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Munro, H H (Saki). Beasts and Super-Beasts. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1914.
Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of dark blue boards as well as some wear to sides of spine and edges of cover, and some old water-damage to bottom edge of front board resulting in the cloth lifting slightly. NOT a first edition but a later (same year? "first published 1914" on rev of title page) impression, the first impression has, I understand, gilt ttiles to the front board and publishers adverts at the back of the book, this copy has neither. But otherwise a good, internally clean and tight, copy of this hard-cover collection of thirty-six short stories by the author, including "The Open Window" and "The Schartz-Metterklume Method". 312pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Munro, H. H. (Saki). Beasts and super-beasts 1914 [Hardcover]. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows moderate to heavy wear, tear, rubbing, bumped corners, and loss at the spine ends. Name of former owner on the front endpaper. Pages are tanned.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
MUNRO, H.H.. Beats and Super-beasts.. London, NY, Toronto: John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 312 pp. Very good plus in full cloth. Spine lettering dull, top edge dusty. Lacks dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Munro, H.H. ("Saki"). BEASTS AND SUPER-BEASTS.. John Lane The Bodley Head: London, 1914.
Price: US$51.75 + shipping
Description: 7.5 x 5.25, embossed blue-purple cloth, 312 pp, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and fraying, top of spine chipped and torn, eps heavily toned, inner hinges cracking, hinges loose, minor finger soil in book. FIRST ED with cancel title page (but without ads in back). SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
H. H. Munro ("Saki"). BEASTS AND SUPER BEASTS. John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1914.
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First impression of the true first edition. First issue, with twenty-pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, as called for. ***Fair in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and borders to spine, and gilt titles and embossed blind borders to front board. Please note that the book is suitable as a reading or re-binding copy only. The cloth of the spine is beginning to split, and there is a small chip to the head of the spine. Head and tail of spine creased, nicked and rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and slightly bumped. Boards rubbed at edges. Blue decorative bordered plain unfilled bookplate to front pastedown. Pencil name and address and a blue fountain pen address to front free endpaper. Prelims and rear pages and fore-edge of text-block slightly foxed. A few light spots of foxing to text-pages. Top and bottom of outer edge of rear board faded. Tiny dent to bottom of rear board. 190mm x 128mm. 312 pages plus twenty-page publisher's adverts to rear. ***Contents: The She-Wolf; Laura; The Boar-Pig; The Brogue; The Hen; The Open Window; The Treasure-Ship; The Cobweb; The Lull; The Unkindest Blow; The Romancers; The Schartz-Metterklume Method; The Seventh Pullet; The Blind Spot; Dusk; A Touch of Realism; Cousin Teresa; The Yarkand Manner; The Byzantine Omelette; The Feast of Nemesis; The Dreamer; The Quince Tree; The Forbidden Buzzards; The Stake; Clovis on Parental Responsibilities; A Holiday Task; The Stalled Ox; The Story-Teller; A Defensive Diamond; The Elk; "Down Pens; The Name-Day; The Lumber Room; Fur; The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat; On Approval. ***First issue, first impression of the true first edition - suitable as a reading or as a re-binding copy. An uncommon book. ***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
Price: US$4491.43 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1914. From the Library of Rudyard Kipling with His Bookplate and Signature to the title page. 1st Edition 1914. Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collection of stories before his death in World War I, and several of its stories, in particular "The Open Window", are reprinted frequently in anthologies. Kipling was a great influence on the writing of Saki. From the estate of A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt & Son in 1875, the world's first literary agents. Book is very good++ and bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. Excellent provenance. More images can be taken upon request. ref18408
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom