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Sonnets Of Antan: Available Copies

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Sonnets from Antan with an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell.
    by Antan. With an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell.

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: New York: The Fountain Press, (). Number 512 of 718. (1929)


    Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (Dade City, FL, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $27.75
    Shipping: $5.00
    TOTAL Cost: $32.75

Signed by James Branch Cabell. Royal octavo, tan cloth & patterned boards (hardcover), paper spine label, unpaginated. Good, with darkened and worn covers, light foxing. Literature, Poetry, Limited Edition, Small Press, Numbered, Signed. nslic

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SONNETS FROM ANTAN, With an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell
    by Cabell, James Branch (ed.)

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: The Fountain Press: NY (1929)


    Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books (Detroit, MI, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $51.75
    Shipping: $5.05
    TOTAL Cost: $56.80

9.25 x 6.25", cloth backed patterned boards, unpaginated, lightly rubbed, spine label a little worn else a nice, clean copy. LIMITED TO 718 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #656), SIGNED BY JAEMS BRANCH CABELL ON HALF-TITLE PAGE.

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Sonnets from Antan with an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell
    by Cabell, James Branch

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: The Fountain Press, New York (1929)


    Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (Toronto, ON, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $45.49
    Shipping: $18.00
    TOTAL Cost: $63.49

8vo. Quarter cream coloured cloth over patterned paper boards. Paper spine label. Corners worn and bumped, spine head lightly bumped, top of board sunned, with a few scratches to the front board, clean throughout. Edition of 718 copies, printed at The Grabhorn Press. This is copy 354, signed by Cabell on the half-title.

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Sonnets From Antan.
    by Cabell, James Branch.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: ()


    Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A (Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $72.00
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(Grabhorn Press). Cabell, James Branch. SONNETS FROM ANTAN. Editorial note by the author. New York, Fountain Press, 1929. One of 718 numbered copies bound in quarter beige cloth and printed paper boards. Light wear to extremities, otherwise very good condition.

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Sonnets from Antan
    by James Branch Cabell

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: The Fountain Press, New York (1929)


    Seller: North Books: Used & Rare (St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $75.00
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First Edition. Limited to 718 signed and numbered copies. This being copy No. 586 and signed by Cabell on the half-title page. 6.25 x 9.25in. Unpaginated, complete. Publisher's spine cloth over paper-covered boards. VERY GOOD. Shows very slight shelf rubbing of the extremities, spine title label somewhat toned and rubbed, former owner name neatly at the front endpaper, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text remains clean and unmarked, and the boards are bright and distinct. As pictured.

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Sonnets from Antan. With an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell
    by Cabell, James Branch [Editor]

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: The Fountain Press, New York (1929)


    Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $100.00
    Shipping: $4.99
    TOTAL Cost: $104.99

First edition. One of 718 numbered copies printed by the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Signed by Cabell. Thin octavo. Pp. [vi, 34]. Printed in orange and black. Headpiece portrait by William H. Cotton. Handset Lutetia type. Gray decorated boards, gray cloth spine, gray spine label printed in black. A fine copy. Distributed in America by Random House to commemorate Cabell's 50th birthday, this collection of sonnets was most likely paraphrased by Gerald Musgrave, an obscure Victorian poet. Cabell edited this work, providing an introduction and lengthy annotations. One of the Fifty Book of the Year. [Grabhorn: 118].

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Sonnets from Antan with an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell
    by (Grabhorn Press) Cabell, James Branch

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: [Printed at The Grabhorn Press for] The Fountain Press, New York (1929)


    Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop (HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $100.00
    Shipping: $12.00
    TOTAL Cost: $112.00

Copy 229 of 718 copies printed, signed by the author. Portrait by William H. Cotton from a painting by Meissner. 1 vols. 8vo. Heller and Magee, Grabhorn Bibliography, 118 Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. Some light wear, else very good Portrait by William H. Cotton from a painting by Meissner. 1 vols. 8vo Copy 229 of 718 copies printed, signed by the author.

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Sonnets from Antan with an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell
    by (Grabhorn Press) Cabell, James Branch

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: The Fountain Press, Printed by The Grabhorn Press, New York (1929)


    Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop (HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $100.00
    Shipping: $12.00
    TOTAL Cost: $112.00

First Edition, No. 25 of 718 numbered copies, signed by Cabell. With a portrait of the putative poet Gerald Musgrave., Esq., being crowned by his muse (actually a burlesque portrait of Cabell). 1 vols. 8vo. An Elegant Spoof. A droll volume, one of the Fifty Books of the Year, and, at 34 pages, one of the thinnest to receive this distinction, notwithstanding its gem-like typography, its pages hand-set in roman and italic Lutetia and printed in black and several colors. Heller and Magee, Grabhorn Bibliography, 118 Original decorated paper boards, gray cloth spine with paper label, spine faintly soiled, else fine With a portrait of the putative poet Gerald Musgrave., Esq., being crowned by his muse (actually a burlesque portrait of Cabell). 1 vols. 8vo First Edition, No. 25 of 718 numbered copies, signed by Cabell.

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Sonnets From Antan, With An Editorial Note (With Two Variant Colophon Pages)
    by Cabell, James Branch

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: The Fountain Press / Random House, New York (1929)


    Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA (Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $135.00
    Shipping: $7.50
    TOTAL Cost: $142.50

One Of 718 Copies, Of Which 676 Were For Sale, Printed By The Grabhorn Press For The Fountain Press, New York, In 1929. Beige Cloth Spine With Printed Spine Label. A Rare Variant With Two Slightly Different Colophon Pages Bound In, Identical Except One Reads In Part "Four Hundred Copies Are For America, Distributed By Random House. Distributed In Great Britain." The Other Reads "Distributed In America By Random House And In Great Britain." Both Colophons Are Not Numbered. Signed By The Author On The Half Title Page.

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Ballades from the Hidden Way [And:] The Music from Behind the Moon. An Epitome. [And:] Sonnets from Antan
    by Cabell, James Branch

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Crosby Gaige; John Day; Fountain Press, New York (1929)


    Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $250.00
    Shipping: $12.00
    TOTAL Cost: $262.00

Dwiggins, W.A. First editions. Ballades: one of 831 signed copies; Sonnets: one of 676 signed copies. Decorations, typography and binding design of Ballades by W.A. Dwiggins. Eight wood engravings by Leon Underwood for Music. First two titles printed by Wm. Rudge. 41; 54; [58] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cabell's Poems, Finely Printed. Choice copies of Cabell's verse, published in finely printed editions during the peak of his popularity. Publishers' bindings of cloth and boards or boards. Faint traces of wear, else fine copies (Music slightly bumped, very good overall). In custom half morocco clamshell box Decorations, typography and binding design of Ballades by W.A. Dwiggins. Eight wood engravings by Leon Underwood for Music. First two titles printed by Wm. Rudge. 41; 54; [58] pp. 1 vols. 8vo First editions. Ballades: one of 831 signed copies; Sonnets: one of 676 signed copies.

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