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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. 131 pages. Illustrated. Dark gray cloth hardcover with title and decorations in silver on the front cover and spine. Silver top edge. Cloth is faded and worn with an old partial sticker on the front cover. Some of the pages are creased with light edge tears. Gift inscription written on the front paste down. No dates listed on the title page or the verso of the title page. Imprint on the verso of the title page is "The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company." The word on page 50, line 8, is "flashed instead of "clashed." A light pencil gift inscription written on the front blank end paper reads "To Edith from Geo. 8/2/93." Previous owner 1960 xmas inscription on the green paper front paste down with an inscription "Mother bought it for me in London."
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue ("clashed" for "flashed," line 8 p. 50); 8vo, pp. 131; frontispiece portrait and 60 illus. by Howard Pyle, a number of them full-p.; mild dampstain on front cover, else a very good, bright copy in orig. gray cloth stamped in silver on the upper cover and spine. BAL 9042.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade edition. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Decorations printed in red. 131pp. 1 vols. 8vo. reprint save for Preface pp. 5-7. BAL 9042 With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Decorations printed in red. 131pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade edition. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Decorations printed in red. 1 vols. 8vo. JOHN BARRYMORE'S COPY. Reprint save for Preface pp. 5-7. BAL 9042 Slate gray cloth, stamped in silver. Bookplate of John Barrymore With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Decorations printed in red. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$138.75 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 131. frontis. & 61 text illus. (most full-page). numerous page decorations. printer's device on title. A fine copy in silver-stamped dark grey cloth, top edge silver. First Edition, Second Issue.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 131 pp. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Small 8vo, publisher's gilt vellum, t.e.g.; ribbon ties detached but two of four are present. First edition; No. 4 of 250 copies. Some light soiling to the vellum; contents fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue with "flashed" rather than "lashed" on page 50, line 8. 12mo., 131 pp. incl. plates. front. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. A fine copy with the bookplates of Cleveland, Ohio book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the front paste-down
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Pyle, Howard. Edition de Luxe. One of 250 copies printed, Number 196. first issue with "flashed" rather than "lashed" on page 50, line 8. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Decorations printed in red. 1 vols. 8vo. reprint save for Preface pp. 5-7. BAL 9042 Original full vellum, stamped in gilt, yapped edges, t.e.g., lacking ties, else very good With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Decorations printed in red. 1 vols. 8vo Edition de Luxe. One of 250 copies printed, Number 196. first issue with "flashed" rather than "lashed" on page 50, line 8.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1560.00 + shipping
Description: 195 x 122 mm. (7 5/8 x 4 3/4"). 131, [1] pp. ATTRACTIVE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO, FINISHED BY GEORGE ALBERT ZABRISKIE (stamp-signed "G A Z" on front turn-in), covers with gilt frame composed of plain and dotted rules accented with fleurons and volutes, cornerpieces with gilt and inlaid teal morocco botanical ornament, raised bands, spine panels with gilt floral sprig, gilt titling, turn-ins tooled with gilt leaves, marbled endpapers, top edge marbled. With three plates and 55 full-page illustrations by Howard Pyle. Front flyleaf WITH A TIPPED-IN MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED BY HOLMES, dated August 5th, 1891. BAL 9042. âA little rubbing to joints and a small repair at foot of front joint, but the binding lustrous and otherwise unworn, and the text clean and fresh with generous margins. In a beautiful binding finished by a notable collector and Grolier Club member, this is one of Holmes' best-known works of poetry, inspired by a portrait of his great-grandmother, Dorothy Quincy, as a young girl. Physician, professor of anatomy, and dean of Harvard Medical School Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) was a skillful wordsmith, captivating audiences with his wordplay and anecdotes, whether delivered in a medical school lecture hall, at a Boston dinner party, or in his column in the "Atlantic Monthly." By turns tender and amusing, his verse here is a prime example of the warm style employed by the so-called Fireside Poets--a group that included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, and Holmes himself. With our copy is a signed manuscript poem that serves as a charming example of Holmes' lyrical wit: "A few can touch the magic string / And noisy Fame is proud to win them-- / Alas for those who never sing / But die with all their music in them!" The present copy is further distinguished by its fine binding finished by George Albert Zabriskie (1868-1954). An executive by day, Zabriskie was also a serious book collector, president of the New York Historical Society, and a member of the Grolier Club. His bibliophilic interests extended to include writing about and executing book bindings--particularly Cosway-style bindings and books finely bound in full morocco. Our binding is an excellent example of the latter, being attractively gilt and radiating shelf appeal. First Trade Edition, Second Issue (with "clashed" on p. 50, line 8).
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.