Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
De La Ware, Walter. BROOMSTICKS. Constable & Company Ltd., London, 1925.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, lacking dust jacket, 8 by 5 3/4 inches, 378 pages, illustrations by Bold. Booksellers ticket, Brentanos, 37 Avenue de l'Opera, Paris. Front cover has bumped corners, otherwise slight wear with bright gilt illustration by Bold. Gilding on spine slightly rubbed. Hinges sound, and pages are clean. a few glue spots on front endpaper, probably from bookplate no longer present.
Seller: Collectors Cabinet, Teaneck, NJ, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. Broomsticks & Other Tales. Constable, London, 1925.
Price: US$11.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publishers brick red / brown cloth, titled gilt. Top of spine a little worn
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
De La Mare,Walter:. Broomsticks and Other Tales. London Constable, 1925.
Price: US$15.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback 1st Edition,8vo,378pp text with frontis and numerous other woodcut designs by Bold.Very good in brown boards,gilt spine titles with stamped gilt block of squirrel and floral design on upper board.Previous owner's bookplate on ffep,light fox spots on prelims,one page tear repaired with tape but overall a clean tight book.No D/W.
Seller: Pauline Harries Books, Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter. BROOMSTICKS & OTHER TALES. Constable & Co., London, 1925.
Price: US$18.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange cloth with gilt illustrated panel to fr. and gilt sp. lettering, near pristine but a triangular darker patch to back top outer corner. engr. f/piece + 378, engraved initials and tail-pieces with a number of full page engraved plates, no significant internal faults. A very attractive book of short stories. 13.5 cm x 20 cm
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter. Broomsticks And Other Tales. Constable and Co, London, 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition. Artist Bold illustrations. Collection of stories intended for children. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with heavy chipping to top front edge, spine faded, chipping to top spine end, chipping and creasing to top rear panel and small chip and short closed tear to bottom front edge.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. Broomsticks and Other Tales. Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1925.
Price: US$78.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The cover gilt gleams and there are no internal marks. In Ashley's Who's Who in Horror Fiction (65-6) and The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (502 - 'Deserves a place in any horror collection.').
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
DE LA MARE, Walter.. Broomsticks and Other Tales. Constable & Co., Ltd, London, 1925.
Price: US$96.48 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: Broadhursts of Southport Ltd ABA ILAB BA, Southport, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. Broomsticks & Other Tales. Constable & Company Ltd., London, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copy #130 of 278; Author's ink signature on limitation page; Textblock immaculate and tight; Top edge slightly faded gilt; Lightly sunned cloth spine with minor bumping to head and foot, spine titling is gilt on brown leather label, with triple line border; toned top edge of boards, lightly worn and scuffed edges and corners; 378p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. Broomsticks & Other Tales. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1925.
Price: US$112.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Quarter linen over grey paper boards. Gilt lettered spine, with title in gilt on brown leather label. Light wear to the corners and the spine foot bumped, clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Bookplate of Norman Endicott designed by Leo Wyatt to the rear endpaper. Edition limited to 278 signed and numbered copies, this is no. 242. Signed by Walter de la Mare.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Collects twelve stories with black and white illustrations throughout. "The illustrations, in the white-on-black British woodcut school, are excellent." Bleiler; Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 502.Bound in original brown cloth with lettering and illustration stamped in gilt. Near fine in very good dust jacket with light edge wear, moderate soiling on the rear panel and moderate fade to the spine panel.
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES. London:Constable and Company, Ltd., 1925.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London:Constable and Company Ltd. 1925. 378pp. Illustrated with designs by Bold. Limited edition, #184 of 278 copies, numbered and signed. Hardcover. Boards lightly soiled and shelf-worn with leather label on spine chipped and scratched. Top edges gilt. Internally, end-pages age toned but otherwise a very good, clean and bright copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter (SIGNED). Broomsticks and Other Tales. Constable & Company, London, 1925.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. SIGNED BY WALTER DE LA MARE ON COLOPHON without personalization. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY DE LA MARE ON FFEP WITH 4 LINE POEM DATED CHRISTMAS 1925. LIMITED EDITION OF 278 COPIES. THIS IS No. 60. Beige cloth spine over blue boards, leather label on spine. A Very Good+ copy; internally fine; small chip to label on spine, not affecting title. Top cover corners bumped.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
De la MARE, Walter. Broomsticks and Other Tales. Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1925.
Price: US$133.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. Octavo, viii, 378 pages with 38 charming woodcuts by Bold. Quarter cloth and papered boards with a leather titling-label on the spine; top edge gilt, others uncut; spine very lightly sunned; paper on the corner-tips slightly worn; early ownership details; an excellent copy. Number 183 of only 278 copies signed by the author. Provenance: 'R.N. Finlayson | from W.J. Isbister | 7.12 35' is written in ink on the front free endaper. Ronald Nickels (Jack) Finlayson (1882-1945), was a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, a member of the Boards of Governors of the State Library and of the Art Gallery, and a serious collector of books. William James Isbister (1866-1950) was also a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, and a member of the University of Adelaide Council, 1905-1949. A later ownership signature, dated 1955, is pencilled in under the inscription.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$136.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From the Library of Sir John Mills and Mary Mills. Number 241 of a Limited Edition of only 278 copies numbered and signed by Walter De La Mare. Size 9" x 5¾" 378 pages. Grey covers with cream cloth spine section, with gilt titles on a brown leather panel on the spine. Top page edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. With lovely woodcut illustrations, vignettes and decorated initial capitals by Bold. Condition very good, cover and spine grubby, tiny piece of title label missing, corners rubbed, internal contents clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. Broomsticks and Other Tales. Constable and Company Limited, London, 1925.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: Limited 260/278. Spine label somewhat indistinct.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$161.50 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. SIGNED by the author. "This edition is limited to two hundred numbered and signed copies. No. 4" --verso half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 378 pages; Physical desc.: 378 p. : illus. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Children's fiction - Juvenile literature. Contents: Pigtails, ltd -- The Dutch cheese -- Miss Jemina -- The thief -- Broomsticks -- Lucy -- A nose -- The three sleeping boys of Warwickshire -- The lovely Myfanwy -- Alice's godmother -- Maria-Fly -- Visitors. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$164.79 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. SIGNED by the author. "This edition is limited to two hundred numbered and signed copies. No. 4" --verso half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 378 pages; Physical desc.: 378 p. : illus. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Children's fiction - Juvenile literature. Contents: Pigtails, ltd -- The Dutch cheese -- Miss Jemina -- The thief -- Broomsticks -- Lucy -- A nose -- The three sleeping boys of Warwickshire -- The lovely Myfanwy -- Alice's godmother -- Maria-Fly -- Visitors. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
DE LA MARE, Walter. Broomsticks & Other Tales.. London: Constable: , First edition,, 1925.
Price: US$167.23 + shipping
Description: 8vo, [xii], 378pp, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut vignette title and other woodcut illustrations by Bold, some occasional light scattered spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., orig. cloth backed boards with contrasting morocco title label. A practically fine bright clean copy in the back panel of the original glassine wrapper. Signed Limited Edition of 278 copies, this being No.134 and signed by the Author. (Tymn: Fantasy Literature, pp72-73; Reginald 4025; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 502).
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
De la Mare, Walter. BROOMSTICKS & OTHER TALES .. Constable & Company Ltd., London, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-378 [379: printer's imprint] [380: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], woodcut illustrations by Bold, original gray boards with linen shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 278 numbered copies signed by de la Mare. A collection of twelve stories addressed primarily to children. ". a collection of remarkably even quality that deserves a place in any fantasy collection." - Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 72-3. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 65-6. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 502. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 117-21. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 175. Bleiler (1978), p. 58. Reginald 04025. Endpapers foxed, else a fine copy. (#103558)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
De la Mare, Walter. BROOMSTICKS & OTHER TALES .. Constable & Company Ltd., London, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-378 [379: printer's imprint] [380: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], woodcut illustrations by Bold, original pictorial orange cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. A collection of twelve stories addressed primarily to children. ". a collection of remarkably even quality that deserves a place in any fantasy collection." - Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 72-3. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 65-6. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 502. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 117-21. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 175. Bleiler (1978), p. 58. Reginald 04025. A fine copy in bright, nearly fine pictorial dust jacket (designed by Bold) with light wear at spine ends. A very pretty copy. (#136268)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.