walton william translator (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition for it's advanced age. Clean text, few breaks in the spine. Some rubbing on the covers and spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. A beautiful copy bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration, top edges gilt, doublure pastedowns. Cover shows minor fading to the spine, starting joints. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

First edition thus. 8vo. 3 volumes. [xxii], 351; [vii], 319; [vii], 319 pp. Etchings by Lagnillermie & Thevenin. Quarter leather on marbled boards, gilt ruled spines, raised bands, very good set. (78262).

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Eugene Abot & Daniel Mordant (illustratore). 2 volumes; No publication date; Printed on Japanese vellum, numbered, & limited to 1000 copies; Japanese vellum wrappers have sepia titles, bound over with lavender cloth (as issued), paper spine labels, & 12 full page illustrations; A near fine set with subtle spine fade, slight cock, & top edges uncut; 359 & 333 pages. Size: 5.5"x8.75".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2-volume set. Japan paper edition, bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decorations, top edges gilt, doublure pastedowns. Covers show minor fading and starting joints. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Eleven-volume set of Honore de Balzac's 'Scenes from Parisian Life,' one of the interlinked collections of his 'La Comedie Humaine.' Published from 1896-1897. Contents include: (1-2) Splendors and Miseries [of Courtesans] - The Way That Girls Love (Esther heureuse) / How Much Love Costs Old Men / The End of Bad Roads / The Last Incarnation of Vautrin, (3-4) Cousin Bette / Pierre Grassou / The Girl With the Golden Eyes, (5) Cousin Pons, (6) Ferragus Chief of the Devorants / La Duchesse de Langeais, (7) History of the Grandeur and Downfall of Cesar Birotteau, (8) The Civil Service / Gaudissart II / A Prince of Bohemia, (9) The House of Nucingen / The Secrets of La Princesse de Cadignan / Sarrasine / Facino Cane / A Man of Business / The Involuntary Comedians, (10-11) The Petty Bourgeois. Each numbered #315 from an edition limited to 1,000 copies. Contemporary brown half-leather with marbled papered boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Good. Leather is rubbed, with moderate to heavy edgewear including frayed corners, light fading to spines. Leather at spines is also lightly to moderately cracked. Top of pages edged in gilt. Volume one has light red/brown staining to top of textblock, and volume two has generally heavier edgewear than other volumes, with fraying to the full front fore-edge. Spines square. Modern repair to bindings at inner hinges. Inner hinges of volumes three and four are cracked; bottom halves of both outer hinges also split. No loose or missing pages - these bindings are else intact, and are sound through textblocks. All other volumes sound entirely. Texts are unmarked; volume one has a prior owner's name rubber-stamped at the limitation page, and there is slight marginal dampstaining to volumes eight and nine, as follows: volume eight has a slight wave (consistent with liquid damage) to front matter and dampstaining to fore-edge margin from the tissue guard at title page through page 40 (not affecting text), and volume nine has a tiny dampstain to the fore-edge margin of an early fly leaf. Slight indentation through front matter of volume five. Pages else clean and bright, texts free of markings.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ten-volume set of Honore de Balzac's 'Scenes from Provincial Life,' one of the interlinked collections of his 'La Comedie Humaine.' Published from 1897-1898. Contents include: (1) Ursule Mirouet, (2) Pierette / Le Cure de Tours, (3) La Rabouilleuse, (4) Eugenie Grandet, (5) The Lily of the Valley, (6) The Illustrious Gaudissart / The Muse of the Department, (7) The Old Maid / The Cabinet of Antiquities, (8-10) Lost Illusions: The Two Poets; A Great Provincial in Paris; and Eve and David. Each numbered #315 from an edition limited to 1,000 copies. The set is in about good or good+ condition. Contemporary brown half-leather with marbled papered boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine. General rubbing and shelf-wear, edgewear; light fading and slight cracking to the leather at spines. Top of pages edged in gilt. Spines square. Modern repair to bindings at inner hinges; in most volumes the binding is also cracked slightly at the page before half title (volumes three, five, and ten exempted). No loose or missing pages; bindings sound through textblocks. FFEP of volume four / Eugenie Grandet is chipped at fore-edge, with a long vertical closed tear extended upwards. Pages clean and bright, texts unmarked.

Condizione: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 15 (weekend SALE item)* 2 vols., lxxxvi, [2] (list of plates & errata), 362 + 472 pp., plates; contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards, bindings now dry and worn, spines flaked, masonic book plate to the front paste down of each volume, previous owner's inked signature and hand stamp to each title, else internally clean and tight. - 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. Photos available upon request.