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Boston: Oliver Everett, 1821. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 20pp extract, salvaged from a damaged issue of the North American Review, Volume XIII, No. 32, July, 1821. A contemporary review, with excerpts from the text, of the scarce title published by John Murray, London, 1821. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-12-01. Paperback. Good.

John Murray, 1821. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo. Green cloth binding. Boards scuffed and soiled. Rear board detached but present. Backstrip torn at edges. Bumped corners. Top edge darkened. Pages have staining at edges throughout, with some light foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback. New.

1920. Erstausgabe (1. - 10. Tsd.), Lpz., Insel (= Pandora No. 15), o.J. [1920], 8°, 115 S., Text: englisch, illustr. original Pappband mit Deckel- und Rückenschild, längere Widmung auf Vorsatzseite, Rücken und innen (wie immer) papierbedingt gebräunt, sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar. Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen, müssten die Portokosten angepasst werden, Sie bekämen vorab eine Anfrage per Email.)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-12-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

John and Henry L. Hunt, 1821. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Full calf. Marbled endpapers. A very good copy. Randolph s Variant A with p101 misnumbered 110. 1st edition, 2nd issue. The boards and complete and attatched. The colour has worn away on spine & margins of boards. Internally very clean indeed with no inscriptions. Tight texblock. .

John Murray, 1821. Hardcover. Very Good. book beautifully and professionally rebound in green leather with raised ribs and decorations on spine

John Murray , 1823. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Fair to Good Reinforced. Most of original label, some missing on the spine. Possibly a 3rd edition, 1823. Full leather original binding. Publication of 261 pages. There is gilt on the spine and on the front cover, as well as on the page edges. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is light foxing on the early and last pages. The pages are complete and the text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: John Murray. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Half dark blue calf, raised bands and gilt tooled spine, brown label (chipped) ; marbled boards, endpages and edges. PO name to title page. Mild rubbing/wear to board edges/faces. Some foxing concentrated at front/rear. Firm binding/hinges. This is the first issue with the Doge's speech p. 151 covering five and a half lines. Pp. Xxi, 261, with half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Philadelphia: M. Carey and Sons, 1821. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16 x 9.5 cm. 16mo. 179pp. Bound in original grey boards. First issue of the first American edition, published the same year as the English edition. Page 154 with 21 lines, 5 line speech of the Doge on pg 151. With half-title. Covers are chipped and worn, especially at the spine, but binding still holding. Scattered foxing to prelims.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1821. [Tragedy] FIRST PARIS EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4]; 271; [1]. Brown half calf, Shell marbled paper over boards. Grey label with gilt titles, gilt bands, and blind-tooled designs to spine. Edges speckled black. Blue endpapers. Original bookmarking ribbon loosely inserted. Interior bright, though moderately spotted and foxed throughout. Endpapers toned with some discolouration. Bookplate to front paste-down, faint pencil marks to rear paste-down. Top edge toned. Some rubbing to marbled boards, light soiling to calf. Minor wear to joints and binding extremities. Very good. After visiting the Palazzo Ducale and glimpsing the shrouded portrait of the disgraced former doge Marino Faliero, Byron conceived this drama presenting the story behind his failed coup d'etat in 1355. The ploy is widely thought to have begun when the patrician youth Michele Steno carved an insult about Faliero's wife into the doge's throne.

London: John Murray, 1821. xxi + 261 pages + (1) page of publisher's announcements at back, listing the titles of Byron; couple of leaves of the "Notes" on Dante piece unopened; page 151 with the longer speech by the Doge, indicating the second issue of the first edition; George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet, "...greatness lies not so much that he created a world of fantasy but that he learnt to escape back to reality. He belongs more to the humorists and realists such as Voltaire and Swift than to his contemporaries..." (Chambers); previous owner pencil name on the endpaper of T. B. Felder, Jr. Greenwich Conn. and a few pencil notes in text of preliminary matter; original blue paper covered boards; about disbound, spine perished; boards worn & soiled; contents very fresh and clean; a good candidate for a rebinding.. First Edition, Second Issue. Hard Cover. Good.

London:: John Murray,, 1821.. First edition.. original boards with printed paper label on spine.. Some scattered inoffensive spotting; front joint starting; very attractive original condition.. 8vo,. Wise II, 29.

London: John Murray, 1821. First edition. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A first edition, second issue of this play and poem by Lord Byron. The first edition, second issue of this work in a half calf binding, known as Randolph's scarcer Variant A of this issue. With Doge's speech to page 151 forming 11 lines, and page 101 being misnumbered 110 (Randolph, p.73; Wise II.30.). Ink inscription to the title page.'Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice' is a blank verse tragedy by Byron, inspired when he was looking at portraits of the Doges in Venice in the Palazzo Ducale, and saw that the portrait of Faliero had been blacked out. Byron's play is set in Venice in 1355, with Faliero having been recently elected as Doge of Venice, and follows Faliero through is failed coup d'etat and subsequent execution. Including the poem 'The Prophecy of Dante'. In a half calf binding. Externally sound, with bumping to the boards and extremities. Joints are splitting, with the leather of the backstrip lifting to the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo (21.75cm.). Contemporary three-quarter maroon marocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red, marbled endpapers. Extremities a bit scuffed, some foxing to preliminaries, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary armorial bookplate of a Robert Frederick Boyle to front pastedown. 1. First edition, second issue, with the Doge's speech on p. 151 twelve (rather than five) lines long. [2],xxi,[1],261pp. WISE II, p. 29-30. 2. First edition. Viii,439pp. WISE II, p. 32-3. Lacking half title.

London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, xxi, 261, [3] pages; VG-; newly rebacked with brown cloth, previous paper boards preserved, new green leather label with gilt titling; some rubbing and wear to boards, bumping to corners; fore and lower edges of text block uncut; crayon initials to sfep; mild foxing throughout; First edition, first issue, with page 151 having the Doge's speech five and one-half lines long; shelved case 0. 1348041. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.