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H.G. Wells. Bealby: A Holiday. Methuen, London, 1915.
Price: US$24.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Methuen--London, 1915. Sunning to spine. Small cloth tear at top of spine. Moderate wear around the extremities of the cover. S4C
Seller: Biblio Pursuit, Lenhartsville, PA, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. Bealby; A Holiday. Methuen & Co, London, 1915.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [vi], 336, [31] pp. Blue cloth, gilt, blind stamped, spine faded, else good. (36856).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. Bealby. A Holiday.. London Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1915, 1915.
Price: US$56.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, 1st issue with spring 1915 Ads. vii, 336, +[4], 31 pages publishers adspp. Octavo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Blind stamped title and decoration on front cover. Significant fading to spine with slight soiling and light bumping to ends of spine and corners. Darkening due to dust to top outer edge of text block with bottom edge untrimmed. Slight scattered foxing to outer edges, front endpapers and first few pages. Text block is generally clean and bright. A very nice copy. very good Well's Society # 57. "Dedicated to 'the real Lord Chancellor who. Reads Hegel'- namely Haldane- to be contrasted with the fictitious Lord Chancellor in the story who also, by coincidence, reads Hegel. This novel tells of a servant-boy who confesses to committing burglary and escapes to find happiness in the life of a gipsy".
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Wells, H. G.. Bealby: A Holiday.. London: Methuen., 1915.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo., 336 pp., Very Good, Blue Cloth, Currey Binding B (second issue), sun-fading, staining, some rubbing & edge wear on covers, especially spine; pencil scribbles on FFEPs; minor staining in some portions of text and on edges of text block; shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle (bookplate). First Edition.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.:. Bealby. London Methuen & Co Ltd, 1915.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book, first edition , Signed by Victoria Sackville and dated 23rd Sept 1915 and with her personal bookplate's from Knoll Sevenoaks. A Very Good copy with faded spine and light wear to top of spine. No dustjacket. The odd foxing spot but generally clean. Pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Wells, H.G.. Bealby; A Holiday. Methuen, London, 1915.
Price: US$246.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo (197 x 140 mm.), vi 336 [4](advertisements) 31(advertisements) pp., cloth with gold tooling on spine in pictorial dustjacket. Very good in poor dust jacket, edges foxed, offsetting on endpapers, foxing on pages close to boards, dustjacket rear spine-fold split, edges chipped, particularly along top edge and bottom of spine, 12 x 5 mm piece missing from each side of top of spine, dustjacket now protected by plastic cover. Bealby is a comic novel exploring the exploits of a thirteen year old boy while satirising English upper class life.
Seller: Archives Fine Books (ANZAAB, ILAB), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Wells, H. G.. Bealby: a holiday. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1915.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. vii, 336 p.; 20 cm. "First published in 1915" on copyright page. Four page ads at rear dated Spring, 1915. Followed by a second 31-page catalog dated 25/11/14. Bound in red cloth, perhaps a later binding to the first edition pages, or perhaps just an unusual variant. Cover bright, but first pages foxed, as are page edges. Attractive jacket in orange pape, black lettering and color paste-on front panel. Shallow chip (not affecting lettering) expertly filled at spine head, minor wear at edges, else very good jacket.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
WELLS. H. G.. Bealby. Methuen & Co, London, 1915.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original red cloth, blind-stamped on the front board and lettered in gilt to the spine. In a complete original dust jacket, a rare survivor of an early example. Some minor foxing to the preliminaries and title page. With 35 pp of ads at the rear. A comic novel featuring Bealby, a serving boy to a great house. The jacket has some interior tape repair, not to hold anything together but rather to strengthen edges. An un-neccessary action. The ads are dated on the first page as "Spring, 1915" and on the final page of ads is stated "25/11/14." This agrees with Currey's points as the first issue with the exception that he states the boards are blue. Near Fine / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
WELLS, H. G.. Bealby A Holiday.. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1915., 1915.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SON. 1 vol., inscribed on the front blank endleaf by Wells "To G.(eorge) P.(hillip) Wells from his Papp(?)y", [4]+31 pages publishers ads dated Spring 1915. bound in the original gilt and blind stamped light blue cloth, spine relined, foxing to edges of textblock, still VERY GOOD. George Philip Wells, son of H. G. Wells, was a zoologist and author. He co-authored, with his father and Julian Huxley, The Science of Life. A pupil at Oundle School, he was in the first class to learn Russian as a modern language in a British school. Bealby is a young boy who is absolutely determined not to accept his lot in life as a servant. However, despite having thrown tantrums and argued with his mother about his future he has not been able to change his fate. He reluctantly leaves his home for Shonts, a big country house, to work as a steward's boy. What he hasn't anticipated, however, are the guests that are arriving for the weekend at the big house, or for the arrival of the eccentric but captivating Lord Chancellor. What follows is an adventure that Bealby will not soon forget.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.