Devils Elixirs by Hoffmann, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. H. W. Weissenborn (illustrator). First Edition. Ex-library; no ink stamps; labels on the spine strip and each endpaper. The cover is dark brown. One board corner is lightly bumped. DJ: The top edge has seven closed tears, 1/8 in. to 3/4 in. The bottom edge has two closed tears and a 1/4 in. chip. Color loss is adjacent to the tears and in tiny spots on the spine panel. Scans e-mailed upon request. Only priority shipping is available for international orders.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. A little age-toned at the top edge of the text block. Minor age-toning to the lining papers. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over grey boards with silver titles to the spine; Measures 8ĵ" x 5½" (1 kg); pp (xi) 324; Translated by Ronald Taylor; Preface by Ronald Taylor; Includes: List of principal dates; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204031 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Weissenborn, Hellmuth (illustrator). First Edition. Ex-Library, "Palmerston North Public Library." Library stamps and markings. Plastic protective jacket attached to dust wrapper, boards and endpapers with adhesive tape. ; xi, [1], 324 pages. Papered boards. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 204mm x 128mm. "Among the intense, often contradictory passions released by the Romantic movement in European literature at the turn of the eighteenth century, was an obsession with the hidden, apparently uncontrollable forces acting upon the human mind, above all in moments of powerful mental stress. It is with the portrayal of the grotesque, bizarre forms of experience produced by such moments that the name of E. T. A. Hoffmann has come to be primarily associated." - from the introduction. ; 8vo.

Hardcover. First UK edition. 8vo, 324 pp. Covers lightly rubbed, previous owner name. Jacket priceclipped, a bit sunned, edgeworn, with light chipping, small sticker ghost on front flap. Very Good in Very Good (Price-Clipped) DJ.

first edition 324pp VG+ (grey cloth,sl.soiled,eps and content edges sl.foxed) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,sunned spine,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.).