Tobin Alice (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. George T. Tobin (illustrator). 14pp story, printed in double columns, illustrated with 4 drawings by Tobin, 2 of which are full-page plates, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXXVII, #2, June, 1904. From the opening paragraph, "It was in the waiting room of the Byrd Street Station in Richmond that Basil Pomeroy first saw Cary. The day was a sticky, warm September day; and he was occupying three seats with his dress-suit case, his gun-case and rod and his own engaging person." Housed in protective mylar report cover.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 10.50x8.40x1.06 inches. In Stock.

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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for John Howell, 1958. 4to, (iv), 80, [2], pp. Original quarter linen with blue paper-covered boards. A fine copy in the original plain dust-jacket, spine panel lightly toned and chipped at head and foot. § One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. A translation of Racine's Phaedra by Agnes Tobin, a little-remembered American woman of letters. Born into a wealthy San Francisco family in 1864, she spent many years in London where she became a great friend of Alice Meynell and a beloved member of her literary circle (which included Yeats, Pound, Gosse, and Augustus John). Something of a poet's poet and a translator's translator, she won respect for her translations of Petrarch and her original poems, which were often on religious themes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 21cm), unpaginated [32]. Publisher's paper covered stiff wraps with yapp edges, decorated in green, blue and gilt to upper, green linen ties. Eleven plates by Robertson. Offset toning to pages facing plates, hinge and joint repaired with archive tape, most of the linen ties gone, covers rubbed and marked, especially to spine ends. Very good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Graham Robertson (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this scarce collection of poetry from Petrarch, illustrated with plates by Graham Robertson. The first edition of this scarce work.Six sonnets and a canzone by Petrarch are translated by Agnes Tobin, with a preface by Alice Meynell.Illustrated with ten charming plates by Graham Robertson, alongside ten further ornate pictorial initials.Collated, complete.A charming edition of a selection of poems by the fourteenth century Italian poet Petrarch. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with yapp edges. Ink mark to head of front board. Boards lightly age toned to back strip and perimeters. Back strip titled in ink by a prior owner. Lacking majority of front and rear tie. Internally, firmly bound. Offsetting to pages facing plates. Light spotting and instances of foxing throughout, with handling mark to title page. Very Good. book.