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John Masefield. Salt-water Ballads. Grant Richards, 1902.
Price: US$115.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 112 pages. Authors first book. One of 500 copies printed. Contains the printing error on ''Sea Fever'' Imust down to the sea again. Blue cloth is a little rubbed and dust soiled. A previous owners inscription. A neat photo of Masefield has been attacthed to the endpaper. Contents Clean with a few light foxing marks starting on the prelims. Scarce.
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, tywyn, United Kingdom
Masefield, John. Salt-Water Ballads. Grant Richards, London, UK, 1902.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Grant Richards, London, UK 1902. 112 pages. Early edition, has 'I must down to the seas again'. Green-blue cloth binding. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Poetry::1900-1974 6023
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Masefield, John. Salt-Water Ballads. Grant Richards, London, 1902.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Does not appear to be a first issue ("I must down to the seas again" on p 59). Publisher's cornflower blue cloth is quite sunned/discolored. Light soil. Minor edgewear and slightly bumped spine ends and corners. Spine sunned moreso, with slightly rubbed gilt title. Gilt topped text block. Cracked at ffep, with that page loosening. Binding otherwise somewhat tender. Interior clean and lightly toned. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.
MASEFIELD, JOHN. Salt-Water Ballads. Grant Richards 1902 london, 1902.
Price: US$229.26 + shipping
Description: first edition first issue ( I must go down to the seas again on p 59), green boards with gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 112pp VG ( light fading and discolouration to boards, light tanning, v sl foxing) RARE
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Masefield (John) ;-. SALT-WATER BALLADS. Classic First Edition.. London ;- Grant Richards, 1902.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Description: First Edition (one of only 500 copies) Crown 8vo. Hardback in attractive only slightly edge rubbed, blue cloth, lettered gilt to spine. (xvi) + 112pps. T.e.gilt. Uncut. A Very Good example!
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Masefield, John. Salt-Water Ballads. Grant Richards, London, 1902.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. xv (i), 112 pp. First Edition, 1902. No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Only the slightest external wear to drop box and book, else, Pristine. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 5.25" x 7.75". Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block. Laid into a Near Fine blue slipcase and chemise cloth drop box. "John Edward Masefield (1878-1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. This, the first collection of verse, Salt-Water Ballads, was published in 1902, and included the poem 'Sea-Fever' ( I must go down to the seas again on p 59)." Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Masefield, John. Salt-Water Ballads. Grant Richards, London, 1902.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 500 copies of the author's first book. 112pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, t.e.g., bookplate. Fine, laid into ia half blue morocco slipcase and chemise First edition, one of 500 copies of the author's first book.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Masefield, John. Salt-water Ballads. Grant Richards, London, 1902.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 500 copies of the author's first book. 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With a Document Signed Giving Elkin Mathews Publication Rights to 2nd Edition. Signed on the flyleaf, "Mary E. Madox Rossetti/ 30 April 1904." (Mary Madox Rossetti was the daughter of William Michael Rossetti). Laid into the book is a Signed Document dated 25 July 1913 "Subject to the conditions of the Agreement made between the 1st of May, 1913, I hereby grant to Elkin Mathews.Publisher a license to print & issue a second edition of Salt Water Ballads.John Edward Masefield." with envelope tipped-in. Elkin Mathews did, in fact, publish the second edition of Masefield's SALT-WATER BALLADS - in 1913. Simmons 1; Wight 1 Blue cloth. Faded spine, else very good. Laid into a half blue morocco slipcase and chemise cloth drop box First edition, one of 500 copies of the author's first book.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
MASEFIELD, John.. Salt-Water Ballads.. Grant Richards, London., 1902.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp xvi, 112. Blue buckram covers. Top edge gilt. The author's first book. On the front pastedown is the impressively elaborate bookplate, designed by Sidney L. Smith, of the Boston banker Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935) who amassed a major collection of American and British literature.Loosely inserted is an original post-card sized watercolour by the author, and initialled by him, showing a three-master in full sail.Contemporary (1904) ownership signature (not Bemis's) on front free endpaper. Endpapers tanned. Very good indeed. In cloth chemise and slipcase of half teal morocco with raised bands and gilt rules, cloth sides.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom