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Price: US$44.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 1929 of privately printed 16-page touching tribute to the couple's late son on the famous Welsh Gregynog Press, now over 100 years old. Moderate general wear to grey/blue boards, toning, soiling around edges, edges tanned, faint toning to pages but pages are unmarked, binding is tight. No jacket as issued. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. NB: Due to the utter stupidity of Brexit, parcels sent to the EU may incur customs charges.
Seller: Hampstead Books, Haverfordwest, United Kingdom
E T Jones. Elphin Lloyd Jones. Privately printed at the Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1929.
Price: US$50.88 + shipping
Description: ||| Memorial volume for a boy who died, aged 12, in 1928: including 7 pages in facsimile of a school essay written by the deceased child. 16 pages bound with a blue silk cord in grey paper-covered boards. ||| CONDITION: Good, without writing or other marks of previous ownership. An associated printed Chistmas gift slip loosely inserted, signed by Tom (possibly known as Tristram) and Eirene Jones. My pictures always show the actual book ||| SHIPPING: UK Second-Class postage is free
Seller: Philip Gibbons Books, Newcastle Emlyn, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Description: 16pp.Contents very clean but a few spits and spots of ink on f.cover; minor bumping to corners and slight discolouration to either side of spine. The reflections of Thomas Jones C.H and his wife Eirene on the passing of their 12-year old son.
Seller: Siop y Morfa BA, Y RHYL, United Kingdom
Jones, Thomas. Elphin Lloyd Jones. Gregynog Press, 1929.
Price: US$101.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, paper covered boards. 23.5 x 17.5cm. 16pp, [1]. 3 wood-engravings by R.A. Maynard, 8 page facsimile of a school essay. A touching memorial volume, privately printed by the press. A little age toning to boards, one corner slightly bumped. Small annotation to top margin of first printed page, otherwise clean.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Thomas Jones. Elphin Lloyd Jones. Privately Printed by the Gregynog Press, 1929.
Price: US$101.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23x18cm, 16pp. With three wood engravings by R A Maynard. One of an unknown limitation, bound in blue-grey Ingres paper-covered boards, device printed in blue to upper cover. The memorial volume to Elphin Lloyd Jones, the son of Thomas Jones ('TJ'), senior civil servant and Chairman of the Gregynog Press. Elphin was killed, aged 12, in a motor accident in 1928 and the book makes for difficult reading, not for any lack of quality or readability but rather due to the tragic circumstances. Included are essays by TJ and his wife Eirene, plus a school essay by Elphin reproduced in facsimile. Quite scarce. Very Good (cover paper darkened around the margins, with some small tears and chips to the spine and corners). Harrop 43
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Price: US$127.20 + shipping
Description: pp. 16. (8) Facsimile ms. Portrait vignette on title, wood engraved headpiece of Coleg Harlech, text vignette. Card covers, a very good copy.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
JONES Thomas.; GREGYNOG PRESS. Elphin Lloyd Jones. , 1929.
Price: US$192.33 + shipping
Description: 3 wood-engravings by R.A. Maynard, 8 page facsimile of a school essay. Printed on Japanese vellum. 8vo, original printed paper covered boards, small stain on upper cover, headcaps very mildly bumped, otherwise a very good, bright copy. Privately printed at the Gregynog Press. A tragic piece of printing being a eulogy to Thomas Jones's son Elphin who was killed in a traffic accident at the age of twelve. The book contains separate memoirs by both of his parents around a facsimile copy of one of his school essays. Thomas Jones was the chief adviser and friend to the Davies sisters and the whole Gregynog enterprise.Scarce.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom