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Field, Eugene. Lullaby-Land. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1898.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in full dark red cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Some minor foxing to the page blocks mostly, and some offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps. The title page states 1898 so this is an assumed first edition. With 219 pages including illustrations, a fairly nice tight clean copy otherwise. The rare jacket that is present has some slight loss to the spine head and other minor edgewear but is mostly complete. The price of 3/6 and the ads from the jacket flaps suggest that this jacket is from 1915 or perhaps later. It is not we believe from 1898, and has a 4 color design on the front panel. What is unknown is that we cannot trace an edition from Bodley Head / John Lane of a later date than 1898 so this jacket is a mystery. One of the titles advertised on the flaps was not published until 1915, so the jacket is likely around that time. Still a rare jacket nonetheless.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Field,Eugene. Lullaby Land. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1898.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: octavo. 227pp. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and design to cover and spine. Many full page black and white drawings and numerous line drawings by Charles Robinson. There is some staining to top and bottom of front cover. Interior is very good.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Field, Eugene. Lullaby Land: Songs of Childhood. John Lane and the Bodley Head, London, 1898.
Price: US$88.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, a very good copy in publisher's gilt stamped cloth, previous owner's name on the front end paper. 12pp catalogue dated 1898 to the rear.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first UK edition of this charming collection of children's poetry by American writer Eugene Field, selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. The first edition thus of this work.A charming poetry volume with poems taken from five previously published works by American writer Eugene Field, who was known as the "poet of childhood".Illustrated with by a frontispiece, title page, and numerous vignettes by prolific British book illustrator Charles Robinson. Collated, complete.With a twelve page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated 1898 as called for.With the bookplate of Rose Mabel Lewis to the front pastedown.A delightful volume featuring poems including 'The Dinkey-Bird', 'Telling the Bees', and 'The Rock-a-By Lady'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with discolouration to back strip and board perimeters. Tide marks to centre of front board, and tail of rear board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1898 First Edition. Preface by Kenneth Grahame. Green cloth, gilt titles and art nouveau style illustration to front, rear and spine. Profusely illustrated by Charles Robinson in b/w art nouveau style. Condition: Very good. Minor edgewear. Spine faded to brown but gilt still pretty bright. Front and rear still bright. Endpapers foxed. Owner s name written to ffep. Slight age toning throughout. Otherwise, pages bright and clean. Binding a little fragile with mesh showing in places, but holding firm. Size: 8x5.5in / 20x14cm. 231pp plus 13 page illustrated book list to rear. Weight: 450g.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$143.64 + shipping
Description: Tela editoriale con titoli e figure impresse in oro al ds. e al piatto anteriore (leggermente sbiadita e con lievi tracce d usura). Tagli oro. Firma di appartenenza sulla carta di guardia libera anteriore. Prima edizione illustrata da Robinson. 8vo (cm. 18,8), 228 pp., 2 cc.nn., 12 pp. di catalogo editoriale. Interamente illustrato in bianco e nero. Antiporta (protetta da velina) e frontis. figurati.
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
Price: US$302.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue(?); 8vo; frontispiece, pictorial title and illustrations by Charles Robinson, 12pp. advertisements, contemporary ink name and spotting to front endpapers; publisher's green straight-grain gilt pictorial cloth, spine slightly browned, light sunning, gilt edges; with 4 other, variant issues of the same, and the first US edition. A great gift-book for children, compiled from the works of Eugene Field by Kenneth Grahame (of The Wind in the Willows fame). The edition went through a range of variant bindings, a selection of which are included here, alongside the first US edition, in itself an uncommon edition; the described copy being the preferred, first issue, with all edges gilt and the advertisements.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1288.26 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, illustrations by Robinson throughout, some 200 of them, including frontispiece and title-page design (tissue-guarded), Publisher's list at rear also illustrated (including Robinson), pp. 229, [2], [1, ad], 12 [List], crown 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board with Robinson designs stamped in gilt to both, his vignette to lower board also, backstrip faded with spine slightly cocked, some light soiling to cloth, a.e.g., free endpapers gently browned, good. With an original drawing by Charles Robinson to the flyleaf, within his inscription: 'To Norman Forbes Robertson, with best regards [Illustration] from Charles Robinson'. The recipient was the brother of Johnston Forbes Robertson, and like him an actor - he was also a leading society figure, and friends with Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, et al. Early work by Robinson, in a similar style to his work on Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses'.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom