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Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. The Bodley Head/John Lane/Macmillan, 1896.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth with dark green ribbed spine and gilt title, 8 x 5.5 inches, 205 pages, five etchings by D.Y. Cameron; boards are edge worn, mottled in several places, wrinkling along edges, decorative gilt on spine is rubbed, deckle edge pages vary in size to add a unique handmade quality.
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
John Buchan. Scholar Gipsies [Gypsies] (Arcady Library Vol IV). John Lane the Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition in same year as first. Lacks the plates by Cameron, except for the title page engraving which is in good order. Sound tight copy, free of foxing or insc. Rough cut edges, top edge smooth. Brown ribbed cloth spine with faded gilt titling and decoration. Plain mustard cloth covered boards, darkened at edges, evenly so. A pleasing copy despite the missing plates, which have been removed neatly. 206pp + 16pp adverts.
Seller: Book Bungalow, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. The Bodley Head, London, 1896.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: River Reads, Torrington, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1896.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1896. Second edition, same year as the first [Blanchard/Hillier A4]. [xiv], 208pp plus 16 page publisher's catalogue to rear. Frontispiece, illustrated title page and 5 other etchings by D.Y. Cameron. Published as part of the 'Arcady Libray' which was edited by J.S. Fletcher. Green/brown cloth spine over beige/brown paper covered boards. GIlt titles and decoration (not as extensive as the first edition) to spine though the gilt is quite dulled. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Light wear to spine ends and corners. A couple of small dents to the spine. Offsetting to endpapers and light foxing to prelims. No inscriptions. An excellent copy.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Buchan, John (illustraor DY Cameron). Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$89.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG- second edition. Reprint of Blanchard A4. A collection of essays and short stories many of which had been published in literary magazines in the preceding couple of years. Internally exactly as the first edition but the binding is much simpler and plainer. 206pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue. Grey paper-covered boards; green cloth spine; gold lettering; 6 etchings; outer and lower edges uncut. The gold lettering has faded and the corners are bumped and worn. Internally excellent.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition. Reprint of Blanchard A4. A collection of essays and short stories many of which had been published in literary magazines in the preceding couple of years. 206pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue. Brown cloth with gold lettering and decoration on the spine and black decoration on the front; 6 etchings; outer and lower edges uncut. Lightly rubbed at the extremities and the front hinge is cracked but otherwise very bright. There is a name on the fly-leaf and the bookplate of Ronald Macdonald, Portree on the paste-down. This is probably the holder of the title 6th Baron Macdonald, of Sleat as the bookplate carries one of the variations of the Clan Donald arms.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. SCHOLAR GIPSIES (Arcady Library III). John Lane The Bodley Head, GB, 1896.
Price: US$118.34 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece (guarded), illustrated title page and five plates by D.Y. Cameron. 16 page catalogue at rear is dated 1896 (p2) and lists Arcady Library I-III, IV in prep. Decorated black cloth spine and buff covers with ornate panel by Patten Wilson. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Front pastedown is slightly marked probably by the removal of a book plate. Bit ccoked.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Buchan, John,:. Scholar Gipsies,. London John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Description: 1896 Edition, The Arcady Library: Hardback, buff bds., brown spine with gold titles and decs., 130 x 200 mm., 500 g., 206 pp., + 16pp. Catalogue of John Lane publications, illustrated with 6 Etchings with tissue guards by D. Y. Cameron, rubbed crns. and light shelf wear, no dw., VG copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar-Gipsies. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1896.
Price: US$126.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1896. First edition, first printing [Blanchard/Hillier A4]. [xiv], 208pp plus 16 page publisher's catalogue to rear. Frontispiece, illustrated title page and 5 other etchings by D.Y. Cameron. Published as part of the 'Arcady Libray' which was edited by J.S. Fletcher. Gilt decorated brown cloth spine over decorated beige cloth boards. Top edge brown. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Fairly minor tea(?) stain to upper board. Slight offsetting and light foxing to endpapers. 6cm tear to ffep closed with professional repair tape to reverse. Slight cracking to gutter of rear inner hinge. A very good copy
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blanchard A4. Buchan second published work (1896), a collection of essays and stories, many set in Tweeddale and which reflect the ethos of Matthew Arnold s poem The Scholar Gipsy. VG- second edition. Bound in plain brown cloth with a brown cloth spine, a variation from the normal much lighter shade. The gilt on the spine has faded substantially but otherwise the book is very good.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG second edition. Blanchard A4 note. A collection of short stories and essays evoking the spirit of the late Victorian countryside. 206pp + 16pp publishers catalogue. Yellow cloth; brown spine with gold lettering and decoration; frontispiece and 7 other etchings by DY Cameron, all with tissue guards; top edge stained brown, others uncut. Less flamboyant than the usual binding this variant is much more scarce. Very bright externally with slightly rubbed spine ends and a little rippling of the yellow cloth. Bright and unmarked internally but for a small black mark on the last page of the publishers adverts and lightly browned endpapers. There is a pencilled name on the reverse of the front fly-leaf. Tipped in to the front paste-down is what appears to be a small cutting from a book auction catalogue. A nice copy of a scarce binding.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
John Buchan.. Scholar Gipsies [Gypsies]. John Lane/ The Bodley Head, London/ New York, 1896.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 100 shelf. The Arcady Library series. Handsome gold-stamped brown decorated cloth spine, pictorial faux wood-grain bds. 1897 gift note FEP, inked name. No dust jacket. Deckled fore-edge. Frontispiece with tissue guard. All of the original etchings are intact. 16 pgs of ads. Collectible condition! Early title by the author of The Thirty-nine Steps 206 p.
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Buchan, John (illustrated DY Cameron). Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: VG- first edition. Blanchard A4. Published in John Lane's Arcady Library series. A collection of essays and short stories celebrating Buchan's love of the outdoors. 206pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue. Light brown boards with dark brown lettering and illustration; dark brown spine with gold lettering and decoration; frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 5 other etchings; top edge dark brown, others uncut. Bright and clean but head of spine worn and rubbing at the extremities. One corner bumped. Ex-library but reference not lending department. Magnificent bookplate of Wigan Free Public Library on paste-down and 3 embossed library stamps in the book.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$166.51 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blanchard A4. Buchan second published work (1896), a collection of essays and stories, many set in Tweeddale and which reflect the ethos of Matthew Arnold s poem The Scholar Gipsy. VG+ second edition. See note to Blanchard A4. Bound in plain yellow cloth with a brown cloth spine. The decoration on the spine is less florid than the first edition. Internally exactly as the first except for the words second edition on the reverse of the half-title. An exceptionally bright copy which, apart from a small black mark on the front and lightly browned fly-leaves, is virtually as new.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John (illustrated DY Cameron). Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG- in copy dustwrapper. Blanchard A4. Buchans second published work; a collection of essays and stories 8 of which had not appeared in print previously. The dark brown cloth spine is rubbed at the ends with a couple of tiny splits in the cloth at each end. The boards are worn at the corners and are lightly darkened with age. There is a very small ink (?) stain near the foot of the front board. Internally the book is very bright with no foxing or brown spots. There is a small rubber-stamped name in the top corner of the half-title. The rear hinge is cracked and the front hinge is beginning to crack but the binding is generally firm. However, there is a little looseness at the top of the front hinge an easy repair for a binder. This copy has a photocopy only of the original, extremely rare, dustwrapper. The wrapper that was copied was obviously in a fairly worn state with missing corners but was largely complete.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
John Buchan. Scholar Gipsies. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Buchan's second published work (1896), a collection of essays and stories, many set in Tweeddale and which reflect the ethos of Matthew Arnold s poem The Scholar Gipsy. Faded spine with tiny splits at the ends. Occasional brown spots internally. Former owners name on the reverses of the fly-leaf.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1896.
Price: US$224.39 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition of the author's second separate book. Blanchard A4. Buff pictorial cloth stamped in brown; brown cloth spine decorated in gilt. Top edge brown, others untrimmed. Mildest rubbing to cover, which remains very bright and clean. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy of this beautifully published volume, scarce in this fine condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG first edition. Blanchard A4. A collection of essays and short stories set in and around Tweeddale, all of them celebrating Matthew Arnold's concept of the Scholar-Gipsy. 206pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue; pale brown covers illustrated and lettered in black; dark brown spine with gold lettering and decoration; frontispiece with tissue guard and 5 other etchings, all by DY Cameron; top edge brown; outer and lower edges uncut. Very slightly darkened with age and the spine ends and corners are lightly rubbed but otherwise undamaged. Internally bright with occasional brown spots. On some etchings the illustration has produced a faint 'shadow' on the opposite page. Overall a better than average copy.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blanchard A4. Buchan second published work (1896), a collection of essays and stories, many set in Tweeddale and which reflect the ethos of Matthew Arnolds poem The Scholar Gipsy. VG first edition. The covers are lightly stained and the corners lightly rubbed. The book has been re-spined using matching cloth and with the original spine laid on the new cloth. The binding has been repaired and reinforced making this a very nice copy.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG- first edition. Blanchard A4. Buchan's second published work, a collection of essays and stories extolling the virtues of a scholarly life lived close to nature. Published in John Lane's Arcady Library series. 206pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue. Beige cloth with dark brown cloth spine; boards lettered and decorated in black, spine in gold; frontispiece etching with tissue guard and 5 other etchings; top edge brown, others uncut. Good, solid copy with patchy fading of the boards, one bumped corner and a faint damp stain along the rear top edge. Lightly browned endpapers but otherwise very good internally with all etchings and the tissue guardin good order.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. Scholar Gipsies. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$243.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG in copy dustwrapper. Blanchard A4. Buchans second published work; a collection of essays and stories 8 of which had not appeared in print previously. All are set in and around Tweeddale and celebrate Matthew Arnold's concept of the Scholar-Gipsy. 206pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue; pale brown covers illustrated and lettered in black; dark brown spine with gold lettering and decoration; frontispiece with tissue guard and 5 other etchings, all by DY Cameron; top edge brown; outer and lower edges uncut. Lightly rubbed at the extremities but otherwise very bright. Bright and clean internally with occasional light foxing. The binding has recently been professionally repaired and is now very firm. There is an inscription on the fly-leaf. The book comes with a good facsimile d/w.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. SCHOLAR GIPSIES. , 1896.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: London: John Lane / New York: Macmillan & Co., 1896. 16 pp ads dated 1896. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown, with dark brown cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt. First Edition of Buchan's second book, a volume of sixteen essays, preceded only by his SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS of 1895. Buchan notes in his "Prefatory" that these pieces "were all written in youth, when a man's thoughts run on many diverse things with a certain tentative aim," and also that "they were written in close connection with that most beautiful country, the upper valley of Tweed, where the grace of old times seems to have long lingered." This is the third volume in the publisher's handsome "Arcady Library" series; it is beautifully illustrated with etchings by D.Y. Cameron (Buchan's Glasgow friend who introduced him to the publisher John Lane), and the cover design (of a goat-footed Pan piping to three nymphs) is by Patten Wilson. This is a remarkably bright copy, fine except for a faint damp-stain at the bottom edge of the covers -- quite an uncommon book in this condition. Blanchard A4.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
BUCHAN, John. Scholar Gipsies. John Lane / The Bodley Head, London, 1896.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); binding designed by Patten Wilson; beige cloth-covered boards and vertically-ribbed dark brown cloth backstrip, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and in black on covers; brown topstain; [xiv],205,[3], plus 16pp publishers catalog at rear, with frontispiece, title page, and five etchings by D.Y. Cameron. Pictorial bookplate of Monsignor Joseph M. Gleason (1869-1942) on front pastedown, with evidence of bookplate removal on rear pastedown, and label removal on rear endpaper; spine ends a little pushed, light wear to extremities, with a few tiny stains to upper rear cover, and some faint, grayish staining to lower left corner of front cover; contents clean, with the pages largely unopened; Very Good+. An attractive copy of this collection of essays and short stories, many set in Tweeddale, Scotland.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Buchan, John. SCHOLAR GIPSIES. , 1896.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: London: John Lane / New York: Macmillan & Co., 1896. 16 pp ads dated 1896. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown, with dark brown cloth spine decorated in gilt. First Edition of Buchan's second book, a collection of essays, preceded only by his SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS of 1895. This book is beautifully illustrated with etchings by D.Y. Cameron (who introduced Buchan to John Lane the publisher), and the cover design is by Patten Wilson. SCHOLAR GIPSIES was published in John Lane's Arcady Library, and on the cover a goat-footed Pan piped to three nymphs. The essays, too, sounded many Arcadian notes -- references to Theocritus, to 'people of this Arcady' (i.e. the Upper Tweed), to 'the Piper'. There are some clear echoes of [Kenneth] Grahame: "Afternoon" in SCHOLAR GIPSIES -- a boy playing Jacobites who steals into the garden of a big house and meets a girl whom he is sure is a princess -- is very much in the vein of the story in [Grahame's 1895] THE GOLDEN AGE where children playing Argonauts explore a big garden and meet a girl who they are sure is Medea [Smith]. This is an unusually fine copy of a beautifully-produced book (the tan covers clean and the spine gilt bright). Rather scarce in this condition. Blanchard A4.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.