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Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1907 first edition with 8 pages of publisher's ads. to the rear. Three plays "written for the Woman and for her entertainment performed", illustrated with twelve, stunning, full-page colour illustrations by the author. 'Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh: A Twelfth Night Pageant for a Baby Girl; 'The Wishing Well: A Pageant for a Year-Old Woman' and 'A Masque of Midsummer Eve: A Warning to All Babies and To One Especially'. Bound in blue cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow and black. Top page edges blue. Binding a little worn, corners and spine tips rubbed. Page edges toned with light spotting. Ex Libris book plate and owner's neat inscription to front endpapers. Paper lightly toned. Minor spotting to front and back matter. A row of ink dots to top edge of a few illustration pages. Overall a good copy of this lovely book. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Additional photos can be sent on request or these may be viewed on my eBay listing. W. Graham Robertson (1866-1948) was a British painter, illustrator and author who designed the cover illustration and frontispiece for the first edition of 'Wind in the Willows'. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.
Seller: Bath and West Books, Bath, SOM, United Kingdom
Price: US$109.03 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. With a lovely inscription from the author, presentation copy: "To H.M. Queen Florence of Fairy Land, from her loyal subject W. Graham Robertson Dec 2nd 1909" . 152pp with 12 fine colour wood engraved illustrations and 8pp of adverts for other publications at rear. Illustrated with blue cloth boards with black and yellow titles/ decoration to spine and boards. The binding is faded and stained with significant rubbing to spine head and board corners. Title on spine heavily rubbed. Endpapers foxed but general contents in very good condition and all illustrations in good condition also.
Seller: Windsor Rare Books, Windsor, BERKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1907 Hardback First Edition. Good condiiton, with twelve lovely designs in colour by the author. Discolouration to covers and spine, rubbing to edges, bumping to spine with a small tear to the top ( 1 cm). Binding is firm. Bright and clean copy. Prior owner's inscription to first blank page.
Seller: Eurobooks Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 152pp with twelve designs in colour plus 8pp catalogue at rear. Illustrated blue cloth boards with titles in yellow and black to front cover and spine. Rebacked with new eps. No inscriptions. Boards faded and bumped at extremities. Small ink mark to closed leading edge. Textblock and illustrations in lovely clean tight and bright condition. A pleasing copy.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Description: First edition. Quarto. 152 pages. 8 pages of adverts at rear. Twelve colour wood-engravings by the author. Original mauve pictorial boards blocked in yellow and black. Gift inscription on front pastedown. Spine a little marked and faded. Small indentation in cloth of spine. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Description: First edition. 4to. 152pp. [+ 8pp. adverts at rear]. Publisher's original pictorial blue cloth in dust jacket. A little fading to edges; gift inscription to ffe. A near fine copy with 12 superb and bright col. ills. Dust jacked toned and rubbed to edges with sl. loss to spine ends. A very attractive copy of these illustrated plays 'written for the Woman'. Walford Graham Robertson (8 July 1866 4 September 1948) was a British painter, illustrator, costume designer and author, best-known today for his illustrated books.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Description: GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH, AND OTHER PAGEANTS FOR A BABY GIRL, John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1907, first edition,several small areas of cloth loss to the front cover, rear corners gently bumped, else a tight vg copy in pictorial stamped cloth with 12 wonderful full color plates by the author. A magnificent book.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$467.04 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: First Edition thus, as good as new. Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh and other pageants for a baby girl Special Collection by W. Graham Robertson. Published by John Lane The Bodley Head in 1907. Hardcover. First edition. 12 coloured designs by the author. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Price: US$493.83 + shipping
Description: Hardback, tall, 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Dark blue cloth cover with black and yellow printed lettering and pictorial design to front and spine. Top page edges blue. In dustwrapper with matching green designs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW tanned, spine rubbed and faded, a couple of nicks and small edges tears to spine ends and corners. Some small foxing spots. Tear with small hole on front. In protective sleeve.) Cover is very clean and smart, some minor rubbing to ends of spine. Some minor tanning and light spots to endpapers. No penned inscriptions. Some small dark foxing spots around outer page edges. Else inside pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight throughout. 152pp + 8pp cat. Illustrated with 12 full-page colour plates by the author.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Robertson, W. Graham. GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH. John Lane / The Bodley Head, London, 1907.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this compendium of short stories, plays, and poems for children, featuring magnificent color linoleum block illustrations by an important collector and admirer of William Blake. Artist, playwright, and designer Robertson was a close friend of Kenneth Grahame's. During the composition of WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Grahame sent Robertson chapter drafts for commentary and asked his advice on the title (among Robertson's suggestions were "The Lapping of the Stream," "The Whispering Reeds," and "River Folk"). Grahame and Robertson shared a belief in bucolic magic that is clear in both their work: when Grahame asked Robertson to provide the illustrations for WIND IN THE WILLOWS, of course Robertson depicted the scene of the mythic appearance of Pan on the now iconic cover of the first edition. Robertson was also "the most discerning and industrious Blake collector of his time" (Avis Berman) who bequeathed many original Blake artworks to the Tate. An aesthete once painted by his friend John Singer Sargent who managed to be on good terms with Whistler and Wilde at the same time, Robertson had an exceptional eye as an artist and collector. Blake's influence is clear throughout this production, with its oneiric, heavy-lined compositions and simple, mythic verses. Hardly known today, it deserves greater notice as the work of a Blake disciple in Edwardian England. Quarto. 10'' x 8.25''. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in black and yellow. Illustrated by Robertson with 12 full-page color linoleum block images. Publisher's ads at rear. 152, [8] pages. Spine foxed and faded, with a little sunning to boards, else tight and clean.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.