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Price: US$50.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 400 copies, printed at the Grabhorn Press for John Howell; a selection of letters, translations and poems by Agnes Tobin, a woman of letters - born in San Francisco, who spent many years in London, where she enlivened the literary circle around Alice Meynell (which included Yeats, Pound, Gosse, and Augustus John); Tobin and Meynell would become great friends, as reflected in a number of the letters herein; includes a biographical sketch by J.S., a note on Tobin and Meynell by Sir Francis Meynell, followed by Tobin's translations (of Petrarch and Milton), and original poems; colour frontispiece plate, 6 b&w illustrations; half grey cloth with title label to spine, blue papered sides; fore-edge untrimmed; Very Good and clean throughout; knock/crease top rh corner of front board. no dustwrapper. 100pp. 4to. Very Good
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Price: US$50.32 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition. One of only 400 copies. NF. Hardcover, quarter cloth with black spine titles, no jacket, 98 pp, light edgewear with previous owners bookplate on inside front cover, else a nice, clean and crisp copy.
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ; Beige buckram spines and blue paper over boards; paper spine labels. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 98; 81 pages
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: xxi, 99 [1]p., colored front., b/w illus., quarto format, slightly chipped dj. One of 400 copies.
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Description: Blue boards, grey cloth spine. One of 400 copies. Tobin was a significant figure in the London literary world between 1900 and 1924. Best friend of Alice Meynell, she was also credited with saving the life of Arthur Symons after his mental breakdown in 1909. She was also the dedicatee of Conrad's "Under Western Eyes". Inscribed: "For Hamish Hamilton from Agnes Tobin's neice. London, Sept 27 1979".
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition. Near Fine book in a Plain White Dust Wrapper. Irish author William Butler Yeats called her, "the greatest poet that America has produced since Walt Whitman." Joseph Conrad dedicated his book "Under Western Eyes" to Agnes, "who brought to our door her genius for friendship from the uttermost shores of the West."
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two volumes. Quarter linen with blue-green paper-covered boards, spine labels, DWs, 4to., xxi, 99, (1); (i), 80, (2) pages, color frontispiece and six monochrome illustrations. Each is one of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn press. Laid in is a typed letter on onion-skin paper from John Howell - Books quoting a letter from Joseph Auslander and printing two poems from him extolling Agnes Tobin. Fine copies in clean, lightly toned plain paper DWs with a few very small closed tears, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Together, 2 volumes. Quarto. Pp. 124 + 86. Frontis portrait in color with six photographic reproductions in text in the first volume. Decorations in red in second volume. Handset Janson type used in both volumes. Both with blue boards, tan linen spine, titles in black on white spine labels. Very fine copies. Both these volumes were issued separately and printed for John Howell the same year. Both were limited to 400 copies and included in the Exhibition of Western Books (Rounce & Coffin Club). The first volume includes Miss Tobin's letters to her English friend, Alice Meynell, letters that she received from Yeats, Conrad, Shaw, and others, and a selection of her translations from Petrarch and Milton, as well as her own verses. [Grabhorn: 600 and 601].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 400 copies. Illustrated. 2 vols. 4to. Grabhorn Bibliography 600 & 601 Cloth spine and boards. Fine in plain dust jackets, titled in pen on spines
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.