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Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original gray cloth, lettered/illus. in black. viii,9-320 pp., illus. w/ 16 color plates, 24 b&w and additional illus./decorations in text by Clarke. Moderate shelf/handling wear with cloth flecked on portions of both covers, most prominent on lower half of each, with a few relatively minor soil marks and spots to cloth. Mild rubbing along joints and spine extremities, tiny (1/8") tear to cloth along upper front joint. Text block edges typically toned with minor foxing, with a modest gap between top of binding and spine cloth, with binding firm and intact. Gift inscription dated 1933 on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Front hinge fully intact, rear hinge slightly starting along lower portion but firm. Scattered internal foxing through interior, generally minor/light, ranging in a few instances to moderate, including several of the plates (foxed borders and/or blank versos). Diagonal edge crease to color frontis. Minor silverfishing to lower corners of rear flyleaf and rear pastedown. One leaf (pp. 13-14) had apparently detached and has been re-inserted, with archival document repair tape used to mend both long edges; fore-edge of this leaf shows some chipping and short closed tears, and this leaf shows some foxing and soiling. Overall, some cosmetic issues, but structurally intact, quite scarce. Clarke's first book. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, American trade issue. Tall quarto. Color frontispiece, 15 tipped-in color plates with printed tissue guards, 28 black and white illustrations including 24 full-page. Modest soiling and light rubbing on the boards, very good or better.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Clarke, Harry. First American trade edition. Printed at the Complete Press. West Norwood, England. 16 mounted color plates, 24 full page black and white and decorated head and tail pieces throughout. 319, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to. The first book illustrated by Harry Clarke, a work of 'superb technical accomplishment" and "rare poetic feeling" (contemporary review in Studio, quoted by Burns, p. 41) that established him among the foremost illustrators of the early twentieth century. Burns Appendix A, no. 2 (the bindings were done in three varieties, vellum (@ 3 guineas) , leather (@ 30/-) and gray cloth (@ 20/-) 16 mounted color plates, 24 full page black and white and decorated head and tail pieces throughout. 319, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to First American trade edition. Printed at the Complete Press. West Norwood, England.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.