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A. C. McClurg & Co.. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. In protective mylar cover. Spine cracked. (poetry)

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, fore-edges foxed.. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, 293pp. Index. 60 photographs. Green decorated cloth. Top edges gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Of this large -paper edition, one hundred copies have been printed." Gray paper-covered boards with large bright fleur-de-lys to front board; fragile paper coverd spine has been stripped away so that front board is precariously attached and rear board shaken; text block is tight and square; gilt top edge with rough cut pages. 64 full page illustrations from photographs. Contents very tight, crisp and unmarked; 9 X 6.25 x 1.5"; 293 pages .

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1905. First Edition. With frontispiece and over 60 full page illustrations from photographs. 8vo, in the publisher's very attractive bright green cloth lettered and attractively decorated in white. xxiii, 293 pp. A fine, bright copy, beautifully preserved, strong and tight and clean. FIRST EDITION. Though born in England, Shelley found his spiritual home in Italy. Self-exiled he spent the last four years of his life there, where he wrote some of his greatest works. Author Anna Benneson McMahan traces those years through poetry and letters and follows the Shelley pilgrimage. The introduction begins, thus: "...it is the Italian note in Shelley's poetry that makes him the particular kind of great poet that he is. Self-exiled from England at the age of twenty-six, he never returned to that country, but spent the remainder of his life, four years, in Italy; here his genius developed toward maturity, here his muse found a congenial home and utterance. Sky, storm,… Read More

Chicago: A. C. Mcclurg, 1905. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Plates. Xiii, 293 Pp. + Ad At Rear. Green Cloth, Gilt, White Portrait Bust On Front Cover, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing. With A Short Non-Authorial Inscription, Also An Authorial Inscription " 'A Friend's Bosom Is As The Inmost Cave Of One's Own Mind. There We Sit Shut From The Wide Gaze Of Day.' Sincerely Yours,Anna Benneson Mcmahan". Light Wear, Gilt Bright.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1905. One of 100 copies of the Large Paper edition. Frontispiece and plates, index. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream paper-backed blue boards gilt. Spine darkened, head of spine torn, endpapers browned, some light overall browning of text, else very good. One of 100 copies of the Large Paper edition. Frontispiece and plates, index. 1 vols. 8vo. Large Paper Edition.