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Benson, Stella. Christmas Formula and Other Stories. William Jackson (Books) Ltd, London, 1932.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: This is a signed limited edition. This is # 306 of 550 copies. spine and covers a bit sunfaded. This is No. 11 of the Furnival Books. Foreword by Geoffrey West. 67 pages.; 6 3/8 x 10 "; Signed by Author.
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 68 pp. No. 11 of the Furnival Books. Tall 8vo, publisher's tan gilt-lettered buckram. No. 435 of 550 copies printed at the Chiswick Press, signed by the author. Water damage to lower edges of boards, faintly visible on endpapers. With a tipped-in slip from the new publisher, Joiner & Steele.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine and top cover. Cover has very light rubbin on lower edges at corners. Corners are sharp. Binding sound. Top edge gilt and lightly tarnished. This is copy no 97 of 550 copies, of which 500 were for sale. Signed by author on limitation page. Pages remain unopened at fore edge folds. Woodcut frontis by Clare Leighton. Publisher correction slip tipped in (Joiner and Steele Ltd publised the later numbered Furnival Books with the William Jackson imprint). There are light pencilled bookseller marks on the front endpapers, otherwise book is unmarked. Issued without DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 67 pages
Seller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Stella Benson. Christmas Formula and Other Stories. Joiner & Steele, Ltd., 1932.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by author and numbered [26/550] on the limitation page. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Pages unopened. Frontispiece by Clare Leighton. Eleven page foreword by Geoffrey West. Original acetate jacket. 67, [1] pp. 10 x 6.25 inches. No. 11 of the Furnival Books. Contains a tipped in slip prefacing the title page which states that "The Furnival Books are now published by Joiner & Steele [.] the name 'William Jackson (Books) Ltd' has been retained on the title-page in order that the set of twelve books may be typographically uniform." Printed in London by Charles Whittingham and Griggs at the Chiswick Press. Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer. She died the year after Christmas Formula was published, of pneumonia while in Tonkin, the northern Vietnamese region of French Indochina.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 67pp. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on face and also on spine. Some sun fade to part of front cover. Top edge gilt. Red and yellow sewn headband. Printed at the Chiswick Press in a limited, numbered edition of 550 copies. This is copy #145 and is signed by the author on the limitation page. No.11 in the Furnival Books series, now with a new publisher. Frontispiece illustration by Clare Leighton. Number of uncut pages. Light toning to end papers and untrimmed fore edge. Now protected in clear plastic wrapper. In VG+ condition.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$172.84 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An limited edition signed first edition of this collection of short stories by Stella Benson. With a frontispiece. This is number 11 of the Furnival Book Series. There is a note tipped in stating the 'The Furnival Books are now Published By Jointer and Steele Ltd. The Name William Jackson. Has Been Retained on the Title page In Order that the Set of Twelve Books May Be Typographically Uniform.' First edition, first impression. Signed limited edition, number 221 of 550 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. Signed by the author below limitation statement. Stella Benson was an English feminist, novelist, poet and travel writer. In publisher's full cloth binding. With gilt stamping to the front board and spine. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the extremities in addition to the head and tail of spine. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown, Coates and Bairstow. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the odd spot. Light offsetting to title page. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom