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Thomas Gray. Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. Limited Editions Club, 1938.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: #421, tight binding, no slipcase, boards bowed, minor soiling to page edges
Seller: Benchmark Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
GRAY, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. The Limited Editions Club, London, 1938.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Introduction by Hugh Walpole. Illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. Small 4to. Dark grey cloth with silver spine lettering and front board rules and silver and blind-embossed pictorial stamping. xv, 72pp. Numerous full-page illustrations. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. First published in 1751, this is one of the most popular and often reprinted of all 18th century poems and one of the few poems remembered of this Engish poet and scholar (1716-71). Twelfth title in the LEC's ninth series, this tight and bright copy bears colophon at rear noting limitation of 1500 copies (this #599) signed boldly in full by Parker -- whose powerful woodcuts it notes "were made by Miss Parker in that same church-yard at Stoke Poges in which the poet brooded over his elegy." Laid in is the LEC's 5½" X 4½" printed announcement for this title. NEWMAN 106.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, 72pp. Brown cloth with illustration blind-embossed and stamped in silver on cover. Title in silver on spine. Clean, solid text block, light sunning to spine. This copy appears unread, very good condition. Lacking the glassine dust jacket. In the matching blue paper-covered slipcase, some shelf wear, minor fading, light wear to stamped silver title. Limited to 1500 signed copies printed for members of The Limited Editions Club, this being number 592. Signed by the illustrator, Agnes Miller Parker, on colophon. An attractive copy.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design on the front cover stamped in silver, 92 pages. Superbly illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. A beautiful book. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Covers a little rubbed. Very Good to Near Fine, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
GRAY, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. Limited Editions Club, London, 1938.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Introduction by Sir Hugh Walpole. Decorated with wood-engravings sketched by Agnes Miller Parker. Title-page vignette, 72pp., tall slim 8vo, pictorial, blind-stamped cloth, silver title on spine, cloth slipcase. London: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Near Fine. Limited Edition, one of 1500 copies signed by the artist.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$224.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original silver-decorated cloth in slipcase. Limited edition #840 of 1500 copies signed to the colophon by Miss Parker. Spine sunned else fine condition. In the original celluloid DJ, which is slightly wrinkled. The slipcase is dust-soiled to top edge. ; quarto; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press, 1938. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 659. Octavo; publisher's pictorial blind-embossed cloth stamped in silver foil, clear celluloid dust jacket, paper-covered slipcase; xv,[1],72pp.; wood-engravings throughout. Cloth and dust jacket spine panels a shade toned, tiny loss to jacket spine, else Very Good or better in the rare original jacket. Signed by the illustrator on colophon. Lovely edition of Gray's Elegy illustrated with wood-cuts, "the original sketches for which were made by Miss Parker in that same church-yard at Stoke Poges in which the poet brooded over his elegy" (colophon).
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design on the front cover stamped in silver, 92 pages. Superbly illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #380 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. A beautiful book. Spine a little sunned. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas f4c. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD (1st thus). Limited Editions Club, 1938.
Price: US$251.00 + shipping
Description: FINE book, FINE DJ. Copy # 1267. Agnes Miller Park illus & signed. Hugh Walpole intro. FINE book, in FINE clear DJ, NEAR FINE slipcase. MINT contents.
Seller: Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas. ELEGY: WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. London The Raven Press 1938., 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: VG+. Very light foxing on the first and last fly-leaves. ; This is number 454 of 1500 copies. Decorated with 32 full-page wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, who has signed the colophon page. The original sketches were made by Miss Parker in the same church-yard at Stoke Poges. Designed by Robert Ashwin Maynard. Introduction by Sir Hugh Walpole. Bound in slate gray buckram with a design in relief and highlighted in silver by Miss Parker. This is considered on of Agnes Miller Parker's finest achievements. Selborne, p. 391. ; Wood engravings; Large 8vo.; xv, 72, [1] pages; Signed by Illustrator. Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker. Limited Edition. Binding is Hardcover.
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #166 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Small tape stains to endpapers; spine a little sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #710 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Spine a little sunned otherwise Fine in a Fine slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #65 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press, Near Fine hardcover, in Very Good clear dustjacket, in Very Good slipcase. Spine has slight sunfading, clear dustjacket has some chips at top edge of spine area, slipcase starting to have areas of cloth separation from backing. Of the 1500 copies printed, this one is numbered 330 and is SIGNED by Agnes Miller Park in pen.
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$505.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 72pp + xv prelims. Printed in a limited edition of 1500 copies for members of The Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press. This copy is one of fifteen Presentation Copies signed by Agnes Miller Parker on the colophon and initialed by her, A.F. An embossed press mark indicates that this copy has been printed out of sequence. Bound in dark blue/black buckram with embossed silver decoration on front cover, with silver border lines. Brown spine with silver lettering. Green and black sewn headbands. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Foreword by Hugh Walpole. Thirty-two full page b/w engravings. Two are tissue guarded. Laid in is a copy of The Monthly Letter of The Limited Edition Club, New York, September 1938. This 4pp newsletter is in vgc and features the production of the book and the work of Agnes Miller Parker. All enclosed within a blue buckram covered slip case with silver lettering on spine. Some shelf wear to the slip case and a tiny hole at the top of the spine.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom