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Description: 48 pp. 12mo, original printed wrappers; custom slipcase. Bookplate tipped onto title page at gutter; another bookplate inside front wrapper; front wrapper chipped at fore-edge and with a 2" split to the front joint. The Roycroft Quarterly, No. 1; May '96.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Soft wraps, edges lightly nibbled, spine awkwardly repaired but intact. Cranes contributions include seven short poems (The Chatter of a Death Demon, A Lantern Song, A Slant of Sun on Dull Brown Walls, I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches, What Says the Sea?, To the Maiden the Sea Was Blue Meadow, and Fast Rode the Knight).The two sketches are A Great Mistake and A Prologue. Crane was about twenty-five when this tribute was published, and The Red Badge of Courage had only recently been published (as had The Black Riders and Other Lines, his first book of poems). Ambrose Bierces tribute (among others-- Howells, Davis, and Carmen): Were it not for the miles that separate us, I would be with you and lick a plate so clean it would not have to be washed for a month. This copy apparently unopened (and unlicked).
Seller: Trillium Antiquarian Books, Peterborough, ON, Canada
Price: US$678.53 + shipping
Description: First edition. "The Roycroft Quarterly, No. 1" Sm.8vo., orig. printed wrappers, 48pp. Bookplate on inside of the rear wrapper, discreet name on titlepage o/w a fine copy. BAL 4074.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. This comprised No. 1 of The Roycroft Quarterly; its original cost was twenty-five cents, and it appeared in May, 1896, the year following the publication of The Red Badge of Courage. BAL 4074 Original pictorial wrappers, uncut. Some rubbing at spine, yapp edges mostly gone. Chip at top of front wrapper. Nice copy
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo. Pictorial gray wrappers. A bit of creasing and small nicks at overlap edges, otherwise an excellent copy. Volume One, Number One of THE ROYCROFT QUARTERLY. In fact, eight poems are included, all but one of them collected from earlier appearances in the pages of Hubbard's THE PHILISTINE. The exception, as well as the prose sketch "A Prologue," appear here for the first time. BAL 4074. WILLIAMS & STARRETT 5.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. This comprised No. 1 of The Roycroft Quarterly; its original cost was twenty-five cents, and it appeared in May, 1896, the year following the publication of The Red Badge of Courage. BAL 4074 Original pictorial wrappers, uncut. Yapped edges mostly gone. Fine copy
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CRANE, Stephen. Souvenir and a Medley: Seven Poems and a Sketch. , 1896.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: CRANE, Stephen. A Souvenir and a Medley: Seven Poems and a Sketch. By Stephen Crane. With Divers and Sundry Communications from Certain Eminent Wits. Original pictorial wrappers, housed in custom brown morocco backed cloth slipcase with inner cloth chemise. East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896. First edition. BAL 4074. Williams & Starrett 5. Elbert Hubbard arranged a Society of Philistines dinner in Crane's honor in December 1895. "Crane was still very young, very poor, and very much in need of encouragement. Enthusiastic reviews were rare; critics were cautious. He was almost pathetically flattered-and somewhat frightened-by the prospect of such recognition"-Joan H. Baum, Stephen Crane (1871-1900): An Exhibition of His Writings (1956), p.26. This souvenir was published six months after the fact. Besides the poems, a prose sketch "A Great Mistake," and "A Prologue," it contains tributes by friends and from newspapers. Issued as the first number, May 1896, of the Roycroft Quarterly. A near fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.