Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$522.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Pp. lv, 538. Original black cloth with gilt front board and spine after designs by Aubrey Beardsley. Corners with light wear. Spine ends with shallow chipping and wear, with a hairline split in the cloth along some of the front joint. Spine ends could benefit from some restoration. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, clean and tight throughout and the binding tight and square. The third and most complete edition. Limited to 1600 copies. With Illustrations and designs by Aubrey Beardsley.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$747.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. Third edition, limited to 1600 copies. Black cloth with gilt front board and spine decorations by Aubrey Beardsley. Spine re-backed with the original spine laid down and touched up in a couple of spots. Front board touched up in a couple of places as well and the upper corners repaired. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Board edges bevelled. Bookplate removal stain to the paste-down endpaper. Contents clean and the binding tight and square. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Although re-backed, still a nice copy, nice re-backing and well-done touch-ups, expertly done.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Malory (Sir Thomas). LE MORTE D'ARTHUR. J.M Dent & Sons, 1927.
Price: US$769.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: THIRD EDITION Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, with 10 new illustrations, limited to 1600 copies, lv, 538pp., teg, others uncut, some slight foxing to prelims, foxing to outer page edges, original fine floral gilt decorated cloth covers, one corner a little bumped, 4 small dents and two very small tears to back cover, slightly rubbed, light scratches to front board. 11.75" x 9"
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The COMPLETE third edition. One of 1600 copies. Large (12") thick book. This third edition contains TWELVE illustrations not found in the first edition and TWO illustrations not found in the second edition. One of 1600 copies. This was issued by E.P. Dutton using the sheets sent by J. M. Dent and Sons in London. This is the American binding of the same 1600 set with a new title page and Dutton on the spine. Full black cloth. Split at front board and spine with cloth-tape repair to inside hinges. Call letters on spine. Gilding to cover is bright but the spine gilding shows some wear. Lovely Beardley gilt design binding. Top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Lenox Library bookplate behind front cover. frontispiece tissuepaper has an inch closed tear at bottom. Embossed design of Lenox library on title page. Library pocket on rear board with the remains of a return date slip on rear free endpage. Internally in VERY GOOD condition but with problems to the binding that will need to be repaired. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to. One of 1600 copies, the third edition of Malory with Beardsley's illustrations. Black cloth, the spine and boards intricately gilt with the iconic Beardsley water-lily illustrations. This edition contains more material and ten more drawings than the first edition. Trace of rubbing on the upper board and light wear along the bottom, else a near fine copy. Bookplate of F. W. Rogers. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$2012.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Thin 4to. One of 300 copies on handmade paper, this is copy No, 76. Leather spine, gilt; vellum boards,the upper board tooled in gilt with Beardsley's iconic water lily design. A publisher's note is followed by a note on the designs by R. A. Walker, and note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. The eleven omitted designs are followed by a reproduction of the Merlin illustration as well as a sketch for an unused cover design and the cover design used for the issued parts. Thus there are 14 designs in all. This is a near fine copy with only a trace of soil, a few tiny pinholes in the hinges, and some yawning of the boards. and free of the foxing that dogs this title. Scarce thus. The illustrations have offset to the facing pages as usual. Gaines, A14 c.1.b.
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$2115.28 + shipping
Description: Third edition. Quarto. pp lvi, 538. Decorated cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. One of 1600 copies. Six page Foreword on Aubrey Beardsley by Aylmer Vallance. Fifteen page Introduction by John Rhys. One page note by R.A. Walker, ''A Note on the designs omitted from the First Edition''. Includes ten chapter headings omitted from the first edition, included in the second edition by mistake and included in this edition for the first time on purpose. Includes for the first time and totally by design Beardsley's original drawing for the cover. Copiously illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, with numerous full-page black and white drawings, some tissue-guarded, as well as numerous black and white drawings in the text.Near fine in sadly defective, worn, torn and chipped dustwrapper with extensive repairs on the reverse.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2875.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Thin 4to. One of 300 copies on handmade paper, this is copy No, 230. Leather spine, gilt; vellum boards,the upper board tooled in gilt with Beardsley's iconic water lily design. A publisher's note is followed by a note on the designs by R. A. Walker, and note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. The eleven omitted designs are followed by a reproduction of the Merlin illustration as well as a sketch for an unused cover design and the cover design used for the issued parts. Thus there are 14 designs in all. This is a near fine copy with only a trace of soil and some yawning of the boards; it is free of the foxing that dogs this title. Scarce thus. The illustrations have offset to the facing pages as usual. Gaines, A14 c.1.b.
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte D'Arthur. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1927.
Price: US$3281.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very nice copy of this limited edition work, with superb illustrations by Beardsley. Pages inside are nice and clean. Covers are decorative designs in gilt on cloth. Slight wearing to base of spine and top edge of cloth at spine edge. Cloth of spine where it joins the back cover is finely split for about a third the length of book, easily repairable. Overall very good condition. My wife fell in love with this book and I gave it to her as a birthday present one year so it would take a lot for her to part with it; hence the ambitious price. We will always aim to post to you within two days in well padded packing. Phone or email any questions about this book.
Seller: M RICHARDSON RARE BOOKS (PBFA Member), Ashby cum Fenby, NE Lincolnshire, LINCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$5768.94 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, and third overall, one of 1,600 unnumbered copies, retaining the scarce jacket. This was Dent's final edition, entirely reset, and enlarged with two drawings (pp. xj and lvj) and one additional chapter heading (p. 530) never before printed. This edition also includes a new foreword by the Scottish newspaper editor Aymer Vallance (1892-1955). First published in two volumes in 1893, Morte Darthur was Beardsley's first major commission and the book that launched what has come to be known as the "Beardsley look" (Gillon, p. IV). In 1892, seeking to emulate the books of the Kelmscott Press, John M. Dent commissioned the 20-year-old Beardsley to produce an edition of Le Morte D'Arthur. The 351 designs appearing in the first edition required 18 months for the artist to complete. Bored with the project, Beardsley at last refused to complete Dent's original commission of 500 drawings. Of this work, John Lewis states: "In Le Morte D'Arthur Beardsley learnt his job, but the result is no bungling student's work. If he had never illustrated another book, this edition of Morte D'Arthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration" (Lewis, pp. 148-9). Edmund Vincent Gillon, Illustrations for Le Morte D'Arthur, 1972; John Lewis, The Twentieth Century Book, 1984. Large quarto. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, spine and front cover stamped in gilt with floral patterns, top edge gilt, largely uncut. With dust jacket. Frontispiece, 21 plates, illustrations in text throughout. Cloth and gilt bright, a few spots of foxing to lower edge; the jacket with minor fading to spine panel, small chip and couple of short tears to edges, overall a remarkably clean and fresh example, unclipped; a near-fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom