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Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Good+ ; Fair jacket. 1930 Chatto & Windus, London. Reprint of 1925 edition. NOT ex-library. Small hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with black spine lettering. Illustrated light red endpapers have twining rose vine pattern in white. Black and white illustrations: "drawings by Paul Woodroffe, engraved on the Wood by Clemence Housman". Binding getting loose in a few places in the text, with webbing peeking at page group divisions. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Covers have some shallow dents. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Partially erased pencil notation on front endpaper, in one corner. A few very small stray ink pen marks on title page. Pages clean and unmarked. 106 pages. Dust jacket has light surface and edge wear and toning at the edges, with small pieces (about one-inch long and on-half inch wide) missing at the corners and spine ends. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Dust jacket is in clear protective plastic… Read More

New York: The Dial Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1925. Hardcover. White covers are smudged. ; Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on the wood by Clemence Housman. ; "A translation in prose and verse from the Old French." .

New York, NY: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press. VG/No Dustjacket. 1930. ........ Boards. Sm 8vo., 106 pp., cover slightly yellowed, uncut page, writing on ffe .

Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press. Used - Good. Good condition. No slipcase. Unopened pages. (French Poetry, Romances) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

GB: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Slight cover marks. . Hardback. VG+/No DW.

NY:: Dial Press,. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. With drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on the wood by Clemence Housman. First edition thus Age darkened along the spine, else very good in a very good (moderate soiling and edge wear) slipcase. .

New York: Dial/MacVeagh. 1930. 1st thus. Near Fine in Very Good slipcase (light soil on spine, case worn); 106 pp. .

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-11-21. Paperback. Good.

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

John Murray, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 103 pages. No dust jacket. Vellum cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with heavy foxing and marking to pages. Noticeable tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Previous owner's inscriptions to half title page. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned.

Lincoln Mac Veagh, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Very Good. Newly published by arrangement with John Murray". Slim 8vo, pp. [xiii], 106, [6] + illustrated with engravings by Clemence Housman after drawings by Paul Woodroffe, plus rose, thorn and heart head- and tail-pieces and similarly floriated initials. Red cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, yap fore-edges. Fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated endpapers (on the same lover's theme). Spine sunned, extremities pushed, rubbed and faded. Edges and endpapers foxed, POI in black pen to verso of ffep, else, clean, tight and bright, with Clemence Houseman's engravings especially pleasing. An attractive edition. Very good The author, illustrator and suffragette Clemence Housman (1861-1955) collaborated with her second brother Laurence on a number of book projects, as well as co-founding the Suffrage Atelier.

London: John Murray, 1902. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo, 103 pages, full limp vellum, soiled, large loss of green silk cover ribbons.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. With Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on the wood by Clemence Housman. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Full green calf gilt, spine gilt with contrasting lettering pieces, a.e.g., by Riviere & Son. Spine toned to brown, else fine. With Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on the wood by Clemence Housman. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Ransom 37 (for 1925 ed.)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. Published 1925, finely bound by Riviere in crushed dark blue calf, gilt double rule to borders of boards, handsome gilt decorations on spine, marbled endpapers followed by pink floral endpapers, a.e.g., 106 pp, illustrated, fine but for slight mellowing of the spine color, housed in gray-blue cloth slipcase. A truly handsome book.

London: Chatto & WIndus | Shakespeare Press, 1925. Limted Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in blue-grey paper-covered boards backed in cream linen with paper label to the spine; 106 pages; in an edition limited to 160 copies of which this is no. 92; signed by Paul Woodroffe whose drawings, including frontispiece, initials and decorations were engraved on the wood by Clemence Housman, and signed as well by translator Laurence Housman; this copy with a trace of scattered darkening to the blue-grey boards.~~Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press for Chatto and Windus; housed in a custom grey cloth covered drop-back box with a black morocco label to the spine. Near Fine binding.

London : Chatto & Windus , 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Paul woodroffe and Clemenceau Houseman. None. None Signed by the Author and by the illustrator. Numbered 59 of a limited edition of 160. Book sleeve included, in fair condition with some cracking at the edges due to wear. Insect tunneling on first few pages. Pencil price in back for April 1942, $1.50. 8vo, quarter tan linen, paper sides on flexible boards, title label on spine (with a spare label tipped in at the rear), tissue guard to frontispiece, uncut. With four drawings by Paul Woodroffe, shown as full-page wood engravings by Clemence Housman. Printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper at the Shakespeare Head Press. Limited edition of 160 copies, this being no. 59 and SIGNED by Laurence Housman and Paul Woodroffe on the limitation page. Very good copy overall; contents and covers clean and bright, a couple of tiny nicks on the deckled edges. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1925 Illustrated with engravings by Clemence Housman after drawings by Paul Woodroffe. First edition, first printing. Finely bound in full light brown polished calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with five raised bands to the spine, spine decoratively tooled in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, green marbled endpapers, pale gold ribbon bookmark; housed in a matching green marbled slipcase. Near fine, with some light rubbing to the extremities, minor toning to the spine and board edges, some very light starting to the front hinge at the spine head, otherwise sturdy spine, clean fresh interior; slipcase with some rubbing and light soiling. An attractive copy in a handsome binding. Aucassin and Nicolette is a 13th century French medieval chantefable (a song-story, or an adventure tale told in prose and verse) about a pair of lovers, Aucaussin and Nicolette, who persevere through ill fate and misfortune to achieve happiness together.… Read More

London: John Murray, 1902. First American edition. First American edition. 12mo. Original limp vellum, gilt design on spine by Laurence Housman. Illustrations throughout by Paul Woodroffe. A nice copy, usual slight browning to vellum, else near fine.

Author: HOUSMAN, Laurence; HOUSMAN, Clemence (engravings on the wood from drawings by Paul Woodroffe).Title: Of Aucassin and Nicolette: A translation in prose and verse from the old French together with Amabel and Amoris. Language: Text in English.Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1925. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press.Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".Pages: 106 pages.Binding: Attractive and fine full polished calf binding, finely bound by Riviere & Son (hinges fine - as shown) under a protective mylar cover in a very good slipcase. All edges gilt.Content: Fine content (bright, tight, and clean, beautiful marbled endpaper).Illustrations: Complete with the beautiful frontispiece and the 3 full-page engravings on the wood by Clemence Housman from the drawings by Paul Woodroffe. Nice woodcuts and several text vignettes.***** The book: Attractive and fine copy bound by Riviere of Housman beautiful edition of Aucassin et Nicolette (12th or 13th century) the anonymous medieval French fictional story. It is the… Read More