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DE LA MARE, Walter. Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems. Constable & Co., London, 1922.
Price: US$33.59 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 193 pages. 8vo. Fair condition. Original navy blue boards with gilt title on front and spine. Gilt top edge, foxing on other edges. Bottom edge uncut. Bookseller label and small amount of writing on inside of front cover. Owners name inscribed on flyleaf. Cover shows minor shelf wear. Each poem illustrated with black and white plate, also contains 3 coloured plates.
Seller: Rotary Club of Albert Park, Albert Park, VIC, Australia
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 10.5 x 7.25 inches. viii + 193 pp. Bound in original navy cloth, gilt, with gilt block on front board. Slight damage to head of spine, browning of flyleaves and foxing of preliminaries and edges and occasionally on some margins; otherwise a very good copy. Small neat gift 1922 inscription on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 3 colour plates, including frontispiece and by numerous text figures, including many whole page. Decorated by title page vignette. First edition of the collection of fairy poems by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) is divided into three sections, Fairies, Witches and Witchcraft and The World of Dream. Admirably illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop (1891-1980), US artist, who illustrated six of de la Mare's books for children, 1919-42. POETRY FAIRIES POETRY CHILDREN'S 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION POETRY
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. Down-Adown-Derry, a Book of Fairy Poems. Constable & Co. [1922], London, 1922.
Price: US$86.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 190p., illus. 3 col. plates
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue Boards [4]+-viii+190p,teg,illus,color. Owners book plate on paste-down. Some foxing on Ht, fore-edge and last four pages Interior near fine all color plates present 2 1/4" paper loss head Dj and front Dj pulled but present
Seller: Samuel Lasenby Bookseller, Corona del Mar, CA, U.S.A.
Mare, Walter De La. Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$102.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No jacket. First edition. Boards are marked and lightly scored. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn and bumped. Page block and pages are tanned and marked. One or two colour plates are detached from binding. Content is legible throughout. HJW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board. Gilt illustration to front board, no dustwrapper. 10.25ins x 7ins, viii, 193pp plus 3 colour plates (as listed). Also 61 black and white illustrations within the text. Front hinge cracked. Some foxing - with first and last few pages being worst affected. A little rubbed to edge of spine. G+
Seller: Missing Books (PBFA), Great Leighs, United Kingdom
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Dark blue hardcover with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Front cover also bears the logo of Reading University in gilt. Condition: Fair to good, covers have slight mottling and shelfwear to the outer edges. General light foxing and browning to first and last few pages, with more browning to rear endpaper. Occasional light foxing within book. University of Reading Prize label (Session 1926-1927) for the Leonard Sutton prize for Agriculture, awarded to Elspeth J Grant (later Elspeth Huxley) is fixed to the front pastedown. 193pp. 3 coloured plates (inc.frontispiece) and many other b/w illustrations, all by Dorothy P Lathrop.
Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Price: US$148.15 + shipping
Description: A Hard backed copy with Dust Jacket. Book in Very Good condition, Dust Jacket Good only. Dark Blue cloth boards with gold lettering to front and spine. Vignette in gold relief of a child and lizard to front cover. Not Inscribed. Light foxing to some pages. Pictorial blue Dust jacket chipped to edges and slightly sunned/soiled. Small area to top front rubbed following removal of label. 193 Pages. Illustrations by Dorothy P Lathrop, sixty one (61) in Black and White with three (3) full page coloured illustrations. Some of these poems are taken from a volume entitled Songs of Childhood. The book is divided into three sections - 1) Fairies 2) Witches and Witchcraft and 3) The World of Dream
Seller: Rhos Point Books, Conwy, United Kingdom
Walter de la Mare. Down-Adown-Derry. Constable & Co., 1922.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DE LA MARE, Walter. Down-Adown-Derry. With Illustrations by Dorothy Lathrop. London: Constable & Co, 1922. FIRST EDITION. (270 x 180mm), pp. Viii, 193 3 color plates and numerous black and white illustrations embellishing the text. Previous owner inscription: To Betty with heaps of love and warm wishes, Margaret . Blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. Bump to lower extremity of cover causing a 5 mm tear in the cloth; DJ present but in poor condition. Staining on pastedowns, one minor stain on title page; with small tear to binding GOOD; internally NEAR FINE. MB189
Seller: Mobilis Books, Geneva, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Description: No. 147 of a Limited Edition of 325 signed by the author. Coloured frontispiece and two plates, many other plates in b&w, head & tail pieces. 4to (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: viii:189, original parchment boards blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Binding spotted and browned, crack to outer upper joint and backstrip lifting (inner joint firm however), headbands chipped, internally very good and clean.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Walter De La Mare. Down-Adown-Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$270.54 + shipping
Description: A lovely, first edition copy of this book of fairy poems by Walter De La Mare. Charming collection of fairy poems by Walter de la Mare featuring more than 60 illustrations by Caldecott Medal winning artist Dorothy Lathrop. Collated and complete.Including a beautiful frontispiece, in colour.Walter John De La Mare was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for a highly acclaimed selection of subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them "Seaton's Aunt" and "All Hallows". In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the front board and spine. Externally, very smart, with slight bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. A few marks to the front board. Internally, slight age-toning to the free-endpapers, as usual. Slight spotting to the first and last few pages, and a couple spots throughout, but otherwise pages are clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
de la Mare, Walter; Lathrop, Dorothy. DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of this book of fairy poems, in the scarce original dust jacket. Original blue gilt-stamped cloth. Illustrated by Lathrop with 3 full-page tissue-guarded color plates plus a profusion of truly beautiful black-and-white full-page plates. viii, 193, [1] pages. Slight cover soil and rubbing.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 193 pp. With Illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Large 8vo, publisher's gilt dark blue cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Light foxing to the preliminary leaves, including the title page signed by the author. Slightly bumped at corners and slight use at extremities of spine; tight and sound in a jacket with small chips at corners and the top of the spine, affecting the top line of the lettering. Signed by Walter De la Mare on the title page.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$339.93 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Royal 8vo.pp.viii+ 193. 3 colour plates and many black and white plates and illustrations of fairies and fairy folk. Rebound in half leather with raised bands and leather title labels.marbled boards.
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
de la Mare, Walter; Lathrop, Dorothy. DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this book of fairy poems, in the scarce original dust jacket. Original blue gilt-stamped cloth. In original light blue dust jacket. Illustrated by Lathrop with 3 full-page tissue-guarded color plates plus a profusion of truly beautiful black-and-white full-page plates. viii, 193, [1] pages. Jacket sunned.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Walter De La Mare. Down-ADown-Derry. Constable, London, 1922.
Price: US$413.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice copy, bound in vellum now with some browning as all these limited editions are, this is limited to 325 copies no 124 signed in ink by Walter De La Mare , Title , name and date 1922 on the spine in gilt again on the front board with a picture in a square of a little imp sitting on a frog in a bush again in gilt, Top edge Git all text pages rough cut first endpaper browned , with the book plate of Waldo C Hodgdon, signed by Walter on the back of the half title page and numbered. There are three charming colour plates and each of the 61 poems and stories for children have a black and white plate to accompany them. Rear endpaper is also browned , Book is very clean and tight a super copy. 193pp.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Price: US$436.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, First Print. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) of the limited edition. Limited to 325 copies with three colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous letterpress illustrations, many full-page, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original gilt decorated vellum (some aging, spotting) , spine ends very slightly rubbed, small knock to one corner, internally bright pages, unread in a tight binding, slight offsetting to endpages. Very good plus to near fine. Signed by Walter e La Mare to the limitation page [56]
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
DE LA MARE, Walter.. Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems.. Constable & Co.,, London:, 1922.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrations include three color plates. Limited edition: this copy is number 302 of 325 copies. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Some age toning and soiling to boards, offsetting to free endpapers, else very good in a cream vellum binding with gilt lettering and design, top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Binding is sound.; 193 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
De La Mare,Walter (Signed Limited Edition). Down-Adown-Derry. Constable and Co Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$494.69 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a Fine Copy of this book superbly bound in lavish Half Tan Calf over light green and brown marbled boards.Top edge of the book is in gilt and other page edges are untrimmed.produced on hand made paper.There are five raised bands to spine with gilt title lettering in the 2nd,3rd and 4th compartment to spine,other compartments with decorative gilt designs.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the contents are lovely bright and clean without any foxing.Illustrated with three colour plates and further b&w drawings by Dorothy P Lathrop.Handsomely Bound and this book would certainly grace any bookshelf.Published in London by Constable 1922 First Limited Edition Number 106 of 325 numbered and Signed copies by Walter De La Mare.This is the nicest copy we have had in stock of this uncommon and beautifully illustrated Fairy Tale book which would make for a wonderful gift,4to 190pp 1922
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
de la Mare, Walter. Down-Adown-Derry A book of Fairy Poems. Constable & Co., London, 1922.
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Description: No. 67/325 Ltd ed. Signed by the Author. Full blue claf binding has 1 incg split to top of spine at back. New marbled effect endpapers. Please see photographs for condition and binding.
Seller: Peak Dragon Bookshop 39 Dale Rd Matlock, Matlock, DERBY, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter. Down-Adown-Derry; A Book of Fairy Tales. Constable, London, 1922.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 3 color plates and other illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Untrimed pages, 8vo, handsomely rebound in 3/4 beige morocco, black spine label, top edge gilt. London: Constable, (1922). Limited Edition. Fine. One of 325 numbered and signed copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
de la Mare, Walter; Lathrop, Dorothy. DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed limited first edition of this book of fairy poems, one of only 325 numbered copies signed by de la Mare, unusually well preserved in the delicate original binding. Quarto. 10'' x 7''. Original paper parchment-like boards, gilt-stamped central vignette, gilt-lettered spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated by Lathrop with 3 full-page tissue-guarded color plates plus a profusion of truly beautiful black-and-white full-page plates that reproduce with much detail and clarity on the fine quality paper. viii, 193, [1] pages. Signed by de la Mare on limitation page. Offsetting to endpapers. Only slight cover soil, with less of the usual darkening that tends to affect this edition.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.