Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$11.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition 1931 As pictured good condition hardcover repair inside cover no dust jacket minor spots to white linen boards.
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
GRAY, THOMAS. GRAY'S ELEGY. E.P. DUTTON & CO., NY, 1931.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NO DJ, LETTERING TO SPINE AREA FADED, CLEAN COPY.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas. Elegy in a Country Church Year. E. P. Dutton, 1931.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Clean. Very nice black and white illustrations by John Vassos. Pictures on request
Seller: Old Village Books, Mt. Pleasant, SC, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas. Gray's Elegy. E. P. Dutton, 1931.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket. Cover a little bent and rubbed. A little soiling here and there. Good condition.
Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.
Thomas Gray. Elegy in a country church-yard. E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., New York, 1931.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 75 pages : illustrations. Publisher's binding sturdy, mild soiling to edges; contents fine. 450 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
GRAY, Thomas. GRAY'S ELEGY. E P Dutton, 1931.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, no d/j. Cream boards with black binding at spine, has some staining down front long edge, o/w the book is v/g. Elegy in a country church yard and newly created into an illustrated book by John Vassos
Seller: Joan Andrews, Alton, United Kingdom
Thomas Gray. Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. E.P.Dutton and Co., Inc, 1931.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan boards with black spine. Haunting black and white illustrations by John Vassos. Nice copy.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
GRAY, Thomas/ VASSOS, John (illustrator). ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. NY: E P Dutton, 1931.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth and boards little chipped at edges, bookplate to front fixed endpaper, VG lacking the dj. Numerous full-page illos by Vassos.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 75 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is tan with black print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, tear to rear panel, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and white cloth to boards. Peripheral toning to white cloth. Text block has tanning/foxing to endpapers, large owner stamp on front endpapers, toning to pages adjacent to plates. Illustrated with b&w frontispiece and plates. "Gray's Elegy"- title on dust jacket. "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"- half-title page. 1372197. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas. Elegy in a Country Church-yard. E.P Dutton & Company, 1931.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original black cloth spine and tan cloth boards. Very light dust offsetting at bottom edges of boards, else a fine, unmarked and tight copy. Superb plates by Vassos. Scarce.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas. Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc, New York, 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 75 pp. Small quarto [23 cm] 1/4 black cloth with ivory white cloth covered boards, and gilt stamped titles. Very good. There are a multitude of tiny stains on the covers, that are probably the result of foxing. The gilt stamped title on the spine is rubbed. There is a bookseller's faint ink stamp on the front pastedown. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet, and the rear endsheet is darkened along the hinge. John Vassos was a 1930's book illustrator and long-term industrial designer. Among other projects, Vassos illustrated many of Oscar Wilde's literary works.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas. Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc, New York, 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 75 pp. Small quarto [23 cm] 1/4 black cloth with ivory white cloth covered boards, and gilt stamped titles. Very good. The covers are very lightly soiled. The endsheets are darkened along the hinges. John Vassos was a 1930's book illustrator and long-term industrial designer. Among other projects, Vassos illustrated many of Oscar Wilde's literary works.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Description: 24 x 18 cm 76 pp with b&w illustrations throughout. Cloth, lightly browned and worn, internally very good.
Seller: Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, United Kingdom
(Vassos, John) Gray, Thomas. Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1931.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: First Vassos Edition. Newly Created into man Illustrated Book by John Vassos. 1 vols. 4to. Newly Created into man Illustrated Book by John Vassos. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 77 pp. Illustrated by John Vassos. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Armorial bookplate; same owner's large ownership signature; gold lettering on spine a little flaked with a few stray marks to the cloth; contents clean; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas. Gray's Elegy: Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Cream cloth over boards with black cloth spine; gilt lettering. Brown dust jacket with black lettering. 77 deckled pp. 18 BW illustrations. Title on cover: Gray's Elegy. An excellent collection of poems with nice illustrations. VG-/Poor. Book has writing on first blank page, very minimal spots of soiling. Edges of covers have slight wear, soiling/foxing. Otherwise contents are tanned but clean. Remnants of dust jacket, missing portions and stained.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
GRAY, Thomas. Elegy in a Country Church-yard. Dutton, New York, 1931.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece and black & white plates by John Vassos. 75 pages. Slim 8vo, two-toned blue & white cloth. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1931). First Edition. Very good(+).
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. E. P. Dutton & Co. (1931), New York, 1931.
Price: US$87.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by John Bassos, tan boards and black cloth spine have gilt stamping, covers are slightly scuffed and stained, toning at end pages, otherwise contents are clean and bright
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$208.29 + shipping
Description: Volume in 8 grande, tela editoriale a due colori, titolo al piatto ed al dorso, sguardie, occhiello, antiporta, frontespizio, 75 pp., una tavola finale, bianca. Nella numerazione sono comprese 18 tavole di John Vassos (il suo vero nome era Ioannis Vassocopoulos, greco, nato in Turchia nel 1898). Non s'han parole per descrivere la bellezza del volume: fra le pi alte poesie elegiache del XIX secolo quelle del Gray, secche e scabre come lacrime di sale; affascinanti le tavole che le illustrano. In ottimo stato, rara prima edizione
Seller: Accademia degli Erranti di Vada Monica, Torino, Italy
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. 6.75 x 8.75in. 75pp. Publisher's dual colored cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the slightest shelf rubbing of the edges, an interestingly unsigned former owner gift inscription where he mentions to the recipient that Vassos used to be their neighbor, otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the spine very lightly toned, some small nicks here and there, marginal loss of the bottommost of the back panel, otherwise remains bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
GRAY (Thomas).. Elegy in a country church-Yard.. E. P. Dutton & CIE, New-York, 1931.
Price: US$352.99 + shipping
Description: Illustrations de John VASSOS. New-York, E.P. Dutton and Co Inc Publishers, 1931, in-8, demi-toile noire et crème, couverture toilée titrée en doré, 78 pages. John VASSOS (Ioannis Vassocopoulos dit, 1898-1985), concepteur industriel et designer américain d'origine grecque né en Turquie. Il émigra aux Etats-Unis en 1919 suite à son engagement auprès des Révolutionnaires grecs. En 1924, il ouvrit à New-York son propre atelier où il expose ses créations, et notamment des fresques murales et de la publicité. A cette date, il crée son premier objet publicitaire. Entre 1927 et 1935 il illustra neufs livres, et notamment des oeuvres d'Oscar Wilde, et des oeuvres co-écrites avec sa femme. Première édition ornée des illustrations caractéristiques de Vassos pour ces poèmes parus en 1751. L'illustrateur apporte un souffle de modernisme à cette oeuvre. Envoi daté de l'illustrateur sur la page de garde. Ex-libris de Helen Wolfe. Infimes salissures à la reliure. Livre
Seller: Librairie Chretien, PARIS, France