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HENTY, G. A.:. Rujub, The Juggler.. London, Chatto & Windus, 1893 (new ed.)., 1893.
Price: US$172.00 + shipping
Description: Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Red pictorial cloth lettered in black & white on front cover and in gold on spine. The front cover shows a man standing over a body, and threatening a tiger with a whip. Beveled boards. All edges gilt. Floral endpapers. In very good condition, spine faded, slight lean, partial split to rear edge and small nicks to ends. A couple of small bubbles to cloth on front. Inner hinges cracked. A couple of minor handling marks, Else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. 8 b&w illustrations by Stanley Wood. 332 pp; / Cat.32 pp.(dated Sept.1893). Scarce. The first illustrated, single-volume edition. One of the earliest issues, with catalogue dated Sept. 1893. See Newbold 56.3. Plate 19.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
G.A.Henty. Rujub the Juggler. Chatto and Windus, 1893.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: very rare first edition, 3 vols. Newbolt 56.1, extremely rare, Now completely restored, facsimile title and prelim page in volume 2, completely indistinguishable from rest of paper. Tightly bound, a really lovely copy Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
G.A. Henty. Rujub the Juggler. Chatto and Windus, 1893.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 3 vols first edition one of the last of the triple deckers
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
HENTY, G.A.. Rujub, the Juggler. London: Chatto & Windus, 1893, 1893.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; three volumes; publisher's decorated cloth; trivial wear and foxing; an excellent set in a custom clamshell box. Henty is best known for his boys' books with patriotic themes, action, gallantry and imperial triumph, but he wrote eleven books for adults, and published five novels in the three-decker format. Chatto & Windus issued four of these, of which this was the first and most successful, nevertheless remaining a notable rarity. These books represented the last gasp of three-decker publishing, a costly format well-suited to an era where for profit lending libraries could rent the volumes out individually (and incidentally resulting in copies such as the present one, never accessioned by these libraries, being much rarer). Britain and America were entering a period when industrial methods and cheaper materials (pulp paper, etc.) allowed mass production and distribution of books, rendering this earlier, charming, attractive format uneconomical and outmoded. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.