Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$33.75 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Wood Engravings by James Metcalf. Small, slim 4to, cloth, d.w. London: Trianon Press, (1955). First Edition. Fine copy in a lightly foxed dust wrapper with short edge-tears.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, has slight lean, light bumps to spine ends, very light bumps to corners on front board, a tiny ding to center of bottom edge of rear board, and some light rubbing to rear board, otherwise a clean VG+ copy in a VG dustjacket which has a very small hole to outer edge of front panel, light bumps to base of spine and corners, bump to top end of spine resulting in small missing chips on either side of spine, faint scrape to rear panel causing two very small holes and a couple creases to bottom edge of rear panel.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Description: tall 8vo, [iv], 73pp, 36 wood engravings in brown by James Metcalf of the Hebron Icons, b/w drawings to text, very light occasional spotting to endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, generally a VG+ copy. One of 1,750 copies published by the Trianon Press.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.12 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: EO/ rel. pl. toi. éd. avec jaq. ill. en noir sur fond gris vert/ pt mq. à la jaq/ 1/276 ex. de tête num. & sign. à la main par l'aut. & l'illustrateur: ex. J/ belles ill. terre de Sienne in-fine par James Metcalf/ emboîtage cons.
Seller: Frégate-books, Clichy, France
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: No. 98 of the signed edition. 72 p. 28 cm. Large brown illustrations and smaller b&w line drawings. Brown cloth hardcover. Ex library with call number and label on lower spine, labels and ink stamps on endpapers.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 72 pages, with 36 original wood engravings, and 36 line blocks by James Metcalf throughout. Red cloth covers with gold titles, a few light spots on covers, previous owner's name on fpdep, endpapers and text edges lightly yellowed, VG+. Grey dust jacket with black titles, spine is faded, top and base of spine lightly worn with a few small tears and creases, corners are lightly worn, edges are lightly faded, Very Good.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Description: 4to in rust red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 71pp on thick paper CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (page-block edges and end-papers very slightly foxed) in a dusty and edge-chipped VERY GOOD minus Dust Jacket with large defection to top end of rear panel (looks presentable in its removable transparent protector) ] ._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition limited to 2026 copies. This not the signed limited edition. Over-sized hardbound (quarto). Nice copy. No wear to the binding. No slope, no twist to the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No broken hinges. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The dust jacket priced at 31s.6d (not clipped) shows no wear. no sun fading. DJ in an archival protector.
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Graves (Robert).. Adams Rib. Trianon Press,, 1955.
Price: US$80.81 + shipping
Description: Wood engravings by James Metcalf One of 2,026 copies 4to An exceptionally nice copy in very slightly foxed dust-wrapper, which is a little sunned at the spine panel
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth. Small folio. 73pp. Grey pictorial dust jacket. Tan cardboard slipcase. R. Gordon Wasson bookplate. Copy #136 of 250 numbered copies signed by Graves and the illustrator James Metcalf. A very good copy with minor wear. The text is very good and clean. The jacket spine is browned and has several small pieces missing from its center. There is a small tape repair at the bottom of the spine. The slipcase is good with some light chipping and edgewear.
Seller: Robert Wendler Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Description: Wood engravings by James Metcalk, 11 x 7.5, 73 pp, corner gently bumped else ok in edge yellowed worn dw, with light extremity loss. FIRST ED. LIMITED TO 2026 COPIES.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 4to. 36 wood engravings and 36 line drawings by James Metcalf. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine, fresh.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$151.20 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Well read copy with some spine and cover wear with creasing to cover - still very useable. Hardcover has some patches of discolouration. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Price: US$173.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Signed Edition (Signed by both Robert Graves and James Metcalf on limitation page). Number 142 of 250 copies. 36 wood engravings and 36 line drawings by James Metcalf. (viii) + 74pp. Dust jacket complete. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Very clean and tight. It is now generally recognised that the story told in the first four chapters of Genesis is only one of a group of Middle Eastern Creation legends, from which it differs in many particulars. But attention has hitherto been drawn' rather to the likenesses between Genesis and its Sumerian, Phoenician, Babylonian, Egyptian and Hittite counterparts, than to the differences. Robert Graves is the first to show that Genesis, a document of unexpectedly late composition, contains Western as well as Eastern elements; and further that such unmythical anomalies as the creation of trees and pasture before the heavenly bodies, and the formation of Eve, the `Mother of Mankind', from the rib of a man, are best explained as anecdotes based on a misreading of certain Canaanite icons, captured by the Hebrews when they overran Hebron. Mr. Graves suggests that these icons were intended to be read boustrophedon (`as an ox ploughs') and not always from the same direction, as the author of Genesis has assumed; and that they tell an altogether different story of a more primitive Creation myth current in Canaan. The argument is illustrated by a reconstruction of these icons, thirty-six in number, which have been engraved on wood in sub-Mycenean style by James Metcalf. These are shown twice, in different orders, to illustrate both the conventional Genesis story and the hypothetical version. Size: 4to
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to pp. 73, copy #109 of 250, alas no slipcase, signed by the author and the illustrator on the limitation page.
Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Robert Graves. Adam's Rib. Trianon Pres, 1955.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Graves (Robert) Adam's Rib, signed limited edition, illustrated by James Metcalf, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly browned spine, slipcase, Trianon Press, 1955
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$282.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A signed work by Robert Graves in which he explores the Creation myth, a smart limited edition work with illustrated by James Metcalf. A signed limited edition, this copy numbered 126 of an 250. Signed by Graves and Metcalf to the limitation page.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An interesting study by Robert Graves on the first four chapters of Genesis, in which he looks at the creations myths and how they came from misreading of canaanite icons captures by Hebrews.Illustrated by James Metcalf with in-text illustrations and eighteen full-paged illustrations. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Light age-toning to the dust wrapper, mostly to the spine and head of the wraps. Minor edge wear, with a few neat tape repairs to the reverse. A few light spots to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. Large 8vo (19.5cm x 28cm). Original publisher's red cloth lettered gilt at the spine. pp 73. With wood engravings throughout by James Metcalf. Signed presentation from the books' designer Arnold Fawcus: 'For Audrey/ with love from/ Arnold/ Paris 1955.' Copy 'R' of 26 lettered copies signed by Robert Graves and James Metcalf. Fine in sound slightly browned VG plain slip-case.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom