Confessions Of an English Opium Eater

Marbled boards with gift inscription on free endpaper, dated 1892. Hardcover measures 17 x12mm, octavo with intro by William Sharp. Minor edge wear to boards. Pages have minor age toning. 2 other stories included in the 275 pages, ROSICRUCIANS AND THE FREEMASONS as well as KANT ON NATIONAL CHARACTER IN RELATION TO....

Oxford: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Folio (10 c 13.5 inches). 77 pp. Limited to 1520 copies, this being No. 278. Signed by the publisher B.H. Newdigate and by the illustrator Zhenya Gay. Bound in canvas-backed Cockerell marbled paper boards, spine titled in gilt. Includes 12 stunning lithographs… Saber más sobre este artículo

The birth of a new genre First book edition. Uncut in original boards with both the oft-missing half-title and advertising leaves. Rubbed and slightly chipped, excellently rebacked, upper joint neatly repaired, rear board loose. The pages are very fresh, just a few stray spots on some leaves and neat pencil underlining of some passages. A beautiful, Very Good copy and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York,, 1913. Everyman's Library edition, in the publisher's deluxe quarter pigskin, the most expensive of the four bindings in which it was issued, and produced in smaller numbers than the others. The remaining three binding styles that the classic reprint series offered in its earliest years… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Lane The Bodley Head LTD. (1930), 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [3], v-xix, [4], 4-304 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of 21/- net on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Illustrated with decorative endpapers and pastedowns, a frontispiece, and eleven… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, 1823. Hard Cover. (London: Taylor and Hessey 1823). SECOND EDITION in book form. iv, 206 pages + 6pp publisher's adverts at the end. 12mo. Recent hand-crafted rebind in half calf with raised bands and tooling to the spine in gold leaf. Hand-marbled paper boards. The end-papers have been replaced with period hand-made… Saber más sobre este artículo

HBDJ, 1960, 1ST EDITION THUS, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT, IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, VG+/VG ,12 mo. 272 PGS, NOTES, BACK OF DJ A FEW OF 500 AUTHORS ENDS WITH ZOLA, larger format binding style 4. Full dark blue cloth-covered boards with copper-look spine titling and gilt "EL" in script… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Hardcover. About Fine in an intact but Good only slipcase with much wear. Zhenya Gay. Small folio (10" x 13-1/2") bound in canvas-backed Cockerell marbled paper boards. Illustrated with twelve lithographs drawn on the stone by Zhenya Gay and printed on hand-made Kelmscott paper by B. H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Pogany, Willy. Very good condition with no wrapper. Small format, burgundy cloth, gilt titles. B/w plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly grubby and spine slightly faded. Booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Crease to top of front fly-leaf. Page browning.

London: John James Tallant, 1853 176pp. Heavy chipping to the spine ends. Spine is missing a piece. Tips are bumped and rubbed. Former owner name and date on the front endpaper. Spine has a slant. Tips and spine ends are heavily bumped and rubbed. Board edges are sunned. A few pages have light foxing at the edges. Text is unmarked.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1856. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+ in original, blind stamped cloth, with gilt titles on spine. Minor edge wear to cloth. Small stain to edge of front end page. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo, 7 1/2"h x 5"w.

London: Macmillan and Company, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+, bound in 3/4 leather with cloth covered boards, marbled end papers and gilt top page edges. A few small scuffs and bumps to edges of exterior, wear and minor splitting to leather along fold. Interior is unmarked, binding intact. 460 printed pages. Royal 8vo, 9"h x 6"w.

London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. (First printing in book form. Follows its appearance in The London magazine). vi, 206 pp. including half-title. No ads, likely as issued. Bound in the original boards with later title label, since effaced. Very Good+, boards well-worn with exposed tips, binding may have had some work done… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Hardcover. Slight offsetting to endpapers. About Fine in an intact, Very Good slipcase. Zhenya Gay. Small folio (10" x 13-1/2") bound in canvas-backed Cockerell marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 12 lithographs drawn on the stone by Zhenya Gay and printed on hand-made Kelmscott paper by B. H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: J. M. Dent, 1910. hard cover. VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, gift inscription on front endpaper. No dust jacket./No Jacket. Everyman's Library. 17.5 cm.

1997. Harmondsworth, England/New York, Penguin Books (= Penguin popular classics), 1997, 8°, 263 S. (Text: Englisch), illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), untere Ecke des Einbanddeckels mit Knickspur, Einband minimal berieben, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar (caleng) 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,… Saber más sobre este artículo

1868 Confessions of an English Opium Eater de Quincey Alcohol & Drug Addiction "Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without." ― Thomas de Quincey, Confessions… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh: Walter Scott, 1886. Hardcover. Good. de Quincey's controversial account of his addiction to opium. With his writings on Rosicrucians and Freemasons, Kant and Richter. Fore edge rough cut. Paper label on spine is mostly missing. Tanning to page edges. Mild occasional spotting within. Binding sound. Good.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1950. Hardcover. Zhenya Gay. 77p. A 1/4 black cloth hardcover book with green marbled boards and a matching slipcase. Very good condition; the spine and slipcase are tanned. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The slipcase is rubbed along the edges but sturdy. Illustrated with gravures by Zhenya Gay.

First American edition. Exceptionally rarer than the first UK edition of the previous year; only 4 copies appear in the sales records over the last 40 years. Original publisher's boards that retain the spine label, to add another layer of rarity. Uncut and complete with half-title leaf. Some chips along spine and joints, dark streaks on upper cover. Largely clean… Saber más sobre este artículo