Dream Gerontius by Newman John Henry, First Edition (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 74pp paperback, very good introduction by Gregory Winterton.

paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. Special order direct from the distributor.

Hardcover. Condition: Near VG. First Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, light bump to bottom corner, vertical rub line to center of spine with a little loss of text on spine label, few small spots to spine label, few pages roughly opened with some edge tears, gift inscription and owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise a VG copy without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stella Langdale (illustrator). First Edition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 94 pp. Binding firm. Scattered foxing. Dust jacket chipped with slightly faded spine and one larger tear. Edges foxed and browned. Corners bumped. Illustrator: Stella Langdale. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; Religion & Theology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57865.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. 8vo. pp 94. Original publishers dark green cloth boards, lettered gilt on spine and illustrated on the front cover. Very good indeed.

Condition: Very Good. Illustrated with Photogravure Portrait and Other Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition Thus - A New Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books outside UK over £40 sent tracked and inside UK sent signed for. PayPal accepted. All plates are present as listed. One has a small chipped plain corner. A little marked to prelims and rear of a few pages. Original coth, gilt titling to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Volume illustrated with engravings by Linton (illustrator). 1st Edition. This true first publication of Father (later Cardinal) Newman's best-known work precedes the 1866 London hardcover first edition by a year. This volume in original dark green pebbled cloth half-bound in black leather, considerably rubbed to corners, binding the issues of the Jesuit periodical "The Month" from January to June 1865 inclusive without individual wrappers. Internal hinges are partly open but the sewn hardcover volume is still tightly bound; will close its own text block and rear board. Three tasteful former ownership stamps to preliminary pages of the Franciscan Convent Library, Waterford. Book smells slightly old & musty, but not objectionably so. The poem, written after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, explores his new Catholic faith in the form of the prayer of a dying man, with angelic and demonic responses, concerning death, Paradise, God and Purgatory. "The Dream of Gerontius" is said to owe much of its imagery to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. This bound volume of the magazine also contains "Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century," by Lady Georgiana Fullerton, "The Lays of Darrynane," by Irish poet Ellen Fitzsimon, etc. (A tissue guard is laid in but not attached over the impressive engraved illustration at the beginning of "The Lays of Darrynane" -- signed Linton and possibly by Henry Duff Linton. Scan of this plate, which is reminiscent of William Blake, available on request.) 578 pp., reduced from $2,000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edn thus. ~TITLE CONTINUES: Together with a biographical sketch of the Reverend John (Joseph) Gordon of the Congregation of the Oratory (to whom the poem is inscribed) compiled from details by the Reverend Edward Caswall and the Reverend William Thomas (Philip) Gordon, of the same congregation, and from other sources, and containing an appreciation by Cardinal Newman. ~Original quarter white cloth, pale blue laid paper to boards. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Moderate browning to boards, with some loss to blue paper at base of front and rear boards: relatively inconspicuous as board beneath is close in colour. Spine slightly toned. Large folio (28.2 x 38.8cm). Top edges gilt. Some spotting to bottom edges. Hinges sound. Foxing and offset browning to endpapers; front endpaper starting at gutter. Minor foxing to endpages, but text block itself is generally clear. Limited edition of 525 copies; this copy is unnumbered on its limitation page. Title page printed in red & black. Plates and letterpress printed at Oxford University Press by Horace Hart. Full facsimile of Newman's fair copy includes tipped-in sheet to p. 27 of the facsimile, evidently reproducing Newman's own tipped-in correction to his draft (this is at section 7; the opening of the final verses of the Souls in Purgatory). This deluxe edition of Newman's 1865 poem was produced in the wake of Elgar's famous 1900 setting. 'The poem itself contains the most accomplished verse Newman ever wrote, apart from "Lead, Kindly Light"', and is 'also important as the reflection of {Newman's} own far from conventional view of death and the afterlife' (Ker, 2009, John Henry Newman: A Biography, p. 575); the pains Newman took in delineating his 'deeply spiritual depiction of purgatory' (ODNB) are evident in the facsimile text. ~Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders. Size: 44, (40)pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. ~Contemporary half maroon morocco, marbled paper (rubbed) to boards. Full pagination: 578,110pp. & 6 full-page plates.Text includes works by Georgiana Fullerton, H.J. Coleridge, Nicholas Wiseman, Ellen Fitzsimon, etc. Small convent inscription to front endpage, small bookplate to inside front board. The first publication of The Dream; it appeared in book form the following year. ~Robust packaging. Overseas customers should request tracking if required. Size: pp.415-25, 532-44. Binding sound, text unmarked.