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Leonard Merrick. Four Stories. The Baynard Press, 1925.
Price: US$20.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1925. 101 pages. Signed by the author. This edition limited to 200 copies, this being number 87. Full vellum binding with gilt lettering. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear to spine, cover edges and corners, with small stains, marking and soiling across the covers. Minor sunning to spine and board edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Merrick, Leonard. Four Stories. The Baynard Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$62.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full flexible vellum in tidy condition, a little yellowed in places, pages slightly browned at the edges, text clean, number 50 from an edition of 200 signed by the author. The sixth in the Vine Books series produced by Wilfred Partington, issued to subscribers Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Woodcuts by Norman Janes. The sixth title in the Vine Books series produced by Wilfred Partington. 8vo., original full vellum lettered in gilt on spine. Some natural discolouration to vellum, browning to front paste-down from loose newspaper cuttings, otherwise a very good copy in original card slipcase (this a little worn) Four stories, comprising "The Epic of the Heavenly Cook,"The Crime of Olga Jibinsky,"The Elevation of Lulu," and "The Shoelace." J. M. Barrie described Merrick as a "novelist's novelist.", whilst George Orwell called him "a good bad writer".
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ____This copy is one of 12 unsigned copies for copyright libraries, publisher's files etc. in addition to the 200 issued, as noted in manuscript on the cancelled colophon._____ . _____ This is number six in the Vine Books Series, a project of Wilfred Partington which were issued from his offices at the Bookman's Journal._____ With title page and one inter-text woodcut vignettes by Norman James._____ Printed by hand at The Baynard Press, on hand-made Kelmscott deckle edge paper._____ Bound in full vellum with gilt spine lettering by McLeish. _____ With two small woodcuts by Norman James. _____ There are stains to the front cover and light soiling front and rear.
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Limited out-of-series edition. Woodcuts by Norman Janes. 101 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Four stories, comprising "The Epic of the Heavenly Cook,"The Crime of Olga Jibinsky,"The Elevation of Lulu," and "The Shoelace." Limitation page bears the handwritten notation, "This is one of twelve unsigned copies for Copyright Libraries, files, etc., printed out of series and in excess of the original 200 signed copies. The Publisher" The sixth of the Vine Books produced by Wilfred Partington. Full vellum, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Slightly soiled, else fine, in original publisher's slipcase Woodcuts by Norman Janes. 101 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Merrick, Leonard. Four Stories. The Bookman's Journal, London, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 101 pages. 24 x 17 cm. The sixth of the Vine Books produced by Wilfred Partington issued by "The Bookman's Journal with woodcuts by Norman James, printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper at the Baynard Press, and bound by McLeish. Mostly unopenend. An almost as new copy with backstriip lettered in gilt. Orig. full vellum with yapp edges. Teg. Fine in near fine gray board slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.