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Reeves, James,. Arcadian Ballads. The Whittington Press., Andoversford., 1977.
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 3 of a limited edition of 200 copies, signed by author and illustrator. ix + 48 pp, illustrated. Final page and limitation page a trifle spotted at margin else fine hardback in publishers original patterned cloth 'housed' in slightly faded but near fine, slipcase.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 48pp. Collection of five poems based on Ovid's Metamorphoses with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, including a frontispiece. Printed on Arches paper in a limited numbered edition of 200 copies. This is copy #177 and is signed by both the author and the illustrator on the colophon. Decorated floral cream cloth with pink title plate tipped to front cover. Top edge gilt. White sewn headband. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. No other inscriptions. Pink end papers. Enclosed within a pink paper covered slip case which has slight shelf wear and a faint shadow on face. Otherwise all in fine condition.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: Copy number 37 of 200 cloth copies (50 leather copies also produced). First edition, signed to the colophon by both James Reeves and Edward Ardizzone. Hardback. 4to. [i - viii], ix, 48pp plus colophon. Original decorated cloth covered boards with printed title label to front. Printed on Arches paper. Illustrations printed by litho. Original slipcase. Poems include: "Pyramus and Thisbe", "Pan and Syrinx", "Echo and Narcissus", "Ariadne" and "Callisto". Book in fine condition. Slipcase near fine, just an occasional slight mark and a little colour fade here and there.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Ardizzone, Edward. Arcadian Ballads. Whittington Press, 1977.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: By James Reeves. With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Floral patterned cloth boards. Very nice copy in like slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies signed by author and illustrator.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
James Reeves. Arcadian Ballads. The Whittington Press, 1977.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Signed by James Reeves and illustrator Edward Ardizzone 200 copies hand-set on Arches paper printed by lithography at the Senecio Press Copy number 140
Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ARDIZZONE. Reeves, James. Arcadian Ballads. (Andoversford), The Whittington Press, (1977)., 1977.
Price: US$220.41 + shipping
Description: With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone printed in lithography. 48 pp., 1 leaf. Folio. Orig. dark blue morocco , gilt fillet, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers (by Weatherby Woolnough). In orig. slipcase. One of 50 numbered copies bound in leather of an edition of 250 copies, signed by Reeves and Ardizzone.
Seller: Peter Bichsel Fine Books, Zürich, Switzerland
(Whittington Press.) REEVES (James). Arcadian Ballads.. The Whittington Press, 1977.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: X/50 COPIES (from an edition of 250 copies) printed on Arches paper and signed by the author and artist, several reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings by Edward Ardizzone printed in purple, a number full- or double-page, pp. xi, 48, royal 8vo, original full purple morocco, the backstrip lettered in gilt and faded to brown, single rule gilt border to boards, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others untrimmed, Press subscription form laid in, board slipcase, very good. Laid in is a sheet with a calligraphic message from the staff of Arle School, presenting this to 'Nick' on his retirement in the year of its publication. (Butcher 27)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Reeves, James.. Arcadian Ballads Reeves, James. The Whittington Press (1977), 1977.
Price: US$256.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ex-library hardback in pink floral cloth with dusty pink slip case, s/c slightly sunned, minimal shelf wear to boards, usual library stamps & markings confined to fep & back of title pg, head of text block gilted, foredge & tail uncut, published 1977 by The Whittingdon Press, limited 250 copies(200 cloth & 50 leather) this is copy no.39 signed by author & illustrator, 48pp hand-set in 14-point Caslon & printed at Whittington court on Arches paper, 5 poems by James Reeves based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, from which they have been very freely adapted, only the first is not strickly Arcadian, the legend being Babylonian not Greek, 1.Pyramus & Thisbe, 2.Pan & Syrinx, 3.Eho & Narcissus, 4.Arachne, 5.Callisto, if more imformation or pictures required please contact us, ready for immediate despatch from UK. 6C*
Seller: Gareth Roberts, Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo, CARMS, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: UK limited edition, SIGNED by Reeves and Ardizzone. No. XII of 50 full leather copies out of a total edition of 250. Near fine with a touch of fade to spine and previous owner bookplate, in near fine slipcase.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Ardizzone, Edward. Arcadian Ballads. Whittington Press, 1977.
Price: US$417.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: By James Reeves. With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Full purple morocco, gilt. Spine little faded, otherwise near fine in slipcase. One of 50 specially bound, numbered copies signed by both Reeves and Ardizzone and with marbled endpapers by Solveig Stone.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom