Improvisatore, First Edition (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4to. (25 cm.) 124p. Plus 4p. ads. Sewn booklet in brown wrappers printed and decorated in black. Wear to the extremities with some corners rounded but still flat, top third of front wrapper missing, some chips missing around edges of wrappers, top right corner of title page missing with no loss to title, sewn binging intact, pages turning as expected, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. Even though the publication data references New York, this edition was sold in Britain, as it has on the front cover "Price One Shilling.".

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. First American Edition. First American Edition, so stated. 12mo. Decorative orange cloth, gilt titles, 341 pp. Tiny antique library stamp, no pocket. No other library markings. The first in a series of collected works translated and published in the USA. Stated first edition of uniform works in English. Spine cloth neatly reglued. Boards skewed. Good.

Condition: New. 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Six Publications in One Volume. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. New York: Harper, 1846. First American Edition. Andersen, Hans Christian. Trans. Mary Howitt. Life in Italy. The Improvisatore. New York: Harper, 1945. First American Edition. Andersen, Hans Christian. Trans. Mary Howitt. Only a Fiddler! and O.T. New York: Harper, 1945. First American Edition. Bremer, Frederika. Trans. William Howitt. Life in Dalecarlia: The Parsonage of Mora. New York: Harper, 1845. First American Edition. Bremer, Frederika. Trans. Mary Howitt. The H- Familly; Tralinnan; Axel and Anna; and Other Tales. New York Harper, 1844. First American Edition. Howitt, Mary. The Authors Daughter: A Tale. New York: Harper, 1845. First Edition. Quarter leather and marbled boards. One of Dickens important Christmas tales. Mary Howitt and her husband William were prolific authors and translators. Mary wrote many works for children, including her famous poem The Spider and the Fly, and, as evidenced here, she and her husband translated various Scandinavian works such as those of Andersen and Bremer. Chips and staining on spine, handwritten index of the book on the front free endpaper, previous owners signature in ink, a little foxing, Good.

Presumed First Edition. Octavo, contemporary Leather, with gilt lettering at spine, raised spine bands, gilt accents to covers. First Edition of Hans Christian Anderson to appear in English, his classic autobiographical travel book on Italy, translated from the Danish by the well known English poet and translator, Mary Howitt. Very Good, with rubbing to leather at spine edges and cover corners, some water staining and wrinkling to rear board, shadowing to endpapers and some soiling throughout.

Partially interleaved with blanks. Contemp. full vellum, red labels; boards sl. bowed. Improvisatore, 1835. First English edition, 1845 (this translation).

Traduit du danois par Madame Camille Lebreux. 2 vols. 12mo, old quarter morocco over marbled boards, expertly rebacked retaining original spines and spine labels. First edition in French. Some scattered inoffensive foxing; slight rubbing to boards; tight and sound.

Neatly bound without half titles into 20thC half brown cloth retaining orig. maroon leather labels, marbled boards. v.g. Improvisatore, 1835. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Wolff 138.

Half titles. Contemp. green half morocco, gilt spines, marbled boards; spines sl. faded. Armorial bookplate of John Blount in Vol. I. A v.g. copy. Improvisatore, 1835. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Wolff 138. Vol. I has a 2pp ALS tipped into the prelims, from the bookseller Frederick H. Hutt, Strand, advising Mr Blount on prices for Andersen's works in translation. Dated Feb. 1901, it lists eight titles, including Only a Fiddler, 1845, 5/6. Vol. II has a b&w postcard of The Blue Grotto, Capri, pasted on to initial blank.

First Edition in English. First Edition in English. [iv], 316; [iv], 331pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Wolff 138 Half brown cotemporay morocco and marbled boards [iv], 316; [iv], 331pp. 2 vols. 8vo.

First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Thick 12mo, 6 3/8 x 4 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches. 340 pp. Bound in contemporary full Florentine vellum souvenir binding, with gilt-stamped decoration & ruling on covers, gilt decorated & lettered spine, marbled endpapers, died red text block. The book is illustrated with 35 superb mounted albumen photographs of persons in native garb, buildings (interior and exterior), allegorical frescoes, etc. Quite impressive. A near fine copy. Scarce thus.