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Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Description: Custom made slipcase. Decorative white cloth boards. Green dj with illustration, White paper protective paper cover. [1], 46, [3] pages (the 1st and last pages blank) : color illustrations (lithographs. G Cover has staining and edge damage, Dj had tearing and staining. Interior pages free from binding. Bookblock has age toning, Former owners library sticker on inside front cover.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: House of Harper Brothers. G/No Dustjacket. 1899. . Pictorial Cloth. Sm 4to., unpaginated, rubbed, bumped, frayed, foxed, loose pages, page toning .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 46. Original publisher's pictorial cloth, lettered at spine and on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. On plates 5 and 46 the artist introduced his own figure. Neat contemporary gift inscriptions on first blank page, one dated Christmas 1898. Spine rebacked with slight wear and slight tanning to covers, otherwise sound, very good.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
GRANE, WALTER. A FLORAL FANTASY. , 1899.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: CRANE, WALTER. A FLORAL FANTASY. New York: Harper and Brothers: 1899. 46pp. Bound in slightly soiled cream cloth with illustrated boards. Some chips and tears to spine. Interiors are clean and bright with full-color illustrations. Text block seperated. As is.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
WALTER CRANE. A FLORAL FANTASY IN AN OLD ENGLISH GARDEN. HARPER & BROTHERS, LONDON, 1899.
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL DECORATED CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED TO ONE SIDE & PAGES FOLDED & UNCUT AS PUBLISHED. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 11 x 8 INCHES. JACKET IS WORN WITH SEVERAL CLOSED TEARS, LOSS & CREASES TO EDGES OF JACKET, SEVERAL MARKS & SOME BROWNING TO JACKET, FEW MARKS TO CLOTH COVER MOSTLY TO EDGES OF BOARDS, THE USUAL PROBLEMS TO THE GUTTER PERCHA WITHIN THE BOOK WITH SEVERAL PLACES AT INNER PAGE MARGINS SHOWING SOME ABRASIONS, SLIGHT SEPARATION OR GLUE RESIDUE BUT ALL PAGES ARE HOLDING FIRM [SEE IMAGES FOR EXAMPLE] PAGES A LITTLE UNEVEN AT FORE-EDGES, OCCASIONAL MINOR MARK TO PAGES. OVERALL THE BOOK & JACKET HAVE SOME FAULTS BUT STILL A GOOD - VERY GOOD COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 46 pages. Measures 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Three quarters leather binding with marbled paper over boards. Front cover detached but present. Spine chipped. Original cloth binding including the spine strip bound in at the rear. Beautiful colored plates with fanciful fairy interpretations of English garden flowers. Original floral endpapers bound in as well, but with marbled paper endpapers added to do the actual structural work of the endpapers. Binding is a little rough, but interior is in very good shape. Email for photos or with questions.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Walter Crane. A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden. Harper and Brothers, 1899.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback book (46 pages) with color illustrations by Walter Crane. Dust jacket in protective shows scuffing/soiling with half the spine missing/chipping at edge - inside gutters between pages weak with some pages loose from binding. Would rate a good reading copy. Bookseller since 1995 (UL-Chest-Top-R) rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Crane, Walter. A Floral Fantasy in An Old English Garden. Harper and Brothers, London, 1899.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. 46pp. [2] (French fold leaves). Housed in a custom green pebbled leather over beige cloth clamshell box. Original striking illustrated green and tan cloth boards, with beautiful illustrated endpapers. This gorgeous illustrated young adult floral fantasy is one of the great works of pioneering 19th century British illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915). Written throughout in delightful verse, which personifies various types of flowers in the form of characters displaying their corresponding attributes. Each verse is accompanied by lushly evocative art nouveau (modern style) images characteristic of Crane's work. Binding with some age toning and light staining (mostly along the edges of the front cover). Spine and extremities lightly rubbed and bumped. Interior quite clean. Save for some starting at p.5, book block is still quite tight. Reinforced along the gutters of the front and rear endpapers with japan tissue. Slipcase in fine condition, binding in good+, interior in very good+ condition overall. Binding protected in moern mylar. Illustrated ex-libris of George Evelyn Cower (1822-1911) a British judge based in Madras, India, pasted on the front free endpaper.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
CRANE, Walter. A Floral Fantasy In an Old English Garden. Harper and Brothers, London, 1899.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Small quarto, original illustrated cloth and decorative dustjacket. Wonderfully illustrated prose work by Crane with rich color illustrations at each page in the artist's distinctive style. Very Good, some spotting to cloth, pages loose from binding as usual, in Very Good original 19th Century dustjacket, few shallow edge chips, few inch closed tear at lower front flap edge.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.