Nonesuch Library (9 results)

Condition: Very Good. 23 pp., paperback, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Sotheby's "Modern First Editions" prices realised for their 10-11 May,1971 auction (8 pages) / Tauchnitz Of Leipzig publications 2001-3 to 2100-1 / "Autograph Letters prices realised at Sotheby's 22 April 1971 auction / Frederic Prokosch - specially printed books for him, Sotheby's 11 May 1971 / Nine Lives + Nonesuch Press / Brian Gould "Visits To Arthur Waley.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 - 6 pages (cont'd from issue 21) / Sotheby's October and November 1069 book auction prices realised (6 pages) / The New Cambridge Bibliography Of English Literature Vol.3. 1800=1900 / C.B. "The Lonely American - Name Philip Marlowe, Born 1906. Profession Private Eye" / Tauchnitz Of Leipzig, 199=400 / Nonesuch Press sold at Sotheby's Oct & Nov 1969 / Arthur Rackham sold at Sotheby's Oct & Nov 1969.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 13.5 x 22 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: The Private Library; Inventory No: 613796. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xxiv, 796pp. In deep red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Thick 12mo. Boards just a little rounded at corners and spine ends, strip faded along top edge. Text block edges lightly toned. Some toning on endpapers; previous owner's name, dated 1948, on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a stain on p102, where it would appear a flower has pressed between the leaves. Issued as part of the Nonesuch Library, a series of books designed to give, by clever editing and critical apparatus, a true conspectus of certain great writers in one volume and, by proper planning of the physical elements of the book, to give it in a form both handy and handsome.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edited by John Hayward in 1934, and this is the 1946 edition. It is exceptionally clean, and the jacket is only showing minor chippings, and it is unclipped and protected. Neat contemporary inscription. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

. Pp. 16, printed in Monotype Garamond on laid paper, with full page reproductions of the title pages; 19 cm. x 11.6 cm; self wrappers, stabbed and tied; The Nonesuch Press, London, n.d.[1938]. McKitterick P42, with the loosely inserted order form and posting envelope; within the original stamped envelope, postmarked 7 October 1937 (opening split along top edge), addressed to Australian bookseller and bibliophile, Harry Muir. According to McKitterick this prospectus was issued in Spring 1938, with P41 The unusual and the desirable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The Nonesuch Library. Five volumes in uniform crown 8vo buckram with pictorial dust jackets: Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Selected Prose and Letters, ed. Emory Holloway, London: The Nonesuch Press, n.d. [1930s]; William Morris, Centenary Edition: Stories in Prose; Stories in Verse; Shorter Poems; Lectures and Essays, ed. G. D. H. Cole, London: The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1934; S. T. Coleridge, Select Poetry and Prose, ed. Stephen Potter, London: The Nonesuch Press, n.d. [1930s]; William Hazlitt, Selected Essays 1778 to 1830, ed. Geoffrey Keynes, London: The Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House Inc., 1941; Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse, ed. John Hayward, London: The Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House, 1942. Castle device to title pages and jackets, top edges trimmed, approximately 800 to 900 pages per volume. Condition: Good set overall in good jackets. Jackets complete but edgeworn overall with chips and short tears at spine ends and corners; Hazlitt jacket with a larger chip at head of front panel; light creases and rubbing to all. Cloth shows light shelfwear at spine ends and tips. Text blocks toned with dust soiling to edges; scattered foxing and small spot stains to fore and bottom edges; some faint tide marks to edges on a few volumes, not affecting legibility. Occasional offsetting to endpapers. Bindings sound and square; pages generally clean and unmarked. Old printed prices present on several jacket flaps, including 15s and 12s 6d. ---. Mixed-year Nonesuch Library set bringing together five major editors and authors. Swift explicitly states First edition November 1942 on the copyright page; Hazlitt dated 1941; Morris is the 1934 Centenary Edition; Whitman and Coleridge appear to be early Nonesuch Library printings from the 1930s. Printed in Great Britain, several volumes by Robert MacLehose and Co. or by R. and R. Clark. US distribution noted by Random House on Hazlitt and Swift. Attractive uniform design with the Nonesuch castle device; a solid reading and reference set of the series rather than a matched first edition set.

Condition: Good. Broadside, 17.5" x 11.5". Letterpress on Laid Paper. Very Good. Scarce.