Search Results: the works of rabelais 2 volumes by rabelais francois

Navarre Society Limited, 1921-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . 2-volume set. Blue cloth cover with gilt shows minor wear, fading on the spines. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedowns. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

London, U.K.: Navarre Society Limited, 1921. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Complete two-volume set. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. "Doctor in Physick. Containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel". Former owner's initials are penned on pastedowns. Boards are quite grubby and edge-worn. Spines are very faded, with some wear, bumping and rubbing to ends. Leading corners are worn and a little bent, particularly the rear leading corners of Volume II. Pages are rough-cut. Heads of page blocks are in gilt; face and feet are quite faded. Front hinge of Volume I is cracked and binding is a little loose throughout first half of volume; binding of Volume II appears sound. Pastedowns and endpapers of both volumes are quite sunned. Small label near lower inner corner of rear pastedown of Volume I. Contents are clear. AF. hardcover. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Robinson, W. Heath. Used.

London: Privately Printed for Members of the Aldus Society, 1902. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two green cloth hardcovers with title labels on spine; top edges gilt;; 374 & 524 pages; b&w illustrations. Volume One: Very good condition with the spine label with stains and chips; initials and small bookseller's label inside. Volume Two: spine label also stained and slightly chipped; very slight wear and soiling to binding; straight; hinges strong; initials, bookplate, and bookseller's label inside. Might cost extra for shipping..

London: The Bodley Head, 1933. Hardcover. Good. Nice edition of Rabelais' works, primarily Gargantua and Pantagruel, translated into English. Features b/w illustrations by Frank C. Pape, including terrific, humourous plates as well as images and decorations within the text. large 8vo. Top edge tinted. Some very faint foxing to page edges, Previous owner's name to front-pastedown. Contents clean. Bindings sound Good.

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933. Hardcover. Poor/Poor. The jackets are torn. The boards are marked. Some foxing / offsetting. A few pages are torn. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Bodley Head. Two volume set. Bumped and soiled boards with wear to spine ends. Chipped jackets, with tear to spine head of vol. I. Ffeps removed cleanly. Pages crisp and tight. Minor foxing. . Good. Cloth. 1933.

Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Book. Illus. by Robinson, W. Heath. Very Good. Full-Leather. No date. Two volumes in full leather with raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling on spine. Tooling along edges of boards. Marbled end papers. Starting to split along top front spine gutter of volume I and along top of front and rear spine gutters of volume II. Wonderful fine bindings. .

John Lane, The Bodley Head / Boni & Liveright, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Hardcovers. No DJs. 2 VOLUME SET. LIMITED EDITION #1853 OF 4300 COPIES. 1927 EDITION. Wonderful illustrations by Frank C. Pape. Text/illustrations unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Spines with edge wear. Bindings tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London, New York: J. Lane ; Boni and Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copies in good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrappers, both now mylar-sleeved.Some sun-toning and foxing along the margins of each copy, no text effected. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 volumes plates 24 cm. Notes; Illus. incl. plates, and covers. Includes bibliographical references.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Limited Edition, Number 2514/4300. Hardcover. Octavo, two vols.; G+; full bindings of black cloth; spines faded to dark brown, with gilt lettering and design; some shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped; shredding to corners of boards; small closed tears to head and tail of both spines; upper edges stained red; previous owner's bookplate at front paste down of both vols.; numbered 2514/4300 at limitations page; front hinge of vol.1 starting, back hinge split; contains black and white illustrated plates; pages clean; shelved above Case 0. 1338320. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good +. NUMBER 2379 OF 4300 NUMBERED SETS. Complete in Two Volumes. c.1927. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt titles and decoration. 497pp. / 730pp. Ilus. Very Good+. Light general shelfwear, rear corner of second volume lightly bumped, front board of first volume shaken.

London New York : J. Lane The Bodley Head ; Boni and Liveright, 1933. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good set in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 2 vols. : ill. ; 25 cm. Notes; First published in 1927 in a limited edition. Contents; Vol. 1. Books 1 - 2; Book 3, chapters 1-13 -- v. 2. Book 3, chapters 14-52; Books 4 - 5. Subjects; Rabelais, François (approximately 1490-1553?). Collected Works. Genres; Fiction. Illustrated.

London: Navarre Society, 1921. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gilt lettered and decorated white buckram with gilt border to front boards with gilt fleur de lis. In early dust jackets. Limited 2 volume set. 1921? Book spines very lightly faded, previous owner's name in ink to top left corner of front paste down paper (both volumes). Some pages uncut. Privately printed for the Navarre Society, London. Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Dust jackets slightly edge worn to upper front edges few small rips, chipped at head and heel of spine, both volumes. Dust jacket of volume 1 visible water stain, not terrible.

London New York: J. Lane; Boni and Liveright, 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of Haughton. Very good cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Volume 2 dust wrapper lacks of back wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Date is suggested. Physical description: 2 volumes; plates; 24 cm.Notes: Illus. incl. plates, and covers. Includes bibliographical references.Subjects: Rabelais, François 1490-1553; Translations into English. Fantasy fiction, French; Translations into English.Gargantua (Legendary character); Fiction. Giants; Fiction. Fantasy fiction, French. Genre: Fiction. illustrated.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1927.. 1927 Two volumes. Handsome bindings in crimson half morocco with matching cloth boards. The spines gilt with raised bands. The spines are slightly faded and there are some marks to the cloth of Vol. 1. There is faint spotting to the plates and more pronounced spotting to the page edges. Otherwise a clean and tight set. Bookplates of Paul Latham, M.P. and restorer of Hurstmonceux Castle. Number 381 of 4300 numbered sets.

1708. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper as issued. 8vo. - 2 Volume Set - Rebound at some point in half leather over marbled boards w/ morocco title labels to spine - Leather if heavilt rubbed, particularly to spines and Vol II has a 1" section of leather coming away from the haed - New plain endpapers - Edges of text block are toned - Internally there is some toning and foxing plus some light pencil annotations throughout - Vol I has a previous owner's name in ink to blank pre-lim - Title page and frontispiece are toned - ow/ both volumes are clean and tight - 532+232 pages

London: James Woodward, 1708. First collected English Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf rebacked, original spine laid-down. 2 vols in one. Very good. 532 [8] [*1,B8-Uu8]. 20 x 12.5 cm. Frontispiece portrait. Index. Rabelais, Renaissance humorist, using the name Aclofribas Nasier [an anagram of his name] published his first book, "Pantagruel," the start of the "Gargantua" series that was completed in four novels -- a chronicle of farce, peppered with broad popular humor mocking asceticism and oppressive religious and political forces. Generally clean and sound internally, early small initials margin of frontispiece and in margin of second title, corner wear.