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Douglas, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, 1927.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hb, no d/w, 219pp. No 448 of a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the author.
Seller: Diplomatist Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Norman Douglas. In The Beginning. Privately Printed, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the author. Number 299 of 700 copies privately printed. Very good, clean condition, unmarked aside from blind ex libris stamp on first blank page. Paper covers with leather title plate on spine (worn but legible); some wear on corners and edges of spine.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman. In The Beginning. Florence, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo, decorative boards, leather spine label; lightly rubbed. (Florence): Privately Printed, 1927. One of 700 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately Printed, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 700 copies numbered and signed by the author. Holly-patterned boards, black leather label on spine. Spine bumped at extermities and label chipped, wiping out most of author's name and title, corners worn., internally crisp and clean, with a little light foxing. Size: 8vo
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated boards. 259 pages. Some pages uncut. Limited to seven hundred copies numbered and signed by the author. This is number 158. Very Good-. Cover has general wear, discoloration, damage to top of spine. Bookblock has age toning. INterior pages have age toning
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited Edition #415. Signed by Norman Douglas. Hardcover, no jacket. Clean, unmarked, tightly bound. Moderate exterior wear and soiling. Light foxing throughout. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.)
Seller: Big Star Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, limited to 700 copies, each numbered and signed by the author, and preceding the Chatto & Windus trade edition by a year. 8vo. 259pp. Patterned paper boards with a gilt-stamped morocco spine label, a little chipped and with the lettering partially defective. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Spine ends chipped, corners rubbed, and boards lightly discoloured. A touch of spotting to preliminary and concluding leaves. A dusty and somewhat handled copy. No dust wrapper called for.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Douglas, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 259 pages, partially uncut. No. 307 of 700 copies, signed by Douglas. Cloth covered patterned boards, gilt lettered spine label, minor wear, else very good condition. (81371).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$55.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: illustrated papered boards, 259 #72 of 700 signed by the author on the edition page spine torn on the top and bottom cover worn on the edges foxing on the edges and blank pages Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
DOUGLAS, Norman.. In the Beginning.. Privately printed, Florence., 1927.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 259 pages. Patterned boards with leather title-label on spine. Number 529 of 700 copies signed by the author. Covers dusty. Some bumping to corners. Snags to tail of spine. Spine label rubbed. Good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
DOUGLAS, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately Printed, (Florence), 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Octavo. 259pp. Patternet papercovered boards with leather spine label gilt. Bookseller ticket on rear pastedown. Spine lightly toned with the base bumped causing a tiny split, tiny scrape neatly repaired on the lower board, endpapers with several small tape shadows or bits of tape residue and front fly with two small chips, very good. One of 700 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology 1927. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition #220 of 500 copies. Signed by the author. Plain Green paper covered boards with white paper label showing author and title on spine. Top and bottom of spine and corners of binding rubbed through. Fore edges rough cut with some pages uncut. 219pp. Indexed. Content clean and sound. Tis book may require additional postage. Photos available on request.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
DOUGLAS, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately Printed, [No Place], 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition thus. Batik papercovered boards. Wear on the spine and corners else about near fine. Copy number 590 of 700 Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman. In The Beginning. Florence, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo, decorative boards. (Florence): Privately Printed, 1927. Limited First Edition. One of 700 copies, signed by the author. This copy is additionally inscribed by Douglas "to.after twenty years' friendship". Lacks leather spine label, otherwise fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman.. In The Beginning.. Privately Printed. Florence, 1927.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Limited signed edition of 750, this being number 658, signed by Norman Douglas. Original block print paper covered bds., leather label rubbed, head and tail of spine worn, e/ps browned. VG+.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Douglas, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. privately printed, 1927.
Price: US$80.78 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: hardback, octavo, blue paper covered boards with a paper title to the spine, a light crease to the spine, damage to the top left of the upper board and a 1" split at the foot of the upper joint, thus good only. The binding remains tight and the text is clean and unmarked, many pages remaining unopened. Published in an edition limited to 500 copies copies, this out of sequence and inscribed 'to John, in memory of Capri, from Norman, March 1949', tissue guarded frontis, 200pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Douglas , Norman.. In The Beginning. ( Signed , Limited Edition ).. Privately Printed, 1927.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition , first printing , 1927. A near fine book in the original binding. Rebound in quarter deep green leather at the spine. All else original. This is copy # 632 of 700 Signed and numbered copies. SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing , 1927. A very good+ book in the original binding. With shelf wear to the top edges of the spine tips. No jacket. This is copy # 241 of 500 privately printed , Signed and numbered copies. SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately printed, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Printed paper over boards, leather spine label, gilt. Some wear at spine and corners, small chip from front endsheet, interior fine. No. 698 of 700 copies, signed by Douglas.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece. Tall 8vo, pale blue boards, uncut; light wear at corners, front joint cracked; bookplate. (Florence), Privately Printed, 1927. Limited Edition. Number 261 of 500 numbered copies signed by Douglas.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 259 pages of text; 22.5cm; patterned paper covered boards; spine damaged, affecting leather label; corners bumped. Number 390 of 700 copies signed by author. Norman Douglas (1868-1952). English novel.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. In the Beginning 1ST Edition Signed. PRIVATELY PRINTED, 1927.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED, limited edition (148/700). First edition. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Protected in mylar sleeve. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked, though tanned. Binding is tight, Hinges strong. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hbk 219pp Limited Edition (edition limited to 500 signed copies of which this is number 227) SIGNED by Norman Douglas illustr text-block is toned front hinges loosening prev owner's label on front pastedown paper cover boards are shelfworn and dust stained now in a custom acetate jacket uncut pages overall a very good clean unmarked text
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece. Tall 8vo, pale blue boards, uncut; binding wear at corners and usual cracking at joints, some browning on end-leaves, and small wormhole in the first 3 pages. (Florence), Privately Printed, 1927. Limited Edition. A very good(-) copy. Number 405 of 500 numbered copies signed by Douglas, with an additional inscription by him on the half-title, dated 1932.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Norman Douglas. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, privately published in 1927 at the Tipografia Giuntina, Florence. No.72 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Norman Douglas. Very Good in blue Florentine paper covered boards with some small areas of loss at bottom corners and top of spine and fine cracking lines along grooves. Printed paper label at spine has two small chips. No dust jacket. Uncut,219 pp.+ frontispiece with tissue guard. Interior is very fresh and bright.No foxing, markings or names of previous owners.
Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom
DOUGLAS, Norman. IN THE BEGINNING. Privately Printed, [Florence], 1927.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 259. Large paper copy, 1/700 signed by the author. Bound in little bumped paste paper boards with chipped leather label. Nice uncut copy. Cutler & Stiles p. 36. +.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman.. In The Beginning.. Privately Printed, n.p., 1927.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 700 numbered copies. Signed by the author. Paper over boards with a leather spine label, uncut. Spine is faintly sunned, otherwise very good. Woolf A26a.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman. IN THE BEGINNING. [FLORENCE] PRIVATELY PRINTED, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: CREAM BOARDS WITH DESIGNS IN YELLOW AND BROWN; LEATHER SPINE LABEL, UNOPENED; #22/700 COPIES, SIGNED BY DOUGLAS ON THE LIMITATION PAGE FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately printed by the Tipografia Giuntina], [Florence, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Number 11 of only 700 copies, signed by the author. 259 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Decorative paper covered boards. Spine label lacking(?), else very fine First Edition, Number 11 of only 700 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 317/500 COPIES signed by the author, frontispiece (tissue-guard present), 2 small half-tone plates tipped in, pp. 219, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip with printed label lettered in black, a little wear to backstrip ends and board corners, dink to tail edge, top edge a little dusty, others untrimmed, bookplate to front pastedown,dustjacket slightly frayed, very good. (Woolf A25a)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 237. Octavo (22cm.); original blue paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; 219pp.; photographic frontispiece, tissue guard. Lower third of upper joint cracked but holding, rubbing to extremities with boards slightly exposed, uneven darkening; textblock fine. About Very Good. Signed by the author on limitation page.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 219p octavo. 1/500 numbered copies signed by Douglas. This copy being #498 A very good copy in the scarce dust jacket with some very small nicks, and a chip on the back panel. The corners are nice with no wear, the two top corners of the jacket are nicked. Spine a bit darkened.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Norman Douglas. In the Beginning. Privately printed, Tipografia Giuntina, Firenze, 1927.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition 1927. Privately printed in Florence, Italy by Tipografia Giuntina. 259pp. Norman Douglas's fantasy novel based on themes from ancient mythology. Limited Edition.No.406 of 700 numbered copies signed by the author. With additional signed dedication on half title to San Francisco Antiquarian, Bookseller and publisher Leon Gelber. Near Fine in handprinted Florentine paper covered boards with a black, yellow and red abstract design. Black leather spine label with titles blocked in gold. Pages uncut. Overall in excellent condition,with slight shelfwear to top and bottom of spine and corners. Binding tight and solid. Spine label has chip to top left corner and very small chip to right side. Spine sunned with fading to reds and yellows of pattern. Interior bright and clean, with no markings or foxing. Protected by clear acetate d.j. Neat bookplate on front pastedown of previous owners Eugene Mitchell Prince, at one time President of the State Bar of California and the California Bar Association and his wife Mildred Mallon Prince. Note: In 1924 Leon Gelber and Theodore Max Lilienthal, who also owned the Lantern Press, opened a bookshop at 336 Sutter Street , San Francisco. "Gelber and Lilienthal ran a beautiful bookshop. Its shelves were loaded with first editions of Norman Douglas, D.H.Lawrence, James Joyce and their like, and an abundance of fine printing." ( Jacob Zeitlin in a talk to the Associates and Friends of the Library of the University of California, Davis. 1985)
Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom
DOUGLAS, Norman. In the Beginning. Privately printed, N.p. [Florence, Italy], 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Floral paper over boards, leather spine label. 259pp. Very good. Slightest of chipping at head and tail of spine, but overall tight and attractive. First edition, limited to 700 signed, numbered copies (this #113). Scarce.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. IN THE BEGINNING. Privately Printed, [Florence, Italy], 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-259 [260: blank], original decorated cream boards with black leather label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Limited to 700 numbered copies signed by Douglas. "A capricious reworking of many themes from ancient mythology, amusing and witty." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 546. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-114. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Reginald 04479. Woolf A26a. Corner tips worn, a nearly fine copy. (#131360)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Norman Douglas (134). 219pp. 8vo. Woolf A25a Blue paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, Top edge is a bit soiled, else a fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket. The fragile blue printed dust jacket is moderately browned on spine, fore-edge fold (at front flap) has started to separate, with few nicked tears, else quite crisp and bright First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Norman Douglas (134).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, 1927.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. The book fine, spotless and crisp, the jacket with a few tiny chips, but also spotless.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. IN THE BEGINNING. Privately Printed, 1927.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edition No 467 of 700 printed. Signed. 259 pages. Pages clean, good condition. Deckle edges. Book loose at page184-5. Wonderful orange, beige and black patterned boards. Black label and gilt title on spine. Label worn at front corners. Boards bumped and lightly worn at tsil of spine and top corners. VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Douglas, Norman.. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology.. Privately Printed, N.P., 1927.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #12/500 copies printed letterpress on fine paper, all edges untrimmed, Numbered and SIGNED on the verso of the half-title leaf. A Fine copy in pale blue paper covered boards, spine label, in Fine blue printed paper dustwrapper, with original tipped on sheet reading "Price one guinea or six dollars. Obtainable from NORMAN DOUGLAS c/o British Institute Piazza Antinori Florence." tipped on the front flap. 219pp. with Index. This copy is uncut. A few small foxing spots to deckled fore-edge. Q15165
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: TO AN UNKNOWN FRIEND First Edition. 8vo. [227 x 155 x 24 mm]. 259pp. Bound in cream Italian paper boards colour-blocked in black and red, the spine with a black leather spine lettered in gilt, uncut and unopened edges, in original glassine paper wrapper. (Corners a little bumped, wrapper torn, with some loss). [ebc7974] Florence: Privately Printed [by the Tipografia Giuntina, directed by L. Franceschini], 1927. Woolf A 26. No.483 of 700 copies, signed by the author, priced at two guineas. A very good copy, inscribed in black ink on the front endleaf: "To an unknown friend with many thanks from Norman Douglas. April 1948". The book remained in the possession of Douglas's friend Stephen Clark.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards with printed paper label on the spine. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Very good. Number 325 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Douglas on the limitation page. This copy is also signed and inscribed by Douglas in black fountain pen ink on the front free endpaper: "Arthur Johnson with best wishes from Norman Douglas Capri, Nov. 1947." Woolf A25a.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.