The King of Alsander; Collected Prose; Collected Poems; Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad.. (4 volumes as a set)
by Flecker, James Elroy
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914. Book. Near Fine. Full Niger Morocco. Mixed Editions. pp. xii, 304, 1914 1st edition; viii, 269, 1920 1st edition; xxxi, 249, 1923 8th imp.; (v), 183, 1926 11th imp. A.e.g. Uniformly bound by Mudie in different coloured skins with Flecker's name on front boards surrounded by crossed garlands of leaves in gilt. Spines ruled at heads & tails with four hatched lines (all in gilt) on those edges & divided into six panels with title & author in gilt in the second. All other panels gilt stamped with either a flower or, in the novel's case, a crown motif in each. Board edges have a gilt pin point decorative roll. Turn-ins have single line fillets at outer edge & french fillets at their inner edge comprised of, working outwards; a single, pin point & scalloped lines with a flower at head & tail fore corners. The binder's signature stamp is in gilt at the tail of front paste-down end papers. All the books have an inscription dated January 1924 to Brita Lingen Gurney ( an (arrested) suffragette) a family friend. We have a card (not for sale here) from Mrs Flecker to her dated May 1924 discussing proof reading 'The Life of James Elroy Flecker: from Letters & Materials Provided by His Mother' & requesting Ms Gurney's help in locating " the following words of Roy's For thee, O Architect of Dream! " (actually used in this slightly altered form as an epigraph to that work). Flecker was known to his family as Roy. Spines & parts of front boards of both the Collected Poems & Hassan slightly sunned; notwithstanding which a beautifully bound set of association copies of the works of one of the most fascinating & singular of Georgian writers..
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- The Poetry Bookshop (GB)
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- Title
- The King of Alsander; Collected Prose; Collected Poems; Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad.. (4 volumes as a set)
- Author
- Flecker, James Elroy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Mixed Editions
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- poetry prose fiction criticism georgian bindings NOISBN
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...