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Alice Jerrold. A Cruise in the Acorn. Marcus Ward, London, 1875.
Price: US$61.60 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo. 1875. 1st edition. 6 mounted chromographs by Kate Greenaway. Some foxing of fore-edges otherwise clean in publishers' bright, embossed cloth gilt with chromo inlay. Library stamp on title page. 4" split in front and back hinges but binding sound. This issue not cited in Schuster and Engen (63) - ' although unsigned they represent some of K.G.'s earliest work'. Images available on request.
Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom
Jerrold, Alice; Greenaway, Kate (illustrator). A Cruise in the Acorn. Marcus Ward and Company, 1875.
Price: US$75.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Shelf wear to covers, spine, and corners. Bookplate from previous owner inside front cover (dated March 1879). Binding loose but intact. All pages intact. Some foxing throughout. Original decorated blue cloth covers with beveled edges. Includes six uncredited colour chromographs by Kate Greenaway. Presumed first edition. Rare.
Seller: City Lights Bookshop, London, ON, Canada
Jerrold, Alice; Greenway, Kate [illustrator]. A CRUISE IN THE ACORN. Marcus Ward & Co, London, 1875.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 140 pages; VG-; spine brown with gilt and black lettering and design; spine cocked; full binding of brown cloth; front cover decorated with black and gilt tooling, and illustrated panel; mild shelf wear; missing chips from crown and tail of spine; mild soiling to covers; hinges split; binding else sound; fingerprint stains on half of pages; contains six tipped-in full color plates; previous owner's name on half title; contains original advertisements; shelved case 14. 1335165. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.72 + shipping
Description: In 8°, pp. (7) 8 -140, (4). Con 6 graziose illustrazioni di Kate Greenaway, a colori su fondo oro (non firmate), applicate allinterno di cornice ornamentale. Tela editoriale ocra con titoli e cornice oro, impressioni a secco in nero e illustrazione a colori applicata. Copia in ottimo stato. Prima edizione. For German customers: place the order on the Maremagnum website
Seller: Libreria antiquaria Atlantis (ALAI-ILAB), Torino, Italy
Jerrold, Alice (Mrs. Adolphe Smith) (and Kate Greenaway). A CRUISE IN THE ACORN. , 1875.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London 1875 1st Marcus Ward & Co. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 140pp., six bright and strong mounted chromolithograph illustrations on heavy stock, original brown cloth with bright gilt lettering, black decoration, mounted chromolithograph, bevelled board edges. These attractive illustrations were done by Kate Greenaway, but without any printed attribution. Owner signed (Louise Savage). light wear to corners and spine ends. Book is in unusually nice condition! VG plus. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Jerrold, Alice (Mrs. Adolphe Smith). A Cruise in the Acorn. Marcus Ward & Co., London, 1875.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original reddish-brown blindstamped cloth with floral pastedown decorated in black and lettered in gold on bevelled boards. General wear; worn through at corners and head and foot of spine. All six chromolithographs by Kate Greenaway are present and excellent except for 1/2 inch edge tear in frontispiece. Chromograph Series. Each illustration is accompanied by a well-known, appropriate poem. There is light foxing to endpapers, but interior is essentially clean and easily readable. There are no names or any other writing. 140 pp. plus publisher's catalog. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dave Shoots, Bookseller, Saint John, NB, Canada
Price: US$849.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original decorated blue cloth with beveled edges. [7] 8-140 [4] pp. All six called-for unsigned illustrations by Greenaway printed in colors on stiff glazed paper and mounted within a black-and-white ornamental border present and pristine. On front cover title is stamped in gold, decorative design stamped in black. To the left on the front cover is a vertical pastedown of flowers, printed in colors on glazed paper. No design on the back cover. Cream endpapers. Very slight wear at head and foot of spine and corners without loss, gilt rubbed and not bright, Very Good. Nice copy. Corresponds to Schuster 1a except has blue rather than brown cloth covers. Differs from Thomson 114 in having the blue cloth cover, cream endpapers, and no trellis design on the back cover. 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.