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Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Beige paper over boards; Tan leather at spine; Top edges gilt; 97 pp.; No illustrations. Selected writings of eighteenth-century English writer William Shenstone, chosen and with an introduction by Havelock Ellis; Hand-numbered, no. 361 of 500 copies in this edition. VG- (Some light wear and discoloration due to age)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo, 97 pages, quarter brown morocco, drab boards, deckle-edged; rear cover spotted, scratch at spine title Copy no. 298 of 500., printed by Robert Gibbings. Shenstone was a genius, a poet, an amateur gardener, and is even credited with coining the term, "landscape gardener".
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
SHENSTONE, William. Men & Manners. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo, _ cream cloth over color decorated paper covered boards, black paste on label with gilt lettering on spine. Selected and introduced by Havelock Ellis; printed by the Golden Cockerel Press, number 203 of 260 copies for the United States, of a total of 500 copies. Very Good; light shelf wear, darkening to spine.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
SHENSTONE, William. Men and Manners, selected by Havelock Ellis. Golden Cockerel, Boston, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Slim small 8vo, tan cloth backed patterned boards, un trimmed and unopened. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Golden Cockerel, 1927. Very good (+). One of 500 numbered copies printed at the Golden Cockerel Press; this is number 116 of 260 copies printed for America.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Shenstone, William. MEN & MANNERS. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1927.
Price: US$132.89 + shipping
Description: Selected and introduced by Havelock Ellis. Pp. [ii]+xxvi+98+[2](colophon, verso blank), title page printed in red & black, small cockerel device below colophon; cr. 8vo; qr. tan leather, spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards, bottom fore-corners lightly bruised, the lower board a trifle marked; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and browned (heaviest on backstrip), edges lightly rubbed and creased, with a couple of tiny chips, small damp stain near centre of backstrip; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, free endpapers faintly offset, tiny chip near foot of lower hinge, edges of leaves slightly foxed; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1927. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Chanticleer 48.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 323/500. Octavo. 97 (2)pp. Original tan half leather over matching paper boards; gilt lettering on spine in original cream dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Title page in red and black. Selected and introduced by Ellis Havelock. "Every single observation that is published by a man of genius, be it ever so trivial, should be esteemed of importance; because he speaks from his own impressions; whereas common men publish common things, which they perhaps glean'd from frivolous writers." Spine of dustjacket sunned with one and a half inch closed tear at tail of spine; somewhat rubbed. Leather spine lightly sunned. Some pages unopened at foredge.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
SHENSTONE, William. Men and Manners, selected by Havelock Ellis. Golden Cockerel, Berkshire, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Slim small 8vo, 1/2 tan morocco, boards, untrimmed and unopened. (Berkshire): Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Fine. One of 500 numbered copies printed at the Golden Cockerel Press; this is number 396.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.