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Price: US$70.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This limited edition is copy 182 of 350 printed and is signed by the author. Small nick present to the top of the spine and rubbing present to the rear cover. Otherwise a good clean copy.
Seller: Our Kind Of Books, Liphook, United Kingdom
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. ELINOR BARLEY. The Cresset Press Limited, [London], 1930.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, illustrations in dry point by I. R. Hodgkins, original marbled boards with Japan vellum shelf back, spine stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. Limited to 380 copies of which this is one of 350 numbered copies on mould-made paper signed by Warner. A short story about a woman who murders her husband. Later collected in THE SALUTATION. A fine copy in worn publisher's paper slipcase. (#119591)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, LIMITED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, no. 44/ 350 on mould-made paper (of 380). Royal 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 107, [1] + four dry point illustrations and title page vignette by Hodgkins. Quarter vellum, spine lettered in gilt, monochrome marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Board edges rubbed, heel of spine bumped, corners bruised. Inscribed by STW in blue ink to limitation page. Else, clean and bright. Lacks the matching marbled slipcase. Very good A very good copy of a gorgeous edition of STW's short story, whose writing, in late summer 1929, left its author "rather breathless" when she "put on a spurt and murdered my husband" (in Harman, 1995) A special edition of 30 copies on hand-made paper was issued simultaneously. 'Elinor Barley' was later collected in The Salutation (1932). Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 9a; Claire Harman (ed.) (1995) The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner. London: Virago Press.
Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United Kingdom
Price: US$116.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp.iv,107. One of 350 hand-numbered copies, signed by author. Original quarter vellum and marbled boards, in marbled slipcase.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Price: US$133.84 + shipping
Description: First Limited Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. viii, 107; frontispiece, title vignette plus four full page text illustrations, original vellum spine with marbled boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, covers a little worn, bookplate on front endpaper, good copy. This edition is limited to 350 copies on mould-made paper numbered 1-350, This copy being number 41 signed by the author.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
WARNER, Sylvia Townsend. Elinor Barley. Cresset Press, [London], 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. Illustrations in drypoint by I.R. Hodgkins. Quarter Japanese vellum and marbled paper over boards. Paper rubbed along the foredge, else very good or better in about very good slipcase. copy number 131 of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WARNER, Sylvia Townsend. Elinor Barley. The Cresset Press, 1930.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 235 of 350 copies, signed by author, internally in fine condition - this copy seldom if ever read - binding firm - cover bright subject to slight scuffing to edge of boards. The slipcase is somewhat shelfworn but sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
WARNER, Sylvia Townsend. Elinor Barley. The Cresset Press Limited, [London], 1930.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, signed issue. Illustrations in Dry Point by I.R. Hodgkins. Quarto. 107pp. Quarter vellum gilt and marbled paper-covered boards, Attractive Tiffany & Co. engraved bookplate of Joan Whitney on front pastedown, Edges of the boards moderately rubbed along fore-edge, else a near fine copy in publisher's matching marbled paper-covered slipcase, worn at the extremities. Limited to 350 numbered copies Signed by Sylvia Townsend Warner (of a total edition of 380 numbered copies).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$564.64 + shipping
Description: Hardback, approx 10.5 x 7 inches. In deluxe vellum binding with B&W etched design to front and gilt lettering to spine. Top page edges gilt. Handmade paper. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cover including a couple of faint spots to front, else very smart and clean. Some mild foxing to endpapers. No previous owners inscriptions. Signed and numbered by author before main title page. One or two minor light foxing spots to a couple of pages, some mild foxing spots to outer page edges. Plates all remain clean and bright. Binding nice and firm. Pocket at rear is cleverly done, cut out of bound pages at rear to form a ?hidden? section where the extra plates sit perfectly. (Separate plates all clean, crisp and bright, no marks.) Else an excellent deluxe edition. 107pp. Illustrated with 5 B&W etched/engraved plates, including frontis, PLUS engraved title page with vignette. Pocket inside rear board contains 7 loose engraved plates, all signed by the artist in pencil (includes title page plate and folding plate of front cover design.) Story written in first person as a young widow tells how and why she murdered her husband. This copy is number 28/30 in deluxe handmade paper. (350 copies were printed on mould-made paper in a different binding.)
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$1003.81 + shipping
Description: First Limited Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. viii, 107, with additional 7 loose illustrations in folder on back cover; frontispiece, title vignette plus four full page text illustrations, original full pictorial vellum (slightly bowed), title lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, signed by Warner , number 11 of 30 copies, With the extra 7 plates each signed by Hodgkins; a very good copy.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia