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Tales of Hoffmann: Available Copies
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Tales Of Hoffmann by Lazare, Christopher; editor
Hardcover
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Publisher: A. A. Wyn, New York (1946)
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA (Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $7.50
TOTAL Cost: $17.50
Spine has faded. Endpapers are yellowing.
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Tales of Hoffmann by Hoffmann, E.T.A.; edited by Christopher Lazare and illustrated by Richard Lindner
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: A. A. Wyn, NY (1946)
Seller: Tiber Books (Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $19.00
Shipping: $4.99
TOTAL Cost: $23.99
. . . . 4to, hardcover. No dj, maroon cloth. Vg condition. Covers lightly soiled, spine dulled. Previous owner's name on copyright page. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 509 pp. Illustrated, some color. 18th, 19th, Century, German, Literature,
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Tales of Hoffmann. by HOFFMANN, E. T. A.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: A. A. Wyn,, NY: (1946)
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (Springfield, MA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $27.00
Edited by Christopher Lazare. Translated from the German. First edition thus. Very good in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. Housed in the original clear plastic slipcase.
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Tales of Hoffmann Illustrated by Richard Lindner by
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: New York. Wyn (1946)
Seller: Antiquariaat Die Sammlung (Amsterdam Zuidoost, Netherlands)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $11.05
Shipping: $21.45
TOTAL Cost: $32.50
509 S. OLwd.
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Tales of Hoffmann by Christopher Lazare
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: A. A. Wyn (1946)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $38.77
Shipping: $6.03
TOTAL Cost: $44.80
1946. No Edition Stated. 509 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated by Richard Lindner. B&W and colour illustrations throughout. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine and board edges.
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Tales of Hoffmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann, ed. Christopher Lazare
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: A.A. Wyn (1946)
Seller: Berthoff Books (Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $50.00
Shipping: $7.35
TOTAL Cost: $57.35
509 pages, with short introduction, biographical note. First edition thus. Ten tales, illustrated with 27 full-page color and b&w lithographs by Richard Lindner. Royal 8vo (7" x 9-3/4"), dark red cloth with heavily rubbed gilt lettering and decoration, faded red topstain, wear to boards especially corners/crown/heel which has 1/2" tear at front of hinge, spine sunned, water spot and other soil to boards, edges and end papers age-tanned. Gift inscription on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia by former owners (later Profs.) Ann and Warner Berthoff on approximately 10 pages. Laid in is clipping of 1952 TLS review of a different Hoffmann collection.
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Tales of Hoffmann by Christopher Lazare
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: A A Wyn, New York (1946)
Seller: Buybyebooks (Honiton, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $38.14
Shipping: $28.43
TOTAL Cost: $66.57
US published 1st modern edition. Maroon fabric over board covers, slight edge wear and some fading to edges mostly to top. Gilt illustration to front and titles to spine. d/w chips, tears, loss of colour and fading. 509 pages owners bookplate to inside front cover and another owners name to fep. Text pages all clean and unmarked. Colour and b/w illustrations a feature of the book, all present and unfaded. Binding vg
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Tales of Hoffmann by Hoffmann, E. T. A.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: A. A. Wyn, NY (1946)
Seller: Dividing Line Books (Ridgewood, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $75.00
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $75.00
An attractive copy of this handsomely produced volume of these "unequaled tales of the fabulous, the grotesque, and the supernatural." Edited (and presumably translated) by Christopher Lazare. Illustrated by Richard Linder, with many plates rendered in full color. First edition. Quarto (9.75 x 7 in.); 509pp.; maroon cloth boards stamped in gold on spine and front panel, in dust jacket. Some minor spotting towards the back half of the textblock fore-edge. Offsetting to rear endpapers from contemporary newspaper clipping (included, now in archival sleeve). Unclipped ("$7.50") jacket rubbed to rear panel, with mild foxing along fore-edge of rear flap. Near fine in a very good (+) jacket.
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