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ABAA 75th Anniversary VBF

September 25-27, 2024

Virtual Book Fair Exclusive

[One of 25 Copies]. Ballads and Sonnets

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

$2,500
Offered by Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB
  • Condition: About very good in publisher's blue paper-backed boards, printed spine label, with splitting and wear along the spine, prior own
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Publisher: [Chiswick Press for] Ellis and White
  • Location: London
  • Date: 1881
  • Seller SKU: 284

London: [Chiswick Press for] Ellis and White, 1881. First Edition. About very good in publisher's blue paper-backed boards, printed spine label, with splitting and wear along the spine, prior owner inscription to front free endpaper, in a custom clamshell box.. First edition, being one of only 25 large paper copies "for subscribers only." The second collection of poetry and the last published in Rossetti's lifetime, given his death the following year. Virtually unobtainable given the limitation.

8vo. xii, 335pp., [2]. W.M. Rossetti 35. Tinker 1819. Fredeman 23.12. Fennell 21.

Offered by Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

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Specializing in 18th Century, 19th Century, Association Copies, Chapbooks, Gothic Revival, Private Press, Street Literature and Victorian Literature.
Bookseller of 18th and 19th century British literature, Gothic Revival, architecture, street literature, chapbooks, and private press books, focusing on the unpopular, the obscure, and the forgotten. We also handle commonplace books, friendship albums, scrap books, and manuscripts.
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P.O. Box 571
Haddonfield, New Jersey 08033
Phone/Text: (609) 474-0640
https://www.nelsonrarebooks.com
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