Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: Black and White illustrations. Light-hearted verses from G.K. Chesterton. Very Good-, without dust jacket (slightly shaken).
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: A good working copy. Hardback. External condition poor. Boards soiled, scuffed and worn at edges. Annotation to title page, & fly leaf. Internally shaky, with scattered pencil scribblings & minor soiling. 102pp.
Seller: Naomi Symes Books PBFA, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Chesterton, G. K. Greybeards at play: Literature and art for old gentlemen. R.B. Johnson, 1900.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Not a facsimile. Original 1900 R. Brimley Johnson edition. Corners and edges are chipped and worn, but pages are clean and unmarked. Cover and pages intact. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed
Seller: Bookmans, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 102pp + [vii] publishers advertisements. Linen-backed pictorial paper boards, lettered in black at the spine. Corners and edges rubbed, some wear to the base of the spine and the top edge dust soiled. The binding cracked at the title leaf, with the half-title quite tender, and the binding just a little tender at several further gatherings. Endpapers a little browned and with some soiling and finger marking to occasional leaves. A good copy of this selection of humorous verses, with twenty-four full-page drawings by the author. Sullivan 1.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is Chesterton's first book. Both rhymes and sketches are by Chesterton.Quarter off-white buckram cloth on orange paper. The front board has a black border in which there is a sketch of a gentleman riding a stick pony as well as text indicating the title and author. 102 pages with ads in the back. 24 Full page illustrations by Chesterton. No dust wrapper as issued.Boards have edge wear all around. Spine slightly sunned. No ownership marks. Tight binding. VG.Full refund if not satisfied. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien & the Inklings.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$640.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Sullivan A.1. Collates exactly, all points of the first edition. Pictorial orange paper-covered boards, with buckram spine lettered in black from the bottom up. Near fine condition, with some edge-bumping and the usual wear to extremities characteristic of paper-covered boards. Moderate wear to boards at corners. Cloth backing is somewhat soiled and yellowing but otherwise nearly unworn. A solid copy with soiling to the top edge, but internally near fine, with some slight toning and scattered foxing. Three bookplates inside front cover: bibliographic scholar Simon Nowell-Smith's, art dealer Judith Adams Nowell-Smith's. and Leslie Mead's. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and still handsome copy. 10-page publishers' adverisements at rear. xii,102[+10]pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada