Tales by Hoffmann, Signed (6 results)

THIS VOL ONLY, SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 350pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing to spine & cover edges, minor chafing & soiling to covers & page edges, multiple other signatures in ink to title page).

Hardcover. Hugo Steiner-Prag (illustrator). Large octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in full black natural linen decorated with a design in gold by the illustrator and a leather spine label. Translated by various hands; introductory essay by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated with 43 original lithographs drawn on the stone by Hugo Steiner-Prag, pulled by George C. Miller at the Printing House of William Edward Rudge. Copy #917 of 1500 SIGNED on the colophon page by the artist who also designed the book and wrote a prologue. Mild soiling to covers. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase.

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo VG+ (sl staining to page edges & cover).

336(1) S.,goldgeprägter schwarzer OLn in Schuber (dieser unfrisch). Über 40, teils ganzseitige Illustrationen von Steiner-Prag. Erste Ausgabe. Im Impressum eine Blindprägung des Limited Clubs. Entgegen den Angaben ist diese Ausgabe, obwohl von Steiner-Prag mit Bleistift signiert, nicht nummeriert. Stattdessen steht an dieser Stelle das Kürzel "H.S.P." Anscheinend handelt es sich um das Exemplar für Steiner-Prag selbst. Einmalig. Schremmer. S.32. Gutes Exemplar. Beigelegt: gefaltete, vierseitige DIN A4 - Ausgabe 'Monthly letter of The Limited Editions Club, April 1943, Number 156'. Good copy of this book. Handsigned by Steiner-Prag. Limited, but not numbered. Instead of a number, there are the marks of Steiner-Prag himself. It seems to be his own book. Actually it is not possible, sending books to the USA. Aktuell können keine Bücher in die USA versandt werden. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Adolphe Lalauze (illustrator). Limited Edition. Very Good limited edition numbered 45 of 100 of E.T.W Hoffmann's "Weird Tales" (more commonly written as E.T.A Hoffmann). 2 volumes. Probably Bealby's personal copy, with his name and "Edinburgh 1885" written in pen at the top right corner of each volume's title page. With eleven etchings by Adolphe Lalauze on Japanese paper.Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Some general wear and rubbing to boards. Spine label iillegible due to wear, with some loss. Some age-toning. An exceedingly scarce copy inscribed by the translator Bealby as his own personal property. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Steiner-Prag, Hugo (illustrator). Limited Edition. 336pp Illus #1307, signed by Steiner-Prag. Slight wear to top of backstrip; covers slightly discolored. Lettering on backstrip faded. Signed by Illustrator.