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Price: US$11.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1904. John Murray . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, blue boards. Library binding, rebound, ex library, usual stamps and labels. 8x5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: cr8vo, x, 202 pp. Original blue cloth, elaborate gilt on backstrip. Bookplate roughly removed from front pastedown, cloth slightly rubbed in centre of upper board, slightly cracked at start and end o/w VG- copy of the first isue without the gilt on the top edge and the closing bracket on the title page.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-x 1-202, original decorated blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, first issue with plain top edge and no final bracket after "Walter Ramal" on title page. The author's first work of fiction. This novel "hovers strangely between the abstract and the particular. Brocken sets out on an allegorical journey to various booklands, where he meets characters like Jane Eyre, Nick Bottom, Sleeping Beauty and Criseyde; but the mild educational benignity of the trip is destroyed, in the end, by Brocken's refusal of Criseyde's erotic needs, and he is cast back, defeated, into a dry mortality." - Clute and Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 261. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, pp. 499-500. Bleiler (1978), p. 59. Reginald 04029. Cloth worn at spine ends, some rubbing and scuffing to cloth, but a sound, good copy. (#128241)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Description: x, 202pp. Gilt top edge and brackets on title-page present. Gilt decorated spine on blue cloth. Binding rubbed and worn to hinges but sound. Owners bookplate Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.92 + shipping
Description: Elaborate gilt decoration on spine a little dull; spine slightly bumped. First edition, first issue, with plain top edge & lacking closing bracket on title page. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in blue cloth with gilt
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, a clean unmarked copy in publisher's decorated cloth, the joints have been neatly repaired, end papers toned.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [x], 202 pp. Cloth binding, gilt decorated spine, no jacket, very good condition. (96381).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state, with the top edge un-coloured and a closing bracket absent from the title page. Crown 8vo. x, 202pp. Blue cloth with handsome gilt decoration to the backstrip. A touch of wear to the spine ends and a touch of very light spotting to the free endpapers, half-title and final text leaf. Imperial Library (Cheltenham) inkstamp to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the author's second book and first work of fiction: a fantastical novel which includes encounters with assorted fictional figures (Jane Eyre and Rochester, Poe's Annabel Lee, Wordsworth's Lucy Gray, Shakespeare's Bottom, Gulliver &c).
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$46.29 + shipping
Description: First edition. x, 202 pp. Contents: Whither?, Lucy Gray; Jane Eyre, Julia, Electra, Dianeme; Nick Bottom; Sleeping Beauty; Lemuel Gulliver; Mistrust, Obstinate, Liar etc; La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Sleep and Death, A Doctor of Physic, Annabel Lee & Criseyde. Text clean throughout. Binding sound. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Small nicks in cloth at top and bottom of spine. Corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Mixed Issue with top edge gilt as in later issues but with the bracket not present after Ramal" on t.p., of the author's second book. Bookplate of Joan Whitney. x, 202 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition, Mixed Issue with top edge gilt as in later issues but with the bracket not present after Ramal" on t.p., of the author's second book. Bookplate of Joan Whitney.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
DE LA MARE, WALTER. HENRY BROCKEN. LONDON JOHN MURRAY PUB 1904., 1904.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: VERY GOOD+ WITHOUT D.J. SECOND STATE THAT RESTORED THE PREVIOUSLY MISSING TERMINAL BRACKETT AFTER "WALTER RAMAL" ON TITLE PAGE AND TOP EDGE GILT BOOK HAS JUST A TRACE OF RUB/WEAR AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH NICE BRIGHT GILT AND BLUE DECORATED SPINE. OTHER THAN BROWNED ENDPAPERS AS IS UNIVERSAL WITH THIS BOOK, AND A PREVIOUS OWNER'S GIFT INSCRIPTION ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, THE BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CLEAN CONDITION. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
De la Mare, Walter. HENRY BROCKEN. John Murray, 1904.
Price: US$98.60 + shipping
Description: HENRY BROCKEN - HIS TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN THE RICH, STRANGE, SCARCE-IMAGINABLE REGIONS OF ROMANCE, John Murray, 1904, first edition, just about a vg copy. The authors first novel.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.74 + shipping
Description: de la MARE, Walter. Henry Brocken : His Travels and Adventures in the Rich,Strange, Scarce-imaginable Regions of Romance. London : John Murray, 1904.1st issue, with bracket after "Ramal" on tp missing and top edge plain. Pp202. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt decorated spine. National Book League, Walter de la Mare: A Checklist, A5. His first book of prose. Wear to edges, ink stamping on all four endpapers "FAULKNER,Bookseller,8, Grand Parade, MUSWELL HILL", else very good. 150.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Top edge gilt, slight rubbing and edge wear to boards, tanning to endpapers, signed 'Walter de la Mare' to the front free endpaper. Henry, a dreamer who spent his youth reading in the library of an old house, one day begins to come upon famous writers of the past from his books, and they seem more real to him than the flesh-and-blood world.
Seller: Saffron Books, Ely, Cambridgeshire., United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Mixed issue with top edge gilt and no final brackett after "Walter Ramal" on title page. x, 202 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by author on ffep "Walter de la Mare/ for a token/ in Henry Brocken. Dec 5, 1924." The authort's first novel and first book of prose. Bleiler, p.59 Blue cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g. Fine, gilt on spine very bright. Laid into half purple morocco slipcase and chemise. Invoice from Edgar Wells for $15.00 for this book in 1924 to Mrs. Edwrad Hart 1105 Park Avenue First edition, Mixed issue with top edge gilt and no final brackett after "Walter Ramal" on title page.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-x 1-202, original decorated blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, first issue with plain top edge and no final bracket after "Walter Ramal" on title page. The author's first work of fiction. This novel "hovers strangely between the abstract and the particular. Brocken sets out on an allegorical journey to various booklands, where he meets characters like Jane Eyre, Nick Bottom, Sleeping Beauty and Criseyde; but the mild educational benignity of the trip is destroyed, in the end, by Brocken's refusal of Criseyde's erotic needs, and he is cast back, defeated, into a dry mortality." - Clute and Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 261. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, pp. 499-500. Bleiler (1978), p. 59. Reginald 04029. Touch of rubbing to cloth at upper and lower extremities of spine panel and corner tips, a nearly fine copy. (#67240)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.