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Greenaway Kate. A Apple Pie. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1886.
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 20 colour plates by the author; Hardback: quarter red cloth on glazed boards illustrated by the author, dark blue laid end-papers, landscape format; Probably the first edition of 1886, but a poor copy: lacking free end-papers, wear to baords especially at corners, several leaves creased and dirtied.
Seller: Bookfare, Ambleside, United Kingdom
Price: US$58.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original illustrierter Leinwandband mit goldgeprägtem Deckeltitel. Quer 8°. (8 1/4 x 10 1/8 in; 212 x 262 mm). ABC Buch mit Vortitel , Titel und 20 Stück einseitig bedruckten Blatt mit farbigen Illustrationen. Bibliotheksexemplar mit handbeschriftetem Papierrückenschild und Stempel einer Schule auf dem Vortitel. Einband berieben, an den Kanten stellenweise leicht durchgerieben, angeschmutzt und bestoßen. Bezugsmaterial am Einband stellenweise faltig. Die Innengelenke an den Vorsatzpapieren angeplatzt. Vorderes Vorsatzpapier mit Knickspuren. Die Illustrationen am Rand teils wenig fingerspurig. Die Illustration zum Buchstaben A wurde durch ein handgeschriebenes "N" zu AN APPLE PIE ergänzt (siehe Foto). Ansonsten in gutem Zustand ohne weiteren Eintragungen. Wir versenden versichert mit Hermes. Auf Anfrage ist eine alternative Versandart möglich.
Seller: SinneWerk gGmbH, Berlin, Germany
Kate Greenaway. A Apple Pie. George Routledge & Sons [1886], London, 1886.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of this delightfully illustrated children's book by Kate Greenaway. Dated via Jisc. The first edition of this work in the original publisher's binding featuring pictorial boards illustrative of four girls: two carrying apples, one playing with an apple, and one kneeling behind a flour canister while holding a rolling pin.Featuring a series of colourful illustrations, one per letter of the alphabet A-T, and a final single leaf for 'UVWXYZ'. Collated, complete.Illustrated children's book telling the tale of an apple pie, and the townsfolk's desire to have a taste of it.Written and illustrated by Kate Greenaway, one of the foremost Victorian children's book illustrator. She is known for her illustrations of children in quaint costumes and idyllic scenes.Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway's paintings were reproduced by chromoxylography, by which the colours were printed from hand-engraved wood blocks by the firm of Edmund Evans. Through the 1880s and 1890s, her only rivals in popularity in children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. Greenaway was elected to membership of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1889. She also illustrated books such as William Kingston's Infant Amusements, or How to Make a Nursery Happy, George Weatherly's The Little Folks Painting Book, and Fanny LaBlanche's Starlight Stories Told to Bright Eyes and Listening Ears. In the original publisher's cloth backed pictorial boards binding. Externally with light chipping to head and tail of spine, boards marked and rubbed, staining marks to rear board. Free endpapers were excised. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light spotting to odd leaf, pages otherwise generally very clean throughout, with age toning to title page and final leaf of text, due to type of paper used. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Greenaway, Kate. A Apple Pie. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1886.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not dated, published circa 1890? Paper pictorial covered boards with red cloth spine rubbed, faint wrinkling to front board paper, loss at edges and bottom corner. Dark green endpapers. Front hinge cracked with separation at gutter, gift inscription front endpaper "Dear -Margaret from Aunt Annie Xmas 1901." A one-inch closed vertical tear near inner margin on letter J page else a very nice copy with brightly colored Kate Greenaway illustrations, just occasional smudging, mild thumbing bottom corner. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. An early Kate Greenaway volume. ; MCF04156; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall
Seller: McCormick Books, Hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Greenaway, Kate:. A Apple Pie.. Frederick Warne, London o. J. (1886)., 1886.
Price: US$182.89 + shipping
Description: 22 unpaginierte einseitig bedruckte Bll. mit 20 farbigen Illustrationen. Einband wenig berieben, Kanten wenig beschabt, Ecken leicht bestoßen, Rücken etwas ausgeblichen. Die Klammerheftung innen ist stark verrostet. Der Buchblock an beiden Gelenken gebrochen, die Vorsatzblätter, sowie erste und letzte Seite an der Heftung verfärbt, sonst sehr schönes, sauberes Expl. Insgesamt recht gute Erhaltung, schönes Expl. - Vermutlich 1. Ausgabe im Warner Verlag, im gl. Jahr der Erstausgabe. - The cover and flyleaf are separating from the rest of the book, but are still attached by the webbing. They have also suffered from staple rust. Apart from this, the book is in good condition. - Twenty-two color illustrated unnumbered leaves. Original illustrated boards, green cloth spine, corners slightly rubbed. A lovely alphabet book by Kate Greenaway telling the story of the life of an apple pie: A is for "apple pie;" B is for "bit it;" C is for "cut it;" D is for "dealt it;" and so on, ending with "UVWXYZ all had a large slice and went off to bed." The charming illustrations depict children in various stages of playing with, fighting for, and eating the apple pie. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular illustrators of childrens books in the latter part of the 19th century. She studied at South Kensington and the Slade and later became an illustrator for Edmund Evans, the printer for Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott. Her method was to draw in watercolor and then transfer her drawings to woodblocks. Her illustrations were so successful that she exhibited them at the Royal Academy in 1877 and the Fine Arts Society in 1891. She was also a friend of John Ruskin and maintained a long correspondence with him. This is probably the first Warne edition published the same year as the first edition by George Routledge in London in 1886. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 3000 quer 8° . Farbig illustr. OHLn.
Seller: Plesse Antiquariat Minzloff, Bovenden, Germany
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardback. Pictorial paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Red endpapers. An alphabet book for children using the picture story of an apple pie! Boards a little darkened and rubbed at fore edge. Overall quite good condition with no markings. 215 x 265 mm (8½ x 10½ inches).
Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France
Greenaway, Kate. A Apple Pie. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1886.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 44 pages. 21.5 x 26.5 cm. Color printing by Edmund Evans in his three color process. Twenty full page color plates printed recto only. Each letter of the alphabet with explication and illustration. Navy endpapers, backstrip head worn, front cover corner wear. Orig. brown cloth spine and illustrated pale gray boards. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Greenaway, Kate. A Apple Pie. George Routledge, London, 1886.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Covers have light edge wear. Gift inscription. Coloured illustration on front and back covers. Red spine and page edges. Dark blue endpapers. Contents are clean and intact with just some very light spots.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
GREENAWAY, KATE.. A Apple Pie.. George Routledge., 1886.
Price: US$282.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original light green glazed pictorial boards. 44 pp. Both covers with the same attractive colored pastedown: four girls, two carrying apples, one bouncing an apple, and one kneeling behind a flour canister holding a rolling pin with a partial border of apples and leaves. The spine is red; the leaf edges are stained red, and the endpapers are dark blue. An inscription John Napier litz (?) xmas 1886 .Boards are worn along the edges, spine is sunned; hinges are cracking/contents shaken, text clean inside, a good copy.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Greenaway, Kate.. A Apple Pie.. George Routledge, [1886]., London, 1886.
Price: US$549.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original light green glazed pictorial boards. 44 pp. Both covers with the same attractive colored pastedown: four girls, two carrying apples, one bouncing an apple, and one kneeling behind a flour canister holding a rolling pin with a partial border of apples and leaves. The spine is red; the leaf edges are stained red, and the endpapers are dark blue. Attractive bookplate of Bianca Locker-Lampson inside front cover. Bianca Locker Lampson was the wife of Oliver Locker-Lampson, who was the son of Frederick Locker-Lampsons. Greenaway had a very close friendship with the Locker-Lampsons. Slight bumps on edges of covers, slight strain inside back cover, cover pastedowns and internals nice, Very Good. Schuster 1a. Thomson 33a has the back cover blank; otherwise, this copy is identical. Part of a bookseller's private Greenaway collection purchased by us from her estate.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Greenaway Kate. A Apple Pie. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1886.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: A proof copy of the first edition bound up in pale yellow buckram with original illustrated wrappers bound in - light soiling and discoloration to cloth, internally nearly fine with some minor foxing, small rubbed spot to rear wrapper, discoloration to added endpapers. Along with a bright copy of the first edition, light foxing, very faint shelfwear. Both in a flannel lined morocco backed clamshell box. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Cooking, Wine & Dining. Inventory No: 046646.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Greenaway, Kate. A APPLE PIE [INSCRIBED BY GREENAWAY TO HER PATRON, LOCKER-LAMPSON, IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION]. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, [1886]. FIRST EDITION [Schuster & Engen: 1a]. Oblong 4to - 8-5/8" x 10-1/2". Original red cloth backed color pictorial light green glazed paper covered boards with titles printed in red and full color picture of four young girls and a whole lot of apples to both front and back covers with very minor light soiling, a couple of touches of rubbing to the bottom edges, and light wear to three of the corners for what is a lovely copy of the book. Dark blue endpapers with the bookplates of Frederick Locker-Lampson and William Harris Arnold to front pastedown; all edges stained red. [44] pp. A Apple Pie is an alphabet book that pairs each letter with an action that could happen to the titular pie, e.g., A: Apple Pie, B: Bit It, C: Cut It, D: Dealt It, etc., or, as the Library of Congress' description states: "Introduces the letters A to Z while following the fortunes of an apple pie;" illustrated with 20 chromolithographed plates "Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans" after drawings by Kate Greenaway. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY GREENAWAY TO HER PATRON FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION as follows: 'F Locker-Lampson / from / Kate Greenaway / 1886." The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. Provenance: Frederick Locker-Lampson (inscribed to him by Greenaway in 1886; his bookplate); William Harris Arnold (his bookplate; his sale in New York at Anderson Galleries on November 10, 1924, lot 378).
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$7200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, the Grolier 100 copy, inscribed by Kate Greenaway with three original sketches of young girls. First published in the eighteenth century, the ABC rhyme "The Tragical Death of A Apple Pye" appeared in countless chapbooks before Greenaway produced this colorful large-format edition. Her vibrant illustrations depict a crowd of children in Regency dress tussling over the oversized pie of the title. Finally, in Greenaway's original closing rhyme, "U V W X Y Z / All had a large slice / and went off to bed." A Apple Pie was a resounding popular success, although the book caused some tension between Greenaway and her friend John Ruskin, who disliked the stylized feet, "literal paddles and flappers," of Greenaway's children. Greenaway has inscribed this copy to Joan Ponsonby, born in 1887, the granddaughter of her close friends Gerald and Maria Ponsonby. The ink sketches of young girls that frame the gift inscription may be portraits of little Joan herself. Schuster & Engen, 1.1a; Grolier 100 Books Famous in Children's Literature, 50 (this copy). A near-fine presentation copy of a Victorian classic, with original artwork by Kate Greenaway. Oblong quarto, measuring 8.5 x 10 inches: [22]. Original red cloth spine, pale green color-printed pictorial boards, all edges stained red, deep blue coated endpapers. Half-title and title page printed in brown ink. Color-printed wood engravings by Edmund Evans after watercolors by Greenaway on each page, printed on rectos only. Ink presentation inscription on half-title, framed by three sketches of young girls: "Joan Ponsonby from Kate Greenaway / 1891." Lightest shelfwear and occasional smudge to binding. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
Seller: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.