Click for full-size.
ARA VUS PREC
by Eliot, T.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Ovid Press, [1920].. Quarto (29 X 23 cm). Quarter yellow-tan cloth and black cloth over boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Label darkened, bookplate in corner of front pastedown, inner hinges cracking slightly, but a very good copy. First edition, the second state of the binding for the ordinary issue. Decorated with opening initials and colophon by E.A. Wadsworth. From an edition specified as consisting of a total of 264 copies, this is copy #130 and is printed on heavy, untrimmed handmade paper. Ostensibly, there were to be ten unnumbered copies for review, but "the frequency with which unnumbered copies appear would indicate that a good many more than the unscheduled ten were so issued" - Gallup. A subset of the edition was bound with reversal of signature 'C' with the consequent disruption of pagination, and were printed on a slightly lighter weight Whatman paper, with edges trimmed. See Gerald Cloud's informed commentary on the internal and binding variants of this, the first book-length publication of the Ovid Press. GALLUP A4a. Cloud, JOHN RODKER'S OVID PRESS A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, A5.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT88874
- Title
- ARA VUS PREC
- Author
- Eliot, T.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Ovid Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1920].
Terms of Sale
William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
All material is shipped subject to approval, but notification of return must be made within ten days and returns made in a prompt and conscientious fashion.
As our inventory is housed in two locations, queries about availability should be made by e-mail rather than telephone.
We do not drop-ship to third parties.
About the Seller
William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
How to tell if a signature is genuine
Author's signatures can undoubtedly increase the value of a rare book or first edition. The more scarce the book is, the more an autograph adds to its value. But how to tell if the signature is real? Find out how you can avoid common pitfalls in identifying an author's signature.
Collecting and identifying signed letters and holographic documents
Many authors and other famous literary figures wrote and signed letters by hand, and you can find a great collection of them in the Biblio rare book room. See our great collection of handwritten letters and holographic documents
