Wolfe Humbert Introduction (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. No Date circa 1928. 31 pages. Original printed paper covers good with some general wear, worn through at staples, a little dust soiled. Contents clean and tight. A good to very good copy. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gilt decorated black cloth boards are well-bound, some rubbing & bumping of spine ends & corners, light soil from age & handling. Rough-cut pages are not all cut. Light foxing throughout, in margins. All illustrations present. Clarke, Harry (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 24.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. xxx (3) 217 pages. Bound in black cloth with gilt design to cover and spine. Decorated endpapers. Introduction by Humbert Wolfe. Frontispiece and 9 additional black and white plates by Harry Clarke as well as in-text illustrations. Spine is bumped and frayed at top and bottom. Binding feels a bit shaken but is holding. First American Edition, with no additional printings noted. Harry Clarke (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Hard Cover. The Bodley Head, London 1928. 1st Edition. Book condition: G - Good. Black & White illustrations. Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. With Illustrations and Decorations by Harry Clarke and an Introduction by Humbert Wolfe. London: The Bodley Head, 1928 & New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. First Edition. Pp xxvi, 217, uncut, top edge in gilt. Maroon buckram, with title and decoration in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Cloth faded & at head & tail of spine, lacks dust jacket. Contents pages in nice bright condition. The eleven plates of this work are considered to be the most erotic of Harry Clarke's work. After publication Herbert Wolfe disassociated himself from the work. He objected strenuously to Clarke's illustrations, depicting his erotic interpretation of the poems. Wolfe, an Italian-born British poet, was one of the most popular British authors of the 1920s. Harry Clarke was one of Ireland's greatest, and most controversial, modern artists. Emerging during the later phases of the literary and dramatic movement known as the Celtic Revival, he joined the ranks of literary greats W. B. Yates, J. M. Synge and Sean O'Casey in shaping the international reputation of Ireland as a modern sovereign state 217 pages. Size: 7" x 10" (170mm x 250mm). (2). Harry Clarke (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated at copyright: This Edition first published in 1928; This Volume Published by arrangement with Messrs. William Heinemann. Tall 6 1/2" 9 3/4" design. Printed in England, Text by J. Curwen & Sons Limited, Photogravure plates by Nickeloid. Black coated cloth boards, gilt impressed cover and spine titles in Roman-like font. Enigmatic imagery of odd eminating priest(ess) character w/conehead wear, viper wrapping around at feet; similar feminine figure with two entwined forked-tongue vermin. Patterned illustrated endpapers by Clarke in maroon. Antiquarian printed bookpate at half-title for Margaret Gimlin; intriguing montage imagery of humanity's development of writing through the ages. Frontispiece plate with captioned tissue guard: "Felise". Rough-cut deckled leaves very good, moderately toned; several leaves remain uncut and unopened. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Features eleven plates with blind-stamped borders, each with captioned tissue. Partial page imagery and decoration by Harry Clarke throughout. Near very good first edition of fine book craftsmanship. XVII pages, 217 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Clarke, Harry (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Octavo, 217 pages; VG; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with their stamp, in full polished red calf, paneled spine with gilt, label with gilt titling; all edges gilt; some mild discoloration and wear to spine; gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers; with 10 photogravure plates, including one double page, all with tissue guards; shelved case 0. 1349633. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

, no.277 of a limited edition of 300, signed by Christopher Sandford, printed on F.J. Head's hand-made paper, 112 pages, woodcuts throughout Limited Edition , light rubbing to boards and spine ends, spine faded, internally clean, binding firm, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, very good condition , quarter morocco, patterned cloth, gilt titles to spine , 27 cm x 17 cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN.…

, 47 [1] pages, no. 238 of a 300 copy limited edition. SIGNED by Christopher Sandford, numerous black and white in text illustration and plates throughtout First Edition , the book is a little faded at head and foot edge of boards, green colouring to spine has faded to brown, book plate of Michael Raymond William Charles Holmes T.O.S.F tipped to upper pastedown, binder's mark to upper pastedown, very good condition , quarter bound green morocco under orange cloth with dark green cockerel design, gilt lettering to spine, gilt head edge to text block , octavo, 26.5cm x 17cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN.…