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1928 Albert & Charles Boni hardcover 1st edition (1928 date on title page, no copyright page). Slight rubbing and bumping to corners, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight.

Melville House, 2012-10-16. 1. Paperback. Used: Good.

Melville House, 2012-10-16. Paperback. Used:Good.

Medici Society 1929. First edition thus, super octavo, yellow buckram boards with black lettering to spine & black illus to front board, frontispiece, lv + 299pp, illus, VG- (bruising to spine extrems, foxing to spine, soiling to boards, foxing to prelims & rear eps & page edges)

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London:Lawrence & Bullen, 1895. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London:Lawrence & Bullen. 1895. li+299pp. Illustrated by Wilian Strang and J. B. Clark. Hardcover. Yellow decorated boards soiled and shelfworn, with spine strip darkened, spine ends worn and starting to fray and edge points gently bumped.  Internally end-pages age toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The tissue guard between title page and frontispiece is heavily foxed, with light to mild foxing scattered throughout. The binding is tight with hinges intact. A near very good, solid copy.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Lawrence and Bullen,, 1895. Bound by Bayntun in red half crushed morocco ruled in gilt over red buckram boards, title in gilt to spine, five raised bands, floral motifs in gilt to compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.Very Good, joints showing wear, small bookseller's label top corner rear end page, original covers bound in at rear. . Later Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chelsea Publishing Co.. Leather . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. No date, but was possibly printed in 1930s. Author not listed, but Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736 – 1794) was German writer credited with this classic adventure tale, and Rapse is discussed at length in Thomas Seccombe's introduction. The translator is unnamed. Navy blue leather cover deeply sun-bleached spine and board edges.Gold lettering & decorative borders. Gilt textblock edges. Sound binding. Marble print end pages. 'Preface to The First Edition' is reprinted. (XIV intro + 299 pages)

London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. Published by Lawrence and Bullen, London in 1895 and is illustrated by William Strang and J B Clark, with an introduction by Thomas Seccombe. These are the humorous adventures of a fictional Baron but loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Munchhausen that we think Raspe met whilst studying at the University of Gottingen. The book has had many editions and versions since its original publication in the late 18th century. This edition has 30 b/w plates very much in the Arts and Crafts style. There are also chapter headers and illustrated capitals and other in-text illustrations. Pale yellow cloth hardboards with an illustration of the Baron with a very large bow and arrow to the front board with title lettering in black. Black floral design on the spine with black title lettering. Illustration in black to the rear board also of the Baron flying on a giant bird. The book is in near fine condition with a previous owner's contemporary… Read More