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Mary Crary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co, 1939.
Price: US$22.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hatchard & Co 1939. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Crary, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., 1939.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Good; Tan cloth over boards with embossed decoration, small tear on spine, nice clean copy, tight binding, ; 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches
Seller: Gerry Mosher, Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Mary Crary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., 1939.
Price: US$28.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1939. No Edition Stated. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Cream cloth with faded lettering. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Title plate missing from spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
CRARY, Mary. DULAC, Edmund (illus.). The Daughters of the Stars.. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 190 [1] pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac (two color plates). 4to, publisher's cloth. Cloth frayed at corners; dust-soiled and tanned; shallow chipping to edges of spine label. Tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small quarto in beige-colored cloth binding with blind-stamped ornamentation on both covers and black leather spine label with gilt lettering. Color plates. Condition: corners bumped and rubbed through with minor fraying; spine label is a bit rubbed & scuffed; else very good. 190 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary; Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., E-326, 1939.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 4to. Published by Hatchard & Co. , London, UK. 1939. 190 pgs. Illustrated with 2 color plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and blindstamped titles present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. From the Foreword: "Readers of fairy tales and other romantic fiction will have noticed before this that the Mothers of the heroines are seldom featured. One would imagine that the effort of producing a female child destined to adventure was too much for the average Queen or Princess, since, if she has not already expired before the story opens, she usually manages to pass away before its close. Indeed, the only well-known ladies we can recall at the moment who do not so indulge themselves are Shakespeare's Hermione and Thaisa, who only pretend to be dead druing the years their daughters most need them, and Lady Capulet, who cannot be said to shine as a pattern of maternity. And we know that this state of things so depressed as when we were a small child that we made an early resolve to create a young heroine whose Mother should possess, besides beauty and rank, the additional and stupendous virtue of being alive." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary.. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS.. Hatchard & Co.:, 1939.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190 pages, with two color plates by Edmund Dulac. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, defects noted: some foxing on endpapers and the label on spine is missing, else a nice clean tight copy. " Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co, London, 1939.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition with two beautiful color plates from Dulac. Very good with some foxing to boards, edges of page block, and endpapers. Original glassine jacket is present and shows some chipping and wear, but lacking the printed jacket.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original ivory embossed cloth with brown gilt leather title label. All color plates present. Minor foxing spots to foreedges not extending to text, else a fine, clean and unmarked copy. Extremely scarce Dulac work.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Mary Crary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 26.5 x 21 cm. Sm 4to. 190 pages. Grey cloth in pictorial and glassine dust jackets. Two color plates by Dulac. Previous owner's small address stamp on front endpaper.Some soiling ot the dust jacket. Sun fading to the dust jacket spine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
CRARY, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard, London, 1939.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 2 color plates by Edmund Dulac. 190pp. Small 4to, white cloth (rubbed and darkened). London: Hatchard, 1939. Very good. Presentation copy, signed by the author.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CRARY, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard, London, 1939.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with 2 color plates by Edmund Dulac. 190 pages. Short 4to, beige embossed pictorial embossed cloth with black spine label, (light foxing on endpapers). London: Hatchard & Co, 1939. First trade edition. A very good copy in a partial dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine with light rubbing to spine ends. Internally pristine Good with soiling to panels and tattered edges. In plastic protector. Glassine dust jacket underneath the paper one
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
CRARY, Mary.. The Daughters of the Stars.. Hatchard and Company, London, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 190 pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Folio, publisher's vellum-backed boards with leather label on spine, in original glassine and printed dust jacket. First of this illustrated edition; probably the American issue; No. 115 of 500 copies signed by Dulac (but not by the author, though the limitation page calls for her signature as well). Very light spotting to vellum and a few spots of foxing to endsheets, else a nice copy. The jacket has a few small chips and scattered blue pencil marks.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
CRARY, Mary. DULAC, Edmund (illus.). The Daughters of the Stars.. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 190 [1] pp. Illustrated in color by Edmund Dulac. 4to, original vellum-backed cloth with gilt-lettered leather spine label. First edition; No. 439 of 500 copies, signed by Mary Crary and Edmund Dulac. A few tiny spots of foxing to preliminaries and the fore-edge; edges of the spine label a little ragged with minor use to binding; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Mary Crary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto. 10 1/4' x 8". 190pp Cream boards with green linen cloth. Black title label to spine. this is ocpy #288 of 500 and is signed by illustrator Edmund Dulac. Two full page color illustrations. Nice copy.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Mary Crary. The Daughters of The Stars. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$125.76 + shipping
Description: A smart first edition of this charming work from Mary Crary, with two colour plates from Edmund Dulac. First edition. Illustrated with two colour plates. Collated complete. A charming story designed to encourage the character of the mother into the forefront of the fairy tale. Written by Mary Crary. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, a French-British magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot and minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Crary, Mary & Dulac, Edmund. DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS. Hatchard & Co., 1939.
Price: US$139.20 + shipping
Description: DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS, Hatchard & Co., 1939, first edition, fine in vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and chipping to the head of the dust-wrapper spine and some dust soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Contains 2 full color plates by Edmund Dulac.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: An unusually nice copy, signed by Crary and Dulac on limitation page Very good with slightly bumped corners and gentle, exterior yellowing Very good with light bumping and slight soiling. In plastic dust jacket protector
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Mary Crary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Hatchard & Co, 1939, 1939. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket Edmund Dulac (illustrator). First Trade Edition. 190 pgs, decoratively stamped tan cloth. 2 color plates by Dulac enhance this tale in which the mother of the heroine features prominently.
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
(Dulac, Edmund) Crary, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co, London, 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Dulac, Edmund. First trade edition. 2 color plates, decorations by Edmund Dulac. 1 vols. 4to. Scarce Dulac ite, inscribed by the author Crary on the flyleaf in 1953. Beige cloth stamped in blind. Spine sunned, leather spine label chipped; internally very good, in publisher's box 2 color plates, decorations by Edmund Dulac. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS. London: Hatchard & Co, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 190 pgs, decoratively stamped tan cloth. 2 color plates by Dulac enhance this tale in which the mother of the heroine features prominently. Small stain on top edge of book. Dustjacket soiled & wrinkled.
Seller: Windy Hill Books, Bacova, VA, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary. DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS. Hatchard & Company, London, 1939.
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190 pp. Original gray cloth covers w/ vellum spine. Covers are discolored due to reaction w/ the glue used in binding. #62 of 500 copies. SIGNED BY MARY CRARY AND EDMUND DULAC. Foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Illust. w/ color plates. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition book with color plates by Edmund Dulac. With both very good dust jacket and RARE glassine dust jacket. Lower front right corner of boards is bumped. Page edges are somewhat foxed as are front and back paste-down and free end papers, else book is internally clean. Dust jacket is soiled overall, spine is sunned. Upper and lower edges are creased. Head of jacket spine is chipped with 1/2" closed tear on the front corner. Upper left corner of front edge has 3/16" closed tear with adjacent creases; upper right corner of front edge has a 5/8" closed tear and a 3/8" closed tears with connecting creases. Fore-edge corners are rubbed with loss of up to 1/4". Not price clipped. Scarce book in this condition. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
CRARY, Mary. DULAC, Edmund (illus.). The Daughters of the Stars.. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 190 [1] pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Folio, publisher's cloth and boards in dust jacket and glassine. First edition; No. 237 of 500 copies signed by Mary Crary and Edmund Dulac. Slightly bumped at corners; otherwise a fine copy in a jacket with light dust-soiling to the rear panel, and a snag/chip at one corner. The endsheets are free of the usual foxing.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, 500 copies, signed by Edmund Dulac & Mary Crary. Some foxing mostly to endpapers. Top corner of front free endpaper cut across. Quarter vellum and cloth sides with black leather titling label. some light marking, else good crisp copy. 190 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 190 pgs. Vellum backed cloth boards, blue spine label. a tiny bit of wear to edge of spine label, else fine and clean, housed in a later slip case which has a long abrasion to one panel. Illustrated with 2 color plates, there would have been more if the book had not been rushed to publication to avoid WWII paper restrictions. Limited Edition #371/500, signed by Dulac and Crary on the limitation page. A delightful modern fairy tale. Hughey 91a. Size: 4to
Seller: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS. Hatchard & Co., 1939.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; Half vellum cover with grey cloth boards is toned with bumped corners and small ding to bottom edge of back cover but clean and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Smal faint erasure to corner of front end sheet. Upper page corners lightly bumped but clean and very good. Signed on limitations page by Edmund Dulac, this being copy no. 198 of a limited edition of only 500. Glassine wrapper is toned with light tattering at top and bottom edge. Dust jacket is soiled with 4 small pen scribbles on front panel with light tattering and chipping at extremities but in good condition. DJ flap is price clipped. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ) ; 190 pages; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
DULAC, Edmund; Crary, Mary. Daughters of the Stars, The. London: Hatchard & Co., 1939, 1939.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: "A Fairy Story Full of Grace, Beauty, Wit, Humor and Charm" [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. CRARY, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Hatchard & Co., 1939. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies (this copy being No. 233), signed by the author and the artist. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 15/16 inches; 257 x 201 mm.). [10], 189, [1], [1, printer's imprint], [1, blank] pp. Two color plates. Original quarter vellum over gray cloth boards. Spine with navy leather label lettered in gilt. Corners a little bit bumped. One small chip to spine label. An excellent copy. "Publication of this book encountered delays and difficulties because of the outbreak of World War II. Since paper and workmen were fast being commandeered by the British government, the book was rushed into print despite the fact that only 2 Dulac illustrations were finished. Once published, the book received mixed reviews. It was featured at Christmas 1939 as âSomething sane in a mad world' in Hatchard's show windows in Piccadilly.The following spring, in America, The New York Times critic (June 3, 1940) was less enthusiastic in his review of the book, saying â.for most young readers the book will seem too long drawn out.' but added âDulac has supplied two lovely pictures in blue and silver tones'.The redoubtable William Lyon Phelps of Yale also wrote a review stating that Mary Crary's book â.is a fairy story full of grace, beauty, wit humor and charm.It is meant to be very high praise when I add that the illustrations by Dulac are worthy of the book. They add to its beauty'" (Hughey). Dulac designed the entire format of the volume, including chapter head and tail scroll designs. Hughey 91.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1283.27 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 424 of 500 copies signed by both author and illustrator. "Publication of this book encountered delays and difficulties because of the outbreak of World War II. Since paper and workmen were fast being commandeered by the British government, the book was rushed into print despite the fact that only two Dulac illustrations were finished" (Hughey). Dulac designed the entire format of the volume, including chapter head and tail scroll designs. Hughey 91. Quarto. Original quarter vellum, grey cloth boards, dark blue morocco label to spine. With dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue morocco solander box. With 2 colour plates. Edges of boards and margins of text block slightly toned, the price-clipped dust jacket chipped at head of spine and with small minor tears on back lower edge, an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom