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J. M. Barrie. QUALITY STREET: A Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This copy is in near fine, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and gilt decoration to the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dustwrapper is not present, there is a clear acetate wraparound. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Quality Street is a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie, written before his more famous work Peter Pan. The story is about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children". The original Broadway production opened in 1901 and ran for only 64 performances. The show was then produced in London, where it was a hit, running for 459 performances. It was frequently revived until World War II. There are eighteentipped in colour plates by Hugh Thomson Ref LLL 4 Size: 198pp
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.20 + shipping
Description: Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500
Seller: Antiquariat Daniel Schramm e.K., Kiel, Germany
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small4to, guarded colour frontis, vii, 197, [1] p. 18 superb coloured plates by J. M. Barrie tipped onto heavy stock which is tipped onto the pages, thin paper guards with illustrations and captions by Thomson, complete for this edition. Original blue blind-stamped cloth, elaborate gilt, plain endpapers. One fore-corner peeping, light tanning of the free endpapers otherwise a fine tight and clean copy in a good only d/j with small splits and small areas of loss.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
. Quality Street, A Comedy in four acts by J.M. Barrie. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hodder & Stoughton January 1913 Binding:
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Barrie, J.M.. Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Elaborate gilt decorations on spine and cover; cover ever-so-slightly rubbed/sunned, edges/corners lightly rubbed/bumped; spine sunned/lightly soiled, edges rubbed/bumped/chipped, otherwise intact; top edge very barely soiled; minor foxing at endpapers; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except where noted. Hard Cover. Good+. Illus. by Hugh Thomson. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Seller: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Barrie, J.M.. Quality Street. A Comedy in Four Acts.. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$53.74 + shipping
Description: vi, 198pp, 18 col plates, bw ills. No date- c1913. Or blue cloth with large gilt vignette in pictorial jacket. Endpapers heavily but evenly toned, small bookseller stamp on front free endpaper. Jacket with several tears and chips, 2 holes on folds and another on front panel. Jacket reproduces the plate opposite page 18. Size: 8vo
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
J.M. Barrie / Hugh Thomson (ill). Quality Street, a comedy in four acts. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Quality Street. A comedy in four acts." by J.M. Barrie and ill. by Hugh Thomson Hodder & Stoughton, London - 1913 first UK edition - With mounted colour frontispiece and printed tissue-guard 21 full-page mounted colour plates with printed tissue-guards and numerous in-text illustrations by Hugh Thomson - condition: good, some wear to boards and spine, some fading to front cover, internally clean and in good condition. Quality Street is an example of one of Barrie's earlier plays which premiered in New York and London where it proved especially popular in 1901 and 1902 respectively. Set on Quality Street in a little English country town during the Napoleonic wars this is the delightfully amusing story of Miss Phoebe Throssel and her alter ego Miss Livvy Phoebe's non-existent niece and her fraught pursuit of love in the form of one dashing Valentine Brown; or her pursuit as Phoebe herself phrases it of "every woman's birthright" namely "to be petted and admired"
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$55.24 + shipping
Description: VII, 197 S. u. 22 farb. Tafeln. Einb. etw. lichtverf. u. berieb., Vorsatz etw. lichtverf. - sonst gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch
Seller: Antiquariat Kunsthaus-Adlerstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany
Barrie, J.M.. QUALITY STREET. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$56.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st 1913. Good condition with no wrapper. A Comedy in Four Acts. Large format. Elaborately decorated blue/lilac cloth covers, large gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Illustrated endpapers. 22 beautiful tissue-guarded colour plates and b/w text illustrations.198 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn with slight loss of cloth to base of spine. Light spotting to rear cover. Front hinge pulled. Some fingermarks to page margins and paper guards but all plates are present and in fine condition. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
. The Bookman: Special Christmas Number 1913. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$62.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of this large format weighty magazine in heavy paper wraps with a photograph portrait of Sir J M Barrie pasted to the front. Internally fine and free of inscriptions; profusely illustrated with tipped-in colour plates by Frank Reynolds, Pogany, Rene Bull, Edmund Dulac, Lewis Baumer, Warwick Goble et al; sepia photographic full page tipped-in portraits of Alenander Leslie; Ernest Thompson Seton [loosely inserted] plus a colour print of Izaak Walton, diiagrams and sketches; binding sound; no foxing; many contemporary literary and printing related adverts; special sections on e.g 'Art Poetry and Belles Lettres'','Children's Books 'etc 194 pp + 236 pp + adverts. Loosely inserted are two Bookman Portfolios one containing two plates in colour by Kay Nielsen illustrating 'In Powder and Crinoline by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch the other having three colour plates by Hugh Thomson illustrating Quality Street by J M Barrie, all in fine condition.
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. Quality Street: A Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton; London., 1913.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Publishers lilac cloth embossed with beautiful, elaborate gilt block design, lettering and vignettes to spine and upper board. Damp-stain to bottom/fore-edge corner of boards, dissipating upwards. Spine a little sunned and yellowed. Pictorial endpapers. Bookplate to free front endpaper verso. Foxing to leaves adjacent to endpapers, with the odd spot of foxing here and there throughout. 197pp.
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. vii, [4], 3-198 pp. 22 mounted color plates by Thomson. Tiny abrasion or fraying of cloth on lower front edge. Moderate sunning of spine. Very light fox marks on prelim leaves. Inked prior owners' names (two) on half-title. Light wear generally.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition thus hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy quarto 175pp., colour plates, With 22 hand-tipped coloured plates with lettered pictorial guards, nice line drawings in text. A little rubbing to boards at extremities o/w a nice bright, tight copy in purple cloth boards with bright gilt decorations
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$82.87 + shipping
Description: Near fine stiff card wrappers with coloured plates loosely inserted. Edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 3 coloured plates. Subjects: Barrie, J. M. -- (James Matthew), -- 1860-1937. -- Quality street -- Illustrations.Barrie, J. M. -- (James Matthew), -- 1860-1937. -- Admirable Critchton -- Illustrations. 20th century illustrated works. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Description: Undated circa 1913. Quarto. 198 pp. 22 tipped-in plates in colour by Hugh Thomson, each with pictorial captioned tissue guard, plus black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Book Condition: Near Fine. Publisher's original lilac cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. Lilac illustrated endpapers. Spine very lightly sunned; cloth lightly rubbed at corners and spine tips. A little foxing to textblock edge; no annotation or inscriptions. Promotional sheet for an exhibition of Hugh Thomson's water-colour drawings, dated 1913, loosely inserted. A particularly clean example of this handsome volume. Heavy, shipping outside the UK may require a contribution towards additional postage costs.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
BARRIE, J.M.. QUALITY STREET: A Comedy in Four Acts.. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A MOST HANDSOME BOOK. BROWN CLOTH WITH STUNNING GOLD GILT DECORATIONS ON FRONT BOARD AND SOME ON SPINE. SOLID AND VERY CLEAN. 22 SPLENDID FULL COLOUR TIPPED IN ILLUSTRATIONS BY THOMPSON. BOOK LABEL ON FRONT PASTEDOWN, O/W, NO MARKINGS. . BOTTOM CORNERS SLIGHTLY WORN. MILD FOXING ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. SLIGHTLY TORN AT SPINE EXTREMETIES AND ONE TINY TEAR ON SPINE. INSIDES WOULD RATE NEAR FINE AND ARE VERY CLEAN. POSSIBLY OVERSIZE FOR CERTAIN DESTINATIONS, PLEASE CONTACT SELLER BEFORE ORDERING. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Price: US$94.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition thus hardback in decorated cloth Very Good quarto vi + 198pp., colour frontis., colour plates, With 18 tipped-in colour plates with lettered pictorial guards, nice line drawings in text. A little rubbing to boards at extremities o/w a nice bright, tight copy in blue cloth boards with bright gilt decorations. Uncommon in dust jacket
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
J M Barrie. Quality Street. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 22 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and designs by Hugh Thomson. Undated but 1913 1st trade edition. Quality Street was one of a series of works commissioned for the high quality Christmas present market. Hugh Thomson was mainly known for his black and white illustrations, for example for Pride and Prejudice, but his colour-tinted works proved very popular, and Quality Street followed Merry Wives of Windsor, School for Scandal, and She Stoops to Conquer. They featured beautiful decorative bindings, colour plates and delicate designs. This copy has a near fine binding, with clear bright gilt design to the front board. The spine is duller, but only slightly pulled, and the back board is clean with 2 very light pale marks at the top. The textured decorative endpapers are unmarked. With frontispiece, decorative title page, and 21 further plates. Each plate has a decorative tissue-guard. There is some spotting to the half title page and the verso of the frontispiece, with the odd spot to contents and character list, and some spotting on the final page. Elsewhere the contents are very clean and in very good condition. There is occasional light marking in the gutter and the odd spot. A nice copy.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine stiff card wrappers with coloured plates loosely inserted. Edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 3 coloured plates. Subjects: Barrie, J. M. -- (James Matthew), -- 1860-1937. -- Quality street -- Illustrations.Barrie, J. M. -- (James Matthew), -- 1860-1937. -- Admirable Critchton -- Illustrations. 20th century illustrated works. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: "A Comedy in Four Acts". 22 tipped-in colour plates with bordered frames beneath captioned tissue guards and numerous text illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Lavender cloth covers with exquisite gilt illustration embossed on front cover. Gilt lettering and vignette on spine. Pictorial end papers. Some wear to edges and spine ends, spine slightly sunned, slight foxing to a few pages. 4to. vii. 197pp. Overall, a good clean copy of a beautifully presented work.
Seller: Bookstand, Poole, United Kingdom
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. 4to. Gilt stamped cloth. Hinges cracked, front cover detached. Needs rebinding, but fine internally. Sold as is Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition. Hardcover. Thick quarto. 198pp. Ltd ed 129/1000, signed by Thomson. 22 tipped-in colour plates with titled tissue-guards. Vellum covers with extensive gilt decoration are mildly darkened at edges and spine Lacks ties. Evidence of poor storage, endpapers are a little bubbly and have some silverfish damage. Text block edges and page edges are toned. Covers slightly bowed. Still a presentable copy with charming illustrations.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$141.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: by J(ames) M(athew) Barrie, spine bumped and a trifle chipped, twenty-two tipped-in coloured, tissue-guarded illustrations by Hugh Thomson, bright, quarto, very good in chipped repaired dust jacket. 198 pages; keywords: drama;
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
BARRIE, J. M. (illustrated by Hugh Thompson). Quality Street. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto, 198pp., plus 22 tipped-in illustrations by Hugh Thompson. A fresh, clean copy, near fine, with previous owner's name on the half-title page and some rubbing and a scuffmark to the bottom edges of the boards. Decorative cloth beautifully preserved. In an age-toned dust jacket, nicked in a few places, but with no major chips - overall, about very good. Verso of half-title has a printed date of 1901, which is the only date in the book, but other similar copies of this volume we have seen on offer have a supposed date of 1913, which seems to match Ahearn's entry for this title. Not a fine copy overall, but internally lovely with no foxing.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Barrie, J. M.. Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 22 colored plates tipped in, many pen drawings by Thomson. Internally fine. Violet cloth has elaborate illustration embossed in gold on the front cover, and vignette on the spine, signs of wear at extremities, but strong and tight, spine lightly sunned, prev. owner's inscr. on paste-down.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. 4to. Gilt stamped cloth. Hinges cracked, front cover detached. Needs rebinding, but fine internally. Sold as is Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
J. M. Barrie. Quality Street. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early edition of this play written by J. M. Barrie, lavishly illustrated by Hugh Thomson. This work is a comedy complete in four acts, and predates his most famous work 'Peter Pan', and it tells the tale of two sisters who open a school. The first Broadway production opened in 1901, and it was revived countless times before the outbreak of the Second World War.Most widely known for his play 'Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up', J. M Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright.Illustrated by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920), an Irish illustrator known for illustrating authors such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens as well as Barrie. With a profuse number of tipped in colour plates by Thomson.With a decorative binding, with gilt detail to the spine and cover. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, some chipping and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean bar the odd spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean violet cloth with heavily gilt decorated front cover & spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial endpapers & frontispiece. Illustrated with color tipped in plates & B/W drawing illustrations. VG original pictorial gift box. Theatre, Entertainment; Color & B/W Illus.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 198 pages
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
J.M. Barrie. Quality Street. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. First Thus. Hardback. A near fine copy. Spine tips marginally pushed, some soiling to the lower board. A lovely copy, gilt exceptional. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson [6562, Hyraxia Books].
Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
Barrie, J.M.. QUALITY STREET. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$162.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1913. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper. A Comedy in Four Acts. Large format. Elaborately decorated blue/lilac cloth covers, large gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Illustrated endpapers. 22 beautiful tissue-guarded colour plates and b/w text illustrations.198 pages. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Faint stain, only visible at certain angles, to spine edges of rear and front cover. Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown. Foxing and light browning to endpapers. Contents very good just an odd margin tear and fox spot. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with tears to ends of spine. Creasing to folds and sides of spine. Browning to spine and unevenly to rear panel. Browning and pink stains to verso corresponding with faint stains on covers. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
J. M. Barrie. Quality Street. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A colourfully illustrated edition of J. M. Barrie's comical play, signed by Barrie to the half-title. Signed by J. M. Barrie to the half-title.The trade edition.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, seventeen tipped-in colour plates, and monochrome illustrations.Collated, complete.'Quality Street' is a comical play by J. M. Barrie. The play follows two sisters, Phoebe and Susan, as they start a school for 'genteel children', trying to get the attention of an old suitor who went away to war.The play was written before Barrie's famous 'Peter Pan', and it opened on Broadway in 1901, with the cast including Seymour Hicks, Ellaline Terriss, Marion Terry, and Irene Rooke.J. M. Barrie is best known for his work 'Peter Pan'. His other works, including this play, were popular, but often overshadowed by the success of 'Peter Pan'.Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Thomson was an Irish illustrator, who did pen-and-ink illustrations for editions of works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is discoloured and lightly rubbed. Small marks to the rear board. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some scattered spots. Author's inscription to the half-title is rubbed. Tissue guard to the frontispiece is detaching. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. Quality Street: A Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Publisher's full vellum, gilt titles, elaborate gilt tooling and decoration, top edge gilt, deckle edge, (12.5 x 10.5 inches). N.D. (no date, 1913. first edition copyright 1901, first Thomson illustrated edition of 1913). Number 37 of a limited edition of 1000 copies SIGNED by artist on limitation page. 197, [1] pages; 22 tipped-in colour plates with captioned and illustrated tissue guards, line drawings in-text. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to his Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. This comedic stage play in four acts has been made into two films and a musical. Lacks the tie and some expected light page toning as usual, else a clean, bright copy inside and out of one of the earliest copies printed (37/1000) Size: Quarto
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$188.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 198 pages. Hardcover. Lilac cloth covers with gilt titles and decorations. Tipped-in full color plates by Hugh Thomson. Fading to spine cloth. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612359
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Barrie, J. M.. Quality Street - A Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, Publisher's original full vellum binding, with gilt titles and illustrations to spine and front board. vii, 197pp. Complete with 22 tipped in colour plates by Hugh Thomson, with tissue guards. Line drawings. No. 592 of a limited edition of only 1000 copies, signed by Hugh Thomson. Typically, lacking the silk ties from boards. Boards slightly bowed, binding a little darkened. Otherwise a very pleasing copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (bs100).
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Thomson edition. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 198 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Gilt stamped purple cloth. Extremities lightly rubbed, small snag at base of spine, else fine Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 198 pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$212.56 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Royal4to, 12.5" x 10", colour frontis, vii, 198 pp. 22 tipped-in colour plates, 17 text illustrations. Original full vellum, gilt, cream endpapers, top edge gilt. Slight bowing to the boards, slight darkening to the vellum of the upper cover otherwise a fine copy. Note this copy has no limitation page and the upper cover has a simple gilt rule and a gilt basket of flowers. It would have been an advance Publisher's copy and perhaps only 25 would have been sent out. First edition thus.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
BARRIE, J.M.. Quality Street: A Comedy In Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [198] pp. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson BARRIE, J.M. Hodder & Stoughton 1913 10.6" x 8.5" First edition of this romantic comedy, featuring an "old maid" heroine who determines to tease her crush by disguising herself as a younger woman, only for her game to become a little too real. First produced in 1901 before Barrie became famous for Peter Pan, this play contains all the elements of a classic romance, including an HEA. With a high degree of humor and a dialogue-driven plot meant for performance, it is more accurately compared to romantic comedies in modern film.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Description: First edition. Deluxe edition, signed by Hugh Thomson. Large 4to. Publisher's original full vellum binding with gilt decoration and titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. An excellent copy, the binding with a rubbing and darkening to the extremities and a nicely rounded spine. Illustrated with 22 tipped in tissue guarded colour plates all of which are in fine condition. Further line drawings and vignettes by Hugh Thomson throughout. There is a partially removed bookplate to the front endpaper otherwise clean and bright throughout. This copy number hand numbered 633 of 1000. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
J M Barrie.. Quality Street: A Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good large de-luxe book in fresh full vellum covers with bright gilt titles to front and spine and elaborate decoration to front; slight bow to front board; re-ribboned. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; one of a LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES of which this is No. 534; SIGNED BY HUGH THOMSON, THE ILLUSTRATOR; over 20 delightful full colour illustrations by Thomson each with tissue guards bearing their title and a b/w vignette; binding tight; no foxing; top edges gilt, fore edges untrimmed; pp vii + 197[8]. A most attractive copy of this rather scarce book
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
THE BOOKMAN. The Bookman: Christmas double number 1913 (with portfolios). Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$264.74 + shipping
Description: Both portfolios are loosely inserted - Quality Street with 3 plates by Hugh Thomson, & In Powder & Crinoline with 2 plates by Kay Neilsen. All tipped-in colour plates present. Staples slightly rusty, internally otherwise VG, cover slightly worn, with corner of front cover curling. B&W portrait of J.M.Barrie has taped repair to right rdge - not affecting image. This is a heavy book (about 2.1kg packed); additional postage may be required
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. Quality Street. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'Quality Street' by J. M. Barrie. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Hodder & Stoughton [1913]. Limited edition of 1000 copies of which this is No. 59. Full vellum binding. Lacks silk ties, some foxing. Mark to spine. Good++.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Description: [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece, each mounted with a captioned tissue guard. Number 464 of 1000 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the limitation page. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt tooling and decoration to spine and upper, as well as some contrasting purple ruling to upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A lovely crisp, clean copy, showing just a touch of spotting to endpapers, some minor expected bowing to boards, and a little light wear to vellum. Lacks original silk ties. Near fine.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 198 pages. 33 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 554 of 1000 signed by Hugh Thomson. Twenty-two tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards, plus additional black and white illustrations in the text. GORDON RAY p181, said Thomson "was properly regarded as the `chef d'ecole' for his prodigious output of drawings for the gift book trade." Solid copy without the usual covering bowing, elaborate front cover design motif -- gilt tea cups and roses plus gilt pictorial illustration of three ladies having tea, framed by gilt and blue boarder panels -- backstrip illustrated and lettered in gilt, endpapers toned, interior contents clean, spine darkening, modest front cover toning mostly at edges, lacking cloth ties. Orig. full vellum gilt. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Barrie, J. M.. QUALITY STREET. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$302.31 + shipping
Description: A comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Pp. [ii]+viii+198+[2](colophon, blank), 22 hand-tipped coloured plates within tinted borders and with lettered pictorial guards, black & white pictorial title page and text illustrations, pictorial endpapers; tall post 4to; purple cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, slightly flecked, the spine lightly faded, edges a trifle rubbed; hinges starting, inked inscription (dated 1919) on half-title page, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Hodder & Stoughton, London, n.d.[1913]. First trade edition. Spielmann & Jerrold 55.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
J. M. Barrie. Quality Street a Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
Price: US$315.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: no 342/1000 imted edition signed by artist. Full decorative vellum binding complete with all plates in very good clean condition.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. One of 1000 numbered copies. 4to.(12.5 x 10.3 inches). 22 mounted colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard. Publishers full vellum binding with elaborate gilt decoration to front board, within double gilt and triple blue ruled borders. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt,others untrimmed. As often with these deluxe editions the silk ties are missing from the boards. Overall a very good copy of this highly decorative and beautiful book.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Barrie, J.M.. Quality Street - A Comedy in Four Acts. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: vii, [3], 197pp, [3]. Original publishers vellum, title, author and illustrator in gilt to spine, upper cover with gilt single rule border and central roundel within which is a vase of flowers, t.e.g. Vellum very slightly soiled and crinkled, but generally fairly bright and clean. Internally very slightly browned, mainly to edges, otherwise quite bright. With twenty-two tissue-guarded illustrations by Thomson (as called for) Size: Folio
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator; BARRIE, J.M.. Quality Street. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913, 1913.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: A School for Genteel Children In The Publishers Box [THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator]. BARRIE, J.M. Quality Street. A Comedy in Four Acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1913]. First trade edition. Large quarto (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 263 x 200 mm.). [2], vii, [1], 197, [2], [1, blank] pp. Frontispiece and twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Numerous black and white text illustrations. Publishers violet cloth over boards, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt and green. Pictorial endpapers. Light foxing on half-title, ink signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy in the original cardboard box with a duplicate of the color plate facing page 3, pasted on top. Box strengthened at corners. Hugh Thomson was born in County Coleraine near Londonderry, on 1 June 1860. He gained praise and influenced many young artists through his book illustrations. He notably illustrated editions of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and J.M. Barrie. Quality Street is a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie, written before his more famous work Peter Pan. The story, set in Napoleonic times, is about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children". "The important commission for. Quality Street by J.M. Barrie, and in November [1910] the cover design and title-page were "under weigh". Early in December came a note from the eminent author to the artist asking him to lunch in order that they might "have a talk about the pictures", and a few weeks later the first drawings were done, Sending them on to his intermediaries, Hugh wrote that he took it for granted that Barrie would formally pass them even if they are not all he would like them to be. I don't see how an author ever can like illustrations of his work which must be so different to his own mental pictures. A surprise awaited him, however, for the drawings drew from Barrie a pleasant and welcome tribute: The pictures are quite delightful. I love to think such work is done for a play of mine, and am quite sure Quality Street could not have found such another illustrator in broad England. My criticism is that Phoebe as the schoolmistresss looks too young. I like you the better for this, and am in the plot with you. So don't you go and alter. I hope you will soon be better. Phoebe and Susan ought to give you some of the nice things sent to Miss Livvy. "I am very happy of you", as they would say." (Spielmann and Jerrold. Hugh Thomson. pp. 181-182).
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 505 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator. J. M. Barrie's comedy was first performed in 1901 and enjoyed frequent revivals. The play provided the name for the confectionery first manufactured in 1936. The play was first filmed in 1927 and a second adaptation, starring Katharine Hepburn, was released in 1937. Reviewing the volume in December 1913, the Times Literary Supplement noted that "with Hugh Thomson's irresistible illustrations in colour it is a book not merely to like, but to love". The bookplate is that of Christopher Hatton Turner (1873-1940), the architect, author and social reformer. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, elaborate blocking to front cover in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 22 tipped-in colour plates and other illustrations by Hugh Thomson, captioned and illustrated tissue guards. Bookplate to front pastedown. Front cover slightly bowed, binding slightly soiled with mark to front cover and toning to rear cover, lacking ties, some light internal browning; a good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Description: [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece, each mounted with a captioned tissue guard. Number 447 of 1000 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the limitation page. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt tooling and decoration to spine and upper, as well as some contrasting purple ruling to upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Bookseller ticket (Simms of Bath) to pastedown, contents lean with no spotting, clovers clean and fresh, lacks original silk ties. Fine.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
BARRIE J. M.. QUALITY STREET - A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS. LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 1913.
Price: US$463.77 + shipping
Description: DE LUXE EDITION, ROYAL QUARTO, FULL VELUM, ELABORATE GILT DESIGN TO THE FRONT BOARD AND SPINE. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 489 AND SIGNED BY HUGH THOMSON. WITH 22 TIPPED-IN COLOUR PLATES BY THOMSON. LACKS THE TIES. A VERY NICE COPY.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
BARRIE J.M.. Quality Street. A comedy in four acts.. , 1913.
Price: US$571.03 + shipping
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton 1913. Quarto bound in original full pictorial vellum with front cover and spine in gilt. Silk ties. Top edge gilt and other edges uncut. viii 198pp. With mounted colour frontispiece and printed tissue-guard 21 full-page mounted colour plates with printed tissue-guards and numerous in-text illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Limited edition of 1000 copies signed by the artist and numbered of which this is number 76. Fine large paper copy. NOTE: Scottish novelist and playwright Sir James Matthew Barrie 1860-1937 is undoubtedly best known for his classic children's character Peter Pan the very much-loved 'boy who wouldn't grow up'. Quality Street is an example of one of Barrie's earlier plays which premiered in New York and London where it proved especially popular in 1901 and 1902 respectively. Set on Quality Street in a little English country town during the Napoleonic wars this is the delightfully amusing story of Miss Phoebe Throssel and her alter ego Miss Livvy Phoebe's non-existent niece and her fraught pursuit of love in the form of one dashing Valentine Brown; or her pursuit as Phoebe herself phrases it of "every woman's birthright" namely "to be petted and admired" p. 77.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
BARRIE, J. M.. Quality Street. Hodder & Stoughton Nd [], London, 1913.
Price: US$1095.02 + shipping
Description: Large 4to, pp. 198. Original vellum binding, lavishly illustrated and lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Green silk ties to leading edge. Original publisher's box with just a little wear at the spine, and a single small closed split to spine head. Lightly rubbed, minimal bowing to boards, a near fine copy. Frontispiece and 21 coloured plates by Hugh Thomson. Monochrome illustrations to plates' tissue guards. First edition. One of 1000 copies SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. With the leaf announcing the London exhibition of Thomson's original illustrations laid in. Filmed in 1937 with Katherine Hepburn. An all but fine copy, preserved in the scarce publisher's box.
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1095.02 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 4to.(10.5 x 8.4 inches). 22 mounted colour plates, each with a printed paper guard. A fine and clean copy in an early fine binding of half green morocco. The spine has two raised bands, each with decorative gilt tooling. Tan title label, gilt. Gilt ruled box designs. There is an illustrated multi coloured leather onlay design to the middle of the spine showing a couple walking in the rain, under an umbrella. Blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's colour bookplate to the front paste down. A fine copy in a fine binding. The binding is unsigned but certainly the work of a master bookbinder.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
BARRIE J.M.. Quality Street. A comedy in four acts.. , 1913.
Price: US$1108.47 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton 1913. Quarto bound in original full pictorial vellum with front cover and spine stamped in gilt and silk ties. Top edge gilt and other edges uncut. viii 198pp. With mounted colour frontispiece and printed tissue-guard 21 full-page mounted colour plates with printed tissue-guards and numerous in-text illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Limited edition of 1000 copies signed by the artist and numbered of which this is number 527. Fine large paper copy. Includes announcement card for an exhibition in London of the original water-colour drawings by Thomson. Scottish novelist and playwright Sir James Matthew Barrie 1860-1937 is undoubtedly best known for his classic children's character Peter Pan the very much-loved 'boy who wouldn't grow up'. Quality Street is an example of one of Barrie's earlier plays which premiered in New York and London where it proved especially popular in 1901 and 1902 respectively. Set on Quality Street in a little English country town during the Napoleonic wars this is the delightfully amusing story of Miss Phoebe Throssel and her alter ego Miss Livvy Phoebe's non-existent niece and her fraught pursuit of love in the form of one dashing Valentine Brown; or her pursuit as Phoebe herself phrases it of "every woman's birthright" namely "to be petted and admired" p. 77.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia