Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 549pp. Brown boards, black and golden lettering and graphics on spine and front board. Text and artwork is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages, art plate pastedowns throughout. Hinges are intact with minor separation at endpapers, textblock is square with lightly bumped corners. Moderate++ overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, board edge and corner abrading, pageblush and light foxing throughout, watermark on upper textblock foredge.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Decorative cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front, 260 x 200 mm approx.xx + 550 pp. Colour frontis tipped onto heavier grey paper with captioned guard + 23 other such as called for12 full page tinted illustrations + 66 line illustrations in text incl. head and tail pieces as listed. Fifth printing 1920 of the 2nd Edition enlarged and revised by Rackham. Collection of poetry, ghost stories and legends. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good ( Rubbing to cloth principally to head and tail of spine the former with 2 small tears - up to 1 cm, moderate bumping to corners, no notable shelf soiling.Gilt titles to spine dulled/ rubbed. Previous owner armorial book plate with motto of the Scottish Baillie Family In Caligine Lucet to front paste down. light foxing spots to end papers.Lacks publisher's note/dedication - leaf (pp vii/viii). No other notable defects. No creasing to corners of tipped in plates ).
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Thomas Ingoldsby. The Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and Marvels. William Heinemann, 1920.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. 10" x 8". 549pp. Gray decorated cloth. 24 lovely color tipped in plates on heavy cardboard. Tissue guards. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout all by Arthur Rackham. Spine is toned. Slight scattered foxing.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Ingoldsby, Thomas. Ingoldsby Legends, The; or Mirth and Marvels. William Heinemann., 1920.
Price: US$101.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good. Lacking dust jacket. Publishers grey`brown cloth with illustrative decoration and gilt lettering. Light edge-wear and darkening. Neatly penned ownership inscription to free front endpaper. A very nice copy indeed. 549pp.
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Price: US$104.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 549pp, 24 coloured plates tipped onto grey card mounts with titled guards, 12 illustrations with tint, and 66 in-text line drawings, illustrated cloth covers. Head and tail od spine tender; lower corners lightly bumped; foxing to half title, last leaf and edges of the block. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is one of the great artists associated with the Golden Age of Illustration. Thomas Ingoldsby was the pen name of Richard Harris Barhum (1788 - 1845) who was an English cleric of the Church of England and a novelist and humourous poet. A collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems; deliberate humourous parodies of medieval folklore and poetry.
Seller: Archives Fine Books (ANZAAB, ILAB), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Price: US$120.84 + shipping
Description: xix + 549 pp. 25.5 x 19 cm. Twenty-four tipped-in colour plates, 12 tinted full-page plates, with captioned tissue guards as required, and numerous b/w text illustrations, all by Arthur Rackham. Gold- and brown-blocked brown boards. Very slight wear to boards, and slight bruising to corners, and very faint spots to half-title, o/w in vg condition.
Seller: Saintfield Antiques & Fine Books, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Thomas Ingoldsby. The Ingoldsby Legends Mirth and Marvels. William Heinemann, 1920.
Price: US$120.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Yare Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Description: Hard back binding in publisher's original light brown cloth covers, dark brown designs and gilt lettering to the spine and the upper panel, lower page edges untrimmed, Heinemann device to lower panel. Quarto 10¼'' x 8'' [xx], 549 pp. 24 mounted colour plates on thick light brown card stock with captioned paper guards, 12 tinted illustrations, many monochrome illustrations in the text. Light surface rubbing across the spine tips, small repair to the top of the lower spine gutter, ink name dated 1924 to the front free end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$209.88 + shipping
Description: pp. xix, (i), 549, (iii). Frontispiece and 23 coloured, tipped-in plates, 12 tinted plates and many text illustrations. Publisher's decorated cloth, 2 leaves a bit ragged at the fore-edge from careless opening, otherwise a firm, clean copy.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$209.88 + shipping
Description: pp. xix, (i), 549, (iii). Frontispiece and 23 coloured, tipped-in plates, 12 tinted plates and many text illustrations. Publisher's decorated cloth, very light wear to the spine ends, 2 plates with the inner, lower corners lightly creased, the lower corner of the rear free end-paper folded, very occasional marginal foxing, else a very good copy.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$222.60 + shipping
Description: Hard back binding in publisher's original light brown cloth covers, dark brown designs and gilt lettering to spine and upper panel, lower page edges untrimmed, Heinemann device to lower panel. Quarto 10¼" x 8" xx, 549 [pp]. 24 mounted colour plates on thick light brown card stock with captioned paper guards, 12 tinted illustrations, many monochrome illustrations in the text. Upper bottom corner pushed-in, light surface rubbing across spine tips, upper corners sharp and pointed, without any foxing and in clean and firm condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
INGOLDSBY, THOMAS. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels. William Heinemann, London, 1920.
Price: US$300.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small quarto bound in eights. Later printing, 1920. In the publisher's brown cloth with decorated spine and front board with lettering in gilt and stamped in black. Spine darkened, edges and tips of boards with a few lightly rubbed spots. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, with numerous in-text illustrations, several full page ills. in tint, and numerous full page plates in colour with captioned tissue guards. Flyleaf, first blank and half-title with a couple of little bites out of the upper right corner, very small. Overall a good clean copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$375.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: reprint. xix, 549pp. Quarto. Illustrated dust jacket over slate-coloured cloth boards with decorations and titles in gilt and black to front board and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed; light shelfwear to lower edges of boards. Binding lightly shaken. Chipping to head and tail of jacket spine and top and bottom jacket folds (neatly reinforced with tape on verso). Small bookseller's stamp front pastedown, else internally clean. very good A collection of myths, legends and ghost stories with illustrations by Arthur Rackham throughout. Reprints the first edition to contain colour illustrations. Includes 24 colour illustrations tipped onto special paper with captioned tissue guards, 12 full paged tinted illustrations, and many more in-text illustrations all by Rackham. Uncommon in the dust jacket. Issued without the preparatory information (4 pages) included in the first printing of the colour-illustrated edition.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: William Heinemann: 2nd Edition, 4th Impression, 1920, hardcover, 20" x 8" x 1 1/2", a heavy book, 3/4 red leather over red cloth boards, red and black marbled endpapers, text black solid with top edge gilt, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, the spine has five raised bands with title, author's name and illustrator's name in bright gilt, all tipped in plates and other illustrations accounted for. Shelf wear is apparent in terms of some rubbing down the length of the spine between the backstrap and front board; however, the hinges are tight. At the top of the verso of the FFEP is a mark in the shape of a paper clip which has partly transferred to the adjacent endpaper. All in all a remarkable copy of a 100 year old book In Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition. Potential buyers are asked to contact the seller as additional postage will be required.
Seller: Robert Rankin Books, Caledonia, ON, Canada
Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends. William Heinemann, 1920.
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Description: Publishers special binding, brown marbled leather with gilt decoration and titles, gilt top edge to pages. 24 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards and numerous black & white and tinted illustrations. Inner front hinge beginning to loosen but still intact. All very clean inside and no inscriptions. The leather boards are clean and firm with a little minor edge wear.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
INGOLDSBY, THOMAS. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels. William Heinemann, London, 1920.
Price: US$639.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to. 1920 Reissue. Quarto. P.l. xix, 549pp. With 12 illustrations printed with tint, and 24 tipped in illustrations mounted on brown paper, with captioned tissue guards. Numerous in text illustrations also. Bound in full brown leather, leather is grooved and textured, with gilt lettering and decorations to front board and spine. Leather is supple, only rubbed in a few places, and spine with a very light fade. Top edge gilt. "To Vera" in faint early ink to front endpaper, and a bookseller's ticket to front pastedown in bottom inner corner. Text is clean, pages fresh. Binding is tight and square. All plates are present, all tipped in illustrations without damage or folded corners. A very attractive copy in almost near fine condition.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited leather edition from Mr. William Heinemann; 1920 early printing. Large finely crafted volume in slip-case measures 8 x 10 1/4" x 2" and weighes over 4 1/2 lbs. Dark brown pebbled morocco (leather) boards, gilt accents and spine titles, light shelf wear. Spine features four raised hubs or bands w/gilt decoration, and five panels with gilt borders and titles in two. Varying crisp gilt decoration, vignettes, and borders to front and back boards. Gilt dentelle borders to perimeter of pastedowns. Pastel colored thick flourishing endpapers varying at front and back. Frontispiece mounted color plate adjacent to half-title page: "Hey ! up the chimney, lass ! Hey after you!" Rough-cut deckled heavy stock pages near fine; no writing. Smooth bright gilded top edge. Bind fine; accordian hinges intact. Bright red silk ribbon page marker. Includes rare slip case with dark brown leather to opening edges and cut to curve of volume's spine. Features two dozen richly detailed tipped-in illustrations mounted on greyish green thick matte paper; each with adjacent captioned page guards. Also graced with a dozen monochromatic, tinted full-page design of Arthur Rackham. Additional full and partial-page imagery, vignettes, and decoration throughout. This three series of tales, and miscellaneous poems, includes such tales as: The Witches' Frolic; The Ghost; Legend of Hamilton Tighe; The Merchant of Venice; The Ingoldsby Penance; The Dead Drummer; The Wedding Day; The Confession, etc. Includes a preface to First & Second Series by Thomas Ingoldsby and a prefatory note by A. R. Printed in Great Britain by R. Clay and Sons, Ltd., Brunswick Street, Stamford Street, S.E. I, and Bungay, Suffolk. 549 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Ingoldsby Legends" by Rev. Thomas Ingoldsby and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. William Heinemann, London. 1920 Rackham edition. Book in very good condition: with original sketch "The Hero" by Rackham to half-title, mounted plates and illustrations by Rackham, presentation bookplate to pastedown, endpapers lightly browned, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities lightly bumped and frayed, spine faded. A very rare personally illustrated copy by Arthur Rackham.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands