Trans George Moore (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. dj. First Edition. First Edition. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general shelf wear, some edge wear,; Illustrated with erotic drawings, this is an English-language translation of the work of 2nd century AD Greek writer Longus, telling the story of Daphnis and Chloe, who find sensual love with each other after mishaps and adventure. 8.25" tall; 177 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. First printing from The Folio Society. In near fine cream coloured quarter velum and pale blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. The boards are very flat, tight and clean and have strong spine ends. The free end papers are slightly tanned. There is a tiny black bookseller's sticker on the front paste down from Charles Wilson, Liverpool on the front paste down. The text block is illustrated with etchings by Marcel Vertes. The pages are tightly bound, even and not marked. Near fine condition. No dedications etc. In fair pale grey pictorial slip case with tipped in etching on each side and black titles. The slip case's front tail edge is torn and all the edges are quite worn; it is also a little grubby. Marcel Vertes (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light wear and chipping to jacket; a nice copy. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 049746.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Blue boards with titles to the spine. Jacket is not price clipped. Clean pages.

Hardback. Printed pages: 164. Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Quarter cream buckram with paper covered boards. Page edges untrimmed. Limited Edition, number 565 of 1280 copies, signed by George Moore. Light marking to boards. Bumping and wear to board edges. Browning and a little light foxing to page edges. Small stain to outer margin of first two pages. Loss to upper corner of p139/140 where the page has been carelessly opened. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. Illustrated. Engraved bookplate to front pastedown endpaper (John Arthur Giles Gere, Art Historian and Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum). Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.75 x 9.5 inches (14.5 x 23.5 cm). Signed by Author.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 1st edition thus this Folio Society edition, 4to, 95pp, line illustrations by Vertes; suggestion of mild foxing or damping to fr pastedown, nothing much, o/w VG Copy Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Vertes, Marcel (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st printing thus. Sky-blue cloth with cream-coloured (vellum?) spine with gold lettering, in slipcase. 194 x 252 x 15mm. 95pp. Numerous full-page illustrations. Slipcase heavily worn and split at top and bottom; apart from previous owner details and monogram to front endpapers, book appears as new both inside and out. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive. Marcel Vertès (illustrator).…

96pp. 4to. Original vellum-backed cloth, B/w illustrations. Some foffsettng to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed paper-covered boards, in a good (torn) slip-case. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 95 pages illustrations. Notes; Done into English by George Moore, with etchings by Marcel Vertes. Subjects; Daphnis (Greek mythological character) Fiction. Chloe (Greek mythological character) Fiction. Pastoral fiction, Greek. Longus. Moore, George (translator). Vertes, Marcel (illustrator). Folio Society. 3 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Signed limited edition hardback book (164 pages)done into English by George Moore. Limited to 1280 copies, signed by the author, of which 1250 are for sale and 30 for presentation (#1230).Signed by Moore on limitation page. Dust jacket in protective sleeve is torn with chipping/pieces missing. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-Bottom-Up-Middle) rareviewbooks. Signed by Author(s).…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed paper-covered boards, in a good (torn) slip-case. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 95 pages illustrations. Notes; Done into English by George Moore, with etchings by Marcel Vertes. Subjects; Daphnis (Greek mythological character) Fiction. Chloe (Greek mythological character) Fiction. Pastoral fiction, Greek. Longus. Moore, George (translator). Vertes, Marcel (illustrator). Folio Society. 3 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Cloth/dust jacket Duodecimo. brown cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 160 pp laid in is a letter signed by Moore presenting the book dj torn on the top Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.…

Quarter gilt linen over paper boards, printed dws. Tall 8vo, c.pp168 uncut, armorial bookplate on endpaper, parchment-coloured dws just slightly dusty, else an excellent bright & fresh copy. With the Erratum slip. Limited Edition numbered and signed by George Moore. With 7 vignette + 4 full-page illustrations by the early 18thC French illustrator Philippus. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Hardback, Slipcase. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Card slipcase marked and toned, sticker with title and publisher; dust jacket is bright though edgeworn, tear to upper spine though no loss, one or two handling marks on rear; fawn cloth boards, corners sharp; binding is tight; pages are clean with colour illustrations by Marc Chagall.; 9.75 x 1.2 x 12.9 inches; 222 pages. Illustrated by Marc Chagall (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. First English Language Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's yellow pictorial cloth blocked in black from a design by Aubrey Beardsley; xx,191,[1],15pp. Cloth a bit dust-soiled and toned at margins, especially spine, corners bumped, textblock a bit brittle due to inferior paper quality, contemporary ex libris and bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Very Good, bright and sound overall. The first English language translation of Dostoevsky's first novel, originally published in Russian in 1846. The work is told through a series of letters between two impoverished distant cousins and is today deemed Russia's first "social novel." According to legend, Dostoevsky's friend Dmitri Grigorovich read the manuscript in one sitting, "then rushed out into the middle of the night to proclaim to the world the advent of a new Gogol" (Carol A. Flath, "Dostoevsky's Secrets" (2009), pp. 3, 13). …