Stoops Conquer Mistakes Night, First Edition (25 results)

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Collector's edition. Limited edition. A Near Fine copy. Tall 8vo. Bound in full blue leather, elaborately decorated in gilt. All edges gilt; moire silk end papers. Silk ribbon marker. Light shelf wear to the bottom edges. Part of the publisher's series, "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 121pp., illustrated. A fine, crisp, lovely copy in the publisher's yellow blind-stamped cloth. In the publisher's slipcase, soiled and rubbed on one panel, but sound; better than good. Oneof 1500 limited copies SIGNED by Cleland on the limitation page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. Cleland, T.M. (illustrator). 1st. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. The Easton Press Collector's Edition 1978. Completely bound in genuine leather with decorative gilt. Linen endpapers. Raised bands on spine. Extra gilt. All edges gilt. As New. Hardcover. 4to. 121 pp. including Epilouge. Illustrated and Decorated by T. M. Cleland. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition: About fine. 1st thus, #687 of a limited 1500. 4to. size, 121 pp. Mustard yellow cloth elaborately stamped in blind, with black calf spine label stamped in gilt. Printed by Clarke & Way in New York, and with full spread frontispiece and in-text and color illustrations throughout by the designer and illustrator, T.M. Cleland, who has also signed on the limitation page. Goldsmith's great comic play, reissued in the typical beautiful and meticulous LEC format. The spine head shows the slightest hint of wear, there is a very faint smudge on the top edge, a small stain on the foreedge, faint erasures of a previous collector's notations on the front flyleaf and title pg, as well as one very small extraneous mark on the title page also, but otherwise the book is essentially as-new, and appears unread. In a VG+-NF slipcase that is lightly rubbed and scuffed and has had a previous collector's label removed. Even the original glassine is in excellent shape, with only a couple small tears and light spine browning. A terrific copy of Goldsmith's comic classic. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original highly decorated cloth hardcover, tipped in colour plates all correct as called for, 198 pages, page edges and endpapers spotted otherwise a very good bright copy with protective glassine wrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B148.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. 18 Pp. Light Blue Cloth, All Gilt Lettering And Designs On Spine And Front Cover (The Colored Covers Are Later), Illustrated Endpapers, All Plates Tipped On To The Pages, As Issued. First American Edition, Undated, Using English Sheets, Printed By T & A Constable At The Cambridge University Press, Undated, Circa 1912. Very Near Fine, No Names Or Marks Or Stains, No Fading To Cloth, All Gilt Still Brilliant. Decorative Color Custom Collector's Bookplate.

Full-Leather. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. T. M. Cleland (illustrator). Limited Edition. First/limited edition, bound in full dark blue leather, lettered and elaborately decorated in gold foil, 3 raised spine bands, edged in gilt, with moire endpapers, silk book mark bound in. Endpapers are a bit discolored along edges, otherwise new/as issued. xiii,121 pp., publisher's book plate laid in. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). 1st Edition. No date, circa 1918. 1st thus. Quarto. 197pp. Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates and line drawings by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's green cloth, decorative printed and gilt titles. A little light spotting to spine and text-block. Otherwise a bright copy. Binding square and firm. Neat former owner gift inscription to first blank. A 'Very Good+' copy.

first edition thus [limited edition] 198pp ills.[b/w w.25 tipped-in col.plates by Hugh Thomson] NF (full green leather w.gilt dec.borders to top board and raised bands to spine,watered-silk endpapers,minor foxing to prelims.,aeg,all plates are present and clean w.tissue guards all present).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Cleland, T. M. (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by Illustrator. Limited Numbered Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Copy 1470 of 1500, signed by illustrator. Embossed yellow cloth over boards with black gilt-stamped title plate on spine, illustrated title page, frontispiece image of Oliver Goldsmith from a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, (xi), 121 pages, illustrated with several color drawings by T. M. Cleland. Finger soil on covers. In original glassine that is chipped on spine. In original black slip case that is rubbed and scuffed on all edges. Illustrator: Cleland, T. M. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 13 oz. Category: Theatre & Plays; Signed by Illustrator. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 011323.

First edition, first printing. Very good large format. No date, but inscription dated 1915. Faded gilt titles and decoration to the front boards and spine. Small bump to top front corner.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Near Fine in boards in a Near Fine slipcase.; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. but 1912. First American Edition. Quarto; publisher's blue-green decorative cloth elaborately stamped in gilt; [2],197pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, twenty-four tipped in leaves of plates, half-tone text illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in blue-green. Boards lightly scuffed with brief exposure at corners, spine a shade toned and gilt dulled, textblock slightly shaken in boards with a few signatures proud, else a Very Good, still quite bright and attractive copy.

198pp. 4to. Original embossed cloth with some very light wear to backstrip. Some light browning on endpapers. Includes numerous coloured plates. A very good copy. First edition. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

Original pictorial cloth. First Edition. Mounted colour frontispiece and 24 plates, and illustrations, all by Hugh Thomson 4to Spine darkened and covers marked, upper hinge cracked, but otherwise internally a very nice copy.

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated By Hugh Thomson (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Another play lavishly illustrated by Thomson with 25 wonderful delicate watercolour plates (prints) & b/w vignets, 198pp. Bound in light green cloth with gilt titles & decoration on spine & profusely decorated front board . Hugh Thomson was born in Colraine Northern Ireland 1860-1920. Signature & Inscription of Pre.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Quarto. 10 1/2' x 8". Rebound in red 3/4 leather. Three raised bands to spine. Gilt lettering and design to spine. Marble end-papers. TEG. (top edges gilt).198pp. 25 color tipped in plates by Hugh Thomson. Some light edge rubbing to covers. First edition with Hugh Thomson's illustrations.

Hardcover. Illustrated by T. M. Cleland (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine, Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition.

Hardcover. Illustrated by T. M. Cleland (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine, Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Good+ slipcase. Light foxing on side text block edge. Bumping along slipcase spine.; Signed by illustrator on rear end page.; Signed by Illustrator.

First edition with the Thomson illustrations, 1/350 copies (this #21) signed by the illustrator. 4to. (4), 197, (1) pp. Mounted color plates, in-text line drawings; advertisement for Thomson's drawings and watercolors laid in. Publisher's green and gilt-stamped decorated vellum (some browning), top edge gilt. Offset top endpapers from binder's glue, ribbon ties lacking, but a very good copy.

198 [1] pp. Illustrated from 25 tipped-in color plates by Hugh Thomson. Folio, publisher's elaborately gilt full vellum, t.e.g.; ribbon ties lacking. First edition; No. 329 of 350 copies, signed by Hugh Thomson. There is a stain, 1/2 x 1-1/4", at the bottom of the front board, with a few other light smudges. Endsheets a little tanned; contents otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. The classic 18th century comedy of manners brilliantly illustrated by Hugh Thomson. The first of the Cranfield School of British artists who abandoned the 1890s style of Aubrey Beardsley for the delicacy of an 18th century mode, Thomson (1860-1920) is best known for illustrating the iconic peacock edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Quarto: [ii], 197, [2], [1, blank] pp. with a frontispiece and 24 full-page plates, all tipped-in color halftones after illustrations by Hugh Thomson, as well as 15 textual illustrations and decorated chapter pages, and decorative borders and endpapers. In the publisher's grayish aqua green flat-weave cloth binding, with gilt-stamped ornamental borders, stylized floral wreath device, angel's head device, moon, bat, and star devices, and script titling. Light toning to the endpapers; else fine. Accompanied by the original glassine wrapper and housed in the publisher's two-part box featuring a color halftone vignette by Hugh Thomson on the front panel, with some loss to the side panels of the lid. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin.

First edition, Todd's second impression (p.8 not numbered and running title reads; 'She Stoops To Conquer'); 8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm); upper margin of half-title with small, neat tissue repair to closed tear, small ink lining above roman numerals on title-page, two small repaired tears to p.35, small stain to p.39, mark to pp90-91, neither affecting legibility of text, some soiling and general age-toning, otherwise still very good; modern quarter red morocco over marble boards, spine in 6 compartments with gilt lettering to second and gilt decoration to others, all edges gilt, three bookplates to front endpapers, two affixed to front pastedown and the other loose, some general signs of light wear, else very good; 107pp, [1]pp. A first edition of Oliver Goldsmith's play, She Stoops to Conquer from 1773. Bibliography: ESTC T1547; Todd, "The first editions of The good natur'd man and She stoops to conquer", Studies in Bibliography 11 (1958), pp. 133-142.

8vo in fours, bound with four other plays of the period (see below), pp. [viii], 72, 81-114 (the text continuous despite the pagination error); title and last page a little soiled; in contemporary calf, spine rather worn, joints cracked. First edition of She Stoops to Conquer, one of the few English plays of the period (or, indeed, of the whole of the 18th and 19th centuries) which have kept their place in the modern repertoire. It is clear from the many possible variants found in the first edition of this book that quite a number of small changes were made as the book was being printed. In the early 20th century, when collecting Goldsmith was at its height, these variants seem to have been fetishized, but Williams (p. 154) was soberly dismissive: 'This seems to be another instance of a book being altered as it went through the press, and of the half-sheets in different states not being kept separate, but bound up haphazard in any combination with the result that there is probably no distinct first issue'. That said, this copy has the following variants: it does have a price on the title page, has no half title, has Joseph Craddock's prologue among the preliminaries, and omits Diggory from the Dramatis Personae. See Williams pp. 153-161; and Rothschild 1037. Bound with the following other plays: Richard Cumberland, The West Indian (1771); Cumberland, The Choleric Man (3rd edition, 1775); Robert Hitchcock, The Macaroni (2nd edition, 1773); and Colman and Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage (new edition, 1770).