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Price: US$11.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1888. Chatto and Windus . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, blue boards. Library binding, rebound, ex library, usual stamps and labels. 8x5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Walter Besant. Herr Paulus: His Rise, His Greatness and His Fall. Chatto & Windus, 1888.
Price: US$16.65 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1888. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Walter Besant. Herr Paulus: His Rise, His Greatness, and His Fall.. Chatto & Windus, 1888.
Price: US$20.02 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1888. New Edition. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout, heavier to first and last few pages. Previous owner's inscriptions and sticker to front pastedown and title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: A New edition. 316 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Same year as the the First 3 volume edition. Wolff 448: Sadleir 189 (First edition) Half contemporary calf and marbled boards and edges. Fine
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three volumes in original brown cloth; front boards blocked in blue, with raised designs in brown, lettered in gilt on spines; grey-and-white endpapers. A little scuffing, light foxing, a very good set. Sadleir [189]. The story of a fraudulent spiritualist. A heavy 3-volume set which will require additional postage.
Seller: Richard Beaton, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$2791.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 3 Volumes. 8vo. (7.5 x 5 inches). Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of volume I, "A. P. Watt. From the Author". Original brown cloth blocked in metallic blue in a geometric pattern to the spines and front boards. The spines are lettered in gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Spines rolled a little, some light spotting to endpapers and title pages but generally a clean, tight and bright copy. Overall a better than very good set. Alexander Pollock Watt (1838 1914) was the first successful British literary agent. His agency, started in 1875, is still active today and is, in fact, the longest-established literary agency in the world. He acted as Besant's agent, and also his literary executor.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom