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Eric Linklater. A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$2.54 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.222pp. 5 engravings. Very good clean condition with edgewear and small tears at soine ends to unclipped dj.

Seller: Chris Barmby MBE. C & A. J. Barmby, Kent, United Kingdom

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plover. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$3.32 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom

LINKLATER, Eric. A Sociable Plover, and other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$5.20 + shipping

Description: With Reynolds Sttone woodcuts.tories set in Norway and the Western Isles. Inscription to slightly foxed front endpaper otherwise VG in VG dustjacket

Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric. A sociable plover: and other stories and conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$6.37 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1957 Rupert Hart-Davis first edition hardback; Very Good condition, clean and sound copy, with good price-clipped dj with some edge wear and tear; UK dealer, immediate dispatch

Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric. A Sociable Plover and other stories and conceits Five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, 1957. Hardback. 222pp. Red cloth boards with contrasting black panel to spine, gilt lettering. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Linklater demonstrates his ability to master many moods and scenes. Five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket good. Unclipped. Jacket a little rubbed and soiled. A little edge wear with some chips to corners, top edges and extremities of spine.

Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric.. A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS.. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$7.16 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1957. Rupert Hart-Davis. Hard Cover. Book- VG. DJ- VG, protective covered. 8.5x5.5. 222pp. 5 wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, London England, 1957.

Price: US$9.37 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Five Wood Engravings by Reynold Stone. Illustrated. Slight foxing to back inside cover.Some wear and tear and a couple of repairs to D/J.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.)

Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom

LINKLATER Eric, STONE Reynolds. A SOCIABLE PLOVER And Other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957, 1957.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Description: 1st edn 2nd printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge blue (some faint spotting on fore-edge and endpapers - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (some light wear along top edge - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 222, illus with woodcuts by Reynolds Stone (some faint toning on endpapers; no inscriptions).

Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom

Linklater,Eric (Engravings by Reynolds Stone). A Sociable Plover (And Other Stories). Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: This is a Near Fine Copy of this Book in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket,with five charming wood engravings by Reynolds Stone,not price clipped and with no owner inscriptions,a lovely copy,small 8vo 222pp First Edition

Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric,. A sociable plover. And other stories and conceits. Rupert hart Davis, UK, 1957.

Price: US$10.46 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 222 pages. pen mark bottom edge

Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand

LINKLATER, Eric. A Sociable Plover and other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$11.70 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A fine, tight, clean copy of the 1957 first edition, first printing. Very slight age-browning of the blank end papers. Price-clipped dust jacket in very good + condition. Good wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. (RM10)

Seller: Brian P. Martin Antiquarian and Collectors' Books, Midhurst, SUSSE, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric. A Sociable Plover. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$12.36 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Red cloth boards with black blocking to spine and gilt lettering.222pp. The d/j is complete with the original price intact. Five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Companion volume to "Sealskin Trousers" and comprising three stories and two "conceits." The three stories all have Scottish interest, being a Ghostly bird-haunting in the Western Isles; A convict's escape across Scotland and the grisly story of the massacre of Glencoe.5 scottish stories with a wood engraved illustration to each. A nice, tight , clean copy. Payment by credit card through ABE. Paypal accepted

Seller: Joelle Godard Books, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric.. A SOCIABLE PLOVER, AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS.. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$12.67 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1957. Rupert Hart-Davis. Hard Cover. Book- VG. Dj- VG, edgewear. 8x5. 222pp. 5 b/w plates by Reynolds Stone.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric.. A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS.. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$12.67 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1957. Rupert Hart-Davis. 1st edition. Hard cover. Book- Vg. DJ- VG, slight edgewear, spine sunned. 8x5. 222pp. 5 b/w wood engravings throughout by Reynolds Stone.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition, 1957. Green cloth gilt very clean. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated with five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 222 pages.

Seller: Michael Moons Bookshop, PBFA, Whitehaven, CUMBR, United Kingdom

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plover and other stories & conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, first impression in priceclipped dj. Dj has taped repairs to the edges, faded spine.text is clean, tight and unmarked

Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric.. A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS.. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$13.82 + shipping

Description: 1957. Rupert Hart-Davis. First. Book-VG. DJ-VG, edgewear. 8.5x5.5. 222pp. 5 b/w wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric.. THE SOCIABLE PLOVER. And Other Stories and Conceits.. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957., 1957.

Price: US$14.30 + shipping

Description: 1st edition. 8vo. 222pp. E.ps. slightly browned. Original green cloth. Pictorial red d/w. lettered in white, rubbed to edges with several minor tears. US$14

Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom

LINKLATER, Eric.. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits.. London, Rupert Hart-Davis 1957., 1957.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Hardcover. Bottom, fore-edges and endpapers lightly foxed, bookplate on front paste-down, o/w fine in very good price-clipped dustjacket with a few closed tears. With dustjacket and five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.

Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia

Eric Linklater. A SOCIABLE PLOVER, and Other Stories and Conceits.. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$16.78 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Red binding. 222 pages. 5 wood engravings. A clean, straight unmarked book. Scan available.

Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia

Linklater, Eric. A Sociable Plover And Other Stories And Conceits. Rupert Hart Davis 1957, 1957.

Price: US$18.79 + shipping

Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. Book very good. Dustjacket good, edgewear. No notes/underlining. 222 pp

Seller: Libereso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Linklater, Eric. A Sociable Plover and other stories and conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$19.50 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition Hardback. Published Rupert Hart-Davis London. Each story is illustrated by one of five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, one of which also appears on the front of the dust jacket. Book Condition: As new. The red cloth-covered boards are clean and bright with sharp and square edges and corners throughout. The binding is tight and the spine has no bumping throughout and bright gilt lettering. The 222 pages, titles and endpapers are free from any markings, wear, damage or inscriptions whatsoever. Dust Jacket: Unclipped:16s net. Slight bumping and small tear to spine.

Seller: MKB Books, Hereford, United Kingdom

LINKLATER ERIC. A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS. LONDON RUPERT HART-DAVIS, 1957.

Price: US$19.50 + shipping

Description: 1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH SLIGHTLY TORN DUST WRAP. WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY REYNOLDS STONE. CONTAINS 3 STORIES AND 2 'CONCEITS' ONE OF WHICH IS A SYMPHONIC TRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE OF NORWAY AND THE OTHER IS A CONVERSATION PIECE.

Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom

LINKLATER, Eric.. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits.. London: Rupert Hart-Davis,, 1957.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: 222 pp. Bookplate inside front cover, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light overall edgewear. Cover art and five internal wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Linklater, Eric. The Sociable Plover. And Other Stories And Conceits.. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$22.94 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1957. Hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW with nicks and small tears. Remains a very good copy. . . . .

Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland

Linklater (Eric).. A Sociable Plover and other stories and conceits. With five wood engravings by Reyonolds Stone.. 12mo, first edition, 20.5cm, pp.222, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957., 1957.

Price: US$23.40 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Green cloth, spine label gilt. Pictorial dust-jacket by Reynolds Stone. A fine copy in like dust-jacket.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric. A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS .. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, five wood engraved illustrations by Reynolds Stone, boards. First edition. Collects five stories. "Invention for Four Voices" is a philosophical dialogue (a form he used several times). "Sunburnt Girl on the Rocks" is another short closet drama in which the author himself is a character. The title story is a mordant tale of murder and reincarnation. Clute and Grant (eds). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 584. A tight, bright, very good copy. (#116499)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$26.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st edition hardback, 1957. Pictorial dustjacket VG, protected in a clear plastic sleeve. Not price-clipped. Red cloth gilt very clean. Pages lightly foxed at the edges, internally very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 222 pages.

Seller: Michael Moons Bookshop, PBFA, Whitehaven, CUMBR, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric. A Sociable Plover. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$28.60 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Type: Book DJ spine is lightly sun faded and shows slight signs of use.

Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric (1899-1974). A sociable plover : and other stories and conceits / Eric Linklater ; with five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$28.90 + shipping

Description: Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; Physical desc.: 222 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Genre: Fiction- Short stories - England - 1957. Wood engravings (prints) - England - 1957. At the start of each chapter is a "chapter title page", each one illustrated with a wood engraving by Reynolds Stone. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plover, And Other Stories And Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis,, 1957.

Price: US$30.85 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1957. 222 pages. Red pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are clean and bright with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Tanning to spine and edges.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

LINKLATER, Eric. A SOCIABLE PLOVER and Other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$30.87 + shipping

Description: With five wood engravings by Reynold Stone. First Edition. 8vo. pp.222. Offsetting to endpapers from dust wrapper flaps else Very Good original red cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.

Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$32.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits, Eric Linklater, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957, First Edition, First Impression Consisting of three stories and two "conceits", the whole book illustrates the author's mastery of many moods and scenes. The book has been illustrated with five new wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. This is a First Edition, First Impression in very good condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. The slightly toned end papers and page are free from marks, tears or inscriptions. The top edge retains its original black tint. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover, is in good condition with some small tears to the top and bottom edge of the front cover, some shelf wear to the top and bottom edges of the spine and a small loss to the top edge of the spine. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.

Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom

Eric Linklater. A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS. Rupert Hart-Davis, Soho Square, London, 1957.

Price: US$32.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First impression of the true first edition. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Jacket design by Reynolds Stone. Near fine in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on black gilt-bordered black to spine. Top edge of text-block stained black (as called for). Head and tail of spine very slightly bumped. Light offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. Pages clean. No inscriptions. Spine tight. In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of 16s net. Dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed at extremities. A hint of fading to the red spine of dustwrapper. Front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. 210mm x 138mm. 222 pages. ***'Ten years after Sealskin Trousers', Eric Linklater has produced a companion volume, containing three stories and two, as he calls them, 'conceits'. These latter consist of 'Sunburnt Girls on the Rocks', a symphonic tribute to he people and countryside of Norway, and 'Invention for Four Voices', a conversation piece which wittily embraces most things in heaven and earth. The title-story, 'A Sociable Plover', tells of a ghostly bird-haunting in the Western Isles; 'Escape Forever' is a gay and exciting tale of a convict's escape across Scotland and 'The Masks of Purpose' retells with brilliant immediacy of detail and grisly story of the massacre of Glencoe. The whole book illustrates once again Eric Linklater's mastery of many moods and scenes. ***The book is decorated with five new wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very nice collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of Eric Linklater and the wood-engravings of Reynolds Stone. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Linklater, Eric,. A SOCIABLE PLOVER: AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$36.40 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 222pp, with five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Rear end-papers a little browned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom

Stone, Reynolds (Illustrator). A Sociable Plover And Other Stories And Conceits by Eric Linklater. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Description: 222 pages. Five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, and with dustj acket illustration by Stone. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Linklater, Eric. A SOCIABLE PLOVER and other stories and conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$40.27 + shipping

Description: With five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Pp. 222, pictorial headpieces; post 8vo; red boards, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edges black; dust wrapper (designed by Reynolds Stone), faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957. First trade edition.

Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Linklater, Eric (1899-1974). A sociable plover : and other stories and conceits / Eric Linklater ; with five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Price: US$41.20 + shipping

Description: Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; Physical desc.: 222 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Genre: Fiction- Short stories - England - 1957. Wood engravings (prints) - England - 1957. At the start of each chapter is a "chapter title page", each one illustrated with a wood engraving by Reynolds Stone. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Linklater, Eric. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$41.85 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book contains three stories and two, as he calls them, conceits. 222 pp. Red cloth covered boards have black title box with gilt text and edging on spine, top edge dyed black. The two top corners and bottom front corner are bumped, spine ends are lightly rubbed. Unclipped (16 s net), red DJ is plastic protected and has light edge wear and several small closed tears. Bookseller's Inventory # 154712.

Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada

Linklater, Eric. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$48.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Magnificent wood engravings by Stone. A superb copy, unclipped and unmarked.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plover and other stories and conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$253.53 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine copy of the limited edition of A Sociable Plover, with illustrations by Reynolds Stone. In quarter morocco leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. No 23 of 60, signed by Eric Linklater and Reynolds Stone. The binding is in near fine bright clean condition. Contents very clean with some very light spotting to endpapers, foredge and occasionally to the outer edge of side margins.

Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

Linklater (Eric).. A Sociable Plover and other stories and conceits. Rupert Hart-Davis,, 1957.

Price: US$273.04 + shipping

Description: Five wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone One of 60 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist on the half-title Some soiling to spine, otherwise a very nice copy Original red quarter morocco, marbled boards, spine in compartents with raised bands and lettered and dated in gilt, top edge gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

Eric Linklater. A Sociable Plove. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1957.

Price: US$325.04 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A limited edition signed copy of this illustrated collection of short stories by Eric Linklater. A limited edition of sixty copies, of which fifty are for sale, with this being number thirty two.Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.Signed by the author and illustrator.A Sociable Plove is a collection of stories and conceits by Eric Linklater, also including Sunburnt Girls on the Rocks, The Masks of Purpose, Invention for Four Voice and Escape Forever.Eric Linklater was a Welsh born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian and travel writer.With five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.Collated, complete In the original quarter leather and marbled boards. Externally, excellent. Signed by the author and the artist to the half title page. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

STONE, Reynolds (illustrates). LINKLATER, Eric.. A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits.. Rupert Hart-Davis, London., 1957.

Price: US$357.55 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. 222 pages. Five wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.One of 60 numbered copies, specially bound and printed on Glastonbury laid paper, signed by the author and the illustrator. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter red morocco, raised bands, marbled boards. Top edge gilt.Fine.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom