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D.H. Lawrence.. Birds, Beasts and Flowers. Poems by D.H. Lawrence.. London, Cresset Press., 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to, 195pp. Vellum-backed creme-colored boards. Spine title gilt. #416/500. With wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Paper is beginning to be toned at the edges. Boards worn and soiled. Binding is tight. Language: eng
Seller: Tom Davies Rare Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D. H., Blair Hughes-Stanton.. BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS.. Cresset Press,, London,, 1930.
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 194. Original publishers half vellum over marbled boards, lettered gilt at the spine. First illustrated edition, this being no. 269 of 500 copies. 11 full page plates and six wood engravings. Some slight rubbing at corners, faint foxing endpapers, otherwise very good or better. Attractive bookplate of Mary Crichton Stuart.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, D. H.. Birds, Beasts and Flowers: Poems. Cresset Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gilt lettered quarter vellum over marbled boards. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is #80. Woodcuts by Hughes-Stanton. Edgewear. Scuff to vellum. Bookplate to endpaper. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lawrence, D.H.. Birds, Beasts And Flowers. Cresset Press, Ltd, London, 1930.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 195 pages. 35 x 22 cm. Limited edition, copy 393 of 500 on mould-made paper, printed at the Shenval Press. Ten suggestive full page wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton printed recto only. Wide text margins, very bright and fresh copy. Orig. quarter vellum spine and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$461.20 + shipping
Description: First edition. Folio. Number 159 of 500 copies on mould-made paper. Publisher's quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards A very good copy, a little spotting to the edges of the covers. Eleven wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, ten of which are full page.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Description: First illustrated edition. Quarto. pp [viii], 195. Eleven wood-engravings, ten of which are full-page, by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Vellum-backed marbled boards. Top edge gilt.One of 500 numbered copies on mould-made paper out of a total edition of 530 copies.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2187.50 + shipping
Description: Publisher's pigskin by Wood (8-1/2" x 13-1/2") gilt lettered on the spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 10 striking full-page wood engravings and two text engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. First published in 1923, this edition differs because of the addition of 10 wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton as well as new prose paragraphs by Lawrence at the head of each section. Copy XV of 30 copies with extra suite of 10 proofs from a total edition of 530. Lawrence's reflections on the world beyond humanity Contents fresh. Some spotting to covers with mild rubbing at extremities; some edge creasing to proofs (not affecting images) with a few hints of foxing. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.