Search Results: Titles starting with S from MRM Books

Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1904. Second Edition. hardcover. Good+. 5 1/2" × 8 1/2" × 3/8" (14 × 21.6 × 1 cm) . First Thus. Small 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover olive green paper boards, with dark green linen spine. Title in gilt on upper board, with a border of intertwined oak leaves in black, anticipating of the style of decorative boarders designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press. . One of 500, this being #50, (plus 25 on Japan vellum) copies. Printed on fine, heavy, watermarked paper, with yapped edges. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [ii, endpaper], [viii, blank], [i, half-title], [ii, blank], [i, fronticsiece], [i, title page], [iii, blank], [1–21],[i, colophon], [iv, blank] [ii endpaper] pp. French-fold pages (unopened and intentionally blank on the back sides) and printed in red and black from hand-lettered plates. Thomas Wood Stevens designed the book and the lettering was executed under his direction. Dark green cloth spine with dark gray-green printed paper boards.… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 5/16" × 5 5/8" × 1/2" (21.1 × 14.3 × 1.3 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis, after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell, from the Cambridge manuscript, with some additions and variations from the THORNTON ROMANCES manuscript, in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 350 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 8 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). 81 [1] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 5/16" × 5 5/8" × 1/2" (21.1 × 14.3 × 1.3 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Edited by Ellis, Frederick Startridge, after the edition printed by J. 0. Halliwell, from the Cambridge manuscript, with some additions and variations from the THORNTON ROMANCES manuscript, in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 350 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 8 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). 81 [1] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for… Read More

London and Cambridge: Clover Hill Editions with Douglas Cleverdon, 1974. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 14 1/4" × 10 1/2" × 2 1/8" (36.2 × 26.7 × 5.4 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by Designed & Printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Large 4tos. Bound in publisher's original hardcover blue and white, Morris Willow Bough-inspired pattern cloth boards, with blue cloth spine, by John P. Gray. Gilt-titled morocco spine labels, t.e.g. Housed in divided blue cloth slipcase. One of 270 numbered copies. Printed on fine, J. Barcham Green paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Gilt top edge. [2], XIV, 37, [1], 26, [4]; [6], 92, [4] pp. William Morris (1834–1896) and Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) began the plans for this magnificent illustrated edition of Morris's poem about Cupid and Psyche, in the 1860s. Morris engraved more than forty wood blocks of Burne-Jones's illustrations. But their ambitious plans were… Read More

London and Cambridge: Clover Hill Editions with Douglas Cleverdon, 1974. Limited First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth clamshell box with leather title to spine. . Very Good+. 14 1/4" × 10 1/2" × 1 1/4" (36.2 × 26.7 × 3.2 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by Designed & Printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Publisher's blue cloth clamshell box with leather title to spine. Printed on fine, J. Barcham Green paper. Uncut, deckled edges. William Morris (1834–1896) and Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) began the plans for this magnificent illustrated edition of Morris's poem about Cupid and Psyche, in the 1860s. Morris engraved more than forty wood blocks of Burne-Jones's illustrations. But their ambitious plans were never brought to completion as a whole. These 44 wood engravings survived and are here printed for the first time with the text of the poem. Original tinplate cover with colored paper cover, leather… Read More

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. . Good. 7 5/8" × 5 1/4" (19.4 × 13.3 cm) . First Printing. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original Hardcover. Black buckram. Spine gilt (faded). 256 pp. Front and spine panels stamped in gold. Publisher's device stamped in blind on rear panel. Top edge stained blue.Styrbjörn the Strong (Old Norse: Styrbjǫrn Sterki; died about 985) according to late Norse sagas was a son of the Swedish king Olof, and a nephew of Olof's co-ruler and successor Eric the Victorious, who defeated and killed Styrbjörn at the Battle of Fyrisvellir.A wonderful retelling of this Viking tale. The last chapter, "Valhalla," is after-life fantasy. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 531. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 76. Bleiler (1978), p. 67. Reginald 04683. Condition overall: Good.

New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1898. First American Edition. hardcover. Ex-Library. 7 7/8" × 5 1/2" (20 × 14 cm) . First Printing. Printed by John Wilson and Son at the University Press in Cambridge U.S.A. 8vo. Bound in library hardcover red cloth with gilt title to spine. Printed on fine, watermarked paper. [vii], [i] (map), 373, [i], [i] (advert) pp. "During the final eight years of his life... Morris wrote ten novels of enduring artistic and thematic strength which have strongly influenced fantasy fiction in the twentieth century, especially the work[s] of [later, fellow Oxford writers] C.S. Lewis [THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA] and J.R.R. Tolkien [THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS]. In these books, Morris established the fantasy novel in English and helped to define the genre by combining characteristics of heroic, romantic, and comic literature... THE SUNDERING FLOOD is Morris's last great work. The final pages were dictated from his deathbed [to Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, on September 8,… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good+. 8 5/16" × 5 5/8" × 5/8" (21.1 × 14.3 × 1.6 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis, after the edition printed by J. 0. Halliwell, from the Cambridge manuscript, with some additions and variations from the THORNTON ROMANCES manuscript, in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in contemporary hardcover full leather with gilt tooled design. One of 350 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 8 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [8], [4], 98, [10] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Two full-page ornamental borders (13a and 13), with a… Read More