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Henty, G.A. & Boothby, Guy & et al,. BRAINS & BRAVERY. W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1903.
Price: US$189.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1903. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. A Collection of Stories - first four by Henty. 8 b/w plates. Russet pictorial cloth with gilt title boxes. 398 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Board edges a little bumped and worn. Gilt on front a little worn. Covers grubby. Some hinges cracked but binding still tight. Inscription to half title page. Foxing mainly to prelims and page edges. Some light fingering to page margins. Small ink mark affecting edge of a few pages. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Henty, G.A. & Boothby, Guy & et al,. BRAINS & BRAVERY. W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1903.
Price: US$202.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1903. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. A Collection of Stories - first four by Henty. 8 b/w plates. Blue pictorial cloth with gilt title boxes. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some marks and scuffing to covers. Tape/glue residue with some paper residue to edges of pastedowns. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. Some grubby margin marks. One plate is partially detached. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Former owner's inked writing on fep and half title page verso, some light reading wear, otherwise textblock is clean and tight, brown endpapers and 8 illustrations from Arthur Rackham. A collection of stories from many different authors, stories such as, 'On an Indian Trail', 'My Australian Duchess', 'A Benefactor', 'Down A Crevasse', 'A Chinese Vendetta' and some others. Gilt-embossed green cloth binding with some age fraying to the tips of head and foot of spine as well as to bumped corners. Yellow, blue, and black illustration on front cover and down spine. Shelf soiled covers. White stain on rear board and several faint scratches. 398p. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
HENTY, G. A., BOOTHBY, GUY, ET. AL. Brains & Bravery. W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London, 1903.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original red cloth with decorations in gold, black, gray, and brown. All edges beveled. Contains stories by Henty, Boothby, Katharine Tynan, L. T. Meade and others. Eight illustrations by Arthur Rackham with the plate on p. 77 supplied in facsimile. The boards are quite bright with moderate edge-wear along the bottom. The spine ends are a bit frayed. An early Rackham volume. Newbolt 134.1. Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition copy of this collection of short stories, four of which are by G. A. Henty, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The first edition of this work in the publisher's green pictorial cloth variant binding. Ink inscription to the front free endpaper and to the verso of the front free endpaper, awarding this book as a prize from St. Peter's Church Sunday School, dated 1903. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a further seven black-and-white plates by the Golden Age book illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Collated, complete. A collection of fourteen short stories illustrated with early examples of illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The first four stories, 'On an Indian Trail', 'At Duty's Call', 'Working Up' and 'Down a Crevasse', were written by George Alfred Henty (1832-1902), who is well-known for his adventure fiction and historical fiction. Other authors include Australian novelist Guy Boothby (1867-1905); L. T. Meade (the pseudonym for Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith); John Arthur Barry (1850-1911); and Henry Anderson Bryden. In the publisher's green pictorial cloth variant binding. Externally generally smart, with a little shelf wear to the boards and extremities. Front hinge is starting but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with spotting to the first and last few pages, and the odd handling mark. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 398 pages. Spine sunned, light bubbling of cloth. 1903 pencil Christmas gift inscription to half-title. All plates present with tissue guards. Occasional foxing [dog-ear to page 6 - please see photo showing this and the heaviest example of foxing]; plates clean; binding is sound.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of this Rackham-illustrated collection of 14 tales of adventurous young men. G. A. Henty has written four of the stories; the others are by Guy Boothby, L. T. Meade & Prof. Robert K. Douglas, John Arthur Barry, Katharine Tynan, H. A. Bryden, W. H. Williamson, Walter Wood, F. B. Forester, Hemingford Grey, and T. R. Threlfall. Dartt, p. 26; Latimore & Haskell, p. 20; Riall, p. 49. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover stamped with colour illustrations and lettered in blue on gilt background, bevelled edges, brown endpapers. Half-tone frontispiece illustration and 7 plates by Rackham. Christmas gift inscription, dated 1903, on first blank. Rubbing to cloth, spine darkened and gilt faded, sides bright, negligible wear to corners, closed tear to head of front free endpaper, sporadic internal foxing, burn mark to upper margin of p. 82, affecting neighbouring leaves, plates clean. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of this Rackham-illustrated collection of 14 tales of adventurous young men. G. A. Henty has written four of the stories; the others are by Guy Boothby, L. T. Meade & Prof. Robert K. Douglas, John Arthur Barry, Katharine Tynan, H. A. Bryden, W. H. Williamson, Walter Wood, F. B. Forester, Hemingford Grey, and T. R. Threlfall. Dartt, p. 26; Latimore & Haskell, p. 20; Riall, p. 49. Octavo. Original red cloth, pictorial decoration to front cover and spine, titles to front cover and spine in red. Half-tone frontispiece illustration and 7 plates by Rackham. Spine lightly sunned, light rubbing and fraying to ends of spine and corners, front inner hinge cracked, occasional spotting. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom