Published by George Doran, New York, 1927
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition , first printing , NY , 1927. A near fine book in the original binding. Clean with contents excellent. Not with dust jacket. A good treatise on the art of Golf.
Published by Chapman & Hall, London, 1900
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Undated c1900 Chapman & Hall edition, leather-bound, Books of the Verulam Club edition; Good+ copy, turquoise leather boards have gilt titling and decoration to spine; gilt top page edge, esle hand-cut pages; lightly browned to page edges and faded to spine but good+ clean insidem no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.
Published by Dunstable: The Book Castle, 2006
A nicely presented and well-researched history of the St Alban's club, once captained by Samuel Ryder who founded the Ryder Cup in 1926. 8vo. 118pp. Paperback. Very good condition.
Published by Chapman & Hall, London
Seller: The Merrickville Book Emporium, Merrickville, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Handsomely bound edition of Francis Bacon's from the Books of the Verulam Club series. Undated, but presumably early 20th Century. Some general wear to the leather boards. Five raised bands to the spine. Gilt text still bright. Interior is clean and unmarked with a solid, square binding. Gilt page edges and sewn-in ribbon bookmark.
Published by Chapman and Hall, 1901
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good.
Leather Binding. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Attractively bound in 3/4 brown morocco over brown cloth by Riviere & Son, spine with raised bands and gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, covers ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (minor wear; small ink signature on verso of front endpaper).
Published by Methuen & Co. (Jarrold and Sons), London (Norwich), 1935
Seller: Gilibert Libreria Antiquaria (ILAB), Torino, TO, Italy
First Edition
In-8°, pp. XIV, (2), 138, legatura editoriale t. tela verde. Ritratto del Mitchell in antiporta e altre 43 illustrazioni fotografiche e disegni f.t. Bell'esemplare (sovraccoperta assente). Prima edizione di questo autorevole manuale di golf scritto da uno dei maggiori golfisti del suo tempo. Il Mitchell (East Grinstead, Sussex, 1887-St. Albans, 1947) vinse nella sua carriera numerosi tornei golfistici, fra cui il Miami Open del 1924. "Abe Mitchell's greatest achievement was to win the British Match Play Championship (second only to the Open in prestige) in 1919, 1920 and 1929" (North Foreland Golf Club Archives). Donovan & Murdoch, The Game Of Golf And The Printed Word 1566-1985: A Bibliography Of Golf Literature In The English Language, 26630. Inglese.
Published by Chapman and Hall
Seller: Flamingo Books, Menifee, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. No date, but a turn-of-the-century issue, denominated on the half title 'The Books of The Verulam Club,' Chapman and Hall, Ltd. (London), printed by Ballantyne & Company, Ltd. (London) and finely bound in gilt ruled half vellum and red cloth, 6 x 7 3/4 inches tall, with an intricate gilt design and gilt lettered red leather label to spine, top page edges gilt, fore and bottom page edges untrimmed, grey endpapers, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, finely printed on laid paper, [6], 292, [2] pp. Covers mildly rubbed and stained. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright, unmarked and solidly bound - and an extremely handsome example of turn-of-the-century fine binding in England. Produced by the bibliophile society The Verulam Club, named after Sir Francis Bacon, who was knighted in 1603, being the first scientist to receive a knighthood, and created Baron Verulam in 1618 (which peerage became extinct upon his death in 1626 without issue). Chapman and Hall, Ltd. was a British publishing house in London, founded in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman and William Hall, which continued in business under this name through the 1930s, when it merged with Methuen. This was therefore printed before the 30s, and likely closer to 1900. ~GG~ The Imitation of Christ was written (or at a minimum, transcribed) by Catholic monk Thomas Kempis, as four separate books completed between 1420 and 1427, at Mount Saint Agnes monastery, in the town of Windesheim, located in what is now the Netherlands. He wrote these works for the instruction of novices of his Augustinian monastic order, followers of Geert Groote's Brethren of the Common Life. But the writings quickly became popular among all the literate faithful. They were copied together in one manuscript as early as 1427, by Kempis, and copied (and later printed) together fairly consistently thereafter. Soon after hand-copied versions of the Imitatio Christi initially appeared, the printing press was invented, and it was among the first books after the Bible to be printed. There is probably no other book other than the Bible which has been printed in so many editions and translations. In the past six hundred years, the work has been translated from Kempis' medieval Latin into nearly every language in the world.
Programme for a day of cycle racing organised by the Verulam Cycling Club and Barnet Wheelers, held at Clarence Park on July 14th, 1904. The day consisted of three 10 mile races. Single folded sheet. A little worn along folds and a few grubby marks. A rare survival.
Published by Chapman & Hall, London
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
[no date]. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 231pp. A handsome volume bound in 3 / 4 burgundy leather by Bayntun of Bath. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. Although there is some minor cracking at the rear inner hinge, light rubbing to the marbled paper on the front cover, and a previous owner's inscriptions and stamp, this is still a pleasing copy. Includes Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial, A Letter to a Friend, On Dreams & Religio Medici. Publisher series: Books of the Verulam Club. Binding by Bayntun. (Medicine).
Published by New York The Limited Editions Club 1944. In a handcrafted, period bookbinding by Jarmilla Sobota. Number 958 of 1100., 1944
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. In a handcrafted, period bookbinding by Jarmilla Sobota. Number 958 of 1100. [Colophon:] "Eleven hundred copies of this edition of The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon haven been printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the Press of William E. Rudge's Sons, under the direction of [signed:] Bruce Rogers This copy is Number 958.". Size of the Sobota binding: 9" x 12 7/8" x 1 ¼ " (thick); (xii), (1)-190 pp. + colophon leaf, signed by the designer (Bruce Rogers). Half-title, title-page in black & red, with heraldic shield, Introduction by Christopher Morley, with Postscript by A. S. W. Rosenbach, Note on the text, Table [index]; Epistle Dedicatorie; printed in a large, clear type, keeping most of the original spelling; with early 17th century style initial letters. In a beautifully designed and well-executed early 17th century-style, period binding by Jarmilla Sobota, with her binder's stamp in gray on the lower leather turn-in of the inner back cover. The binding is full, white pigskin, with five raised bands on the spine, and the covers featuring a typical series of blind-stamped borders in floral or geometric tooling, with central panels in a similar, cross-hatched design, with handmade & engraved, brass clasps, mounted on pigskin straps. The outer surface of binding has been given some very light "antique" staining; hand-sewn headbands; high-quality paper flyleaves have been added, but the LEC/BR Bacon's Essays has not been trimmed down. Preserved in a sturdy and handsome, drop-back clam-shell box ( 9 3/4 " x 13 ½ " x 1 7/8" thick ); this is covered in a textured, tan cloth, with mounted panels of a lion & shield, design-printed brown & tan paper on the sides; interior is lined with a gray-green tinted paper. A few lower page margins show small, light paste spots; outer edges & inner spine of box show minor rubbing, wear spots. Binding is in fine condition. Handmade by Jarmilla Sobota in the 1990's. Scan shows the central portion of the front cover, but not the entire cover. Weight: 5 lbs.