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1886. Very Good hardback book. No dust jacket. A square, tight and clean copy with a tasteful bookplate on front endpaper. Original green cloth covers. 262pp. 12mo. (CL).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kredel, Fritz (illustrator). First Heritage Press printing in very good condition with tanned spine. Gray green cloth with an all-over pattern of small fleur-de-lis and lions. Slipcase is very good also with tanned top edge and edges of opening edge, with slight wear. No cracks or splits. Famous autobiography of 17th century Italian court artist. 301 pp. Autobiography, Art, Artists, Italy, 17th Century, History.

Hardcover. viii, 440p., Early printing in variant binding (dark blue but with a somewhat tighter 'weave') and pages bulking somewhat less thick than copies we have handled with the somewhat coarser 'weave.' Previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, pages a bit browned, else very good condition. Unclipped variant dust jacket (burgundy as opposed to the blue of other editions we have handled) shows wear and toning at edges.

Hardcover. viii, 440p., Early printing in variant binding (dark blue but with a somewhat tighter 'weave') and pages bulking somewhat less thick than copies we have handled with the somewhat coarser 'weave.' Very good. Slight wear at corners, pages a bit browned. Clipped variant dust jacket (burgundy as opposed to the blue of other editions we have handled) shows wear at edges, some minimal loss at top and bottom of bit dulled spine.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kredel, Fritz (illustrator). Edition printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona for the members of the Limited editions Club. Light green cloth with all over pattern of darker green fleur-de-lis and lion pattern, with dark green sprinted spine label with gilt frame and printing and light green page block top. Near fine with no marks, the slightest of corner wear. Slipcased in a plain grey-green cardboard case, faded on top and overlapping squares around perimeter of front and back, with wear along one side of bottom edge. ( x )301 pp. Autobiography, Art, 16th Century, Italy.

Softcover. Condition: Acceptable. 960pp. Laminated stiff card covers. 8vo. A tatty and well-used copy. Card covers rubbed and bumped at edges, with a short crease over the curling lower leading corner. Reading crease along a bowed spine. Text block edges toned. Pages corners soft and rounded, with the occasional corner bumped. We would not usually offer a book it this condition but it is a hard to find title and is suitable as a working/reading copy and may serve to fill a gap in a collection until a better copy can be sourced and afforded.  .

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Original publisher's black cloth binding with red lettering on covers and spine. No date, circa 1880s-1902. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 189 pages, complete. Six additional pages of advertisements in the back. Small square sticker on front pastedown with a library call number. A few numbers are written in black ink on the blank flyleaf preceding the half-title. There is one pink stamp each on the title page and Page 189 that reads, "Library, State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, Berkeley, Cal." The stamps do not affect text. Tipped-in pocket label on the back pastedown lists the terms of checking out books from the library and instructs patrons to place their cards in the pocket when the book in on loan. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Some dust on the top edge of the text block not affecting pages internally. No external markings, except for slight rubbing to the covers. A Fine copy. This book is part of a thirty-six-volume biographical series titled, English Men of Letters, which was edited by John Morley and written by different authors. This book is no. 34 of 36 in the series. One ad in the back lists other books in the series that had been released to date. Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), an English poet who was part of the Romanticist movement in literature. He was well-acquainted with other prominent literary figures including Lord Byron, John Keats, and Thomas Love Peacock. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Olive cloth w/black lettering. Ex lib w/notation on spine, lib label pasted neatly inside front cover, pocket inside rear cover, remnant of due slip rfep, gift inscription half title, text is clean and nice,the occasional smudge, has visable wave, stiched binding is not quite tight. Mild wear head, heel and corners, light soiling to outside edge. Digital photo available.

Hardcover. Limited Edition. Primavera: Pomes by Four Authors edited by John Addington Symonds. Limited edition of 450 copies printed on Kelmscott paper by Thomas B Mosher in Portland, ME 1900.Clean pages, tight binding, cloth softcovers clean with small nick to front and small crease to spine Clean pages, tight binding, clot.

Hardcover. viii, 440p., ownership signature of David Thorstad, very good first edition in dark blue cloth boards and gilt, slightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Hardcover. viii, 440p., first edition, Navy blue cloth boards somewhat worn at edges in an edgeworn dust jacket with some loss to edges, rubbing along folds, soiling/dulling to spine.

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 26 (SALE item)* limited to 450 copies; 43 pp., original jacket-covered boards, top edge of the jacket slightly chipped, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 460 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 319 pages. A memoir by the author of the seven-volume Renaissance in Italy, with a frank autobiographical account of the author's homosexuality. Keywords: Man of Letters, Renaissance in Italy, Nineteenth Century, Homosexual, Sodomy, Tormented Hero, Autobiography, Psychology, Vaughan Episode, Marriage, Family Relationships.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Portraits With Tissue Guards (illustrator). Reprint. Seven Volumes Bound In Matching Quarter Tan Calf, Top Edges Gilt, Marbled Boards And Matching Marbled Endpapers, Spines Elaborately Gilt In All Compartments, Red And Black Morocco Spine Labels. 1895 Date On Title Pages Well Made Books, Good Quality Paper And With Tissue Guards To The Frontispiece Portraits In All 21 Volumes. All Volumes With Only Light Rubbing, A Few Beginning To Fray At Top And Bottom Edges, Joints Cracked Or Starting On All Volumes, One Spine Split Away At Top Half, The Detached Half Laid In Loosely And Repairable, One Spine Coming Loose Along Front Joint But Can Be Re-Glued Without Bindery Work; All Gilt Brilliant, Morocco Spine Labels Clean And Bright. International Postage At Usps Priority Mail Box Rate.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Complete 2 volume set. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound bindings. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good (-). No Jacket. Complete in 2 volumes. Vol 1: 359 numbered pp +1; Vol 2: 386 numbered pp. HBs. Pages: clean, bright, tight, t.e.g., f.e. roughly cut and highly deckled, frontis; a.e. tanned, a bit of cover dye bled to several pp (vol 1), eps toned. Cover: burgundy, lovely and elaborate gilt artwork front/spine, gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, extremities a bit worn, spine gilt dulled, both spines and front t.e. of vol 2 sunned. Numerous b/w illustrations w/ tissue guards.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. lower right front cover ripped off.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. "Edited and Translated John Addington Symonds with a Biographical Sketch of Cellini by the Same Hand Together with an Introduction to This Edition Upon Benvenuto Cellini, Artist and Writer, by Royal Cortissoz with Reproductions of Forty Original Portraits and Views Illustrating the Life" Two Volumes Bretano's 1906 edition, Books are at least Very Good Plus, very clean red cloth with profound gilt ornamentation on front boards, spines a tad sunned but gilt titles and ornamentation still bright, Volume 1: 360 pages, Volume 2: 387 including index, a little very light wear to boards in a few places with one corner bumped, top edge bright gilt, end papers and text Fine, nice un-trimmed fore edge, binding tight and books square, No previous owner bookplate or writing. A very clean and most presentable two volume set. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Complete 2 volume set. Revised edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Second edition. Two volume set published in 1888. Light wear to the boards. Sound bindings. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

paperback. Condition: Good. Good. Vintage Mass Market paperback- Second Bantam printing 1971. Y5820 on front. Used with wear/signs of age but no markings. some wear/chipping to covers/spine edges. no reading creases. some rubbing to back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. "With reproductions of forty original portraits and views illustrating the life." Illustrations include artworks by Cellini, as well as Bronzino, Titian, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 8th edition. 615 pages. 11.00x8.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 8th edition. 615 pages. 11.00x8.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 960 pages, 8vo. First American Edition, Second Printing. Jacket price is unclipped. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, a few small tears along edges and spine. DJ in mylar. Previous seller's price stamped on front endpaper, crease running down middle of last page leaf. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.