Dramatic Idyls by Robert Browning, First Edition (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Rear spine edge is mostly split. Front inner hinge is cracked. Bookplate on the front endpaper. Pages unopened.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. First. All in good internal order, pages just a little tanned commensurate with age with a little occasional foxing. Front hinge a little weak but holding firm. Bookplate of Cuthbert Headlam to front pastedown. Bevelled edge olive cloth boards with black embossing to front and gilt titling to spine. Some marking, spine dulled.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's light brown coloured cloth with gilt title to spine,black lined border to upper cover,with half title present,one one neat former owner's name to the half title page.The book has it's original grey slate coloured endpapers,no hinge weakness,binding firm,but with just one minor tear to the head of the spine.This is the First Series of 'Dramatic idyls' far greater scarcity than the second series.Lovely clean copy internally,8vo 143pp plus single advertising leaf at rear.First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Brown cloth covered boards with mitered corners, show some fraying head & tail of spine. Some foxing first couple of pages and last couple of pages as well as page edges ; A bright solid, book, hinges intact; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 147 pages.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. 1st ed. 1st edition, 1889, in brown cloth. Nice fresh copy. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown (Baron de Spon); gilt on spine bright; slight wear and bumping at head & foot of spine. Used - Very Good. VG hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover first edition, no jacket. Includes two pages of advertisements at rear. Spine is tanned and board edges lightly rubbed. Hinge break at half-title page and light foxing to endpapers, additional light foxing to a few internal pages. Previous owner's signature to front pastedown and authoritative pencilled notations from previous bookseller to FEP reverse. No other markings. AD. Used.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Pale brown cloth. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Dark brown cloth. Exceptinally clean bright covers. Very clean tight etxt (largely uncut) but text edges bit dust marked and spotted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Smart copy of this Browning first edition. Publisher's dark brown bevelled cloth, ruled in black and with gilt spine lettering; grey end-papers. Minor rubbing to extremities but perfectly clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Smart copy of this Browning first edition. Publisher's tan bevelled cloth, ruled in black and with gilt spine lettering; grey end-papers. Minor rubbing at head, tail and corners but bright and sharp.

Hardback. Condition: nrVG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Brown cloth lettered in gold. Inscribed on the halftitle "To dear Nelly Paul From her affectionate Mary E. Coleridge". Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Minor cover wear.

143 pp. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth. First edition. A little water damage to lower corners of boards; ink name to half title; otherwise a bright, very good copy. Without "First Series" on the spine.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Issue: lacking "First Series" on the spine. 4.25 x 7in. 143pp. [2pp., ads]. The former copy of Richard Dowse, with his engraved bookplate at the front paste-down. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, spine marginally darkened, somewhat over-opened at the front hinge, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain distinct. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First editions. 143p +ad leaf,149p + ad leaf. Spine heads fraying, light wear to corners, inner hinges of second series cracked. Enclosed in card board slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small chip on front fly, very modest rubbing, near fine. Three attractive bookplates: of writers John Drinkwater and Maurice Baring; as well as Emma C. Chamberlayne. Early ownership signature of writer John Drinkwater on half-title: "John Drinkwater 1922" with his note in pencil: "The first edition, perfect as issued, but apparently bound up later than my other copy, when the 2nd Series was published. See base of binding." An interesting association copy.

First edition of this classic work by Robert Browning exploring dramatic monologue and narrative poetry, inscribed by Browning in each volume. Octodecimo, two volumes, bound in full levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, triple gilt ruling to boards, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, doublures of blue levant morocco to pastedowns, crimson moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in volume one, "Mrs. Skirrow with RB's affectionate regards. Apr. 26 '79," and in volume two, "Mrs. Skirrow with RB's affectionate regards, June 27 '80." Mrs. Charles (Amelia Cherry) Skirrow is noted to be one of a small and devoted circle of women who were enamored of the aging Browning. In near fine condition with some marginal toning. Cloth dust jackets are in very good condition. From the library of noted collector William A. Strutz with his small bookplate to the pastedown, with an additional ownership plate from Jerome Kern. Housed in a custom slipcases. Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His career began well â" the long poems Pauline and Paracelsus were acclaimed â" but his reputation fell back for a time â" his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure â" and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 Browning married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861 he had published the collection Men and Women. His Dramatis Personae and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book made him a leading poet.