BUTLERIANA by Butler, Samuel - 1932

Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1932. Limited first edition. Leather. 172p. A hardcover book with a golden-brown leather spine and patterned paper-covered boards. Very good condition. Head of spine lightly worn, bottom of spine stained, and paper just starting to lift off the front board. Interior clean and securely bound. Limited edition; #316 out of 800 copies.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1932. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other plates. 172 pages. Slim 8vo, original calf-backed marbled boards; uncut edges. Bloomsbury (London): The Nonesuch Press, 1932. Near Fine.<br/> <br/> Limited edition - one of 800 numbered copies.<br/> <br/>

Nonesuch Press, London, 1932. limited edition, copy no. 41 of 800 printed at the Fanfare Press,. 1932. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, xvi,172pp, 8 illustrations, owner's name on endpaper, slight browning, text clean and tight, patterned boards and quarter re morocco leather, corners rubbed, board edges bumped, Good condition .

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1932. Hardback, quarter morocco, decorative paper covered boards. 23cm x 15cm. xvi, 172pp. Frontis. Illus. An unnumbered edition of only 800 copies. Binding slightly marked and frayed to spine ends. Private ownership. (r22). Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Hardback. 1932. xvi, 172pp, 8 plates, The Nonesuch Press, London 1932. Edition of 800 numbered copies. Leather spine with marbled boards. Spine darkened at head and tail, else VG. .

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 172 pages; Copy #391 of 800. Brown leather spine and marbled boards with very minor wear. .

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1932. 1st Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. pp XVI, 172. 1st printing. Number 425 of an edition limited to 800 copies. Prior owner bookplate to FPD. Half bound in natural pigskin with fine marbled boards. 2 edges untrimmed.

London,: The Nonesuch Press,, 1932. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 800 copies. Leather spine with a few spots of worming, mainly near foot, all else very good indeed. Original glassine dust jacket rather torn and chipped.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1932 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". Not Stated. A lovely limited edition collection of the autobiographical essays of English novelist Samuel Butler, best known for 'The Way of All Flesh', and 'Erewhon'. Number ninety of eight-hundred copies of this work produced.Illustrated with eight plates. Collated, complete.This work includes seven essays, a selection of previously unpublished papers from the six volumes of manuscript left by Butler at his death. With a preface and bio-bibliographical statement by A.T. Bartholomew. With the pencil inscription of British writer and architectural conservationist Billa Harrod to the front free endpaper. Harrod married economist Sir Roy Harrod, though in the early 1930s was briefly engaged to poet Sir John Betjeman. A former owner has written 'Betjeman's friend + 'almost'' to the front free endpaper, below her inscription. In the publisher's original calf backed paper covered boards. Light rubbing to spine head and tail and… Read More

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, pp. xvi, 172 + 8 inserts (six photographs and two oil paintings reproduced in collotype by the Chiswick Press and tipped in). All edges untrimmed, top edge rough cut, red topstain under gilt 'on the rough'. Quarter tan niger Morocco with red and black Cockerell marbled paper boards, 'SB' gilt-stamped within gilt oval on spine. No. 722 of an edition limited to 800 copies. Bookplate of Canadian literary giant, Robertson Davies to front pastedown, lacking the glassine wrapper. Dreyfus: History of Nonesuch #84.