William morris translator (22 resultados)

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good Minus. Later Printing. Book has a crease on the front cover, clean and bright inside. This is the 1971 third printing of the 1967 Collier paperback edition.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Third edition. Limited edition of 425 copies. Japanese vellum paperback book in lovely floral slipcase. Translated from the French. Spine somewhat darkened with small dark spots on spine halfway down; spots also on covers. Slipcase in fair condition with age-toning, heavy edge wear and tattering, and large pieces missing from bottom and top edges. Binding intact. Interior pages toned. Text unmarked.…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 112 pages. 6.00x0.27x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 152 pages. 8.90x5.91x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. First Collier Edition Third Printing. Softcover book in fine condition with light shelf wear on the covers. Pages are lightly age-toned, clean, smooth and unmarked. Spine is uncreased and the binding is tight.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Light wear to cover. 320 pages. Keywords: Epic, Teutonic Peoples, Scandinavians, British, Germans, Nibelungenlied, Nibelung's Ring, Legend, Unrecorded History, Collier Books, Paperback. …

Hardcover. Limited edition, 425 copies. 32mo, 72 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket in a Fair slipcase. Slipcase is quarter bound with white paper to spine and decorative paper to boards; missing top and bottom panels. Spine is cream with tan print. Dust jacket in cream paper with black print, wrapped in tissue. Boards in stiff cream paper. Text block pages are uncut. "Originally issued by William Morris at the Kelmscott press during December, 1893"- half-title page verso. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #4. 1406488. FP New Rockville Stock.…

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

1p., landscape 12mo. In fair condition, on aged and dusty paper. The receipt, for £19 5s 4d, is printed, and completed in manuscript in another hand. Archer has signed over a red tax stamp: 'William Archer | 7/12/06'. Stamped, and numbered '2801' in blue pencil. In top right-hand corner, in the same hand as the receipt: 'C. B. 215'.…

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 334 pages. 11.10x8.50x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Condición: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. 8vo, 382. Red library binding, half leather, half cloth, with gilt title to spine and sticker to front cover. Exterior heavily worn and most of leather faded. Front hinge partially split but binding otherwise secure and pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. slp blg edition. 186 pages. 7.50x5.50x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Leather-bound. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Printed by and sold by William Morris. Bound in green goatskin finely tooled in gilt, by Deborah Evetts, with a diaper pattern of alternating small, Kelmscott flowers and dots across covers and spine, title running across top and bottom of upper cover, uncut, stamp-signed "DE'08" on rear turn-in. One of 20 [at two guineas] velum copies (plus 525 [at seven shillings and sixpence] on paper); (this copy on vellum). Colophon in red and black. [iv], 130 pp.  Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Woodcut frontispiece title within a floral border, and facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 11a and 11). Numerous 7-, 6-, and 3-line woodblock initial capitals all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. Shoulder notes and some lines (including colophon) in red. A medieval French tale translated by Morris, who found them in a collection of medieval romances printed in Paris in 1856, NOUVELLES FRANcAISES EN PROSE DU XIIIEME SIeCLE. The Kelmscott Press also published two other works from the same source. THE TALE OF EMPEROR COUSTANS was the source of THE MAN BORN TO BE KING, in THE EARTHLY PARADISE. The second story is A TALE OF OVER SEA. [Cockerell 26. Peterson A26. Walsdorf 26.]  Housed in green buckram drop-back box, brown goatskin label titled in gilt on spine. Condition overall: Fine. 16mo: 5 13/16" x 4 1/8" x 3/4" (14.8 x 10.5 x 1.9 cm). …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Printed by and sold by William Morris. Bound in publisher's original quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 20 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, handmade, Batchelor (with the Perch watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon in red and black. [iv], 130 pp.  Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Woodcut frontispiece title within a floral border, and facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 11a and 11). Numerous 7, 6-, and 3-line woodblock initial capitals all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. Shoulder notes and some lines (including colophon) in red. A medieval French tale translated by Morris, who found them in a collection of medieval romances printed in Paris in 1856, NOUVELLES FRANcAISES EN PROSE DU XIIIEME SIeCLE. The Kelmscott Press also published two other works from the same source. THE TALE OF EMPEROR COUSTANS was the source of THE MAN BORN TO BE KING, in THE EARTHLY PARADISE. The second story is A TALE OF OVER SEA. [Cockerell 26. Peterson A26. Walsdorf 26.]  Custom dark blue clamshell box. An attractive, though nameless, woodcut bookplate inside front cover, with a motto quite in the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement -- Pulchritudas, Utilitas, Conservatio, Continuitas. Condition overall: Very Good+. 16mo: 5 13/16" x 4 1/8" x 3/4" (14.8 x 10.5 x 1.9 cm).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed by and sold by William Morris. Bound in publisher's original quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 20 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, handmade, Batchelor (with the Perch watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon in red and black. [iv], 130 pp.  Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Woodcut frontispiece title within a floral border, and facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 11a and 11). Numerous 7, 6-, and 3-line woodblock initial capitals all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. Shoulder notes and some lines (including colophon) in red. A medieval French tale translated by Morris, who found them in a collection of medieval romances printed in Paris in 1856, NOUVELLES FRANcAISES EN PROSE DU XIIIEME SIeCLE. The Kelmscott Press also published two other works from the same source. THE TALE OF EMPEROR COUSTANS was the source of THE MAN BORN TO BE KING, in THE EARTHLY PARADISE. The second story is A TALE OF OVER SEA. [Cockerell 26. Peterson A26. Walsdorf 26.]  Condition overall: Very Good. 16mo: 5 13/16" x 4 1/8" x 3/4" (14.8 x 10.5 x 1.9 cm).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed by and sold by William Morris. Bound in publisher's original quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 20 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, handmade, Batchelor (with the Perch watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon in red and black. [iv], 130 pp.  Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Woodcut frontispiece title within a floral border, and facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 11a and 11). Numerous 7, 6-, and 3-line woodblock initial capitals all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. Shoulder notes and some lines (including colophon) in red. A medieval French tale translated by Morris, who found them in a collection of medieval romances printed in Paris in 1856, NOUVELLES FRANcAISES EN PROSE DU XIIIEME SIeCLE. The Kelmscott Press also published two other works from the same source. THE TALE OF EMPEROR COUSTANS was the source of THE MAN BORN TO BE KING, in THE EARTHLY PARADISE. The second story is A TALE OF OVER SEA. [Cockerell 26. Peterson A26. Walsdorf 26.]  Covers have slight wear to the lower outer corners. Condition overall: Good+. 16mo: 5 13/16" x 4 1/8" x 3/4" (14.8 x 10.5 x 1.9 cm).…

Hardcover - as published. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. VG. 8vo, blue cloth, deckled edges, camelot series. Circa 1904. 276pp + ads, binding good, the pages are clean with very little discoloration, beige label intact with a spare tipped in. (loc Sterne).

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Contains previous owners inscription in pen. No dust jacket. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. NEW EU 5 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

A TALE OF BEOWULF, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, Longmans, Greene, 1904, about 1/4 inch of spine head worn (missing), several tears with some cloth loss to the base of the spine, wear to the fore edge corner tips with cloth worn through, spine tanned but readable, else a tight good to very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First edition. London: Reeves & Turner, 1887. In two volumes. First edition. Quarto, in publishers binding. Blue paper over boards, with cream spine, and paper label. Intended to be sent to binder. Uncut paper and unopened text. No rear endpaper to volume 2, and page of ads is stuck into end of volume 1. 2 volumes, quarto, vii, [1], 230 pp. + vii, [1], [231]-450 pp. issued) Spines are chipped, darkened and soiled,with sections of the spine missing along edges and head. Text is not foxed or fragile, deckle edge. The first half of Morris' translation was published in April, the second in November of 1887. Scarce in first edition. The 1887 one volume edition is usually the "cheaper", 2nd edition.…

Vellum. Condición: Very Good. A collection of limited edition titles of classical tales translated by English designed and poet William Morris. A collection of four classical tales bound into one volume. Each individual volume is limited to four hundred and twenty-five copies printed on Japan vellum, being the fourth edition. This collection contains: The Story of Amis and Amile, 1898. Translated from the original Ancient French. The Tale of the King Florus and the Fair Jehane, 1898. The Tale of King Coustans The Emperor, 1900. Quattrocentisteria: How Sandro Betticelli Saw Simonetta in the Spring, 1898. With the first three volumes being translated by William Morris, an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he campaigned for socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain. The fourth volume by Maurice Hewlett, an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. Bound in full vellum. Externally, sound with light wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Light discolouration as is typical with ageing with marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the extremities. The odd small handling mark to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good. None (ilustrador). book.…

Limited edition. Limited edition. One of only 300 paper copies. 3 volumes in 2. Printed in Troy and Chaucer type, chapter headings in red. Numerous woodcut border decorations and initials. Bound in publisher's limp vellum, yapped fore-edges. spines lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges of leaves untrimmed. Near Fine with light wear and soiling to vellum, untrimmed edges browning, occasional light foxing but overall quite clean; colophon with offsetting from item previously laid in. Original ties clipped at fore-edges. Bookplates of William Harris Arnold. A lovely Kelmscott printing of the 15th century French courtly romance written by Raoul Lefevre, chaplain to Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. The Caxton translation was first printed by him c.1475, considered the first book printed in the English language. Beautifully decorated with woodcuts designed by William Morris. Morris wrote of it, "The book will be ornamented very richly with woodcut ornaments entirely designed by myself; no labour or expense will be spared on them and there will be much variety in them. The semi-Gothic type designed by me (with special regard to legibility) will appear in this book for the first time." The paper was handmade by James Batchelor, with watermark of a bouquet with Morris's initials. Peterson A8.…