The nonesuch press (50 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dust Jacket. Spine, and covers have some fading, and wear around edges, and chipping. Pages are yellowing. ; Order form and envelope laid in.

Condición: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial brown & gray wrappers. The binding is rubbed & chipped with the bottom edges of the wraps rippled & the lower 1-1/2 inches of the front wrap detached. 15 & [1] pages. The name & address of the Mosiman Book Shop is stamped on the rear cover. The edges of the first leaf are chipped & the bottom corners of the pages are creased, chipped & darkened. The Mosiman Book Shop stamp is on the last page. Good. The Winter 1937-8 catalog of the Nonesuch Press lists five limited editions: Milton's "Comus", Blake's illustrations for Thornton's "Virgil", Rousseau's "Confessions", "The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne" and "The Poetry of Richard Barnfield". Laid in is a four-page prospectus for "Two Special Items": "Punch and Judy, reproducing Cruikshank's illustrations and "Anthony Adverse", illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. Also laid in is an order form with a price list, stamped at the top by the Mosiman Book Shop.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. A fine and enchanting catalogue from a leading fine press, and the title page continues: With a hand-list of books hitherto published by the Press, laid in. Date of publication not listed but is either 1925 or 1926. Bound simply in a thin hardcover 12mo format, very light gray paper over boards, blind-stamped, gilt lettering and device to front cover. Front board slightly bowed, lightly worn. Laid in letter from the Press regarding the Leslie-Burrell translation of Plato's Symposium. Unopened edges. 16, [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Paperback. pp. 27. Small 8vo. General shelfwear, nicks to edges; very good.

Soft cover. Condición: 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.…

Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on front board and spine, gilt decoration on front board, 10 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches, 128 pp. VG+. Contents: Charles Dickens and His Illustrators, by Arthur Waugh; A Bibliographical List of the Original Illustrations to the Works of Charles Dickens Being Those Made Under His Supervision, by Thomas Hatton; Retrospectus (Editions of Dickens's Works); Prospectus (The Nonesuch Dickens).…

Condición: 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. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Hardback, blue cloth, gilt title to spine and front board. 130pp. Illus. A little spotting. Private ownership. (bs33a).

Pictorial Wraps. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Bodkin Permitting: Being the Prospectus and Retrospectus for 1929 of The Nonesuch Press. Foreword by Francis Meynell. Thin handsewn booklet. Printed in Great Britain by The Westminster Press. Bound in publisher's original marbled paper with printed title label affixed to front. A very nice clean softcover copy. 28pp. Uncommon. SB-1.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Reprint (New Edition, thin paper edition). Hardback in dustwrapper, the boards bound in decorative cloth, the thin paper dustwrapper with colour illustrations to Rutherston. Top edge dyed blue. 19.5 × 11.5cm, xii + 516pp. An early and attractive copy of this immensely popular anthology of poetry, prose and music. It was first published in 1924, and this new edition added nearly 200 pages to it. The poetry is themed (Great Poems, Hate Poems, State Poems, and Animal Poems) and runs to nearly 250 pages, other chapters include Travels with a Donkey (on camping out in Britain - hints, recipes etc), bird song at morning (a guide to the dawn chorus), the stars, first-aid, the law and so on. There are blank pages at the rear to add further poems. The endpapers have printed boards for board games. This edition is illustrated by Albert Rutherston with fourteen full-page decorations in colour. Condition: This copy is in very good condition. There is spotted foxing to the page edges and a little to the prelims but the main body of text is in good clean condition and with secure binding. The dustwrapper is a little tanned to the spine but has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Nonesuch Press. Volume III: The New Testament and the Apocrypha. Near VG, no jacket, moderate wear, minor blemishes.

Sixteenth Edition. Very good copy with illustrated endpapers in the original gilt-blocked blind-tooled decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; Physical desc.: 367 p. 21 cm. Subject: Poetry -- Music -- Fiction -- Miscellaneous. 1 Kg. …

Single fold, 4 pp.; 25.4 cm. x 17 cm.; light horizontal fold at centre; issued by Faber and Faber, London, n.d.[1938]. See McKitterick 114a & 114b.

Pp. [8](last blank), Nonesuch device on title page, 5 specimen pages of text, printed on Van Gelder paper with unicorn watermark; 24 cm. x 15.5 cm. 8vo; self wrappers, stabbed & tied, a couple of faint spots of foxing, the front page a trifle offset; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1935. See McKitterick 100.…

Sixteenth Edition. Very good copy with illustrated endpapers in the original gilt-blocked blind-tooled decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; Physical desc.: 367 p. 21 cm. Subject: Poetry -- Music -- Fiction -- Miscellaneous. 1 Kg. …

Condición: Good. 4to. 130 pp., Blue Gilt Cloth, Very Good with minor staining. Illustrated. 1st Edition. Contents: I. Charles Dickens and his illustrators, by Arthur Waugh; II. A bibliographical list of the original illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens . by Thomas Hatton; III. Retrospectus: illustrators, by Arthur Waugh; II. A bibliographical list of the original illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens . by Thomas Hatton; III. Retrospectus: editions of Dickens's works; IV. Prospectus: the Nonesuch Dickens. …

Pp. 7+[1], plus [4] pp. insert from Genesis (text including 2 reproductions of l6th century woodcuts by Bernard Salomon), printed by the Stellar Press in Baskerville on wove cream paper, the insert on India paper, with reproduction of title page, printed in black and pale brown, plus retrospectus of the Nonesuch books of l953-l962; 24 cm. x 15 cm.; self wrappers, stapled; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1963. McKitterick P58.…

Single fold leaflet, 4 pp., , with a collotype insert of one of the fifty-eight plates in the Nonesuch Blake, the outer pages browned, and with the stamp of F. W. Preece & Sons, Booksellers, Adelaide on first and last page; 26.7 cm. x 18.8 cm.; The Nonesuch Press, London, n.d.[1925]. See McKitterick 24, note, version a, promising an edition of 1,250 sets.…

Single fold leaflet, 4 pp., with a collotype reproduction of one of the engravings; 22.3 cm. x 12.7 cm.; lightly creased; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1923. See McKitterick 12.

Broadside, double folded to 21.5 cm. x 13.7 cm., printed in Monotype Bembo on Japon vellum; top fore-corner lightly creased, small silver-fish hole to margin at top of last folded leaf; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1957. McKitterick P55.

Single fold, 4 pp., reproducing in collotype the original copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden, 2 specimen pages of text, full page advertisement for the Nonesuch Bible.; 30.3 cm. x 19.7 cm.; lightly creased and soiled a trifle creased; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1924. See McKitterick 20 and 21 [The Nonesuch Bible].…

Single fold leaflet, 4 pp., 17.cm. x 10.8 cm.; The Nonesuch Press, London, n.d.[1940]. McKitterick P51.

Single fold, 4 pp., printed in Monotype Bodoni on cream laid paper, all pages within decorative rule border; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927. McKitterick P15. Issued with the 1927 Prospectus and retrospective [McKitterick P14].

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1933. Octavo; quarter calf and papered boards; edges uncut; covers slightly marked; top edge very slightly foxed; flyleaves lightly discoloured; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly marked, chipped and torn. Number 852 of 1000 copies of which 800 copies are for sale in England . and 200 are for sale in the United States. …

Condición: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red and creamy white paper covered boards. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. Contains 48 pp with 8 colour plates and 21 monochrome illustrations throughout. Very near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with slight fading down the spine. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRITAIN IN PICTURES.…

Condición: Good. 8vo. Blue Cloth with protective bro-dart style mylar sleeve. 128 pp. Illustrations.

Pp. 8, stapled; roy. l2mo; imitation vellum, printed by the Stellar Press; Contents include a 4 page insert of specimen pages on India paper; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1953. McKitterick ll9 (footnote).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Limited. Soft Cover. Very Good. Limited. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. viii, 29p, Colophon. A rather scarce Nonesuch Press item. Covers a little rubbed. Otherwise a clean fresh copy.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Impression. 1956 First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by V. S. Pritchett. Size octavo, 9.25" tall, 339 pages. Taupe cloth covered boards with gilt titles and bands to the spine, bevelled edges, pages edges rough trimmed many uncut and/or partially unopened. With original marbled paper covered slipcase which is in unfortunate condition, corners and edges are rubbed, falling apart at the seams. Condition very good plus, spine a little tanned, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, contents are very clean. An anthology published to celebrate the completion of ten years of broadcasting by the BBC Third Programme. With various contributions from the shows grouped into the categories of Imagination, Argument, Experience and Exposition. "Unlike the standard edition it contains decorations by B. S. Biro" V.S. Pritchett contributes "Maisie" in the Imagination section and "The Artist in Society" along with Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen in the Argument section. One of a limited edition of thirteen hundred Tall copies printed on Barcham Green's rag mould-made paper by The Stellar Press. Where the number should be handwritten at the end of the limitation statement (which appears at the end of the book) instead is handwritten "Out of Series" and the word Number is crossed out. One of V. S. Pritchett's own copies, with his small owner's label to the front paste-down, signature in pencil on the front free end-paper and below the pencil signature is inscribed in blue biro; "For Lady Warlby. This playlet here included which I wrote in Parkhill Road. VSP with love" Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B. S. Biro (ilustrador). Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. A group of eleven Nonesuch Press publisher's lists and five prospectuses of individual titles. Lists include: The Nonesuch Books 1924, folio, 16 pages with four page concert announcement laid in; Nonesuch Books for Christmas 1925/Spring 1926, boards, 16 unopened pages; 1932 Prospectus and Retrospectus, 16 pages; Nonesuch Books for the Winter 1926 and for the Spring 1927 with a Hand-list of all the Publications of the Press, 8vo., 22 pages, with four-page concert series announcement laid in; Prospectus and Retrospectus 1927, 4to., 23 pages, with a notice about "The Temple" laid in; The 1928 Prospectus of Nonesuch Books, 8vo., 20 pages, with four-page specimen from "Much Ado." laid in; Bodkin Permitting, 1929, 8vo., 29 pages; 1930 Prospectus and Retrospectus., 8vo., 31 pages; 3 New Nonesuch Books, 8 pages + order form; 1935 Nonesuch News, folded broadside; Autumn 1935 Nonesuch News, folded newsheet; and 1937-8 Prelude to Plenty, 8vo., 15, (1) pages. All the above but the broadsides are sewn into printed or marbled paper wrappers. Individual prospectuses are: Herodotus, 1935, 8 pages; ; The Mask of Comus, folio, 4 pages, order form and envelope; Shakespeare, 1953, 12 pages, with order form; and The Holy Bible, 1963, with order form and blurb sheet. " Condition ranges from better than good to very good; Preserved in a supplied decorated paper-covered portfolio with spine label.…