Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
James, Henry. A Most Unholy Trade Being Letters on the Drama. Cambridge, MA: Scarab Press, 1923.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cloth-backed white pictorial boards. 16mo. Limited to 100 copies printed. This copy is unnumbered. Lacking glassine jacket. A good copy with some light soiling to the covers. The front cover lacks two small pieces at the top and bottom corner. The text is very good with some light soiling and wear.
Seller: Robert Wendler Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
James, Henry. A Most Unholy Trade": Being Letters on the Drama. The Scarab Press, 1923.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Small octavo. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait by Waldo Murray. Original 1/2 brown cloth over decorated boards, upper cover with large drawing of a beetle by Waldo Murray, uncut. Very good. Glassine dust jacket (chipped). No signatures or bookplates. Small bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. Number 74 of 100 numbered copies; first book of the Scarab Press. Edel & Laurence C6. BAL 10710.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original cloth-backed paper pictorial boards. #71 of 100 copies. Tipped-in frontis portrait. Minor damping to lower margins of several pages and covers. With slightly chipped/toned glassine wrapper. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
JAMES, HENRY.. A Most Unholy Trade. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Scarab Press, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. A very good copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 24mo. Frontispiece portrait. Quarter cloth and pictorial paper-covered boards. A fine, bright copy in very good publisher's unprinted glassine dust jacket with a few chips and short tears. *Edel* C6; *BAL* 10710 (state B of colophon).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$118.45 + shipping
Description: 12mo. Limited to 100 copies and was the first book printed by The Scarab Press, frontispiece was engraved on wood by Waldo Murray. The cover was designed by Waldo Murray and also cut by him on linoleum.17(2)pp., bound in pictorial paper covered boards baked in brown cloth, with original glassine with some edge wear and chipping. A very nice copy protected in clear mylar.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: One of 100 copies. Frontispiece from a wood engraving by Waldo Murray after a drawing by John S. Sargent. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. First book by the Scarab Press. Edel C6; Ransom no. 9 under Dunster House noting "the Scarab Press, a name used to preserve anonymity by one man who printed and bound the book alone" Original cloth back boards decorated after a design by Waldo Murray. Some rubbing and discoloration of boards, else fine Frontispiece from a wood engraving by Waldo Murray after a drawing by John S. Sargent. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition.A very good copy; inscribed to Robert Frost by the publisher, "Jan. 25, 1925, For Robert Frost - Maurice Firuski." All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.